Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07

City.
Fire at the plant of the Latin Rand
Powder Company at Pleasant Prairie
caused a loss of $4,000. with no in
surance.
Charles Hardway thinks he has found
gold-bearing ledge on the Menon,iIee
reservation He believes, too, that silver
exists there.
4. ,uanze. an employee at one of the
Menc7nonie brick yards. was dangerous
~, perhaps fatally, injured by cave-in
ut the clay pit
A. G. Parfrey, owner of the Richand
Center -four mill and excelsior factory,
has begun the erection of a large cheese
and butter tub factory
The manual training summer school
to have been started on Lake Winnebago
by Prof. Summer of normal school. will
be postponed until 1900
Fred Bohman, res. of Delafield
IS years of age. was drowned in Lower
Nemahbin lake. He was fishing in a
beat and overturned the boat.
Fifty feet of tile north wall of the
Meade & Edwards canal at Kaukauna
caved in from the high water. No dam
age beyond the cost of the wall was
done.
Mrs. Albert Salisbury. wife of Pr,si-
dent Salisbury of the Whitewater Nor
mai school, was badly injured in run
away accident. Several ribs were brok-
en- and she is injured internally
Golmar's circus exhibited in Madison.
and the employees had a fight among
themselves that resulted in one man be-
ing stabbed. but as the fight occurred
outside the city limits the police know
nothing about it,
Mrs. Charles Luke. residing on farm
in the town of Salem, sacrificed herself
to save the lives of her two children.
pursued by an angry bull. The mother
managed to save the children, but was
herself fatally injured
A suit for $1,000 against the town of
Maple Creek will be instituted in the
Circuit Court for Outagamie County.
Hebbe damage case. The present action
is brought for injuries sustained by Mrs,
Hebbe
small tornado swooped down
through Mormon Coulee, near La Crosse,
and tore up trees and fences and unroof-
ed many buildings Much damage was
done to orchards and crops just above
ground were ruined by hail which fol-
lowed the wind storm.
e. l.. Larson, who gained notoriety
by organizing a wild cat insurance COM
pany and absconding from Milwaukee in
1902, died of consumption at the State
prison in Waupun. Larson was convict
ed and sentenced for forgery. He was
serving a seven-year sentence.
1t is reported that big realty deal
has been closed at Lake Geneva. The
Maple Glen farm, consisting of 800
acres, which was owned by George A.
Cobb, who recently died in Chicago has
been sold to j. ]. Mitchell, who already
has large holdings of Lake Geneva prop
erty.
Grand Chute farmers are in wild
pitch of excitement over mysterious
woman who has been noticed north of
Appleton at various times during the
past few weeks. With wild, disheveled
hair and haunting eyes she pops up at
one minute and then disappears. 1t is
believed she escaped from the Northern
insane hospital.
A novel method for killing rattlesnakes
has been discovered by man living
nea- La Crosse. Finding he couldn't
get at the snakes, he hit upon music
as a means of charming them from their
holes. Taking his old violin and an as
sistant with shotgun. he lured the rep
tiles from their dens. swaying and wav-
ing to the music. Then the shotgun ex-
pert performed his part.
Its busted" With that cool re-
mark, without an cutlery Of any sort
or even a whimper, Leon Deneen, aged
IA, announced to his playmates on the
ball field in New Richmond that he had
broken his arm. The bone was snapped
off just above the elbow. He whistled
while the arm was being set, and only
complained when the doctor said he
could not go back and see the finish Of
the game.
George Simkos. well-known resident
of Kenosha, appealed to the county clerk
of the county to prevent him from is
suing a marriage license to any one for
marriage with Anna B. Jorina. The girl
had been a sweetheart of Simkos. and
after he had obtained marriage license
she refused to become his wife. When
the girl heard of the acrion that Simkos
had taken she reconsidered the matter
and the couple were married.
Inexhaustible quantities of the purest
iron ore in existence have been discov-
cred along Apple river, twenty miles
northeast of New Richmond. A. G.
Boehm of that city found indications of
mineral and secured samples and had
them assayed. He learned that the ore
was as pure as any mined on the Me-
saba range. An area of 100 acres was
found which contains iron ore in inn
mense quantities, located within three to
FIVE feet of the surface of the ground.
A shaft has been sunk short distance.
Rose Ernst, a 14-year-old girl living
near Menasha, saved a tiny baby from
death under a Northwestern train and
narrowly escaped being killed herself in
the act. The girl saw the baby playing
on the track when she realized that a
train was near. She grasped the child,
who evaded her playfully. This nearly
cost both their lives The engineer re-
versed, but he could not stop the train
in time The girl. ut the last moment.
jumped with the baby and the fender
just scraped her flying skirts. The baby
was the 4-yearold daughter of Peter
Jacobs.
The strike of the Racine brickmskers
has been settled and the men returned
to work. The brick manufacturers grant
ed the demand for the same wages as
paid last year. 81 per day. The yards
will be known hereafter as union yards
and none but union men viii be employ
ed
Philip Drolette, an insane patient from
MarinetNe. died on a train while being
taken off at Duck Greek to hold an in
quest. Drolette has refused TO eat for
FIVE days and had practically starved
himself to death. Jealousy over his wife
is said to have caused his insanity.
George Mccall. charged with the kill
ing of the Shawano Indian. Panass, was