Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03

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was killed by falling tree.
DR.. T. F. Stair, 'ofe es Evansville's
most prominent physicians, expired while
talking with his wife in his office. He
WAS usually we'll during the day.
The Bank of Eagle remembered Mar
snail Joseph Won Rueden and his posse
with liberal gift for capturing three
Of the four alleged bank robbers.
The st. Paul road has issued a new
map, giving the name of Milwaukee in
large letters, in place of the one recently
issued. which omitted the Cream City
altogether
Harold Van Debogart, 16 years old,
was killed and Frank yummow and Al
Ian Sanford were dangerously injured
while coasting on Underwood Hill, Lake
Geneva. their sled colliSing with sleigh.
News has been received that ]. Scott
Kennedy, aged % years, died at San
| Francisco while on his way home from
the Philippines. He was a member of
Company Il, Twentieth infantry. and
had been in the service for three years.
A Chicago and Northwestern passen-
ger engine was wrecked near Sheboygan
and the engineer. Patrick Hayes. and
fireman, James Wolf, were seriously in
jured. While the train was going at
a speed of fifty miles an hour the driv-
| ing rod and pistons broke. The engine
ran for a mile on the ties before the
train could be stopped.
The Piankinton Packing Company's
plaat suffered loss of nearly $4,000
Wy fire in Milwaukee,. Three alarnis
We're sent in, and by effective work on
the part of the fire department the plant,
valued at $4,000, was saved. The
greater part of the loss is on stock. I'm
| til repairs are completed between 200
AMI 300 men will be thrown out of en-
ployment.
Fire in the brick warehouse of Will
liam Grossman in Milwaukee caused
loss on building and contents Of about
$4,000. The building was owned by
Adolph Meincke and was filed with
stock of groceries, coffee, spices and bak-
| ing powder belonging to the Grossman
firm. The blaze was in the center of the
citys wholesale district and for time
it was thought it would extend to sur
rounding buildings.
The MONSTERS of Superior want the
marriage law amended. At their semi
monthly meeting they appointed COM
mittee to prepare resolutions to be for
warded to the State Legislature asking
that the clause requiring a five days
wait be cut out. They say that it is no
remedy for any evils and simply inju-es
the city and State financially by caus-
ing those that do not want to wait to go
out of the State.
Albert Van Order of the firm of Ar
thur Van Order & Sons was killed in
their Touring MILL FIVE miles northeast of
Stevens Point. The engine had stopped
on the center and Mr.. Van Order had
hold Of the belt when it started up sud-
denly catching his body in the belt and
crushing his head so badly that he died
in few minutes. He was about 20 years
of age. An older brother was killed in
the same mill three years ago.
Senator Laugen has introduced a bill
in the Minnesota Senate to cede Baron
island, on the opposite side of the river
from La Crosse, to Wisconsin. This ISL
and was ne property of A. w. Pettibone
of La Crosse. Mr.. Pettibone spent
! 100000 in turning the island into a park
and then presented it to the city of La
| OTOSS6. ne CeuluS VI lue leAlllVAS "
Wisconsin Is to permit La Crosse to have
full police jurisdiction in the park.
Frank Chokan, an Austrian who came
to Shcboygan to take place in a local
tannery, was held up at his home by two
unknown men. Shortly after midnight
two burglars, one over 6 feet tall and
the other a medium height, both wearing
masks, forced an entrance into the house
and went to the room in which Chokan
was sleeping. They awakened him and
demanded money, and when he replied
he had none they beat and kicked him
until he was unconscious. They revived
him and demanded money again, and up
on his saying that he had nothing valua-
BILE in the house, they tortured him in e
NEST brutal manner and left him lying in
a semi-conscious state,
A eoroner's jury in session at Granite
City disclosed what may prove to be an
atrocious crime Levi Close, living with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Close,
at Granite City, died under what seemed
suspicious circumstances. The father
said that Levi and an older brother We're
uIlarrelng at the breakfast table, when
tie older brother threw a table fork at
Levi striking him on the head and leav-
ing a serious wound. Later the boy was
found in convulsions and physician was
summoned This much the father adj
mits. The physician, it seems, found hot
only the marks Of the table fork but
other injuries of a more serious charac-
ter as well. The skull on the right side
of the head was crusled TO such an ex-
tent as to have made recovery inpossi-
bic.
T. Beebe, who lives at Holland, had a
narrow escape from being the victim of
the old swindle that has been worked so
| extensively since the Spanish-American
war. A niece of Mr.. Beebe's married a
Spaniard just after the Civil War. Re-
Gently he received letter from man
in a Spanish prison, so he said, who
claimed to be the husband of the niece.
He was dying and wanted Mr.. Beebe to
take charge Of his daughter and her for
time and a liberal amount was to 20 to
Mr.. Beebe himself. There We're attes-
tations of priests and official looking red
sealed documents and Mr.. Beebe, having
no doubt whatever that be was to come
into a fortune, sent the 5000 necessary
to complete the administration and re-
lease the estate" Fortunately he for
warded the money through MS bankers
in La Crosse to the United States consul
and his money was returned with the in
formation that he vas the victim of a
gang of swindlers.
NJ. y. Eldridge, assistant director Of
the good roads inquiry bureau of the
Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton. has been ordered to Wisconsin to
deliver some good roads addresses before
farmers institutes.
Edward Dahl. aged 10 years, had one
of his feet amputated and the toes and
sole Of the other cut away. His feet
were so badly frozen that the operation
was necessary. The little lad has neither
| father nor mother and was taken from
the State industrial school by Charles
Jennison of the town Of Harrison, where
on n farm he was used as chore boy.
The GAINESVILLE Common Counci. was
restrained from paying certain paving