Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-06-22

commit suicide by drowning ii the Fox
river.
Louis Lueck, Ripon teamster, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat with
| a razor.
Sneak thieves robbed the house of NJ. s.
Stoddard of GAINESVILLE, making away with
S24 in gold and other articles.
John Tremper, aged "a, has disappeared
from Racine. a few days ago he injured
his hand and was not able to work.
The Republican State central commit
tee has decided to hold the Republican
State convention at the exposition build
ing in Milwaukee Aug. II.
The body of Frank White, miner from
| the Vermilion range, north of Lake SUI
perior, who had been spending few
weeks visiting his mother at Omro, was
found in the Fox river near the dock.
| Whether the drowning was an accident or
not is unknown. TIE body was almost
| unrecognizahle.
James Price, aged about 60 years, COM
! mitted suicide at Omro by taking paris
green and morphine. All attempts to save
him he resisted. Despondelcy was the
| cause of the act He fell last spring and
| broke the patella of his right knee and
has been unable to work since He leaves
wife and one daughter.
The spring catch of herring on Green
bay near Marinette is proving much larg-
er than usual. The small boats from the
| east shore have been arriving constantly
with many packages of fish. Several thou
sand packages have been received at both
places. 1t is estimated that 10000 pack
| ages have gone East from Fish Greek and
other points. The herring are packed in
| salt.
Carl Runge, Milwaukee's city attorney,
has announced that he is not in favor of
appealing the case of the city against the
Milwaukee Street Railway Company. In
this decision the court held that the Com
mon Council had no right to order a re-
duction of fare on the ground that the
road could not be operated at reasonable
profit under the proposed rate of 4 cents.
The new city attorney says he thinks it
would be useless expense to carry the
case to the Supreme Court.
Mrs. e. Field, formerly resident of
Berlin for many years, and now of Chi
| cago, who was in Berlin on a visit, it is
thought, attempted to commit suicide by
drowning in the Fox river. She was
found lying in shallow water in an un-
conscious condition by a fisherman named
Charles Hess. Her head was Just out
of the water when found 1t was learned
that she left the house ut about midnight
and went direct to the river, waded out
about fifteen feet from shore and then
sank into the water. She will recover
from the exposure.
The Northwestern Railway Company
has been usi.lg the services of "spotter"
for some time past, and as result some
fifteen of the oldest and best-known con-
ductors on the road have been given sixty
and ninety day vacations. In some IN
stances the men have been laid off for
''pocketing change" taken from passen-
gers for travel, while in other cases it has
been for disobeying rules Under the new
system adopted some months ago it is al
most impossible for conductor to knock
dow.." without being caught. Not only
have conductors through Fond du Lac
been discharged or laid off, but the axe
has been brought into use between there
and Milwaukee. Madison, GAINESVILLE and
even on the Chicago division.
On the Miles Wilbur farm, less than
two miles from Palmyra, on a wild, rocky
hillside of the Kettle range of bluffs, is Il
huge rock known far and near as the
stone elephant" 1t is annually visited
by large number of people, some of
whom pronounce it a petrifed elephant,
but the theory most generally believed is
that it was hewed out of the solid rock. in
which it seemed imbedded, centuries ago
by some prehistoric race. 1t is about
twenty feet long, six or eight feet high,
of dark gray color, and weighs hundreds
of tons. The body only is above the level
of the ground, its legs being deeply sunk
below, holding it firmly in standing po-
sition. A tradition believed by many is
that around this huge stone the Indians
gathered to offer sacrifices to the great
spirit and burn their prisoners at the
stake, or make them the victims of slow
torture.
State Bank Examiner Edward |. Kidd
has submitted his sixth semi-annual re-
port to Gov. Scofeld, showing the finan-
cial condition of the State, private and
savings banks of Wisconsin at the close
of business N May 5. The total number
of banks of his class in operation in Wis
consin is PAT, of which ten were estab-
lished in the past six months. The total
resources and liabilities of the banks now
in operation are $51, Jas, 1886, the increases
in the six months being Resources. ST.
3o5,946; loans and discounts, 50 209. $50;
capital, $44 1908; deposits, $4,6S6. 400;
available cash, $1,212,643 The surplus
and profits decreased 5000, 243. The cash
reserve, 1887 per cent of the total depos-
its, shows a slight decrease since the last
report An unusually large increase in
deposits is shown, the aggregate being $4,-
6S6, 1856, the largest increase within the
same period of time since the organization
of the bank examiners office four years
ago.
At Iron Belt, John Formalo, an Italian
miner, performed a daring feat, partly to
show his patriotism for his adopted coun-
try and partly TO earn $40, offered by
Capt. j. j. Anderson of the Atlantic mine
to any man who would climb the 100
foot flagpole and put rope through the
pulley. The old rope had accidentally
been broken and slipped out. Sixty feet
from the ground the pole had been spliced
to a thirty foot pole and telephone man
climbed it to the splicing some time ago
and pronounced it unsafe, the pole taper
ing to thickness of only four inches at
the top. After some attempts had been
made by the most daring but failed to
reach the top, Formalo mounted it to the
top barefooted amid a large crowd of
spectators, and conyersed with his coun-
trymen for about ten minutes while in the
act of slipping the rope through the pull
ley and made the descent n safety.
Joseph Rice, 8 years old, while riding
bicycle In Milwaukee, fell from the
wheel directly in front of 9 buggy driven
by j. Ii. Hogan. The horse struck him
on the head, fracturing his skull, and he
died.
James Kearney of Chicago, who shot
and killed his wife at house on River
street, in Milwaukee, April 5, has been
sentenced in the municipal court to four
teen years in States prison. At the time
of the murder Kearney attempted to take
his own life by sending bullet through
his temple, completely destroying his eye
sight
Thieves entered Notre Dame Church,
the principal Catholic church in Chip
pewa Falls, and carried off over $1,000
worth of yestments and sacred vessels
Everything of value that the church con-
tanned was carried off.
Walter Cook of Loyal has chip with
a piece of rock imbedded in it that he
found while cutting wood. 1t was found
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