Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-01

90 cents on the dollar.
The City Council of Waupun has
passed an ordinance regulating the speed
of automobiles and motor cycles not to
exceed six miles an hour, and fixing a
penalty of So TO 500 for each offense.
The Chippewa Falls Common Council
has adopted the general charter law to
substitute the special now in use. On
account of the manner of collecting taxes
1t will not be put into use until Jan. l.
William Lippe, of Burlington. 45 years
of age, while coming down a hin with a
load of rails and ties, fell off and was
run over, sustaining injuries from which
he died. He leaves wife and one child
The Roddis Veneer Company of
Marsh6eld. which recently purchased
sawmill and $4,000 acres of timber lands
near Park Falls. has plans perfected TO
build fourteen miles of railroad extend
ing TO the timber tracts at a cost of $780,
GOO
Fire broke out at the Phoenix Manu-
featuring Company's plant at Eau Claire
and destroyed the Woodworking depart
ment and the lumber warehouse. The
rest of the plant was saved with diff
Guilty. The damage was about $4,000,
insured
James MeCauley of Desoto is dead
the result of the kick of horse. After
he was kicked and in spite of the intense
pain he mounted another animal and
rode to town. almost fainting from ex
haustion and loss of blood. He died
shortly after.
c. II. Goldsworthy, o. Oliver and G.
Martin, real estate agents. engineered
one of the largest real estate transfers
known in recent years, wh,n they sold
for John Parrish of Grand Rapids, ne
tired lumberman, 5000 acres of cut-over
lands in Wood and Marathon counties to
the Waukesha Land and Investment
Company of Waukesha, Wis The con
sheraton paid was $4,000.
As Miss Marie jacobson. of Superior
was preparing to retire she discovered
well-known young man peeking at her
window. She ran to the door and the
man bolted into a hiding place A pasaer-
by was summoned; he dragged the prowl-
er from the hiding place and held him
while the enraged young woman got
revolver and took a couple of shots at the
offender. He was not hit. but was badly
scared.
Cornell University. through Charles
Macarthur, manager of its office in Eau
Claire, has just sold the South Musca-
tine Lumber Company Of Muscatine
Iowa. upward of 1900 acres of hard
wood timber lands in the southeastern
corner of Sawyer County for 100000
In view of the recent reported purchase
Of al all -
by this company it is presumed that they
will erect extensive mills and manufac-
ture this timber in Eau Claire.
Fred Cara, an Italian, is said 30 have
assaulted fellow countryman named
Anton Lavonio in Kenosha, with a still
leto, and it is feared that the latter may
die. Cara has been madly in love with
an Italian girl named Lena Pacini, a
fruit vender and when he saw her in
company with Laconio as they came
from the opera house it is said he made
a dash AT his rival from behind. reached
over his shoulder and cut great cash
down the right side of his fa He
then used stilleto, penetrating vic
tins lung.
An unusual flag raising took zee
htdN OItHhbOo tNUilnSN4 LIKE ATtutNd.
\. G. Douglass, who owns the point of
land from which history says white
man first viewed the lake. employed Cap
tain Eph Sanford to plant the talleSt
pole that could be obtained, and Old
Glory was run up and is now waving in
the breeze. The banner will be kept
afioat during each summer season. 1t
is claimed that the white man who made
the discovery was John Brink. who Is 90
years old and lis now living with his
daughter, Miss Fay Brink, near the old
village of Crystal Lake, Ill. 1t is known
that Mr.. Brink in the early days was an
engineer in the employ of the government
and that he gave the lake its present
name choosing ii from the New York
body of water Of the same name.
Thomas r. Morgan Of Oshkosh, Alder
man from the Seventh Ward and presi-
dent Of the Morgan Sash, Door and
Blind Company, was murdered by Fred
Hampel, a laborer, who hanged himself
by his suspenders in the city lookup after
he had fought a desperate battle with
another employe Of the firm and had been
disarmed and arrested. Immediately af-
ter the shooting the employees Of the Nor
gan factory and Of others assembled near
the lookup, and lynchng was talked Of
until it became known that Hampel had
taken his own life Then the crowd dis
persed. Morgan was walking toward his
factory with John Rowland. when Ham
pei. crazed with drink. began firing at
him. The first bullet struck Morgan.
and then Rowland tried to disarm the
murderer. After fierce struggle Ham
pei was overpowered. 1t was hardly half
an hour later that Hampel committed
suicide in the city lookup while the crowd
outside was discussing the ACCESSIBILITY Of
lynching him.
Engineer Faylott and his fireman mar
rowly escaped death in a rear end col
lision on the Wisconsin Central road at
Paint creek. A local freight crashed into
a work train, the engine. tender and three
cars going down 30-foot embankment.
With an explosion heard for long
distance, followed by FIRE, the big hay
barns of George Taft. town Of Roscoe.
were destroyed The explosion is thought /
to have been due 70 gases from new
mown hay or wet hay, with which the 1
barn had recently been filed. Consid- /
cradle machinery and grain was burned /
Loss 5000, insured.
The excursion steamer Pewaukee. Of 4
the Savoy line. on Pewaukee Lake, /
while making a regular trip ran into a 1
sunken obstruction, causing her to take 4
water so rapidly that the siphons could /
not overcome the inflow. She was beach /
cd near Hohman's pier. whore the pas
sengers were all safely landed
The jury impaneled to investigate the
death of William NJ. Hid near Coifax
found that death was caused by a re.
volver in the hands Of Charles Eaton
alSo Of that place, Eaton said Hill had 4
threatened to kill him with knife. No 4
knife could be found either upon the dead
mans person or in the road. Eaton is
in jsil awaiting trial
Three young men. William Machus
Marcelle Hartwell and Harry Setback. \
the latter the son Of the late Captain !.
Setback q Chicago. while sailing on /
Lake La Belle. were capsized and float
ed abou. the lake for three hours. but
u~e-a fin lily discovered aud rescued