Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-22

Deaths IN the State: Mrs. SOPHIA Fried
rich, aged 65. Racine; Patrick Stone,
Tomahawk; Mrs. Emma Hensel, aged go
Ada; George Neyins, Lancaster.
The S. Freeman e. sons Manufacturing
Company of Racine is completing the
largest boier ever built in the Northwest.
1t is for the Columbia River and Puget
Sound Navigation Company of Portland,
Ore, and weighs 10000 pounds.
The ]. l. Case Company of Racine se-s
cured Judgment for $40, 043.0S for dam
ages alleged to have resulted from the
Niles Scott Company of Indiana contract
ing to furnish implements, 10 per cent OF
which were claimed to be defective.
A pipe burst on Sixth street in Racine
and raised the earth and pavement for
distance of twenty feet. foot high. On
Chestnut street pipe burst and the .rrter
came up under a wood pile and hooded
the surrounding street and propt.ty.
The annual convention of the ssythern
Wisconsin Teachers Association was
held at Ashland and the following officers
were elected: Miss Rosalia Bohrer, Wash
burn, president; j. g. Adams, Hayward,
vice-president; NJ. y. McIyer, Bayfield,,
secretary ana treasurer.
Marinette physicians are puzzled over
the case of the 1S-year-old son of S. Click
man. Last week he acquired suddenly
mania for talking and kept mp constant
tumble of words. His father finally told
him TO keep quiet. The young man has
not uttered word since.
John and Lewis Roehl, aged 10 and u
10,
ARRAY with George McCourt of Krough-
vile. One of the Roehl boys was struck,
with a pitchfork and the other with an
AK. Another brother fed TO the house,
McCourt was examined about week be-
fore on the charge of being insane, but
was released
Joseph Pavel, one of the est-known
tinsmiths in Racine, and member OF the
Independent Order of Foresters, commit
ted suicide. He entered room in his
home, tied up the doors and windows
filled timers stove with coal, coke and.
alcohol, set it on fire, laid down on the,
bed and waited for death by suffocation.
He was 40 years of age. He had attempt
ed to take his life twice before.
Chairman Gerlaeh of the national rae
a. ~.
GAINESVILLE July II, 13 and IA for the ma.
tional circuit meet to be held this sum
mer. The State meet will be held at the
same time. The GAINESVILLE Cycling Club
has elected the following officers to pre-
side over the meet President NJ. G..
Jeffris; vice-president, Z. ID. McGowan;
secretary. >. ID. Lalfman; treasurer, Viii
liam w. Watt: captain, +. V. Wilton, Jr.
AT Monticello, fire destroyed the MACHINE
shop, carpenter shop and electric light
plant OF the Monticello Granite Company,
causing a loss of $4,000 The loss is
covered by insurance. The building was
large four-story brick, formerly the
Montello wooden mills The property
burned included the powerful air com
pressor and iron and wooden lathes dyna
mos and valuable patterns-all property
of the granite company. The plant will
be rebuilt
The north-bound Chicago limited on the
Chicago, Burlington and Northern was
wrecked near Genoa. One sleeper plung-
ed down the embankment and into the
mud and water, but moi single life was
lost nor were any of the passengers in
jured. Two coaches left the rails About
thirty feet of the approach to the, two
span iron bridge over Bad Axe creek had
been undermined, but the engine, COM
posite car and the two Chicago sieepers
passed over the break unframed.
After lying for ten months in a trance,
without power of speech and unable to
move her body. Miss Tiny Brocheit 81
Milwaukee is said to be. rno.s7ei ing She
is now ahleyt"- move her limbs, though her
sneeeir still yer! imperfect. The ply.
stefan who attempted a cure has given
her massage, with excellent effect. He
says the disease is carries of the spine.
The seventh cervical and the first, second
and third dorsal vertebrae are affected
by the disease and bent almost V shape.
The patient is gradually learning to talk.
much as Il child would.
In the municipal court at Oshkosh the
case of the State of Wisconsin VS.. Charles
Radford was discontinued on the motion
of District Attorney Quatermass. Mr..
Radford was arrested some time ago on
the charge of employing child labor, but
the case was adjourned several times and
has been dropped by default on the ground
that the complaining witness, Inspector
Long, is no longer i'll the employ of the
State and does not care to testify. The
case of the State VS.. Herman Stiller,
father of the young girl employed by Mr..
Radford, was also discontinued.
A peculiar accident happened to pas
senger train on the Chicago and North
western road near Baraboo. In passing
around a curve with high embankments,
Engineer H. G.. Brown noticed a rock on
the track which had thawed loose and
rolled down from above. He had not time
to stop the train and when the engine
struck the obstacle it ran over it, tearing
away the machinery under the locomotive
and at the same time lifting it from the
track. 1t shook up and frightened the
passengers, but no one was injured. The
under part of the locomotive was badly
damaged.
Minnie Brown, girl about "a years
of age, was found dead in bed at Osh-
kosh. Marks on her throat seem to indi-
cate that she was strangled. She was
employed in a restaurant as waitress
and lived in room over the restaurant
alone. James Hatley, proprietor of. the
restaurant, says she came to the restau.
rant the day before with a flushed face,
and drank a large quantity of water. She
appeared to be agitated and soon retired
to her room. The girl had brother, John
Brown, who is a mail carrier in Apple
ton, and a sister, Kate, who attends the
normal school in Oshkosh.
Six students of the senior class of the
Lancaster high school have entered for
the contest for the j. +. Mills memorial
prize to take place April T. The heirs of
Judge J. II. Mills set aside from his es
tate $500, the proceeds of which are to
be given for these contests.
Mrs. Joseph. Sadowsky was quite badly
cut in the. back, and Anton Mack cut in
the face and ON the head in row at
Sadowsky's home iii Racine. The screams
of the woman attracted a crowd of men,
who set upon Mack and not only beat him
terribly, in addition to his other injuries,
but threatened to lynch him.
III. w. Pace, an Omaha brakeman, fell
under the cars in the Omaha yards in
Chippewa Falls and was badly injured.
He was removed TO the st. Joseph's hos
pital. where his leg was amputated be-
low the knee He is - yeaEs of age and
single. His home is in St.-pau wf7afe a
widowed mother resides.
At Racine, the residence of George
Freeman was destroyed by fire. with it's
contents, aud Mr.. Freeman and his wife
hardly ~ oanad Tho loss will raach 81 :