Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-06


The Northwestern Railway Company
has already acquired part Of the right
of-way of a new twenty-mile line from
Pulaski to Shawano.
James Hebenstreit. Shullsburg sa-
loonkeeper, committed suicide 10y drinking
carbolic acid and then cutting his throat
with butcher knife
The new sawmill of Moore & Gallo
way at Fond du Lac burned, entailing
a loss of $4,000 Joseph Elite, an en-
ploye, was burned to death.
The sulphite plant of the Riverside
Fiber and Paper Company, Appleton,
was totally destroyed by fire. The inSur-
ance is 100000. The loss is possibly 20
per cent more.
Ground will be broken soon for a new
lormitory for North Wisconsin academy
in Ashland Prof. Fenenga. who has
been in the East. it is said, will soon
announce large gifts from the East.
William Green, aged 9 years. sustain
ed an amputation of thumb in Jeffer-
son without hinching, refusing to take
chl0roform. The thumb was crushed to
pulp in machine used to grind bone for
feed.
Miss Emma Kessler. aged Is years,
was seriously injured by a bullet while
walking in the street at Marinette. The
police believe it was a stray bullet and
also are following clues of a possible
asSailant.
Herman Lindner for twenty-five years
proprietor of n bakery in Oshkosh, fell
overheard while fishing from boat in
Lake Butte Desmortes and was drown
ed. Lindner was 60 years of age and
| leaves a family.
F. W. Orr. alias John Reynolds. an
actor. was arrested at Beaver Dam on
the charge of having enticed Ida Thorn
| ton from her home at Waukesha. The
actor was sent to the Jail. The girl
! has returned to her parents.
The body Of Miss Ada Stoll. who
| drowned in Lake Winnebago last No
vember was recovered at Doemel's point.
| She. with two others, drowned while out
in small skif. The other two bodies
We're recovered early this spring.
William Cruver. a farmer % years
old. living FIVE miles east of Whitewater,
| was bitten by 4 dog last October. The
wound healed, but the other day he was
| taken i'll and developed Il case of hydro
| phobia The young man cannot live.
While attempting to force medicine
| down the throat of Jennie Pweta in
Janesville DIR. Pemher was attacked by
| the woman and bitten on the knee-cap.
The pweta woman was bitten by dog
suffering from hydrophobia months ago.
| She was sent to the insane asylum.
The prospects for large crop of
| fruit were never better than this season,
and if frost holds off Il large crop is as
| sured The plum and apple trees are
| white with blossoms and stra wberries
are looking fine. In the timber the blue
! berry crop promises exceptionally we'll
The governments weekly crop report
reviews conditions in this State as fol-
! lows; Heavy rains early part of week
| delayed corn and potato planting; Will
| ter wheat. rye and spring grains salts
| factory; pastures good; prospect for
! good hay crop encouraging; apple pear,
| plum and cherry trees in full bloom;
! strawberries and cranberries in good con
dition.
The Very Rev. Aurustina F. Schin-
ner. vicar general of Milwaukee archdio-
| cese for several years past, has been APP
| pointed bishop Of Superior diocese, re-
Gently created by the redivision Of the
| Milwaukee province The diocese will
! include sixteen counties in the northwest
| arn part of the State and the bishops
see will undoubtedly be at Superior. The
newly appointed bishop is II years of
age and is a native Of Milwaukee.
Rev Mr.. Will patient at the county
| insane asylum at GAINESVILLE. is missing
since the fire in that institution the 9TH
| er evening. There We're 40 patients at
| the supper tables when fire was discOv-
cred in the kitchen, but through the fire
| drill adopted two years ago when che
| institution was partially destroyed by
| fire. a panic was avoided. The kitchen
and attendants sleeping quarters were
| destroyed, but the loss is not large
The small boys of Appleton have been
| taken with a craze to send cats into
! the clouds. Since the accidental ascen-
| sion of James Carrots cat, sixteen boys
| have called at science hall in Lawrence
university and requested that bladders be
| filled with hydrogen. One small boy APP
| peared with two bladders which he desir-
| ed to tie to a cat which he claimed dis
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| students have refused to fill more of the
bladders.
| That her husband may obtain one-third
| of his fathers estate. or 100000, Mrs.
| Charles Rogers of Chicago has consent
ed voluntarily to give him up, and has
| applied for divorce. Mr.. Rogers, whose
| home is in Kenosha. is a son of the
late d. G. Rogers of Milwaukee. In his
will the father provided that his son
should not come into his inheritance I'M
| less he was divorced from his wife, Civ
ing him Sc a week so long as he lived
with her. Mrs. Rogers has been sep
arated from her husband for some time.
r. II. Butterfeld prominent Ste
vens Point real estate and abstract man.
| has been arrested. charged with break
ing into the office of John r. McDon-
aid May il and stealing an abstract
book. valued at $4,000 during the noon
hour. The missing records in part were
the only copies of a volume lost from
the court house some years ago. Alfred
Roe and Thomas Young were arrested on
the same charge. and it is alleged they
charge that Butterfeld hired them to
assist in the job for SO, of which So
had been paid. Butterfeld denies the
charge, alleging conspiracy of business
rivals.
Miss Amanda Jensen. who disappeared
from the village Of Pleasant Prairie ten
months ago, and who was supposed to
either have met with foul play or COM
mitted suicide, has been found. She ia
now living at Boone, Iowa, as a domes-
tic. The young woman has written to
friends that she wandered away from
home while demented and did not know
where she was going. She says that
she walked ali the way to Boone, and
that when she reached the Iowa city she
recovered her reason. Being without
money and friends, she was forced to
accept work as a domestic.
June Margaret Rossiter, the 2-year-old |
daughter of l.. \. Rossiter, a we'll |
known Kenosha printer. was killed while |
playing along the tracks Of the North
western railway 1t is S11Dnosed that