Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-05-04
Albert Phillips died at Beloit, aged 80

ward of Hayward coroner of Sawyer
County.
A lumberman named Johnson lost both
legs in an accident on a logging drive
near Eau Claire
Thieves broke into Gross & Jacobs
hardware store at Stevens Point and stole
500 worth of jackknives.
Thieves entered Links grocery at SUI
perior and wrecked the safe with crow
bars, securing little money, however.
Lawrence Burke, 33 years of age. was
killed by being jolted from a car of the
Fond du Lac Avenue line in Milwaukee.
Old Tom Mccain, the first white child
to come to the Chippewa river, died at
Chippewa Falls, at the age of II years.
John Billings, switchman, was in
stantly killed at Amigo by the cars. He
was a well-known railroad man of the
State.
Thirty carrier pigeons were recently re-
leased at Mansion and started on a fight
to Milwaukee. The birds took the course
unerringly.
The Elwell -four mill at Sheboygan has
been leased by Thomas McNely of Omro,
who for several years conducted a -four
ing mill at Clintonville
Alfred Cobb and Georae Baxter of Sun
Prairie started for Alaska recently. They
will buy ponies to carry them and their
outfit into the interior.
John Watson escaped from Jail at Ra-
cine recently. After religious service had
been held in the Jail, Watson walked out
with the crowd unobceryed.
Ten thousand printed copies of syn
opsis of the game laws have been sent
out from Madison to be displayed in he
tells, railway stations and other public
places.
Charles Netterfeld was arrested at
charge of robbing the postoffice at Dacy.
He was given hearing and held to trial
before the Federal Court.
]. NJ. Eunson of Merrill has chicken
freak. 1t evidently is the result of
doube-yolk egg 1t has four legs and
four wings, and parts of two bodies, they
being jointed about midway, and but one
head.
Besides the will which is being contest
the late William Carson, dated twenty
days before the document first filed, has
been put on record in the probate court
at Eau Claire.
Sixteen Odd Fellows cases, adjourned
from time to time awaiting the decision
of the Supreme Court, were tried at Beav-
er Dam and Judgment was given against
the defendants according to the decision
of the Supreme Court.
Ex-senator Sawyer of Oshkosh has Civ
en- about $4,000 in gifts to Lawrence
University in the past thirty years. He
has also contributed go, 900 to the Harris
lihrHry fund at Oshkosh, besides frequent
gifts to Beioit and Ripon Colleges.
While John Mccarthy was working on
the drive at Armstrong Creek for the
Scofield & Arnold Lumber Company, he
slipped off a log and was drowned. The
body was recovered several hours after
wards. His folks live at New London.
There was a quick piece of telephone
construction accomplished near Baraboo
the other night. Clark Peace of the Union
Telephone Company at Richland Center
learned that some farmers intended to
construct line at once between La Vale
and Cazenovia. Pease put twenty men at
work and in twenty four hours he had the
line between the two places completed,
thus forestalling the farmers. The line
is about ten miles i'll length.
Black Earth, on the st. Paul road, was
the scene of a double murder Two men
broke into the house of Andrew Nelson,
Drained the old man and beat his wife
into insensibility. They then set fire to
the house and the bodies Of their two vic
time were nearly consumed by the flames.
Nelson sold house and lot for $500 a
few days before and the murderers were
evidently after the money. 1t is not
known if they succeeded in finding it.
An order has been entered in the Cir
cult Court at Oshkosh in the matter of
the assignment of the Sherry Lumber
Company, authorizing Assignee Cameron
to sell certain lands of the defendant COM
pany valued at $4,000. The lands re-
ferred to by this order are located in
Wood and Portage counties, and consist
OF 11,000 acres of farming land. The
average price for which this land may
be sold is 81 an acre. The purchasers
with whom Assignee Cameron has closed
a deal for the property were Benson and
Anderton of Milwaukee.
A head-end collision between the Me-
nominee passenger train and n special
double headed freight occurred at Fond
du Lac on the Northwestern. Engineer
Martin Dolan of the head engine of the
special was crushed and scalded to death.
Engineer Dudley of the second locomo-
+;ro ,x,oe, burloI NTH zinc into tho riv-
err twenty feet below, but escaped with
a bad scalding. The passenger train had
aboard fully 200 people, but all escaped.
The fireman and head brakeman jumped
before the collision The freight was pre-
pairing to take siding at the time the
accident occurred. The dead man resid-
ed at GAINESVILLE.
A big calcium carbide trust has been
organized, with capital of $25,0O0,0O0.
The Lake Superior Carbide Company is
n member of the organization, and the
firm of Pettbone Il Mulliken, which
owned a plant in Appleton, has merged
its interests with the Superior company.
The plant in Appleton has been shut
down and will be moved, as the Lake Su-
perior plant will be depended on to sup
ply luis part VI the COuHis' 1HtiS die
three plants in the West-at Chicago,
Appleton and Lake Superior. The COM
bine will control the worlds supply of
carbide which is used in the manufac
ture of acetylene gas.
At Wonewoc. little child of A. II.
Whitney died from poisoning caused by
licking the cork of a bottle of strychnine
which it obtained from its fathers pocket.
The child only lived about twenty min
utes.
Miss Clara Condit, the Vernon County
insane asylum patient who swallowed a
ten-inch case knife and was relieved of
it by a surgical operation, now alleges
that she also swallowed thermometer,
and two spoons, which, however, have not
come to light She is in good health and
the doctors are anxiously awaiting de-
vclopments.
Fire caught In the lumber yard of the
Willow River Lumber Company at New
Rich. nond and destroyed 100000 feet of
lumber. A terrific wind famed the
flames, but the firemen worked hard to
stop their spread The loss is fully In
sured.
The site for the A. w. Stevens COM
pany agricultural machinery factory was
selected at Marinette. Fifteen acres in
the heart of the city was offered by the
III, Witheck Company. Work win begin
Immediately and the old factory in Au-
krr ~ will no RIM until August