Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-21


William s. Haskell, as1 pioneer of
Beaver Dam. and later of M,ntana, died
at Helena. Mont, aged 20.
Robbers broke into the drug store Of
w. w. Walker at Coleman and secured
$3.50 in cash from the safe.
A strawstack fell over on a horse and
herd Of cattle On the farm of Mor,lris
Breunig, of Roxbury. All were killed.
A son, years old, 5 feet high and
living southeast of Fairchild, died the
other day.
An unknown man broke into the Oma-
ha railroad ticket office at the Eau
Claire station and stole sos from the
money drawer.
Peter Solomonsou. Galesville cream
hauler. was killed by lightning while
driving his team in the country. His
horses We're stunned
-Four gamblers paid fines amounting
to Sl39 in municipal court at West SUI
pcrior. The police have been raiding
places whenever they started up.
Leo Mitchell, of Marinette. aged IL
years. has been committed to the State
insane asylum. His mind was wrecked
by excessive cigarette smoking.
Charles Meyer. 10 years old, was
buried alive by falling brick and debris
IN an old well which he was cleaning at
Manitowoc. He was dead when his body
was recovered.
Frank Schmidt. Milwaukee butcher.
was found in his iceboN in an unconscious
a,tlfs oil
thrown into the icebox and his cash
drawer robbed Of So.
The house Of Myron Brewer. in the
town ofsSandroek, was entered by burg
lars while the family was away and
Sl00 in money, two guns, clothing and
| other articles We're stolen.
Fire broke out in the varnish plant of
the Two Rivers Manufacturing Com
pany and destroyed the contents besides
seriously damaging the building before
being brought under control.
The striking painters and paper hang
ers at La Crosse have gone back to
work, their demand for nine hours work
and pay the same as when they worked
ten hours having been granted.
Guy Merino was instantly killed at
Cumberland by the accidental discharge
of shotgun. He was scutfling with his
brother for possession of the sun, when
it went Off blowing off his head.
Henry H prominent politician of
Fond du Lac County and member Of
the County Board for ten years. died at
his home of pneumonia, aged 46 years.
He leaves wife and three children.
Mrs. Martin Brucker, wife of a tailor
in Kenosha, was picked up ON the street
in an unconscious condition She ex-
PRED in a few moments. 1t is supposed
that death resulted from heart failure.
Clifford c. Pease of Madison, a junior
in the State University, won first place
in the final State oratorieal contest. He
will represent Wisconsin in the North
Oratorical League contest at Minneapo-
lis May I.
Fire caused loss of over $4,000 in
the business district Of Brodhead. 1t
is supposed the blaze was incendiary, as
shortly after the flames had been sub
dued they brought out again short dis
lance from where they We're first discov-
| cred
The sixteenth annual intercounty fair
will be held at Cumberland on Sept. o,
10 and l and competition will be open to
the counties of Barron, Polk, Washburn,
burnett and Sawyer. The Barron Coun-
| ty fair will be held at Rice Lake Sept.
| S, 8 and 10.
In a fight in a La Crosse sal on, Jo-
| seph Hunt was stabbed twice. 1t is al
| legged railroad man named Reene did
the stabhing. Reene escaped with a large
number of railroad men in pursuit, but
has not been captured. Hunt will prob
ably recover.
The Schley-krueger breach of prom
| Use suit has been settled and the appeal
taken dropped The case was heard at
the last term of Circuit Court at Mani
towoc. The defendant, Kruger, paid
the 81 SOC awarded the plaintiff and the
costs of the action.
| The Raraboo water VIC rks plant was
sold by United States Marshal Charles
Lewiston under foreclosure proceedings
instituted by the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company The only bidder was
H g. Merritt, of the First National
Bank of Baraboo, who got the plant for
$4,000.
| Samuel Clark shot May Mitchell three
times at Fond du Lac, causing three Sc
rious but not necessarily fatal wounds.
| The woman then got away and van
screaming into the street. AS soon as he
realized what he had done Clark shot
himself through the heart. death being
almost instantaneous.
Charged with the murder of her hus
band, Mrs. Walter Harroun, of Plover,
was arrested the other night. She will
be held until the State chemist finishes
the examination of the dead mans ston-
ach The inquest has been adjourned
to await the report. Mrs. Harrom adj
mts having several quarrels with her
husband. but denies the murder. She
says she bought strychnine TO put on
the carcass of a sheep to poison dogs.
Walter Harroun died suddenly March
% under circumstances which pointed to
poison. His father. Smith Harrom, inn
medately instituted an investigation,
which resulted in Mrs Harr0un's arrest.
In the Circuit Court at Racine sum
mons and complaint were filed in the
suit for $1,000 brought by Martin Nc
AIakan against NJ. NJ. Seccr. owner of
bathrooms in that city 1t is alleged in
the complaint that on Sept. ~, 1902. tine
plaintiff. while in an intoxicated condi
ton. entered the Secor bathrooms for
treatment for his inhrmity. due to excess
i've use of intoxicants, and that he was
weak. i'll and delrious and unable to
care for himself. That the servants of
the defendant allowed the plaintiff 10
remain in one of the rooms without care
and that he fel. from the couch to the
floor and was seriously burned about the
body and limbs and such burns have rem
dered him unable TO perform any work.
Miss Edith Williams died at New Lon
don from carbolic acid poisoning The
jury decided that il was a case of SUR
eide She was but 10 years Of age and
came a few weeks ago from Fond du
Lac Her people live in Michigan, where
she was taken for burial
Myrtle Tyler. 6 years old. ran away