Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Aft chippewa L ais CITIZENS nave
sponded TO the solicitation of the Pro-
gressive League aud donated each $500
toward the $4,000 opera house project.
Mrs. Ann Ferbush of Clam Falls
found ore on her farm which assayed So
gold and 80 cents silver to the ton. This
is the second find made on the premises.
Rey. Albert A. Trever, Methodist
minister at Horizon, has been engaged
to fill the vacancy in the Greek chair at
Lawrence university, caused by the death
OF DIR. Lummis.
After being refused drink at north
side saloon il La Crosse. Fred Bump,
an employee of the Burlington road, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat
with razor. He may recover.
Supt. ]. w. Hemingway has resigned
as supervisor of boys at the school for
the deaf in Delavan and is succeeded by
Earl Vincent, who was the night watch.
Mr. Hemingway will go to farming.
Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Beck,
janitor of the First Ward school in She
boygan, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid at her home. She was 40
years of age and had been in poor health
IOf some time.
George La Grander of Spring Valley
was fatally crushed near Waverly while
brakeman on a logging train. He died
after few hours, but in the meantime
played and laughed with his children,
despite physicians warnings.
u. G.. Simmons, Jr., has notified Mayor
German that he would present the city
of Il with now copn tinn hose
and chemical wagon The new wagon,
which will cost $1,000, will be placed in
the Third Ward engine house.
Andrew McAndrew, aged - years, a
prominent citizen of Cresco, Iowa, came
to Kenosha and fell among thieves dur
ing the night. He was robbed of $T5 in
cash and $3.50 in jewelry. He says two
men took him to saloons until he was
intoxicated and then robbed him.
The body of Carl Yoss, VINO was
drowned Nov. %, 1904, with two others,
Mrs. August Neumer and Miss Ada Stoll.
while out in a small hunting skiff on
Lake Winnebago, was recovered near
Calumet Harbor by duck hunters. The
face was unrecognizable, but the remains
could be identified by the clothing. The
body Of Mrs. Neumer was recently re-
covered.
The Neenah Paper Company's mill had
narrow escape from destruction. Will
liam Dahlman, foreman of the rag room,
discovered a stick of dynamite fully three
inches long among the rags which had
just come out of the busters and We're
about to be placed in the machine for
chopping. Had the explosive gone into
the machine there would not have been
anyone left about the place to tell about
the accident.
The anti-liquor crusade has reached
climax in East Troy. which may be fol-
lowed by other sensational developments.
During the night the Methodist parson-
age was daubed with Il coat of tar and
feathers, and it is presumed to be the
outcome of feeling during the recent anti
license campaign. Rev. William Daw-
son, the incumbent, was the acknowledge
ed leader of the temperance forces and
he has received several threats from
anonymous sources. The village board
has undertaken to remove the stains on
the clergyman's house.
William Meyer, a farmer of Grafton.
may die from an unusual accident. While
in Cedarburg he purchased a seeder
which he tied to the rear of his wagon.
When about half way home, he stopped
his team to fasten the seeder more Sc
curely, when the lorses SHE'D and started
off. In attempting to get into the wagon
he fell underneath. In the meantime the
lever of the seeder dropped the bars and
the young man was dragged along by the
bars for a quarter of a mile, when the
wheels struck a stone, the jar lifting
the bars high enough to release him.
A beggar, in rags, unshaven, hobbling
about on one leg, asking for aims from
store to store, Clayton Woodward was
once the only young man in the Ryan
high school in Appleton who wore tailor
made clothes. He was the Beau Brum-
mel of the school. The other day Wood
ward hobbled about, begging for enough
money, he said, 'to buy a wooden leg,
mister" He was a member of the class
of 1880 of Ryan high school, and it was
by a member of that class that he was
recognized. Woodward's parents were,
in his boyhood days, wealthy residents of
Marinette. Later they moved to Apple
ton and purchased the finest farm in the
county. He ran away from home one
day. When he came back there was a
livel- quarrel with his father In his
anger his father kicked him, striking his
leg The limb stiffened, though he could
still use it. One day while catching on
freight car the stiff leg caused him to
slip. and the boy fell beneath the wheels
of the car. The leg was severed. Then
things began going from bad to worse.
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a prominent farmer of the town of Gale
donia. committed suicide by hanging him
self in his barn. Trouble over financial
matters in the settlement of his wife's
estate, who died three months ago, is
given as the cause for the deed
Lieut.. Warren Dean, Fifteenth cav
airy. United States army. a nephew of
Col. Wharf.-The Patten of Milwaukee, is
soon to be one of the youngest captains
i'm the army. He has just been ordered
up for examination for promotion. Lieut..
Dean is only % years old. He is a son of
Thressa Dean, the writer.
Deputy Sheriff Kurchsner and A. J.
Osbourne. who went to serve a warrant
on julius Kicker, a farmer living in the
town of Turtle Lake. on charge Of
lnfealtHkl- 10 Xii HIS Whole GaHltfs
found the man dead in his barn. szter
several hours of search. An empty bot
tie of carbolc acid lay at his side
The governments weekly crop report
reviews conditions in this State as fol-
lows: Very little farm work done. except
in southern counties. where seeding is
about half completed: ground still froz-
en- in northern section; winter wheat.
rye and grasses in promising condition,
having been well protected during win
ter.
Farmers in the vicinity of Arnott.
including the towns of Stockton and
Bueua Vista, are combining to build
potato warehouse and handle their own
product next season. 1t is in this way
proposed TO obviate the existing fall Of
prices after potatoes We're kept in store
al large expense all winter.
| Having loaded his revolver and threat
euad TO kill his wife and commit suicide.
f.. r. Schneider cf Appleton was frus-
trated in the attempt BY a clever ruse on