Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-12-16
Brief state Happenings.

The Rockford, Beloit and GAINESVILLE
Electric road is completed, and service
has been commenced
Wesley Lancaster of Argyle an in
mate of the Grant County insane asylum
jumped from tower seventy feet high
and was instantly killed.
James Wylie, prisoner serving SIX
wears in the State prison at Waupun foI
kTglary at Madison, dropped dead while
at work in the prison woodshed. Heart
disea e was the cause.
Pub shipments to Appleton this sea,
son, it !, expected. viii surplss the rec
ords for any years past. The North.
western Ra way is arranging to handle
between $4,000 and 10000 cords.
James s. Maple of Minneapolis, an es.
capped patient from the insane asylum at
Rochester, Mimi, created a sensation in
La Crosse by setting his bed on fire in the
central police station and almost burning
himself up.
Burglars have broken into several farm
houses between Askeaton and Forest OF
late At the residence of Charles Win
ker they made thorough search, break
ing open a bureau. but overlooked 81, 100
which was hid underneath.
Prof. Ludwig Kumlein, who had
taught natural history in Milton Col
lege since 1891, is dead He was COM
PEELED to abandon teaching in May, since
which time he had gone steadily toward
the grave from cancer of the throat.
A. B. Barney of Spencer, once & "a hit
and promising attorney and MEME of
the Assembly, was examined by physi-
clans in Wausau. and found to be suffer
ing from alcoholic insanity and was com
mitted to the northern hospital at Osh-
kosh.
A man by the name of Williams of
Shafer was accidentally killed at St.
Croix Falls. while he was running a
traction engine up grade the engine
slipped and tipped over, crushing Will
liams TO death beneath it. He was a
married man "a years old.
August Hoffman was telling n tree on
his farm four miles west of Sheboygan
when the tree fell, pinning him to the
ground. He had both legs broken.
Henry Backmark. aged 10 years. as
sistant buttermaker al the Atlas cream
cry. accidentally shot himself while hunt
ing deer and his recovery is in doubt.
Herman w Hoeft, well-known com
poser and inventor, is dead at his La
Crosse home OF heart trouble, aged Al
He had secured Fifteen patents on yari-
GUS inventions, all of which are unique
and valuable, and had composed several
pieces in his younger days.
John Sans.on. an empioye at the North
ern Grain Company, Elevator A. in Man
itowoc, met with a peculiar and distress
ing accident that will cripple him for life
His left leg was caught in a moose of a
rope and wxs completely severed from
the body half way between the knee end
foot.
The Harshman Shoe Company has
been organized at Chippewa Falls. with a
capital stock of $4,000. The stockhold-
ers are local men. A solid brick building
four stories. 160x44 feet. has been COM
pleted and the factory viii be In opera
tion in few days. The output viii be
100 pairs Of fine shoes a day. giving
employment TO about 30 people.
Joseph Rausch. a Pole. suddenly BE-
cane insane at his boarding house in Ra-
cine. Aiming himself with q butcher
knife he attempted to cut several TER
sons TO pieces and cleaned out the house.
When there was no one to cut be cot an
ak. and proceeded to chop down the
house He was progressing with the
work rapidly when officers arrived with
the patrol wagon. After a hard light
they landed him in Jail. where he IS now
4 raving maniac
Joseph wabiniski Of Arcadia dropped
dead al the home Of Mike SteInaach ia
La Crosse- He was apparently well and
was talking 10 friends in tbs house when
~ sSdSfsnly died