Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-17

student 1T the Stevens Point BUSINESS
College, died of brain fever. The re-
mains Were taken to her home at Wild
Rose.
4 large timber wolf that strayed into
| the town of West Prairie made much
excitement on the street for a short time
1t worsted two dogs and finally escaped
to the woods again.
Charles Maxwell, an aged painter of
Oshkosh, was struck by train of tie
Wisconsin Central road and received such
injuries that it is thought he will die.
He is IS years of age.
Richard Wagner, a clerk in Appleton.
alleges that while returning home III ?
O'Clock in the morning he was beaten in
sensible and robbed of a considerable
sum Of money by two men.
In a fit of temporary insanity, Eman-
uel Smith, aged CO. committed suicide en-
his farm southwest Of Cumberland. He
leaves widow and a daughter who is
confined in an insane asylum.
MRS. Minnie Lark. aged 80 years. wife
of a prominent farmer, was burned to
death in lses bed near La Crosse. The
bedding is ths-ght to have caught fire
from stove that was near by.
Joseph Derosia, a miner, IS years of
age, fell fifty feet and was fatally hurt
at the Germania mine in Hurley. He
| was crossing a raise in order to get some
necessary tools, when in some manner he
slipped and fell.
Receivers of freight in Oshkosh are
very indignant over an order issued By
the three railroads entering Oshkosh
which compels them to pay all freight
charges ON the day the freight is received
or at to lstest the day after.
Fifteen horses were cret aated in fire
in the livery stable of f. ]. Ziemer, Mil
waukee. Two employees had narrow es-
capes from suffocation and the Ziemer
children were driven from their home
above the stable without their clothing.
The annual debate between the juniors
of Stevens Point and Oshkosh normal
was won by Stevens Point, whose team
supported the negative of the quesrion,
Resolved, That the United States gov
ernment should establish a system of
postal savings banks"
A number of loaded cartridges thrown
into the waste basket of school at
Fountain almost killed the janitor. He
threw the whole contents into the fur
mace as was his custom, and the bullets
whizzed by him uncomfortably near. The
authorities will investigate.
While cutting wood on his farm near
Tamarac A. III. Fisher struck 4 bunch
of trees that seemed to have natural
gas connection. Immediately they were
cut the gas Kissed out when the az sunk
in. Out of curiosity he touched a match
to them and they burned for some time.
A freight train on the Burlington crash
ed into the rear of another freight train
at Stoddard. In the caboose Conductor
Hogue of Galesburg and MS brakemen
were sleeping. The caboose was tele-
scoped by a coal car The men were
pushed to the rear end and imprisoned
in small space. The cars then took
| fire. The brakemen were rescued, but
Hogue was seriously and perhaps fatally
injured.
At Gillett fire destroyed the store Of
n. &. Bruse, general merchandise, own
ed by the local lodge of Woodmen, and
the buildings of L. B. Stuelke occupied
by the Bank of Gillett and by drug
store ST. James Catholic Church, which
was next to these buildings, was also
threatened. The loss on \. c. Bruises
stock will amount to $1,000, insured for
$500; Woodmen building and outfit,
81, 200, insured for $1,40O: j.. B.
Stueke's building. $500, covered by in
surance.
Two freight trains of over the average
length were held in the Milwaukee yards
at La Crosse because no one knew with
out investigation just where they should
go. The way bills were burned by
young boy who wished to play a trick
on brakeman. The brakeman got the
orders at one of the small yard station
called Camp 20. He laid them down
and left the room for a minute or so.
When he returned the bills We're burning
in the coal stove. 1t took no end Of tele-
graphing to straighten matters out.
Rare presence of mind on the part of
two little girls, 10 and years of age,
saved their mother from horrible death
by fire at Beloit. Mrs. George McAllis-
ter went upstairs to lie down, became
faint and fell over on a lighted lamp,
which set her clothing on fire. The chill
dren heard her fall and ran mp to see
what, was the matter. They found their
mother wrapped in fames but instead
of screaming the 10-year-old child sent
the little one to the neighbors for help
and herself picked up a quilt and threw
it over her mother, finally succeeding in
smethering the fire. Mrs. McAllister's
face ~ lands were burned.
Fire broke out in the Mchaelson shoe
store at Hudson and destroyed three
business buildings before being contr0ll-
ed. Michalson's store and vacant store
adjoining is owned by James A. Frear,
who carried $500 insurance. Mr. Michal-
sons shoe stock is a total loss. He had
81. 900 insurance Miss Watson carried
$500 insurance on millinery stock. The
building was owned by Il. E. GatcAell.
and was Insured for $500. These stores
are adjoining the Corner Drug Store
Company's property, owned by James a.
Frear With Building was to be torn
dow to be replaced by a modern brick
and slana block. 1t is likely the whole
burned district will now be built up in a
substantial manner, as nothing but fire.
proof buildings are allowed in that part
of the city.
John Stevens, an old man employed
on a farm near Kenosha, had peculiar
escape from death, when he remained in
well, elinging to the sides. for more
than an hour before he was rescued.
The old man had been watering stock
and slipped through a hole into the vel.
Fire Quilted the eating house portion of
the old Milwaukee depot at West Madi-
son, causing loss of nearly $1,000. COW
cred by the company's blanket Insurance
The blaze started from a defective fue.
Fireman Charles Warhnke was badly
hurt by running rusty nail into his
knee while at work en- the roof.
A post-mortem examination at Trem-
pealeau of the body of L. L. Harring-
ton revealed the fact that he died from
a bullet wound in the head. inflicted dur
ing the Civil War. The wound had keen
bothering him considerably of late. Har-
rington was found dead in a sitting pos
ture ia the seat of carriage.
Conrad Scheffermeyer. the wealthy Ia
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