Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

THIS sedsoA. Ihls Is one OF the HFSi
direct results of the new Business Mems
Club
At Prentice Henry Ollita was instant
ly killed by 800" line train. His head
leg and an arm were severed from thu
body.
Arthur Ditmon, aged 16, and a child's
saving bank containing SO are missing
from the home of Hugh Bahlert III
Pound
Cal. Willey's livery barn was destroy
ed by fire at Washburn and ten horses
were cremated. Inc loss is several thou
sand dollars
Alta McAllister, aged IS years, OF
Dayton, was severely injured by being
accidentally shot by his brother, Ray.
while hunting.
A 12-year-oId son of LATE Miller OF
the town of Scott is in precarious con.
dition as the result of a kick in the side
which will probably cause death.
Mrs. E. Caskey, aged IS years, was
fatally burned in Bloomington. Hel
clothes caught fire while she was burn
ing rubbish in the dooryard of her home
Eva Daniels, aged Is years, has beer
missing from her home in Menasha fol
several days. 1t is thought that she has
gone off with band of wandering gyp
sizes
E. ]. Cook, proprietor of restaurant
in Duluth, has been ordered by the cour
to pay Henry G.. Richardson, colorec
man, $50 damages for refusing to serv'
him supper.
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Through the purchase of 1900 acres
of land in Pinar del Rio. Cuba, by Twit
City capitalists, was made the first steI
III the plan to establish a Neenah colon!
In that district.
Harry Jackson. the 2-year-old baby
of Mr. and Mrs William Jackson of Nee
nah was bitten by a mad dog, his face
being lacerated. The child was taken ts
Chicago for treatment.
William Mcconnell was arrested IL
Neenah for peeping into windows. Later
it developed that he was an escaped lu
matte from the northern hospital and he
was taken back there.
TObiar Alberts, the Neenah man who
thrice broke jail at Appleton while await
ing trial on different charges, the latest
being Highway robbery, is believed to be
in hiding near Neenah
An injunction issued by the District
Court has been served on John Dietz and
his wife. restraining Dietz from interfer.
ing with a lumber drive at Cameron
dam, on Thornapple river.
The damage suit of John Johnson of
Kenosha, boy who demanded $4,000
from the Laf1inRand Powder Company
for personal injuries. was settled out of
court. the plaintiff receiving $3.50.
Wilbert Paskey, a 15-year-old boy, was
instantly killed near Waterloo by the
charge from a shotgun in the hands of
little girl The coroner's jury rem
dered a verdict of accidental death.
A report reached the police of Sheboy
gan that A. c. Moffitt, who was said 20
have drowned in the Sheboygan river
two weeks ago, has been seen by an ac-
quaintance in st. Louis a few days ago.
A verdict of not guilty was given in
the case of Edward l.. Kent of Belmont,
charged with killing his youngest son,
Walter Kent by stabbing on the night
of Aug 5, 1904. The defendant is IA
years old and the son was % years old.
A plea of self-defense was made.
1t is learned that fishermen on the east
shore of Lake Winnebago are doing a
prosperous trade this spring by netting
sturgeon and extracting the spawn,
which, after the process of curing and
canning. is sold to wholesalers and sent
to foreign countries as the best imported
Russian caviar.
Louis Macs. IS years old, employed at
the Brillion Cooperage Company, was
caught in the shafting of the company's
MILL His right arm was so badly man.
gled that it was amputated at the Shout
der. His right collarbone and right
shoulder blade were broken and he sus-
tanned serious internal injuries.
The Marinette, Tomahawk and West
ern railway will begin on a new track
between Camp Hogan and Spirit Falls
within the next few days. The new steel
and ties are on the ground and a crew
of men will begin the construction as
soon as the spikes come. The new track
will cover a distance of seven miles.
A carload of shingles which had been
sidetracked on Green Island on the Du-
buque division of the Milwaukee road
between Savannah and Dubuque was dis
covered ablaze and after the fire was ex-
tinguished and the body of a man, pre-
sumably that of tramp, was found,
burned to a crisp. 1t is believed he had
been smoking in the car and after going
to sleep the car was set on fire by sparks
from the pipe.
State Insurance Commissioner Hosts
statement on the condition of all insur-
ance corporations on Jan. /, 1905, shows
that they had a prosperous business in
this State last year, collecting over S10,-
100000. The statement adds: ''The
thirty-seven old-line companies made a
net surplus gain of $50,246, 841 10, or
total of 1927 $40, 3390S; the forty cas-
ualty and surety companies, $14,309,-
210.62: the twenty assessment accident
societies, a balance of $3.50, 690.64; the
sixty-four fraternal societies, a balance
of S30,45S, 323. %"
With the arrest of Willie Looming and
Willie Zieck, each aged u years, and
sons of respectable parents. the Neenah
police believe they have broken up
gang of youthful thieves. Looming en-
tered a hardware store in broad daylight
while the proprietor was talking to
friend at the edge of the sidewalk and
left Zieek on guard outside. He robbed
the till. They made confession of this
and a score of other petty robberies.
Looming was sent to the Waukesha in
dustrial school and Zieck allowed to go
on promise of good behavior.
The knife with which John Blowsnake
murdered Kickapoo Shopdoac at Witten-
berg on the night of Aug. IL, 1908. was
found i, clump of bushes near the
scene and the police also have in their
possession the shoes worn by Blowsnake
on that night. 1t is stated that while
arranging to photograph the remains
pocket book containing three checks on
Milwaukee bank for a sum aggregating
300 was found in the lining of the dead
.llan's coat. Blowsnake stated to the
police that he did not get all of the
81. 800 Shopdoac received from the sale
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