Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-26
Brief state HappenIue..

A dog poisoner is at work in Appleton.
Judge d. L. Stolz, for many years JUS
tice of the peace in Beaver Dam, died
suddenly, aged T6 years.
The postofice at He;heman was
robbed the other night. Postmaster Hool-
ahan figures his loss at 500.
The Ottawa and Tumble mines at
Hurley, operated by the Montreal Min
ing Company, have laid off $50 men.
Jacob Dubois. while riding in a sleigh,
was struck by a Chicago aud North
western train at North Freedom and
killed.
The S-year-old son of George Ham
man, of Little Chute, tried 20 drive a
lightning rod into a dynamite cap and
nearly had his hand torn off
Pulpwood is arriving at the Appleton
paper mills at a rate of from $50 to 800
carloads a day. The amount to be re-
ceived this season will greatly exceed
that of last year.
Because of the many serious accidents
in bob coasting among Appleton children
the Mayor has issued orders that every
Hill in the city shall be covered literally
with ashes and sand.
Willie Smith, of Chippewa Falls,
while riding on sleigh loaded with
wood. was ordered off by the driver. He
slipped and fell under the sleigh. which
passed over his body. He cannot live.
A match in the hands of servant
caused a $500 loss by fire at the resi-
dence of ]. l.. Broderick in Brodhead.
The girl was looking for something in a
closet and did not notice that some blan-
kets had caught fire until they had begun
to blaze fercely.
\ party of ten Wisconsin people, in
Guiding Miss Pearl Gage of Appleton and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wenzel of Camp
bellsport, has just started on a trip to
Montana, where they will prove up land
claims. The women each have their own
claim.
VIII III. Van Nortwick, the well-known
paper mill man of Appleton. and john
Burton, of Batavia, have arrived in
Paris, France, on their trip and will
presently leave for Egypt, Japan and
China. They will make a tour of the
world and come back via the Pacific
Ocean.
Inc lu0erAl Oh I1SEDeFA OStEull, tue
boy killed in the woods north of Gable,
vas held in Cumberland. Ostrum and
anothe. boy were saving tamarack tree
ans one ran one way and the other an
other way. but Ostrum was caught by
the falling tree. His skull was smashed
and death was instantaneous.
The coroner's jury called to determine
the cause of death of the 3-year-old
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Winnie
OF Racine returned the verdict that the
child came to her death from pneumonia,
without having had medical treatment
or services Of a practicing physician, due
10 the belief IN Dowieism bS the parents
of the child.
At the State land sale in tlle capitol
in Madison all the public lands in Dane
County were sold. The selling price was
$3.50. which is $50 more than TIE apprais-
"a value. Marquette County lands sold
at total Of $55; Columbia $222: Dodge,
81. n2o No jefferson County lands were
sold. Dane County. which was sold for
$3.50. was listed four years ago at SEQ,
and at that time a buyer could not be
found
Jockey frankie O'Neill, who has sign
/ cd with Newton Bennington for one q
7 the biggest salaries paid on the turf. IS
spending the winter at Patch Grove Il
is reported that he viii soon b. part
euner OF the bank in Patch Grove.