Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-11-30

John Harvey Meyers the wrecker of
the Milwaukee Home Building and Loan
Association, pleaded guilty and was sea-
fenced to four years in The State prison in
Waupun.
A Demorest gold medal contest was
held at Appleton with competitors from
Appleton, Green Bay and Waupun. The
contest was won by Miss Louisa Loeb of
Appleton.
An order has been issued establishing a
postoffice six miles northeast of Water
town in jefferson County to be known as
Grellton, with Henry G. Baurichter as
postmaster.
John L. Clements of Stevens Point has
been appointed to go to Porto Rico to Sc
cure and return with the remains of j.
Theodore Bronson of Company A, Second
Wisconsin, who died there in August
T. G. Len of Shanghai, China, is a guest
at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee. He
comes TO Milwaukee direct from China,
The object of his visit being the purchase
of machinery Cor large plants in China.
A man by the name of Charles Odennis
of Stiles was seriously and probably ia
tally injured near Chalk Hill Rapids A
tree fell on him, breaking seven ribs and
fracturing his skull and injuring him in
ternally.
A. j. Phillips of New London, while in
Chicago drew $500, the amount due him
from an express Office, put it in his pocket
and started for his hotel three blocks
away. After going short distance be
discovered that his pocket had been cut
open and his money stolen.
The potato crop around Marinette is re-
ported by farmers to be far above the av-
erage The Murphy Provision Company
of Chicago have but recently completed
the erection of a warehouse at Peshtigo
for the reception of tubers with capacity
of fifty cars. They are shipping on an
average car a day now, at prices rang
ing from % to 20 cents per bushel.
A bold holdup took place in La Crosse
Joseph Botzner, a Minnesota farmer, was
held up and robbed of large sum. The
police shortly after arrested Albert Miller
and Mike st. Mary saloonkeepers, John
Weber, Elmer Kelley, Lawrence Olson.
Olson confessed the whole business, ex-
pecting to get off easily, but his story was
radically different from that told by Botz
ner and he was convicted and sent to
Waupun for one year. The others were
discharged.
Mr. Anderson, formerly connected with
the car shops, is in Oshkosh in the inter
est of the much-talked-of refrigerating
machine, of which Mr.. Pierson is the pat
entee, and in which several Oshkosh men
are interested. The parpose of Mr.. An
derson's visit to the city is to locate fac
tory there in which to make the machines
He has st, Louis capital interested in the
venture. The machine is a device which
will produce low temperature in which
articles may be kept cool and fresh with.
ont the use of ice.
Murder and suicide were attempted at
Milwaukee by Williams Evans. a coach
man. Jealousy was the motive which i'm.
PEELED him to the crime. -Four shots were
fired, two of which took effect in the body
of his sweetheart Minnie Parrish. and
one imbedded itself in his own body. Ev.
ans injuries We're not great and the WON. |
ans wounds will not cause her death. The |
woman. who is 20 years old, came to Mil |
wankee last January from Manistee |
Mich Evans, who is % years of age. has |
been one of her admirers. The other af. |
ternoon she went to the theater with an. |
other man and Evans did not like it.
Wisconsin farmers will not be crowded |
for want of space yet for a while Ash |
land County offers $4,000 acres Of land to |
settlers in farms from forty to 100 acres |
in extent, at 80 cents per acre. In other |
words, here is an opportunity for at least |
BOG settlers to secure homes and farms nj |
n cost not to exceed $50. The County |
Board at its recent session passed n reso |
luton which is practically of the same |
Importance as if the Government had |
thrown this many acres open to the home |
steader and the settler. Last spring the |
County Clerk was ordered to take tax |
deeds in the name of the county on all |
nonoccupied lands on which taxes have |
not been paid for three years. Beginning |
with 1883 he has taken such deeds up TO |
1887, on about 5000 acres. He estimates |
that there are at least 1000 forties-40,- |
600 acres-on which the taxes have not |
been paid, subsequent 10 1887, and these |
lands are now all thrown open to actual |
settlers.
Delbert, the 11-year-old son of Ernest |
Kreger, while trying to jump on the front |
end of caboose at Seymour, slipped and |
fell under the wheels, nearly cutting off |
his leg below the knee. The leg Vas am |
putateG.
DIR. Charles Goiler. a well-known old |
dentist of Appleton, was seriously injured |
by the explosion of vulcanizer while |
making a plate in his laboratory A piece |
of the machine struck him in the temple |
and his head was otherwise badly injured. |
One eye was almost blown out, and, while |
he will probably lose the sight of the eye. |
he is likely to recover.
At Fond du Lac, James Browning, |
Thomas Kingston and Thomas Dixon |
We're bound over TO appear at the Deem
Der term of court on the charge of killing |
Officer William Prinslow of that chg.
A fire at Sherry destroyed everything in |
the village excepting the postofiice, the !
station and small shingle mill The loss /
is estimated at $4,000. The fire originat- |
cd in the Blenker Hotel and spread yery
rapidly. Citizens were unable to check it !,
until everything in the vicinity of the hotel |
had burned. The losses are as follows:
Bienker Hotel and contents, $1,000 Louis |
Seidle. store. saloon and cheese factory. |
$1,000; Catholic Church. $1,000. About |
half Of the property was insured.
Frank Dichman. one of the Ashland
men who started for the Klondike with |
John HaiYardson and Mic Nelson. has ar
rived home. He and his partners have
secured good claims in Alaska and have
good prospects.
Oh eefe & 0rbison of Appleton have a
contract for the erection of a big paper
mill at Ashland, which is to have two ma
chimes devoted to the manufacture of ma
Mia paper chiefly. The mill win cost In
the neighborhood of 100000 and will be
a branching out in an entirely new direc-
ton o< the paper trade Of the State. Hith-
erto :, mill interests have been confined
to the Fox, Wisconsin and the Menominee
rivers