Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-04-14

at hankauna. was quite badly burned
about the head. face and hands by gas
oline explosion.
Carl johnson, moulder who had quit
his job at Gaston's foundry in Beloit,
assaulted Foreman A. Williams. john
son was arrested.
The Supreme Court has finished the
hearing of arguments on appeals of cases
on the present assignment and has ad-
journed until Friday. April L.
safe was cracked at the Conner
Lumber Company's store and pastotfice at
Marshfield. and 5000 taken. The robbers
escaped on railway velocipede.
No trace has been found at Iarinette
of Conrad Raster, the missing Milwaukee
man. The chief of policesfears ne wan
dered to the docks and was drowned.
William Ruger, candidate for Su-
prene Court judge. has declared his in
tention of withdrawing from, the race and
has so notified the Secretary of State.
The new price list adopted ny the Wis
consin Hard Wood Lumbernen's Asso-
citation is a general advance. The aver
age increase on all grades is 81 per tnou-
sand.
A south-bound train on the Winona
Western Railroad was wrecked half a
mile north Of Barnum Station. Seven
cars loaded with live stock went into
the ditch.
Boston capitalists are figuring on max
ing Superior the distributing point for a
mammoth meat and packing concern
which is being organized to oppose the
so-called meat trust.
While playing about the Northwestern
tracks in Fond du Lac little john Ed
red, the 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry G. Eldred. fell from a freight car
and was instantly killed.
Investigation is being made of the sud-
den death of Walter Harroun at Ar
mott. The stomach of the dead man has
been sent TO Madison for analysis. it
being thought that poison caused his
death.
John WolmQnist one of the most pros
porous and best known Swedish-Ameri-
can farmers of ST. Croix County, shot
the top of his head off with a shotgun
during fit of temporary insanity caused
by melancholia.
Leo A. Rittman, manager of the r.
L. Pugh Dry Goods Company of Racine.
made an assignment to David G.. James
for the benefit of creditors. The liabili-
ties are placed at about 81 900 and assets
one-half that amount.
DIR. George V. |. Brown, a Milwaukee
dentist, will go to Madrid, Spain, next
month to represent the United States
at the international medical congress.
DIR. Browns commission IS signed by
the Assistant Secretary of State.
The through freight on the Omaha
road was wrecked near Cedaraurst. -Four
cars and the caboose jumped the track.
Conductor Dodsworth and Brakeman
Hansen were in the caboose at the time
and were injured, but not seriously.
A passenger and a log train on the
Chicago, Minneapolis, st. Paul and
Omaha collided near Hayward, and Fire
man Frank Bohan was killed. Engi-
neer Hener on the passenger and Elk
press Messenger Wells were injured.
A stove in the home of Mrs. Mary J.
Paulson, living near Cashton, exploded.
driving huge chunks of iron into the ceil-
ing and walls and breaking the windows
in the house The whole interior of
the building was badly damaged The
exact cause is unknown, although it is
thought someone, an enemy of the fam
! lily, put explosives in the wood.
Because of some difference Of opinion
between themselves and the principal of
the Third Ward high school in Appleton,
over matters of discipline, the boys of
that school hanged the principal in effigy
to the chandelier in his room at the school
house. The school board investigated
but when it was found that nearly all
of the boys and some of the girls of the
high school were implicated in the out
| rage, the matter was quietly dropped.
The Appleton Water Works Company
has filed a proposition with the City
| Clerk for the sale Of its plant Steps
have already been taken by the city for
| the building of q new system. The city
| is willing to buy the present plant pro-
| yiding it can get it for q reasonable price
The water works company is willing to
sell for $315,0O0. A board of arbitra-
tors fixed the, value of the company's
property at 1890, ABA The city has of
fered 100000 for it.
| John King, who recently eloped from
Laone with a 15-year-old girl and who
| it is said, stood off a crowd of pursuers
with a revolver until they caught a train
out of town, was arrested at Laone and
taken to Appleton. The girl with whom
he eloped is the daughter of the post
master at Laone and King is alleged tc
have married her, though he already had
wife at Fish Cree,l, who arrived in
search of him just after he had escaped
from Laone with the girl.
A disastrous fire occurred at Kendall
destroying the ingalls, Hotel, Andrew Eel
ker's hardware store, Adrion's general
merchandise store, George r. Evans
| jewelry store and George Weiss saloon
meat market and another general mer.
chandise store. The buildings were
mostly wooden structures. The fire orig
| mated in the Lilly building, a brick struc
ture, but the cause is not known. There
is no fire department at Kendall and the
fire burned the entire block without be
ing checked.
AL. Schissler, who is on trial in Nil
waukee for the murder of +. William
Reul of WATERFOWL, Nov. %. testified
in his own behalf to the effect that he
intended 20 commit suicide and was pre-
pairing to write a farewell letter to his
wife when he heard a carriage stop in
| front of his house. He thea discovered
his wife in the company of a str inge
man. All he remembered after that wss
hearing the report of the shot. Later he
found himself at his brothers house
The plea of the defense is insanity
brought about by epileptic fits.
At the annual election of officers OF
the Eastern Monroe County Agricultural
Society, the following officers were elect
ed: President, NJ. L. Hineman; vice
presidents. q. A. Leak and DR.. Moseley
secretary, H. ]. skinner; treasurer. W
W. Warren.
William Heberl and Peter Longway
were each given ten years in States
prison and Charles Bouscher three years
for assaulting and robbing Mark Smith
in his saloon at La Crosse. All pleaded
guilty. Frank McNaIly was bound over
to Circuit Court under $1,000 bonds
Smith is slowly recovering.