Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-11-02
The Commercial Hotel at Palmyra ha.
been sold 10 WhiteMnfe. narfies at IS

company or hacine Will reJ0in the
National Guard, as sixty-fve members
have already signed 20 do so.
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Backes of Kenosha was terribly
burned and died in few hours.
The thirty third reunion Of Company *,
Eighth Wisconsin regiment, was held at
Racine. 7. A. Fellows was elected presi-
dent.
At Ashland, John 0'Donnell. Jr., has
been sentenced TO life Imprisonment for
numbering his wife by administering
strychnine.
Mrs. Julia Rogers. mother of ex-Mayor
w. Ell. Rogers of Madison, and formerly
resident of Dodge County, died at Co
lumbus, Neb.
Mrs. L. Peck of Racine, aged 20, caught
her foot on a rug at her home and fell TO
the floor, breaking her hip and sustaining
other injuries
Christian Olson, farm hand, employed
on the Brown farm near Mount Pleasant.
was kicked in the abdomen by vicious
horse and probably fatally injured.
At Rhinelander, A. H. Marks, druggist,
'f'a'NN Nd "SsiS Iva tnC VI htS
creditors to S. H. Alban The assets in
stock are $4,000; liabilities, $500.
+. 7. Hixon, who is the principal stock
holder in the I. Is. Scott Lumber Com
pany whose large sawmill was recently
destroyed by fire in Merrill announces
that the plant will not be rebuilt.
Arthur Collins of Neg London has made
declaration for pension. While jumping
from horse at Chickamauga park he fell
in such way as to rupture himself. The
amount he expects is $12 month.
The 2-year-old daughter of August Mey-
er, residing at Oshkosh, was thrown down
and badly bitten about the cheek and
hands by big dag. The injuries are very
serious, if not extremely dangerous.
The Rev. NJ Kionka Of Sturgeon Bay
has been called to the pastorate of the
German Lutheran Qeupck at Payne's Cor
ners. He will succeed the Rev. c. Gevers,
who resigned to accept a call to Elkhorn.
A spurious check for $40 upon the Citi-
zens National Bank, to which the name of
Frank Syeki was ssgned, was passed in
Stevens Point. The person who uttered
it is Pole, who went there several days
before and was engaged in gambling.
Chief of Police Scheek of Sheboygan
arrested two men, who gave their names
as John NJ. Hopper and John Clark, for
passing counterfeit money. Ten dollars
in spurious halfdollars was found on their
persons and $40 in other money. The men
said that they came to the city on the
steamer Arcadia, one claiming to be cook
and the other porter
William Hempke of Silver died Oct 9
under suspicious circumstances, and an
investigation is TO be made. On the night
before his death Hempke had wrestling
match. During the match Hempke's head
was caught in some way under the leg of
his opponent, and he called out that his
| neck was broken. He was taken home
| and died next morning
Around Butternut the coming winter
| IS likely to be the busiest winter in logging
| operating since the early '90s. There are
| five camps established east and west of
| there and eleven some distance north, run
ming logging roads into Glidden These
camps are largely conducted by local men
| and lumber dealers of Chippewa Falls and
| employ an aggregate of nearly 1000 men.
| Wages have gone up considerably over
last years wages, the amount paid being
from $26 month to $40, as men are
| scarce.
The Illinois Central combination freight
and passenger train going south from
Madison to Freeport was piled up seven
miles south of Monroe. The train left
Monroe with four freight cars, baggage
car and a passenger coach. The second
car, heavily loaded with lumber, spread
the rails and with two other cars filed
with lumber was overturned and thrown
across the track. The baggage car went
off its trucks and the passenger coach was
derailed. The end of the baggage car was
smashed in and Bagga geman William
Sawhill was slightly injured. None of the
passengers were hurt. About 800 feet of
track was torn up.
A fatal accident came near occurring
among the workmen who are engaged by
the Kaukauna Water Works Company in
blasting stone from the trenches in the
river bed. A cartridge had just been ex-
ploded, and Joseph Eppinger, who uses a
heavy iron to break the stone into smaller
pieces, struck an unexploded dynamite
cartridge with it. A terrific explosion
followed and Eppinger was lifted from his
feet and thrown violently on his back, rem
dering him unconscious for awhile, but not
| seriously injuring hiih. The iron, which
weighed eighty pounds. was thrown sixty
feet Half dozen other men were right
il the midst of the explosion, but came out
| unharmed.
State Fire Warden Wyman says there
60, ;,,s l.
Lake who lost everything they had in the
forest fires, and there are 102 families be-
sides in that township who sustained par
tial losses. He says they are living in cell
| lars, log stables, barns and all sorts of
outhouses which escaped the flames, and
they need more than anything else lumber
with which to build new cabins, and pro-
visions for the winter. The great trouble
in that section, he says ''is that there is
no work at wages for the fire sufferers
Their neighbors are all poor peol (, and
there is nothing at this time Of the year
that they can do. Later a few of them
will find employment in the lumber camps,
and most Of them will have to be assist
cd all winter, and it is expected that the
State will have to come to their rescue"
In many Wisconsin towns no relief what
ever has been subscribed but some of
them have done nobly. Mr.. Wyman says,
however, that the future is matter most
serious to contemplate. II is impossible
to tell how these suffering families will
get through the winter.
The cigar - - and factory of Guen-
ther L. Wichman and the hardware store
of Frank Willie, both located on Main
street, Oshkosh, were entered by burglars
and S100 worth of cigars and tobacco
was taken and abott $50 worth of cut
lcry from the hardware store.
The case of Gustav Mielke, who was in
jured by a premature blast while working
in stone quarry owned and operated by
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Company at Coleman. was decided in fa-
vor Of the defendant by the granting of a
motion for non-suit Mielke sued for
$4,000.
The indictments obtained by the Gov
ernment in 1895 against the Fox River
Valley manufacturers and their employees
for violating the War Department rules
concerning the drawing of water from the
Fox river have been nolled in the United
States Court in Milwaukee.
Intelligence has reached La Crosse OF
the death of Private Alfred Thoreson,
Company NJ, Third Wisconsin He died
of the fever contracted in Porto Rico. on
board the United States hospital shir Re-
lief, while bound for New York, and was
buried at sea by his comrades Thoreson
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