Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

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drews were discovered unconscious from
escaping gas in D. c. manners mill in
Baraboo. Both were saved wish diff
Guilty.
Fire damaged the stock and building of
the New York store in Racine to the ex-
tent Of $4,000 Mrs. NJ. Sklute. owner
of the store, says her stock was worth
$4,000.
G. w. Hanson. station agent for the
Milwaukee road Vt Duplainville was
struck and killed while riding on his rail-
way yelocipede about mile east of Pc
waukee.
At North Fond On Lac James la Flure
was seriously burned about the face and
hands by the explosion of coal gases
that had accumulated in the furnace in
his house.
Christian Barber, aged "a years. of
Greenfield, was given coal stove for
Christmas present. and, not understand
ing how to regulate it. was suffoeated by
the fumes.
Professional craelSsmen opened the
safe in the store of John Hageus. south
of Brandon, and secured $500 Last sum
mer the same store was robbed of $500
worth of goods.
The servant girls of Oshkosh have re
Gently organized a secret union. The
object of the union is not for higher
wages, at least at present, but for self
protection against hard mistresses.
Carl Bluhm, an employee of the James
vile Barb Wire Company, had darping
needle three inches long removed from
his thigh. Bluhm is supposed to have
taken the needle into his body through
his mouth.
A runaway team of horses crashed into
a Washington avenue street car in RAJ
cine, seriously injuring S. f.. Christian
son, the motorman, killing one of the
horses, wred king the car and creating
panic among the passengers.
A rural free delivery route will be es-
tablished Feb. at Curtiss, with one car
rier. The route embraces an area of %
square miles, containing a population Of
Al The postoffices at Justin, Hallway
and Ralph are to be discontinued.
During the annual ball given by La
Crosse knights of Pythias, pickpoclSets,
supposed to have worn dress suits and
posing as guests at the aft -;r, stole jew
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amount of several hundred dollars
The opening of the Hillsboro and
Northeastern Railway was celebrated by
5000 visitors. At 9 O'Clock procession
formed at the depot and marched
through the principal streets of Hillsbofo,
headed by bands. There was a display
OF fireworks.
Matthias Kapellan, q shoe dealer at
Neillsville, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy with the clerk of the United
States Court at La Crosse. He schedules
his liabilities at $46,637.1 II and his assets
amount to $1,45S. Many firms through
out the State are involved in the loss.
The large store of the Beaver Dam
Lumber Company at Cumberland was
completely Quilted by fire, entailing a
loss of $4,000, partially covered by insur-
ance. The blaze was started in the dress
making department by girl who poured
gasoline into an oil stove instead of kero-
| sene.
| Two trains have been put on the Wis
consin Valley division OF the Milwaukee
road for the conveyance of logs from Star
| lake to the mills of the Chippewa Falls
Log and Boom Company at Chippewa
| Falls, distance of DDS miles. This is
| the longest haul ever attempted in the
State since the transportation of logs by
rail was first begun.
One of the pet dogs of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hans Olson, living nine miles from RIA
cine, attacked their 5-year-old daughter,
tearing one of her arms terribly, biting
flesh out of her side and decorating her
cheek. A 1J-year-old brother of the girl
happened to discover the dog tearing the
child to pieces. Securing a pitchfork
| he went at the beast which turned on
him. After fight of fifteen minutes the
boy killed the dog without having been
bitten once. The girl will recover.
Gov. p. NJ La Toilette was inaugural
ed for his second term as Governor of
the State of Wisconsin at exactly u
o'clock Monday. The ceremony took
place in the Assembly chamber of the
State capitol, which was packed to its
utmost capacity, fully 1000 people be-
| ing present, while 800 more stood out
| side in the corridors The oath of office
was administered by Chief Justice Cas-
soday of the Supreme Court Following
/ the Governor the new State officers were
sworn in in turn, and after this ceremony
each took the seat occupied formerly by
| the former incumbents of the respective
| offices.
| w. H. Bradley, the wealthy lumber
man, who married his private secretary.
Mary Hannemyer, died Mt Milwaukee.
! Mr. Bradley was taken i'll some weeks
| ago. He went to attend the funeral of
/ his first wife, who died about the mid
| die of November. and was taken sick
with liver trouble. Mr.. Bradley was
| born in Maine sixty-five years ago. and
| came West when Wisconsin was a young
| State. He began numbering in a small
way at Oshkosh, and then formed a com
pany and began operations near Muske-
gon, Mich. Estimates of his wealth run
| from $4,000, 900 to S10000,000. Mr..
Bradley was the founder of the town Of
Tomahawk.
John Mitchell. a well-known farmer of
the town of Merton, was killed while
| attempting to load a log of wood IN e
wagon to carry it to the sawmill. We
and his son were lifting the log when
it slipped and fell, crushing his skull.
/ William Wermuth, a farmer living
east of La Crosse had an exciting en-
counter with a wildcat while hunting
small game. The wildcat missed and
prepared for another spring when Wer-
muth put a bullet into it. This broke
the force of the spring, but the wildca.
had TO be shot at again before giving up
the ghost.
A village is to be located on the inter
| urban road at a point between Mantle
voc and Two Rivers. A large acreage
has been purchased by the Manitowoc
Trading Company and hotel has al
ready been erected there. Many cottages
will be erected Immediately. The village
is TO be known as Manitowoc Beach.
Indications are strong that former
Postmaster Gordon and other Chicago
men. who have been in confesence with
representatives of public service corpcra-
tions in Eau Claire for several days. are
planning a combination of interests Of
electric light and power and electric rail
way and gaslight companies of Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls.