Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11

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lander in fight over girl, IS dead.
Michael Jeaskey is held without bail on
the charge of killing him.
Charles Lane. the Milwaukee man,
charged with forgery. waived examina-
ton In Neenah and in default of Sl,OO0
bail was remanded to jail.
Alfred T. Twerberg. young farmer,
was thrown to the street in Stoughton
IN a runaway and may die. Halyer Ed-
son, his companion, jumped and saved his
life.
Oliver c. Horlick. aged 80 years. the
youngest son of the late Joseph A. Hor-
lick, founder of the Horlick Lime and
Stone Company, died suddenly at his
home in Racine.
The branch road now running from
Woodyille to Weston will soon be extend
ed as far as Sau Gale. This extension
will start from Comfort and follow the
Eau Gale river.
Charles McArthuf millwright, re-
eeIved fatal injuries in mill at Dunbar
beng caught in a belt and crushed Frank
Adams prevented his instant death by
cutting the belt and releasing Near
thur.
Cfrles Swanberg. farmer, was
foI a dead in Il live stock water tank
at his home near Shiloh by his children
who were playing in the barnyard. lie
had evidently lost his balance while de-
ing chores and was drowned.
| Ice which had become loosened by the
mild weather caused grave danger to the
bridges and tracks of the Wisconsin Cen
trail and Chicago and Northwestern rail-
| way at Manitowoc. The Wisconsin
| Central had an engine with number of
loaded coal cars on the bridge to hold
1t IN place. Dynamite was used to clear
| the gorge that formed
| Going asleep OF. a railway track from
| fatigue, after spending an afternoon in
| a dentists chair, David Ferris Van Note
was Killed by train at Canton, Mo.
| lie deserted his wife and family in Bar
ron thirteen years ago. He came back
after a few weeks, ostensibly to remain.
but during the night left and took his
| youngest son, baby, with him. Upon
surrendering the boy he was allowed to
| go by the police.
From life of drudgery at the wash
| tub to home of affiuence is the recent
experience of Mrs. Clara Helf of Kau-
kauna and the change came about
| through a matrimonial bureau. A few
years ago Mrs Hef married, but sson
| she had to be cared for by the city of
kaukauna. Saturday she was married
| to Robert Middleton, a well-to-do farm
err near Madison, five miles out ON the
| Baraboo branch of the Chicago and
| Northwestern railroad, who is said to be
worth $4,000.
Justice V. Fl. Tichenor found for the
| defendant in the suit of the Farmers
and Merchants bank of Cedarburg
| against Daniel J. Kiefer of Lannon. The
bank sued to recover on two promissory
notes of $36.30 each. TIE notes were
discounted at the bank by one T.. A.
| Barker and Kiefer refused to pay. He
testified that he had never signed any
| notes, but had signed two applications
for insurance policies on sheets of paper
| two or three times the size of the notes
| in question which were offered in evil
| dence.
Il burned my house and money be-
| cause l intended to kill myself and did
not want to leave anything so my rea-
tiyes could profit by my DEATH con.
fessed Charlotte Wolf. aged "A, of La
Crosse, thus explaining the mysterious
| destruction of her property She pour.
ed kerosene on the floor and piled certi-
| ficates of deposit of the value of $1,000
and other valuable documents on the
blaze. Then she went out to find a tree
On which to hang herself. but relatives
prevented her. She was adjudged insane
and sent to an asylum.
Il want to be buried in a purple coffin,
dressed in a white plated silk dress. |
have taken poison and am going to die.
| Thus spoke 15-year-old Christine Pjcba
to the Mortified members of her family as
| they sat in the parlor of their home in
| Milwaukee. Ten minutes later the child
was dead from the effects of a dose of
carbolic acid. According to statements
of an older sister the girl had often
threatened to take her own life, but the
threats We're not taken seriously. Chris
! tine on this occasion wore a skirt be-
longing to younger sister, and at being
reprimanded by her mother flew into a
passion and ran to her room on the Sec
ond floor, where she locked herself in and
drank the acid, which she had been
/
Abraham Kapeyski, aged SO. shot and
killed Rebecca Finkelstein aged 80 wife
of s. Finkelstein, and then FASTENED to
/ Grand Rapids to give himself up to the
officers, while pursued by an angry mob.
| Kapeyski, with a number of other Pol
ish Jews, settled in the town of Sara
toga about eleven miles from the city.
| last summer. Finkelstein a eted as one of
| the steering agents for several real es-
! tate men in Chicago, and by his influence
these people were induced to come Ka-
peyski says upon arriving he found that
| his tract contained neither clearing nor
| timber, but was purely a patch of scrub
oak and jack pine. Many quarrels have
resulted with F'inkelstein because of this.
| transaction. The other morning A hot
discussion ensued between Finkestein's
wife and Kapeyski, during which the
latter pulled out 3s-caliber revolver
and shot Mrs. Filkelstein in the breast.
killing her Immediately.
III. c.. Brandt, a well-known citizen
and superintendent of the Carton Toy
Company, drowned in the Sheboygan
river sir. Brandt had gone to the river
with his dog to give the animal swim.
! He was 40 years old and leaves a wife
and child.
Walter L. Christian. president OF the
| Christian Machine Shop Company Of
Kencsha. who disappeared few weeks
ago. returned home. He stated merely
that he had been in Chicago and that he
had gone away because he wanted va
cation. he will take up his business
again.
The agitation to drain the Horizon
marsh, well known to huntsmen all over
| tie country, has been revived and two
| factions are opposing each other strenu-
ously on the subject. Opponents to the
drainage say that the soil would not be
useful. as the bottom of the marsh is
peat and blue clay.
Persistent rumors have been af3oat
that the 500 railroad would be extended
| from Frederic to the north during the
coming summer. but it develops that f..