Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
Nicholas Prichard. an old resident of
Randnlnh died ar.nd CD

A six-day street fair and carnival will
be held at Spooner Sept. II will be the
opening day.
Nicholas Holmbe. aged % years. com
mitted suicide by hanging in La Crosse.
ID Disappointment in love
James, the S.year-oid son of Frank
Parent of Minong, had his leg nearly cut
off by a moving machine.
The town of Coon has voted $4,000
aid bonds to the La Crosse and South
eastern road. removing the last obstacle
in its path.
William kaflla. the 12-year-old son of
Mat Kafka, resident of Two Rivers.
was drowned while in bathing with a
number Of boys.
The body of Robert Paine. student
of Williams business college in Oshkosh
was discovered in the lake of Neenah.
His home was in that city.
Edward Kemp Of Blain, aged -. kill
CT his son, aged 81. with a small knife
ny stabbing him in the neck. Kemp was
placed in Jail at Stevens Point
One hundred cases OF typhoid fever in
the town of Mount Savage, with 2,200
inhabitants, have caused great alarm.
The epidemic is traceable TO a spring.
Peter Jepson, bartender in the saloon
Of NJ. Bone at Mcmillan was shot and
killed by one Of two tramps who had
arrested.
Frank Arndt, a young man of 81, died
Of blood poisoning in Osceola. He was
bitten by some poisonous insect, but
medical skill seemed unable to check the
progress of the infection
The 500 Railway Company is making
survey for new road to ran from
Ladysmith to Superior. The new line
when constructed viii cross the Omaha
a few miles from AIinong.
Carl Kohler, member Of the manufac-
turing firm of J. NJ Kohler Sons Com
pany, who died suddenly in Sheboygan,
is believed TO have swallowed carbolic
acid by mistake for medicine.
An explosion in the oilhouse of the
Huber Brothers. in the rear of the Main
street drug store at Fond du Lac wreck
ed that building and seriously burned one
of the clerks, Louis thurman.
Two men arrested in Chippewa Falls
had a large amount of expensive china
ware and other articles belonging to l..
M. Newman and they are being held on
charge of burglarizing Newman's resi-
dence.
If move being made proves success
full, there will be an electric railway in
operation within the next two years be-
tween Milwaukee and Beloit, connecting
with the present line from Belcit to
GAINESVILLE.
j. 5. Deveraux. Shell Lake mer-
chant, submitted to painful operation
and had some of the cuticle taken from
his body to be grated on his son, Maui
rice, who lost his foot in a railway acct
dent at Bruce.
The Milwaukee, committee appointed
TO select a young woman to chrsten the
cruiser Milwaukee, which will be launch
ed at San Francisco Sept. 10, has chosen
Miss Janet Mitchell, daughter of the late
ex-senator John l.. Mitchell
Lewis Uehiling of Alton was kicked
by a vicious horse and the joints of his
windpipe dislocated. Apparently he was
doing well when suddenly the dislocation
became acute and he strangled to death
before medical aid could be summoned.
Edward Kemp of Blain. aged 70, kill
ed his son, aged 80. with a small knife
by stabbing him in the neck. The young
man died within ten minutes. The trou-
bic was a family dispute. Kemp was
taken to Stevens Point and placed in Jail
The State board Of control has engaged
the services Of Dean F. E. Turneaure
head of the university college of engi-
neering. to investigate the system OF
sewage disposal and water supply at the
State hospital for the insane at Men
dota.
While his parents were waiting his
arrival in Racine from Chicago when 8
family reunion was to be held, Edward
Held, % years of age and employed as
clerk in the main postoffice at Chicago
was struck down and run over by q
street car. His left leg was cut off above
the knee. 1t is feared the young mar
cannot recover.
Jennie Cunningham aged 10, and hel
mother, Mrs. A. l.. Cunningham of Ma
rietta, were arrested on charge OF
abandonment of a 10-days-old child
which, it is alleged, the girls father LEFT
wrapped up in paper beside the MiIwau
kee tracks, near Blue river, where il
was found still alive early the next morn
ing Cunningham is a mechanic and i:
supposed to be in Chicago. The girl i,
the mother of the child, but did not admit
the fact until given sweat box treatment
An automobile played the part of &
To- 4
Leabella from an angry mob which
threatened to lynch him for the attempt
ed murder of Inguisio Capo, whom Lea
bella shot under the window of the State
capitol Leabella failed to inflict fata
| wounds, but the crowd which saw the
shooting pursued him when he tried Il
escape on a bicycle He fell and wa:
overpowered. but policeman threw hin
into an automobile and the man was
soon safe from violence.
At the annual meeting of the Ole
Maids League of Bristol, four of thc
leading young women of the village were
| elected TO membership. Before they were
| admitted TO the mysteries of the organ
ization each of the girls was forced t.
take an oath that she would use al
| honorable means 10 DecOu1e Nlle during
the next twelve months. The girls in
itiated under this original obligation were
Misses Lulu Rowbottom, Lydia Curtis
| and Jessie and Jennie Garland. 1t i
claimed that none of the girls is engaged
to be married. but the work of the league
has been so successful in the past tina
wagers of two to one are made that al
the girls will be married before the enc
of the year.
From poor fireman on the milwaukee,
| line TO a millionaire is the expectation Of
Alva A. Richards of Portage. the inven
tor OF the automatic retaining valve FOL
airbrakes. A corporation has been form
ed in Appleton. to be known as the Rich
| ards * O'Malley Company, with a CAPT
tai stock of S22O.000, 10 manufacture the
new brake, which is expected to revolu
tionize the airbrake system. Mr.. Rich
ards was offered $4,000 for his patent
but refused il. believing he can make
more money by the manufacture of tbs
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