Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
State Items of Interest.

smallpox mas broken out at Raclne.
The State Plumbers Association will
meet next year at La Crosse.
Frank Fetterley, a woodsman, killed
three bear cubs near Peshtigo.
Gov. Scoticld has been troubled with
severe eye affection and an operation will
be necessary to relieve him.
r. T. Bowles, who was injured in
collision on an electric road near Racine,
has died of his injuries.
A runaway at Grand Rapids resulted in
the breaking of both legs of the driver,
Jesse Turner, just below the knees.
Eighteen cars on long train went
through bridge near Washburn and We're
badly wrecked. No one was injured.
Mrs. Mary J. Hill of Waupun, was bad
ly burned about the fact and arms by an
exploding lamp which she was carrying
Telephone communication is now estab-
lished between the village of Cumberland
and all other points of the new Wiscon-
sin Valley system.
An ice-shove, due to heavy northeast
wind, recently piled the ice up along the
beach in front of Marinette to height Of
forty feet in some places.
lives a few niles from Appleton, was
thrown fronl his wagon in runaway
and badly injured about the head.
Peter Enright, aged years, a pupil of
the primary school at Iron Belt, was run
over by a sled loaded with two cords of
wood, while attempting to catch u .ide.
Judge John E. Pannier of Chippewa
Falls is the youngest judge in Wisconsin.
At the time of his election to the Office of
county judge last spring, he was but %
years old. He is graduate of the uni
versity law school and is a native of
Chippewa Falls.
Marian Reonard, aged 10, employed
in the house of Mrs. Devine of Cascade,
while engaged in boiling soap, was SO Sc
riousiy burned that she died in few
hours.
Thieves tapped grain bin in the ware
house of the w. w. Cargill Company at
Brillion, and by holding sacks under the
holes in the floor, secured forty bushels
of wheat.
The Eastern Minnesota Railroad Com
pany has commenced the erection of its
new -four sheds at Superior. The total
jeor capacity of the new buildings will be
s50,0UO square feet.
Otis Wilson of Kickapoo Center, shot
himself while out hunting. The young
man was trying to poke out rabbit from
a hole with the butt end of his gun and in
that manner the gun was discharged
through his side.
The Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad
Company expects to build thirty miles of
track to connect Marinette with Iron
Mountain, Mich. The cost of the work
will be about $780, 900, and will give direct
connection between the Menominee iron
range and the Twin Cities. Ore docks
viii also be constructed at Peshtigo har-
Dor and the ore shipped by carferry Work
on the extension is expected to be begun
in the spring.
The farm barn of Theodore Douglas,
near Plainfeld, was destroyed by FIRE, to-
gether with much hay and grain.
George w. Lieberman, telegraph OPP
orator at Sheboygan, and Henry w. Nell
son, confectioner at Racine, who were
appointed deputy collectors of customs in
the respective towns, have failed to pass
the necessary civil service examination.
Fred Simons, travelling man of Nee
nah, was found in hotel at Marinette in
a dying condition, and despite all efforts
to arouse him from his stupor he died.
1t is supposed that he took laudanum, as
a bottle was found on his bed and the
symptoms were identical with laudanum
poisoning.
Isaac L. Smith of Tiffany was found
dead in an outbuilding at GAINESVILLE. He
went to GAINESVILLE in 1896, made the first
claim and was the first settler in the town
of Harmony.
r.. a. Spreche-, banker Of Portage.
and once representative in Congress of a
Wisconsin district, was found dead in
his bel at Phoenix, Ariz., aneurism of the
heart being the cause of death.
7. C. Marsh. assignee of the Marshfeld
Chair and Manufacturing Company, has
sold the entire plant TO Messrs. VolImar,
Winch and Lathrop Of that city. This
factory shut down last July and soon az
forwards went into the hands of a receiy-
ar