Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-12-14

z. A. Laffey of Oshkosh has decided to
train an Appleton male chorus for the
Eisteddfod to be held in Milwaukee in
January.
A company is being organized in Ke-
nosha to develop the Petrifying spring.
An analysis shows that it has medicinal
qualities and is inexhaustible.
5. j. Hanowitz. dealer in dry goods and
clothing at Amigo, made an assignment to
Edward Neff. The liabilities are about
$4,000 and the assets about $500.
4. A. Phelps, well known as a composer
OF music and for years the musical drec-
tor of Patti Rosa's company, committed
suicide at Berlin by taking laudanum.
The librarians of the Stout Free Tray
cling libraries in Dunn County closed a
most successful librarians institute at
Menominee. Fifty librarians were pres
ent.
For the first time in the history of Hur-
ley there Is not single policeman on the
pay roll. The fund for paying the police
has been exhausted and the board refuses
to issue more orders.
Among the passengers on the Portland,
lost off the Massachusetts coast, was VIII
liam l.. Chase, former resident of Ke-
nosha. He was said to have been a COM
mercial traveller musician, an actor and
a public speaker.
Under foreclosure proceedings the State
Fair park, located at North Greenfield,
was sold to the State of Wisconsin, AS
"istant Attorney General G. e. Whelar.
bidding in the property on behalf of the
State, which held mortgages to the
amount of $234, ,265.
A. G. Whalen of Chicago, business man
ager of the Northern Chautauqua Asso-
ciation of Marinette and one Of the best
known workers in that movement in the
West, is missing He left Marinette Sept.
q last on a whaleback excursion and has
not been seen since, except at Oconto,
where he was for few days afterward.
Word has been received by Gov. Scotield
from Washington that Wisconsins claim
of between $4,000 and $57 900, which the
State paid to Wisconsin volunteers over
and above the pay allowed by the Govern
ment for the time between the call for
troops and their enrolment into the regu-
lar army, will be returned to the State in
full.
Carl Heine, a deserter from the regu-
lar army, told friend chat 1t would take
him only fifteen minutes to fool the whole
of Uncle Sans army, and he kept his
word. Entering his mothers house in
Bay View he swallowed a dose of strych-
| nine and died in commissions in forty min
utes. Heine belonged to Troop FL, Fifth
cavalry, which was at Huntsville, Ala,
but in November went to Porto Rico. Be
| ing denied permission to go home to see
his family he deserted
At Milwaukee, Minna Liebenberg has
| brought suit against Adolph Liebenberg
| FOR dissolution of what were to the pair
| simply the bonds of an engagement Both
| are Hebrews, and last August, to bind
| their engagement, they were married by a
| justice of the peace as preliminary to an
| orthodox ceremony. The young woman
| later changed her mind and has since re-
| fused TO marry her husband according to
| the rules of the Hebrew faith. She now
| sues for a divorce and her husband is
| fighting the case.
The most destructive coal dock fire
| which has been experienced at West Su-
| perior in years is burning at the Lehigh
| Coal and Coke Company's dock, and ii
is almost certain that at least three lives
| have been lost. The fire was discovered
in the section loaded with Great Northern
Rdilroad coal. 1t undoubtedly started
| from spontaneous combustion In a few
hours it was seen that the fire was beyond
control and the city fire department with
| two fire tugs from Duluth were summon
ed. Foreman James Love took six labor
ers to the top of large coal pile to throw
a stream of water down. While there the
dock underneath them collapsed and the
men were carried into the bay.
| While all the deer hunters were chasing
deer all round through the pines, one little
| fellow by the name of Henry McKlin of
Brule was watching a runaway aud came
near losing his life through the non-effect
of his game. A very large buck came
along and biff, bang, squirted out the gun,
| but on came the enraged deer ut Mcklin,
who, almost frozen, began hide-and-seek
game behind trees and firing at every op-
portunity. At last the deer fell PROSTATE
to the ground, and McKlin, thinking him
dead, was about to cut the deer's throat
when he jumped up, catching Henry with
/
air and letting him down in the top of a
small balsam. Here he and the deer stay
| ed for two days, until A. j. Jones of New
town came along and killed the deer.
| A peculiar accident occurred on the
| Chicago, Burlington and Northern Rail
way near De Soto. A caboose on the
| special freight caught fire while the train
was running at high rate of speed by \
| lamp in the hands of Brakeman Ed. Mil
| Ter exploding. The fire spread rapidly all
| over to the top of the car. Miller alone
was in the car, and unable to get to the
door of the caboose and open it. to pre-
! vent suffccation and burning to DEATH he
was obliged to break the glass out of the
windows. He was badly scorched, as his
clothes were all burned off his body. The
fresh air through the broken window
panes revived him, and crawling to the
| end of the car, he managed to break open
| the door and get out on TO the platform
and jump from the rapidly moving train.
| When the train came to a halt at De Soto
the caboose had been reduced to two pairs
| of redhot trucks, dragging along behind
the last car. Conductor +. A. Mitchell and
| the head brakeman were in the engine and
when they saw what had happened they
supposed that Miller had been burned to
death, Just then farmer drove up with
Miller rolled up in blankets in the bottom
of sleigh and suffering great pain.
A diligent search is being made for
| clues that will lead to the arrest of the
/ person who entered the residence of Mr.,
: and Mrs. Thomas Kent at Ashland and
took from it $500 in currency, which rep
resented their savings for long period of
/ time.
James III. Agen of Superior has suggest
ed that a fund be raised to erect monu-
ment over the grave of Lieut.. Hector
Swift of Rice Lake, who died at Chicka-
mauga. When young Swift was dying he
asked that the Stars and Stripes be
brought to him that he might gaze upon
the flag for the last time.
Bert Babbiti of Trempealesu distin-
guished himself by killing a X with an
ex. The fox had evidently ben chased
| by hounds from near the Trempeauleau
mountain and was nearly exhausted when
/ eornered by three dogs, and was about
played out in running away and easily
dispatched by Babbitt.
Peter Mohr, salesman for Clifford X
Brenan, tailors, pleaded guilty to the
/ charge of embezzlement before County
Judge Harrigan at Rhinelander and was
sentenced TO one year in Waupun. He
was taken to Waupun by Sheriff Stevens.