Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13

Rev. j. w. Olmstead. former pastor
of the M. +. church of this city. died at
Appleton yesterday, of cancer of the
stomach.
Better have your plumbing inspected
| before 1T freezes up. Call up 321, A. B.
Wheeler d Son, and you won't have to
worry about it any more.
Fall hat on your list9 Better on your
| head. Present favorites are the soft
fedoras-otter, or black-S2 and S3-for
that naturally belong with our high
grade clothes. For sale at Seim Bros.
The Wausau high school foot ball
team played at Rhinelander Saturday
and the game resulted in tie, 5 to S.
Next Saturday Wausau plays the Mer-
rill team
The examination of Chas. Koch. of
the town of Easton, for assaulting Fred
Geske, of this city, will be held before
Judge Miller Thursday Geske still
suffers great pain in his head as result
of the assault.
Cailies' glazing department is now
running full blast and he is so crowded
with work in that line that he wishes it
to be known that orders received after
I'm. cannot be attended to until the
following day.
A deaf and dumb insane man was
captured by the police Sunday. By
communicating with different asylum
officials it was learned that he had es-
capped from the Manitowoc asylum
Sept. Goth and Henry Goedjen, superin-
tendent, came up this morning and re-
turned with him. The man was a half
breed Indian, known at the asylum as
John Doe No. 2, and when arrested had
number of cog wheels and other
articles usually found in a machine
shop, strapped around his waist.
The Milwaukee Sentinel evidently
got hold of some false report in regard
to the feeling against Arthur Young,
accused of the murder of Edward
Smith. That paper called up the
sheriff by telephone this morning at
two o'clock and wanted to know if the
prisoner was going to be lynched,
whether guards had been placed
around the Jail and if mob law was
rampant in the city. The sheriff re-
piled that the people of Wausau were
too sane to resort to such methods.
Manager Cone has made quite
scoop in securing The Irish Pawn
brokers" for one performance. He
was only enabled to do this by ascer-
tanning that the company passed
through here en- route to ST. Paul where
they begin weeks engagement On
this inform nation, and by considerable
negotiating he finally booked them for a
night. The company is now in it's
fourth year and has been one of the
real successes of the past three seasons.
The organization is a strong one and
is headed by McCabe and Mack and
Maize Trumbull who are responsible
for the popularity of this attraction.
The scenic equipment is very elaborate,
special scenery being carried for each
act complete no house scenery being
used. Grand Opera House, Oct, IS,
Sunday. Prices 25-35-50-75c.
George Weise, man &C years of age,
and weighing 240 pounds, is confined |
in the county Jail charged with attempt |
ed criminal assault upon the person of |
Eva Peterson, aged seven years, daugh- |
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Peterson,
residents of the town of Eldron. Weise |
carried the girl into a lemonade stand |
in a picnic ground, but his plans were |
spoiled by Louis Stevenson, a neighbor,
who heard the girls screams and drove |
The brute away. Weise cleared out and |
went to Rhinelander, where he was |
arrested, and it was lucky for him that |
ne escaped from the neighborhood for
the men at Ridout's mill were pretty |
ugly over the affair. Weise admits his
guilt but claims to have been intoxi-
rated and not responsible for his acts
Weise, it is thought, is an assumed
name. He is supposed to be George
Forsythe, liberated eighteen months
ago from the state prison at Waupun,
where he served ten years for an assault
upon girl of Green Bay.