Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-18


dency. Laurias home was in Hamburg.
Germany, where. from letters found on
his person, it is thought he was well con-
nected.
Charles Nelson of Milwaukee. who
was found guilty of embezzling the funds
of his labor union. was sentenced to a
year in the house OF correction. He adj
mitted the shortage, but pleaded that the
officers of the union forced him to lend
them the money to gamble with. They
denied this.
Prominent Methodists held services in
the cell at the county Jail in La Crosse
occupied by the Rev. Nathan Wood, a
Winona minister, who is under arrest
charged with stealing chickens. The ser
vices consisted of prayers, in which for
giveness for the Rev. Mr., Woods, sins
was asked.
August Baumgardt, formerly a Kan
sas farmer, the inventor of revolving
life-saving boat, nearly lost his life at
Racine while trying to repair the ma
chine. His clothing was caught in the
shafting and he was hurled about sew
eral times and would probably have been
killed had not his clothing been torn from
his body
g. NJ Mead, an expert mason en-
ployed on the construction Of new beet
sugar factory in GAINESVILLE, and residing
in Chicago drew his pay and after mail
ing $40 TO his wife invested the balance
in whisky. Then he started to walk on
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad
tracks and was struck and killed by Il
passing train. His neck, arms and legs
were fractured and his death was in
Simultaneous.
Bessie Blish, daughter of a prominent
resident of Racine, was married at Chi
cago to Peter w Radamacher, who is
employed as a painter in one of the large
wagon works. 1t appears that on re-
cent night, at the home of the girls
| parents, Mr.. Radamacher nearly cut the
fingers of his left hand off with bowie
knife. Ii is claimed that he threatened
some of the lives of her family and when
| he was ordered from the house Bessie
went with him. Her father, it is said,
| tried in every way to get her to come
| home, but she refused
In Barron r. I. Walker. known as
Buck Walker, was convicted of muir
/ tltI III lltt StCOuQ uSEItt lOI IttNlll- Nit
ed his daughters lover, Oscar Burns The
story, as told by the witnesses. is as fol-
| lows: On the night of July IL last Oscar
| Burns started out to escort his fancee,
| Miss Lisle Walker, home from church.
The young people prolonged their walk
| and it was late hour when Miss Walk
er returned home. Her father had hunt
| ed for her and when he learned she had
| been with Burns he went up town,
| bought a revolver, hunted up the young
man. took him down to his house to pos
lively identify him. and then, it is charg-
| ed, shot at him three times, one bullet
| passing through the lower part of Burns
| abdomen, causing a wound from which
he died two weeks later. Burns made
an ante-mortem statement to District At
torney Soderberg the day he died.
August Schwantes. now serving term
! in the States prison for the murder of an
! aged couple near Spencer, may have been
or still is insane. says the State board of
| control. and he will be examined to de-
ternline the condition of his mind, The
murder was one of the most cold-blooded
affairs that ever happened in the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Klokaw were OH
aged couple living OF Il small farm near
| Spencer. and abeat one mile from the
| farm upon which Schwantes and his
family resided. Feeling the approach of
old age and realizing that they could not
work the farm many years. the old cou-
pie decided their place to Schwantes on
condition that he was to maintain them
during the remainder of their lives. One
night the Klokaw residence was burned
and no trace of the old couple could be
found. A few days later Schwantes' ac-
tons aroused suspicion. The line OF
prosecution was that SchwaEtes visited
the old couple in the afternoon and that
same evening entered their home, muir
dered them. and to hide his crime. burn
ed the building.
Judge Parish in Ashland sentenced
Sheriff Charles Peterson of Sawyer coun-
~ to pay fine of $50 and to serve
thirty days in the county jail for con-
tempt of court in failing to capture Dietz,
the Sawyer county OUTLAW.
Judge BlensLi, Comptroller Pawinski,
Michael Grutzka and other Milwaukee
ans. will shortly visit Superior to inves-
tigate offers Of land for colonization by
10000 Polish families which the Polish
National Alliance intends to bring 70
Wisconsin. Many other lands in Wiscon-
sin and Upper Michigan are being offered
the alliance.
Sheriff Simon. the newly appointed of
fetal OF Iron county. has already begun
his campaign Of reform. His frs5 step
was 10 order all gambling machines re-
moved from Hurley Reformers are now
~ oil. or
NJ. G. McGheehon has appeared before
the town board Of the town OF Vaughn
which includes the village Of Hurley. and
demanded that il close down the new
Central theater.
III. :. Elwell. a Milwaukee travelling
man. was killed by a stray bullet in a
street duel in San Antonio. Texas. be-
tween ]. NJ Chittenden -tbe Texas cat
tie king aud W " Jones. banker
Neither OF the fighters WAS hurt.
Six hundred students we're ducked into
the lev autumn waters Of Lake Mendoza
in the ANIMAL university freshman sopit-
omore rush at Madison. No one was
,growned and the most serious injuries
we're numerous wrenchel joints. four
inch cash in the head - a freshman
received from boathook in the hands Of
4 sophomore while defending the second
year class flag raft 400 feet out IA The
lake
Relatives OF Thomas T. Croft. former
Mayor Of GAINESVILLE, and at ore time
rromineut business man. received word
that be died Suddenly IN Washington.
ID. -. where ne was a clerk in the War
Department