Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-24
Within Our Borders.

The Casco Novelty Company's plant at
Casco was destroyed by fire with a loss
of $4,000.
Fire destroyed the Richardson restau-
rant building i'll Richland Center, togeth-
er with all its contents.
John Nancy, aged 80, former resi-
dent of Fort Winnebago, was killed in a
fight at Kowitch Mountain Neb.
Two GAINESVILLE men claim to have been
cured of dyspepsia by taking capsules
filled with clean sand and table salt.
In Pewaukee the harness shop of Will
liam O'Connor and the grocery of Arthur
Caldwell were burned with a loss of
about $4,000.
John Comstock, Janesville's new city
marshal arrested w. H. Gavney for
keeping his place of business open after
IL o'clock. Gavney pleaded guilty and
paid fine of $50.
The election of j. E. Keller as super
visor of assessments of La Crosse county
has been declared illegal by the State
tax commission. At the time of his cleo
ton Keller was a member of the county
board of supervisors.
A dog claimed by former Sheriff G. G..
Lang of La Crosse and Otto Ripe of
Hokah has caused an expensive lawsuit
Ripe and Lang's son were arrested and
civil suits were started. The two claim.
ants have now agreed to stop fighting
and divide the costs, amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars. Lang keeps the
dog.
Because of the trouble that has re-
suited in several priests leaving the
church, Archbishop Messmer of Milwau-
kee refuses to appoint a new priest in
charge of st. Mary's Polish Catholic
church in Manitowoc. and has given his
consent TO close the parish school In an
open letter to the congregation the arch
bishop declares the parish has been the
cause of much scandal to Catholics and
non-Catholics having permitted a few
big mouthed, self-appointed leaders, who
get their ideas of church government in
the saloons and their Inspiration from
lager beer and bad whisky, to rule the
church."
Mrs. Arthur Gardner. wife of the we'll
known professional bicycle rider. was at
tackled by footpad in Kenosha. The
man graSped her pocketboOk. but she
forced him to take to his heels.
Robert Kreiger who was brought to
the Janesville county house afflicted with
what was believed to be horse CHAMBERS.
died the other day The case puzzled
every physician who investigated it and
no method of effecting cure could be
found. His wife and children fed to
Brooklyn Immediately after he was taken
from his home.
Arthur Wilson. 19-year-old boy, is
mysteriously missing from the town of
Pleasant Prairie. He went TO Kenosha
the other day and has not been heard
from since.
Mrs. Catherine Lubawa. aged 101
years. died in Milwaukee. She was prob
ably the oldest woman in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Lubawa is survived by eighty-nine
descendants in five generations.
Matin Paulson was badly burned in
GAINESVILLE aud his horses severely in
jured through driving into pile of lime
thai had become Stacked from contact
with the snow His horses feb down
in the lime and he was seriously injured
in trying to save them.
Twenty-Five Russian soldiers. who have
deserted from the Cars army to avoid
fighting the laps, have arrived in Sheb0y
gan and found work in the local factories.
The soldiers have been arriving fer sew
eral months. ever since the Russians be-
gan meeting with disasters at the front.
Fire broke out in the hardware store
of Carley X Mcfarland at Red Granite
and totally Destroyed that building. own
ed By w II. AiStt. together with the
barn and other small outbuildings adjoin-
ing. The Nigbor building. occupied ~ a
saloon and a meat market with a public
hall upstairs, also burned. The entire
loss is about $1,000. with $1,000 insur-
ance.