Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09
State Items of Interest.

The Berlin police have been given au-
thority TO arrest all children found
| ''hitchinp" on to sleighs in the town.
Charles NJ. Kip. one of the wealthiest
md best-k known mining spectators in the
West, died ut his home in Milwaukee.
An analysis at the State university of
water taken from the bay at Ashland
shows it to be free from typhoid bacteria.
James Calvin of Juda was sentenced to
two years in Waupun by Judge Phelps of
GAINESVILLE for stealing a horse and cutter.
Henry Proper of New Holstein hanged
himself in the county Jail at Chiffon,
where he was serving u sixty-day SEN
tence.
At the sem-annual meeting of the trus-
tees of Beloit College gift of $500 to
endow the chair Of chemistry was an
nounced.
Henry Hoffschnidt. aged %, of Wit
tenberk was thrown from a sleigh and
instantly killed. He leaves wife and
seven children.
Frank Wiper, formerly bookkeeper
for the Frost Veneering Company at She
hoygan committed suicide in Chicago by
hanging him self
The Beioit College freshman class has
accepted Challenge from the freshman
class of Lawreace University for a joint
debat. in the spring
The Cargill Bros elevator and the
Northern Grain Company's elevator at
Eleva were burned with their contents,
5000 bushels of oats.
A train of five coaches and sixty-nine
men with their bage recently passed
through Baraboo en- route to the Klon-
like by way of Seattle.
People around Manawa are organizing
the old-fashioned lyceums or debating so
cieties which were in vogue in the rural
districts twenty years ago.
The County Board at Milwaukee has
decided to accept $1,000 from ex-Superin-
tendent Wetenkamp of the almshouse in
settlement of his shortage. There will
be no prosecution.
Miss Frances Lewis Lawrence. who
was graduated from the Sheboygan high
school, is filling the position of director
and supervisor of kindergarten work in
the Hawaiian Islands.
Articles of incorporation of the Racine
Button Company have been filed at Ra
cine. The capital stock is $1,000 and
the incorporators are II. $. Blake, Roy
Beebe and E. w. Fish.
The crop of 81 tobacco in the Edger-
ton warehouses is beginning to be mar
kete l. SAMPLE orders are coming in, al
though the price offered is low. The crop
weighs ont unusually heavy.
Mrs. Isabella Cook of Marinette was
awarded 81 COO damages for being put
off a train on the Wisconsin and Michi-
gan Central Railroad because she refused
to pay fare beyond small station, to
which she was going and where the trains
did not ordinarily stop.
Thirty-three men have been dishon-
orably discharged from the Wisconsin
National Guard in the past six months
eight from the First regiment, nine from
the Second, three from the Third and thir
teen from the Fourth, disobedience OF
orders and refusal to drill were the
causes. The men thus discharged are rem
dered ineligible to public office and to
vote.
The Northern Grain Company of Chi
cago has established an elevator in James
vile and will commence to buy grain ON
an extensive scale.
The day of prayer for Beloit College
was observed al Beloit by suspension of
all work and holding several services,
Prof. W. Il. Chamberlain of the Chicago
Theological Seminary was among the
speakers.
Oscar Brown and Elmer Berglum. bows
Mt Leeman, 0utagamie County, while re-
turning from school, quarreled ard, it is
alleged, young Brown drew a jackknife
and stabbed Berglum three times. Brown
was arrested and Berglum is in a criti-
cal condition.
Michael Lyons of Wausaukee left his
home on Dec 10 and has not been heard
from since.
Ellis Sweet. forme ,ly of Fond du Lac.
vas killed at Dubuqut Iowa, in a coils
,on on the Illinois Central Railroad dur
ing the recent storm. Sweet was 81
years old and was a son Of ex-Mayor
Sweet Of Fond du Lac.
Edward Poznanski, Mayor of Chip
pewa Falls, died In hospital in Chicae
where he went to undergo an operation. |
He was proprietor OF one of the largest |
dry goods stores In northern Wisconsin. |
He was 60 years Of age and had been d |
resident OF Chippewa Falls for thirty
tears.