Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

| lnlI Deln9 undermined. ALMOST tue en-
tire town turned cut to save the prop
erty. One bridge has been swept away.
Frank johnson, aged ~ years, farm
hand south of Kenosha, was fatally in
| jured by being kicked by a horse. John
| son, it is said, was beating the horse and
the animal resented the treatment and
kicked.
Peter Paulsen and John Murphy. two
boys at Hilbert Junction, mixed a guam
| THY of potash and sulphur in kettle and
an explosion occurred, tearing the clothes
from Paulsen's arms and legs. Murphy
escaped
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postOftice at Bonduel and made their es-
cape. They secured an unknown amount
of stamps and government stock, and
also took $500 belonging to the postmas-
| ter from the safe.
| Freddie Carlander of Menominee wav-
| ed his red sweater in front of a North
| western train while running over a tres
| tie at the risk of his life, and stopped the
train. The boy had found horse caught
| in the trestle. A bad wreck was ayerted
| by his act
aid in Stevens Point was entered at noon
and one of the abstract books stolen. The
| thief appears to have been familiar with
the premises. An abstract volume, the
| property of the county, which contained
at least part of the records embraced in
the one stolen from Mr.. Mcdonald, has
been missing from the ONCE OF the regis
ter of deeds for several years.
| The weekly report issued by the gov
| ernment has this to say of crop c0ndi-
tions in this State: Early part of week
cold, with frost in central and snow in
northern counties; heavy rains last of
week flooded low lands and delayed corn
| planting; good stand of winter wheat
and rye, which are strong and healthy;
oats, barley, spring wheat, and rye do
| ing well; grass and pastures excellent.
George d. Richardson, aged As years,
cashier in the internal revenue office in
Milwaukee for the past thirteen years,
committed suicide by shooting two bull
| lets through his head. Special Examiner
Emmons is now examining Richardson's
books and it is said has discovered dis
crepancies. Richardson left a note say
| ing: MY life has all been a mistake;
may God bless my dear wife and chill
| dren."
Less than an hour after 7-yearold Ed
die De Fow was sent home by the county
| judge in Sheboygan, following his arrest
as an incorrigible, he had stolen a tri-
cycle from the home of jerome L. Cur
tbs. The tricycle. and the boy were both
taken to the police station. The boy was
taken before Judge Giblin and given a
lecture, after which he was sent home.
He is considered too young to be sent to
| the reformat0ry.
The stone arch bridge over the mill
race at the south end of East Troy
gave out just as John Bushman and wife,
who reside three miles southwest, were
returning home. They were in a single
buggy and their horse gained the south
side when the structure gave out, drop
| ping to the west, precipitating Mr.. Bush
man headlong into the water, twelve feet,
among the debris of the broken structure.
How he escaped death or serious injury
| is remarkable.
Fire in an Indian wigwam on the old
| Sacket marsh north of Berlin consumed
| t contents and burned one of two In
ans sleeping in the tent The other,
brother. escaped. The two Indians then
moved to the woods, thinking that the in
| jured man would recover, but later the
wounds developed so that he was taken
on board the Lucy Il. and started for
| Wittenberg where he entered the Indian
| hospital The fire started from embers
in the wigwam.
The jury in the case of Theodore j.
| ID hn
and st. Paul railway awarded the plain
| tiff damages to the amount of $500.
| A peculiar fact in connection with the
suit, which was for damages caused by
the loss of a leg on the Hagar street
| crossing in La Crosse, is that Ritter, who
| is now % years old, was about ; years
of age at the time of the accident He
could remember nothing in connection
with the accident.
Game Warden Stuart has a unique
| problem to solve George SchOefer. a
farmer living few miles north of Reads
town, complains that his cattle have
been frightened by a flock of quail so
that the animals refused to eat for sew
eral days, and he will sue the State for
damages, he says. Sch0efer explains
that one night he locked up his cattle in
a barn, not knowing a flock of quail was
inside. suddenly the flock arose and
| the cattle broke out of their stall in
their fright. They refused to go back for
| two weeks
Threats on the part of eight GAINESVILLE
! Aldermen to GUST Chief of Police Com
stock and Officers Brown. Tanning Bear,
| Morrissey, Champion and Beneke be-
cause they refused to wear white helmets
resulted in a special session the other
| evening, which ended in q farce. Alder
man Murray made a motion to the effect
| that as Chief Comstock had NOT obeyed
orders the office Of chief should be de-
clared vacant. For half hour the AL
! dermen had it hot and heavy. with Chief
| COmstock present. Twelve white helmets
were burned. and when asked who burned
! them Chief ComstOck said that he would
assume all responsibility. The final vote
resulted to 4 in favor of retaining Chief
! Comstock and changing the color of the
helmets to a steel gray color.
Identified as the burglar who fed when
| two were caught in the Baker hardware
| store in Evansville. a man who refuses
| TO give his name has been arrested at
! BaraboO and taken to GAINESVILLE for trial
The other man got three and half years
! at Waupun.
An unknown man. presumably from
| Chicago. walked off the north-bound
midnight express on the Northwestern
road, Il mile south of Kenosha. The
| train was running sixty miles an hour.
The train was stopped and run back. but
a half hours search failed to reveal any
| trace of him.
The largest personal injury verdict
ever given in the courts of Wisconsin. it
is claimed. has just been affirmed by the
Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. II
is the verdict of Adelbert See of Supe-
rior against the Brown Hosting Machin-
! cry Company of Cleveland. and the
amount is $4,000, See was working on
the Northwestern Fuel Cmpanys big
new dock on Superior bay. while the ma
chinery was being tested Suddenly.
through some mistake, the lever man
| pressed the lever and the she'll with See