Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-12-07
TIE new adventist school house at Duck


Casford's Park to Delavan lake has been
commenced. Chicago ffm has the con-
tract.
Mrs. Gordon Ross died at Washburn
from an internal hemorrhage. During a
violent coughing fit she raptured blood
vessel
Frederick Metz. II years old son of
Henry Metz of Prairie du CHEN, broke
through the ice while skating on small
pond and drowned.
Two freight trains collided in front of
the general Office at Baraboo, wrecking
both engines. The train crews jumped
and no one was injured.
The furnace in the basement OF Peak &
Cramer's stone at Baraboo exploded, caus-
ing considerable damage. One Of the plate
windows was demolished.
The unknown man who has been detain-
ed at the county Jail at Appleton for two
weeks, was adjudged insane and commit
ted to the Northern hospital.
Lillian Valley, aged IS, a farmers
daughter living near Cumberland was
accidentally shot by her little brother,
who was playing with gun in the house.
her leg was amputated and her condition
is critical,
While John Davis and George Rudd of
Eleva We're out rabbit hunting, Davis ac-
cidentally discharged his gun within a
few inches of Rudd's head. nearly sever
ing the entire head from the body. The
boys were aged respectively 10 and 10
years.
The blacksmith in the st. Croix COM
pany lumber camp, near Spooner, COM
mitted suicide by tieing an anvil on his
neck and jumping into the we'll He leaves
a wife and three children and was q resi-
dent of Saltwater, MINI. No cause for
his action is known.
As Barney Ohmen, a Mansion saloon
keeper, was standing on the sidewalk,
someone threw stone which struck him
on the head, fracturing the skull His re-
covery is considered doubtful. Two per-
sons suspected of having thrown the stone
have been arrested.
Edward Keogh, veteran printer and
proprietor of one of the largest printing
establishments in Milwaukee, died from
stroke of paralysis, aged GO. Mr..
Legislature, and once held the office of
Speaker OF the Assembly.
AT Cameron, a child was born in fam
lily named Dunn. The father, in celebra-
ton of the event, is reported to have be-
come intoxicated, and returning home
seized the babe and dashed out it's brains.
He was on the point of strangling his
wife when neighbors incerfered.
The double track on the Northwestern
road between Elroy and Baraboo is being
hurried forward with double crews. The
cost of construction between Baraboo and
Madison alone will be about 81, 100000, a
distance of only thirty-seven miles, and
the cost between Baraboo and Elroy,
about the same distance, will be not much
less.
Notice has been received of the assign
ment of Patrick Hoy, capitalist and ex-
tensive contractor of Mcdonald, Pa, and
the financial hacker of the Mead Con-
struction Company, which is building the
new Christ Episcopal Church in La
Crosse. Hoy is very heavily involved,
but the failure will not complicate the new
church in any way, as the Bond company
HAS 10 20 duedu anu
complete the new church. Hoy is said to
have lost $4,000 to $4,000 on this con-
tract, which was taken at about half the
amount bid by two Milwaukee concerns.
Harry f. Crabbe alias Kirby, ETC., a
confidence man who operated from La
Crosse some months ago, was arrested at
Mankato, Mimi, where he was collecting
money on subscriptions for st. Paul
daily. 1t turns out that he is a ticket-of-
leave man from the State reformatory at
st. Cloud, MINI. He was sent back to
that institution to serve out his term OF
five years and do little extra time as
punishment for breaking the terms of his
parole. While in La Crosse for several
cigar manufacturing concern of Platte
vile.
AT West Superior, sentence has been
passed upon Thomas Marlin, convicted in
the Circuit Court of forging and passing
a bogus check. Marlin was enlisted in the
Sixth United States infantry and was in
the Santiago campaign At San Juan
hill he received bullet in the shoulder
and another in the leg. He was given q
six months furlough and came to West
Superior, where in an endeavor to get rich
as fast as possible he got into trouble.
Judge Vinje sentenced him to one year in
the State prison at Waupun, giving him
the lightest possible sentence under the
law because of his services in the late
war.
At Beaver Dam, the special accommoda-
ton freight train collided with freight
train bound in the same direction The
accommodation was going at a fast rate,
and struck the caboose of the other train
with considerable force, knocking it on
one end and lifting it to the top of the fiat
cars TO which it was attached. There
were three men in the caboose. William
Owens of Randolph, John Ousten of Fox
Lake and William Cogswell of Beaver
Dam. The first two were uninjured, but
Cogswel was badly bruised about the
head and chest, while one of his legs was
cut and wrenched. The engineer of the
what was coming.
A distressing accident occurred at the
home of Andrew Hornick, farmer living
three miles east of Marshfield The A.
year-old child, Katherine, while playing,
fell into a wash boiler of boiling water.
The child died after few hours of in
tense suffering.
Dr. G. L. Remington of Eau Claire has
won big victory over the Detroit Dent
list Manufacturing Company in the Su-
preme Court of Wisconsin. About two
years ago the company brought an action
against The doctor on a promissory note.
He defended on the ground of want of
consideration.
At a special meeting of the Milwaukee
Clearing House Association George w.
Strohmeyer of the Milwaukee National
Bank was unanimously elected manager,
to fill the unexpired term of the late John
son MacClure.
A tramp had a narrow escape from suf-
location at Marinette. He climbed into
the dry kiln at the planning mill of johnson
Bros. and went to sleep. Soon after the
door was closed and the heat turned on.
He remained in there most of the night in
temperature of $50 degrees. He was
found in the morning by workmen in an
unconscious condition and was revived
with difficulty. His clothes were soaked
with perspiration.
r. l.. Dickinson, superintendent of the
Chippewa County asylum, has raised
thirty-six hogs on the county farm which
averaged when slaughtered 500 pounds