Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21


years, cut his throat with razor and
died soon after being found by his wife.
Fearing reports that they might be de-
ported under the exclusion act. China
men in Sau Claire have sold out their
laundries and left.
Fox hunters have been securing the
country around Delafield for weeks past
The hrst fox captured in the chase was
taken by Charles Butler.
Van Ryn &. De Gelleke of Milwaukee
have been selected as architects for the
new grade and high school building to
be erected in Blanchardville.
James Carraher. Kiel liveryman.
was killed by fall down stairway,
his skull having been fractured. Deceas-
&c was 90 years of age and unmarried.
The streets of Berlin look as if martial
law prevailed there. 4 half dozen houses
are quarantined for scarlet fever and
the city authorities have engaged special
policemen to guard each house.
Miss Laura Hagen. the 1S-year-old
daughter of Assemblyman Charles Ha-
gen of Black Greek. broke her ara and
was badly scorched by a fall on a stove
during party given in her aunt's home.
She will recover
Ferry & Clas of Milwaukee have COM
pleted plans for the new court house to
be built in Baraboo and which. when
completed, is expected to cost 100000.
The building will be one of the finest Of
It's kind in the State.
The efforts of James Clark of Chippe-
wa Falls during the past five weeks to
solve the mystery of the disappearance
of his son, L. J. Clark, have proven flu
tile. He is convinced that his son was
murdered in the vicinity of Chisholm,
Mimi, or in Duluth.
Application has been made to the Man
itowoc City Coancil by the Fox River
Valley Railway Company for a thirty
five-year franchise the company propos
ing to construct an electric interurban
from Sheboygan to that city and then
to kaukauna. The line will traverse but
one street in MGnitowoc and the COM
pany offers to give $1,000 to rebuilding
bridge which it will cross.
Peter Finan, a young farmer of Rhine
lander, swallowed strychnine, cut his
throat and died. His wife found him al
most dead in IA manager and gave him
warm milk as an antidote. He covered
up his neck so that she could not see the
slash in his throat. She went for help,
but upon her return the man was dead.
He was 3S years old and no motive is
known for the deed.
After lifetime of sacrifice for mem
bers of her family, Miss Frances Buck
of Beloit died at the home of her brother,
William Buck, at Dolan, $. D., She
was Sd years old. For years she cared
for an invalid father. refusing many Of
fers of a home for herself. Shortly after
her father died, and she was relieved of
one responsibility, her brother called for
her assistance, when he and his wife
were i'll with typhoid fever.
Lake Geneva is in a predicament. ThG
villagers have confscated a large guam
tity of liquor from the saloons that are
alleged to have violated the law. The
stuff is being held in various hiding
places. The people are afraid to pour
it into the lake for fear it will kill the
cisco, aud they are not allowed to sell
it without a license which they are not
able to get, as the town voted against
license.
Dispatches from Bristol state that an
epidemic of smallpox is raging in that
village Ten cases have been reported
in two days and general vaccination
of the 700 inhabitants is on. 1t is
claimed that the body of man who re-
Gently died from the disease was shipped
to Bristol and given a public funeral
The priest in charge of the church was
one of the first victims of the disease.
Hundreds of people have been exposed,
it is said.
Mrs. Charlotte Wood of La Crosse
set fire to her bed after she had satu-
rated it with kerosene and had piled all
her clothing. jewelry and certificates of
deposit amounting to 81 800 upon it..
She then locked the doors of her house
and went to the home of her brother
and told him she had burned her prop
erty. The house was Il total loss. Mrs.
Wood had several times threatened her
life and did not want to leave her prop
erty to any one She is 20, and will be
placed under guardianship.
Because his wife was i'll and he was
out of work and unable to get money
to provide medicines and necessities for
her. Henry Facklen, a Milwaukee car
penter, set fire to a dwelling with Il view
70 getting the work of rebuilding or re-
pairing it. This is the statement made
by Facklen, who was caught in the act
of setting fire to the dwelling at 391
Fifteenth street. The police claim that
the prisoner has been connected with
several suspicious fires during the last
few months and that as a result they
nave been shadowing him.
Joseph Lindenmann, aged SO years. a
wealthy real estate owner of Racine, who
for years had suffered with cancer of the
face committed suicide by shooting him
self in the right temple. Lindenmann
wrote letters to a son and a daughter re-
siding in Milwaukee, informing them of
his intent to end his life, gave them to
his housekeeper to mail by special deliv-
cry and ordered her not to awaken him
until 3 o'clock. The deed was commit
fed while the servants We're away. The
daughter, arriving and going to her faith
er's room, found him dead. \ short
time later the son arrived. Both had
received the letters written by their
father. A note found in the room gave
as the reason for the suicide his terrible
suffering.
Standing before a mirror il his bed-
room. with his wife and baby sitting on
the bed nearby. George Richmond Of
Fond du Lac sent a bullet crashing
through his brain and died some time la
Ter. The deed is envel0ped in mystery.
A skeleton hanging from the ceiling
and clad Ia white laboratory jacket
met the eyes of Principal A. b. O'Neil
of the Oshkosh high school when he ar
rived in school. Inside the skeleton was
an alarm clock which was set at o
O'Clock and would therefore have sound
ed at a period when all the students are
gathered in the assembly room.
The pastor of Holy Name Roman
Catholic church in Sheboygan is trying
to stop promiscuous dancing by getting
pledges from his 5000 parishioners to at
tend only dances in the church hall. TO be