Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-22

Arno Heymer, Chiffon Alderman and
former sheriff of Calumet County,is dead.
Mrs. E. Christopherson, aged So years,
broke her right leg in a fall at Cumber-
land
William Heats was struck and killed
by an Omaha passenger train in Wash
burn while walking on the tracks.
The Chicago and Northwestern road
has begun grading for a three-mile spur
from North Freedom to the iron mines.
Miss Jennie Brennan and Seth Pew
ell, two well-known young people of Ke-
nosha, eloped to st. Joseph, Mich, and
were married.
Another drainage district is to be open
cd in Juneau County, comprising five
towns A commission was appointed by
Judge Fruit to appraise the land affected.
G. Mack of La Crosse had a thumb
chewed so badly by a mad horse that it
will have to be amputated The horse
had rabies and Mack is in danger of his
life
A team belonging to A. Schmeckpep-
per, a farmer. became frightened at a
locomotive in the Milwaukee yards In La
Crosse and ran up the track. 1t crossed
over two long trestles before it stopped.
The GAINESVILLE Traction Company Off
cially announced that it would not build
the proposed $1,000,000 line from James
vile to Madison, owing to the clause in
the franchise which made its life thirty
FIVE instead of fifty years. The company
is backed by a Cleveland syndicate.
Morris Mullens, a Manitowoc County
man, died and was buried at the Illinois
Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy,
before his family in Manitowoc was
aware of it. knowledge of his demise
came in the return of papers proving
Mullens' title TO a legacy left him in
the estate of a deceased brother, the let
ter having been returned marked mot
here" Inquiry revealed the fact that
Mullens died on the day that the letter
was written. and was buried Sept. i.
An investigation may be demanded.
The general store owned by Bullamore
Brothers at Son,crs came near being de-
stroyed by fire a large stock of goods
valued at betweei $1,000 and $1,000 was
damaged by fire and water and a volun-
teer fire department was organized and
they saved the building.
A strike at Tomah threatened to stop
the work on the new macadam pavement
now being laid on Superior avenue, the
main business thoroughfsre. Shovelers
demanded a raise from $50 a day to
$1T5 a day and gust work when refused.
Enough other men were secured and the
work went on.
The remains Of Private John Wann-
bo. who was killed in the Philippines,
we're buried in Washburn with military
honors. The funeral was attended by
the Spanish and Civil War yea
Grams, secret societies, drum corps and
the Ashland military company.
Three miles north of Peshtigo Harbor,
on the banks of the Peshtigo river, is
a small graveyard that was used years
ago. There are between thirty and forty
graves. Some time ago the action of
rhe water Laird bare one of the graves and
since that time the little cemetery has
been 6espoiled by vandals Many of the
graves have been opened and me bodies
scattered about.
Two hundred emplores Of he Peshtigo
Lumber Company weLt e,. a strike in
Marinette because the company refused
to employ a number Of union men out
Of employment, in place Of non-union
men who were working. The strike prac-
tically tied up everything IN the city.
An escaped inmate Of me Northern
Hospital for the Insane, scantily attired,
took possession Of a school house near
Neenah. and attacked Mss Margaret
Philey, the teacher. as she entered the
door. He threw chalk dust in her eyes,
and she was obliged 70 punch his face Sc
yersly with her umbrella before he would
Eelease her. A farmer overpowered the
man, who was returned to the asylum.