Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-02
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Bibbins celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at Be

has decided TO erect a club mousse at the
cost Of about $500.
Milwaukee reports that a brewery COM
bine involving an expenditure of 800
100000 is being formed.
Joseph Orth. Il member Of the police
force, was deprived Of his star at Ke-
nosha. 1t is said he Is the first OF several
To be released.
Wilfred Casson, the 9syear-old son Of
| William Casson of M~arinette, was
drowned at the Pines, a summer resort
four miles south Of that city.
Gust Hanson Like, a prominent farm
Ell of the town of Knox, shot himself
through the heart after shooting at and
missing John Anderson, against whom he
had a grudge.
The -four mill of the Davis Milling
Company at Gainesville was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000, insured
for ene-third value. The fire is thought
to have been caused by an explosion OF
dust.
Charles Bebault of ~Trempealeau was
neld up by highwaymen and claims to
have been robbed Of x215. He was bad.
~ injured BY the robbers and left in an
unconscious condition beside a railway
track.
Isadore Cohen, arrested in Milwaukee
on June 30 charged with defrauding The
Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance Com
pany of Germany, was held for trial al
GAINESVILLE. He gave bonds in the sum
of S 1000.
The Ross cheese factory, located sever
,p;loc narfbaacf NJ Afnpficaun b4rnad II
the ground with entire contents, includ
ing stock of the past two and one hall
months making. The total loss is esti
mated at $4,000.
The trouble which has been agitatins
the congregation of the st. Mathews
Catholic Church at New Casscl is to ter
inmate in a split and a new church edi
fee is to be erected at Campbellsport al
a cost of $4,000.
Albert Lemieux, the Kirby Carpenter
Company's head woods cruiser, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat and the
jugular vein with a table knife while II
his tent on the North branch of Pix
river, four miles from Dunbar.
Mrs. II. Il. Allen Of Marinette has re
ceiyed a heavy solid gold spoon from ths
i ntStdl uiti ttlS VI tiIt COIltts VI liz laugh
ters of the Revolution. Mrs. Aliens faith
err was a captain in the Revolutionary
army. She is nearly 100 years old.
Oliver G. Fuller has been appointed re
ceiver in involuntary bankruptcy fol
Charles Mayer of Milwaukee,, doing bus
mess as A. w. Boettcher & Co dealers
in carpets, draperies, etc. His liabiii
ties are alleged to be So, S14. with small
assets.
Milford Palmer, a brakeman of Kau
kauna, was thrown through cupcls
window at Greenville by the suddeI
breaking of the airbrake hose. He sui
fered a very severe cash in his scalp. HI
came near bleeding to death before b.
was discovered.
A. S. Gray and Il. A. Andrews o.
Grand Rapids, Wis, arrived at Seattle
the other day with the Alaska flyer Hum
boldt-from Klondike with 5000 each Ii
gold dust. The ship that brought thu
party contained about 100000 of thu
precious metal.
Thomas H. Gill of Milwaukee anl
Jackson Reuter- of Madison have pur
chased the stock in the First Nationa
Bank at Stevens Point owned by james
Reilly of Milwaukee and W. B. Bucking
ham and have been elected directors il
place of these lIco.
Charles Kading of Sheboygan has com
pleted a bedstead in inlaid work of hart
wood, in which there are 100000 pieee
of wood. The battle Of Manila is pic
tured out on the pieces of furniture. HI
is now making a commode to go with thu
bedstead and viii send all to the Paril
exhibition.
An increase Of % cents a day ha,
been made by the G. Reiss Coal Com
pany Of Cheboygan to its employees. Thu
raise was not asked for and the mel
will now receive ST. a day. There ar,
100 men employed by the company unf
they are asking for fifty more mel a
the new rate.
r. d. Marshall, l.. M. Newman, JAS
McKinnon, Alex. McLaren and Il. g
Stanley, directors and officers of tn,
First National Bank of Chippewa Fall
have purchased the Bank OF BIoomel
from Henry Marshall of Boomer. Th,
surplus and capital stock of the banI
will be increased.
B. NJ. McGovern, who arrived iron
the South some time ago and was staying
at his brothers home in the town of Bar
ton, suddenly became insane and wa.
taken to West Bend for commitment tt
the county asylum. Upon searching thu
unfortunate man the marshal found $S0t
sewed up in his clothes.
The Chippewa Driving Park Associa
ton announces the following racing cir
cult program for the season: Chippews
Falls, Aug. Oil; Mcmillan, Aug. 1918
Sparta, Aug. 22-25; Galesville, Aug. %
81; Tumah, Aug. % to Sept. i; Mauston
Sept. Al; Augusta, Sept. 1915; Chippe
wa Falls. Sept. 1922; West Salem, Sept
1920.
A strike Of the motormen on the She
boygan street ears has been avoided sue
ccssfuily. The motormep were told tt
keep $40 In change oil the cars at al
times, which the men with families SAT-
they could not do with the salary they
were receiving. Three of the motor
men quit and other men were secured il
their places and no further trouble is an
ticipated.
The east end of the large warehouse
at the paper mill at the first dam in Mari
nette collapsed, and nearly 1000 rolls u
- IN EE -
wrapping paper were dropped to the EN-
bankment beneath and many { tiled lowr
into the river. About GOO square fee
of loor went down, dropping about
twelve feet to the embankmert beneath
The east end Of the building was alst
burst open.
James Schwenick, a stranger in Ash
land, committed suicide by shooting him
self. His body was found near an ole
building. From letters In his pockets il
was ascertained that he was in the lum
Der business, but no clue has been found
as to his place of residence.
A letter was received by Charles Carl
ner of WATERFOWL from his son Carl
dated at Yokohama, Japan, July 5, In
which he says ne is on his way home in
the hospital ship Relief. Gardner was q
private in Company l., Fifty-frst Iowa
and was wounded in the leg at Calumpit
Philippine Islands.
Frank l.. French of Sparta received q
telegram from Assistant Adjt. Gen. Car
ter, stating that he was appointed cap
tain in the Thirty-fourta infantry, sta
toned at Fort Logan, Colo. He immedi
ately wired his acceptance.
The revenue officers of Milwaukee have
found eyasions of the law by which the
Government has been losing thousands
of dollars. The parties at fault are the
brewing companies. The officials refuse