Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-10-18
STATE items OF Interest.

Speaker Ray has returned to his home
in La Crosse from a trip East.
At Evansville a petition is being circu-
lated among taxpayers for the purchase
of a fire engine.
Cyrus Miner, one of the best known
business men Of southern Wisconsin, died
at GAINESVILLE, aged Y.
At Menomonee Falls a large barn of
Wesley Nebs with grain and machinery
was burned. Loss $500.
Paper CitS Camp, No. 612, NJ. w. of
"A, of Neenah is taking steps toward the
erection of a new opera house.
The typhoid fever epidemic at New
Lisbon has been checked. Secretary VIM
gate of the State Board of Health says
the epidemic is due to impure water.
Wisconsin University sophomores list
ened to a warning from President Ad-
ans to desist from hazing and then went
out and ducked a llalf-hundred freshmen
in Lake Mendoza.
Mrs. Krause, ar aged woman residing
in Royalton, was badly burned by her
clothes catching fire. Her son Emil was
also badly burned while trying to tear the
clothes from his mother.
The largest lynx ever seen in that vi
cinity was shot and killed by Al Ziener
while hunting nine miles west of Neenah.
The animal weighed 46 pounds and meas
ured 5 feet 6 inches from head to tail.
Former United States Senator John l..
Mitchell has resigned as a member of the
board of managers of the national sol
diers' homes. Mr.. Mitchell expects to
start soon on a prolonged trip abroad.
The work of numbering Neenah houses
and business places and putting up street
signs has now been completed, and in a
short time residents of the city will be
enjoying the advantages of a free mail
delivery system.
While men were at work ON an addi-
ton OF the cooling tower of the Mineral
Point Zine Company the s~caffolding gave
way, resulting in the injury of two or
three persons, the most serious, however,
being a crushed side.
AT Omro Scots sawmill closed down
for the season after saving nearly 1000
900 feet of lumber. The Scott company
banked nearly half the logs brought down
the Wolf river.
Sydney Lloyd Wrightson has resigned
his position of leader of the boys choir
in the Presbyterian Church at Marinette
to accept a position as leader of concerts
and oratorios in Chicago.
Will Desombre, formerly a member of
Company L, Wisconsin National Guard,
and a sergeant under Capt. Markle. has
been appointed instructor of military sci
ence in the University of Chicago.
Jealousy caused Patrick Hughes Of
West Superior to shoot his sweetheart,
Josie Davis. The aim was poor and the
girl still lives. Hughes then tried to
shoot himself.
Rudolph Krablein of Neenah, J.. III.
Pauls Of Green Bay and Louis Larson
have arrived home from the Philippines,
where they participated in twenty-six bait
ties with Company A. First North Da-
kota regiment.
An ordinance was presented at the
meeting of the Common Council in Cen
tralia to consolidate the twin cities of
Wood Uoanty-Grand Rapids and Cen
~tralia-into a municipal corporation by
the name of Central Rapids.
Miss Sturtevant of Oshkosh has return
ed to the Northern hospital, where she
will resume charge OF he school for the
insane.
John Plankinton, Milwaukee,, dietl of
typhoid fever. aged u years. He was a
son az William Plankinton and grandson
of John P~lankinton, the packer.
John Ferguson of Chippewa Falls was
killed on the Shell Lake Lumber Com
pany's logging road by a peculiar acct
dent. Ferguson, who was looking for
work ia the logging camps, was riding ON
the tender of the engine, when a tree
was blown across the engine. striking
him on the back of the head. He lived
only about an hour.
. The Couuc:. of Oshkosh killed a resolu-
tion providing for the pavement OF a por-
ton of Algoma street with yitrifed brick.
rhe passage OF the resolution was to have
decided tie material to be used in the
| future In the requirement. Of the principal
streets of the city.
The Oshkosh Ladies' Benevolent Socl-
ETY. is contemplating the building OF a
new home for the friendless, and through
the kindness OF ex-senator Sawyer, be-
lieve they will be able TO manage it. MI.
Sawyer has giye- 5000, with the sug-
/ gestion that il be used as an endowment
or foundation for the home, the money to
be invested and the income to be used for
Expenses.