Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-08
All Over the State.

The First Methodist Church of Beloit
celebrated its siXty-irst anniversary.
Adolph. Orlew. a little Polish boy. was
crushed to death under "A potato wagon
in Kenosha.
The son of DIR. BIakely of Brodhead,
aged II years, broke through the ice
while skating and was drowned
Both the Skidmore Land Company and
the Ellis Junction Land Company have
sold a large amount of land near Cri-
vitz.
Frank Cronkhite. agent at the North
western depot in Marinette, has disap-
pearcd and there is considerable mys-
terry about it.
\ piece of apple became lodged in the
throat of the 7-months-old son of Guy
McAllister, residing in Menasha, and the
child died of strangulation.
Superior's tax rate is the lowest this
year that it has been for seven years
with the exception of 1901 when it was
the same as this year, .0347.
William Froelich is confined as insane
at Milwaukee, the result Of smoking
cigarettes. he contracted the cigarette
habit as a cure for catarrh.
Gustav Speckman of Rice Lake com
mtted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart with revolver He
went to the cemetery, where his wife is
buried, to kill himself. The body was
found on his wife's grave.
The Eau Claire high school football
team defeated the Madison Athletics at
Camp Randall by a score of Ii to 0. The
Fort Atkinson did not show up. which
forfeits the Wisconsin interscholastic
championship 70 Eau Claire.
An attempt was made to rob the Bank
Of Milton, but the robbers were frighten-
ed away by the young man who sleeps in
the second story of the building They
left a ladder some railroad ties and
tools and departed with a team and bug
gy taken from the barn of j. c. Good
rich.
Ole Hendrickson, Scandinavian
farmer, died at his home in Chimney
Rock. An aged couple were left with
the corpse while young man went to
town for a coffin. Before he returned the
house caught fire and burned together
with the corpse, which was in an upper
chamber
George Fuchschel's clothing became en-
tangled in the machinery at the Globe
paper mill in Neenah, and he was being
whirled around at rate of speed that
meant sure DEATH when his clothes were
tori from him sufficiently TO allow the
boy to drop to the ground uninjured
Mrs. S. Sax Of Aveleth. Mimi. who is
stopping at the Schlitz Hotel in Milwau-
kee. was burned by the explosion of an
alcohol lamp while engaged in curling
her hair.
Now that the viii Of Millionaire Ste
phen Rice Of New York. submitted BY
Albert T. Patrick. la, been proved a for
gerry, c. f. Rice and James Rice Of La
FARCE, brothers of the deceased. viii be
made wealthy. They are poor farmers.
The most no.el escape from the Supe-
rior city lookup was effected by Andrew
Anderson He rode away on the back
OF one OF the Police patrol horses. An
derson got the job Of grooming horses
4 half hour later he had disappeared.
Engineers Of the War Department.
acting upon a report Of Major W trren
at Milwaukee. win approve plans for
the construction Of three and possibly
four turning basins wit the inner har-
Dor. With the requires dredging and
changing Of harbor lines this viii entail
an expenditure Of $4,000 and viii give
Milwaukee one If the best harbors Oh the
lakes.
Alvin Greenwood, IA years old. while
rabbit hunting at Wausankee. was shot
by his own gun. A rabbit suddenly
jumped up before him and instead Of
shooting il he tried to HE il by throw
ing the gun. which sent the discharge
Of tine shot into his groin.