Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-11-23
Ole Grundt of Menomonie died Of in.

effects.
Deer hunters report plenty of game in
the near vicinity of Marinette, but it is
said the animals are unusually timid this
season.
1t is estimated that $4,000 acres of wild
land. heavily cumbered with windfalls.
logs and brush were cleared in Barron
County by the forest fires of September
last
Tue remains of John Bosch, who died
aboard vessel in Prince William's sound.
Alaska, on his way to the klondike last
April, were brought back and buried at
Gratiot.
The Rev. John Favile of Appleton, who
has preached at the Congregational
Church there since 1886. has been called
as pastor of the First Congregational
Church at Peoria, Ill.
Hog cholera has made its appearance in
Marinette County in the vicinity of For
WHY'S Corners. and in parts of Coleman.
One farmer in Coleman is reported to
have lost eighteen in week
The 16-year-old son of Matt Brausch.
residing at Rockville, while fooling with
a revolver, shot his S-year-old brother i'll
the breast, the ball entering the lung.
The boy may recover, though in a critical
condition.
Giuseppe Puci and Miss Marietta De
Strefuna were married at Fond du Lac.
The bride is 16 years old and arrived from
Italy few days before. The groom works
at Marblehead. About fifty Italians from
Marblehead accompanied the pair
The body of Ernst Messmann, the MUIR
cerer of Mr.. and Mrs. John Bahls at
Mishicott, has not been claimed by his
relatives, though they have been mott
fled of his death. 1t viii be inferred in the
public cemetery a, the expense of the
county.
A man who registered as Fred Wider
and is supposed to be from Nelson. was
found dead in his room at the Hart House
in Eau Claire. He had evidently died as
soon as he reached his room, as he was
not undressed. His head was resting on
a pillow and his feet on the floor. The
death is supposed to have resulted from
heart disease.
a telegram from California announced
the death of David w. Emerson, a pion-
eer lumberman of Racine. Mr.. Emerson
was born in Vermont in 1922 and settled
III Racine in 1916. He went to California
a year ago on account of his poor health.
He served on the school board of Racine
for fifteen years and held other public
offices.
Charles Dodge, the Kenosha colored boy
who was arrested some time since on
charge of burglarizing Tacki & Tuerk's
saIc aud csfA fi,,er md 1l1.ly
pleaded guilty and was sentenced by
Judge Slosson to one year in the State
reformatory at Green Bay. The boy is a
minor and at the time of the theft he was
intoxicated by liquor bought from the
men he robbed.
Several members of the sophomore and
| freshman classes of Beloit College have
| been fined 50 each by the faculty for par
| ticipating in n cane rush recently. The
rush" was of little consequence in itself,
but as it was expressly forbidden by the
faculty, the penalty has been imposed
The sophomores are held in the greater
responsibility in the matter for, since the
night of the freshman banquet, they left
no stone unturned in their efforts to force
the freshmen into a contest of physical
strength.
At Marinette, The litt'l son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas LeMieux died after q brief
illness of day and half. The cause of
death is given by the physician, DR.. Addi-
son, as gastritis and peritonitis of the
stomach caused by swallowing some indi-
2estible substance. The latter, all the
evidence indicates, was small nails and
pieces of cork. 1t is known that the baby
had eaten corks and it is quite certain that
the child also swallowed nails, as the
symptoms indicated it.
William Holmes, .Jr., better known as
'Black Bill" of Marinette, the general
superintendent of the road, helped unload
logs at Pembine. The bridge from which
the logs are rolled off the cars is about
thirty or forty feet above the rivers sur
face. Mr. Holmes. while unloading, start
ed to cross in front of a loaded car, part of
the chains of which had been removed.
When about half the length of the car, a
brakeman loosened the remaining bind
ing chain, letting the logs loose. The only
way to save himself was to jump into the
river in advance of the logs and take
chances OF landing in the water farther
down stream than the logs did. After
hard fight in the water he was picked up
By the crew completely exhausted.
There has been a change in the Manu-
facturers' Paper Company which has
been taken in the East to mean that two
of WiscOnsin's big news mills had taken
steps to join the big Eastern trust which
is known as the International Print Pa
per Company. Though it is certain that
the two ills have left the Western com
bination. which corresponds to the trust
in the Fast. it is said that there is no
foundation for the belief that the mills
will be bought up by the trust. The Fox
river combination, as the Manufacturers
Company is sometimes He'd, on Nov. 1
lost two of its members, the Nekoosa Pa
per Company and the Grand Rapids Pulp
and Paper Company, The former making
sixty tons of paper a day and the latter
thirty-five tons. Since that time the mills
have been marketing their own product
and the tonnage controlled by the Manu-
facturers Company Is reduced TO 13o.
The two mills which ithdrew entered in
to an agreement last July with the Manu-
facturers Company by which the COM
pany was to handle the entire product of
these mills as well as those of the Cen
tralia Pulp and Water Power Company,
the Combined Locks Company, the John
Edwards Manufacturing Company and
the Tomahawk Pulp and Paper Company,
in all amounting to 225 tons daily.
The relief rooms at Cumberland have
been closed. Much clothing, lumber, shin
gles groceries. bedding and kitchen furni-
ture. two dozen cook stoves, 100 bushels
of timothy seed and twenty-five bushels
of clover seed have been distributed.
August Reck, farmer in the town of
Green La &c. was accidentally killed while
engaged in bauling cornstalks. A team
of horses took a sudden fright, and in
yiunging forward struck Air. Reck to the
ground aud hurled him head foremost
against gate post. His skull was crush
ed and his death took place shortly after
he was picked up.
Elbert w. Hetherington, the member of
Company C, Third Wisconsin, wto died
at Newport News, was buried at New
Richmond.
All of the coal dock fires which have
been making considerable trouble and loss
for the coal companies at West Superior,
are now extinguished. 1t is vet impossi-
BILE TO accurately estimate the loss, but the
Philadelphia and Reading Company,
which had the two largest fires, lost hun
lreds of tons of coal by fire and much
more was damaged. 1t is not thought that
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