Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-26

| WIS run over by street car and instantly
killed. His head was cut off and both
legs and one arm broken.
| Owing to the prevalence OF diphtheria in
| Washburn, the public schools have all
been closed. There have been but very
| few deaths from the disease.
| Judge Burnel! of Oshkosh, in the Sherry
assignment authorized James w. Cam
eron to sell the J4eander Choate property
| located in Neenah for $150000.
| While driving home. Fred Dahlman Of
| Elroy was held up by two men. Dahlman
made a desperate fight, drawing his knife
and stabbing one of his assaiants.
| Fire destroyed the large storage shed
of Leathem X Smith at Sturgeon Bay, in
which was stored the machinery of their
abandoned sawmill, ship ehandlery, etc.
Charles Wussow, a young man living
in Cicero, while hunting, accidentally dis
| charged the contents of his gun into his
left arm, making wound several inches
| long.
The Mukwonago canning works finished
| its run on tomatoes with a record Of 170-
| 600 cans, making over 1000 cases. Sixty
hands have been employed in this new en-
| terprise.
| David II. McMillen of Oshkosh has been
sued for breach Of promise in the 65th
year of his life. The plaintiff is widow
with two grown-up sons, Mrs. Empey of
AIiladore.
| Black bears seem to be numerous
around Marshfeld this season. -Four were
shot inside the city limits the other day.
| Five were seen, but one succeeded in get
ting away.
The store and residence of E. A. Holmes
| at Milton was burned. A tobacco shed
and contents, twenty rods away, were also
burned. Holmes loss is $1,000 and insur-
ance $1,000.
Frank Morgan of Racine, reported by
his father as having probably met foul
| play, was found in the workhouse, where
| he had been sentenced for stealing ride
on a Northwestern train.
| Afbin Johnson, an employe of the
| Spaulding Lumber Company, fell twenty
five feet from tramway at the company's
mill at Cedar river. He was injured in
ternally and badly bruised.
| While out hunting, Oswald Schw'sr ritz. a
s-~.------ srsssrtulI, ny accs1cntai
| discharge Of his gun, lost two fingers from
the right hand and three fingers from the
| left hand and was otherwise severely in
| jured about the neck and face.
! Charles Washburn, member of the Ra-
cine High School football team, was
| taken home from Nashotah with two or
three of his ribs broken, the result OF the
| game at that place. He was carried from
| the train to a carriage on litter.
| Louis Schrage of Fond da Lac was acci-
| dentally shot while out hunting, and died
| an hour later. He was standing on fall
en- log, holding his gun by the barrel, when
| he slipped and the contents of both barrels
entered his body. He was 20 years of age.
Engineer Hurley, Fireman George De
watt and Brakeman Arthur Smith were
seriously injured at New Duluth on the
Fosston branch of the Great Northern
| Railroad, by an ore train running away
| and crashing into switch train. Two
locomotives and fifty cars were piled in a
mass.
AT Marinette, the whole family of j.
Nordin nearly suffocated from the effects
of gas from a coal stove. The stove had
just been put up and smelled of gas in the
afternoon, but-it was thought to be S noke
from the stove polish. Mr.. Nordin woke
up at 2 a. m., hardly able to breathe. He
heard his son moaning, and staggered to
the bed of his boy, who was vomiting and
gasphg for breath. He carried him out
of doors and went back after his three
daughters, two of whom were in a faint.
He called doctor and then became ex-
hausted himself. 1t was difficult to re-
suscitate the victims.
4ha& h. NFn1 s,la 4nI
ness of the city of Milwaukee exceeds
her constitutional debt limit tU nearly
| 81 100000, instead of $4,000, which
amount was mentioned in the report of the
Supreme Court decision some weeks ago
in the case of Rie against the city, en-.
joining it from selling $3.50, 900 of munich
pal bonds. TIE decision at the time was
not correctly quoted The court held tha
claims paid by the city by overdrafts on
other funds than those against which such
claims were properly chargeable were not
paid and discharged, but still existed as
an Indebtedness. until the funds drawn
upon were replenshed Facts are pro-
duced that the amount of such overdrafts
aprroximates $1,000,000, which, under the
decision of the court, adds so much to the
city's Indebtedness.
Corporal August Yanke, Company I,
Third Wisconsin volunteers, who was
wounded in the neck and shoulder in the
battle in Porto Rico, arrived at Sparta.
A fragment of shell which was taken out
of his shoulder shows piece OK his coat,
which adhered to the piece of iron.
The body of an unknown man was found |
on the tracks of the Chicago and North
western Railway three miles south ct Ra- |
cine and were brought in by special |
train. The remains were lafar identified |
as those of James Mcintyre of Kenosha. |
1t is believed that he must have fallen |
from a train.
Fire in the power house Of the Merrill |
Lighting and Railway Company destroy |
ed that plant, together with the I. b. |
Scott Lumber Conlpany's mill adjoining. |
The lighting companys plant was valued |
at $4,000 and insured for $1,000. The |
T. B. Scott Company'7 plant was vaiaed |
at 100000 and insured for $50, 900.
John Pozorski. an alleged Polish big |
amist, was released from the house OF cor |
rection at Milwaukee after serving ninety |
days for abandoning his wife, and was |
then conveyed as a prisoner 10 Poniatow-
xxi TO be tried for bigamy. He left Mil |
waukee four years ago, and, II Is SAID, /
married welIto-do widow at the Polish |
settlement mentioned.
Five members of mpany I, Second /
regiment, returned to Garinette from
Porto Rico. They are corporal John Nc |
ellis. Quartermaster Sergeant william
Jackson and Privates Fred Maere-y, Jo-
seph Rondeau and Joseph Garrigan.
A man by the name OF Reynolds was
struck near Cedarburg by an extra freight /
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st /
Paul road Only by a miracle he was not /
killed. The man is q deaf mute and was
walking on the track. The train was run /
ming about twenty miles an hour when II |
struck him. He was lifted several feet |
in tn air and landed near The fence. The
train was stopped, but the man picked
himself up unhurt-