Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-03-29
All over the State.

Employees of the Postal Telegraph
| Company are i'll Manitowoc to survey a
route for the company's wire there.
| George Schrenkenthaler of Milwaukee
fell from a bridge being built across the
! Chippewa river, above Chippewa Falls.
a distance Of 45 feet striking on his
back ON the ice below. His spine was
| fractured and he died. He was %
| years old.
j. B. Fisk. an old veteran. walking OH
the Wisconsin Central tracks in Neenah.
was struck by a switch engine, receiving
| injuries which will cripple him for life.
The power house of the I.adysmith
Light and Power Company was destroy
ed by fire. The loss is estimated at ST.
| 600. while the insurance amounts to
So, 400.
A. NJ. Mattson, lumberman, aged 80,
was found dead on the Milwaukee road
| tracks at Anderson's Spur. He was bad
~ mangled, having been struck by a
freight. His wife and eight children re-
side at Calumet.
Engine 127, on which two men met
their death in the Marshfeld wreck, has
been taken to North Fond du Lac shops.
1t is In such dilapidated shape that rath-
er than overhaul it, it will be consigned
to what railroaders term the 'boneyard I"
Owing to the epidemic of scarlet fever
now prevailing in Delavan DIR. c. c..
Blanchard, local health officer, closed
the city schools and prohibited the hold
ing of church services, Sunday schools or
any public gatherings until the epidemic
subsidies
AT meeting of the Republican State
committee il was decided 10 hold but one
State convention for the purpose of elect
ing delegates TO the national convention
at Chicago and for making nominations
for u State ticket. Madison was chosen
as the place for holding the convention
Sheboygan is to have another new in
dustry this spring. 1t will be a shoe
findings factory, to be located on the
north side. The contracts have already
been closed for the erection of the new
building. The concern will employ about
100 hands.
The story that a man named Lyman
was killed in GAINESVILLE by Gustav Marx.
one of the convicted Chicago car barn
bandits, eight years ago, was a canard
Lyman died seven years Ego. No inquest
was held. as there was no thought of
murder at that time. Marx was then u
years old.
c. /. Burns. Civil War veteran. who
has been on trial In Menominss Oh a
sharge Of having murdered Ambrose Tur-
ner. Feb %. by shooting. was acquitted.
~ DzL
Tagatz, the auditing committee who
have been working on the books and ac-
counts OF the town OF Pound since Feb.
8. brought in their report. About $1,000
in over runs on tax rolls was found
a train wreck at Beulah resulted in
dangerously injuripg three men and pill
ing up a large number of freight cars
A freight train at full speed ran into
a passenger train going in the same d.
reciion- The accident happened on a
steep curve.
George Flore of New London tried To
put four-inch belt on a moving pulley
and was caught and thrown several feet.
He received a bad scalp wound and one
arm was seriously laeerated
While the funeral Of James Whitehead
was taking place in BrodheaA, Mrs.
Whitehead died suddenly. Ts4 funeral
ceremonies were stopped. and arrange
ments made for a double funeral.
Herman Krohn, q farmer. hitched his
team In front Of the Rindels Hotel At
Tgerton and went inside. When be re-
turned be could not find his team De
spite the reward Of 500 the horses have
not been found. The team was valued at
5000