Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-22

rotary to President Van Hise of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. has been taken to
TIE Mendoza asylum. suffering from tenn
porary insanity due to overwork.
Fred Mol. well-known citizen of
Cylon. was run down by locomotive
ON the Wisconsin Central near the Elmer
aid station and received injuries from
which he died few hours later.
The body of dead infant was found
in satchel at house in Watertown,
where a young woman named Anna
Schulz was staying over night. The
child had evidently been dead more than
two weeks.
John H. Thayer died of paralysis at
Sparta. He was {. high degree Mason
and had Travelled many years for Smith,
ThQrndyke 4 Co. of Milwaukee. He
leates his wife, one son and three daugh-
tiers surviving.
Two Wisconsin Central freight trains
came together head on between Hewitt
and Auburndale. Three trainmen were
killed and another fatally injured. Fire
man Kelly and Brakeman Burt McCar-
ty, who were killed, lived in North Fond
du Lac
The Pewaukee postofiice. large barn
and several small buildings were de-
stroyed by fire. They were all owned
by William Jones and valued at $1,000.
The contents of the postoffiee were saw
ed, but five valuable horses were burned
in the barn.
Sam Woods, who resided seven miles
south of Baldwin, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with razor at the
house Of his daughter, Mrs. Dwight
Bowen, while she was standing behind
him in the same room. He was buried
at New Centeryille.
James Cawley, the oldest resident in
Racine County, is dead. On April 20 he
would have been 101 years old. He was
born in Ireland and came to this country
sixty-two years ago. He was the first
man to open the road leading between
Racine and Milwaukee.
Reports have been received from Win
sted, Wash. stating that Mrs. Addie
Downs, wife Of Rev. Thomas Downs,
former pastor of the Methodist Church
of Racine. has eloped with Carl $. Al
look, Wash, She met him at a eantata.
both taking part in the performance, and
a week after that they are said to have
eloped. She deserted a husband and five
children and he deserted young wife.
The postal authorities are trying to
locate several pouches of valuable mail
which were either lost or stolen one night
recently on the Northwestern read. The
regular train was blocked By snow near
Ishpeming and special was sent on =,
take its place The special had no mail
car, but picked up the pouches at the
various stations and put them in the
baggage car. One sent from Marinette,
containing several thousand dollars in
valuable paper, is gone, it Is said, and
several other pouches are missing.
A coroner's jury. sitting in the case Of
Mike Wisky, an old man found dead in
his home about six miles from Augusta,
decided that he had been murdered. The
mans head had been crushed in and the
house had been set on fire. Vernon
Whisky, aged IS, was arraigned, charged
with numbering his father. The evil
dence indicates that the deceased was
beaten on the head and shot twice and
that the house was set on fire. The half
burned body was found in the ruins. The
boy pleaded not guilty and the examina-
ton was adjourned.
The couris Of Racine are to decide as
to the question of ownership of the set
of furs valued at $40, claimed by par
ties prominent in society. The furs are
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replevined them on demand of Miss Mat
tie Stoffel, when they were in the pos
session of Miss Adde Williams. 1t APP
pears that at a dance given in the city
some months ago, furs belonging to Miss
Stoffe were taken from Guild Hall and
some weeks later writ of replevin was
issued and the furs in the possession Of
Miss Williams were taken. Miss Stoffel
believing that the furs belonged to her.
John Eggert, farmer of the town of
Center, failing TO get neighbors to shoot
an old horse which was useless and not
daring to do it himself, tied dynamite
around the horses neck and took the
animal to a field. After attaching the
explosive he touched off the fuse and
started to run The horse started to fol-
low. Eggert had not thought Of this
and was terrorized, expecting to be blown
up any moment. He reached wire
fence in his wild scramble, crawled
through it aud ran about two rods. when
he heard a terrific explosion behind him.
Looking back. he saw no horse and no
fence and the ground was torn up for
yards around.
The jury in Whitehall found Olaf o.
Aabakken guilty of manslaughter in the
second degree. He was charged with
the murder Of John Wellan, farmer
aged about go years, on the night of May
80. 1903, at the home of Isabel Borst,
a widow, few miles from Whitehall.
Mrs. Borst testified that Aabakken had
made threats to do his sOn-in-law. Ole
Brown Aabakken was boarding with
Mrs. Borst at the time Of the killing of
Wellan. The body of Wellan was found
few rods from the house with a gun
shot wound in the abdomen, evidently
fired at close range. Aabakken made no
attempt to escape and after the holding
of the coroner's inquest was placed I'M
der arrest According to Aabakken's
story. his son-in-law. Brown. had threat
ened him and had tried to poison him.
He said that be had heard noises in the
yard and went out with the gun. He
saw white object and in his fear and
excitement his gun was discharged. He
said that he was not acquainted with
Wellan.
Pierre the 9-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Broughton, met death by
drowning at Brodhead. II is supposed
that he fell from the fifteen-feot wall
back Of the dynamo building into the tail
race Of the mill and was carried aown
stream under the ice for four or FIVE rods.
Word from Washington comes TO the
effect that Of the Indian appropriation
bill passed by the House Congressman
John ]. Esch secured $4,000 with which
to build much needed additions 10 the
Indian school at Tomah The committee
at FIRST refused to consider the PROPOSE
ton at all.
Miss Rocelia Billie Of Marshfel6,
while shooting with a target rifle was
accidentally shot and il is feared that
she will die. Miss Billie is 10 years Of
age and il teaching school in joint dis
trict No. 2. The accident occurred at
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