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

by A. c. Fuge of West Bend. died Of
conc. She was 5 years old, and had a
record of 2:1OA.
John Condor. IL years old, was found
guilty in GAINESVILLE of mansaughter in
the fourth degree. He killed a 13-year-
old companion, George Griffith, a year
ago.
Mrs. August Mhdbrand is dead IA
Mayville, after short illness. She was
~ years old and leaves husband and
sixteen children. The youngest of the
children is l year old
Mrs. H. H. Hoard. wife of one of the
leading merchants and politicians of
Waupun, committed suicide by hanging
herself at her home. Mrs. Hoard leaves
husband and three children.
Nelson Wellington Hodge, who died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary
lie Roy, in Hartland, was the only sur
viving member of Oberlin Ohio colleges
first class, which graduated in 1888. He
was the first teacher of Frances Will
lard, who refers to him gratefully in
her autobiography
Suicide rather than go to the poor
farm was the choice made by Olaf
Roust, young Swede who has been
working in the woods in Douglas county
until recently. He was hanging with a
rope around his neck, while his feet rest
ed on the floor so that he could, it seems,
have saved himself.
At the funeral of Miss Julia Nachtway
of Pound six young women acting as
pall-bearers, found themselves lacking of
strength to continue on their way to the
cemetery with the coffin. They rested
the remains on the snow, and while four
stood guard others went to secure men
to take their places.
Practical test Of the Wisconsin pri-
mary election law In special elections
has not resulted in success. Voters COM
planned of the complications and were
not sure they We're voting for the can
didate they favored. 1t was found also
in some towns that the cost of the pri-
mary election was excessive, in some
cases exceeding that of a regular cleo
ton.
Predicting in a foghorn voice that Chi
cage will shortly have an awful loss of
life and property, and that there are
terrible things in store for Milwaukee
and Wausaukee. the details of which
he refuses to tell, Hermit Jim" Anton
has left the dust of Wausaukee and
neighborhood on his old shoes, purchas-
ed pair of new ones of cowhide, and
has gone to parts unknown.
Mrs Mae Schaefer, aged % years, is
dead mt the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. n. Tolverson. well-to-do farm
ers near Neenah. On June ID, less than
three months after her marriage to Err
nest Schaefer, the latter was found dead,
having committed suicide by drinking
carbOlic acid. No cause was assigned for
the deed and his wife's grief over the
tragedy became so great that it induced
a complication of diseases which result
ed in death.
Twenty-nine passengers miraculOusly
escaped burning to death on the Wis
consin Central four miles from Chippe-
wa Falls. Ditched by a broken rail,
two coaches rolled down the embank-
ment and caught fire. The crew chop
ped holes in cars and broke in windows
to rescue the passengers. The coaches
were enveloped in flames when the last
passenger was rescued. None seriously
injured. One woman and four men were
slightly hurt.
After chasing out a tax collector with
a club, Henry Boettcher, resident of
the town of Easton, has been returned
to the northern State hospital for insane
at Oshkosh, from which institution he
was liberated some time ago on parole.
Last summer Boettcher's wife, whom it
is alleged he abused, was committed to
the asylum. Boettcher accompanied his
wife to town and while she was being
examined, seated himself in the court
house rotunda. There he remained long
into the afternoon. When accosted by
anyone he would not answer and gazed
steadily at the floor. 1t required the
united efforts of three men to put hand
cuffs on him to remove him from the
spot, and he was taken to Oshkosh.
The Lake Superior and Southeastern
railway, presumably the Wisconsin Cen
trail backed by the Illinois Central, has
begun condemnation proceedings of the
right-of-way wanted through Superior.
One-half of this property is already un-
der option until May l. Starting at
Banks avenue in the west end, the land
affected extends along the Omaha 5
right-of-way for a distance of eleven
blocks, and somewhere on this strip the
depot will be located. The eighty acres
wanted for machine shops is located on
Spruce avenue a short distance from
where the road first strikes it. From the
city limits the road will make an almost
bee line for Ladysmith. Surveyors are
now working on the final location of the
line.
Moaning almost continually from in
tense pain, and perhaps fatally i'll. Fred
+. G.. Jaehnke of Johnson Greek. former
sheriff of jefferson county, is suffering
from a violent case of what is believed
to be poisoning through using matches
for toothpicks Mr.. Jaehnke has already
undergone two operations in hope of re-
lief. and in desperation sought the aid
of John Alexander Dowie at Zion City,
Ill. Thus far every method has been
unsuccessful. His physicians state that
several of the large nerves in Mr..
Jaehnke's face are diseased from the
poisoning. and that this is the cause
for the intense pain which the patient
suffers. The case has baffled several ex-
perts and some declare there is no gre
cedent.
Eight hundred dollars in gold and pa
per money comprising but small part
of the fortune left by Mrs. Adam Scher-
ger. an aged recluse living for a dozen
years in a lonely hut and in extreme
poverty about a mile from Jefferson, near
a dense clump of woods, have been dis
covered in an old mattress which the
woman used for years. A granddaughter
of the woman, who is the sole heir. was
about to burn the mattress and had al
ready touched a match to it, when the
undertaken. Adama Fuchs, persuaded
him to examine the battered affair, and
$500 was discovered.
Mosinee business men have combined
to effect the opening of 10000 acres Of
farm and timber lands in Marathon
county for settlers. They nave raised
5000 for building a road from the city