Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-28

| hfe IL supposed TO have been caused by
defective wiring.
Mrs. Catherine Alden. aged 93 years,
said to be seventh in line of direct de
scent from John and Priscilla Alden,
died in GAINESVILLE.
Mrs. Sophia Westover died at Wyo-
cent. in her 105th year. Her father as
sisted in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga
under Ethan Allen.
Henry J. Schroff. for ten years city
treasurer of Racine, has decided to retire
and TO devote his time to fruit growing
and canning interests in Alabama.
b. L. Strouse, one of the pioneer bust
ness men of La Crosse is dead, aged 60
years. Mr.. Strouse has been in the hide
and leather business there since 1860.
! Leon G. Combacker. son of DIR. H. Z.
Combaeker of Osceola, is seriously i'll at
the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Medical college
from an operation for an abscess in his
ear
BY the explosion of a gasoline engiGe.
used to propel woodsaw, Carl ~. Schim-
ming of Madison was badly hurt about
the face and eyes, He is in hospital
and will recover.
Miss Elsie Hageman of Spring Valley,
while boarding a train for Monroe, was
struck in the left temple, causing a very
severe cut, when a steam coupling be-
tween two ears blew out.
The elimination of the elopement in
1897 of Miss Pearl Soper, awell-known
society girl of Ripon, with Fred L. Lin
coin, then a Wisconsin newspaper man,
is a divorce to Mrs. Lincoln on the
grounds of non-support.
The bite of pet cat caused the fatal
illness OF Frank Olive, resident of
Menominee for forty years, and a vet
eran who faced death in twenty battles
of the Civil War A cat bit him in the
hand and blood poisoning resulted.
Mrs. Frederick Fischer died at the
Lutheran hospital in La Crosse as the
result of exposure during the cold wealth
or. She Nas found by neighbors several
days ago in her house. paralyzed from
cold, and she never rallied. She lived
alone.
Marian Whitaker, secretary of the
State BARRIERS board, has begun suit
| "ee'AAA'7h -'AdgO VI INtnOSid lOA
| $4,000 damages. Whitaker was beaten
by German recently at Kenosha while
/ investigating the conditions of the lat
ter's shop there.
| Mrs. Ferdinand Vera Of Manitowoc
was found dead in her room by her
daughter when the child returned home
from school, She was 40 years of age
and had been subject to attacks of heart
failure for some time. A husband and
one child survive her.
The general store of NJ. NJ. Larrabee
at Doran was burned to the ground. An
old man in the store saved the postoffice
outfit but the building and stock of mer-
chandise We're consumed with a loss of
$1,000, and $500 insurance. A defective
chimney caused the blaze.
Fire seriously damaged the Miller
block. corner of Wisconsin street and
Broadway, in Milwaukee, and the book
and stationery store of the Il. S. Gray
Company, the shoe store of Henry kopf-
sell and the New York Central city of
fees also suffered Loss $4,000.
/ Sadie Clark, a Neenah high school stu
dent, has recovered her sight as sudden
ly as she lost it nine days before. Miss
| Clark, who never had suffered any eye
| trouble. awoke one morning to find her.
| self blind. She was on a train going to
Milwaukee to undergo an operation when
her sight returned, unimpaired by the
mysterious period of blindness.
| Claiming their homes and furnishings
have been injured by chunks of snow
hurled about by rotary plows on the in
terurban railway, Racine residents
threaten to bring suit. The home of
| George Ortell and the saloon of George
| Oelschlager were damaged. At the Or
| tell home rocking chair was carried a
distance of ten feet against a piano. The
rotary pillow operated over forty feet from
the house. The damage is said to be over
$500.
Mrs. Albina Oborn-Ewing of Neenah
| has been granted a divorce from Jesse
/ Ewing on the grounds of Eon-support.
| They eloped three years ago when Ewing
was a street car conductor. Shortly af-
| ter he is said to have attempted to Sc
| cure money from s. Elmer Smith, a
wealthy Menasha manufacturer. threat
ening to divulge letters alleged to have
passed between Smith and Mrs. Ewing
unmarried sister. Ewing then left the
country.
n c. Collins. who was arrested in Mil
waukee as the last missing member of
| the E. J. Arnold coterie of swindlers,
| lies in a room in the county Jail with his
leg broken in two places between the
knee and the ankle. the result of falling
/ II. u, IL ghaf ut tha IN;
| from the first floor into the basement
Collins is charged with having swinded
creditors. in company with another man.
ont of nearly 100000. He is wanted in
| New Orleans.
Mary Wadleigh has withdrawn her
appeal from the ruling of the County
Court declaring her not the widow of the
| late Col. Gabe Bouck of Oshkosh. This
action is the result of private agree
ment between the parties to the will con-
rest which recently engaged the court
Miss Wadleigh under the agreement will
receive 500 a month and will be permit
ted TO use the Jackson street residence
that she now occupies. Under the Bouck
will she was given $50 month only
Richard Barlow, the 16-year-old son
Of Franz Barlow, electrician at the
Northern hospital. was killed by a north
hound Wisconsin Central freight at Osh-
kosh. and parts of his body strewn for
two miles With n normal school com
panion he had jumped on a moving train
Franz Iipke, n farmer near Manito-
voc. was thrown out by his team into a
snowdrift while lost during a binding
Snowstorm aad not rescued until >
o'clock the following morning. His un-
attended team arrived at his house at
thar hour causing neighbors to begin a
search. Lipke was nearly frozen.
Mrs. Eliza Snyder. aged 90 years. cell
ebrated her birthday in Janesyilie with
a family reunion of nine children. thirty
four grandchildren and thirteen great
grandchildren. This was the first time
the entire family has eyei been together
There has been but one death in the Sny-
der family g. tifty-seven years.
That August iSress. the West Bend
pocketbook manufactured. 'yho Is in New