Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-23
State Items of Interest.

Charles Brest of Milwaukee died at his
summer home at Pine lake.
A postofice has been established at
Rostok and Joseph n. Skal appointed
postmaster.
At Oshkosh, Mrs. Mike Madl commit
ted suicide by eating Heionia tablets in
tended for local application.
Deputy Game Warden Julius Waite
captured about 500 feet of set lines in
Little Lake Buttes DIES Morris.
Philip A. Lee, who died in Chicago,
was n of the pioneer merchants of
GAINESVILLE, going there in 1856.
Ernest f. Boettcher of Waterloo, Iowa.
has accepted the position of secretary of
the Baraboo Railway Y. NJ. G. A.
The contract for building the new jail
and sheriff's residence at Oshkosh has
been let to Louis Webber of Neenah for
$12, 600.
Mrs. S. L. Oviett of the town of Maine
committed suicide by cutting her throat
with a razor. Mrs. Oyiett was we'll adj
vanccd in years.
Two hundred employees of the Rice
Lake Lumber Company struck for a ten.
hou rday. The company refused their de-
mand and the men quit.
A head-end collision occurred between
two Northwestern freight engines in the
Marshfield yards. No one was injured.
both crews jumping before the crash.
For the first time in thirty years two
pests which annually caused much an
noyance and damage to farmers in Ozau-
kee County, have disappeared. They are
the potato bug and the cabbage worm.
Farmers attribute their disappearance to
the past cold winter.
w. A. Ahrens of Chicago has made a
proposition to establi h a rolling mill in
Racine for the manufacture of bar iron
out of scraps. He wants to put In his
patents at $4,000 and asks the citizens
to put in $780, coo.
Fred Morgan of Chicago has bought a
controlling interest in the C. II. Sitg hi
cycle factory of Eenosha and will assume
the management of the works, retaining
Mr.. Sieg as the local superintendent.
The plant will be operated in opposition
to the bicycle trust and will be worked
to its full capacity of 100000 wheels an
nually.
Health Commissioner +. C.. Schultz.
Milwaukee, recommends the passage of a
bill providing for the medical exan,ina-
ton of all young men who apply for mar
riage licenses.
Otto Foster of Eau Claire, II years
old. started from home with a sharp
knife and sliced every bicycle tire be
could find. Judge Gilbertson sentenced
him 10 the reform school.
James Knox Taylor. supervising archi-
tect of the Treasury Department. inspect
ed ten sites offered for the Federal build
ing at Eau Claire. He said the appro-
priated $4,000 would not be more than
half enough to secure a site and erect the
building.
Frederick Sylvester of Chicago, aged
II years. fell from n boom into Half
Moon lake at Eau Claire while fishing
ami was drowned. lie was a brother of
Rev. Edward Sylvester of Eau Claire.
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Hen
derson Mt Sturgeon Bay was so badly bit
ten on the hand by rats while asleep that
il is feared the member viii nave IL be
amputated to prevent blood poisoning.
Herbert Smith committed suicide at the
home of his aunt. Mrs. A. L. Phillips of
.Janesyille. He shot himself through the
temple. He had met with business re-
verses and was suffering from nervous
prostration. Mrs. Smith was 40 years
old and unmarried.
Peter Hansen very nearly ended his
life by taking poison at Racine. Hansen
SAYS that il was a mistake. bul refused TO
tell how it happened.
The sawmil of the John Paul Lumber
Company at La Crosse has shut down
permanently, the supply of logs having
been exhausted.
on account of the high price of lumber
and the scarcity of Labor in the North
west the United States Flour Milling
Company has abandoned for this fall its
intention of building a number of ele-
vators. The Imperial mill elevator at Su-
perior will proceed, but the 300,000-bush-
Ell elevator for the east end mills viii go
over until next spriag.