Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-07-13
The ccfner stehe Of the new La Crosse
episcopal Church was laid.


luton had flag raising i'll the city park
at Beloit.
The Il. G. Kuhn Manufacturing Com
pany of La Crosse lost $500 by fire in
the dry kiln.
M. ID. Moore of Fond du Lac has lost
his summer cottage on Lake Denevue by
fire. The loss is 81, 500.
The NeiIisville furniture factory has
been sold to Kerr Bros & Co. of Hick-
vile, Ohio. The plant is to be enlarged.
Mrs. Grace Buttles went out for a walk
and ncthing has been seen of her since.
She was visiting in Milwaukee from
Iowa.
During row between party of Fin
landers at Brandon, John Dorwin stab
bed Charles Heudrickson, Killing him in
stantly.
While Mr.. and Mrs. A. Auspitz of RAJ
cine were in attendance at the Milwaukee
carnival burglars entered their home and
stole $40.
The peshtigo Lumber Company's drive
of 23,0oO,000 feet has pnached Peshtigo.
The drive lasted eighty days and 100 men
were employed.
At Gillett. fire in DIR. Pinche's residence
did considerable damage, bat was put out
One block was burned to the ground. The
loss is about $500
Fred Rodman of Westfield shot his wife
through the heart and attempted to shoot
his brother. He was arrested and locked
up in Monticello jail
The South Shore planning mill at Wash
burn was destroyed by fire, with four cars
loaded with lumber. The less is $1,000,
with little Insurance.
Appleton is to have new poor house to
cost $4,000. 1t will be Of lick, three
stories high, with basement, aad will
be thoroughly modern.
While running a barking machine in
the Little Chute pulp mill at Kaukauna,
John Van Den Berg got his left hand
crushed in cogwheel.
At La Crosse, Helena Craemers of
Dresbach, Mich. died as the result of her
clothes catching fire from firecrackers.
She lived only five hours.
The WashLurn County Board has pass
ed resolution to quit claim 5000 acres
Of county lands TO James l.. Gates of Mil
waukee for 10 cents an acre
The Almond, Stevens Point and North
ern Railroad Compa9 ny has been organized
with u capital of $4,000. The company
will build a road from Stevens Point to
Almond
Theodore Elser, a Beaver Dam retail
and wholesale meat dealer, made an as
signment to Noah Smith. The liabilities
are large and the assets principally book
accounts.
A heavy wind destroyed the Holy Cross
Catholic Church in course of construction
at La Crosse. Three workmen were Sc
riously injured, Stephen Smith having his
skull fractured.
At GAINESVILLE, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Schultz and their l2-year-old daughter,
Miss Hattie, were poisoned by drinking
buttermilk. The timely arrival of ply
sicians saved their lives.
Patrick r. Hughes of GAINESVILLE was
killed at Cary, H., by the engine of 8
Chicago and Northwestern passenger
train. The mangled remains were taken
to GAINESVILLE for interment.
Henry Fuhrmann, a hoteliecper at Cal
umet HarbOr, committed suicide the other
day. lie was partially demcnted and
wandered away into n swamp, where he
hung himself to a fallen tree.
A meeting of number of the sash and
door manufacturers was held at Oshkosh.
They agreed to close down indefinitely or
until the strikers were willing TO com
mcnce work without any concessions.
The front of the st. James Hotel at
Bayfield, was blown out by dynamite. y
suspect has been arrested. The boarders
received a severe shaking up, but none
were injured. The damage is about $500.
At Kaukauna, George Goodwin tried to
escape from Officer Mankowsky and was
shot through the heshy part of his thigh.
After being shot Goodwin tried again to
escape, but another ball struck him and
he did not try again to get away.
Anthracite coal in Milwaukee took a
drop in price of 80 cents a ton. and now
retails at So ton. All the big dealers
posted notices of the reduction. This is
rs cents ton cheaper than the lowest
price of last year and $3.50 below the top
figure.
DR.. Robert L. Brown of GAINESVILLE,
who was arrested on the charge of forg-
ing a note of $500, has taken change of
venue to the Circuit Court and his case
will not come to trial before November.
In the meantime he is out on bail in the
sum of $1,000,
Carl Mueller, a 14-year-old Oshkosh
boy, was seriously if not fatally injured
He was accidentally shot in the back by
companion who was carelessy handling
rifle and the bullet is lodged in the left
no nh Hn -
not probe for it.
Agitation is ripe concerning the forma-
ton of a new county out of Chippewa at
the next session of the Legislature. Many
of the politicians have discussed the mat
ter thoroughly, but it seems difficult to
arrive at an understanding in regard to
Just where the boundary lines of the new
county will be.
Late the other night Mrs. William Nut
ting, who lives with her two children at
Eau Claire, aroused the neighbors by her
screams She claimed that two men seiz-
ed her and forced poison down her throat,
She claims they were trying to kidnap
the children. Her husband is lineman
In the employ of a telephone company at
ST. Paul. She is daughter of w. III.
Hooper, once prominent citizen Of New
Orleans, whose estate is subject of lti-
CATION. and it is said the alleged attempt
to kidnap has something to do with it,
No arrest has been made and there Is no
trace of the alleged assailants.
August Erlitz, a farmer living near Kill
bournville, was ran away with and
thrown in front of a hay cutter. His
left leg was so badly torn that physi
clan found it necessary to amputate it
near the knee.
made an important capture in Milwaukee
in the arrest Of q man giving the name of
William +. Shaw, who, it is alleged, Is
the head of counterfeiting gang whose
Headquarters are situated in st. Louis.
The prisoner was examined before United
States Commissioner Bloodgood and TAX
en- TO st. Louis.
The Burlington road took 12-inch gun
north from La Crosse destined for coast
defense at some point on Puget sound.
! was thirty-two feet long and weighed
iifty-five tons.
Owing to the fact that many of the
singers who were expected to take part
in thu. saengerfest in August at Superior
are rnable TO attend on account of the
war, the local committee decided at its
meeting in Duluth to postpone the meet
ing for year 4 number of Duluths
singers and few members of the local
society are with Gen Brooke at Chicka-