Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-03-09

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ate of the University Of Wisconsin, died
at Gutenberg, Germany, where he was
studying. He was Il civil engineer
a plank thrown from saw in a mill
at Eaton struck young man named Karl
Bucholz III the breast and inflicted injuries
from which he died few hours later.
The body of Otto Meimhart was found
beside the tracks of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul Railway at Calido
MIA. The cause of death is unknown.
Harry Quilley of Beloit, whose disap-
pearance had been worrying his friends,
has come to town and announced that he
merely had been visiting in the country.
The kindergarten Association of Sun
Prairie has decided to close the school for
three or four weeks on account of sew
eral cases of scarlet fever among the pu-
pills.
Fifty Door County farmers were caught
in the city of Marinette during the recent
blizzard and compelled to remain there for
about twenty-four hours until the storm
had subsidized
John Weiss and William Radlof aged
II and 10 respectively, We're arrested by
Sheriff Roach for breaking into a store
| at Jefferson. They took tobacco, candy
and trinkets.
Several fine horses were shipped from
Janesville to Europe. They sold there for
$400 each. There is good demand in the
stock raising districts for horses to be
used in the pineries.
j. *. Iillotson has at last secured a
permit for the town of Black Wolf to run
line of street railway from the city Of
Oshkosh to the new summer resort which
the electric railway will build.
Francis Spencer, who for several years
has been connected with hardware firm
in Chicago, has purchased lot at Dart
| ford and will build a brick blocl, and open
| in it general hardware store.
A stock company, comprising W. Sat-
| ter, G. and G. Burgess, f. and j. Pyborn
| and j. Mitchell of Sun Prairie, has pur-
| chased 81 500 2-year-old horse from the
Durham horse farm at Wayne, Ill.
The Racine Water Company has served
its complaint on the city to recover $780,
1880 for water alleged to have been used
by the city in flushing its sewers and
flushing tanks, for which the city refuses
to pay.
The case of the Stevens Point Water
Company against the city to recover $3,-
800 of alleged illegally-colected taxes for
1884 with accrued interest, was discon
tinued, the suit having been improperly
begun.
A young man by the name of Papen-
deck, living in the town of Rhine, has dis
appeared. He left home saying that he
was going to visit his uncle a few miles
from home, and since then nothing has
been seen of him.
Jere Nosburg, one of the oldest mem
bers Of the Oshkosh fire department, was
run over by hook and ladder truck and
sustained injuries from which he died
Vosburg was So years old and leaves a
wife and one child
Prof. Marsh of Ripon College is taking
soundings of Green lake for the State.
These lake surveys are being taken over
the State with the idea of forming a
basis for an accurate relief map. The
greatest depth of water in Green lake was
found to be 217 feet.
The Duke and Duchess of Duval were
passengers on a Wisconsin Central train
going through Oshkosh recently. They
hail from Paris and came to this country
to investigate the Klondike boom. The |
duke is interested in several claims on |
the Pelly river, near Dawson City.
c. A. Bartlett was elected from the |
office Of the La Crosse city weighmaster
by the chief of police H. II. Byrne. Some |
weeks ago Bartlett was impeachod by the |
Common Council and ousted from the Of |
fee ior alleged irregularities in his ac-
comts. Bartlett refused to vacate the |
flee and took the matter to the Circuit |
Court. Judge Wyman signed an order |
approving the proceedings of the Common |
Council and directing Bartlett to turn the |
office over to his duly elected successor, |
Arnold Roemer. When the order was |
served by Mayor McCord, Bartlett refus- |
ed to surrender the office. Chief Byrne |
thereupon threw him out.
The Land and River Improvement Com |
pany of Superior has sold fifteen tenement |
houses in the suburbs to J. w. Young |
blood, who will remove them to lots near
the business district and fit them ZIP sor |
dwelling purposes.
Bert Seager, a young boy of Kaukauna.
was arrested on a charge of stealing a
paddock and pair of rubbers He was /
fined 81, and as his father refused to pay
the fine, the boy was sentenced to ten |
days on the rock pile at Appleton. The
father. who was a hardworking man, con-
cluded that it was good lesson for the
boy.
Fifteen carloads of scrap iron from the
ruins of the Sawyer-G Goodman mil at
Marinette have been sold to Chicago par
ties for $1,000.
A very clever flake" was brought to
light at Neenah. Several days ago quiet
old gentleman called at the Winnebago
paper mill and asked permission to use
the accumulated ash dust on the top Of
the boilers. The request was granted.
The man took all he wanted and then d.
yided i INTO small packages, which he sold
for Is cents apiece, as a fine polish. The
facts were brought to light only when the
fireman of the Winnebago paper mills re-
turned home ard ascertained that his wife
had bought three packages of the stuff"
The announcement Of the appointment
of VI. b. Martin as postmaster at Darling
ton ended a spirited contest, there being
no less than seven candidates besides Mar
tin.
At the State encanpment of the |. 0.
o. f. the following officers were elected:
Grand patriarch, 4. a. Bartlett, Fond du
Lac; grand head priest, A. B. Whitaker,
Appleton; grand senior warden, W. P.
Fish, Madison; grand scribe, L. o. Ho-
Iaes. Baraboo; grand treasurer, William
Humphrey, Wntertown; grand junior
warden, A. L. Fulton, Whitewater; grand
representative, S. j. Bradford, Hudson.
Marinette was selected as the next meet
ing place.