Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-04-22

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| farmer. committed suicide by hanging
himself in his barn. The cause IS not
known.
Prof. George ?. Bacon of the Belois
College Academy has accepted the head
professorship in physics of Wooster, Ohio
University.
G. w Demmon. the well-known county
directory ard county advertising man.
died suddenly at La Crosse of neuralgia
of the heart
Mrs. Frank Techmar. wife of we'll
known La Crosse citizen, died from
blood poisoning. which. it is said. was due
to vaccination.
Edward Weimer. an old resident Of
Appleton, committed suicide by shooting.
He was about 20 years of age and leaves
a grown family.
Rev. J. MCGOWAN of Briggsville has
been appointed pastor of St. Patricll's
Church at Askeaton. to succeed Rev. a.
Billian, who has been transferred 10
Waupaea.
Rev. George w Nichols. aged 30. a
La Crosse preacher and farmer, claims
his WIFE aged GO, is driving him crazy
by her incessant talking. lie has applied
for a divorce.
Thomas Fliss. a Stevens Point tailor,
about Ga years Of age, was found dead in
a clay pit, where he had fallen during
the night. He was lying face downward
under about two feet of water.
C. F. Dutton. formerly general man
ager Of the old Milwaukee and Northern
Railroad and who conducts a large stock
farm at Wausaukee. was attacked by z
vicious bull and severely injured.
One hundred and eleven cans, contain
ing between 100000 and 1000, 000
whitefsh fry, were emptied into the Me-
nominee river the other day from the
Wisconsin State fish commission ear
Badger
John Bufalo Head. the Shawano
County Indian who killed William George
at Shawano Nov. IS last. pleaded guilty
to mans!lughter in the fourth degree and
was sentenced TO eighteen months inn
prisonment 1T Waupun.
The farmers are very much AFRAID that
The heavy snow aud cool weather will
cause what grain has been seeded to rot
in the ground and as in some places con-
siderable seeding has been done it viii
be a great loss to them.
Capt. A. NJ. sherman Of Eau Claire has
! purchased the Lake Halle property, the
famous summer resort. midway between
Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, from
John IRE for 81 900 The property will
be improved and reopened.
The First National Bank of Campbells-
port has been organized with capital
Of So, 600 The officers are as follows
President, f. J. Barber, Oshkosh; vice
president. John Loebs. Campbellsport
cashier, Henry Bacon, Oshkosh
The house of J. Olischlagel was burned
at Omro The loss is about $1,000 on
house and with $1,000 insurance Mr..
Olischager was overcome by smoke
while endeavoring to save some of his
household goods. He was revived with
! difficulty after several hours Of hard
work.
c. w. Francis, a prisoner at the coun>
~ jail in Madison, made an attempt to
escape, while the other prisoners were at
service. With chair leg and knife he
had removed twenty-four bricks from the
inner wall when he was discovered Fran.
els is waiting trial for robbing the post
Office at Whitehall early in November.
! Herbert Jones, one of the best known
young musicians of Racine. is seriously
| i'll at st. Luke's hospital in Chicago. hay
ing undergone an operation for appendi-
! citiS. Young Jones was born a cripple
and hardly able to walk ~ use his hands
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through the Racine high school, took up
! the study of music. both vocal and in
strumental and took part in many nota-
BILE events in the Belle City.
August Heideman, wealthy retired
merchant of La Crosse, has mysterious
/ ~ disappeared from his home and all
| efforts to locate him have been without
avail On March 26 he started down
the river in a small pleasure boat to
| farm several miles below He never ar
rived at the farm. nor has he been since
heard from. The boat was found lodged
in drift wood. 1t is feared that he has
been murdered and robbed lie was 80
years of age.
Steps lave been taken axtend aud re-
organize the Chequamegon Oratorical
! League and the contests of the two
branches of the league will take place
wthinethe next few weeks. The league
has been enlarged so that there are two
branches of four schools each. The
Western branch includes the Blaine and
Nelson Dewey high schools of West SUI
perior. Washburn and Bayfield,. The
other branch includes the high schools
of Bessemer, Ironwood, Hurley and Ash
/ land.
Hundreds of tons Of dead fish menace
the health OF people of Ia Crosse. The
shores of every slough and bayou on the
Minnesota side OF the river are Tired
with the carcasses of buffalo fish. aver
aging eighteen inches in length. and with
the arrival of hot weather disease laden
stencil viii pcrvade tie whole country
adjacent to the flats and last the season
throughout. y dozen yards from the de-
pot in La Crescent is a little slough in
which may be seen floating about 100
pounds of dead buffalo. In the fan there
was a general rise Of water and then a
sudden fall, leaving shoals Of Ssh strand
ed in the small slough: after the ice form
cd death from suffocahon followed.
G. J. Stenerwald. the general Southern
agent Tor George Hart & Co. cheese buy
crS. was found almost lead in his room
NJ the boarding house al Christ Neumis-
ter NJ Sheboygan. He had accidentally
left the gas turned on when putting out
the light II IS Thought be win recover.
T. !. Stevenson Of Sioux City. Iowa.
heading syndicate made up mostly Of
Sioux Gifts men. has closed deal Tor
the purchase of 23.0o9 acres of land in
Bayfield, County. southeast Of Duluth
All has 5000 acFeS &c the trac1 IS giHl-
Der land aud tho men interested expect
20 realizcS fortune.
Two mortgages in favor Of tie Farm
crs' Loan and Trust Company and the
Mercantile Trust Company Of New York.
and amounting 10 Sl9oao, 600. We're fled
FOR record At Ashland hy the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company The liens are
secured By the property al thirty com
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