Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09

blow open the safe. Fail;no IN this they
rifed the money drawer. bat only secured
{. few dollars.
A strike among the fishermen who con-
tlol the bulk of the bullhead trade at
Beaver Dam came TO an end by the ship
pers agreeing to pay the fishermen the
price demanded.
locomotive on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road jumped the track
al Fowler street, Milwaukee, and ran
clean through the brick wall of the +.
Pergenwald d Co. warehouse.
The Mahitowoc City Council has grant
ed franchise to new telephone COM
paly. The plan Is to build d line from
Brilion to Manitowoc taking in Cato,
Grimms and villages on the route
Prof g. L. Collie, instructor in geol-
ogy in Beloit College, has been elected
fellow of the Geological Society of Amer
lea. Prof. Collie is one of three Wiscon-
sin men who have received this honor.
A bobsled containing eight Baraboo
people dashed into horse and buggy af
ter coming down a hill at high rate of
speed, Three members of the party were
cut and bruised and one was knocked in
sensible.
The County Board at Chippewa Falls
has appropriated 81 500 to begin the con-
struction of workhouse for tramps. A
resolution was also passed cutting the
sheriff's fees for arrests about 80 per
cent.
About $1,000 will be expended by the
Rock River Wooden Company of James
vile for improvements The contract has
been let for the erection of two-story
brick addition that will adjoin the pres
ent mill at Monterey.
One of the largest loads of lumber ever
loaded In the pine woods was recently
haulei to a mill on the Odanah reserya-
ton by Samuel Stafford. 1t contained
$40 feet. Another load Of 1000 feet
was brought in by another man.
n. j. Boucher Suddenly went insane at
his home in Centralia During the night
he commenced to remodel his home by
removing the doors and tearing away the
stairway. This was kept up all night.
He has been taken to Oshkosh asylum.
The new creamery and cold storage
plant of Potts, Wood & Co. at Appleton
IS completed. The product is treated to
Il PaSteuriZing process and is mostly mar
keted in Chicago. About 10000 pounds
of milk are received daily at the factory
John Workman, reported to have been
! lost in the Olympian Mountains of Ia
| coma, Wash, and found nearly dead, is
one of Racine's best known society men.
He left there with party in December.
A telegram says the young min is all
right.
IN Ives of Rochester, n. Y, has been
in Fond du Lac in the interest Of an Eng
fish syndicate, said to be backed by mill
ions of dollars, which is DESTROYS of 10
eating a mammoth yeast plant there il
Il satisfactory building can be purchased,
and the necessary arrangements made.
The body of Michael Hogan, who disap
peared at Racine on Christmas night,
1896, has just been found floating in the
Root river. The body was badly decom-
posed. There is strange coincidence con-
nected with the finding of the body. There
was an insurance of $4,000 on Hogans
life which the insurance company refus-
| cd to pay unless proof of his death was
lOI tllCOlIilDS. LIS W IuoN C0liltu tlt blht-
ter to the courts, and although the mans
fate was then a matter of conjecture,
Judge Belden decided that Hogan was
dead. Three days after this decision Ho-
gan's body was found.
The rafting and sorting of the logs that
will be run down Iron river next spring
and summer will be done mostly in the
night time. J. J. Mcclellan. who owns
the privileges on the river, will put in
complete electric light plant at Orienta,
bayfield, County, to furnish the light ia;
this wcrk This plan of rafting and sort
ing these logs at night was decided upon
because it was found that during the sort
ing and rafting season the wind from the
lake blew all day and at night the air was
comparatively still AS the winds in
convenieinced the sorting and rafting. Mr..
Mcclellan devised the plan of doing the
work at night with me aid of electricity.
Incandescent lights will be used at the
sorting pond and arc lights i'll the bay
where the RATS are made up. About
100000 feet of lumber will be put in
hy this means.
An action was brought against the Fox
River Land Company by the city of
Marshfield to recover tolls to the amount
of $4,000 or more. The land company
has refused to pay the assessments for
several years, claiming that they were
unjust and exorbitant.
Much trouble IS being experienced in
enforcing the game laws around Trem-
pealeau. where Illegal fishing is preva
lent. The fishermen are determined, and
49,
and the game wardens. Several arrests
have been made, butft is found hard to Sc
cure evidence against the offenders.
Robert Ellington and two lady compan-
ions were struck by a west-bound engine
and caboose at a crossing one mile west
of Augusta. Edngton's shoulder and
hips are broken, and it is feared that he
is otherwise injured. The ladies escaped
without serious injury. The horse was
killed and the cutter reduced to splinters.
Two cars and locomotive Of the Chi
cage and Northwestern Railroad were de-
rallied on Quay street, Manitowoc. The
cars. and also one of the Schutte's grain
wagons, were badly wrecked, and the coal
and wood office of c. NJ Olson, which was
run into, was completely turned around.
Inc was Nttun1N ~ an pItH
switch.
Willie Krietsche. the 16-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Krietsche. died Of in
ternal injuries received from fall on the
steps of the Second ward school building
at Manitowoe.
John Lorshbourgh, a prominent farmer
living near Eau Claire, was instantly kill
ed in Durand in a peculiar manner. He
was leading a heavy team Of horses. at
tached to a lumber wagon, into a livery
barn, having the horses by the heads and
walking backwards. The team became
frightened and dashed into the stalls.
striking a partition which broke the neck
pole and let the horses into separate
stalls. Lorshbourgh was found in a high
manger with his neck broken.
Paul BInhm. 14year-old boy Of James
vile, broke through the ice on n pond
while he was fishing and was rescued by
two other boys with the aid Of a rope and
a bobsled Young Bluhm win recover. al
though he was nearly frozen from the ex
rosure after being taken from the water.
Wayland Academy is likely to be added
to by Few building to cost 5000. II
win be used for class and recitation
rooms or the amount $4,000 has been
tIedged by Milwaukee man providing
the balance Is raised within certain
time. Architect Hess Of Milwaukee was
in Beaver Dam looking over the proposed