Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-10-25

which escaped from iii owner.
Lumbernlen who have started logging
operations In the vicinity OF Ashland saw
they are having trouble to get men.
The body Of John De Brau, a woods,
man, was found ID the woods near Rhine
lander. Death resulted from an epileptic
fit.
Merle Stamper and Williams Hessian.
aged Ii and ii, of GAINESVILLE wee SEN
fenced to the reform sck-sl at Wauke-
ska.
Bert Mclaughlin Of Ashland and p.
Gerhart of Glidden have been elected
deputy game wardens for Ashland Coun-
~.
The board of directors of the Wiscon-
sin chees smakers' Association has decid-
ed to hold the mex annual meeting in
Madison, Feb Z.
Botsford Bros store at Altoona was
burglarized and a quantity Of jewelry,
cutlery and a few dollars in cash taken.
The amount stolen is valued at 500.
Higgins and Sexton of East st. Loais
We're out fishing at Lake Wood. They
caught a big fish and both men jumped
to the side of the boat. Iuggins was
drowned.
The 1G-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Eeis of Ladoga fell in the els
tern at their home and was drowned. The
accident was not discovered until some
time afterwards.
Capt Andrew fainter of Menominee,
vice-president of the firm Of Knapp,
Stout q Co, and a millionaire lumber
nan, died from an attack OF pneumonia.
He was 20 years old.
Mary Hart, daughter of the pastor of
the Free Methodist Church of fsichland
Center, was kicked in the face by a fam
ing a very serious hurt.
Henry Schumacher, the 9-year-old son
of John Schumacher, had his left leg
terribly crushed ard mangled by stepping
into the hopper of a corn shelter at Ayres
Touring mill at Burlington.
A telegram was received from Ken
lucky by James Callard Of Kenosha an
~nouncing the death of Norton johnson,
his grandson. The boy was 10 months
old, and died from a dose of poison which
he drank from a bottle.
The large barn owned by Robert VIII
son at Okee was consumed by fire. The
loss also included 1000 bushels of oats,
300 bushels of corn, 40 tons of hay and
a large amount Of farm machinery. The
loss is $1,000, with some insurance.
The threshing machine engine ON the
farm of f. Arps, near New Holstein,
blew up, doing great damage. The fire.
man was badly injured. The whole
threshing outfit, a large barn and other
buildings were burned, and the loss is
very heavy.
Seven laborers employed ON construc-
ton work of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST. Paul road were taken violently i'll at
their boarding house in La Crosse. They
are supposed to have been poisoned by
adulterated food. The authorities are
looking into the matter.
A south-bound Wisconsin Central pas
senger train collided with a freight train
at Oshkosh. The train crews saw the
danger in time to jump and all escaped.
The engines and a number of cars were
wrecked, and the track was torn up, sus-
pending traffic for hours.
A large swamp, which almost sur
rounds Rhinelander, is TO be converted
into a lake two and on half miles long,
one mile wide and fourteen feet deep.
Title to the land has been secured and
the work will be completed next sum
mr.. The expense will be about $40, 900.
G. H. Cart and family have left Bara-
boo for Texas in a small boat. They will
so down the Baraboo, Wisconsin and
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Some
years & they made the trip in the same
manner and found it so pleasant that the
journey will be repeated. From New
Orleans they will so by rail to their des-
tination.
A jury in, Circuit Court at Juneau al
lowed Miss Lydia Horn S215 damages
in her action for malicious prosecution
against Anton Nagler, a town of Fiba
farmer. Miss Horn worked as a sery ant
girl in the Nagler family and left their
employ last December. Mr.. Nagler
charged the girl, who is II years old,
with stealing 10 cents.
Joseph Punchok, the 9-year-old son Of
August P~unchok, fell from the canal wall
Of the Outagamie water power at Kau-
kama, a distance. OF twenty feet, to the
river bottom, striking on his head ON
the solid stone. A hole, about an inch
In size, was broken through his skull, in
ficting what is likely to prove a fatal
injury.
A serious wreck occurred on tracks Of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
in Kenosha when a through freight
crashed into a number of ears standing
OH a sidetrack in the yards. Two cars
were completely demolished and the en-
CINE on the through freight was badly
damaged. The loss is estimated at ST.
600.
Anton MachoIl. n young man % years
of age. who resides twelve miles west
of Berlin. expired very suddenly while
driving into town to attend church. He
was alone in a carriage, and was coming
along the main road. AT q point two
miles west of town he was seen to throw
up his hands and then fall back into the
seat. This startled the horse, which be-
gan to run. The team following drove
up and caught the runaway and the occn-
pants turned to Macholl. He was car
ried to a ~neighboring farrr house, but 1t
was found that he was deaf.
Two engines and seven or eight cars
were wrecked in the Milwaukee roads
yards at Sparta. A w~est-bound freight
had sidetracked, awaiting an east-bound
train. 1t was too long for the switch and
the caboose was left over tapping the
main track. A brakeman noticed this
just as the approaching train was close
and turned the switch letting the oncom-
ing train in rather thar having it strike
the cab0ose which contained several per-
sons. Both engines were badly damaged
and several cars demolished. There were
no casualties.
At Cumberland Christian Hanson, a
~16-year-old son OF Hans G. Hanson, a
w~ell-known farmer, was accidentally
shot and killed BY his 1~0-year-old broth
er.
Sheriff Lavcll and District Attorney
Stafford of Chippewa Falls were sum-
moned to Boyd to look into what is sup
posed TO be n murder at Pike Lake, nine
miles north of Boyd. The body of the
man was found in three feet of water.
The circumstances surrounding the case
lead the authorities to believe that there
was foul play. The man found has not
been identified.
William Matheson was fined $50 At
Mazomanie for violating the game laws.
Edward Thurston of Chippewa Falls
was fired $50 and costs for blasting fish
ou. of O'Neill creek.
A most distressing accident is reported
from Marshall whereby Dorothy Dodge,