Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-05-18

ing considerable damage. The loss In
cludes ammonia valued at $500.
Prof. G. w. Albee, president Of the Osh-
kosh Normal School. has been obliged to
so TO Penoir sanitarium on account OF an
attack of nervous prostration,
Prof G. w Albee, president OF the
Oshkosh normal school, has been obliged
TO go to Pender sanitarium on account
of an attack of nervous prostration.
John Glynn. farmer Of st. Cloud, is
at the Pa-k Hotel at Sheboygan In pre-
carious condition, the result of inhaling
gas which escaped from jet in his room.
Henry $. Woodruff of Janesville, wide
ly known as the patentee and maker Of
the Woodruff trace buckle, and the owner
of Joe BasSett the trotting horse, died,
aged 76 years.
The Boston store and Hunters cycle
shop were destroyed by fire at West Su-
perior Adjoining buildings were dam
aged. Two horses burned. The loss Is
estimated at $4,000.
The Eau Claire Telephone Company's
system was attached by s. j. Heatield of
Menomonie and J. ID. Hills of Eau Claire
and turned over to Emmett Horan Of Eau
Claire as custodian.
r. NJ. johnson, station agent of the
Chicago and Northwestern road ct Mari
nette, has been appointed travelling
freight and passenger agent to succeed
t. c. Miller, resigned.
The factory building of the Reedville
Manufacturing Company at Manitowoc
was destroyed by fire. Hard work OF the
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in yards, sheds and kilns.
In a runaway accident at Portage
Thomas Daley, well-know4I farmer OF
the town of Marcellon, was quite badly
injured. He with his family were on the
way TO church in Buffalo.
The Diamond Match Company, which
planned TO build $50, 900 addition to its
works at Oshkosh, will postpone the
work until peace between Spain and the
United States has been restored.
McKernon & Fox's furniture store at
Spring Valley caught fire, but was saved
after much damage had been done to
stock and building. The village has just
voted to put in water works this summer.
The women of Eau Claire, who are
carrying out the plan of Gov. Pingree OF
Michigan to help the poor, have twenty
six garden patches ready for plowing.
The use Of the land has been granted by
the owners.
Shehoygan County Is out Of debt. The
last dollar of Indebtedness was paid by
County Treasurer Walvoord when he
cancelled nine bonds of 81 900 each. This
was the last of $4,000 of bonds issued
in 1893 to build the county jail and re-
build the court house.
A young man at Racine took more beer
aboard than he could stow away, and he
seized a club and smashed five large win
dows in a building. The windows are
worth 81 apiece and the daznage was con
siderable. He paid SOS 10 the proprietor
and he was fined So and costs.
1t was reported that the J. /. Case
Threshing Machine Company had receiv-
ed an offer to remove its plant to Wau-
kegan, H., and that site and S200,000
had been offered, the latter sum to be ex-
pended on buildings. The officers of the
company would neither credit nor deny
the report.
Superintendent Nevins of the State Fish
Commission, assisted by fourteen men,
two railway companies and the fish car
Badger, is at present engaged IN stocking
the lakes at Wisconsin summer resorts
with white bass captured In nets below
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
bridge mt the mouth of the river at Osh-
kosh.
The officers of the Northwest Paper
Company of Cloquet Mimi, recently or
ganized with \. III. Brokaw of Kaukauna
vice-president, and G. |. McNair, general
manager, met at Kaukauna and consid-
cred propositions for the machinery. Ar
chitect G. b. Pride will make the neces-
sary surveys and begin work on the plans
for the plant 1t is the intention to have
the mill completed this season.
The La Crosse police rounded up two
youthful desperadoes who are wanted, 1t
is alleged for numerous holdups and
burgaries. One is Hugh Robertson, aged
21, who was committed to The reform
school ut Waukesha in 1892. He escaped
the following year and the Milwaukee
police spent some time looking him up and
failed. His partner, Frank Brown, halls
from Iowa. Robertson has confessed,
will plead guilty and go to Waupun.
There is landlady in Chippewa Falls
who is now mourning the loss of all her
bOarders. The guests one afternoon hoist
cd large American flag over the door.
When the landlady saw it she immediate
ly tore it down. 1t was again put up with
the same result. The bOarders then be-
came indignant and they Immediately
packed their trunks and moved out. The
landlady would give no reason for her dis
like to the Stars and Stripes. But she's
sorry now.
One hundred and eighty summonses
were made out by an Oshkosh justice on
complaint of j. s. Fulton, assignee OF
the Wisconsin Odd Fellows Life Insur-
ance Company, against as many ex-mem-
bers of the company In Wfnnebago
County, who are alleged to have been In
arrears to the company for dues when
the company went into the hands OF the
assignee in February, 1897. The amounts
Of the claims range from So to $2S, max
ing total OF nearly $1,000.
William Peasley was found ora the st.
Paul railway track one mile from Mari
nett, He was badly cut ON the head, and
win probably die The cause Of the acci-
dent is unknown. Doctors think the
wound was inflicted by an early train, or
perhaps by knife.
Prof. NJ. G. Palmer, who was gradual
ed from the Whitewater Normal School,
was engaged by the Board Of Education
Of Sheboygan to take the place o. Prof.
Fielder, as teacher Of the sciences In the
high school. Mr.. Fielder resigned to en-
list and is now member Of Company G.,
Second Regiment.
The Escanaba River Company was or
ganized at Marinette. The company will
build a logging railroad sixty miles long
from the mouth Of the Escanaba river
to Republic through a territory covered
with heavy timber.
While scorching along a highway In the
town Of Dover, Frank Wittowski cnl-
lided with a cart driven by a Mr.. Hager-
man. Wittowski was riding With his
head bent over the handlebars and did not
notice the approach of the rig. One OF
the shafts OF tn cart penetrated the
young mans eroin and broke Of. The
doctor does not think he will sscover.
Wittowski is IS years Of age and resides
at Norway.