Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

heDorTS Efom Racine county show that
the heavy wind and rain storm caused a
loss Of $4,000 to buildings and crops.
The I-year-oid son 81 Charles Graves
was so badly scalded in Marinette that
he will die II stumbled and fell into a
tub of boiling water
The Milwaukee Gas Light Company
has entered protest against the in
crease in its assessed valuation from
S3,250,000 to $6,000,00O
At GAINESVILLE Darius Dayy was found
in the raceway of 4 mill, dying. One
Of his legs was broken He fell through
the piling while ON his way home.
As a result Of the enforcement Of the
new State law denying public officials the
right to travel on railroad passes a num-
Der of Kaukauna officials will probably
resign
Henry A. Morrison, a life convict, i'm
prisoned last fall in Waupun for the
murder of his wife and daughter, com
mitted suicide by strangling himself in
his cell with a towel.
Snow furries lasting several minutes
made Neenah SILVER at o'clock the
other night The temperature fell from
SO to 46 in two hours and heavy coats
and wraps were worn.
August Schoenbeck, town clerk of
Spruce, in his census report says that
Paul Smadel. Bohemian farmer, is 101
years of age and works every day at
hard labor clearing land.
While waiting to board a train, Mi
chael Kelly, aged ID, Of Dane. was
struck by a north-bould train and in
stantly killed. His father is Michael
Kelly, prominent hotelkeeper of Dane.
Lightning struck the house of Frank
FOresythe at Pound while the family
was away. 1t went down the chimney.
and smashed a dishpan of dishes and
killed cat that was sleeping by the
stove.
Dangling from q pine tree at the
mouth of Root river passing trainmen
discovered the corpse of an unknown
man. The spot is one of the most lonely
in that section. The foul play theory is
being looked up.
Following the example of many mem
bers of the State militia employed in
railroad offices, A. l.. Hemmers, cashier
Of the Northwestern freight depot, has
resigned from the GAINESVILLE school board
on account of the anti-pass law
Arthur LaBelle, who formerly drove a
baggage wagon in Appleton. but who left
for parts unknown last April, is wanted.
He has fallen heir to the whole estate
left by his father in Canada which is
valued at between 100000 and $4,000.
II is thought he is now travelling with
circus.
The sqwmill of the Foster Latimer
Company was destroyed by fire at Mel
len. 1t started in the boiler room and
when discovered had gained suci head
way that it could not be gotten under
control. The estimated loss is $4,000.
covered by insurance. The mill will be
rebuilt.
The jury in the case of Paul Horne,
a student at Northwestern university of
WATERFOWL. a resident of La Crosse, who
lost his right hand in a planer during va
cation, disagreed after being out over
thirty hours, The La Crosse Box Com
pany and e. c. Josten, its manager are
defendants.
There was real live bear in the Mil
waukee Chamber of Commerce the other
day. He nosed around in the pit, but
refused to tackle the bulls" He was
fed with real pink ice cream" and re-
fused both wheat and corn. His name
is Musky and he was recently captured
in the northern woods and sent to a
member of the Milwaukee fire depart
ment.
A greement with Father ]. J.
KeOgh of st. Johns Cathedral in Mil
waukee and not incompetence nor be-
cause of assignments to charity work in
Panama and elsewhere is said to be the
reason for the withdrawal of the Sisters
of Charity of st. Vincent De Paul, the
community which for ifty-nlne years has
had charge of st. Johns Cathedral par
ish school.
Crazy mans castle" the fantastic
abode of an eccentric miser, near Min
nieska, and for years one of the strang-
est objects Of interest to tourists on the
Mississippi river, was totally demolished
by a heavy windstorm. The building.
which stood on an eminence along the
bluffs which skirt the river, was built of
stone, brick, and driftwood accumulated
by the miser, who built and inhabited
it for years. The weird stories of the
castle antedate the recollection of the
Oldest of pioneer river pilots, and big
packets never passed the place at night
without throwing their powerful search
lights full upon the structure for the ben
eft of interested passengers. 1t was
unoccupied when the storm which wreck
ed it broke.
The suicide of Joseph NJ. Meeks, who
killed himself in ST. Louis, was the re-
suit of the unhappy termination of
romance which had its beginning in a
story published by a Chicago newspaper
in February 1901 The story was to
the effect that there were forty old maids
in GAINESVILLE seeking husbands. Meeks,
who then gave his address as Congress
am Green streets, Chicago, wrote to a
GAINESVILLE paper. inclosing a letter to be
delivered to an old maid between the
ages of % and 30, and his letter was
published. Mrs. w. A. Sperling, wife
of a Madison drayman, and who had
separated from her husband. answered
the letter. divorce from her husband
followed and she was married to Meeks.
She was formerly Ella Lent of James
Vile She is said to have left Meeks
recently, and he had declared to friends
that he could not live without her. He
took carbolic acid at the home of a sis
ter in st. Louis.
Because lover No. l took her engage
ment ring from her and was going with
a rival, Cora Turk, aged Is, pretty
girl, formerly from Richland Center,
waded out into the slime in Lake No
mona and tried to drown herself. She
was saved by her father and the lover
After being separated for forty-six
years, and each supposing the other
dead. Carl Schmidt of Sheboygan and
Fred Schmidt of New York, brothers.
have been reunited by son of the lat
ter, who came to Sheboygan from Chi
cago and discovered his long lost rela-