Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-04

Andrews 4 Andersoa'S store and post
Office at Lamar was destroyed by fire.
The loss Is about $1,000
4 ire IN Charles Alber's furnishing
goods and fur store ia Eau Claire paus-
ed 4 damage Of $4,000
Villas Follet Of Coloma has announced
to the business men that he will open 4
bank III thas village about June !
Hugh Monroe. aged - years, OF Ke-
nosh.,. died suddenly in the railway sta
tion While seaiting for Il team for Racine.
Death was due TO heart disease.
In Crosse IS without legally qualified
justice of the peace owing to the failure
of officials to I'll, fhe necessary bonds. aud
the fact may void all their decisions
Frank Clark Of Washington. D. c..
student at Racine College, was badly IN
jured by the Gazing in Of the bank while
walking along the shore of Lake Niichi-
gan.
Fire destroyed the residence Of Henry
Nurzer in Mishicott, causing loss Of
$500. partially covered by Insurance.
defective chimney is supposed to have
been the cause.
Clayton Marsh. a Marinettc young
man, was killed in camp near Pembine.
4 falling log struck him on the head.
fracturing his skull. aud death resulted
almost instantly.
Miss Jessie kirseher OF Menomonie
had one of her eyes taken out and will
probably lose the other. Some time ago
she picked a pimple on her eyelid with
q nil, and iOfiari,f, II ~, cot in
Byron Nef, manager of the Blair
apiary, in the town Of Menasha. who
was run over by a Wisconsin Central
freight train just west of Neenah, died
from the effects Of his injuries.
The plant Of the Marshield Tissue Pa
per Company has been purchased by the
Wausau Paper Mills Company and the
latter viii move the machinery to Bro
kaw, where its mills are located
The preliminary hearing of Mrs. Anna
McGill, charged with setting fire to the
Marshfeld Bedding Companys plant
has been copcluded and Mrs. Mctiill was
bound over 10 the May term of the Cir
cult Court :.
Capt. c. II. Russell of Berlin, past de-
DdliLIcut tONtulduuEI OF the y. IT,. udS
been appointed to succeed Col. L. H.
Gray as State pension agent ir the Office
of the Adjutant General. The salary
is $115 per month
While Henry OFT, an employee of the
Kroner HardwaS Company Mt La
Crosse, was returning from work he was
assaulted and severely injured by band
of masked men He was robbed of a
small amount OF money.
c. II. Allen Of Creyitz. cruiser for
the Oconto Lumber Company. who came
from Nahma, Mich. tells of an encoun-
ter he had with five wolves while alone
in the woods. He says the wolves made
for him and came to within ten PAGES.
He made for the leaders OF the pack and
after brief struggle in which he used
his AK to good effect the creatures ran
from him.
Fond du Lac was shaken by an eXplo-
sion the other evening a moment later
IA alarm of fire was sounded from the
Winnebago Furniture Company's plant.
1t was found that the boiler at the pant
had blown up and that the engine room
and frame building adjoining were COM
plete wrecks. The explosion started a
blaze which was soon eXtinguished by
the hremen.
The boy who was drowned while skat-
ing near the Duluth ship entry has been
found to be Walter Beese of West Supe-
rior. The fact that the Beese boy left
home to so skating in that neighborhOod.
and has not yet returned, makes it almost
a certainty that he is the drowned lad.
The boy broke through the thin ice on the
outside of the entry, and although sew
eral hundred people saw the accident, no
one could help him.
Fred Westoyer. a young man Of 20
years, was instantly killed at Nekoosa.
He was employed as third hand on No.
3 machine by the Nekoosa Paper Com
pany In handing the paper to the back
tender he leaned over a little too far and
was caught between the two rolls Of pa
per, which were both running from him,
with about two inches space between
them, and his skull was crushed TO a
pulp, causing instant death.
A mysterious kidnapping story comes
from Pcmbine and Niagara a woman
by the name of Mrs. J Meyers drove TO
Niagara. secured her 11-year-old boy and
then drove back to Anderson's Spur. near
Pembine There she tagged the noon
passenger train. left the carriage and got
aboard the train for Chicago. Her hus-
band is a well-known employe of the
Kimberly-Clark Company. The boy was
home alone while the father was away
at work. The woman was away with
the lad before Mr.. Meyers knew the boy
was missing
The State law taxing inheritanees was
held to be unconstitutional and invalid
by the Supreme Court in the appeal cf
the heirs of the late John Black of Mil
waukee The court holds that the pro-
vision of the law as to the classification
is an unjust discrimination between heirs
of the same class, treating persons un-
der the same circumstances and condi-
lions so differently as to constitute arbi-
trary discrimination and classification.
NJ. l.. Hudson aud Frank Early, lum-
bermen. the former of Ashland and the
latter of Crystal Falls, had a thrilling
experience in the pine forest south OF
West Superior They came upon a wire
stretched across trail and attached TO
two doublc-barreed shotguns. one on
either side The hammer of one gun was
raised, but the firing pin was much worn.
and the cartridge failed to explode The
pressure on the wire did not release the
hammer of the second gun. The guns
were set for deer. and young cedars had
been cut down on each side OF the trail
to attract them to feed on the tops. The
men appropriated the guns as payment
Tor the danger they had encountered
j. T. Malick Of stevens Point and John
Longborham % Dickeyviile who former
" owned q controlling interest in the
First National Bank OF Stevens Point.
have sold the same to w. d. Common aud
T. ). Kraus OF Narshlield The stock
sold al $50 per share. par value 500
Fire destroyed section Of the round-
house Of the Milwaukee road at Racine,
and threate2ed to consHme the entire
building The part destroyed by fire was
occupied by the Racine Boat Mannfactur-
ing Company as q foundry and pattern