Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-28

DR.. Andrews of Ashland has been ap-
pointed State medical examiner. DR. An
drews rs president of the Wisconsin
Homeopathic Medical Society.
Charles f. Randall. brother Of Gen.
George NJ, Randall, U. S. A., and Mrs
Charles I. Mckinney of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide at GAINESVILLE while despon-
dent
Burglars gained an entrance into the
jewelry store of Postmaster II. ]. Smith
at Racine and got awsy with $1,00(s
worth of silverware, opera glasses and
jewelry.
Game Warden Henry Schultz has re-
ceived notice of his dismissal as deputy
game warden. He is accused of having
charged beth the State and Chippewa
County fees.
! Joe Renal of Gordon spent six hours
buried in quicksand to his neck. He was
released after four teams and thirty men
had succeeded in scooping away the
treacherous mire.
Roy Peterson, formerly first baseman
for La Crosse, has signed with the Den
yer league team. Don Cameron Of the
La Crosse team has gone with the
Helena Pacific league team.
Julius Wolskie was wounded with a
pitchfork by Jacob Sem near Fountain
City, and may die Sem claims he act
ed in self-defense and that Wolskie be
gan the trouble by dispute about
wages.
Two miners while looking over land
just east of Brandon have discovered
what they think to be copper vein.
They have taken an option on the land
and have begun to dig to ascertain the
| extent of the property.
The wife of Sheriff Holmes of Trem-
pealeau County prevented the escape of
| a murderer from the jail at Whitehall
She heard a sound of firing and, going
down with a revolver and accompanied
by her bulldog she put the wouldlbe
rescuers to rout.
Frank Rawley. a cripple, has been
causing the street railway company and
the police much trouble at Marinette.
Several times he has sat down ON the
tracks in front Of rapidly approaching
cars and has been pulled off just in time
to escape death His legs are cut off
close to the trunk.
Officials who recaptured eight boys
who had escaped in their night clothes
from the Waukesha industrial school
were in a predicament TO know what to
do with them and finally had to hold
them in hiding at Mukwonago while the
village was secured for overalls to cover
their nakedness. In their anxiety to es-
cape some of the boys had lost even
their night shirts.
In fire which destroyed the Central
hotel, the largest hotel in Fountain City,
three of the guests were aroused from
sleep just in time to escape with their
lives by jumping from second-story win
dows. Isadore Putnam, a colored por-
ter, was seriously burned while rescuing
a sick man. The hotel was one of the
landmarks of western Wisconsin, having
been built in 1850.
Richard Trist, the former agent of the
Chicago snd Northwestern Railway
Company of Racine, had a battle with
burglars at his home. Several shots were
fred but none of them struck either
of them One grazed the head of Mr..
Tr'st and lodged in doorway at his side
Two other burglaries were committed in
the same block with Mr.. Trist's home.
and it is claimed that about $50 was Sc
cured at these two places
The Sheboygan City Water Company
has discovered that the storms which hit
its crib very hard, have cnused all the
stone in the crib to be carried away, and
is now preparing to build new crib
which will be 2Sx12 feet in size, large
enough 1t is presumed, to prevent the
swaying of the intake pipe in the water
as has been the case on frequent occa
sions, endangering the supply of water.
since the pipe might easily have been
snapped by the force of the sea and the
swell
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank Of
Bangor was placed in the hands of the
State bank examiner the other evening.
It's failure is ascribed to the curiosity Of
the patrons of a local telephone com
pany. A short time ago a stockholder
visited the bank, aud the fact that he
was looking over the books was tele-
phoned to some J arty interested. The
telephone message was sent over n
''neighborhood" line, and it happened
that everybody on the line was listening.
AS a result there was run on the bank
which it was unable to withstand.
Max Winkel n young man residing
near Arcadia, was arrested charged with
the murder Of james Campbell, which
it is said occurred ON Campbells farm
near Arcadia last May. Campbell's body
was found at the edge of a creek not far
from his home. The railroad men had
always greeted him in passing, and, after
missing him for several days, they made
a search. A shotgun, some cartridges
and an old spade covered with blood
and hair were found lying near him.
Detectives have been working on the case
ever since the crime was committed.
Winkel is now in the county Jail at
Whitehall
At Corliss, a manufacturing suburb
seven miles west Of Racine, the sheriff
and chief of police found counterfeit
ers' den and complete outfit of dies, met
ais, acids and $500 in counterfeit dol
lars and halves bearing the dates Of 1894
and 1889, the same dates as many coun-
terfeit coins passed in Racine and Mil
waukee within n few months. The outfit
was found about the home Of Gustaye
Cun.o, electrician of the Brown-Corliss
Engine Company. When the officers en-
tereI to search the house they found all
household goods packed ready TO be ship
ped to Milwaukee. Placed in mattresses
and boxes were found the coins and dies.
In Milwaukee Charles w Carleton
shot Mrs Ida Draeger and then put
bullet through his own head. Both died
later Mrs. Draeger Is a divorced wom-
an with whom Carleton had been friend
~. They quarreled and she drove him
away.
Bert Leslie, 1G-year-oId boy from
Chippewa Falls, was up in the municipal
court at Superior charged with being a
yagrant. He broke down and cried. tell
ing woeful tale Of how ne qnarreIed
with his father took the SO be had saved
mp and matte for Cloquet 10 get a job.
lie failed to get one aud got stranded.
Judge Richter Of Laporte Ind. hos de-
MED the motion for a new trial in the
Mallory murder case and Josephus Nal
Tory. the Racine boy alleged 10 have been
one Of the three men who are snid TO
have murdered John [oonsmau n goufh