Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-01

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aged l02 years. She was born III Ire
land and came to, this State in 1910
Rural carriers appointed: Plain. regu-
lar. Alvin j. Cooper: substitute, J. ].
Cooper. Saint Croix Falls, regular. 10
seph Gruler: substitute William L. Snill
Louis Peterson. farmer of Home
stead, was found by the wayside with
both feet frozen. Amputation was nee
essary. He is 80 and has a large fam
lily.
| 4 Chicago and Northwestern train on
| the branch between Eland and Rossolt
ran off the end of the track into small
river at the latter place. killing Engineer
W. ID. Costello of Amigo.
President George c. Greene in his adj
dress at the annual meeting of the Wis
| upheld the use of the injunction, espe-
cially in the case of strikes.
The sexton OF the Catholic cemetery
in Jefferson found a newly made grave
and notified the trustees. At a depth
of not quite three feet small wooden
box containing the body of an infant was
found. Who put it there is a mystery.
Charles E. SiIer. a prominent Racine
man, now in Mexico investigating plan
tations, fell into a vat filed with boiling
water and was dangerously scalded AT
! the time he was showing Lewis 4.
| Hodges of Monroe the operation of a
mill.
In Circuit Court in Manitowoc de-
cision has been rendered sustaining the
| jury in the Rechcygl case, in which suit
/
| fixtures seized by the trustee i'll bank
ruptcy after the building had been sold.
The objection was that the court has
no jurisdiction.
The so-called Independent lighting con-
Germ, organized among the business men
Of La Crosse to compete with the old
company, has been gSbbled up by the
latter. the Central Electric Company hay
ing leased their plant to the La Crosse
Gas and Electric Company for term
of eighteen years
The new St. Roses Catholic Church of
Racine, built at cost of $4,000, was
dedicated by Archbishop Messmer of Mil
waukee. Mgr Fox of Green Bay and
Vicar General Schinner of Milwaukee.
The dedicatory sermon was delivered by
Rev. James e. Conahan of Marquette
College Milwaukee.
Two State free employment bureaus,
at Milwaukee and Superior, report that
the tendency of workers in this State to
frequently change their places of en-
ployment is small and that the labor of
the commonwealth is tolerably well en-
gaged.> For several weeks the reports
have shown the same thing.
Henry Springstroh and family of APP
pleton were chased into the bitter cold
by fire which consumed the building and
all its contents. Hardly any clothes
could be saved But for the fact that
the father stayed up a few moments
longer than the others, the entire family
might have been burned up.
One of the Red Feather" Opera COM
pany had lost her watch and one of the
employees of big La Crosse department
store found it. When it was returned
to the lady of the show troupe, she grab
bed the first man in sight and planted
a resounding smack on his cheeks Then
she went through the same process with
another and another until the men gave
out.
Mrs. Mary Arndt, aged 40, living near
Post Lake, was burned TO death In her
home. The woman was paralytic from
the waist down, and helpless. The fire
originated in the basement and the house
was destroyed before the husband and
assistance arrived. The family of grown
up boys and their father were working i'll
the woods near home when the fire occur
red
Because the engineer of freight train
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road failed TO run his engine into the
clear while making a switch in the RAJ
cine yards, the engine was struck by
three cars and thrown from the track, as
We're also the three cars. Engineer E.
p. Barten, Fireman John Corbett and
Conductor Muckerheide, all of Milwau-
kee, were quite seriously injured.
Louis Tentner, employed in the cleo
trical department of the Oshkosh Gas
Light Company, was electrocuted the
other afternoon. He was at the top of
40-foot pole, repairing the wires back
of the f. A. Plummer building, which
was burned and in some way came in
contact with live wire. He fell across
the wires and lay there several minutes
before tire power house could be notified
tc shut off the current.
The county of Fond du Lac has decid-
eG TO offer reward for the apprehension
OF John j. Riley and John Cline, who
are alleged to have forged signatures to
a deed, thereby obtaining a loan of So,
coo from George Hobbs of Byron. The
men secured, through the A. G.. Dana
agency loan of $1,000 from Hobbs.
giving as security a mortgage on the
farm Of Clifford Cease, in Metomen, for
which Riley and Cline held deed This,
it is claimed by Cease, IS a forgery.
The remains of Henry Gamble of Sha-
wano, who died Dec. IL, 1903, were dis
| Inferred and an autopsy made. An In
| quest was held upon request of one of his
sons Mr.. Gamble was divorced from
| his first wife and married again 10
1 young woman, TO whom he willed all his
property, estimated at $4,000, giving his
oldest son SO, a daughter so and his
youngest son 800 only. The latter has
brought the inquest about, as he claims
undue influences had been brought on
| his father when he made his last will.
| Gamble died very suddenly.
/ Otto H. Lonstorf. long a resident of
| Milwaukee, but now in the State of
/ Washington, has MED papers IN suit
| for divorce from his wife, Emma. The
Lonstorfs got their millions recently
through favorable decisions in the long
contested Minnesota mining suits.
There was a panic in an electric car on
Fourteenth street, Racine The car be-
/ came grounded and there was an cleo
trieal display. with loud reports. The
car then caught fire. and fifteen passen-
gers crowded out, falling in the road on
top of each other. Two or three women
were hurt.
| Traffic is tied up on the north Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota divisions of the Omaha
/ rod hr a fraight wrack af North Wiz