Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-19


George j. Kellogg of Janesyille and
Mrs. Hassam of Lake. Mills were married
at the home of the bride.
= James Dennie was insteatly killed al
Stratford by a sawlog rolling over him.
de was single man, aged %.
Harry Robinson was found dead on the
stairway of the Archie block in West Su-
perior. He probably died of heart failure
Miss Ruth Stebbins, daughter of J. NJ.
Stebbins of Kenosha, and Paul McKin-
non of Chicago were married at the home
of the bride.
Arthur Gilbert was caught in the fly
wheel of mill machinery at Fairchild and
was killed. He was a member of the
County Board
Nearly all the windows were blown out
of the Wisconsin Central blacksmith shop
at Stevens Point by the explosion of gas
in the blast pipe.
Whitehall secured the new Trempealeau
County asylum. involving an immediate
expenditure of $4,000, by the action of
the County Beard
After several shots were exchanged, the
Elgin police captured one of trio Of
burglars who gave his name as Arthur
Anderson of Chicago.
Arthur ID. Alverson and Miss Clarissa
Bryant were married at Stevens Point,
Judge Webb having granted him divorce
from his former wife in the morning
Mayor-elect David Douglas of Eau
Claire, who came to New York in 1876
from England, secured his second papers
in order to qualify for the office of Mayor.
Weddings in the State: Miss Alice Sa-
bin of Windsor to E. G. Dodge of Lake
Mills; Miss Fredericka Woodruff of Mari
nette to Charles A. Brampton of Chicago
AT Milwaukee, Fred Watson was SEN
fenced TO term of fourteen months in
the house of correction for having robbed
the money drawer of the Walworth post
office.
The Aluminium Manufacturer Com
pany's large factory at Two Rivers mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire. The
loss will be about ST 900, covered by in
surance.
The big strike at the j. l. Case Thrash
ing Machine Company works in Racine,
involving $50 men, has been satisfactorily
settled. No discrimination is to be shown
by the company.
Assemblyman III. l.. Daggett of New
London is authority for the statement
that he has been offered $1,000 by a large
corset factory in the East for the use of
his name and picture.
The Northwestern Cedarmen's Assoca-
ton, which met at Marinette, advanced
the price of the best shingles to 81 per
thousand, and posts and poles from 10 to
20 per cent over former prices.
Bur airs entered the store of Scheid &
Miller at Jefferson, dry goods and gro
ceries, and drilled the safe. They obtain
ed about $50 in cash. They forced an en-
trance through the basement door.
Maj. and Mrs. H. j. McGrath arrived
at Eau Claire from Havana, where they
went soon after their marriage last No
vember. Maj. McGrath is chief engineer
of the second division of Gen. Lees army
corps.
While playing about moving freight
train in the Omaha railway yards in Chip
peSa Falls, Joseph Privett missed his
footing and fell beneath the cars, result
ing in the loss of hand and badly
crushed leg.
In consequence of dissensions in the
German Catholic Church of Eau Claire,
the authorities have ordered that Father
John Metzler of the Eau Claire church
and Father Geyer of Chippewa Falls ex-
change places.
Michael Won Strohmeyer, born in Aus
tria, descended of royal blood, died at
Butternut, aged 76. The deceased at one
time owned a large estate in his native
land, but lost it. He died bachelor AID
in apparently destitute circumstances.
Congressman jenkins has received at
least $500 packets of garden seeds for
the fire sufferers about Cumberland, and
this, together with the 1000 packets from
Senator Mitchell and 1000 from Senator
Spooner, will be q godsend for the strick-
Ell people.
A portion of the crew at Radfords
sash, door and blind plant at Oshkosh
walked out owing to dissatisfaction over
the wages paid. Scattering instances are
reported of employees of the Paine Lum-
Der Company walking out for the past
few days, dissatisfied with wages paid.
Deaths in the State: John B. Whitcomb,
dStu tOg ~ Actlts dSeu ~, IT-
nest Nichols, aged 49, and Mrs. Ward
Stowell (nee Cynthia DaggettJ, aged 10,
of Beloit; j. o. Stade, Marinette; Mrs.
S. G. Cool, aged "a, Janesville; Miss
Maud S. King, aged 10, GAINESVILLE; Mrs.
Louis T. Morehouse, aged Al, Beloit; r.
n. Waldo, aged g. Bristol; Mrs Eliza
beth Cary, aged Sc, Racine; Levi w.
Botsford, aged 50, Racine; Capt. Henry
Gray, aged ~, Racine.
Lewis Breyer. employed in lumber
camp north of Arbor Vitae, witnessed the
strange spectacle of an eagle killing deer
recently. The great bird swooped down
on the gentle denizen of the forest and
with one stroke of its talons cut the deer's
jugular vein, and the deer soon bled to
death. The eagle endeayored to carry off
its victim, but the carcass was too heavy,
and after dragging it about rod left and
soon returned with two more. and the
three devoured about half of the deer.
The Kenosha City Council passed the
ordinance granting franchise to the Mil
waukee, Racine and Kenoeha Electric
Railway Company for the construction
and operation of an electric line through
the city. 1t was not without struggle
that the ordinance was passed, four of the
aldermen voting for and four against the
franchise. Mayor Petit cast the decd-
ing vote in its favor. BY this franchise
the road secures a right of way to the
southern limits of the town, thus estab-
fishing complete chain of connection be-
tween Chicago and Milwaukee.
DIR. Broadonok. for years on the medi-
cal staff of the Northern Hospital for the
Insane at Oshkosh, died suddenly at
Rochester, Mimi, where he had gone to
take position in an insane hospital some
weeks ago.
sstruction by fire of the -four riiil or the
Alma Milling Company at Alma, ID. j.
Mckenzie and l.. L. Hunpsr, principal
owners, and subsequent failure of the
company, comes the news that the pri-
vate banking house of l.. p. Hummer and
MckinZie has closed its doors an the sug-
gestion of che State bank examiner.
Mrs. William J. Rossingham, residing
two miles southeast of Oregon, committed
suicide by emitting her throat with a ra-
zer a. she lay in bed with her little daugh-
ter. The loss of babe few months ago
and poor health affected her mind De-
ceased was about 30 years old and leaves
a husband and four children.
Erick johnson and his 1S-year-old son
were drowned near Cedar Falls. In go
ing through a pond, his team got off the
road. oyerturning the buggy on them in
six feet of water, rendering them helpless.
0ua 90 tho hopSac ,poS aIro Irnuyuod A.