Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-01-25
Prof Alden C. Favell is dead at Mil

The United States Senate confirmed the
nomination of l.. B. Ring as postmaster
of Neillsvile.
The Methodist Church at Shell Lake
was burned with loss of So, 00o and with
an Insurance of S1,700
The marshes in the vicinity of Oshkosh
are overrun with muskrats and single
hunters bag 300 to $50 day.
Sheriff Bonino of Hurley is employing
his guests of the tramp fraternity in keep
ing the streets in good condition.
Best & Loucks, owners of the new
shingle mill at Bayfield,, have made a con-
tract with Eastern parties for 100000
shingles.
Mike Junk of the town of Lincoln lost
his right hand at the wrist. He was at
work on feed cutter and his land caught
in the machine.
At La Crosse, Martin Engelhorn, aged
about 20, committed suicide by hanging.
Failing health is given as the reason. He
was born in Germany
Neils Rasmussen, justice of the peace
at South Superior, and his son, Peter
Rasmussen, president of the Buffalo Oil
Company, died of grippe.
The house of James Herr at Baraboo
burned with its contents. The loss is 81,
QUO. Mrs. Herr was i'll and was with diff
Guilty taken from the building.
Weddings in the State Robert WATSON
of Dale and Miss Lydia Teppla of Me-
dina; Miss Susan Sturtevant of Della
van and Chandler Scott of Calamar, Iowa.
The congregation of st. Georges
Church at Kenosha held its annual meet
ing and decided to build a new hall on
North Chicago street to cost about $780,
600.
The Congregational Church started at
Fort Washington last June was dedicated
recently. 1t is the lower portion of what
will ultimately be a large $1,000 struc-
| ture.
The Algona Packing Company has pur,
| chased in Newark, \. j., $4,000 worth of
seed peas which will he sown for their
pea-canning factory now b ing built in
| Algoma.
A two-story brick building owned by
| Henry Speas and occupied by A. & c.
| III. Farley with meat market, was de-
| ctApNSu ny hit Ut NEW 1LlSDOu. llc lUSs
is 1920.
Congressman Jenkins, being H.. to
| decide whom to appoint postmaster at
River Falls, ordered an election, which
was held and four candidates were voted
for. Cyrus G. Glass won out by a plu-
rality of So.
Marcus Saeinheimer of Chicago was
killed by a cake of ice falling on him at
the icehouses at North lake, near Pewau-
kee. He was passing under the ice run
way, and the cake slipped off, striking
him on the head.
Wolves have again become troublesome
| to the farmers in Sank County and are
more numerous than they were twenty
years ago. They are running about in
droyes of three to eight and some of them
are said to be of the large timber variety
Deaths in the State: II. r. Callahan
aged 50, La Crosse; e. n. Geuper, Me
nasha; Fred Muehl, aged "A, Seymour
Mrs. Mary Perkins, aged "a, Beloit Mrs
f. NJ Simmons, aged 73, Scott; Mrs. Ma
| thi1s Huck, aged 60, Kenosha; Miss Jen
ME Smith, aged %, Mansion.
Wisconsin produces more than one
| fourth of the cheese manufactured in the
| United States, and since the tilled-cheese
| law went into effect the quality of the
| Wisconsin product has greatly improved
until now it is selling n the best markets
as the equal of the che Csc made in New
York and Canada.
Deaths in the State: Mrs. H. A. Luck
ensmier, aged %, Ableman; Patrick
| O'Shea, aged So, Necedah; Miss Jennie $.
| Spencer Racine; George G. Jones, aged
80, Appleton; Hover Logan, aged "a, Be
| lott; Richard Smith, aged 81, New Lisbon
George Hartwig, aged 70, and Alexander
| Mcpherson, aged 90, Racine.
Mrs. Joseph Pack called at the Office OF
| County Clerk Eimon at West superior
and received So as bounty on a lynx, the
skin of which she exhibited. Mrs. Pack
will be paid So more by the State Treas
urer. The animal was killed in the Fourth
ward OF the city of Superior. 1t was kill
ed in the kitchen of the Pack dwelling
and the deed was done with stove poker
Mrs LYDIA Platt of Fond du Lac, aged
40 years, who has been suffering the last
twenty years with what physicians agreed
was an organic and incurable disease OF
|
her bed the last four years, arose recently
and walked. Better still, she has been
walking ever since and claims she is alb
solutely free from all pain. She attrib
utes the wonderful cure to God.
The boilers in the -four mill of Willy &
Co. at Appleton exploded. killing one mai
and dangerously injuring four others
Windows for blocks around were broken
people were knocked down by the shock
horses were killed and surrounding build
ings badly damaged. The dead: w. III
| Kramer, engineer. The injured: A. Sven
son, fireman; Charles Kispert, miller; Al
| bert Erdman, -four packer; Otto kargus
The cause of the explosion is not known
| The loss will amount to $4,000.
The way matters are shaping now Wis
| consin tobacco growers stand to realize
more money for their tobacco crop this
year than for several years past. The
90 crop sold up to date has brought the
| farmers at least l cent more per pound
than the same amount of the '9I sold for
Taking into account in addition to this the
extraordinary yield per acre and the me-
returns will considerably exceed those OF
a year ago. The packers who seem anx
ious to invest their money at the ruling
prices will year from now have tobacco
that must be sold from / to 2 cents high
er than the 81 has been bringing to affOrt
! any profit in the deal. The question some
| dealers are asking themselves, will they
he able to do it? The conditions of trade
are no more favorable to-day than a year
| ago, but rather the contrary is true.
Prof Floyd Davis, the expert employed
to test the city water at Oshkosh, says
the samples obtained show that the water
is unfit for use especially for children
| whose systems are more prone to infec
ton than those of adults. He fount
chlorine in the water.
The 1O-months-old baby hoy Of J. F
| Markofski of Berlin was given a small
| quantity of kerosene by a 3-yearold sis
ter while the two were playing toges her
with the result that the little one was
taken de- hly sick and died, having new
er regained consciousness after swallow
ing the oil.
The Business Mems Association OF
| Grantsburg has started movement look
ing to the drainage of what are known as
the Big and Fish Lake meadows. Pre-
liminary surveys have been made show
ing that there is fall enough. There are
| 100000 acres of marsh lands which vii
be reclaimed and put under cultivation.
Charles Oleson of Oshkosh has receiv
ed a letter written in 1892 by Ole Hen.
erickson of Norway. The envelope is bad
| ly worn at the edges. A little placard