Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27


Methodist minister at Cumberland, has
gone insane from smoking cigarettes.
Mrs. Anna Prihtz. wife of N. d.
Printz. a farmer residing near Shamrock,
took a dose of paris green and died
The Wisconsin Manufacturers Assoc
citation was organized at Milwaukee, with
Frank Bull of Racine as president.
Dr. L. E. Towne died at Brodhead at
the age of 76 years. He was boru in
Vermont and came to Wisconsin in 1913.
The new 100000 hotel project ut La
Crosse is about sure thing. Ninety
thousand dollars of the 100000 has been
subscribed.
The La Crosse Council by a close vote
terminated a stormy session by defeating
an ordinance providing for several miles
of pavement to cost about $4,000.
The Farmers Bank of Browntown,
with a subscribed capital of $31, 100 and
an authorized capital of $4,000, was
chartered by State Treasurer Kempf.
The board of trustees of Monticello
have under consideration the granting
of franchise to Z. H. Staedtler, for
merly of Milwaukee. for the stablish-
ment of an electric light plant.
The official board of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Sheboygan voted
unanimously for a new church, to cost
$4,000, provided sufficient bona fide sub
scriptions be secured to warrant the ulti-
mate success of the enterprise.
Robbers entered the Mazomanie post
Office, placed dynamite fuse in the
crack of the door of the safe and blew off
the combination. The door was then
easily opened, AMI $50 in money and
stamps was taken from the strong box.
Passenger train No s was derailed
at the north switch at Three Lakes, the
tank of the engine and two coaches be-
ing off the track. The accident was
caused by an extra logging train having
a chain dragging which caught in the
switch, throwing it open.
A small, dark woman with a little
baby came to Eagle to pay Whitman
for the rig the alleged burglars used in
trying to escape. When interviewed she
would not give any information concern
ing her home or name She is believed
to be the wife of one of the captured
burglars.
Postmaster w. B. Tscharner of La
Crosse is issuing circulars to all the
postmasters of the State calling for a
meeting at which they are to organize n
Wisconsin Postmasters' Association. 1t
is not yet decided where the first Taeet-
ing will be held, but it will probably be
Milwaukee.
Fred Weiser, an employee of the Wis
consin river paper mill at Stevens Point,
was hurt and died in three hours. While
putting on belt his clothing was caught,
hurting him around the pulley and pulling
out his left arm above the elbow, besides
breaking both legs. He was about 30
years of age.
At West Superior the jury in the trial
of Jake Gustafson, after being out forty
hours, returned verdict of murder in
the second degree and recommended that
he receive the limit of Imprisonment,
which is twenty-five years. Gustafson
killed his friend, Isaac Niska in a drunk
en- quarrel over % cents.
A rig containing three lads, Edward,
William and Ernest Schultz, was struck
at the Madison street crossing of the
Milwaukee road in Waukesha by the
stone train. The boys had started to
cross the tracks before they saw the
train. The vehicle was demolished and
the horse injured, but the boys escaped
injury.
As result Of the failure of the de-
mand by the merchants committee upon
the grocers' association that the latter
reduce prices on staples in order to draw
the farmers to Eau Claire, it is now pro-
posed by merchants to subscribe $4,000
to put in package grocery house with n
Chicago man as manager and to fight the
local grocers organization by underseil-
ing them.
James Sanderson Of Chicago, an cngi-
neer on the Northwestern Railway, in
charge of a wrecking train, narrowly es-
capped death at the village of Salem. San
derson was in charge of a large crane to
clear away the wreck of a freight ear,
While the crane was IN action the king
pin slipped ont and the big crane toppled
ove-. The engineer attempted to throw
the belt, but failed and the iron from
the broken crane struck one of the boil
ers Of the engine and caused an explosion.
Sanderson was terribly burned.
Miss Emma Briggs, cashier for w.
Simon & Co. of Neenah, was robbed of
drafts, money orders and other papers
valued at $1,000 on train between Nee
nah and Oshkosh. The theft was so
cleverly accomplished that the young
woman did not discover her loss until she
reached the bank in Oshkosh where che
was to deposit the papers. The drafts
iaa no nj al
in a bag suspended from her belt, but
when or how the robbery was accom-
plished she has not the slightest idea.
Charles Laravire, aged Do years. was
found dead on an island in the Missis-
sippi river opposite Lynxyille. He had
been missing from his home since he and
two brothers, who had been to Lynxville,
quarreled on the way home and n fist
fight ensued. all three of the cambatants
being badly marked Charles, the young
est, said he was going to go back to the
village. but he did not appear at that
place and search was instituted, result
ing in the finding of his lifeless body a
mile from the cabin on the island, where
he had wandered away in the brgsh Be-
fore the officers arrived tie brothers had
taken the body home on handsled
Daniel McCarty, a youth arrested for
serious assault on John Spaulding two
months ago at Mansion. appeared before
Judge Fruit in Circuit Court and plead
ed guilty. He was sentenced 70 two
years in the State refornatory at Green
Bay.
The residence of Mrs. Charles Forbes.
together with all the furniture and cloth
ing. was destroyed by fire at Sparta The
occupants. Mrs. Forbes and her niece,
Miss Alice Goodnough, narrowly cscap-
ed in their night clothes. The fre orig
mated from the chimney The loss is
So, 0O0.l
The Supreme Court at Madison de-
cided that Registrar Of Deeds Verges Of
Milwaukee win have to be satisfied with
his $1,000 salary instead Of about S22,
600 more in fees. which he has been con
tending for in the courts. The court held
that the law putting him on salary wa
valid
Onalaska, a suburb Of la Crosse, had
a $4,000 FIRE and the fact that al hy-
drants were frozen made il look for a