Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-02-15


kicked by horse.
Representative Davidson has recon-
mended Herman J. Weckwroth for post
master at Germania.
Herman Myers, a farmer living near
Swan lake, was gored by bull and lies
in critical condition.
Every slot machine in aIariAette has
been taken out in pursuance of the orders
of Chief of Police Cook.
Fire at Altoona destroyed the postoffice
and a general merchandise store. The
rest of the town was threatened.
An order has been issued discharging
Private s. X. Clark of the hospital corps,
attached to the Fourth Wisconsin regi-
ment.
A freight train left the track at Romeo
and fifteen cars were piled up. Trains
were held until temporary track could
be built.
William Traut, an employee in Fond
du Lac foundry, had his hand caught in
circular saw and it may have to be am
putated.
At mass meeting of temperance people
at ASuu NJldtIt ItSDiullOUS were adopted
asking the Mayor to strictly enforce the
liquor laws.
District Attorney d. r. O'Keefe and
his sister of Ashland have gone on a trip
to New Mexico for the benefit of Mr..
O'Keefe's health
Capt. j. w. Curran has been appointed
deputy oil inspector for Dane City to sue
coal u r AnTaa,.nn r.
about $500 year.
Prof. +. +. Showers of Sheboygan
Falls was elected principal and superin.
tendent of the Amigo schools by the
Board of Education.
Private John ID. Jarvis of the hospital
corps, now on a sick furlough at his home
in La Crosse, has been ordered discharg-
cd by the War Department.
Former Mayor Starkweather of Su.
perior has been delving in copper mines
of late and is said to have been offered
$4,000 for his interest IN one piece OF
property.
Danforth MaXey and Miss Edith
Twiggs were married at Washburn. Mr.
Maxey is vice-president of the Bayfield,
County Bank and manager of the Wash.
burn water works.
Albert Fritsche, German about 40
years of age, died at the Kenosha COun-
ty Jail from the effects of a wound on the
back of his head. How he received the
wound is not known.
Charles Alwardt, car repairer of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway at
Manitowoc, met with painful accident
While repairing draft iron, his hand was
caught and badly crushed.
Sylvester Hughes, prominent farmer
of the town of Emmett, was instantly kill.
ed while engaged in chopping down tree
The branches of the tree caught him and
bore him to the ground, crushing his skill
Peter Miller, one of the employees of the
Ross Lumber Company, while working
in the woods, was struck upon the head
by falling limb. He was Immediately
taken to the Rhinelander hospital, but
died a few hours later.
Miss Cora Wallin was married to Henry
Mcdonald at Marinette. They were tc
have been welded in the Catholic Church
but the parents of the bride objected and
the priest refused to ofiiciate. A justice
of the peace overcame the difficulty.
A great deal of sickness among the
Catholic clergy of the Green Bay diocese
is reported. There are number of places
vacant for the time being, the priests be-
ing sick, with no extra priests for supply
The grip seems to be the prevailing dis
ease.
William Winter, aged about 80, who
was working in the woods for the Scofield
& Arnold Lumber Company, about twelve
miles from Armstrong Greek, got his time
and started for that place on supply
sleigh. When about five miles from there
he got off from the sleigh to walk, claim
ing he was cold. Nothing was seen OF
him until six days later, when he was
found hanging from tree near the place
where he left the sleigh.
The will of the late Alonzo T.. Kane, 6
pioneer resident of Milwaukee, creates {
trust of his 100000 estate, the income tt
go first to certain heirs until the time OF
| their death and afterward to FIVE char
| liable institutions of Milwaukee in equa
portions. The institutions that will b,
benefited by the trust are: st. Johns Ole
Ladies' Home, the Milwaukee Protestant
Home for the Aged, the Milwaukee Prot
estant Orphan Asylum, the Associated
| Charities and the Wisconsin Humane So
ciety.
| News has reached La Crosse of the
death of whole family of FIVE, named
| Cuckendahl, residing near New Albin, o
| diphtheria. The oldest boy had worked
several years in Aberdeen, S. D., and {
| few weeks ago was taken ill with diph
| liberia. Before his death he requested
| that his effects be sent home to New
| Albin, which was done. A suit of clothe!
worn by him were worn by his brother
| Several days later the brother was taker
| sick, as were four others in the family, al
of whom died.
| While crossing the Northwestern Rail
road tracks at Oostburg, John Lohuis,
well-to-do farmer, was run down by
| special freight train and almost Instant,
killed. Lohuis was driving in a CLOSED
| top buggy, the horse being squarely OIL
| the tracks when the locomotive struck
The buggy was demolished, but the horse
strangely enough escaped without serious
! injury. Lohuis was carried for few rod
on the pilot and then fell beneath tn,
wheels. being literally ground to pieces
The deceased was about 30 years of ag'
and for a number of years Supervisor o
the town of Holland.
The Rev. d. G. Jones, for four year
pastor Of the First Presbyterian Churcl
at Rice Lake, presented his resignation
He will take a pastorate at Iron Noun
| tain, Mich.
Mrs. Helen Peterson of Racine has be
gun suit for $1,000 against the Milwau
kee, Racine and Kenosha Electric Rail
way. on account of the death of her hus
band Anton Peterson.
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union at Big Bend are circu
lating a petition asking the Legislature t.
appropriate S., 900 to the Eau Claire hom
| for unfortunate women.
The State board of control has trans
ferred sixty patients from the northern
State hospital for the insane at Oshkosh
who have been found incurable, to vari
GUS county asylums in the counties wher
the patients are domiciled. The creates
number goes to the Washington Count
asylum.
In a collision between farmers rig an
engine No. 437 on the Northwestern cross
ing at Fond du Lac. the occupants of tn
wagon, II. j. Rawske and Fred Fucker
were hurled a distance of thirty feet. TIL