Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-10
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to erect a $4,000 brick church this
spring
8. Fl. Fay has been appointed post
master at Minonge, vice William E.
Shane, removed
The Wisconsin Sugar Company will
build a 100000 beet sugar factory in
Chippewa Falls next fall.
Chris Nicholson. resident of James
vilEe, was sent to State prison for enc
year for burglarizing p. III. Reus' saloon
on Jan. %.
Gov La Toilette has issued procla-
nation offering a reward of $500 for the
arrest of the murderer of William Brad
shaw in the town of Gratipt.
At Glenwood, while shooting at tar
get Sven Carlson accidentally shot and
killed his 6-year-old brother, Oscar, the
bullet entering the boys stomach.
The keystone block at West Superior
burned, causing a loss of S150,0OO. the
Floan & Leveroos and Bloom Dry Goods
companies being the heaviest sufferers.
The steamer David Vance, a large
coal carried owned by the Milwaukee
Steamship Company. sustained $4,000
damage by fire at the Milwaukee dock.
The old Milton House barn, built in
1880 by Joseph Goodrich, founder of
Milton. was destroyed by fire. The loss
is $1,000, with insurance of $500. The
fire was undoubtedly of ineendiary origin.
Oscar Linberg, aged "a years and mar
ried committed suicide by shooting the
top of his head off with a shotgun. Lin
berg resided in the town of Sigel. The
suicide is believed to have been caused
by insanity brought on by illness of a
long duration.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
general store of Z. A. Mellem in Madi-
son and got away with $500 cash and
$3.50 in silver. They were experts, pack
ing the safe so the noise of the explo-
sion did not awaken Mellem's family. liv-
ing above the store.
Rev. C. H. Smith has received reply
to his request to Andrew Carnegie for a
donation for library building for To-
mah The chances are good TO get the
donation if the city will furnish site
and guarantee to give literally to the
support of the library.
The International Brotherhood of Pa
per Makers, at a conference with the
Appleton manufacturers, yielded to the
requests of the mill owners, and will re-
turn to the long-hour schedule. This
means seventy-two hours work a week
and until midnight Saturdays.
Fire at the power house of the Keno
sha Gas and Electric Company destroy
ed the electric machinery and badly dam
aged the city water heating system. The
dynamos which were to furnish power
for the street railway also were destroy
ed and the loss is not less than $1,000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by
burglars to enter the jewelry store of
Postma ter II. ]. Smith in Racine The
burglars secured an entrance TO the rooms
of the Lakeside Printing Company,
which are over the store, and commenc-
ed boring holes through 1.-THE flooring
above the vault, which contained sew
eral thousand dollars worth of diamonds
and jewelry. 1t is believed that they
were frightened away by the night watch
man when they had the holes half bored
through the floor.
Frank Pierce of Randolph is in Jail
at Manitowoc, sentenced in the Circuit
Court for contempt of court in not pay
ing $40 per month alimony which he was
ordered to give to his divorced wife. The
case developed a sensation, Pierce al
leging that he had been robbed of $500
at Randolph in a hotel, a few months
ago, and was unable to pay the alimony
ordered. 1t was shown that since the
divorce proceedings had been instituted
Pierce had disposed of $4,000 worth of
property He recently fell heir TO $43,-
600.
The examination into the charges of
gambling among university students has
not ended with the cases of Instructor
Wheeler and Student Atwater. Report
is that four more students have been
suspended for gambling and that Act
ing President Birge had several of the
younger members of the faculty before
him on charges of drinking. Acting
President Birge is determined to stamp
out gambling and drinking, which. while
prevalent among but a comparatively
small number of students, reflects to
some extent upon the whole student
body.
a sensational elopement in which enc
man and three women figure has created
stir in the neighborhood of Madison,
George King of Brooklyn ieft that vii
lage the other day in bob sled, taking
with him the 16-year-old wife of his
brother, who had $3.50 in her possession.
They fed northward to the village of Sun
Prairie, and the village of Deforest, a
little farther on. At Deforest King gave
his brothers wife the slip. retaining che
$3.50, which she had intrusted to his care,
and took with him another woman he
picked up at Madison. The couple start
ed for Columbus, at which place King
again exchanged partners, leaving No. 2
behind in his sled. He then started east
ward with his third companion in a light
wagon. This was the last seen or heard
of them.
Charged with setting the FIRE which
caused the destruction Of the entire viii
lage of Bear Greek last July, entailing
property loss of $4,000, Miss Lucille
Colbert was arrested. Suspicion was di-
rected toward her by letter addressed
to a Catholic priest at Bear Greek which
was read from the pulpit and which pur-
ported to be the death-bed confession of
man in a Chicago hospital. Miss &c
bert is held under $1,000 bonds. She
was proprietress of the millinery store
in which the fire started and for which
she collected $500 insurance. The writer
of the letter purported to confess that
he set the fire through desire for re-
venge, alleging that he was Miss CO.
bert's Tilted lover. The letter was I'M
signed. but the writing was said TO re-
semble Miss Cobert's. 1t gave all the
details of how the fire was set.
The Lemonweir drainage district mat
ter which has been pending for several
months was given a hearing. before Judge
Fruit at La Crosse, and is now settled
with the exception of the town of Cut
Ter. The work will probably commence
as soon as spring comes.
At New Richmond the lifeless body of
man was found on the Omaha tracks
near the passenger depot. Both legs
had been cut off and from the fact that
there were no other marks about the body
Il was evident he had bled to death. In
his clothing there were skeleton key
oud n sSla huf m money