Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

were burned to death in a fire which
| destroyed the home of Joe Convey at At
| ldnta.
Hall & Sayle, GAINESVILLE jewellers,
were robbed of 800 worth of silverware.
The thieves missed $4,000 worth of
| jewels.
The young women of Beloit college
gave the nativity play, Bethlehem" in
the new gymnasium. 1t was pronounced
a success.
Ralph Karnes of Fontana has been
named Kenosha county superintendent
of schools, He is a graduate of the
Whitewater normal
At Racine a cigaret caused fire in
one of the rooms of the Hotel Racine.
The bed clothing and furniture in the
room were destroyed.
Announcement has been made of the
approaching marriage of DR.. William
Meredith Pugh of Kenosha and Miss
Grace Jenney of Mohawk, \. y.
While running at full speed an inter
urban car struck a horse at Brighton
beach. Ale horse was instantly killed
and the front of the car damaged.
Robert Brown, all employe at the
| Northwestern roundhouse in GAINESVILLE,
was struck by an engine and thrown
| twenty feet. He was dead when picked
up.
f. NJ. Allen of Oshkosh has been CHS
Ell principal of the Charleston, H.. high
school, to succeed Prof. L. G.. Jeffrey,
who enters the St. Louis public schools
corps Jan. Is.
The sum of $4,000 voted to pay for
bascule bridge at Main street. Racine,
will be inadequate, it now being esti-
mated that the bridge desired will cost
over 100000.
The jury trying the case of B. NJ. Cod
man of Milton Junction, charged with
assault, carrying concealed weapons,
abusive language, pointing gun, found
him guilty on all four counts.
The entire force of lampmakers ut the
Badger Brass factory in Kenosha went
out on a strike, and the plant has been
forced to shut down. The men objected
to the employment of apprentices.
Judge Hastings has denied motion
for a new trial in the case against the
| Marinetta Paper Company, in which
$4,000 was awarded to Miss Vandebo-
CART for damages in an accident in its
mill.
Halver Ellefson, aged 80, was fatally
burned i'll bed, at his home, five miles
north of Spring Green. The bed caught
fire from stove He was one of the
oldest Scandinavian residents of that
section.
William Deichen. aged 6S, has secur-
ed degree of divorce from his wife
| Caroline, aged II, in Milwaukee. They
were married about two years ago. 1t
was his second and her third niatri-
monial venture.
Henry Hale of Shell Lake was fatally
| injured by runaway team. He was
| driving along when his horses took fright
| and turned into pasture mad started
down steep hill. Mr.. Hale was thrown
| out and had several ribs broken.
Walter M. Cowel of Kenosha, alleged
| to be counted with number of so-called
wild cat insurance agents, has begun
| FIVE suits in Illinois, demanding damages
| to the extent of $150,000. The suits
are against attorneys who made the
| charges against Cowel.
c. NJ. Bird and daughter were fear
| fully burned about the face and hands
| in Beloit by the explosion of can of
kerosene with which the father was start
| ing a fire. Miss Bird is a teacher in the
Menomonie schools and had returned
home for the holiday vacation.
A panic was narrowly averted at the
Chippewa Falls opera house. Du. ing
the speech of Supreme Commander Mar
| key Of the Macca bees a steam pipe burst
and many persons rushed for the door.
| Cooler heads preserved order and fortu-
| nately the crowd was not large.
Harry Mitchell, a former student at
| the west division high school in Milwau-
kee, now attending the University of
| Minnesota, has been awarded the Rhodes
scholarship for Minnesota. This is doubly
| interesting in Milwaukee high school cir
cles because Richard Scholz, also west
| division high school graduate. recently
won the Rhodes scholarship for Wiscon-
| sin.
| A peculiar lawsuit is to be heard in
the Circuit Court in Waukesha, having
| been sent on a change of venue from
| Walworth county Tie plaintiff, named
| Gould owns a 1G0-acrc farm near White
water and claims he ordered dwarf Els
sex rape seed from the defendant, but
| the latter delivered to him bird rape
seed, a noNious weed, Which, when sown,
| damaged his farm. Gould asks $500
damages and costs.
The Amalgamated Theater Company
| is a new organization that will control
a vaudeville circuit OF thirty EIGHT houses
| in Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Hi
nois. Iowa and Indiana. II. c. Dam
| forth of the Bijou in Oshkosh has been
appointed one of the directors. La Crosse,
Eau Claire Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Green
Bay, Marinette and Racine, Wis, and
Escanaba, Houghton and Ishpeming,
! Mich. are included.
Mystery surrounds the disappearance
| of Mrs. Lena Lutz of Hiawatha, Kan,
| who. with her husband, had been visit
! ing in the town of Wheatland. The 9TH
| er morning she drove to kenosha to pur-
chase Christmas presents. This was the
last seen of her. The following after
noon the horse returned home, dragging
| the empty buggy. 1t was found later
that the woman had traded at several
stores and it is claimed that a woman
! answering her description boarded a train
for Chicago. Mrs. Lutz suffered from
mental trouble two years ago and it is
| feared that she has had a relapse.
Attorney Edward G. Jones of Appleton
has instituted suit for $4,000 damages
against S. 4. u. Puter of Berkeley, CAL,
who a few days ago was found guilty
| ut Portland. Ore, on a charge of con-
| spiracy to defraud the United States
government.
THE American dollar is the armor
from which glance all of the darts of the
modern cupid" said Judge and United
States Court Commissioner John A.
Daniels at La Crosse. Judge Daniels
| declares that remarkable falling of in
marriage is due to the high wages paid
to girls and woman for labor.
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