Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-01-11

Prof. Adolph Halvorson of the Mari
nette public schools was married to Alice
McAllister, well-known young lady.
Deputy Game Wardens Pritehard and
Barlow made haul in Lake Winnebago
of five gill nets and $50 pounds of fish.
The little son of John Marshall fell into
a kettle of hot water at Baraboo and was
severely burnesi long the back and arms.
An old man farmer named Bingham,
living nine miles west of Beloit, fell dead
in barber shop. He was in poor health.
The sawmill at Sioux river, owned by
Louis Kramer & Co., burned, with all
contents. No insurance. Estimated loss
$1,000.
Deaths in the State: Mrs. Peter Wag-
ner, aged 81, Bloomer; Mrs. Hiram Slay-
ton, aged 63, Berlin; John Ruse, aged "a,
Palmyra.
Judge Parker sentenced Henry Swan
son and John Wade at West Superior to
pay $50 costs or sixty days in jail for
killing deer out of season.
The 4-months-old child of Captain N.
Reiter of the Appleton fire department
was asphyxiated. The other children were
sick from escaping coal gas.
Outagamie County farmers are receiv-
ing unusually good prices for their hogs
and they do not have trouble disposing of
them, as the county is overrun by stock
buyers.
John Kelly, farmer so years old resid-
ing at Kenosha, was held up in Chicago
by Edward Stanton and George Howard,
and after being badly beaten was relieved
of 500.
Passenger engine No. 6G, attached to a
north-bound Chicago and Northwestern
train, was derailed at Oshkosh. No dam
age was done, but the train was delayed
an hour.
A. j. DeMueles, who resided in Ste
yens Point for some time several years
ago, building the first roller skating rink
in Stevens Point, is supposed to have been
murdered in New Mexico.
John Trickle, a Monroe saloonkeeper,
was struck on a crossing by south-bound
Illinois Central passenger train, three
fourths of mile north of the city. He
was thrown fifty feet and fatally injured.
AT Kenosha, +. Pinder and G.. Wyman,
the striking employees of the Badger Brass
works charged with intimidating nom
union employees of the company, were ac-
quilted by jury in Justice Slater's court.
The annual assembly of Wisconsin
brigade, uniform rank, knights of Pyth-
las, will convene n Milwaukee on Feb. 8.
This assembly will elect a successor to
Brig. Gen. Barry, who will have served
his four-year term.
Thomas Hogan, a well-known character
of Hurley, was frozen to death while driv-
ing through the woods a few miles from
lronwood, Mich. He drove on the wrong
road and getting into drift was unable
to extricate himself.
AT La Crosse, Dan Noble, alias Austin,
was sentenced to one year in Waupun Cor
the larceny of two shirts. He had just
finished a ninety-day term in Jail for the
theft of two shirts. His stolen outfit was
taken away from him.
Peter Kennedy, in custody at the city
Jail in West Superior, broke out and is at
large. Kennedy was being held for au-
thorities at Two Harbors, Mimi, who
were preparing 70 extradite him on the
charge of forgery. He pried the bars off
the window.
Joseph 4. Mayer, the Pleasant Prairie
farmer who shot and killed Detective
Riley in Chicago few days ago, was re-
leased from the Cook County Jail and
returned home. The grand jury failed to-
indict him, as the evidence showed a case
of justifiable homicide.
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District Court in a suit against Cassius
NJ. Paine of Milwaukee by the United
States Playing Card Company, doing bus
mess in Cincinnati. The suit is brought
to secure damage from Paine for the sale
of whist trays, W hich are used in the game
of duplicate whist.
Two teams have broken through the ice
on the bay at Ashland and taken a cold
bath One team has remained on the bot
tom of the bay. This team was hauling
a load of lumber near one of the docks
when the ice gave way, and the horses,
load and all, went down. 1t was impossi-
BILE to get the horses out.
Albert Hitler of Milwaukee was injured
in a runaway accident and died without
regaining consciousness. While driving
into his gate the king bolt of the buggy
Iroke and the animal ran away, upsetting
the vehicle, with Hitler beneath it. One
of the sharp corners of the box penetrated
his skull and the weight of the vehicle
crushed his lungs.
Weddings in the State: Miss Emily l..
Adriance of Sheboygan Falls to Elmer NJ.
Little; Miss Eunice Copps of Stevens
Point to Harry e. Chafin of Washington,
d. c.; Miss Edna Slater of Sun Prairie
and w. w. Calkins of Marshall; Miss
Olga T. Smith and Henry Harnden, both
of Palmyra; Miss Agnes Owen and John
w. Dougan, both of Elba; Miss Margaret
S. Colyille of Calamus and John r.
Hughes of Beaver Dam; Miss Meta New
ton and e. s. Barber, both of Beaver
Dam.
In a series of accidents on the Holmes
Logging Railroad, which runs from Penn
bine west forty miles, two men were killed
and three injured. The killed were Julius
Howk, who was struck on the head by
falling tree, dying Instantly. and John
Robins, who was crushed to death by fall
ing between moving cars. He was
brother Of the bookkeeper of the road.
William Reid, camp foreman, had his
right arm dislocated and two other work.
men, whose names were not learned, were
injured in the camp by accidents. One
has broken arm and the other is nursing
fractured leg.
At Beloit, John Reagan, a workman,
while moving building, was struck on
the head by a windlass, sustaining fatal
injuries. The accident was caused by
the breaking of chain.
By the wonderful presence of mind of
the engineer and fireman on the North
w stern north-bound Twentieth Century
limited was averted a serious accident.
M:tvay between LODI and Dane, while
the train was going on a down grade at
a high rate of speed. one of the wheels of
the new and powerful engine collapsed.
The engine and coaches kept the track,
however, and were brought TO standstill.
William Steikley and his wife were
burned TO death at Dallas. They were in
the attic of their home when the fire
broke out, and before they could escape
were cremated Their three children, in
the lower part of the house, were saved
with difficulty.
The large elevator at tland, owned
by Baumann Bros. of Milwaukee, burn
ed. The fire department succeeded IN
saving the brick engine room adjoining
and also the large ir3n-coyered sheds filed
with baled hay, wool, oilmeal and bran.
The elevator was managed by j. Ill. keat-
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