Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-05-03
state Items of Interest

Mormons are to establish q church at
Milwaukee.
The Stanley Manufacturing Company's
plant at Stanley was destroed by fire.
The Merrill Hotel Company has been
organized aud will erect a $4,000 hotel
in the near future at Merrill.
Hayes Bros. Company of gainesville has
Incorporated with $4,000 capital for rail-
way and paving construction.
Gov. Scofield appointed G. G. Rurdiek
coroner of Langlade County to ill the
term Of John w. Wines. deceased.
Col. NJ. F. Barry, general manager for
the Rice Lake, Dallas and Menomonee
Railway, has severed his connection with
that road.
The grocery store of c. Schwartz and
IA. Hall at Alarinette was burgarized.
The burglars secured quantity of cigars
and 81 in cash.
The Kenosha Board of Education by a
unanimous vote elected G. X. Mcdowell
to be superintendent of the city schools
for the ensuing year.
II. g. & 9. A. Stanley of Chippewa
Falls have contract to build tugNoat
for Gore & Stinson, logeers, which will
be used TO tow logs on Shell lake.
George Teller, an old resident of AL
gonna, aged 10 years, was found dead on
the beach. He is supposed to have COM
mitted suicide by wading out into the
water.
A dispatch from Star Lake says that
while a train was backing into logging
camp, Dick Davis and John G. O'Brien
were killed by the car jumping the track
o, curve.
At Clinton, Arch and George Wood
ward, two young boys, who went hunting
in boat, fell into the water and fought
desperately among cakes Of floating ice
to keep up. They were rescued by neigh
bors.
w. G. Masters, railway mail clerk, run
ming between La Crosse and Mankato,
Mimi, has been appointed chief OF the dis
trict in the United States mail service now
being established in the Philippines. The
position is rated at over s., 900 per annnm.
David Stevens, leading grain and stock
dealer of Evansville, bad the unique expe-
rience of spending twelve hours Of re-
cent night in the ice closet of his cold
storage building His son inadvertently
closed the door, not knowing his father
was within. The walls and DOORS being
two feet in thickness. all cries for assist
ance we're in vain. Meighbprs passing in
the early morn rescued him.
Mrs. NJ. e. Woodstock and Mrs. VII
lard Robinson Of GAINESVILLE are heirs to an
estate in Germany. They were located by
the local postmaster.
The cerlmittee Of the Monroe County
Board to select q site for the county farm
voted to locate it near Sparta. buildings
to cost 1000 to $4,000 will be erected
this summer on the farm.
Charles Wheeler, the alleged head of
gang of burglars that plnndered that sec
ton last winter, escapes t.;.'l ja;. q . fjsh
kosh BY placing q dummy in ais ee.i and
slipping out as tae tarHkey came in.
After shooting young girl named Hill
do Palowka and driving the rest of the
family out, Henry RaskiG was captured
by Policeman Sealy at aurley.
At Prairie du Chen, the City Hotel sta
bles, with ntiantisy Of hay and oats and
adjoining buildings, we're destroyed BY
fire at d loss Of about 81 900, partially coY-
cred by insurance.
= The Ralsar residence, located in the
southwestern part of Racine, was discoy-
cred to be on iire, and nhen the fremen
arrived Mr. Eals:er and his wife aud six
children were still sleeping The win
dows were broI.en into and the sleeping
occupants wer, rescued in their night
robes.
Besworth & Heilly's old sawmiIl burned
All Stevens Point. The IRE was ipcen-
diary. The mill was erected in 1878 by
Knox Bres. 1t was dismaRfled of its .aa-
chinery last year, and il was not insured.
The rsoenix milling property in Mil
-waukee. knewn as the sanderson mill, has
been sold to TheoficSe +. Hanson for S7o,-
900, the sale being recorded the other day.
The mill has been idle for three years.
The large armnrr and Petersen black at
Mt.rimste narrowly escaped being entire-
IN destroyed BIZ fire. The fire eaaght from
lighted cigar, thrown on an old piece Of
saryas ID the drill room and smoulieres
for several hours. II was discovered just
III sinae and little damage was done.
settlers about Ashland County and
owners of numbering camps are considera-
NV worried over the losses of horses re-
Gently. Reports from the outlying dis
triets indicate that horse thieves have
been quite active Of late.
David Craig, . pioneer settler of Pal
myra, who il confined to bis bed with an
injured hip. was the victim Of peculiar
ard heretofore unheard-of accident recent
ly. He Is . great sufferer from eatarrh
ana on this occasion res0rted TO an eight
penny nail to clear the nasal passages, and
II doing so lost the nail III his head. With
little EFFORT 1t gassed Down bis thrgat into
his stomach, w,.Sre II caused him 20 trou-
lie.