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


DIR. Orrin G. Bennett, a GAINESVILLE
dentist, died, aged 36.
The proposed street fair at Beloit will
not be attempted this season.
Gustave Fregine was killed by light
ming near Mondovi. He leaves a wife
and child.
John Streidl, a Kewaskum farm hand,
has just inherited $1,000 by the death Of
his mother in Germany.
W. S. Clifford died at North Platte,
Neb. He was so years of age and had
been in business at Rhinelander for Ser
eral years.
John Nicola, an employee of Stewart
& Barker's sawmill at Ashland, fell be-
meath a carload of slabs. 1t is thought
he will recover.
The First Presbyterian Church Society
of Chippewa Falls has refused to accept
the resignation of DIR. George, and he
has decided to stay.
Arthur l.. Jennings, cashier of the
Bank of New Lisbon, and Miss Martha
r. Robinson were married at the home
of the brides parents.
Fishers sawmill, machine shop. plan,
ing mill, blacksmith shop and Touring
mill burned at Mondovi. The loss is
$4,000, with no insurance.
Anton Boehm, a forme Appleton man,
died at Hortonville from the effects of a
broken jaw which was injured a year
ago while a tooth was being pulled.
Fred Pagan, II years old. sent to jail
from Deerfield for thirty days for steal
- Or oo.%. rnu n 20 ~ fau ,rL,ra -
worked, was p%ardoned by Acting Gov.
Stone.
Peter Balstrom is held at Marinette on
the charge of attempting to burn the Jail
at Pembine. Had the fire occurred in
the night Baltsrom would have been
burned to death.
Judge f. s. Lyman, who has been Wis
ting his son, DIR. Il. A. Lyman, at Be-
lott. has returned to his home in Hilo,
Hawaiian Islands. The journey will take
a month or more.
Gleason Sprague, former editor of the
Mansion Star, is on his way home from
the gold fields Of ALASKA, where he has
been for The past year and a half.
A consolidation of extensive cranberry
marsh interests in Wood County has been
UlHue ny the itCbI puIdtIpu VI the way
nor Blackstone Cranberry Company al
Grand Rapids, capitalized at $4,000.
The G.. w. Howard Paper Company
has been organized with a capital stock
of S20O,O0 The incorporators are G.
w. Howard, f. w. Hawks and Adam
Brown. The company will manufacture
paper and pulp at Menasha.
The Neumeister race track, farm and
homestead at La Crosse, valued at over
500 600, was sold by the sheriff in several
parcels for about $4,000.
AT Spring Valley, as Thomas McCiaine
was standing near a rig for stacking hay,
a guy rope broke, letting a 4o-foot pole
drop on to him. He died in about an
hour.
Fred Arndt had quite a narrow escape
ON his farm near Merrill. While work
ing in the field, he noticed something
moving in the distance and supposing it
to be a canine, he picked up a club and
went for him, but TO his surprise a bear
faced him. Fred escaped the animal by
making a dive into the barn.
Mrs. Alexander Schuda, four children
and a domestic at Stevens Point We're
poisoned by drinking milk. All have re-
covered.
There was another Jail delivery at
Chippewa Falls. 'Jags" Hoole, who re-
Gently escaped by saving the bars and
was recaptured at Bruce, again escaped
with other prisoners.
Henry A., John 2. and George Salzer
of La Crosse have purchased from the
Sa wyer & Arnold Lumber Company of
Minneapolis the eleven lumber yards
along the 500 line, west of Minneapolis.
The deal carries with it the sale of s.
100000 feet of lumber. The considera-
ton is $4,000.
Mrs. Henry ID. Porter and two sons
have arrived in Beloit from China and
will occupy their home fer a year.
Rev. Henry F. Tyler Of the Plymouth
Congregational Church of Oshkosh
preached his farewell He goes
TO Columbus, Ohio.
WorAmen employed in the repair of a
building in Kenosha made a CHASTITY dis
coyery. 1t was necessary to tear away
one of the old walls and. when the wall
fell, it revealed the skeleton of a human
being, which had been hidden away be-
tween the rafters of the building. The
bones indicate that they belonged to a
child about l year old and had probably
been there for many years.