Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-03-16
State Items of Interest.

At Porter, Charles II. Bates, Jr, was
found dead near his barn. Heart disease
The residence of Frederick Sill at Colby
and most of the contents was destroyed
by fire. The loss is 81 200, with an insur-
ance of $500.
William Schug of Appleton fired a re-
volver out of his window. The bullet
struck Otto Kargus in the cheek, infiict-
ing a slight wound.
Mrs. Mckee, widow living near
Dodgevlle, dropped dead in her doorway
Her body was not discovered until the
following morning.
The horses attached to the Nilbourn
stage ran away at Baraboo, colliding with
post One of the horses was killed and
the stage wrecked.
A large barn owned by Roy Thomas,
near Eau Claire, was burned, together
with team of horses, a COW and valua-
bic amount of farming machinery.
A Business Mems Association has been
organized at Shell Lake, with Judge l..
II. Mead as president, A. Ryan secretary
and o. Wang treasurer An effort will
be made to secure new enterprises and it
was decided to push the movement for
city incorporation for Shell Lake.
On the st. Paul road near Pembine,
the chains around the logs on car be-
hind the locomotive of log train broke
and the logs fell on the track. The train
was under good speedway and fourteen
cars left the track. Seven Of them went
into the ditch. No one was injured.
The board of directors of the State
Womans Christian Temperance Union
home for women has elected officers as
follows: DIR. Annette Shaw, president;
Miss Lois Russell, corresponding secre-
tary; Mrs. l.. A. Doolittle, recording SEC
rotary; Mrs. NJ. E. Wyman, treasurer; all
of Eau Claire.
Andrew Holeman and band of thirty
six Scandinavians from Dane County
have started for Alaska for the purpose
of forming colony on Copper river. Min
ing will not be the primary object of the
men and many may not go to the klondike
at all. The colony will take up timber
lands, build houses, breed reindeer and
engage in transportation. The object of
the party is to plant permanent col
ony in the country, bring in their wives
and children and make Alaska their home
The Stale board of control, which has
investigated charges made against the
management of the State prison. has
made a lengthy report to the Governor,
generating the officials of the prison and
roundly scoring the parties preferring the
charges.
Property owners and business men of
Portage favor the recommendation recent
ly made to the War Department by Gen.
e. s. Bragg, special agent of the Govern
lnent in the Fox river Improvement, favor
ing the abandonment of the work on the
Fox river and the Government canal at
Portage.
Edward Finger, resident of the town
of Grover, was instantly killed while at
work in one of the Oconto company's
camps on the Oconto. He was engaged
in telling a tree which glanced from q
windfall and struck him. Death was in
Simultaneous.
The Oshkosh Water Works Company
has refused to pay its taxes and invites
legal collection by the city. The tax
amount to 1925. The city will make
no attempt to collect it, but will simply
make the usual return delinquent. The
action of the company is supposed to have
some reference to the proposed purchase
of the works by the city, as the company
is in good financial condition.
The two damage suits filed by Andrew
Arnston, a boy who was injured in the
min of the Sawyer & Austin Lumber
Company at La Crosse, have been COM
promised by the payment of 81 800 by the
defendant company.
The Menomince reservation is to be
broken up and the allotment of lands in
scvcralty TO the members of the tribe is
to be made in accordance with the treaty
made by the United States in 1856 with
the Stocknfidge and Munsee Indians. This
viii practically bring the tribal life of
that community of Indians 10 a close
Twenty-nine patents to the land win be
issued by Agent George and delivered TO
the families of the tribe.
milldam across Rock river at Ke-
koskee has been damaged by the warm
weather and heavy SHOWS.
John T. Jaudgraf, a grocer at Eaukau-
M. filed papers of assignment with the
clerk OK the OuSagamie County Court
Joseph L. Mayer is assignee, with bond
of $1,000. The liabilities are about ST.
600: assets about the same.
Mrs. Margaret McConnon has fled a
claim of $1,000 for damages as ist the
city Of GAINESVILLE on account Of a fall on
IA defective walk, by which she broke her
hin. Her husband, John McConnon, has
also filed claim for similar amount.
The city has suits to the amount OF $780,
800 on hand.