Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-06-21
State Items of Interest.

The bayfield, box factory burned. Loss
about 81, 900, no insurance.
The Bayfield, box factory was burned.
The loss is about $4,000, no insurance.
DR.. w. Fl. Oviatt of Milton Junction is
dead He went to Milton forty years ago.
The foundry of the Milwaukee bridge
and iron works in Milwaukee was destroy
ed by fire. The loss is about $4,000.
Gov. Scofed has settled the contest
over the appointment of State dairy and
food commissioner by reapponting Ii. G..
Adams.
The Shaw Tannery Company of Mellen
has received from Langlade County a
deed for $4,000 acres of land in the vicin
ity of Mellen.
While riding logs on the Red Cedar riv-
er William Rheinhart, druggist of Col
fax, lost his balance and fell into the river
and was drowned.
Adolph Larson member of Company
*, Fourth Wisconsin volunteers, has re-
turned to Bayfield,. He has been in Cuba
since Feb. 20 in the engineering corps.
Members of the Athenean Society Of the
State University propose to start sub
SCIIDliOD W bullu a StpdiutC iutt'LLt
where the society can hold it's meetings.
The steamer Vansant ran down shiff
containing three men, opposite Trempea-
leau, and one of the men was drowned.
His rame is John johnson and his home is
at Genoa.
The Ministerial Association of the La
Crosse district of the Methodist Church
L 70 HJoIy;,,
ley deploring the canteen clause decision
in the army bill.
At Stevens Point, the second pair of
Amherst bank robbers, Kelly and Harry,
were sentenced to Waupun for five years
each. The other two, Harrington and
Ratigan, sentenced several days ago, were
taken to the State prison.
The Board Of Supervisors of Kewaunee
has decided TO build new poor house, to
cost from $1,000 to $4,000.
A man named Shultz, who went to IJor-
icon to visit his sister, Mrs. Herman
Ceise, and later went to Fox lake to fish,
is missing. Search has been made, but
with no success.
AT Racine, Henry Peterson has report
ed to the police that his son, Clarence, had
disappeared from home several days ago.
Every effort to find the boy has failed He
was 16 years old and had never been away
from home>in his life. 1t is feared that
the lad may have drowned in the river.
III. A. Simonds. superintendent of the
Stevens Point schools, was elected super
intendent of the Oshkosh schools.
Gov. Scofeld announces the appoint
ment of w. T. Ellsworth Of Oshkosh as
State treasury agent to succeed Ralph
Vernon of Madison, who has held the Of
fee since the beginning of the Upham adj
mnistration.
Owing to the failure of one OF the large
debtors of the bank to remit part of his
indebtedness as agreed, the Dane County
State Bank, which has been a hourishing
Institution in Stoughton since 1884. has
been obliged to close its doors. The as
sets are $223 600, with liabilities of S173,-
600.
Ex-Speaker J. ]. Hogan has given a
block of land to the city of La Crosse for
new school house site.
The case of Amelia Goldfuss VS.. the
city of Ashland has been decided, the jury
returning verdict for the plaintiff In
the sum of 81, 900. The plaintiff sued for
81. 900 for alleged injuries received by fall.
ing ON an ice-coyered walk in February,
1898.
The summer home in Kenosha under the
control OF the Sisters Of ST. Mary of Chi
cago has been opened for IFS fifth year
Sixty-tiye little girls, their ages ranging
from 5 to rs years, were brought to the
city in a special car and they win spend
the summer months at the home.
Since Nov. |, 1894, two bonds Of $500
caea of the $4,000 issue given by James,
vile 10 secure the Evansville cutoff
through that city on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, have been miss
ing. The mystery was cleared up by the
apnearanee OF the bonds frJm Chicago
through llcal hank.
Al a weading party in Kaukauna, at
which ! mn Mar. and Miss Lena Nichols
were married, an accident occurred. The
party had just left the brides home on
the way to the church, when one of the
horses slipped on muddy hill, side and
overturned the carriage, throwing out all
OF its occupants into the soft mud and
running the ladies' dresses.