Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-07-08

been chosen as president Of the Uniyer-
sity Of Wisconsin to succeed Charles
Kendall Adams.
Gustaye Husting. a brother of Pete
busting. the crack American League
pitcher, sustained a fracture Of leg in
ball game at Mayville.
II. H. Rand of Wisconsin has been APP
pointed assistant superintendent Of the
salary and allowance bureau of the Post
office Department in Washington.
Gen Edward s. Bragg has started for
Havana to take up his duties as consul
general He was Joined at Chicago by
his private secretary, Harry NJ Robbins
OF Madison.
The Stetens Point Textile Starch and
Gum Company has been declared insol-
vent. The failure is said TO be due to
the high price of potatoes during the
past few years.
Charles Jensen, aged 10 years, was
attacked by a strange dog near his home
at Racine and terribly bitten. The dog
was driven off after hard fight. Ply
sieians state that the boy will live
Mrs. frankie Willis. wife of w. III.
Willis, barber in Chicago, pleaded gull
ty at Racine to the charge of horse
stealing and was sentenced TO serve two
years in the penitentiary at Wauppn.
Charles A. Noyes. agent of the Mil
waukee road at kilbourn, died Of heart
failure. Mr.. Noyes was one of tie old
est agents in the employ of the company,
having held the hilbourn position since
1868.
Fidel Kneifel Of New Burgh Corners
is dead. the result Of drinking a pail and
half of water kneifel, VINO was 30
years old, fell from barn some time ago
and afterward he displayed queer antics
at times.
A letter from Senator Quarles states
that there is now no doubt that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and portion of his cab
met. together with the Wisconsin, con-
gressional delegation, will visit La Crosse
Sept -
At Osceola while Oscar Fisk's G-year-
old son and another boy aged II, were
playing with a rife, Fisk's boy was shot
through the stomach, the ball passing
clear through, and it is feared the boy
will die from the wound.
At Hurley, in a fight between lalf a
dozen Finlanders. Jacob Mendols shot
/ and fatally wounded a man whose name
is unknown. MENDOZA fed to the woods,
| but was captured and lodged in Jail The
Firms came from Ironwood.
Arvey and Hobart Eimerrnan, brothers,
aged IA years and 0 years, were run
down by a Wells street electric car on
theWauwatosa line at Milwaukee, and
| instantly killed. The boys were crossing
the track on their way to a swim.
The Amigo Manufacturing Conipany's
saw mill and stave factory at Kent was
destroyed by fire The origin Of the fire
is unknown, but it is believed to have
caught from sparks which came from the
woods where farmers were burning
| brush.
Albert Behling OF Pound, while remov-
| ing a double-bitted ak from the handle
was struck in the eye by piece Of iron
from the ak. Blood poisoning set in
and he had to go to Milwaukee and have
the injured eye removed in order TO save
the other one.
| Mr.. and Mrs. C. ]. SteuerwaId of Che
boygan, left for Albany. n. Y, upon re-
ceiving the announcement of the death
of their daughter Alice. she being in
stantly killed by a fall The young lady
was a member of a theatrical company
| playing in Albany.
| L. b. Hastings. who has been agent
for the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
road in Neenah for several years, has
resigned his position and left for Sawa-
nee. Tenn, where he will enter the Uni
versity of the South and study for orders
in the Episcopal Church.
Laurence V. Frazier of Viola sradu'
ated from West Point Military Academy
with high honors. He ranked among
the first seven for his four years work,
AS result of his good work he is entitled
to position in the engineers corps with
a salary of 1880 per year.
John Lindahl, an employe of one OF the
railroad construction camps near Chippe-
wa Falls, while returning to the camp
fell from the Wisconsin Central Rail-
road bridge upon pier six feet down
This saved him from falling into the
river below and going over the falls,
Charles Mishank. employed as lumber
| pier in the yards of George K. Wood al
WoOdboro, waited until the mill whistles
blew at o'clock on n recent night be-
fore he committed suicids by cutting his
throat from ear to ear. Some fellow
workmen in the yard saw the man fall to
the ground and when they Reached his
side they found that he had ended his
life.
Charles WOodman. a young business
man of Niagara went to Marinette on an
| excursion alone. He returned with Miss
winnifred o'Connell of Marinette as his
bride The young couple had been post.
poning their wedding on account of par
entail objection, but the groom. like a
young Lochinvar, stole his bride away
and went to Menominee, where the cere-
mony was performed by a priest. and
they returned to the groom's home man
and vile.
Axy Walker, the 15-year-old girl who
was drowned with her companion, Maude
Moore. in the mill pond at Kingston, fore
told her death and the death Of her
friend several months ago. She predict
cd at the time that she and her friend
would die together. Some time ago. when
a girl friend was visiting her, she made
a viii in which she disposed OF her be-
| longings TO friends and relatives and also
appointed her pall-bearefs. The doeu-
ment she gave TO the girl 10 keep for
her until she was dead.
Miss Sarah Adamson. wei known in
! kenoSha society, announces that she viii
enter the Dominican sisterhood as Sis
| ter OF Charity. She WIZ be received as
a novitiate at the convent at SlhSinews
| Mound in August.
VIII II. Spaulding OF River FAILS and
Doc Andrus OF Ashland. two students Of
Lawrence University. We're Aeli up by
two highwaymen in Appleton while on
their way 10 the depot, where they were
TO take the train for their home. The