Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-15

for sixty years.
Howard Nicholson of Grand Rapids,
IL years old, accidentally shot himself
blood poisoning.
Gov La Toilette has issued procla-
nation setting aside Friday, May 6, as
Arbor day, and recommending the plant
ing of trees on that occasion.
Patrick Flaherty, charged with rob
bing the Superior postoffice, broke jail at
Madison by saving the bars of has cell.
Charles Dennis, his alleged -accomplice,
is still in confinement.
Fire damaged the Y. NJ. C. a. build
ing in Oshkosh, the loss being estimated
at $4,000, fully covered by insurance.
The blaze is supposed TO have started
from a stove in the bowling alley.
John KapfhaTsmer. Jr., aged Is, was
attacked and badly bitten by a fierce dog
near Medford. The animal was beaten
off and killed by farm hands. The lads
father FASTENED with him to Chicago
Mrs. Willis who died IL sheboygan,
has bequeathed the sum IF $1,000 TO
the local Christian Science church, of
which Mrs. X. Bangs, now reader at
Mozart Hall, Milwaukee, is the founder.
The explosion of can of nipple syrup
came near disfguring for life Mrs David
| Hemstock of Sparta She was warming
it on the stove when it exploded ana Sc
verely burned her about the face and
hands.
Premiums are being offered OH coal in
Appleton by several big paper mills and
other concerns, there being situation
at present that rivals the coal famine OF
last winter Soft coal is in the lead for
scarcity.
The grounds and buildings of the Be
lott Fair and Driving Association We're
sold at auction for $4,000. the amount
of the mortgage. The fair association
viii be reorganized and the fair carried
on as usual.
Fire destroyed Conway's button fac
tory at Harpers Ferry, causing complete
loss of the plant and $500 worth of but
ton blanks. The factory had juss start
ed up with a full force of employees.
No insurance.
Division No. of the Supreme Court
in jefferson City, No. denied Collins,
convicted of the murder of Detective
Schumacher of Racine, rehearipg. This
means IndI 0OiIiuS uuuSl Olc uu lilt holS
fixed by the court.
The Wisconsin Land and Lumber
Company of Hermansville will build
about seven miles Of logging railroad
during the coming season. The line will
branch out from the Chicago and North
western road at Pentoga.
Gen. Thomas Curley died in Madison,
aged 70 years He was q veteran and
was colonel of a Missouri regiment dur
ing the war. Afterwards he served two
terms in the Wisconsin Legislature and
moved to Madison and held position in
the capitol under Gov. Peck for four
years.
James Kelvin, an old resident nearly
| lost his life as the result of smoking a
cigar Mr. Kelvin was at o%e time an
inveterate smoker. but quit year ago.
Meeting a friend who urged him TO
smoke, Mr.. Kelvin accepted a cigar, He
Immediately began to feel dizzy and sud
denly fell backward upon the street. A
horse being driven rapidly around the
corner was upon the PROSTATE man be-
fore ne could be rescued. An ugly scalp
wound was inflicted.
An electrical invention by Otto Gle
berus a young business man of Spring
| Valley, is said to overcome gravitation.
| BY the aid of electricity Mr. Sieberus
has succeeded and is enabled to rise from
| the earth and to raise other objects. II
has been known for centuries that two
| electrically charged bodies attract or re-
| pei each other, according as they are
charged with the same or opposite kinds
of electricity. 1t has been more than
suspected that gravitation is merely the
pull of the earth's electricity. But I'M
til now no one has succeeded in so charg-
ing body with electricity that the gray
itation would be overcome and the body
be free to rise from the earth. Mr., Sic
berus has made new form Of electrical
machine and charged his body one day
rs an experiment, when he noticed that
his body was almost without weight He
at once followed this line of experiment
and succeeded in getting the electrical
charge strong enough to overcome gravi-
tation. The difficulty remaining is caus-
ed by the quick dissipation of the charge;
this Mr.. Sieberus Is seeking to overcome
by means Of a silk garment.
A State capitol to cost $5000,000 TO
ST 900, 600 will be the outcome OF the
recent statehouse fire. The capitol inn
provement committee, created by the
last Legislature, made a statement an
nouncing the determination to proceed
with all practicable expedition to secure
plans for new capitol. For this pur-
pose $4,000 appropriated at Inc last
legislative session will be expended. The
architects will be given wide latitude in
the preparation of their plans, which
means that the old bsilding will not
serve as a limitation and that the new
Wisconsin capitol will be of new and
independent design and scale OF construc
ton. The Legislature appropriated $780,
600 for the construction of a Supreme
Court wing to the capitol but the com
mittee determined not to use any Of this
money because of the change Of pro-
gram resultant from the fire. For the
immediate present the $4,000 will be
used TO secure plans and the Legislature
will be depended upon to supply ade-
quate funds Gov. La Toilette, under
an existing law empowering him to make
necessary emergent repairs to any State !
building, will fix up the damaged parts Of
the old capitol, crowd all the depart !
ments of the government into it and wait |
Trustees Of the Racine Knitting Com |
pany a bankrupt concern, sold the as 4
sets, consisting OF Office buildings in RAJ
cine and factories, machinery, stock. &C /
counts and material, at Beloit, Ripon |
and Stevens Point. The sale brought /
S73. 600 to pay creditors claims OF $780,
coo Fred c. Lorenz Of Milwaukee pur-
chased the Racine and Beloit plants for
$4,000 L. Brill Of Stevens Point pur-
chased the plant in that city for $1,000
and c. w. Hayes Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, the Ripon plant for $3.50. The
property brought about one-half the APP
praised value.
Doris Simonson Of Tomah had mar
row escape from death from drinking a
bottle Of cough medicine which had been
left on the premises by an agent. 1t
contained morphine and it was with diff