Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
skate Items of InteresH.

Edward Kuhlmann, aged 16, was kick
ed in the mouth by horse in Chippewa
Falls. and died two hours later.
Burglars at Birkenmeyer's department
store i'll Edgelton secured about $50 in
cash and quantity of dress goods
H. C. Salisbury of Cumberland has
been appointed by Gov. La Toilette, third
municipal judge of Barron County in
place of A. n. Anderson, resigned.
Chairman Henry Runke of the Keno
sha County Board found an explosive on
his desk. 1t was the genuine article, but
the chairman held the matter as a joke
Three thousand Wyoming sheep receiv-
ed in Grand Rapids in September for fall
grazing and fattening on cut-oyer land
have been sent to the Chicago market
Profits on the experiment were $4,000, or
50 per head.
The 3-year-old son of Hans Johnson of
La crosse crawled from his cradle and
attempted to drag a loaded gun from I'M
der the bed. The weapon exploded and
the child was instantly killed. The par
ents We're away.
James Allston, a negro, a 'ested for
ing in a cave dig in the side of a hill,
says he has leprosy and gives that as a
reason why he has been living apart
from humanity.
Peter Stephance, a Clay Banks farm
er, met his death in peculiar manner in
Sturgeon Bay. Stepping on the sidewalk,
he rolled off and striking on his head,
broke his neck, dying shortly after. The
walk at the point where he fell was
about three feet high.
Although dead, the body of former
Sheriff Theodore J. Meyers. sitting bolt
upright with the stiffened hands still
holding the reins, was brought into Ke-
nosha from the country the other night
by his faithful horse. Mr.. Meyers, who
had twice been sheriff of Kenosha Coun-
ty, was one Of the wealthest men in the
city and was in the habit of taking long
drives benhind his blooded horses. He
went out in apparently his usual health.
DR.. William Pugh, to whose Office the
body was taken, stated that Mr. Meyers
had been cold several hours, and that
death probably had resulted from heart
disease.
Two painters, Daniel Eastich and
Henry Bean, fell thirty feet at the new
hotel building in Beloit. and Bean sus-
aimed fatal injuries.
Miss Catherine Cummings of Pine
Grove was married the other day to
Squire Ostrander 1t is one Of the young
est couples ever married there, the groom
being only II and the bride 10 years old.
John Witty, a Chicago and North
western brakeman, was caught between
the cars and the station platform at La
Vale and was killed. He was about
% years of age and leaves a wife and
children.
Joseph f. Buhr. a Milwaukee man,
aged q years, was killed in the Great
Northern yards in Superior. He is sup
posed to have been caught between the
cars.
Miss /. f. stearns Of Milwaukee APP
peared before the county board in be-
aalf of a circulating library for Sank
County and $500 was appropriated for
that purpose.
John L. Rooney dropped dead from
heart failure at his home near Chippe-
wa Falls. He was one Of the most prom
inent citizens in that section and was at
one tir-a deputy sheriff under Sheriff
Fred Hoenig and prominent in county
affairs.
Opal Bealveal the 16-year-old Evans
vile girl who ran away from home re-
Gently TO find her sweetheart in Chicago
and who was arrested and brought back
by special officers. elOped again TO Rock
ford and married Bert Bratt. a teIe-
graph operator who lives in Chicago.
Bratt is - years old and is the hunter
whom il was reported the girl was 70
meet IN Chicago when she ran away be-
fore. He is said 10 have recently been
left considerable property In Chicago By
his father, who is dead.
ST. Mary's Church in Kaukauna has
just held a meeting of its trustees and |
voted TO make a series OF Improvements /
which win aggregate about $4,000.