Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

three places in an accident sustaining
exactly the same injuries as he did few (
months ago. Amputat;on is deemed to
be necessary.
The first divorce ever granted an (
Oneida Indian was given by Judge Good /
land in the Circuit Court in Appleton.
Joseph Metoxen, aged IS, was separated |
from Lena Metoxen, aged 81. Both are !
fu!l-blooded Indians.
The S-year-old son of Carl Seidel of |
South Kaukauna was crushed under the |
bob-sleds of load Of hay and probably !
fatally hurt. A number Of boys along /
the streets were catching on" for rides /
instead of being in school.
The case Of James Packard, charged /
with stealing a horse at Eagle last jan
uary, brought the proceedings against |
him to summary end by pleading gull
ty to a chargeNof burglariZing the livery
barn of Edward Whettam al Eagle last
January.
Prominent paper mill owners OF Fox
River valley met at Appleton TO discuss
ownership among themselves of pulpwood
timber lands in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Another meeting in the near future will
determine the extent of the enterprise. 1t
is expected to involve millions.
After a separation of eighteen wears,
John PITT. a well-known Manitowoc con
tractor, reunited with his son, Harry,
the recognition Occurring through a cous-
in Of the young man who was employed
in surveying crew at Pigeon River
Young PITT had been adopted at the time
of the death of his mother, eighteen
years ago, and had since resided with
his Developments at Hortonyille, the
father being unaware of his whereabouts.
Martin Phetteplace. vino died of pneu-
monia in Neenah at the age of 6G years
and supposedly a pauper, has $500 in
vested somewhere. When he realized
that his days on earth were numbered, he
asked that a minister be sem to him.
Rev j. f. Garrett, pastor Of he First
Methodist Church, answered The sum
mons and the man was just making a
statement to the effect that he had the
sum of $500 invested and was about to
tell where, when life became extinct.
An interesting legal fight has devel-
oped over the custody of Charles Deener,
a 13-year-old boy who was placed with
John Wohlwent of Juda by the Baptist !
Home Finding Society of Chicago. He |
was taken from Wohlwent for alleged |
cruelty by the County Court, and would |
have been restored by habeas corpus
proceedings in the Circuit Court had it /
not been headed Off by guardianship pro-
ceedings in the County Court The boys I
mother has been found and he may be
restored to her.
A fire started in the Office of Kennedy
Z BHk's meat market in Lake Mills and
destroyed a two-story double business
block occupied by Charles +. Butzine as
general store and Kennedy & Belk's
meat market and did considerable dam
age to the stock in adjoining buildings
occupied by Charles Fischer & Son A'om-
pany, general store; Harrison & Moore's
shoe store. the millinery stock of Miss II.
VI. Schultz OF Milwaukee and the dental
parlors of pr e. II. Weber Messrs.
Kennedy & Belk resided over their meat
market and barely escaped with their
lives Mr.. Belk was overcome by smoke
and had to be carried from the building.
Al their clothing and household goods
were consumed The total loss amounts
to about $4,000.
Another sensational chapter to the
Holmes shooting case was added the 9th
er day when. unobserved by anyone. Mrs.
Mary f. Holmes walked into Judge
Goodlands court in Appleton and asked
for a divorce from her husband who is
in State prison for an assault with intent
TO kill. The divorce was granted and
Mrs Holmes was restored to her former
name, Mary r. Walters. On Feb. 8,
1901 Mrs Walters was married TO
Holmes. following the death of her hus-
band, George Walters Holmes was her
former husbands coachman and tn.
wife's action caused family trouble. her
sons feeling displaced from rightful own
ership Of their late fathers brewery.
This squabble is alleged to have caused
the shooting of two of the woman's sons
by Holmes.
The new directory just ont shows that
the population OF La Crosse is 32,9S4,
gain of about 1000 since 1900, when the
census gave the city 2S.S95.
Ry the bursting Of water main Of
the Manitowoc city water works system
and the consequent food, a pile driver
owned by the j. I'll. Kieth Company,
which was locked at the foot of Ninth
street. was completely submerged in the
river and the machinery was badly dam
aged All movable materials on the
driver were lost and several hundred dol
lars win be required to repair the dam
age.
tramp used a revolver in reckless
fashion at the junction Of the st. Paul
and Northwestern roads in WATERFOWL.
He sent the bullets through the windows
II the telegraph Office and narrowly miss
~ the operator The man had been
ejeeted from the waiting room. II made
bis escape.
Judge DunwidSie Of Janesyihe granted
1 divorce to Mrs. Enma Earle from her
husband. Ralph Earle. The 60 ipie were
married in Madison nine years ago and
lived together only thirty minutes One
lalf hour after the ceremony was per
formed Earle secured 1880 or his usfe's
money and left her in the Park Hotel at
Madison and has not been seen since.
While the engineer at the substation
" the Rockford Beloit and GAINESVILLE
Interurban line in Janesville was absent
rom the station after a pail Of water
he current ii one Of the biz 750-horss
,oxer dynaIaos reversed and exploded
Icing about 5000 worth of damage 20
he machinery and building.
Rev. Fathsz Gilbert. the aged pastor
4 the Roman Catholic Church ia Hur-
ey. received q communication ordering
i'm to deposit S3.100 nc q certain place
d the Hurley cemetery, under penalty
4 death i be failed 20 obey Ii was
he second communication " the kind re-
eived b. him lately He is wealthy.
The police suspect two Italians