Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-02-22
State Items of Interest.

carload of paper for China.
AT Milwaukee, Richard Ullrich killed
himself because he was unable to make
his butcher shop pay dividends.
Weddings in the State Miss Osia Dank
and Newton Moore, Keposha; Miss Nettie
Tanner of Ashland to S. e. Matheson of
ST. Paul, Mimi.
Lawrin Lawson, who is among the
wounded Washington volunteers at Ma
Mia, was formerly a resident of La Crosse.
His father lives there.
The large hennery of Will Bofnger,
near Fond du Lac, was partly destroyed
by fire. Nothing but blooded birds were
kept and 10S We're burned to death.
William Brotherton, Il junior lieutenant
in the navy, is at his home in Racine on
short leave of absence. He was grad
uated from Annapolis in 1891 and has
served under Dewey, Schley and Samp-
son.
Fred Sheler, a well-known farmer of
the town of Caledonia, was fatally injur-
ed in a runaway accident, receiving two
serious wounds on the head. a fractured
skull and broken arm. He was p years
of age and unmarried.
The fight over the awarding of the con-
tract for building the library block at
Oshkosh to an outsider, in preference to a
local contractor, was settled by the Coun-
ellis giving the award to Charles w. Gin
bale of Chicago, the lowest bidder.
While switching in the yards at Marsh
field, Andrew Nystrum, brakeman, en-
ployed by the Wisconsin Central Railway.
fell from an engine and was run over aLu
instantly killed. He was Il single man,
aged % and lived at Stevens Point.
Frank Deners of Butternut started to
go to one of the camps about twenty-five
miles from Fifeld. When evening cams
he had lost his way and in a deserted
camp he built fire and fell asleep. He
awoke about midnight almost frozen.
All of the men who load ties for the Chi
cago and Northwestern road between Bar
aboo and Sparta have quit work. They
have been receiving SO cents per 100, but
say they cannot now load over 100 per
man and demand an advance of II cents
per 100.
The jury in the case of James Fl. Agen
of West Superior, administrator, against
the METROPOLITAN Life Insurance Com
pany, gave a verdict for the plaintiff for
s., 4S0. The company refused payment
on the policy of Clarence S. Griffin on the
alleged ground of suicide.
The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Dreis was celebrated at st. Jo-
seph's Church in Milwaukee, Mass was
said by Father Henry Dreis of Saukville,
who was assisted by Father Philip Dreis
of Caledonia as deacon, both of them
sons of the happy couple.
Stephen Montsavig of Custer, while re-
pairing a we'll seventy-five feet deep, was
buried at the bottom by a cavern.
Thomas Coan, an employe of an Ash
land club house, died under suspicious cir
cumstances. A coroner's jury returned a
verdict that he had taken an overdose of
morphine while mentally deranged
Several months ago the j. |. Case
Threshing Machine Company presented a
petition to the Racine Council asking that
certain streets adjoining its plant be va
Gated in order that the buildings could be
enlarged. The Council has refused to
vacate the streets.
Aid. Henry E. Horne of La Crosse, pro-
prietor of large wholesale and retail
crockery store, who is suing the Milwau-
kee road in the Circuit Court for $4,000
for the loss of his left foot in September.
1897, must undergo another amputation.
There have already been three amputa-
tions since the accident.
An explosion of gas from carbide CON
tanned in a can came very near causing
sad accident at Scaieisingerville. Theo-
dore Koenings, who has charge of the
acetylene lighting plant, was just about
to open the can, which is kept in the cell
lar. when an explosion occurred which
badly burned his face and otherwise in
jured him.
Rev. Rowland Hanson, late of Messiah
Church. Chicago, has accepted the call of
the First Baptist Church of Beloit TO sue
coed Rev. w. A. Spinney. who has gone
to the South Baptist Church, Milwaukee.
The Wisconsin Trust Company, admin
istrator of the estate of Julius Luebke, is
suing the Marine Bank at Milwaukee, to
obtain possession of S3S,000 deposited by
Luebke II 1891. Luebke was we'll
known travelling man, who disappeared
from train in Colorado in 1892. He has
never been heard from since. Judge
Mann held that Luebke was dead in the
eyes of the law and upon petition appoint
ed the administrator. The bank claims
that the death has never been proven.
Deaths in the State: Henry INLAND,
aged ~, Kenoshs; Anthony Starks, Jr.,
Knowlton; John Springer. Clinton.
The Presbyterian parsonage in Racine,
occupied by Rev. A. G. Nickerson and
family, was Quilted by FIRE. The damage
Ia the house is about 81 200 and TO the
furniture about $500, both covered by in
suranee. The FIRE originated in defective
fiue.
A sensation was sprung in Kenosha
when it was announced that Judge Fish
had g-anisd Thomas Dalton a divorce
from his wife, Ellen Dalton, on the ground
of desertion The Daltons are among the
best known people of Kenosha and both
are members of prominent families