Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-24

John lverson, a farmer living near
Stoughton, committed suicide by drink
ing carbolic acid. He was Respondent.
At Il meeting of the State board of
control Il. s. Harvey, deputy warden of
the State prison i'll Waupun, resigned.
Both Assemblyman Thomas English
and his wife suffered broken bones in a
runaway in Baraboo The injuries are
serious.
Students at the MELVILLE school in
GAINESVILLE are recovering from an at
tack of pink-eye that has affected the
whole school,
The pOstOtfice at Wilton was blown
up by robbers The bandits secured 1850
in stamps, but no cash. The robbers es-
capped, leaving no clew.
Schwahn's cheese factory in Coleman
burned with two tons of cheese He es-
timated his loss at about 81 800. partly
covered by insurance.
The Citizens Bank and the First Ma
tional have been consolidated by pur-
chase i'll Omro. The capital of the First
National will be increased.
Martin Jenning was sent to prison for
eighteen months, for burglary in the
Gisholt plant in Madison. He is secre-
tary of two fraternal societies.
Nicholas +. Uelmen, playing right
guard on the Oshkosh normal football
eleven. broke his right leg in a game
with st. Norbert college of Depere.
Arthur Meiselwitz was instantly killed
while driving across the Milwaukee and
st. Paul tracks Mt Kiel A switching
train struck him. He leaves a wife and
one child.
A prize bull broke loose in an express
car near GAINESVILLE, gouged Messenger
c. r. Botford and made the car the
scene Of ruin by the time the train pull
ed into the station.
Robert c. Bradford, treasurer for
Cudahy Bros Packing Company and for
thirty years identified with the packing
industry in Milwaukee, dropped dead rs
a result of heart failure.
A man invaded the home of Frank G..
Guardiola, clerk of the Kenosha board
of education. and entered the bedroom of
Mrs. Guardiola, who was i'll in bed.
When maid threatened to shoot the
man he fed.
\ trusty at the county Jail in Y est
Bend robbed the sheriff of $120 and skip
ped out. The man had finished a term
for robbery of Il summer resort and then
was employed by the sheriff as an all
around helper.
Felix Eichner of Sheboygan, who left
his, wife and five children about four
months ago, his wife declares. was ar
rested at Milwaukee and taken back to
Sheboygan by Chief of Police Scheck to
face an abandonment charge.
The examination of the accounts of
Arthur Cole. the defaulting clerk of
the court at Marinette, reveals larger
alleged shortage than was supposed ex-
listed. 1t is now over $500. Seven
of the Cole children have been adopted.
Frederick Steinbrink, who recently
was robbed of $500 and who was found
dead beside the railroad track at North
Freedom. may have committed suicide,
as he told officers that he would Kill
himself if his money was not recovered.
Deputy Game Warden Charles ID. Nell
son. Ray Snyder. Il law student. and Il
travelling salesman named Howe while
out sailing on Lake Monona narrowly
escaped drowning. Their boat capsized
and they chung to the craft for an hour,
when Tobin Curtis. son of Mayor W d.
Curtis. and two other small boys came
upon them and rescued tGem.
Charles Henry. a carpenter contrac-
tor. was stricken with paralysis while
crossing the Northwestern tracks in Me
nasha. and fell helpless across one rail.
He was not seen until few moments
before the north-bound passenger train
passed. when the nightman at the station
rescued him.
Mayor H. c. Putnam donated a S10.-
600 city hall TO Brodhead The building
is a brick structure. three stories high.
1t is large enough to accommodate the
fire department the water works depart
ment. the Jail. the council. the G.. A. r.
and the library. He gave it for twenty
two feet in block on the south side.
the value of which is insignificant.
The internal antipathy for water is
supposed to have saved the life of Peter
Gilsdorf of Appleton. saloonkeeper.
Twice the man walked into the river
with suicidal intent. it is charged. and
both times his nerve failed him. He
was seen by A. Miskimmins. who hast
ened to the scene and persuaded the
man to return home. Gilsdorf was seen
to make frantic effort to remain under
water, but as he said upon returning
home. he simply couldn't swallow il.
rhe body of John Luedtke of Oshkosh.
who disappeared recently, was found
aoating in the Fox river in the freight
yards of the Northwestern railroad. More
than $50 was in his clothing.