Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-09
State Items of Interest.

William Lipke, 81 years old. we'll
known Neenah resident, was found dead
at his resideace Heart disease was the
cause
William II. Broadstreet, Frisco station
agent at Granny, was fatally wounded
in fight with robbers whom he caught
rifing the company's safe.
Two cases of smallpox are reported
from the town of Russell in the families
of Gustav Brickbauer and Z. G. Pingel.
The cases are not serious.
The Western Wisconsin District indie
pendent Telephone Association. including
all independent lines in the western por-
ton of the State, was formed at a meet
ing held at Sparta.
The office and warehouse owned by the
Rice Lake Lumber Company at Long
Lake dam burned to the ground The
fire is supposed 10 have started from the
explosion of an air-tight heater.
Jessie King, the 1S-year-old daughter
of family of Mount Vernon, whose
identity she declined to reveal, has been
placed in the county Jail at San Antonio,
Texas, on the charge of bigamy.
The office of the Mitchell Motor Car
Company. formerly the Wisconsin wheel
works, at Racine. was burned, causing
a loss of 5000. Valuable papers said
to be worth $4,000 were also destroyed.
The pretty young school teacher. Miss
Stella Snider, who was sued in the Cir
cult Court at Mexico for 81 900 damages
for whipping her pupil, Maggie Caldwell,
13 years old. won the case The jury
held that the punishment, twenty
Iashes, was not excessive.
Every saloon in Appleton except tn,
Sherman House bar, sixty-eight in all,
was closed Sunday This course was
brought about by letter from the Sun
day closing committee, which stated that
20 keep open might entail forfeiture Of
license. The saloonkeepers have also
agreed to close evenings at II o'clock.
large balloon descended on the farm
of Inomas Adkinsscnear St Charles. A
man was seen in the balloon when it was
sinking, bur he could not be found when
the balloon was located on the farm. No
claimant has appeared for the balloon
and it is not known whence it came
Mrs. William McGee of North Free
dom arose from her bed some time the
other night, walked barefooted and in
her night clothes half a mile through
deep snow with the mercury at 40 de-
grees below zero and threw herself be-
fore a passing train, by which she was
ground to pieces.
Frank Dawson has been convicted Of
numbering Anna Hartman in the Circuit
Court at Paris, and sentenced to be hang
ed March II. Dawson killed Miss Hart
man as the result Of broken engage
ment.
Great alarm exists among the stock |
raisers and farmers around Columbia |
over the prevalence Of cholera among the |
hogs Every effort thus far made to
arrest the progress Of the disease has /
proved unavailing. 1t is estimated thar /
the loss during the year from the dis
ease. now at the proportions Of an epi-l
demie. viii approximate SlO0O.OoO. The /
agricultural board has stopped all st.
Louis and Kansas City shipments.
4 large shipment Of extra heavy fat /
cattle was made the other day from Min
cola. The cattle, $50 ii number. were I
c0rn-fed for sixtees months by William 1
Graham and were sold to White & Hens 4
Ter Of Montgomery City for S5.25 a hun 4
dred. making about $4,000. Eighty Of 4
the cattle viii average 100 pounds, and 4
The entire consignment, goes 70 Pittsburg. 4
Miss Clara Daniels, manager Of the 4
Imperial resta grant in Oshkosh, for safe
keeping placed four rings valued at 500 /
ia a cup 4 waiter. not noticing the
rings. filed the cup with coffee and serT-
ed il 10 . patron. The police are looking
for the latter. who paid his bill and de-
parted.