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

berthold j. HuSting better known as
Pete" pitcher of the Philadelphia Amer
lean League baseball team. and Miss Ag-
mes Sternberger were married at May
| vile.
| At the Worlds Fair August Schiller.
residing on 4 farm one-half mile from
! Glidden. was awarded a diploma and
medal for raising the best rye in the
world.
| H. Z. Erickson of Stanley was award
ed gold medal at the Highland Park
| College of Pharmacy at Des Moines,
Iowa. for efficient work in the graduate
course.
+. ID. Bayless has purchased the Law
Ter parked homestead at Prairie du
| Chen. and will establish a sanitarium.
Mr.. Bayless was formerly State Sena-
tor from Elkader.
Mrs. Gertrude Mics. aged 81 years,
dropped dead at 1909 St Claire street,
Sheboygan. Coroner Goodell found death
due TO apoplexy. She made her bone
with her daughter.
Frank Kietch, saloonkeeper living at
keil, was seriously injured by being
thrown from a buggy near New Holstein
His ankle was dislocated and the leg
broken below the knee.
An old-time tramp. commonly known as
Jack O'Brien, was killed by a Milwaukee
passenger train near Lansing. He was
sitting on bridge when the train hit him,
killing him almost instantly.
The long drouth in Portage. Adams,
Wood and Waushara counties is proving
severe and potatoes, corn and vegetation
generally are suffering. The hot winds
are even worse on crops than the drouth.
George Wolf, wife murderer of Chip
pewa Falls, was taken 10 Shell Lake and
on plea of guilty of murder in the first
degree was sentenced by Judge Ninje to
Imprisonment at Waupun for life. He
arose in court and told the story of the
murder. detailing how he dug his wife's
grave in a lonely spot before he killed
her. He said jealousy drove him to the
crime.
Enraged because they shot his dog, 1t
is alleged, NJ. A. Erickson of Dresbach,
Mimi, attacked Tracy Burke, son of +.
r. Burke of the Withee, Burke 4 Barri-
son Bank of La Crosse, and ROLAND
GODDARD, son of a La Crosse millionaire
lumberman, who were camping near the
village. In the fight which followed Burke
was pounded in a frightful manner and
Goddard was stabbed in the thigh and
seriously wounded.
An X-ray examination at W. G. Fuchs
laboratory in Chicago has disclosed the
fact that j. G.. Robertson Of Cooksville
did not swallow his false teeth, as he had
supposed. This discovery has greatly re-
lieyed Mr.. Robertson's mind, and, Incl
dentally, an acute stomach trouble from
which he had suffered since the disap-
pearance of the teeth, but the mystery
as to the whereabouts of the useful ar
ticle is deepened. Robertson lost his teeth
while asleep, and the belief that he had
swallowed them so proved upon him that
he made the trip to Chicago TO have them
removed if they proved to be in his stom-
ach.
The man arrested at the Monroe Coun-
ty fair on suspicion of being the leader
of the horse thieves who have been OPP
Grating in Wisconsin. Minnesota and
Iowa for several months. has been identi-
fed as Pat Ryan, one of the most Eoto-
rious horse thieves in the West. Ryan
was sent to the State penitentiary from
La OToSSe 0Ouhly Il HuuDci VI NtdlS NSp
for horse stealing, was twice convicted
in Crawford County and committed to
Waupun prison for similar offense. He
also figured in a Jail breaking episode at
Prairie du Chen, where the sheriff's sis
ter, who endeavored to prevent his escape,
was severely beaten.
Henry Deter a short time ago received
letter ordering him, under penalty, to
leave $500 at designated spot in a pas
ture owned by him in the town of Cas-
tie Rock where he had something like
a hundred head OF cattle. The letter
threatened that if he did not comply with
the demand his stock would be poisoned
and himself and family murdered. Joe
Hriebes of Castle Rock also received
letter making several threats in case he
refused to leave 800 in bottle oil GER
tain stump designated by the writer.
Deter has set a trap. and in the mean
time goes around heavily armed. He has
received another letter. telling him to take
away his watchers, showing that if it is
not hoax the writer is on his guard and
may Adopt other tactics.
After an absence of thirty-seven years
from his wife George \. Thurston,
veteran Of the Civil War, remarked the
woman, who, conceiYing him to have
boon killed. had married again and was
a widow. When the Civil War broke out
Mr.. and Mrs. Thurston We're living in
Canton. Ohio. At the close If the war
Mr.. Thurston was not with the troops
that returned to Ohio and Mrs. Thurston,
after four years of supposed widOwhood,
married John Smith of La Crosse, with
whom she moved to this State. where she
has since been living. Quite by chance
few days ago Mr.. Thurston passed
through La Crosse. saw and recognized
his wife and. although the marriage cere-
mony had never been formally annulled
they were married again. The newly
welded couple have moved TO Appleton.
where the bridegroom who Is aged 60
years. has found a position.
Ex-Chief of Police Renew L. Clark,
one of the earliest residents Of La Crosse,
aud father Of A. p. Clark, president of
the City Council. committed suicide at
his home by shooting himself in the right
temple. He was sufferer from asthma
and nad threatened to take bis life.
Annie SEEKER, aged IA. Of Marinette
was arrested on the charge of stealing
from, the Polish Catholic Church. She
is accused of taking laces and flowers
| from the ,Atar and money from the Bo0r
boxes. Other little girls are involved
| in the thefts and number Of arrests win
Re made.
Blood poisoning that resulted from an
injury suffered in falling from bicycle
proved fatal 70 Clement Smith, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Hiram Smith Of Manito-
voc While riding bicycle few days
ago the boy was thrown to the ground
| and sustained an injury to his ankle from
which blood poisoning developed, result
| ing in death
In attempting to commit suicide John
Ernst. a Bohri valley farmer. shattered
his Jaw bone and mutilated his face al
most beyond recognitiAn with a shotgun
Ernst married some time ago against his
parents wisas~. it is alleged. and the
marriage turned ut to be an unhappy
/ one.