Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-07-19

willie walking to his home. A wife and
five children are left destitute.
X. B. Shaffner. claiming to be detec-
tive, who was held at the county Jail
III Rhinelander on charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. escaped by
breaking the bars IN. a cell window.
Harry DAIMLER, aged II. was drowned
lit the river at Manitowoc while bathing
with a number of companions 1t was
more than half an hour afterwards that
his frightened associates notified the POI
lice.
George Abblet of Indian Ford fell and
GAINESVILLE and died the next morning at
the city hospital. He was seated on the
rail of cellar way. missed his balance
and fell some twenty feet into the base
ment.
The fruit crop in Calumet County will
be seriously affected by a blight which
is attacking the leaves of apple and other
trees For several years this has oc-
CURED. until farmers fear that il will be
impossible ever to again obtain good
fruit crop.
John Blankenhagen was killed by an
interurban car at Erdman's corners. His
wagon was struck by the car and over
turned Gnd Blankenhagen was thrown
out and sustained fractured skull and
broken shoulder. He was dead when
picked up.
Willie Polka, John and Dan McLaren.
aged ID, IA and 10, of Chippewa Falls
while standing near a cigar box filed
with powder, accidentally dropped light
ed firecrackers into the box, causing a
terrific explosion. Polka is not expected
to recover.
John BONN, an employe of the Schu-
cite Cement Construction Company in
Manitowoc, may be crippled for life as
result of falling from a scaffold on
which he was at work. The bones of the
foot were fractured and twisted in ter
rible manner.
Milwaukee has population of he
tween 100000 and 325, 900, according to
estimates based on the latest school cen
sus, which gives the total number of
children of school age as 105,953. This
is All increase of 5000 children over the
previous census.
Anna Larson, aged %, a clerk in A. j.
Josephine's store in Menomonie, was in
stantly killed by lightning in a severe.
electrical storm. She was sitting near a
telephone when the fatal bolt came. The
house was badly damaged, but the other
occupants escaped injury.
Ed Gruettner, 10 years old, was cut
and burned about the face by a cracker
II
was badly injured by a fragment of an
iron plate used in firing an anvil strik-
ing his right leg and so mangling it as
to necessitate amputation.
Fire did considerable damage in the
Empire block in Superior. Smoke njur-
ed some hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of property. The blaze start
ed in the basement of hardware store.
-Four hremen were carried out, over
come by the fumes and smoke
George A. Heath, State agent for the
Monitor Drill Company of Minneapolis
was shot in the millinery store of Mary
Mullen in Waupun by her divorced hus-
band. James Mullen. The shot took eff
feet in Mr.. Heath's mouth Mullen is
under arrest. Heath will recover.
Firecrackers in the hands of small
boy caused loss of $500 at the home OF
Charles Gulbrandson in Racine and AS
sistant Fire Marshal Henry Blake, hur-
rying to the fire. was nearly killed. The
wagon was turning out of the street car
tracks when he was thrown off, striking
on the top of his head.
Located in Marathon County, nine
miles from Wausau, is a half acre Of
land producing without doubt the most
valuable crop to be found on any like
amount of land in the United States. II
represents the gardens Of the Wisconsin
Ginseng Company, the pioneer concern
engaged in the ginseng industry in that
section. In this garden are 200 beds OF
plants. ranging in age from one year to
seven years, and estimating the crop at
the present price of root and seeds Il is
worth $4,000. When the garden was
first started it was for experimental pur-
poses, but the proprietors now devote
their time wholly TO the business. 9th
ers have since engaged in raising the
root until to-day the crop is one of the
most valuable of Marathon County pro
ducts.
Mrs. Samuel Outlay Of Milwaukee is
dead. the result of pistol shot, the
bullet entering the temple. The woman's
husband is under arrest pending an in
vestigation. The Duffays had been mar
ried only six months and il is believed
the shooting was the result of quarrel.
Fire started by a skyrocket which fell
OH the roof. destroyed a portion OF the
Rock River Cotton Company's factory
building ard contents in GAINESVILLE Loss
is estimated at $4,000. Water thrown
on the L. b. Carrie tobacco warehouse
adjoining ruined the 1901 and 1902 pack
ings.
In a collision between a freight train
and wild engine on the Wisconsin Cen
trail, near Rnghy junction. Engineer
John Kreisch OF the freight was killed
and four other trainmen were injured
The 10-year-old son OF the late William |
Green OF Appleton had his leg severely |
lacerated by firing a cap cane. Several |
large plate glass windows were broken
on College avenue by the dynamite cap |
canes exploding.
A Jail delivery occurred IN Madison, |
in which three prisoners crawled through |
a hole I by A. They were George Ster- |
lin. pickpOcket: William Johnson and Jo-
seph Norton. who robbed the Northwest
ern depot at Syene.
Mr.. Frazier, who has charge Of detec- |
tive department Of Urited States post
Offices. west Of Chicago, visited Chippe- /
VA Falls looking up evidence il csse Of |
holding John Dietz's mail. Dietz IS the |
man who defied a lumber company to /
move its logs at the Cameron dam until |
It fulflled an alleged contract with hin, |
Paul Hart, employed on a farm near /
attempted 10 kill Mary 1
Roerdlinger by stabbing her in the neck.
He gave himself up TO the authorities /
and admitted his guilt His victim was
taken TO the city and, II is believed, win /
lsrn Hart nlafrr,s he hnd drr,r.k hanril,,