Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-03

accidentally shot and instantly killed by
a son of H. Hoffman. Both were farm
ers living near Kilbourn. Mr.. Burk was
married and leaves a widow and one
child
Johnnie Templeton of GAINESVILLE. who
disappeared from home last August and
for whom the police have ever since been
searching, was discovered working on a,
farm near Popular Grove, and returned.
home.
As Ringing Brothers were loading
! their circus stock at Baraboo TO ship to
and plunged into the Baraboo river. 1t
! fought desperately for several hours and
was finally recaptured.
The physicians of the Tenth Congress
sional District have organized a district
medical society. The cities represented
are Tomahawk, Minocqua. Amigo, Three
Lakes, Hazelhurst, Ashland. Hurley and
Rhinelander. DR.. Stefins of Amigo was
elected president.
The American Cigar Company has
| closed down its large warehouse in Brod-
head, giving as reason that the tobacco
was moulding in the cases instead OF
sweating, and that further curing would
be necessary. About 200 employees are
| thrown out of work.
! The high water is responsible for the
I destruction of the mill dam at INDIE
! pendenee The steadily rising waters ac
cumulated back OF it, until the structure
could hold out no longer, and ferty feet
went out with a roar Two piers of
bridge below the dam were destroyed.
Miss Corrine A.. Shields, member of
the senior class at Kemper Hall, and
Lieut.. Clifford Game of the Eleventh
| United States infantry were married at
one of the little American chapels in the
city of Manila, March II. Miss Shields
left Kemper Hall several months ago
to make a trip about the world. One of
the first stops made WAS at Manila, and
while there she fell in love with dashing
Lieut.. Game.
The negro shot by police sergeant
! in Eau Claire is dead. In an ante-mor-
tenn statement he said he was % years
old that his name was Charles Weston
Clark. and his home was at Pittsburg.
He had been working at Hudson. The
man had demanded "hand from
lunch wagon, and when refused, fired at
!
the policeman, who fatally wounded him
with his revolver.
The Green Bay and Mississippi Canal
| Company has purchased the entire inter7
ests of the Kaukauna Water Power Com
pany. the price being $11S,000. The sale
was on mortgage foreclosure. but was
planned to stop litigation, which has tied
up the most valuable water powers IN
Wisconsin for many years. j. $. Van
nortwick. a paper mill owner of Apple
ton, is head of the canal company. He
says that nearly $1,000000 will be put
into new paper mills and extensions Of
the present plants within year.
Wedding guests at the marriage OF
John Klues and Bertha Manteufel in the
town of Greenville were snowbound in
mid-April. The snow which started to
fall while the ceremony was in progress,
and which increased ara was blown
about by a fierce wind during the recep-
ton following the wedding, absolutely
blocked the way for the party when they
tried to leave shortly after dark. Over
fifty guests therefore secured as much
comfort for themselves as possible in
the house, and spent the night there. ~
One of the most persistent attempts to
evade the bankruptcy law that has come
to the attention of the authorities was
unearthed the other day when it was dis
covered that Marcus Kaatz. the former
Chicago hat and cap manufacturer, had
engaged the services of a servant girl to
assist him in hiding the property he took
with him when he fed from his Chicago
| Ioa AZ wit :
600. In a safety deposit box in the
Wisconsin Fidelity Trust and Deposit
Company at Milwaukee, cash and re-
ceipts for merchandise amounting to be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 were discov-
cred belonging to the bankrupted hat and
cap manufacturer. The safety deposit
box was held in the name of Martha
Peterson, a servant girl in the employ
of anna Kaatz, sister of the bankrupt.
Attorney Julius Moses, acting for the
creditors, together. with counsel for the
Royal Trust Company, trustee for the
Kaatz estate, went to Milwaukee and be-
gan the proceedings which finally result
ed in the box being opened and the SER
want girl acknowledging that the prop
erty belonged to Kaatz.
In a litigation which was started near
ly two years ago, in which both parties
thought to obtain 81, 900 damages Judge
Kirwan has written a decision which
denies the claim to the defendant and
plaintiff alike. A breach OF contract
was alleged by Mrs. Marguerite Feneon
against John Van Epps, and involved a
piece of property consisting Of two lots
and a hotel building located at North
Fond du Lac. owned by Van Epps. Mrs.
Fenelon owned farm not far from
Fond du Lac. and the two entered into a
trade. and one side offered $500 to boot.
On the given date il was stipulated that
tire deal was to be closed, oy handing
over the deeds, but previous to il. on
Nov. Z. 1902, the hotel was destroyed by
FIRE. An attempt was made to push the
trade through, on the prearranged terms,
in spite of the loss When Mrs. FeBe-
Ion br4.lght suit for damages. and the
defendant set up a counterclaim for the
same amount. The decision holding that
neither party to the suit has broken the
contract. and that the defendant and
same. is construed to be in favor Of the
defendant. Ar. Van Epps.
Many farmers in the town, of Center
are losing heavily by a strange disease,
which is attacking their cows. The cows
refuse TO eat and later die A few
which survive, become dry"
Charles Woodruff McKown. actor. the
atrical promoter and Methodist minister;
was sentenced in Oshkosh 70 one year
AT Waapun prison for embezzlement: "a
! ear ago he promoted an amateur EN-
| tertaipment in Oshkosh and fed on the
eve Of presentation with the funds. Mc-
Kown is graduate OF the class Of '6S
Of Albion College, Michigan. 81 which
institution his father was president.
Mrs. H. Schwartz, aged 80 years, tried
TO kill herself and her children in RAJ
cine, aud was only preventef- by the
| arrival OF the police. She had procured
| a large knife and was about 10 ent the
! threats of tie little ones. She ififd be-
come suddenly deInented, withent any APP
parent cause.
railroad laboreF named Frank Carl