Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-16

ALL OVER THE STATE.

from a wagon of lumber and was
run over by the loaded vehicle and
died within an hour.
A coroner's jury in the inquest
over the body OF Walter Jordan, of
Chicago, decided in La Crosse that he
came to his death by being struck by
train
Fire in the laundry of the county
poor farm building at Wauwatosa
threatened the lives of 200 inmates,
many of whom became panic-strick-
en-. All were removed. The loss was
$4,000
The Neenah theater has passed
from the management of Phil Laffey,
of Chicago. and the Neenah Theater
Company has taken hold. F. w.
Greene, Neenah newspaperman, is
manager.
Aims box thieves operated at st.
Joseph Church, in Appleton, but got
nothing. Then they removed about
80 cents from the contribution box at
the altar of st. Anthony, which they
damaged badly.
En- route to his home at Tisch Mills
on furlough after nine years ser
vice in the army of the Philippines,
Anton Sehaeuer became i'll in Mil
waukee, and died after an operation.
He was 20 and single.
| III Nf har OF sp6
the hammer of his revolver while
trying to dislodge a cap that had
stuck and the hammer responded by
setting off the cartridge, the bullet
passing through the young mans leg.
BY the falling of the scaffold on a
new brick chimney being built for
the Paine Lumber Company in Osh-
kosh three men were hurt, the most
seriously injured being 7. L. Skinner
of that city, who had his left arm
broken and sustained bruises and pos
sibly internal injuries.
| In La Crosse a coroners jury de-
cided that a train killed Walter Jor-
dan, bridge construction man, found
dead near the camp of the Northwest
ern road Sunday morning, and in
connection with whose death Frank
Cunningham and Charles Kelly, fell
low workmen, were held.
John Trickey, IS years old, appear
ed in the sheriff's Office in Sheboy-
gan, his clothes dripping with water,
and telling of having attempted sui
eide in Lake Michigan. Penniless
and too old to earn his living, his
wife got a divorce, he said. He will
probably go to the poorhouse.
That Senator Thomas Morris would
positively be candidate for Governor,
in spite of McGovern, Lewis and
| Strange, was a statement made to The
odore Kronshage, partner OF Mr.. Nc
Govern, by friends of Senator Morris
when Mr. Kronshage was called to La
Crosse on normal school business.
John Didier, John Jackson and The
odore Trevelan have caught a mus
ky" in Moens lake, weighing "
pounds. The bait used was a phan-
tom minnow. and when the fish was
landed after being shot, it was found
that it had severed heavy wire lead
er in the snap of his powerful jaws
j. w Wells, president of j. w Wells
Lumber Company, of Menomtnee, says
the mill of the company, recently
burned will not be rebuilt. The Bird
/ & Wells Company, of Wausaukee, has
purchased the standing timber OF the
Wells Company and it will be sawed
there. The new Wells hardwood fac
tory will be built at Dunbar instead
of Menominee.
John Brauer, employed at the Nee
nah woodenware plant, was fined 81
and costs in court on charge of as
sauIt and battery, preferred by Will
lam Schneider, young boy employed
at the plant. Schneider claimed he
was struck and beaten by Brauer.
Brauer claims he was obliged to kick
/ the boy out of the way Of a belt
which he was dangerously near.
H. B. Sanda, a prominent Neenah
business man, narrowly escaped be-
| ing shot by an unknown man. Sanda
/ was standing in front of his store,
when his assailant and woman
| nasseG by. Sanda casually glanced at
| the couple, when the man suddenly
wheeled about, asked Sanda what he
was looking at Sanda was about to
make reply, when the man pulled a
revolver and a bullet whizzed by
Sandals head. Sanda grappled with
the man and took the gun from him.
The assailant escaped.
/ George Listle. who has a long Grim
inal record and who is charged with
being an habitual criminal, has been
bound over for trial in circuit court
| in Fond du Lac. 1t is said that he
will plead guilty when arraigned be-
! fore Judge Fowler Listle was ar
rested at North Fond du Lac on the
charge of stealing brass and clothing
belonging to Scott Smith The police
1
has been raiding poultry houses in
the village and that he has confessed
all his thefts. He was. sent to prison
in 1908 for stealing a robe belonging
70 the late Samuel Level
Frank Kamen. of Chicago, timer.
fell from the fourth floor OF the new
Mariner Building in Milwaukee and
was killed He is the second man TO
die while working on this building
Kamen fell from q ladder on which
he missed his foothoid.
Nicholas Braa. who vas found in
jured on the Milwaukee tracks west
Of La Crosse. died OF his injuries.
Braa never recovered consciousness
and the cause of his death, as we'll as
that OF Nie5erg Nelson. who was
found dead beside him, remains IN
known.
A N. Riley. OF Rhinelander. has
been appointed general manager Of