Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-09

The 4-year-esd daughter Of J. Fries OF
Lone Rock fell into burning brush
heap and was burned to death.
| Louis yanalstine fell from boat and
was drowned at New London. His com
panions were unable to save him.
Thieves stole fourteen Panama hats
at Brighton beach. near Appleton The
hats ranged in value from S. to $25.
Herman Will, a demented German at
Ladysmith, placed his left hand on
block and deliberately cut it off with an
ak.
Three La Crosse boys, Leo Mueller.
Fred Beisei and Waiter Heizerg, have
been admitted TO the naval academy at
Annapolis
By the breaking of a wheel hange
on a west-bound extra 500 line freight,
three miles east of Ladysmith, six cars
of steel were ditched
Harry HOLSTER, son OF Madison
druggist, committed suicide in Denver be-
/ cause the father had refused him aid
sitter a long debauch.
William, the 1G-year-old son of Fred
Kositze, an employe of the Patten Pa
per Company in Appleton, was killed by
being caught in a belt.
At Superior Judge HALEY sentenced
| Frank Hitter and Walter Howard to
| ninety days each in the county Jail for
killing deer out Of season.
Henry Cass, boy of Is, was sentenc-
| ed to one year in the Green Bay reform
atory by Judge Silyerthorn Of Wausau,
| for burglarizing the Office of livery sta
| BILE.
August Tesch. a farmer of Grand
! Chute, was held up by two highwaymen
near Appleton, while on his way home
| from Appleton, and relieved of $40 and
watch.
Mathew Brooch, farmer of Kenosha
| County, while driving over a railroad
near Berryyille, was struck by north
bound passenger train, receiving injuries
which may prove fatal.
The assembly opened at Battle Island,
| twenty miles below La Crosse, on the
Mississippi is to commemorate perhaps
the most noted battle with the Indians
ever fought by the Americans.
County Agent Charles H. Gonnermann
of Kenosha was called to Powers lake to
attend young woman dying from the
result of an operation performed in Chi
cago. She declined to give her name.
Bertha Walvig of Beloit, aged 16
years, has been sentenced to the girls
industrial school in Milwaukee until she
| shall be 81 years of age. The girl ac'
knowledged that she forged several
| checks.
| Bids for the purchase of the 100000
! A i,yb
| in Appleton. n w. Harris & Co. of
Chicago were the highest bidders. offering
| a premium of 81, 1870, and the bonds were
accordingly sold to them.
Mrs Catherine Warren of Baraboo
aged 76, arose in her sleep and walked
| off a second-story porch, sustaining i'll
juries that caused her death Her hus-
! band, the late ex-Mayor Warren, was
one of the early settlers of Baraboo
Sheriff Ackley in Chippewa Falls sold
| the farm of Mrs. Mary A. Mohr, on fore
closure. This is the farm upon which
Mrs. Mohr is said to have given more
| than dozen conflicting mortgages in the
| last two years, to various people in that
| section.
In Superior Charles johnson, coiored,
| was shot in the thigh and right leg by
| William Thompson also colored. IT is
| said that Johnson had accused Thompson
of meddling in his family affairs. Thomp-
son is in Jail, while johnson is in the hos
pital. He will recover.
Henry Essler of Newcastle. LOG years
old, is cutting his third set of teeth. He
reads without glasses and is as hale as
most men of 60 years old. He served in
the Mexican war, was with Fremont IN
his trip across the continent in 1S49 and
| fought in the Civil War
An employee of the Ashland Gas Com
pany lit match to discover a leak IN
! the gas pipe. An explosion followed and
the flames soon burst out. The Mattson
building, occupied by Grand & Maxi
| jewelers., was damaged The shoe stock
of the Schiller Company valued at $4,000
and insured for $4,000, suffered most.
| Mrs. John Fasse, wife of a farmer at
| Sheboygan Falls, committed suicide by
cutting her throat. Mrs. Fasse, who was
the mother of five children, has been in
| sane for some time, and required con-
slant attendance The other night she
escaped from the house, but was found
near the residence of Congressman
! Weisse Early in the morning she again
made her escape, and succeeded i'll get
| ting hold of the knife with which she cut
her throat.
Hiram Schnebly. II years old, promi
nent in politics and owner of large -four
| ing mill interests, was killed at Green
| Lake by train on the Chicago and
| Northwestern Railroad. He is survived by
| widow and one daughter, Mrs. Albert
f. Stillman of Fond du Lac Fifty years
ago Hiram Schnebly went to Wisconsin
| from Ohio. He established mills which
| had become known throughout the North
west. He has held various offices under
| the Republican administration, retiring
recently from politics owing to his de
clining years. He owned a summer house
at Green Lake.
For the second time the airship of A.
J. Sterile failed to fly when tried in Mil
waukee. Stierle and his assistants had
| faith in it. for they tied rope TO the
machine TO prevent its going too far
| Their doubts, however, I'ere still in evil
| dence. for instead of starting a man in
| it they made the experiment with bag
OF sand This was lucky, for the ship
ran off the rails provided for it on the
hin top and bumped ingloriously to the
bottom of the hill. where its gasoline
engine was wrecked. Sterile still insists
that his method is right, and says he
will fix up the machine and try again
| The board of control has adopted plans
for a new boiler house and coal sheds
inside the walls at the Madison reform
atory. and the st. Paul road will put in
spur track A flowing artesian well
has been sunk and there will be no more
trouble about water supply.
The body of James Harry. who had
been missing from his home near Keno
sha since June 10. was found on the lake
shore. Beside the Judy was bottle
which had contained laudanum and indi-
cations point to suicide. He was 20
years of age. and formerly a well-known
lake captain.
William Bruce. who broke out Of jail
in Appleton last April. has been, cap
tured by Sheriff Mitchell and again piac-