Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-07-22


Nels Herried, a GaIesviIle farmer. fell
off from load of hay and broke his neck.
He was the father of Gov. Herried OF
South Dakota.
A stock and hay barn on the Comstock
farm at the edge Of Arcadia was struck
by lightning and totally destroyed. The
loss is $1,000
A valuable horse belonging to ex-Sher-
if Comstock of GAINESVILLE ran away al
Beloit 1t crashed into a house and
crushed its skull
A mail sack disappeared mysteriously
yesterday from the station of the Mil
waukee road at Random Lake. 1t is sup
posed that the sack was stolen.
Mr.. and Mrs. William w. Wills of
GAINESVILLE celebrated their golden we'd
ding. A surprise party was given them
by the local lodge of the G. A. r.
At Menomonie lightning struck the
house of Mrs. Edward Mausk>. complete
Ii wrecking the building Fire persons
who were in the house were u!thermed.
north-bound train ran int5ss herd of
cows four miles north of Elkhart Lake
killing three and cutting of the legs of
two more. The cattle belonged to James
Kessel.
The board of directors of the Madison
free library have selected as a site for
the Carnegie library what is known as
the Daley property on West Washington
avenue.
Herman o. Reidenbach, aged 80 years,
and member of a we'll known family
-, .bn 10 -. To-,
%, and it is feared that he has been
murdered
Mrs. Hans Olson of Cambridge and
Mrs. |. Shager of Wiota, sisters, who
have been separated for sixty-6ve years,
held reunion at Jefferson. The sisters
separated in Norway in 1887.
The general store of jacobson Il
Brooks, at Pound, was broken into, but
only about $150 in small change was
taken. The work was not done by ex-
perts, as the arge safe was not meddled
with.
Corliss, formerly known as Western
Union Junction, is to become a transfer
point for the Milwaukee road, and all
the freight formerly handled at Western
avenue in Chicago is to be transferred
there.
R. A. McLery and William Brown
fell from a barn, height of twenty feet,
at Palmyra Brown died 1t is thought
that McLery will live. He had three RIBS
broken and was otherwise seriously
bruised.
Miss Mollie Richards, a young woman
IS years of age, is missing from her home
in Kenosha, and the local police have
been unable to find any trace of her. The
young girls friends think she has met
with foul play.
William Neset,il, aged 20 years, fell
from the pier into the river at Racine,
and although several of his companions
were on the pier at the time, they became
so frightened that they were unable to
save their comrade.
The 70-foot steeple of the German
Evangelical Church at Menominee Falls
was blown down by the terrific wind
storm, accompanied by rain and hail. The
damage done the church and furniture
will probably amount to $1,000.
Rev. g. A. Gullixon, for the past nine
years pastor of the Trinity Church at
Beloit, has resigned to accept a call from
the ST. Luke's Norwegian Lutheran
Church of Chicago. He will be succeed
ed by Rev. ]. E. Hegg of Whitehall
Hans Raysen, employed as coaehman
at the Waldheim sanitarium at Ocono-
mowoc, was taken with cramps while in
bathing in the lake, and he sank before
assistance could reach him. Raysen was
a Dane and had been in the country but
a short time.
James Rice, aged % years, at one time
connected with Kenosha labor paper, |
and the holder of the lightweight pugi- |
listic championship of Southern Wiscon- |
si1, was run over by a Northwestern
freight train and had both legs cut off.
His recovery is doubtful.
The telegraph operators in the towers
of the block system of the Chicago and
Northwestern have been given a raise
in salary from $40 to $50 per month. The
telegraph operators at the stations have
been given a raise of s. per month. The
advance went into effect on July l.
Because Mrs. ]. Schwartz widow re-
siding in WATERFOWL, refused to marry
p. H. Fender the latter shot the woman
twice and then took poison himself. Doc
tors were Immediately summoned and
both persons will live. The exact cause
for the tragedy is not known, but it is
understood that Fender has been very
anxious to marry Mrs. Schwartz and that
he was very jealous of her.
Charles +. Close, a La Crosse engi-
neer made remarkable stop of rum
away team. The team belonging To a
Minnesota farmer started down Main
street at a gallop. Close, seeing it meant
possible death for the occupants, took
running jump, alighting on one of the
horses and secured the reins which had
fallen from the wagon. The team was
stopped without damage.
As train No. pulled into McGregor
the other night the engineer saw an OBJ
ject lying beside the track; the train was
stopped and upon investigation the crew
found the 5ody of man, beside which
stood a woman. She refused to utter a
word. A hasty examination revealed two
large holes in the mans head, probably
inflicted by a pick, and blood stains on
the womans clothing. The man was car
ried to the baggage car and taken to the
hospital, and the woman was also forced
to get on the train, but she later jumped
while the train was in motion and fed to
the woods, where she was discovered
and taken to jail by the sheriff. The man.
whose name is Wilson, has not gained
consciousness and there are grave fears
for his recovery.
julius Gerlach. an employee of the Mod
ern Steel Structural Company of Wau-
kesha, was badlS hurt in the works By
being crushed dnder a heavy piece Of
iron.
The body of Mrs. Eliza Koefer. sister
of T. W. Mortified, postmaster of Elk
horn. who disappeared on June is, was
found in locked portion Of her brothers
cellar.
George G. L Marshall. an employe Of
Marshall Field Company OF Chicago. was
seized with a cramp while swimming at
Lake Geneva and he was drowned before
assistance could reach him