Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

John Mitchell. farmer, 30 years old,
residing about four miles west of Cedar
burg. fell dead from a stack of grain
while assisting at a neighbours threshing-
Olaf j. Decker, an employee Of the
Penn Stone Company of Superior, COM
mitted suicide by hanging in emulation
| of a character in a stock company play
at the local theater
Warren Allen, cook in the woods
near Arbor Vitae, for the Ross Lumber
Company, drank one quart of lemon ex-
| tract and died. He was 81 years OF
/ age and has no known relatives.
Much feeling has been stirred up in
| Almond because of the sign of the sa-
Icon in the building which formerly was
! the village school The signs says: The
| Old School House Sample Room.
Ellery Carlo % years Of age, was al
most instantly killed by a stick thrown
Icy fellow workman Willie they and
others were INDUCING in horse play
around the Northwestern Lumber Com
| pany's mill in Stanley.
Julius Scheam and Charles Meyers,
| both of Shawano, appeared before Judge
Goodland in Appleton, pleaded guilty
and We're sentenced to one year at Wau-
pun. Scheam pleaded guilty to forgery
and Meyers to burglary in the night time.
The body of Emil Better who was
| drowned in Lake Butte Des Morris, was
| recovered by George Staples. A reward
| of $50 had been offered by relatives. The
dead mans hands tightly gripped stems
of wild rice. He was % years old and
| single.
William II. Foster one of the pioneer
settlers, died at Luck, aged rs years.
| He was the first supervisor from his
| town, and his was the first marriage and
his was the first white child born there.
| He located there in 1857. and for over
| forty years he was a postmaster,
David Lewis, aged 50, prosperous
| farmer residing near Bangor, was found
in starving condition in an old log hut
| not far from his farm. He had been
there at least a week, having started off
on visit to a neighbour. He claims he
was overtaken with faintness and had
| neither food nor water.
While running from The Lawrence ttnis
| versity gymnasium in Appleton to the
| football field the squad encountered Il
| hornets nest at College avenue and
| Union street There was no practice
that day. Sherger, the six-foot center,
and Wingender, guard, stepped into the
nest and before they could get away
We're both badly stung.
Early on a recent morning burglars en-
| tered or attempted to enter homes of five
lon e ID = 10
of former Mayor Higgins a savings bank
was taken. and ut the home of Attorney
Thomas KeaIney jewelry was stolen.
The homes of Mayor Nelson, w. g. Git
tmgs and another resident was entered,
but nothing of value was obtained.
Passenger train No % on the North
western railway between Crystal Falls
| and Stager had Il narrow escape from an
| attempt to ditch it. A Polish miner.
whose name is not known, has been ar
rested in connection with the attempt
and is believed to be insane A huge
pile of stones. crowbarS and other tools
was found piled on the middle of the
track by the engineer of the train who
succeeded in stopping just in time to pre-
vent a disaster
condition of the little S-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. August Schmidt,
who suffered from being struck by light.
ming in storm which swept over Mani
t0woc. The child was standing on the
porch Of her home. when the bolt struck
the chimney of IN adjoining house. 1t
glanced off, striking the supports of the
Schmidt porch and making the child un-
conscious. The little one has been i'll
commissions and is not expected to live.
| Little damage was done to the house.
1t is believed in Appleton that uni
| form attack has been planned on Cath
Ole cemeteries in that part of the State
Previous to the recent attacks made on
the gravestOneS in OcuntO, OcOnt0 Falls
Peshtigo and Birch Creek, an attack was
made at the St JoSeph's cemetery in
Appleton on cross, which was totally
destroyed The damage done amounted
to about 500 Since the reports have
been steadily coming i'll from other places
it appears to be that the attack was
planned some time ago. and it is beiiev-
ed by Catholics in Appleton that unless
the guilty parties are detected in their
work they will continue to devastate
Catholic cemeteries in northern WiScon-
sin.
The State of Wisconsin won an impor
tant round in the back tax" litigation
brought by the State to compel the rail
roads to pay large sums claimed on ac-
count of erroneous reports of gross earn
ings filed by the companies with the
State railroad commissioners. The roads
admitted in previous litigation that their
reports omitted items of earnings that
ought to have been included. but in the
suits brought by the State they claimed
that back taxes were the same as debts
and that according to the statute Of limi-
| tationS the State could recover for only
six years back, while the State contend
ed that recovery could be made for the
last twenty years. On this point Circuit
Judge +. Ray Stevens ruled that there
is Il great difference between taxes and
| debts and that the States contention was
| correct. Railroad Commissioner Thomas
discovered unrepOrted items of earnings
for the last six years the taxes on which
would amount to $4J3,000 To these fig
ures the railroads practically agreed but
it is said that the latest decision will
bring the amount to be recovered near
to Sl,OOD,OOO.
John Pierson, claiming Milwaukee as
his home, was assaulted by an unknown
man i'll KenOsha with the intent of rob
berry. Pierson is now in the Kenosha
hospital suffering from half dozen bad
scalp wounds, but he managed to save
his money.
The governments weekly crop report
speaks thus of conditions in this State:
Weather generally favorable: frost did
little damage; corn nearly all matured.
and much cutting done: thrashing prac-
tically completed and blowing progress
ing: pastures and second crop clover
good; apples and potatoes very poor.
A distant relative of Mrs. James y.
Walsh, WHO resides in Appleton. stated
that an effort is to he made by the rela-
tives of Mrs. Walsh to have grand