Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-30

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Henry Carlson Of GAINESVILLE was held
up on his way to the Northwestern depot
at Sparta and robbed of $25. He was
badly battered up.
Beloit College has engaged Abram Ray
Tyler of Brooklyn, \. Y. to be choir
master and head of the musical depart
ment of the college
Chester Winans. a young man Of Alb
rams had his thumb nearly chewed off
by horse that had been bitten by a dog
suffering from the rabies.
Dwight Wales. go years of age. one Of
the most prominent farmers in the town
of North Geneva. was g0red to death hy
an Infatuated bull on his farm.
Outside capitalists are figuring with
Thousand Club for the erection Of a big
packing plant in West Superior
Contracts have been let for the cree
ton of the Pabst Hotel and Theater in
Kenosha, which is to be built by the
Pabst Brewing Company Of Milwaukee.
The building will cost more than $4,000.
Charles LANCE. a farmer residing three
ACoo
$1,000 by fire. His home was entirely
consumed and the members of his family
narrowly escaped being burned to death.
John Hoelz, a business man of Marsh
field, has been lost in the swamp lands
in the northern part of the State for sew
eral days. He separated from the other
members of hunting party and never re-
turned.
Frank Uher, who attempted to com
NIT suicide at Prairie du Chen. was
brought before Judge Curran and adjudg-
ed insane. He was prominent business
man and became respondent over i'll
health.
1t is rumored, and apparently on good
authority, that the 800 Line" will ex-
tend its road north from Frederic to con-
meet with logging railroad in the south
ern part Of Douglas Couny, which runs
into Superior.
Frank Ramthun. aged 81 years. who
resides near Osceola. accidentally shot
himself while exhibiting a hammerless
revolver. Death followed almost instan-
taneousIy. The shot entered the right
side of the head.
Articles of incorporation have been pre-
pared for the Stanley Mining and Invest
ment Company. organized for the pur-
pose of developing the Merritt ore fields
north of Stevens Point The capital stock
is placed at $250,000
Mrs. Clara Brinkman has brought suit
for divorce against Harry Brinkman, a
well-known business man of Racine. Mrs.
Ilvsr, ell ~ hrN-k nd 11o
been cruel and inhuman toward her and
has not supported her.
Johnny MeCloud, aged 10, of Vinegar
Hall, accidentally knocked a bottle of
powder over on the stove and it exploded,
wrecking the top of the stove and de-
stroying the sight of one eye completely
and injuring the other.
Miss Selma Engebretson aRd Seger
Gryttenholm of La Crosse, who disap-
was reported at the time. The young
lady was visiting relatives and this led to
the report being circulated.
The c. A. Potter department store and
postoffce in Pittsyille was entered by
burglars, the door Of the safe blown off
with dynamite. Postage stamps to the
amount of 5000, also several dollars
worth of pennies, were secured. No other
goods are missing.
While threshing was being done at
the farm of Albert Hawkins, in the town
of Winfield, spark from the engine set
fire to the stacks. The blaze made such
rapid Roadway that it was impossible to
save the separator. One of the horses
was also severely burned.
A young man giving Alfred Lowell as
his name and with a ticket on his person
showing La Crosse to be his destination
was picked up along the track of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road near
Peterson so badly injured that he died a
short time after. He fell from a train
and was run over.
James Johnson, an ex-mail carrier and
janitor of DANA Hall of Racine, who dis
appeared several weeks ago, has returned
to the city, only to find his wife nearly
Frustrated ard with her little children
turned out Into the street and dependent
upon charitable friends. The man is be-
Geved to have been deranged.
As an experiment, the Fenwood Lum-
Der Company last spring planted two
acres of its farm near Fenwood 10 tobac-
co and a crop of it has just been har-
vested amounting to about 10000 pounds.
Sheds have been erected for the curing
process and an expert is now on the
grounds to see that the crop is properly
cured, after which the value can be de-
termined
A skeleton of a man about 6 feet tall
was found by workmen while digging a
trench for the water works mains at
Chippewa Falls. The case in which the
body had been buried was all decompos-
ed, but the bones We're in a good state of
preservation, although they show age. 1t
is estimated that the skeleton, which lay
face downward, has been there for hun
bred years.
A rope holding a swinging scaffold up
on which two painters, Harry Hunt and
George Ermatinger. were at work at the
South Side Manufacturing Company s
mill in Chippewa Falls broke. Ermatin-
ger fell thirty-fve feet to the roof of the
boiler room and narrowly escaped being
fatally injured. His arm was broken.
Hunt grabbed a hook and hung on until
employees pulled him through a window.
The City Council of Sheboygan passed
a resolution retiring John Sandrok. chief
of the FIRE department. IN account Of ply
steal disability. allowing him yearly pen
sion of 800 Alderman Mohr notified
the Council that he would enjoin the city
from paying any pension money TO Chief
Sandrok. as il was stealing from the CT, =
treasury Chief Sandrok has servei in
the ShebSygan fire department aearly
fifty years and is % years old.
Frank Merely, a 15-year-old Se7 living
at Cartwright. was sent to the Industrial
school at Waukesha for barf9 Try He
broke into the Farmers stora at that
place three nights in SUCCESSION and stole
money. The last night he was caught in
the act Of tapping the till.
Gottfried kison, 50 years Of age. had
a narrow escape from drowning while
fishing in Rock lake. In some manner
his boat capSized. but he managed TO
get hold Of the boat and held on until
helm came. when he was taken from the