Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

is also on the rampage and III the low
factory districts in GAINESVILLE the dam
age has been extensive.
Milo Hagen. an employee of the Wis
consin Bank in Madison, was appointed
assistant bank examiner to fill the place
vacated by Thaddeus Wild. The salary
is $500 a year. Hagen was born in
Madison and is hustler
Miss Mary Fogle. a former resident of
Shell Lake, received highest honors for
paper submitted on chemistry at the
Idaho State university. thus giving her
paper a place in the Idaho educational
exhibit at the worlds fair in st. Louis.
Miss Nora Helm, a girl of 20, while
driving from her brothers to her own
home in Bear Valley, drove off the bridge
into the high water and was drowned.
The horse and buggy were found in the
creek the next morning. The body has
not been recovered.
Merritt E. Roberts of Milwaukee, a
brother of Mrs. f. Thompson of Mani
towoc, who has been missing from home
for three years and was thought to be
dead, has been heard from at Singapore,
Malay islands. A postal card has been
received by his sister.
State Superintendent Cary announced
the appointment of county superintend-
ents Of schools for Crawford and Wasp
burn counties, as follows: John +. Brind-
ley of Soldiers Grove succeeds E. f..
Bradley as superintendent of the schools
of Crawford County; ]. G. Adams sue
ceeds W. c. Croker as superintendent
OF the schools of Washburn County.
Ethel Nuzum of Viroqua, Lawrence
University student in Appleton. was
burned about the face and hands by a
violent acid explosion in Ormsby Hall
chemical laboratory. The sight of her
right eye may be impaired and the other
one is badly burned. Several girls were
near by, but were hardly touched by
the acid. A test tube broke and the con
tents flew into Miss Nuzum's face.
Hobart Bird, who has become well
known through his difficulties with the
Governor of San Juan. where Mr.. Bird
edited the first English paper, the San
Juan News, will return to Madison to
make his home permanently. Mr.. Bird
was arrested several times, charged with
charges were never substantiated. He is
son of Col. George w. Bird of Madi-
son.
Martin B. Briggs, barber at Finn
town, claims the distinction of having
cut Gen. Grants hair on battlefield,
and still retains the shears with which
he did it during the Civil War. He
says that after the battle of Eicksburg,
on July 4. 1868, and just before sun
down. Grant came to him for haircut.
The general seated himself upon a log
and let the good work go on, while he
smoked big, black cigar.
Fire completely destroyed Charles
Lange's grocery store and Gus Peder-
sons saloon in two brick buildings on
Spring street, Chippewa Falls, causing
a loss of $4,000. 1t looked for a time
as though the tiremen were unable to
cope with the flames, but they got the
fire under control just as the Mayor was
about to ask Eau Claire for help
Lange's loss on stock is estimated at ST.
600, partly insured; loss on building. So
600, partly insured. Families living in
the buildings were unable to save their
IbIlltLuIt. AuJOillluE SAOiGS vert bduiy
damaged.
George Davis. 40 years old. of the
town of Salem, was drowned in Pollywog
creek. The stream had swollen from
rains and melting snow. Davis attempt
ed to ford the stream with his team,
but the horses could not get through. He
managed to reach the shore and. secur-
ing a boat, went out to rescue the
horses. They tried to get into the boat.
which capsized. drowning Davis. The
rising of the Fox and o Plane rivers
threatened to cause a great property loss.
Many farmers have already been driven
from their homes and have sought refuge
in Kenosha. At Wilmot the bridge over
the Fox river has been washed ont The
railway bridge on the Wisconsin Central,
between Burlington and the Kenosha
county lines, also went out
There is considerable bel money in
circulation in Hurley and vicinity. IT is
in the form OF silver certificates of the
series of 1891 OF the $40 denomination.
The ten" is very poorly executed and
the paper lacks a silk fiber. Detectives
are working on the matter.
George Shamburg. aged 30. a prorni-
nent farmer who resided two miles south
Of Seymour in town OF Osborn, was
saving wood with power say when the
Fiie Of wood tipped over upon him and
threw him head first upon the saw. kill
ing him instantly. He leaves a wife and
eight children.
In june. FoIa La Toilette. daughter
of the Governor, viii make her debut on
the stage, in a company managed BY
Walton Pyre. Otis SINNERS present
stage manager. The company viii play
a Russian Honeymoon. Prince Karl and
Esmeralda, making a summer tour OF
Wisconsin and Iowa.
The Kalamazoo. Mich. beet sugar fac
tory has been sold 10 the Chippewa Falls
Sugar Company and all the machinery
viii be moved To Chippewa Falls at
once. The Wisconsin concern Is n new
company. Kalamazoo capital holding tire
controlling interest. The capital stock
is 100000. and c. y Peek Of Kalama-
zoo - vice president
The Teegardsn Indian mounds. the
finest III the State which has numerous
monuments to past races have been der
Stroyei By farmers who took the earth
Of which the mounds were made to grade
a road rear Racine. Laws are being
passed by the Legislature for the pres
ervation az such relics.
A telegram was received By Louis 7.
Hin Of Sparta from Los Angeles, Cal.
announcin.- the sudden and unexpected
death 81 his father. Ira A Hill. Mr.
and Ms Hill were spending the winter
Il. California Mr.. Hill was a stock
holder AID officer in the Bank OF Sparta
and at one time one Of the school regents
81 tie State