Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-08
Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Waite of Oshkosh

left for trip 10 Cuba.
Glidenwell's hotel at Cedar Falls burn
ed to the ground at loss of about $4,000.
Burglars entered the store of Fuhr-
man Bros. at Elroy and carried off con-
siderable stock.
George Allen, aged 70, heavy owner
of southern Wisconsin real estate, died at
his home in Bloomfield.
The next meeting of the Northwestern
Teachers Association will be held at Ste
vens Point March ~, % and 90
AT her home in Bangor, Mrs. John
Bradley, wife of former member of the
Assembly, fell down the cellar stairs. Her
skull was fractured.
At Appleton, Lottie Drinks, young
woman of about %, died from the effects
OF taking carbolic acid. An inquest was
held, but came to no definite decision.
Carl Aske, a workman in the Webster
chair factory at West Superior, went out
of his head from the effects of liquor,
while being taken to the city hall. He
died in the police patrol wagon.
Michael Granske, well-known German
farmer living in the town of Bristol, has
been adjudged insane. Granske was SO
years of age and has been mentally de-
ranged for nearly two years. He will be
taken to Oshkosh.
The Rev. Father Trimberger, pastor of
a church at st. Martins, has presented to
the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual
Rosary Of Milwaukee a 15-acre tract of
land near the village as site for retreat
which the sisters will build.
John Stevens, a millionaire of Neenah,
has purchased Blackbird Island. small
island in Lake Winnebago. The island
VIII be used for hunting and fishing pur-
poses. Mr.. Stevens purchased the prop
erty from the State of Wisconsin.
George Davis, an old man known as
Doc because he was formerly veteri-
nary surgeon, was found dead in Capt. e.
W. Aliens music store at Eau Claire.
Davis was befriended by Allen, who let
him take care of his horse and sleep in
the store. Davis probably died of apo
plexy.
Superintendent Refs of the Bay View
works of the Federal Steel Company at
Milwaukee, posted notice to the effect
that laborers will receive an increase in
wages of about s. per cent and that gen
eral raise of other wages except those of
scale men will follow. Several hundred
men are affected.
Charles Laduke, a former member Of
Company e, Thirty fourth Michigan, who
served at Santiago, was sentenced at
Marinette to sixty days in Jail for begging.
He is u brother of Alexander Laduke,
who is serving a life sentence in Leaven-
worth prison for killing a United States
regular at Ponce.
A freight train smashed into the rear
end of another freight Oh the Milwaukee
road few miles west of Scheisingerville,
and Conductor Cassell was severely in
Jured and an engine, caboOse and three
cars were demolished and burned. Engi-
neer McEvoy and the fireman jumped and
were not injured. Conductor Cassell, who
was in the caboose of the train ahead, had
one of mis- legs twice broken and an eye
gouged out. The brakeman, who was in
the caboose with the conductor, got off
with slight injuries.
The employees of the Baker Manufacture
ing Company at Evansville were treated
to a surprise recently. At p. IN. the
whistle sounded and the men were assem-
bled in one of the large rooms After O
kindly and sensible speech Allen S. Baker,
treasurer and manager, presented to each
employe check representing 10 per cent
of the entire wages that each employe had
earned in the last twelve months. The
amount paid averaged $50 per man, many
who had worked the entire year receiving
much more than that sum.
John Guiddinger of Newton claims to
have discovered perpetual motion and will
leave for Washington to apply for a pat
ent on his invention. Mr.. Gilddinger some
time ago conceived the idea, but has only
recently been able to control his invention
by means of a governor. He now has the
power under perfect control, and has had
it running for six hours at time The
machine can be built by an ordinary black
smith at an outlay of $25 for one-horse
power and can be enlarged at a greater
expense to 500-hOrse power or more. Guild
dinger mas already been granted patents
on valuable inventions of farm machin-
cry.
William Ell. Burnham of Chicago is to
be the architect for the public library
building to be presented to the city Of
Kenosha. He has sent up plaster of
paris model of the building The build
ing will be of the Greek style and in the
shape of cross, with the shorter ends
to the north and to the south. 1t will be
erected ON a terrace raised three feet
fbove the level of the park in which it
will be built. The terrace will be sur
rounded with blocks of granite, with steps
hoo l, Inv IN bo porly rha
is porch, with Greek columns of the Co
rinthian order. The rotunda is surmount-
ed by a beautiful dome supported by
twelve marble columns.
The 1S9S-99 operations of the La Crosse
loggers can now be said to be over with
as far as Black river and the territory
directly tributary to La Crosse is con-
cerned. The total will aggregate some
thing like 100000 feet, mostly white
pine and hemlock. The G. III. Nichols
Lumber Company has made a good show
ing, and several of their camps have been
cleaned up, not only for this season, but
for all time. Several companies have
about concluded their logging operations
on the Black. This Is the last season of
the Island Mill Lumber Company, which
has during its existence fioated down river
fully 250,O00,0O0 feet of logs. The G. l..
Colman Lumber Company is still doing
some logging on the upper Chippewa, but
have finished for this seq son on the Black
They will put in about 100000 feet of
logs, white pine and hemlock, on the
Black, and considerable more on the Chip
pewa The Sawyer & Austin Lumber
Company has put in 25,000,000 white pine
and hemlock on the Black this season: the
n. b. Holway estate, 100000 Of hem
lock; Hiram Goddard, 100000 Of hem
lock.
Deaths in the State: George Roe and
Fred Poloff. Milton; Michael Haley, aged
II, Beloit; Charles Kruger, Marinette;
Mrs Selma Winslow, aged 20, Mrs. o. A.
Felch, aged 80; Peter Waltz, aged 20;
Peter Knutson, Racine; Mrs. Peter Flu
groulle of Somers.
The Bundes-Krueger fest of Wisconsin
will be held at Chiffon July next. This
promises to be one of the largest gather
ings of soldiers who served in the Euro
pean army only, ever held in the State and
about twenty military local societies from
all over the State have made promises to
attend.
George Sattler of Sheboygan has invent
ed a railroad bicycle 1t is an apparatus
attached to a common bicycle and can be
placed on the rails and worked like an
ordinary machine with third wheel
which rests on the opposite rail.