Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-19
State News in Brief.

Mrs. Andrew Vanhollen, pioneer res
ident of Osceola, died, aged SO years.
Amin w. Gardner Bobby Beach, of
Beach Bowers, minstrel fame, died in
WATERFOWL of paralysis.
Gilbert T. Hay, a well-known resident
of KenOsha, dropped dead at his home
from heart disease, aged So
Rev. w. w. Webb, recently elected
bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal do
cese of Milwaukee, has formally accept
ed the place.
Frank Kohler a sculptor who went
insane while working on a statue of
Christ, escaped from the county asylum
at West Salem.
John Barr, a farmer near Darien,
lost all his buildings and contents by
fire. The loss is not definitely known,
but insurance covers it.
With three ribs broken and suffering
from other injuries, Peter Martin, aged
60 years, drove six miles to his home in
Racine and summoned a physician.
Two brothers named Hintz were re-
turning from a shoot in Baraboo and
Ona of them had a turkey. Going into
a saloon a bystander asked them if the
gun one of them carried was loaded. Be
ing informed that it was not he pointed
it at the turkey and fired. The bird
was torn to pieces, one of the boys had
a finger blown off, and the other had a
number of shots imbedded in his body
When VIM. Allen called at the farm
of John Weisman, in Brighton, he dis
covered the legs of a man sticking up
out of a well, FIVE feet deep and con-
tanning but one-and-a-half feet of water
The body was that of Mr.. Weisman.
The old man had left home to get water
for his cattle and the supposition is
that he lost his balance and drowned
Mr.. Weisman was about 50 years old.
George H. Ripley, Minocqua pioneer,
died at Upson, aged IS, Of cancer of the
stomach.
James Friend, recently arrested just
as be stepped out of the Milwaukee
house of correction on a charge OF for
gerry in La Crosse, has pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to Waupun for two
! years.
The Sebandein will contest will come
up in the Milwaukee Circuit Court In
January. an appeal having been taken
from the recent decision giving the ST.
O0O,0 900 estate to Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Heyl.
Archie and Percy Miller, of Mil
weuilee, have purchased a tract of land
at SCOTS Landing, on the Tomahawk
river They will start an extensive
sheep ranch.
A gang of clever shoplifters are at
work in La Crosse and their depreda-
tiens have caused big losses to various
stores. Furs valued at 5000 and large
amount Of silks have been stolen. The
police have no clue.
The Edward Hines mill. in Washburn,
closed for the season after having run
since May /. This is the last mill on the
bay to close. The cut of the mill for the
season will run over 10000 feet of lum-
Der and about 15,000,000 lath.
When the companions of Rudolph
Setzke. a planer employed at the Run
Spence Manufacturing Co. plant,
in Milwaukee, were preparing to go to
work the other morning, they were start
led to see the left leg of the lad fall
into their midst from the fourth floor
above. 1t had been cut off at the hip
as clean as if severed by a sharp knife
BY being caught between the platform
of the freight elevator and the fourth
floor of the building. Fastening up
stairs, the woFkmen found the lad
minus his leg. He was taken to the
hospital, where he is in a precarious
condition. Setzke is ii years old.
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