Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-05
State Items of Iuterest,


The Kenosha City Council by unani-
nous vote passed the ordinance to redis-
trict the city into eight wards.
j. o. Lindquist of Menekaune, near
Marinette, has sold his supply of fish,
amounting to $50 900 pounds.
Jesse ID. Alger of Oshkosh and Miss
Emma Hotz of Stevens Point were mar
ried at the brides home by Rev. j. H.
Tippett.
A feature of the Presbyterian Church
jubilee anniversary celebration at Beloit
was the presentation of portraits of for
mer pastors.
Mrs. Adolph Koehler of Milwaukee
eloped with her brother-in-law, William,
who made her acquaintance only four
weeks before.
At Amigo, F. Schadewalds store was
destroyed by fire. entailing loss of S., 5000
on building and stock of merchandise. The
insurance is $1,000.
The firm of Sasse Il Dettloff of La
Crosse was placed in bankruptcy by local
creditors. The stock had been levied on
by two out-of-town creditors.
Miss Nellie Leonard of Chippewa Falls,
sister of former Assistant Secretary Of
State Leonard, died in hospital in St.
Paul of disease of the brain.
Capt. j. s. Wall, who headed a party
of ten from Hurley for the Klondike coun-
try year ago, re urned with four others
They are no r."h n, but far wiser.
An ordinance has been passed by the
Ripon Council, as result of the recent
saloon Investigations, which provides that
after IL o'clock at night and on Sundays
all screens shall be removed.
Emil Zefeldt, the 7-year-old son of Jul
Illus Eefeldt of Elroy, was crawling under
n train, when the engine started. The
wheels passed over his leg, and amputa-
ton above the knee was necee~ary.
The remains of Private Peter Ham,
Company ID, Thirty-fourth regiment.
Michigan volunteers, who died at Santi-
ago of malaral fever July 81, 1898, were
taken to his late home near Newburg for
burial
The Inter County Medical Society.
composed of doctors of Eau Claire. Chip
pewa, Dunn, Trempealeau, Pepin Ash
land, Pierce, Barron, ST. Croix, Sawyer
Douglas and Bayfield, counties, held a two
days session at Eau Claire.
A letter from William Ieahy of Amigo.
written on the United States gunboat Cas-
tine, which was in the harbor of Port
Said, Egypt, and on its way to Manila,
says that he Joined the Castine on the day
she sailed from Havana harbOr.
DIR. Charles J. Bullock, who took the
degree of Phi. ID. from the University of
Wisconsin in 1895, has been appointed as
sistaIt professor of economics and sociol-
ogy at Williams College, Massachusetts.
DIR. Bullock has been instructor of politi-
cal economy at Cornell University.
Thomas Earles was fatally assaulted at
West Superior, the purpose being robbery.
He is a woodsman who came from Iron
River with his winters pay in his pocket.
Earles is unmarried and his home is in
St. Paul
A. Thorn was repairing something on
Joseph Rosenheimer's acetylene plant at
Schleisingerville and when opening the
box in which the carbide is contained.
thinking it empty, an explosion occurred,
the flame striking him squarely in the
face. His jaw was broken. his front teeth
were torn out and the inside of his mouth
was severely injured.
William Daniels, woodsman employed
in one of Knapp, Stout & Co.'S camps.
near Rice Lake, while attempting to
board a moving freight train, fell under
and eleven cars passed over him. A leg
was amputated to save his life. He is %
years of age and unmarried.
The handsome brick block owned by
Mrs. Augusta Brandes at Kewaunee was
totally destroyed by fire. The building
was occupied by MirSky Bros. for general
store purposes and by Dr. A. s. Watrous.
dentist The losses were as follows: Mrs.
Augusta Brandes, on building. $4,000;
Mirsky Bros stock of merchandise, ST.
200; DIR. A. S. Watrous, offlse furniture
aud dental instruments, $1,000
Deaths in the Sta:e: Thomas Murray.
aged Al. Oshkosh; Mrs. Almira Hatherall.
aged 80. Janesville Matthias Thinner.
aged 30, West BEND; John c. Hyzer, aged
II. GAINESVILLE. Miss Clara kemper, aged
l6, of Kemper Ridge; James Beuiin, aged
90, Eureka; John Knopke, aged So Osh-
kosh.
Frank Hoboken, hostler at Appleton.
was missed at supper time the other even
ing. When search was made he was
found under horse in the stables. with
his face horribly bruised and bleeding. He
was unconscious when found He had
been knocked down and stepped on by the
horse. hut had not been injured, except
about the head.
A Milwaukee company has just con-
tracted to produce in six months all the
necessary machinery TO establish water
works in Honolulu.
At Marshfeld. fire destroyed the house
occupied by o. Patterson and owned by
4. Peck. The loss was about $500, par
tally covered by insurance.
Mrs. Mary ]. Maher, aged 6S years. is
10 occupy a cell in the Rock County Jail
for the next ninety days to serve out
sentence. She is one of the oldest prison
ers ever confined in the county bastile
and she seems to take her punishment
with much Indifference. She is resident
of Beloit and has served before on charge
OF drunkenness.