Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-10

Despondent over the sudden death of
his wife, Fred Peterson, aged So, COM
mitted suicide in Racine
The Polk county board of supervisors
appropriated $1,000 for the erection of
new residence at the poor farm
Juray Piper was drowned at Sheboy-
gan while trying to recover his hat from
the river where the. wind had blown .it.
Two bold highwaymen attempted to
rob the Taylor's Falls depot, but were
foiled by agent Schultz. They escaped.
james Neff. a pioneer settler living
near Elroy, celebrated his one hundredth
Christmas He came to Wisconsin in the
fall of 1856.
At tie special election in st. Croix
Falls the village voted to issue bonds
for the construction of a county normal
training school
Johnnie Condor. aged IA, was ar
raigned in GAINESVILLE for the murder of
George Griffin, aged 13, on March %
and was bound over.
Conrad Christensen left his home in
Racine to skate on Root river. He fail
ed to return at night and is supposed
to have been drowned
Sarah Ann Frisby Of GAINESVILLE, over
40 years old, got a divorce on the ground
of desertion from Harry Frisby, who dis
appeared thirty years ago.
Mrs. Mutter, mother of James Nut
ter, a member of the Racine board of
public works, celebrated her one hum
dred and second Christmas.
Miss Fannie j. Brooks. teacher in
the Burlington public schools, was mar
ried at Dundee, H., to Z. e. Atherton,
editor of the Albany indicator.
Seven Racine saloonkeepers paid fines
of $75 for selling eighth barrels of beer
to clubs and halls where dances were
held, violating the laws of the United
States.
kenosha is experiencing reign OF
crime, and during forty-eight hours five
burgleries We're committed i'll the city.
The daring of the burglars has been uh-
paralleled.
Congressman ]. j. Esch said he had
given up hope of favorable action on the
matter of establishing a permanent mill
tary camp at Camp Douglas, at this ses-
sion of Congress.
Mike. the 14-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Vincek of Hayward, disap-
peared last April and nothing has been
heard of him since Every effort to To-
cate him has failed.
Robert Green of Lodi was accidentally
shot in the abdomen by Fred Seville.
They had just returned from hunting.
Mr.. Green was taken to Madison to the
hospital, his condition being serious.
George Stoda, 16-yearold De Soto
boy, was killed by the accidental dis
charge of gun. The lad, with Charles
Inman, was driving in sleigh, when
the gun discharged, the full contents of
two barrels entering the boys body.
One of the largest caves in Wisconsin
has been discovered two miles west of
Shullsburg. 1t has not been explored
fully, but it is more than 600 feet in
length and has many galleries and pas
sageways from its central chamber.
Herman Mitchell, 20 years old, enter
ed the barn of CHARLES Apple, two miles
west of North Cape, and hanged himself
from a rafter with a rope. Disappoint-
ment over not receiving christmas pres
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Harry Miller, arrested several weeks
| ago on charge of burglarizing the Wau-
kesha office of the United States Elk
| press Company, pleaded guilty in the mu-
nicipal court to burglary in the night
| time and was sentenced to eighteen
months at Waupun by Judge Tullar.
Miss Leo Hollenbeck of Neanah was
aroused from sleep by the suffocating
fumes of gas escaping from al defective
furnace She managed to awaken her
parents, and then fell to the floor, over
come by the gas. All the members of
Ethe family, six in number, were saved.
A panic in a Galesville public school
was narrowly averted during a Christ
mas program. The room had been dark
| ened while the gifts were being distrib-
uted from the tree. George Sagn Of the
high school impersonated Santa Claus.
In reaching for some article from the tree
| his false beard caught fire from light
ed candle. In an instant he was a sheet
of flames The children made wild
rush for the door and only by force did
the teachers and older persons prevent
them from trampling some of the little
ones.
Matt S. Matthews of La Crosse will
spend two years in the penitentiary for
playing wild west and shooting up a
couple of saloons. He, together with
| another man, hired a rig, as they said,
to go to a funeral. They went to the
saloon of Alderman Peter instead and
shot at everything on the bar and pune
tured all the mirrors in the place. Then
they visited another place before the
police interfered. The officers discovered
that Matthews had on a suit of clothes
stolen in a burglary of a doctors office
some time ago, and arrested him on a
charge of burglary. He pleaded guilty.
George Tuchek, who is charged with
having killed a mysterious stranger in
La Crosse several weeks ago by holding
his head under water will have to an
swer the charge of murder. Since the
preliminary examination, in which he
was bound over on a charge of man
slaughter in the fourth degree, the off
cials are said to have found evidence
to warrant their changing the charge.
Tuchek appeared at the police station
and said he had drowned man. The
police found the body of taller and
much stronger man than Tuchek in the
swamp. Tuchek claimed he killed the
man in self-defense.
C. s. Sunderland, the former student
of the university, who was arrested in
the university gymnasium in Madison,
charged with stealing money from the
lockers. pleaded guilty. He was unable
To get bail.
Conductor Samuel Day and Engineer
HI. w. Wilson, who were charged with
manslaughter in the fourth degree. by
the jury at the inquest over the Misses
Nellie and Edna Masters. recently killed
at the crossing of the Wisconsin Central
railway in Weyauwega. were arrested
and taken there. The prosecution will
be pushed.
John Wren. aged %, a resident of
Manitowoc and employed by the Wis
consin Central Railway Company. was
murdered at the village of Trever. It
is said Wren was struck ON the head
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