Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-23

The WATERFOWL shoe factory has been
sold TO the William Gorder Company
The price IS said to be $4,000.
The coroner's verdict on the death cf
John Smith, Who died in the Madison
police station, was suicide by taking
strychnine.
Miss Edith Hamacker. a teacher in
the Stevens Point public school. has re-
ceived scholarship in the Chicago Uni
versity. offered to a graduate of the Ste
vens Point normal school.
While two children of August I.enhardt
were playing with matches in their faith
er's barn at Sherry the barn was SET on
IRE and a 4-year-old boy was burned to
death. The other boy escaped.
Rev. Ebenezer Thompson. pastor Of
Methodist churches in Wisconsin for fifty
years. died at his home in Glen Flora.
at the age of SO years. His wife. who
is the sole survivor of the family, is ex-
actly the same age.
While threshing on Charles Blenders
farm near kirkland. sparks from the
engine started a fire which destroyed
all the grain stacks, the barn and other
buildings, together with the steam thresh-
er. The loss is $4,000.
John Rusach, laborer, was found al
most dead from exhaustion floating in the
river near the mouth of Racine harbor
elinging to a rudely constructed raft. He
had marks of violence on his body and
attempts at foul play are suspected.
Postage stamps of various denomina-
tons valued at $172. which were stolen
from the safe in the postofHce building
at Arena the other night. were found in
the coal sheds os the ST. Paul Railway at
Mazomanie by an employe of that road.
Judge Seaman of Milwaukee confirmed
the sale of the United States Flour Mill
ing Company. The price vas $3.500000
and the cost of the sale WIS $780, 2S. The
total Indebtedness was $S,147 800, with
100000 interest There was a deticien-
ey of S5,1S5.254.
August Nigbor, a well-known farmer,
residing six miles west of Berlin, was in
stantly killed by lightning while stacking
hay. His son, who was working with
him, was stunned and was unconscious
for several hours The hay stack was
set on fire and entirely consumed.
Prof. Rodney II. True son of John
Nj. True of Baraboo, is u liking some rap
id strides in the field botany, since
being employed by the % ted States gov
eminent. For long tim | attempts have
been made to procure & cen tea in the
curing process, where is grown in
South Carolina, but no ( d was able to
get the desired produce til discovered
by Mr. True
Edward Kalina, 10 We ! Cd, was al
most killed by the expo pr/of a dyna-
mite cartridge he had | lkked up on a
bluff east of Prairie du Cnien, where the
city water works reservoir is being built.
Carrying it home he laid it on a stump
aud struck it with a hammer. The ex-
plosion badly lacerated his groan and
nearly tore his left hand from his arm.
He will live.
A peculiar and very painful accident
happened at Kaukauna to G. l.. Sanborn
of Minneapolis, Mimi, who was engaged
in covering the roof of the Kaukauna
mill with tar. Sanborn had just reach
ed the highest part of the roof with a
bucket of hot tar when he slipped and
the contents OF the vessel covered him
from head to foot, burning the exposed
parts eff his body terribly.
Mrs. Isabella Compton Denninger, wife
of NJ. w. Denninger, an insurance adjust
er OF Kenosha, has received a check for
$4,000 as the result of promise made
to her years ago by Andrew Frazier, the
California millionaire. At the time Mr..
Frazier promised to give Mrs. Denninger
a gold mine which bore her name. The
mine was recently sold and the check was
the amount received for it.
The four iron tires of the wheels is the
only portion of a buggy which remained
intact as the result of an accidental ex-
plosion of fifteen sticks of dynamite on
the farm of George Cough, near Apple
ton. Mr.. Cough had purchased twenty
pieces of the explosive and placed six Of
them under a stump, leaving the remain
der in the vehicle The six pieces were
ignited and the stump blown up. A por-
ton of the burning stump dropped into
the buggy, the conclusion exploding the
dynamite in the rig.
Clara Oehler, the 17-year-old daughter
of Mrs. Anna Rebenstorff, committed
suicide at her home in Oshkosh by taking
carbohc acid. According to Fred Rebens-
torff of Fond du Lac, who is visiting his
mother, the family were sitting in the sit
ting room when the girl went upstairs to
her room. She was not seen again until
about 9 O'clock, when found lying on the
bed. The cause for the girls act is said
to be the opposition of her family to her
keeping company with Bert Hunter
The sale of the track and right of way
of the Chippewa River and Menomonie
Railway, owned by the Chippewa Lum-
Der and Boom Company, was consum-
mated by the 500 line purchasing the first
thirteen miles and the Beldenville Lum-
Der Company the remainder, which con-
sists of sixteen miles of track and right
of way running north from ApoIlonia in
to Sawyer County. The road will be OPP
Grated as a logging road for the next
two years, after which it viii be put into
shape for general traffic.
Much excitement has been caused by
the discovery of body of a man buried
on the farm of William Roth. near Beloit.
The body was in a rough box and was
dressed and had on boots 1t is wonder
fully well preserved, but it has evidently
been buried for many years. Mr. Roth
made the gruesome discovery while ex-
cavating for a foundation for a building.
Old inhabitants recall that nearly thirty
years ago stranger came to this place
and settled on the Roth farm. The fam
lily was very small and had little or roth
ing to do with any of their neighbors.
After time the man disappeared and
nothing was ever seen of him. Soon after
that the rest of the family left the Vi
entity.
Charles William Roberts, one Of Ra-
cine's best known citizens, died at his
home from taking medicine His wife
and children were at church at the time.
The powder is said to contain quantities
of drugs produced from coal tar.
Mrs. Larkind OF Chicago. who recently
came 10 Ashland with her husband. be-
gan talking one day and for three DAYS
never stopped a moment. She was ex-
amined for insanity and was taken to
the State hospital for the insans. She
imagines she is in heaven and talks con-