Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11

Right Rev. Joseph Rainier has been
appointed vicar general of the Milwau-
kee archdiocese, to succeed Father Schin-
ner, who has been made bishop of Supe-
rior.
Mrs. Thomas O'Malley, well-known
Marinette woman. is dead. 4 week ago
a pimple formed and she picked it. cry
sipelas set in the next day and resulted
in death.
The Marinette Lumber Company has
disposed of about 1910 acres Of pine tim
Der IN Oconto and Marinette counties to
the Peshtigo Lumber Company, the con-
sideration given being $4,000
One of the most daring burglarieS ever
committed in La Crosse took place at
the home of Harry l. Colman. mem
Der of the Colman Lumber Company,
when robbers secured 81, 300 worth of sill
YER
Chief of Police Jack Macarthur of An
tigo was shot down and instantly killed
by Jim Witinger. an escaped maniac
from the Northern hospital for the in
sane at Oshkosh. The shooting was done
from ambush
Waiter Schmidt boy of the town of
Hustisford, was accidentally shot by
younger brother just after he had been
told not to play with shotgun which
had been left loaded The boys head
was blown off
AS the result Of injuries sustained in a
fall of twenty-five feet from the roof of
his home, John Reinig died in Fond du
I 10 +.s,
at his residence, when he slipped and
struck the ground below.
Don Prescott, 10 years old. the son of
Loren Prescott of the Prescott iron
works, was saved from drowning at
Marinette by the bravery of Carol Aker-
man, aged 10. Prescott had been swim
ming and taken with cramps.
Stanislaus Poplawskl, king of the
Poles" has disappeared from Racine.
The wife of another Pole has also gone,
and $500 of her husbands money is also
gone. Investigation proved that they
both bought tickets for Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Chloupek, resi-
dents of Manitowoc county since 1913,
celebrated the golden wedding anniver-
sary of their marriage. Children, grand
children and grandchildren of the
couple arranged a surprise for them.
A young man named Kast was drown
ed in the Jump river in Grant county,
while bathing. He was Is years old
The body was found by the aid of quick
silver placed in a loaf of bread and al
lowed to float on the surface of the river.
1t stopped directly over the body.
The breaking of hose in the airbrakes
on a nOrth-bound freight train of the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad, one
mile north of the northern hospital at
WinnebagO, caused bad wreck Three
freight cars loaded with merchandise
were derailed and piled up in mass.
The body of Andrew Brown, aged 81
years, a passenger brakeman on the St.
Paul road, running between Milwaukee
and Chicago, and who has been missing
since May Is, was found floating in the
lake at Racine. Three months ago
Browns wife died and he became de,
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Charles A. Bartlett, a prominent La
Crosse citizen and former city official,
applied to be examined for his sanity,
saying that he wanted to be sent away
before he injured himself or someone
else. The court called in physicians,
who found Bartlett insane. He was sent
to Mendoza.
Mrs. n. c. Bachelor, wife of a promi-
nent La Crosse contractor, has been
awarded the contract for the $4,000
Catholic church at Clinton, and is super
intending all the construction work. She
spends nine hours daily on the work,
having learned the business since becom-
ing the wife of Bachelor.
August Federer of Plymouth was near
ly suffocated as the result of the explo-
sion of his entire stock of fireworks in
his show window, caused by lighted eli
gar coming in contact with a frecracker.
The entire window was shattered and a
man passing by was almost knocked
senseless by an exploding skyrocket.
Albert Van Heuklom of Appleton res
cued Margaret Sheanan, Mary Melon
aid, Mary O'Brien and Agnes Quantius
from drowning at Montello. The four
girls were in a boat short distance off
the shore of Lake Buffalo. The Apple
ton man was nearby, being one of the
members of the Appleton Congregational
church choir spending two weeks out
ing near MontellO. The craft occupied
by the girls suddenly capsized.
County Clerk A. A. Raisler at Apple
ton has received official notification from
Secretary of State w. L. Houser that
hereafter no county board will have the
power to regulate the amount of bounty
to be paid on matured wolves, but that
the laws of 1905 have fixed the amount
at $40, that must be paid by the county
with an equal amount by the State. A
person will therefore be able to secure
$50 for each wolf killed. Some counties
have refused to pay any bounty, while
Outagamie county has paid but So.
Mrs. w Schumacher of Appleton has
commenced legal action to adopt her own
son, 10 years Of age. He has lived with
three families. When but few months
old his father died and, owing to the
stringent circumstances in which the
widow was left, the son was adopted by
minister in Ser hOur named Below.
Later his wife died and he moved to the
Pacific coast. where he married again.
Mrs. Below No. did not want the boy,
and he was turned over to a Mrs. Gross
in Seymour His mother is now trying
to get him back.
The mystery as to what had become
of Conductor George C. French's saw
ings has been cleared up. He ran on
the Wisconsin Central to Milwaukee and
was known to be economical. When he
died at the Hotel Blodgett in Marshfield
in his trunk was found small roll of
bills. These were put away without be-
ing counted and reported to be about
$500. On closer investigation the roll
was found to be all SO bills, aggregat-
ing between $1,000 and $4,000. Mr.
French never kept a bank account and it
was thought he had a safety deposit box
in Milwaukee or Chicago.
John Miller, a notorious burglar SEN
fenced for one year from Dane county
for attempted burglary, was arrested at
the prison gates in Waupun by a deputy
warden of the Indiana State prison. He
is wanted for violation of parole.
The litigation hanging fire in the