Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-19

Appleton. The cost may reach $4,000.
Fast mail train No. 81 was wrecked
near Lyndon The wreck was caused
by the breaking of dave wheel. No
body was hurt.
A new postofflce has been established
In the southern portion of Polk County
TO be called Anderson, with Canute An
derson as postmaster.
School opened in the new school house
recently constructed in CheteA 10 replace
the one destroyed by fire last year. The
new ediice cost $4,000.
=. j. Wekh Of Lodi, who reported that
his safe was robbed of $1,000. is in jail
at Madison, being unable to furnish ST.
600 bond that he viii not reave the State.
The school building at Twelve Corners,
in the town of Center. was destroyed by
fire, together with all the books and fix
lures. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin.
The third annual report OF the State
Inheritance tax collection of Outagamie
County shows the total amount of prop
erty taxable under this law in the county
is estimated at about $122.000.
The big Corliss engine at the mill OF
the Patten Paper Company in Appleton
was smashed. entailing a loss of $4,000
and making necessary shutdown for
several days. The accident was caused
by the condenser becoming disarranged.
The winter term of school opened in
Cumberlands handsome new school
house, just completed at a cost of $780,
600. The building contains twenty class
and recitation rooms, library, gymnasium,
baths and auditorium, is electric lighted
and steam heated,
A disastrous fire started at the +. Z.
Baker farm, near Spooner, by the explo-
sion of gasoline engine Daniel Nelly,
foreman on the farm, who was working
near the engine, was seriously burned,
while the fire destroyed the large gran
airy, entailing a loss of $1,000, with no
insurance.
Che Racine Water Company has pro-
posed that if the city of Racine will
agree to refrain from using automatic
flushing tanks and to refrain from vast
ing water that the company will dismiss
all pending suits against it, each party
TO bear its own costs The proposition
was accepted
A Northwestern train az Appleton
Junction was stopped by the cries of a
man outside on the car platform. The
conductor pulled the rope and stopped
the train. when the man, whose name is
unknown, came into the car, got pair
of rubbers from under seat and leis-
urely left tAe train.
George Galster and Robert Richards,
both under 10 years of age, held up Nels
Nelson. in charge OF the La Crosse Gas
and Electric Company's factory Office.
Nelson sounded the police call before
the robbers could get any booty. They
were pursued, arrested and were sent
10 the reformatory at Waukesha.
DR.. A. II. Levings of Milwaukee as
sisted by Drs. Beveridge, Ryan and
Richie of Appleton, performed a remark
able operation ON the S-year-old child of
H. A Paulson of Appleton for congen-
ital dislocation of the hip. by the Lorenz
method of bloodless surgery. For the
first time has such an operation been sue
cessfully done upon patient as old as 8
years.
Fire in the basement of Petitioners
department store dressmaking depart
ment in Appleton almost caused panic
among fifty girls employed there. The
fire started in the basement below and
was of small consequence, but worked
through the floor and started among
some boxes and papers piled up in a
corner. The telephone girls of the Wis
cousin company, in an upper floor. brave
ly stuck to their posts through all. No
one was hurt and the damage was small.
The first large fire in Whitewater in
eight years occurred the other night,
when the tobacco warehouse was de-
stroyed Several hundred cases of tobac-
co. valued at $1,000, belonging to c. A..
Culton of Edgerton, were destroyed and
there was no insurance. The loss on
the building was $4,000, with insurance
of $500. 1t was owned by Mayor
Kestol The fire was caused by spon-
taneous combustion and will throw fifty
people, mostly women and girls, out of
employment.
Captain Frederick Pabst of Milwau-
kee, whose funeral was held the other
day. was noted for large gifts, but his
greatest was that on Christmas to his
wife and four children. He had been
told that he could not survive another
Christmas, so calling his wife and four
children-COl. Gustave G., Frederick,
Jr.. Mrs. w. T. Goodrich and Mrs.
Henry Soehmlein Of Germany-to his
side. he made each a present of $1,000,
900 worth of stock in his brewery. The
value Of the estate is believed to be in
the neighborhood of S12,0000O0. He
carried $4,000 in life insurance.
BY the heroism of Motorman Louis
Happel, who remained at his post in the
face of threatened death, thirty-five pas
sengers on a north side street car IN La
Crosse were saved, when flying Bur
lington switch engine crashed into 1t at
the crossing, fifty feet north of the La
Crosse river bridge. While the motor
man saw the approaching engine in time
to reverse the current. the wheels slipped
on the icy tracks, the car reaching the
crossing just as the engine shot over the
tracks. Though he had time to jump TO
safety. the motornan stayed by his
charge The engine crashed through the
front end Of the car, striking the motor
man. He was badly cut about the body
and is thought to be injured internally.
Detective Wood. who was among the
was injured about the hands.
but all of the other passengers escaped
unframed.
An iRyitation TO the Wisconsin Press
Association to hold the next annual con
vention ia Fond du Lac has been ex-
tended by the city. The association viii
accept. The convention will be held in
March and will last for two days, proba-
bly the 18th and 18th.
John Doe, an Indian who is State
patient at the Manitowoc county insane
asylum. escaped from the institution, and
was abroad all night. having been taken
into custody at Nalders. Officers from
the asylum returned Doe and he has suf-
fered no III effects from the exposure aud
cold.
The funeral Of Mrs Carl Rickert Of
Oshkosh was stopped at the grave, the
relatives fearing she was being buried