Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01


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The city of Peshtigo won out in the
selection of a site for the new 100000
asylum beating her strong rival, Mari
nette
Judge Baensch of Manitowoe has for
mally consented to become a candidate
for the Republican nomination for Gar
ern0r against Gov. La Toilette.
NikoIi Opaeieu an Austrian. 25 years
of age, who formerly resided in Milwau-
kee. was asrhyXiated in a room in the
Sterling Hotel in KenoSha. 1t is sup
posed that the death was accidental.
Revenue officials have discovered that
at least 135 Wisconsin cheese factories
are engaged in the Illicit manufacture of
whey butter which is largely sold in
Chicago at half the price of die pure
article
w d. Clarke. aged 81. and his wife
were struck by the passenger train run
ming between Milton and Davis Junction.
Mr. Clarke is very deaf and did not
hear the train. The carriage in which
they We're riding was demolished.
At meeting of the Baraboo City
Council It was decided to appoint a board
of appraisers, who shall value the water
works plant at not more than 100000.
nor less than $4,000. and shall not take
the vaide of the franchise into consid-
GRAFTON.
To the long list of hunters shot while
in pursuit of deer in northern Wisconsin
and the Michigan peninsula in seven days
are added the names of Julius Wyman,
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting near Rush, and Frank
Grevoch. fatally wounded while hunting
near Lanark.
For the second time recently the III
rich building and the three story block at
Fourth and Main streets were burned i'll
La Crosse The loss is about $4,000.
The principal losers are the He'll Shoe
Company, So, 600 and the owner of the
buildings. $4,000 The fire started in
vacant apartment. The Ulrich build
ing was once occupied by Brick" Pome-
roy.
Captain George Breckenfeld, aged 81
years, one of the bravest and best known
| life savers on the chain of lakes, has
retired as captain of the Racine life
saving crew on account of long service
and age. Captain Breckenfeld has been
| in the United States life-saving service
over twenty years. During his service at
Racine eighty-six lives were saved. He
is to be succeeded by Captain Gus Luf-
| burg.
Officers Whipple, Rohel and Qualnin
had an exciting running fight with two
burglars who had stolen a lot of furs
from G.. Il. Paige's store in Beloit Two
of the officers came across the robbers In
an alley and gave them chase and many
shots were exchanged After running
| the robbers along the river bank and
| through the railway yards the trace of
the men was lost and it is supposed they
! escaped on a train.
| Matthew Murphy, of Benton, who died
recently, by his will gives seventy per
cent. Of his estate for the purpose of
! building a court house for La Fayette
County. The estate is estimated at $780,
| 600, which would give the county $l2o,-
| 600. T.. G. i. Mackey, cashier of the
I First National Bank of Darlington, is
named executor. The remaining 30 per
cent of the estate is to be divided among
relatives and friends.
The marriage of W. ]. Zimmers, as
sistant city attorney of Milwaukee, and
| Miss Meta BOrchert was the elimination
of a romance in which the usual condi-
! tions were reversed. The attachment
began last summer at Elkhart lake, when
Miss Borchert saved Mr. Zimmers from
drowning He was giving an exhibition
of his swimming prowess and became ex-
hausted and she brought him to shore.
! The engagement was announced soon
after.
Miss Katie Kinney, aged II years,
! swallowed strychnine in GAINESVILLE with
evident suicidal intent. DR.. Merritt saw
ed her life. Hazel Miller, a chum If
| Miss Kinney, a few days ago tried to emo
| her life in the same way. She took NOR
phine and was saved. Both girls belong
| to good families and are of a coterie who
are inseparable companions. The Miller
| girl went with Miss Kinney when she
bought the poison and the authorities are
working on the theory that a suicide club
has been formed among these young girls.
| Tire girls will not admit that it exists.
municipalities cannot grant franchises
to corporations for lighting and other pur-
poses if the rights of the municipality
are not conserved, the business interests
of the place judciously looked after, or
| if the corporation is given an unreason-
| ably high price or long term of exclusive
! privilege. The action was upon 4 fran
chise granted by the village board of
| West Allis, near Milwaukee, granting a
franchise to the Northwestern Electric
Light and Power Company for fifty years
exclusively and at high prices for medi-
OGRE service. Property owners fought the
franchise in the Milwaukee courts and
were defeated, but won the appeal 20 the
Supreme Court
Three more persons have been killed
and three injured as the result of hunt
ing mishaps in Wisconsin. William SchiE
ling, who lives near Altoona, was shot
while hunting by some one unknown. He
may not recover. John Zangell, while
driving with his daughter near Escanaba,
ran into a fusllade fired by a hunting
party. The horse was killed and one
shot struck the buggy. John Lawrence
was accidentally shot and killed while
deer hunting near Strickland. Charles
Rigg was killed while hunting in the
town of Merrimac. His own gun was
accidentally discharged. Near Ashland,
Henry Porter, a farmer, was mistaken
for deer and shot through the legs.
Mike Thomas, an employee Of the Han
son furniture factory, was held up IN
GAINESVILLE by four men and relieved of
his weeks wages, amounting to So. He
had just left the factory with his little
girl. No trace of the men has been Sc
cured
The Marinette County Board Of Super
visors appropriated money for the con
struction OF two interstate bridges, one
between Niagara and Quinnesec, Mich, !
and another from Norway, Mich, to
Marinette County. The bridges VIII be
only five miles apart and will cost &c.
900.
About seventy Of the eighty male fac
tory employees at Cutters shoe factory !
in Eau Claire walked out, the union de-
mand for what is said 10 De about - (