Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-16

Fire at Roxbury destroyed the barn of
Henry Bloom. with FIVE horses, besides
cows and calves.
Mrs. j. ID. Southworth of Marshfela
died at the home OF her son, Attorney p.
A. Williams, aged 6S.
Rev. W. D. Ganty, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian Church at Beaver Dam.
mas gone to Oshkos to receive treatment
for appendicitis.
e simpson, a farmer of Sturgeon
Bay town. lost six head of cattle by
lightning striking a herd that had sought
shelter under a tree.
The La Crosse Carriage Company has
decided to rebuild its plant recently de.
stroyed by fire. This means the employ
ment OF seventy-five men.
Came Warden Fisher captured 4 r.
loot seine and arrested r. b. Clifford and
Wiiilam Gieser at Brodhead for illegal
hshing. They Were fined $50 and costs.
Fire destroyed a large barn owned by
me cream City Brewing Company Of
Milwaukee and also an adjoining build
n.g occupied by John Schewenka at
Marshfald.
d Wisconsin Knitting Company and
Oslus millinery establishment at Racine
came near being destroyed by FIRE. A
niaze was found early in the morning and
extinguished.
Paul Pulls, a well-known resident Of
Eau olalfe, was arrested on the charge
Oh shooting chickens out of season. He
pleaded guilty and paid a fine and costs
amounting to $54.19.
-four eil-know Appleton men, while
hshing up the Wolf river on. board q
chartered steam yacht, came in conflict
with the game wardens. The men were
fined $50 and costs each.
TIE body of julius Stern was taken t,
Brlillon from Baraga, Mich. Stern was
employed as a head scaler in a sawmill
and while leaving the mills slipped ana
fell thirty feet, dying that night.
Miss Lorena Emmons, residing two
miles west of Stoughton and until re-
Gently a teacher in the public schools OF
Niil''aukee, has been adjudged insane
ana sent to the Mendoza asylum.
| Iraac Wing of Lynxville found a pearl
Weighing ffty-seyen grains. EXPERTS
pronounce it one of the largest and most
perfect shaped pearls found in the State.
IT'S value Is several hundred dollars.
A special election in st. Croix County
to determine whethor or not the county
build the bridge across Apple river at
New Richmond, destroyed by the torna-
do, was carried in favor of building.
Charles Lahner, assistant s~uperintend-
ent of the Eau Claire street railway. paid
- hne and costs for striking a boy in
the riot on Water street. Cars are run-
ming and the trouble is apparently over.
Charles Newbauer filed a petition in
bankruptcy at Milwaukee. His liabilities
are SSo.S66 and his assets $35.25 He
was a member of the firm of Newbauer
~ Son., which made an assignment in
1882.
Contracts We're signed for the erection
of the mills at Hixton which burned in
March. 1896. C~henneworth & Sons OF
Lansing. Iowa, have bought the power
and plant and will begin the work next
week.
Miss Fay Carlyle, a passenger on the
Omaha train, was found near Gordon
in light attire. She had walked off the
train In the night and though the cars
'NNH INNINGS Z Injuries are COIIIDdfu-
lively slight.
+. H. Gerard, a S%toughton Iumherman.
met with a losj of 81 800 by fire. A small
building containing Il carload of tobacco
cases was consumed and a large build
ing formerly used as an icehouse was
badly damaged.
John Sullivan has been held for trial
in the Suuaria- Cnur+ Of Vast G,naria-
on the charge of attempting to kill Will
liam Moore. The defense put in no tes-
timony at the preliminary examination.
Sullivan will remain in Jail.
James Doud drowned in the bay at
West Superior. He had gone out with
James Erickson, another elevator en-
ploye, and rocked the boat. 1t capsized,
and only Erickson could be rescued.
Doud's body was recovered. He was %
years old and unmarried.
Lobbying is held to be illegal by Judge
Johnson of Milwaukee in an opinion de-
Gliding the suit of Architect Charles Fitz-
gerald against f. A. Walsh. Irrespective
of its ~illegality, the court decides that
lobbying forms no part of a construction
of a building and cannot be construed az
a lien upon the building.
The Chippewa Falls police are after
Philip Martell, who assaulted his wife
with a club, inficting fatal injuries.
| N~eighbors rushed to interfere, but Mar
tell held them at bay by threatening to
| shoot the first one who attempted to stop
him. The woman's body was fearfully
| bruised and her clothing torn into shreds.
The county board investigating COM
| mittee, which has been trying to find
| some foundation for the stories that
| someone was trying to blow up or burn
down the Milwaukee court house, finds
that the fire was started by careless
workmeA and that the trebug story had
absolutely no foundation. They found
that the attempt to blow up the building
was caused by leaks in gas pipes being
repaired by plumbers.
A representative of the Illinois Steel
Company has returned to Chicago after
visiting a newly discovered iron field at
La Vale. e.. A. Grover owns a large
tract of the land and was asked to fur
nish fifty carloads per day. He is un-
able to develop the industry so rapidly,
but there are indications that a number
of large mines will be opened soon. The
ore is deposited near the surface in a
range of bluffs.
Fl. O. Halverson began proceedings in
the Circuit Court at Stevens Point to Sc.
aside the contract recently adopted by
the Council granting the Stevens Point
Lighting Company the right to light the
city for fifteen years, subsequent to 1903,
at the rate of SIS a year for each light.
At Grand Rapids, August Fail, a la
barer working on the new Twin City
Electric Lighting Company's plant, was
found drowned face downward, at the
mouth of a sewer emptying into the river,
in only three feet of water. He was
working alone and subject to epileptic
fits. He leaves a wife and five children.
Louis Beaudry. the man arrested for
obstructing the track, is in Jail a Eat
Claire in default of $500 bond He
pleaded guilty to the charge, which is a
State prison ~offense. but an effort will
be made to save him from the p~eniten-
tiary.
William III. Davis, a member of the
firm of Davis Brothers. who had a de-
posit of S13,439.35 in the Plankinton
Bank at Milwaukee, has brought suit to
hold William Plankinton personally liza
BILE for the mount. Mr.. Davis says
May %, 1888. he was going to withdraw