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

~. fraSler, brakeman for the Omaha
hallway Company, was run over and
killed at the yards in Hudson He leaves
a widow and six children.
Sheboygan merchants and business men
held meeting To advocate the extension
of the c. Nj. & st. +. Railroad from its
present terminus to Sheboygan.
A lamp explosion set fire to the house
of Peter Peever in La Crosse. The dam
age was considerable, with $500 insur-
ance on building and contents.
Schmidt Bros. of Superior have receiy-
ed contract from the Eastern Mime
sofa Railway for erecting $50 by It's
foot machine shop at that place.
Anton Dennison, an employee in lum-
Der camp on the Lily river, fifty miles
north of Shawano, was shot and killed
by gun which he had set for deer.
G. II. Cope dealer in glassware and
crockery at La Crosse, has made an as
signment to Jens Lienlokken. Assets es-
timated at $500, and liabilities at 3d.
600.
a fish peddler left a load of fish,
amounting TO 100 pounds, outside house
in Kaukauna, and when he returned the
entire outfit, including his scales, was
stolen
Claude Schilling and Charles Kuhn,
two 12-year-old boys OF Sheboygan, were
sent to the Waukesha industrial school
for committing petty offenses around
town.
In dance hall row at Chippewa Falls
man named Lane had . portion of his
nose bitten off. A man named Wheeler
was arrested for alleged completely in
the affair.
The Wisconsin Dairymen's Association,
which will meet in Manitowoc Feb. 9, 10
and IL, will hold its sessions in the TGr-
ners' singing hail. where the exhibits OF
dairy products will be shown.
A party of seven men will leave Wash
burn soon for Alaska in search of gold.
They will so by boat from Seattle to
Taiya and from there will proceed with
dog teams, taking complete outfits.
Joseph La Chance, a Marinette man
who is in the regular army at Vancouver,
has been chosen as one of the members
of the relief party which the Government
will send to Alaska to aid the poverty
stricken miners.
4 tin box containing notes valued at
$500 was found beside the railroad track
about tive miles south of Waunakee. The
notes are the property of John Mcclure,
whose store at Waunakee was robbed a
few weeks ago.
John Passage of Delavan wears a coat
which is thirty-two years DID, and with
good care will last twenty-five years long
err. 1t is French tricot and was pur-
chased by Mr.. Passage in Boston in 1865,
the suit costing $75.
Bechaud Bros. Brewing Company of
Fond du Lac will purchase a site in Nee
nah and will build large hotel and opera
house on the property. The Schlitz Brew
ing Company is also negotiating for prop
erty at Neenah to be put to similar use.
Charles Lucas, who was brought into
court on a charge of Illegal fishing at
Fond du Lac, created sensation by al
leging that the nets taken by the game
wardens were not destroyed as required
by law, but were left for other purposes.
Lucas ncs given a fine of $50 for illegal
fishing.
The Board of Supervisors of jackson
County has granted years extension of
time to the Northwestern Beet Sugar
Company in which to complete its plant
at Merrill, provided that a settlement is
made with farmers who raised the beets
last year to furnish the long-delayed plant
with material.
The Crookston Lumber Company, re-
Gently organized, has filed articles at La
Crosse. The incorporators are Frank T.,
Joseph NJ. and William L. Hixon. The
capital stock is 100000. The company
ha., purchased the +. Il. Walker sawmill
at Crookston and controls pine enough
to operate severs' years.
THE University OF Wisconsin has receiv-
ed and accepted challenges for inter-uni-
yersity debates with the University of
illinois and the University of Iowa. The
formation of this league is the result of
the action of the Central Debating
League, composed of Northwestern, Chi
cago and Michigan universities, which
excluded Wisconsin from it's contests.
Frank Kelley, residing in the town of
Lima, committed suicide by hanging him
self. He had gone to the barn with the
intention of hitchiag up his team, and af-
ter a prolonged absence some Of the fam
ily went in search of him and found him
hanging to a rafter.
III. s. Dudley, the rev manager of the
Carbide plant, who had not been Ia APP
nleton over two weeks, narrowly escaped
drowning. He fell into the river ct the
mill and was swept under the ice, bat the
strong current carried him to open water
below and he was rescued just as be was
about to go down for the last time.
Through the action of Wisconsin cold
IN brass bearings of the Yerkes telescope
.he big instrument is temporarily out of
use. The builders allowed for the con-
traction of the metal, but not enough, as
it now appears.
The Menominee Indians on the reserya-
tion in northern Wisconsin have q tribal
fund. which belongs to 1900 men, women
and children of the tribe, and which ag-
rrecates about $1,000,000, ana is still
growing. The Menominees are each year
engaged in numbering operations in which
thcT expend about $40, 900, and from the
proceeds of the operations they add to
their tribal fund net result of from Soo,-
600 to 100000.
At the meeting of the Walworth Coun-
tv Agricultural Society j. b. Johnson
was elected president; f. Morse, vice
president; c. L. Harrington, secretary,
and ]. e. Brett, treasurer.
Two cars on the Milwaukee, Racine and
Kenosha Electric Railway were IN col
lision at Pike Greek Hill during dense
Goo The south-bound car was a special
in barge OF M0torman Bishop and con-
tanned several directors of the road, who
we're making an inspection OF the line.
Roth ends of the cars were wrecked. Mo-
+ornan Bowles had both of his legs brok-
an and crushed and one of them will have
70 he amputated. Director Dryfoss re-
ceiyed a cut on the head.
Frank Wilson, John Scott and Tom
Morgan pleaded guilty TO burglary at JEFF
farson and were sentenced to one year,
months, and eighteen months. re-
spectiyely. in Waupun. The men entered
the postoffiee at Ixonia, and sole S97 in
stamps.
LLOYD Barber, who has been conducting
a sheep ranch near TrempeRleau, HAS con-
Guided to abandon the business on account
of the ravages of the wolves. Mr.. Bar
Der states that hardly a night passes that
numbers of the sheep are not killed by
these nocturnal providers. On one night
no less than thirty sheep were killed in
mo rayine. and the loss Of sheep for this