Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
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At Stevens Point W w MitchelIs
-four mill was nearly destroyed by fire.
1t started in the engine room The loss
sfas $1,000. with no insurance,
There were i've prostrations from ex-
cessive heat in Milwaukee Saturday. ac-
cording to police reports Thermometers
registered as high as SO degrees.
Albert Berg. a clerk in an Osceola
store, drowned in the st. Croix river.
He was in bathing with four other young
men of the village and yentured too far.
The Northwestern State Bank, a
new institution. with capital of $4,000.
has opened at Chippewa Falls. The di-
reetors are Chippewa's leading business
men.
The Congressional commission arrived
at Sturgeon Bay on q special car for
the purpose of looking over couple Of
locations for the proposed naval training
| school.
The Appleton police arrested nan
who gives his name as kibbie. He 1e-
clares that he killed sheriff and several
deputies. The officers believe the mau
is insane
Baraboo has been experiencing the
greatest religious awakening of its his
tory. The churches united in inviting the
evangelist Rev Milford II. Lyon, to lead
the campaign.
The contract has been let for the cree
| ton of a Carnegie library at Rice Lake.
The building will cost, when completed,
| about $4,000 and win be ready for oc-
cupancy by Dec. /.
Frank Neide. aged 13 years. Son of
John Neide. drowned in the Little Mus
kego lake at Waukesha. He was bath
ing. got beyond his depth and drowned
before companions could aid him.
Officers in Minnesota mad Wisconsin
are trying to capture a gang of log
thieves that are very successfully OPP
Grating on the upper Mississippi, taking
the very best logs from RATS even when
guarded by electric searchlights and arm
ed men.
George Young. mail carrier between
Bayfield, and Cornucopia, lost two valua-
Bile horses as a result of an attack by
wolves The horses were roaming in
the woods about two miles from the town
when they We're surrounded By wolves
and killed.
Mrs. Lena Hendrickson of Manitowoc
may die as result of burns. A prepare
ton of linseed oil and turpentine, which
she was heating, became ignited and in
her attempt to extinguish the flames, her
clothing caught fire and she was seriously
| burned about the body.
At Milwauee two season records for
| lake receipts were broken in the coal and
| lumber trades the other day. Coal re-
ceipts reached a total of $4,000 tons.
Lumber carriers brought in 1,OO0,OOO
| feet from Lake Superior ports, the larg-
est receipts for the year.
The people Of Appleton who recently
took children from the Fresh Air organ.
ization of Chicago to keep for two weeks
declare that they will not do so again, as
the children sent to Appleton were from
the homes of well-to-do people. Many of
| the children refused to eat some of the
things put before them, stating that it
was TOO common. One boy asked why
the family he was stopping with did not
keep maids as his parents did at home.
The Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, in
biennial conven ton, decided to admit to
their membership the Modern Woodmen.
Similar secret organizations will be in
vestigatad with view of placing them
on like rank with the Woodmen. The
movement is one of long standing and
may cause a considerable change in the
stand of not only the Catholic Church on
secret organizations, but also in other de-
nominations who now oppose all such So
cieties.
The mysterious illness of George
Bauer of La Crosse, who for several
days was unconscious and at the point
OF death from strangulation, has been
cleared up. 1t was caused by his swal-
lowing his false teeth. Bauer was taken
violently i'll and became unconscious be-
fore being able to tell the family any
thing about his sickness. His son no
ticed that plate and several false teeth
were missing and Immediately communi-
Gated the fact to the physician. Bauer
will now probably recover if the teeth
can be reached with surgical instruments,
Through the arrest of two of its Mil
waukee employees the Milwaukee road
and the Milwaukee police department
have disclosed a plot to Systematically
rob the road. The two men We're arraign-
nary examination and were bound over
to the municipal court for trial under
500 bonds. Frederick w. Buffmire,
roadmaster within the Milwaukee city
limits and Frank Raids, section hand
working in the city. are the accused men,
Both are charged with forgery and pass
ing of time certificate emitting vii
liam Henning" to S41.25 for work rem
dered. The road believes that this rob
berry has been going on for more than
wear and that over $1,000 has been lost
by it.
The 35-foot gasoline launch. Eva. own
ed by Judge G. II. Donnelly of Wood
stock. ILL.,, was destroyed by fire at
Geneva Lake The boat was moored az
Reds Park Mt the head of the lake. and
the gasoline tank had just been filled.
There was evidently a leak somewhere,
as the cabin became filled with gas.
which was in some unknown manner lg-
nited. and when VIM. Define. the engi-
neer's assistant. opened the cabin door,
an explosion followed which blew him
ont of the boat and into the lake The
boat then commenced to burn rapidly
and the bystanders. fearing that the gaso-
line would explode. pushed it off. and it
drifted out into the lake and burned to
the waters edge before the gasoline ex-
ploded. The boat had been used tive
years and cost $1,000.
At Marinette fire caused a loss of 500
600 in the store of the Peoples Clothing
Company. with an Insurance of Sl2WlO-
The origin of the fire is unknown. The
flames threatened to destroy the entire
block for time.
Adam Busheimer. a wealthy farmer
living near Sagole, who was thrown from
a blackboard Saturday. is in Serieus
condition. BuSheimer was leading COW
by rope fastened to the seat of his
blackboard The COW became frightened
and jumping to one side of tile road over,
turned the rig throwing Busheimer out
and seriously injuring him.
George Rain. survivor Of the Norgs
| disaster. has written a letter to friends
l =, ID ,.;,,a from Scotland describing Fhp