Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-21
Brief state happenings

Owing to the uncertainty of the cotton
market, the Fond du Lac shirt and over
all factory. shut down. One hundred
employees are affected.
Spontaneous combustion in grain start
ed a fire in the American Mailing Com
pany's malthouse at Milwaukee that
caused from 100000 to $4,000 loss.
George Hall of La Crosse discovered
the home of Miss Anna Thompson on
fire and carried her from the burning
building. The smoke had deadened her
senses.
The first automobile victim near Mil
waukee was John Henle of Wauwatosa.
an inmate of the county poor farm, who
was struck on a country road and killed.
He was 76 years old.
Milwaukee's county Jail is declared to
be so undermined by qucksands as to be
unsafe, and life insurance companies
have warned employees their policies will
be cancelled if they remain in the build
ing.
A severe storm struck New Richmond,
doing much damage TO crops and other
wise. The city hall. which is being rails
ed, was blown from its temporary fom-
dation. Telephone service was interrupt
ed and the electric power for the street
railway was cut off.
The explosion of a gasoline tank caus-
ed fire which consumed one of the inn
portant building blocks in Fond du Lac
The explosion occurred about midnight
and was followed by a terrific shock II
was followed by an outburst of flames
and the Anderson building. between First
and Second streets, occupied by the Pal
ace bowling alley, in which the gasoline
was stored. was entirely destroyed.
The residence of John Kiser in Ash
land was partly demolished by two ex-
plosionS. Dynamite had been put in the
stove and chimney by unknown parties
The stove was blown to pieces and the
house partly destroyed, but none of the
family was seriously injured.
A panic followed the premature explo-
sion of the village fireworks display in
the high school yard at Oregon. and
about thirty people were injured. Msny
were burned and scores of others We're
trampled under the feet of the crowd of
villagers who rushed fol- the gates when
the hail of FIRE fell upon them.
patterson ~ 1Itlut ~ GA
CHEN purchased of a clam fisher one of
the largest and most beautiful pearls yet
found in the vicinity. Ii weighed ninety
grains and is fiat button in shape. The
price paid is said to be about 5000.
After being out twenty hours. the jury
in the case of the State against John
Roche. charged with murder, came in
at Eau Claire with verdict of not gull
". The main feature Of the defense
was the proving of an slihi to the eff
feet that Roche was in Morrison Ceun
". MINI. June %, 1895. the day in
which the State alleged and Roche's sup
posed wife swore that he killed Schnel-
Ter in Eau Claire County.
pe<er Van De Loo. q weil-to-do farm
or OF the town of Inns. Is dead from
blood poisoning. lie had been cutting
grass with sccythe and while sharpen
ing the tool had inflicted a eut on his
fnger. from che effects Of which he died.
amid great suffering.
l.. C. Scott was held up aEd robbed
near the brewery on Lake street. Apple
ton by two men who seized and gagged
him with a handkerchief and dragged
him into the shadow between the build
hgs, where they relieved him of pocket
book containing ST. No serious violence
was offered and after securing che money
the highwaymen fed along the road 10
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