Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-15

VINO nave Deen III It's employ lnTee years
$15, and $50 after FIVE years service.
The move is made to discourage the girls
from getting married.
The allowance of water to be drawn
in Appleton from Lake Winnebago for
power purposes is restricted to go per
cent of the normal flow. This indicated
that the proposed repairs to the upper
dam are abandoned for this season.
The remains of the late John NJ Ew-
ing were laid at rest at Wildwood Gene
terry in Sheboygan. The services at the
home, which were simple and unostenta-
tious, were conducted by Rev. j. w.
White of the Congregational Church.
William Herring, farmer near Spar
ia. was blown to pieces by dynamite in
his house. He was standing by the
kitchen stove with three sticks of dyna-
mite in his hand when the explosion oc-
Cured His sister was in the same room,
but escaped injury.
All the print paper mills III the Fox
river valley region and throughout the
West shut down and remained down
three days on agreement for the frankly
announced purpose of curtailing 0verpro-
duction and preventing the slump in the
market price which would result from
the piling up of the stock.
Lars Engelbretson, a farmer residing
near Lanesboro, who has been missing
for week, is dead. His body was
found in field near his home with ev-
cry indication that he had been muir
dered The remains were mutilated and
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vicinity, as well as blood stains.
The ice racing yacht Comet, one of
the fastest on the upper Mississippi the
warehouses of +. II. Pfaff and several
other buildings and many carloads of
produce were burned at Pepin by fire
of mysterious origin. Several less speedy
yachts were also destroyed. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000, without in
surance.
Three men working under the heavy
iron beams on the Burlington bridge
three miles below Prairie du Chen near
ly lost THEN lives when a staging broke,
precipitating all three to the rocks and
ice below. Martin Ducharme a carpen-
ter, fell on his head ON a pile OF rock
crushing the skull and inficting internal
injuries His condition is serious,
As the result of the commercial trav-
elers employed by the bankrupt Mons
Anderson Company of La Crosse getting
the worst of it in the division of the es-
tate. Congressman John j. Esch has in
troduced into the House of Representa-
tives at Washington a bill providing that
travelling statesmen shall receive their pay
in full, not exceeding three months prior
TO the bankruptcy and not exceeding
$500.
T. W. Morgan's 100000 stock farm
near BelOit caught fire, The fire started
in the $4,000 barn and the buildings
were all threatened with destruction. A
high wind and the cold made the fire a
hard one to fight. This is one of the
finest stock farms in the world and is
owned by Fred W. Morgan of the Nor
gan & Wright Company of Chicago The
loss is estimated at $4,000 on the build
ing and $4,000 on hay, grain and imple-
ments.
Judge Bum in the United States Cir
cult Court at Milwaukee made an inn
portant ruling regarding the life Of trade
marks. The suit was brought by the
Warren Featherbone Company against
the American Featherbone Company.
The Warren company claimed the sole
right to use the word ''featherbone." The
claim that the right to tradei.,"-5 ex-
pired with the patent on the article was
not allowed, the decision being that
trademark lasted indefinitely.
The Fair store, one of the largest de-
partment stores in Sheboygan, was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is 100000.
Edward Gerber, fireman, was struck
by q falling wall and suffered a fracture
OF the skull and three broken ribs. John
Gerber, a brother, fell through a trap
door in the fire engine house and his skull
was fractured. His condition is serious.
The store was owned by David Nadel-
son and Max Winnick and the building
by the Geele Hardware Company.
In an endeav0r to discover the true
cause of the death of the 6-monthsold
babe of William Kleinfeldt. the authori-
ties Of Ashland County disinterred the
body and an inquest was held. Follow
ing a post norton. the jury was unable
t0 bring in a verdict other than that the
babe died of conclusion of the brain
While in charge of the father. whose
carelessness, they said. caused the acct
dent. The child died the day before
Thanksgiving and was buried two days
later. The result of the inquest was to
exonerate the father
While working a corn shredder on the
farrr of Jacob Wheeler at Rock Falls
Ben Shaw had his mitten caught in the
machine. Before the engine could be
stopped, however. the arm was pulled
in and cut off az the elbow.
Tired of life, Mrs Mary Bell. wife of
drayman in Madison, committed sui
eide. When her husband returned from
work at II O'Clock he found her hanging
by a handkerchief from a bedpost in her
room. She was a victim Of melancholia
and had often remarked that she wished
she were dead. For the past four years
she had suffered from internal trouble.
Under involuntary bankruptcy proceed
ings instituted by creditors. the La
Crosse Cheese and Butter Company has
been adjudged bankrupt The firm has
been doing a large business in Wiso0n-
sin. Minnesota, Illinois and the Dok0tas
The financial difficulties were & : esuIt
Of an effort to corner the cheese market
The family Of ID. A. Howard in Be
lott came near being suffOcated by coal
gas last night Mr. Howard awoke and
succeeded IA getting telephone connec-
tons with the Police and called for the
ambulance. When the police arrived ev-
cry member OF the family was uncon-
scious. All but one Of the children will
probably recover.
Armour Brown. said to be the Oldest
resident Of Oshkosh, died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs +. II. Green. af-
ter an illness Of but two days. The i'm
mediate cause Of his death w2s blood
poisoning. the result Of scratch on the
hand. Mr. Brown was % years Of age.
Miss Gelsomine COMFORT. the beauti-
ful Italian woman who is alleged 10 have
been Struggled to kenosha across the Ca
madam border. fled with the Treasury
Department an affidavit in which she de-
Pies charges made against her family.
and II which she declares that she came
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