Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-11-30

At Valley junction, John Davis, one OF
the wealthiest Winnebago Indians, was
choked to death.
Company A, Second regiment, WiScon
sin volunteers, was mustered out of ser
vice at Marshfeld. A reception and ban
quet was rendered the men.
The John Salzer Seed Company of La
Crosse has made its first shipment of field
seeds to the Barron County fire sufferers
on the orders of Secretary Wilson of the
United States Department of Agriculture
in response to the appeal from Congress
man Jenkins. The shipments consisted OF
100 bushels of timothy and % bushels
of clover. The orders of the department
call for a large quantity of other farm
garden and field seed.
A few weeks ago q Kenosha woman
working in the knitting works put a note
into a pair of socks, saying the writer
wanted good husband. The socks were
bought by Grand Haven Mich. man.
She gave her name and requested the buy
er, if unmarried, to write with view to
matrimony. The young man decided to
write, and he was rewarded with a curt
letter stating that the girl was now tic
mother of two children and had been mar
ried four years.
At Oshkosh, Harry Wilson was SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary
for forgery. He attempted to cash check
for $254, purpo. ting to be drawn upon the
Commercial Bank of Hammond, Ind.
Wilson married an Oshkosh girl, Miss
Stillwell, and took her to Indiana. Soon
came a letter announcing her death, which
n Il A. /.
which later proved a canard. Ostensibly
it was to investigate this that Wilson
came back.
1t is announced in railroad circles at
West Superior that the Great Northern
cutoff between that city and st. Paul
is to be built at once and that the con-
tract is in the hands of Foley Bros of
st. Paul. AS planned, this line will cut
off about fifty miles of the distance be-
tween the head of the lake and St. Paul.
The survey calls for the new line to leave
the main track few miles south of
Hinckley and to run almost directly south
and rejoin the line at q station called
Brook Park, a few miles outside of st.
Paul.
DIR. Mary Barry, former La Crosse
IL
been elected member of the Colorado
Legislature on the fusion silver ticket,
from the Pueblo district.
Shortly after midnight the other night,
masked robbers entered the saloon of
John Vernon ut Itasca. One held a re-
yolver at Nernon's head and the other
took $500 in cash from his person. The
saloon was empty at the time. Vernon
being about to 'ock up. The fellows went
about their business expeditioisly and i'm
mediately let. Vernon has given an ac-
curate description of the mel.
August Huessing, the bartender for
Tack q Tuerk at kenosha. " as convict
ed for selling liquor to Charles Dodge, a
minor. Dodge is the boy who pleaded
guilty to burglary and was sentenced to
a year in the reformatory at Green Bay
for stealing a turkey and duck from
Tacki & Tuerk.
An attempt at train wrecking occurred
near Gratiot. but luckily without any dis
astrous results. Bridge ties had been
placed on a curve about a mile west on
the Shulisburg branch of the St. Paul
road. The evening passenger train struck
them. throwing the engine truck from the
track. No clue has been found to the
perpetrators.
Louis Radtke committed sHicide at Mer-
rill by placing short cord around his
neck. fastening il to the bed and then
rolling off. He was about a years old
ana had been an invalid for three years
His wife lives with one of her daughters
in Milwaukee.
AT Oshkosh, Mrs. A. Morse, hedrid-
den invalid nearly GO years of age, was
badly burned about her head. chest and
arms. Ii is said while under the influence
Of medicine which she used for her i'll
ness. she arose and poured Kerosene OH
upon a kitchen fire. and burst of flames
enveloped her, igRiting her clothing. She
ran from the house and neighbors extin-
ruished the fire on her clothing.