Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-20

w llllam Springer, aged II years, the
only support of his widowed mother in
Appleton, drowned in Fox rive while
boating.
Ira S. Meyer, the GAINESVILLE bigamist,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
at Fort Madison for a term of two years
and five months.
An 1S-months-old son of John Smith
of Eau Claire while playing in the yard,
was attacked and killed by a large black
Minorca rooster.
A two-pound carp was caught by
Henry Gutsch in miniature lake on the
main business street Of Sheboygan, IN a
hole in the wood paving.
Mrs. F. NJ Findeisen, an old and high
ly respected citizen of CampbellSport, for
over fifty years, died suddenly. The
shock killed her husband.
l.. johnson of E,lroy. about 80 years
old, purposely, it is said. rolled off a
! high rock and fell about seventy-iye
feet sustaining injuries from which he
died. No cause is known for the act.
Seventy-fve farmers in Yorkville and
Raymond townships are in a Wrangle
long. 1t is claimed that the canal would
improve and redeem 5000 acres of land.
The wholesale grocery of c. n Cra-
mer Il Go. in Washburn was entered by
burglars and the large safe was blown
| up. -Four charges Of nitroglycerine were
used, but little money and valuables
were secured.
Mrs. George Sheldon Smile, the art
list, recently of Kenosha. was carried
over a precipice by her horses running
away near Central, Colo. She fell POO
feet, and while badly bruised, it is said
| she will recover
a pocketbook containing $4,000 in Sc
curitieS belonging to George r. Bentley
of ElkhOrn. which was stolen from him
at the Modern Woodmen's picnic, has
been found in a saloon in Beloit, but
| $3.50 in cash is missing
By the death of Walter S. Davis in La
Crosse his wife of forty-eight hours, for
mery compelled to work for her living,
| becomes the heiress to Il third interest
in the Davis estate. which is estimated
| at several hundred thousand dollars.
The 4-year-old girl of John Berg, liv-
ing on farm two miles from Three
Lakes, burned to death, while tie mother
was working in the garden. The child
climbed on to a chair and got some
matches FROM the cupboard and set her
| clothing on fire.
G. II. Blaisdell, a Chippewa Fails
street car conductor, grabbed Mrs. II.
! Smiths child from Il baby carriage which
was on the track before Il speeding Oma-
| ha passenger train, and an instant later
| the carriage was demolished. The moth
er. seeing the danger. tainted.
\ charge of abandonment has been
preferred against Stanislaus Wroblaska
| of Menasha. who is said to be now work
ing in South Bend. Ind. -Four years ago
Wroblaska married Rosa SukOlofski.
WrOblaska was a widOwer with three
children, and after having secured the
wife's property amounting to $500 he
abandoned her, she alleges, leaving his
three children as well as one by his sec
Ond marriage, to the wife.
Florence Bellinger, q years old, and
her mother, Mrs. Anna Meyer were
found dead at their home in the rear of
S05 Jackson street, Milwaukee. Death
ing from the contents of a bottle sup
posed to contain brandy. The girl died
several hours before her mother. A note
was found on the table beside the bed
of Mrs. Meyer, which reads: Sell every
thing and give the dead decent burial.
In the purse is $29.56."
Lightning struck the German Lutheran
church in Chippewa Falls during SER
vices. In the excitement that followed
many women tainted. The rain flooded
| Duncan creek. carrying away the large
| dam at Boomer. Property is damaged
| thousands of dollars. A terrific hail and
wind storm passed over Abbottsford.
Fruit and gardens were destroyed and
many barns and dwellings were blown
| down. About half of the village of Cur
tiss was wrecked by the wind. Fifty
| thousand dollars of damage was done in
GAINESVILLE and Rock county by a severe
wind, rain and hail storm which APP
preached a cloudburst. Reports from
the country are that whole fields of beets
and tobacco are ruined and corn is badly
| damaged.
Cameron dam on ThOrnapple river,
| over which the Dietz controversy with
the Chippewa Logging and Boom Com
| pany hinges, went out. and with it the
| destruction of many wagon bridges, ac-
| cordng to advices from Chetek Several
towns in the county have been cut off.
| Only one steel bridge in the vicinity
remained in its place. Durand and vi
entity have been having the worst flood
since 1884 The Chippewa river has risen
| thirteen feet. Business men worked all
night trying to save their goods.
Launches were kept running all night
| taking people from the low lands to
places of safety. Reports from Hayton
| are that a large stone bridge has been
undermined and swept away. The town
of Hayton is flooded and it is feared the
opera house under construction will be
destroyed. The high water has wrought
| extensive damage in the vicinity of Me
| nominee The total bridge loss on the
Red Cedar river will reach $4,000. Sew
| eral miles of track of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul road between that
city and Red Cedar have been swept
away. The loss to farmers is estimated
Mt S150,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Soren PaulsOn celebrat-
| ed their golden wedding at their home
in Christiana. They have lived in Chi
cagO, Racine, Vernon county, Blooming
ton and Viroqua.
Sheriff Isaac Lund of Chippewa Falls
went to Kenosha the other day and
caused the arrest of Charles Merrill, aged
33 and Lilly Hagen. aged IA years. who
were charged with clipping from Chippe-
wa Falls on Memorial day The couple
were found living in little shack on the
Rogers farm west of Kenosha. Merrill
is said to have Il wife and children in
Chippewa Falls.
y Wisconsin Central passenger train,
west bound, plunged twenty-five feet into
Red Cedar river from food weakened
bridge near ColfaX and Engineer George
Phillips, Fireman Severns and FIVE
tramps who were riding on the front end
of the baggage car are believed to have
drowned.
The Racine police have been asked TO
locate Andrew Brown. passenger
brakeman on the Milwaukee road who
has disappeared. \ year ago Brown