Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
State Items of Interest.

The new directory gives La Crosses
population as a trite over $4,000, an i'll,
crease of over 500 over two years ago.
The John Schroeder Lumber Company
of Milwaukee has purchased 35,000,00C
feet of standing pine near Ludington,
Mich. This is one of the largest lumber
deals of the year.
The State board OF control contracted
with James Quirck Il Co. of Minneapo-
lis for 5000 barrels of second patent
wheat -four, to be delivered at the various
institutions. The price is So.
1t has been discovered that $10O,OWO
bonds, issued by Ashland County and
|. sold to Trowbridge, Macdonald & Niver
of Chicago, were illegally issued, and the
company refuses to take them.
A valuable race horse was stolen from
the farm of David Dwyer near the vii
lage of Newport. The police have nc
clue as to the identity of the person or
persons committing the crime.
Judge J. NJ. Morrow of Sparta drop
ped dead on his way from his home to
his office. He was one of the ~best-known
lawyers in that section of the State.
Heart failure was the cause of his death.
Burglars entered the home of o. G.
Sanborn at Elroy and secured $40 and
two gold watches. A saloon was also
to wines, cigars and all the change in the
till.
Frank G.. Austin, superintendent of the
La Crosse Gas Company, while assist
ing in d%isjointing gas pipe in a trench,
had his face and arms burned so that he
had to be carried home and placed under
the influence of narcotics.
The executive committee of the Wis
consin State Cranberry Growers Asso-
citation has set Aug. % as the date of the
next annual convention, to be he'd at
experimental stations 1 and . of Gaynor
Bros marsh at Cranmo0r.
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette has sold
the remainder of his 1899 cut of lumber,
amounting to 100000 .eet, to the Hines
Lumber Company.
Captain Charles Troy of Racine, one of
the best-known Frenchmen in southern
Wisconsin, shot and killed himself. Fl
nancial reverses are attributed as the
cause. He was 63 years old.
August Kuiavsky, who conducts a sa-
loon near the Manitowoe city limits, was
attacked by five tramps in his place of
business and terribly beaten. One of his
assaiIants used a knife and cut Kujavsky
quite severely on the left side md arm.
George Fowles of Algoma had three
ribs broken and was otherwise bruised
by his team, which was hitched to a hay
rack, running away.
A severe electric and wind storm vis-
tied Racine. A roof at the Fish Bros
wagon factory was raised up and fell
bach in place, but water poured into the
rear of the office and did considerable
damage.
Commander Perry Garst, formerly Of
the monitor Terror. is in Kenosha visit
ing his nephew, Clifton Garst. Capt.
Garst will return to Annapolis at the end
of n short vacation. He teaches mathe-
MATES and astronomy in the naval acad-
envy
The boarding house of Peter Johnson
in Powderville was entered by thieves
and money belonging to several of the
boarders stolen.
Asmus Land. aged 81, die at Racine.
Mr.. Land had been a resideL, of Racine
for forty years. He leaves six children,
thirty-five grandchildren and twenty-five
great-grandchildren.
John Sullivan is in Jail at West Su-
rArior. charged with shooting and proba-
bly, fatally wounding William Moore. his
fa~ther-in-law, the ball passing through
the Jaw. 1t is said that the affair grew
out of trouble which Sullivan had with
his wife and his father-in-law refusing
to speak to him.
The Menominee River Hotel at Mari
nctte was Quilted by fire and nearly de-
stroyed. The fire started in the bar
room near the icebox. The inmates of
the house were awakened by the barking
of a dog which slept there. The origin
of the fire is a complete mystery. Loss
$500, insurance $1,000.
Director of Census Merriam has sent
to the President the following list of
supervisors for Wisconsin: First district.
Andrew j. Turner, Portage; fourth, Al
fred G. Wright, Milwaukee,: fifth. Eu-
gene Mcintyre, Waldo; sixth, Frank :.
Baldwin. Waupaea: seventh, Charles s.
Yam Auken, La Crosse; ninth, Jens 3.
{ ensen. Ellsworth.