Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-17

GEORGE Reeve OF Chicago, Il travelling
man, 80 years of age, was probably IA
tally injured at Racine Junction by
walking into an open subway. N
]. Schumauch, n brakeman 8on the
Burlington railway, was knocked off his
train at Trempealeau by Il water crane.
He was almost instantly killed.
Joel Jepson, aged rs. carrying six
Confederate bullets in his body, received
during the Civil War, died in Kenosha
soon after rupturing a blood vessel.
Frank Bestoff of Gillett, while unload
ing hay, was shot in the face and breast
by some one hiding in the poplar brush.
The officers are searching the country.
A. C. McComb of Oshkosh has sold to
the Whispell Perkins Land Company of
Tallahassee, Fla, pine tract and a
sawmill at Mcintyre, Fla. for 100000.
Richard Fritsch. said to be member
of Il well-known family at Oshkosh, was
arrested and sent out of town at Ke-
nosha ON charge of impersonating fire
inspector.
Northwestern railroad officials an.
nounce that new $4,000 freight depot
for Madison will be contracted for. The
cost of the new passenger depot has been
raised from 100000 to $125,000.
Miss Florence Needham of Mazoma-
ME, aged 3S. died at city hospital in
Madison. it is alleged. from the effects
of blowing out the gas at the Hotel
Ogden. She never regained conscious
ness. .-.
Clerk of Courts Cole of Marinette is
supposed to be in Canada. Mrs. Dora
Themmers, formerly of Sheboygan, is
said to have disappeared also. Cole is
charged with being $1,000 short. A war
rant for embezzlement has been issued.
Mrs Rosa DOUGH committed suicide
by drinking bottle of carbolic acid.
She left note saying that she was
tired of being alone. She is the daugh-
ter of wealthy and prominent farmer,
and lived at Footeville, where her hus-
band was employed.
KcnOsha has been stirred into frenzy
by the assault on Mrs. Henry Valken
Nanderberg in her home in North Chi
cago avenue for the alleged purpose of
robbery The woman was left uncon-
scious, while the robber secured jewelry
and other yaluables Her injuries are
not serious.
y serious accident was averted only
by quick work during the laying of the
corner stone of the new court house in
Manitowoc, which was Il public event
attended by 1000 people. \ strand of
the rope which held the stone as it was
being swung i'll position, broke and Judge
Michael Kerwan, who was placing the
stone just escaped being caught and
crushed.
The home of Eben Roberts, cOntrac-
tor, in Racine, was set on fire and Rob
erts charges that two of his employees
are guilty. He claims that they threat
ened to burn him up if he did not pay
them the wages they asked. The police
are now working on the case. The men
Roberts charges with the deed claim that
they were in their homes ut 10 o'clock
and did not leave during the night. The
rear of the building was covered with
kerosene and then set on fire.
Mrs Elizabeth Mohr has been convict
ed in Barron of obtaining property I'M
der false pretensts. 1t is said this is the
lOllElH tllIt SIT lldS bttl utlOIt uuSt
Ninje on the same charge, but it is the
first time a conviction was secured. 1t
is alleged she secured 5000 from one
bank Oh her promise to pay, and various
other sums running from 81 to $50
from business men. She bargained for
farm, stating she had $1,000 in a Bar
ron bank. She is nearly 80 years old.
Deputy Sheriff Hoover of Oparo ar
rived in Oshkosh the other afternoon
from Tigerton, bringing the quartette
of Omro young people who, it 5 alleged,
engaged Il horse and buggy Of an Omr0
Iiveryman and after driving to New Lon
don abandoned the outfit and continued
Oh to Tigerton by rail and by tremping
through the country. They art Ray
Miracle. for whom a warrant was issued
on the charge of horse stealing; Robert
Oatman and the Misses Blanchard ard
Harvey, all under the age of IS years.
According to the story of the four they
tramped many weary miles trying to
eude the sheriff, who was on their track
for days, and also trying to secure en-
ployment. They suffered greatly from
hunger and several times starvation
seemed inevitable.
After being i'll over two weeks and re-
manning in a comatose state a week, Mrs.
Luke Laborde, wife of the captain of the
steamer Evelyn. died in Oshkosh from
ptomaine poisoning. While accompany
ing her husband OH his trip she partook
Of canned sardlneS.
Mrs. Christina Huss of Kaukauna was
fined for assault a2d battery and rather
than have her husband pay the fine she
chose Imprisonment for ten days in the
county Jail Mrs Huss is "a years of
age and the mother of six children, the
youngest of whom she took to prison
with her.
Frank jacob of GAINESVILLE, brake
man on the Milwaukee and st. Paul
railro I'd, who was struck, it is said, by
a passenger train at Bardwell. died the
next day. His brother. II. K. Jacob,
from Chicago. hints at foul play, as the
dead mans body showed no marks be
yond bruise on the forehead.
The Kenosha police have been asked
TO make an effort to locate Il. G. VIII |
son. claiming to be IA member of the
Salvation army. but. it is alleged. really !
a swindler of the smoothest sort. 1t is |
claimed that he has worked in Milwau |
kee. Racine. Kenosha and Belvidere. and |
that he has secured considerable money |
from friends of the army.
james Trehey of La Crosse. who wa,
charged in United States Court witt |
opening letter addressed to Jane. |
Lahey at Greenwood. changed his ples |
TO guilty. and was sentenced to Jail fol
twenty days at Madison. The sentence |
was made light as he had already beer |
in iail four and one-half months.
The city of Berlin wins the case
brought by the American Foundry and |
Furnace Company for the remaining pay |
ment Of 800 on the heating plant in the |
Berlin high school in 1901. The fur |
mace was allegedly inadequate and a |
counter claim entered by the city asked |
$500 paid in 1901 back. The city get.
s.. 0SS.so.