Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-06-21
Hudson is to have a new city hall.

nosha, aged so years.
Compositors on the La Crosse Chroni-
Gle went out on a strike. alleging objec-
tions to the method of paying.
A Lake Geneva passenger train instant
~ killed Charles Coon at Dundee. He
was formerly in business at Elgin, III.
Alderman Ernest FRANKIE of Kenosha
was married in Chicago 10 Miss Eva Ke-
man. He is SO years old aud his bride is
"a.
A life insurance company is being or
ganized at Berlin on the annuity plan, to
be known as the American Annuity AS
surance Association.
At Valley Junction, NJ. A. Thompson, a
section hand on the Omaha road, was run
over by hand car. He was injured in
ternally ard one leg badly bruised.
The plant of the Falk Manufacturing
Company in the Menominee valley was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $35, 900 and
total. How the fire started is unknown,
but it had been burning for some time
before discovered
Samuel Painter committed suicide at
Bailey's Harbor by throwing himself over
rocky cliff into the lake. Disappoint-
ment in love is said to have been the cause
for the act He was a business man, 80
years of age, and member of the Odd
Fellows.
Frederick S. Perkins, the noted arch
aeologist, artist and collector, died at his
home in Burlington. Mr.. Perkins many
years ago became interested in the col
collection of copper implements of which
Wisconsin has proved fruitful ground.
This eventually became his life work, and
for 1t he sacrificed health and money.
The large exhibition building ON the fair
grounds at Sheboygan was destroyed by
fire, causir3 Il loss of $1,000. The struc-
ture stoo soiue distance from any other
bui IS ,.,a there had been no one on
the premises. The origin of the blaze is a
mystery. 1t was probably started by
tramps who might have slept in the build
ing. The fair grounds, which have al
ways been known as the driving park,
were purchased by Henry Steele some
time ago, who had no insurance on the
structure.
William Berger died at Sheboygan, the
result of injuries received at the No. /
coal docks of the G. Reiss Coal Company
abcr. two hours prior to his DEATH The
steamer Inter Ocean was being unloaded
AID Berger was engaged in unloading cars
on the tramway and is thought to have
lost his balance, falling thirty feet to the
deck of the steamer, which was getting
ready to clear. He was taken to st. Mich
olas hospital in an almost unconscious con-
dition, where it was found that both arms
and legs We're broken, his skull fractured
and his face badly battered.
A runaway occurred north of Kenosha,
in which seven people were more or less
seriously injured. Ex-Chief of Police G.
+. Stemm, together with his wife and two
children, his sister, Mrs. w. A. Gerkin of
Bloomington, H., his niece, Mrs. Paul +
BEECH, and her son Otto, had started out
in the country to visit some friends. When
a short distance from the city they met an
electric ear on the Milwaukee, Racine and
kenosha road and the horses becoming
frightened, the carriage was upset and the
entire party thrown into the ditch. The
horses leaped into the ditch and pulled the
buggy over the women and children. Ev-
cry occupant of the carriage was injured.
Peter McNee, a wealthy Rock County
farmer, committed suicide at his farm
near GAINESVILLE by hanging himself with
a rope halter in corncrib. McNee had
written letter to w. G. Goodrich, a
neighbor. notifying him that he was to
end his life. Goodrich at once FASTENED
to McNee's farm and found McNee in bed
with revolver, which he took from him.
Next morning Goodrich, thinking all was
well, let McNee go to the barn to work.
Ten minutes later his daughter found his
dangling body. McNee jumped from a
buggy wheel, the fall injurng his neck,
and it is thought that he was mentally
deranged.
A Duluth limited train had narrow es-
cape near ElrOy, in which the lives of
many passengers were at stake. The
train was brought to a sudden standstill
by Engineer Sulliyan-so suddenly in fact,
that it threw all of the passengers out of
their seats. 1t was found that there had
been a washout on the track and that the
engineer had discovered it in time to put
on the emergency brakes and stop the
train just about eight feet on the safe side
of the washout, or the train would have
been wrecked. 1t was going at the rate
of fifty miles an hour when the danger
was discovered. The passengers made up
a purse of $50 for the engineer and he has
received word from the railroad com.
pany's offices that he will get a reward of
$500 and vacation Of sixteen days with
pay.
An alteration between James Lowe
and his wife eliminated in a sensational
tragedy at Neillsville Mrs. Lowe was
packing her trunk preparatory to leaving
her husband, when Lowe shot her through
the head and cut her throat. He then shot
himself in the head. Mrs. loves wounds
are fatal, but Lowe is expected to recover.
Judge Slosson has given q decision In
the Reiter estate contests at Kenosha.
This suit has been in the probate court for
more than twenty years. John Reiter OF
Salem left an estate valued at $1,000
John Reiter, Jr, son, could not be found,
and the other heirs refused to submit to a
statement until he was located SO the
case was continued and one judge passed
it to his successor as a legacy. Every eff.
fort was made to find John Reiter, but no
answer was made to the numerous adver-
tisements. He is said to have gone to Min.
nesota, where he bought farm and was
evidently doing well. When search was
made for him it was found that he had
sold the farm and mysteriously disappear.
ed. Judge Slosson has made the division,
Two heirs, who were present, Jacob Rel
ter and Mrs. Jensen, received each one.
third of the estate, the judge reserving a
third in case John Reiter should ever re-
appear.
The Latin & Rand Powder Company,
which is constructing a large mill in the
town of Pleasant Prairie, has decided to
make the plant much larger than was at
first anticipated. More than 300 men are
now employed in the work of construction
on the large buildings and more men
would be put to work if tLey could be Sc.
cured. The company will erect about for
ty buildings and about third of them will
be built of brick. The others win be of
iron and wood. All except the Office build
ing will be ireproof. The contract price
for the construction of the plant is $685.
600.
The largest single consignment of wool
that ever left Rock County, consisting of
$4,000 pounds, was shipped to wooden
manufacturers in St. Louis, New York
and Philadelphia from GAINESVILLE.
William Worth. cattle buyer of Ber-
lin, had a pocketbook, containing notes
and greenbacks, chewed up by hogs near