Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-23

w. f. Loomis has been appointed post
master at Brentwood to succeed j. A.
Martin, resigned.
c. j. Anderson of Medina, Wiscon-
sin Central brakeman, fell from the top
of freight ear, badly 4ljuring his spine.
The new home of George T. Bauer in
Bloomer was totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $500 Insur-
ance 5000
The second grand jury to investigate
city and county alleged Doodle was nam
ed at Milwaukee and will continue work
of investigation.
Believing himself to be the President
of the United States, Louis Keitling of
Beloit was taken to the State asylum for
the insane at Mendoza.
Fifty students left the Darish Luther
an College at Racine the other day,
cheering fer the deposed principal, Scow
Nelson, and jeering the directors.
John Loose, accused OF assaulting Jo-
seph koenigs at Chiffon, was bound over
to the Circuit Court. In default of 81
600 bonds he was remanded TO jail.
Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmer was
formally proclaimed Archbishop of Mil
waukee at St Johns Cathedral in that
city. The ceremonies were impressive.
\ combination coach belonging to the
Crandon train caught fire at Pelican and
was totally destroyed. Conductor Riley
says all he has left is the ticket punch.
Roda Blyberg. a La Crosse young lady
of the best parentage. was taken to Men
dota the State hospital for the insane,
her mind wrecked by disappointed love.
1t has been discovered that owing to
lack OF funds a GAINESVILLE family has
been living for month on horse flesh.
Their poverty was due to the horses
dying.
In Chiffon the clothing store of G. A.
Schumacher burned to the ground The
entire stock is total loss. The building
was fully insured and the stock partially
covered.
Lumbermen never enjoyed better
winter for logging operations than the
present one, and the cut of logs this
winter win equal if not surpass that of
last year.
The business men of Nazomanie have
formed themselves into an association
for common protection and 10 offer in
ducements for manufacturing concerns to
locate there.
]. j. Pach and Conrad Eek of Hast
Jugs, MINI, pleaded guilty and were
fired $50 each on charge of trapping
out of season. Both are in the county
Jail at Barron.
All the Roman Catholic societies of
Appleton, numbering nine or ten, with
thousand or more members, have formed
one society, the object of which is to re-
| frain from profanity.
Margaret Johnson, aged TO- was Bit
ten by dog while attending a dancing
class in Appleton. She stopped to pet
the animal under table, and it jumped
at her and tore her cheek badly.
An offer of $4,000 has been made for
the Oestrich farm in the town of Kos
sath, on which a find of copper ore was
made, but the owner has refused to con-
slider it until the report of the assay is
made.
President A. Salisbury of the White
water normal school has been granted
| leave of absence for two months by the
State board of normal school regents. He
will go to San Antonio, Texas, to re-
cuperate.
Hugh Peterson, 80 years of age, was
] frozen to death. He lived at Otter
| Greek. He attempted to walk to a neigh
| boris to attend a dance. The body was
| found in field next morning, buried in
| the snow.
The factories owned by the Racine
Knitting Company at Racine, Beloit and
! Stevens Point have been ordered sold
by the referee upon application of trus-
| tees, the property sold to be free of all
| membranes.
Incendiaries set fire to the big barn
on John Williamson's farm at Truesdell
station, and a masquerade ball half a
mile away was broken up while men and
women together fought the flames. The
loss was about $4,000.
One of the largest specimens of a
wildcat ever seen in Colorado was shot
by Miss Clara Preston of Beloit, daugh-
ter of f. L. Preston, a prominent mining
man of Boulder, Colo. Miss Preston is
on visit to her father.
The Wisconsin Butter Makers Assoc
citation has just awarded to the Oak Hill
| Creamery Company of Neenah the grand
sweepstakes gold medal for the best ex-
hibit at the convention of the association
held in Eau Claire Feb. "a.
A conjunction of one quart of molasses
and two quarts of ground feed is being
used by an Appleton horseman, and while
| il is a cheap substitute for regular feed,
it is said to possess remarkable qualities
for fattening and enlivening horses.
|
Fred Mcmillan. the Wisconsin cadet
who failed to pass the physical examina-
ton at Annapolis, has been offered a
position in the Annapolis Naval Acad-
envy as instructor of law and English.
He has decided to accept the position.
Nora Graham, an employee Of the b.
lott knitting works, was caught in the
revolving shaft, Dut hraced herself and
allowed her garments 70 be torn from
her until her companions shut off the
power. Her arm was severely injured.
The Laurel postof1ce was burned the
other day. Mr.. Johnson, the postmaster,
started a fire and was out doing the
chores, when the fire communicated to
the house. which was lined with tar
paper, and burned like a fash. Mrs.
johnson and the children and Miss Flor
ence Richard of Shell Lake, who teaches
the district school and was boarding at
Johnson's, barely escaped in their night
clothes and stood in their bare feet in
the snow while Mr. johnson ran a mile
and procured a team to take them to a
place of safety.
Despondent over the death of her O.
yeGr-old daughter five weeks ago, Mrs.
| Francisco Kohel, aged % years, com
mittcd suicide by hanging herself in
harm at her home in Franksviile. The
body was found by her husband and her
| son.
Children of Shiocton playing with
matches set the bed on fire on which
Sam Allen. a Civil War veteran, was "
Ing i'll. Notwithstanding his emaeiated
condition. he succeeded in extinguishing
the flames. not. however, without being
badly scorched and permanently dishg-