Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-04-01

ened 10 destroy all the buildings on the
campus.
The mewing and coughing Of a at
saved the family Of Henry Barthol9 fron>.
death by asphyxiation from coal gas IN
La Crosse.
The moiders at the plant II F.,irN2nks.
Morse x co. in Beloit have etufasSs 70
wolk The basis of the settiels..nt IS
sec,et. Several hundred men were AZ
fetted.
While removing shells from double
haIreled. breech-loading shotgun Frank
RieLlstock of Racine. aged IL years. shot
and killed his T-year-old sister, Emma
Riemstock.
Peter Jacobs. 80 years of age. an en-
pIoye Of the Kenosha Pure Ice Company.
was found unconscious near the interar-
ban railroad tracks He says he was
beaten and robbed
| Patton & Miller. architects OF Chicago,
have been commissioner to draw the
plans for the new Stephenson library at
Marinette. to cost $4,000 Work Will be-
gin in about a month.
August Ebert of the town of Preston
was shot by the ACCIDENTAL discharge of
his gun, while hunting Part of the
charge penetrated his chest and also one
eye. destroying the sight
Frank Lynch of Mazomanie, who
pleaded guilty TO forging his brothers
name TO draft for S119. was sentenced
to year in the State reformatory. His
mother refunded the amount of the draft.
The second bank to be organized in the
new county of Gates has been recently
opened at Bruce with paid-up capital Of
5000; William A. Blackburn, cashier.
1t is to be known as the Bank of Bruce.
George Yuie president of the Balm
wagon works, sent TO the building com
mittee Of the First Baptist Church a
check for $1,000 as his contribution to
the fund now being raised for the cree
ton of the new church building in ke-
nosha.
Three men were killed and one was in
iured in a boiler explosion that destroyed
| Wheeler Gavitt's Sawmill near Gallon.
The explosion hurled pieces of machinery
and parts of the mill 500 yards The
cause was an insufficient quantity of wat
| er in the boiler
Mrs Julia Hart. wife Of John Hart
of Steuben. was brought before Judge
Curran at Prairie du Chen to be ex-
| amined as to her sanity Several years
| ago she t1ed TO end her life by taking
poison and later swallowed package of
sewing needles by mixing them in bread.
Fire at Fond du Lac almost complete
| ly destroyed the wooden block of build
! ings on the west side of Main street,
owned by William Clancy and NJ. NJ. An
derson and occupied by the Kietlow
Bros. cigar factory and store. the Sum
merfeld barber shop and the Ideal res
taurant owned and operated by Mrs. f..
Il. Case.
According to the returns made by
county registers of deeds to Secretary of
State Froehlich. the total number OF
births in Wisconsin in 1901 was nearly
1000 less than the preceding year The
greatest decrease was in Winnebago
/ County. which reports falling off of
nearly 100 per cent, The number of mar
riages increased 800 and the deaths 40,
The badly decomposed body of man
was found by hunters III the Mississippi
river. mile below Prairie du Chen. it
was identified as Peter Holley. who dis
| appeared suddenly last October from All
ren's dairy farm, where he was employ
ed. and had not been heard from since.
| The general impression is that Holley
was murdered for So which he had just
received for his wages
| Two masked robbers tried to rob w f..
| HGllenback at Dunbar He was alone in
his sitting room when he heard someone
step up on his porch and rap. He picked
up a pair of large shears and went to
| the door. On opening it one of the rob
| bers showed revolver in his face and
told him to hold up his hands. He
struck at the fellow and then slammed
| the door shut. The robbers were evil
IDENTIFY green at the business.
The grand total Of logs brought down
on the McEomnee this year will show
| shrinkage if over S0000,000 feet from
last years total. The estimate of LOGS
banked on the Menominee river ard
branches during this season, as shown by
the Menominee River Boom Company's
report. is 149 $50, 1S1 feet This is based
on the scale up TO March / Compared
with the palmy days. when 10000,0O0
feet foated down in a single season. this
years output seems ridiculously small.
VIII Ripple of New Albin, a brakeman
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
road. was saved from certain death at
La Crosse by his watch The conductor,
fireman and Ripe used coal Eicll as a
lever to loosen tight brake, and when
the brake iooSeAed the former two lost
their hold, bo;h jumping out of the way.
Ripe was not so fortunate. and the iron
bar flew around. cutting a deep cash in
his side. He carries his watch in a Pc
culiayly large leather case and this stop
ped the blow. else the bar would have
gone through him.
Il. Z. Mansfield has secured a fran
chise for electric lights at Seymour lie
has the city all wired and expects to have
a plant running by April -.
Christian Book. aged GS years. a Ger
man residing five miles northwest Of
PitsviIle committed suicide rs hanging.
He had been i'll for a year or more.
When William Heating. newspaper
man employed by the Oshkosh Times, a
morning paper. Went home at $50 a. m,
he found his parents. Mr. aud Mrs Holm
Heating. overcome by coal gas. II was
with difficulty that they were reriyea.
Superintendent ]. c. Hart Of the Onei-
ia reservation i reported to have receiy-
ed Hord from Washington that the Ms
coTlsiu oneidas are entitled 80 the Kansas
claim money. Secretary n the Iptcrlor
Hitchcock was mistaken "a ruling out the
Oneidas. The Oaeidas share in the
claim ame.snts to several thousand dol
lars
William Marriott brother Of Henry
Marriott Who died recently. passed away
from pneumonia ike days later. after
an Illness If four days. The two broth
ers conducted one Of the largest hard
ware businesses ia Wisconsin. and were
also very prominent in the life of Bara-
boo.
The plant of the Clinton Novelty Com
pany was destroyed by hre. The proprie-
tors. Messrs Smith and HoIstrnm. re-
manned after quitting time to line vat
with a preparation of asbestos and gase-
line. when the material became igniied
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