Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-12
Robert Osborne, 3-year-old son of l.. T.
Osborne of Baraboo, swallowed small
watch and ehai!l.


At Kenosha, the Common Council pass
ed an ordinance prohibiting saloons within
300 feet of any church or school over May
or Pettits AAso.
A riot took place at the polls at the Ma
pie precinct of the town of Brule, in which
several men were cut with knives and
slugged with clubs.
Two representatives of large Nebras-
ka land corporation haze been in Boyd
for the purpose of locating lands suitable
for settlement of Nebraska farmers
M. F. Larrabee, president OF the Chip
pewa County Board of immigration, says
that 1000 persons settled on lands in
Chippewa County the past five years.
The body of an old man named Loomis
was found lying half undressed outside
the door of his farm house, near Rice
Lake. 1t is not known in what manner
he came to his death.
Ex-Gov. w. III. Upham has closed a con
tract with George Baldwin and other par
ties for 10000 acres of hardwood lands.
between Medford and Merrill, the consia-
GRAFTON being $150,000
In Westfield, at the funeral of Post
master Lawton, while conveying the body
from the house to the church. the hearse
team ran away, completely wrecking the
hearse. The casket was uninjured.
In Hayward saloon Fred Searles
struck woodman named John Howard
blow in the eye, knocking it out. The
latter was Immediately sent to the hos
pltal at Ashland. Searles is now in Gus
tody.
John Gruber, his wife and their 9-year-
old daughter Melonia are at the Trinity
hospital, Milwaukee, seriously injured as
the result of collision between an elee-
trio car on the National avenue line and
their carriage.
When the employees of the Western
Hardware Company at Milwaukee went
to work the other day they were told that
they were to do piece work. The en-
ployes absolutely refused and the foundry
had to shut down.
At Milwaukee, Policeman Charles Krie-
ger was shot in the face and badly wound
ed by one of two young men he had stop
ped on the street. suspecting them to be
hold-up men. Both escaped and the Off
Ger is at the hospital.
Miss Mary Inez Pettibone, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. V. Pettibone, Fond du
Lac, and Charles B. Hill of Chicago were
married at Fond du Lac, Rev. A. w.
Bill, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, performing the ceremony.
The Hotel Baldwin at Honey Greek was
destroyed by fire. The building was a
two-story frame, nearly new, and was
owned by the f. c. Klein company of
Burlington. William Danmier conducted
the hotel. The loss is about $4,000
Joseph Verville, woodsman, commit
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid at Hur-
ley. Little is known of him except that
he had worked in the woods under the
name of Joseph Business, and it is said
he had lost all his money the day before
in gambling. He was Frenchman, about
33 years old, and unmarried.
The secret marriage of an 1S-year-old
boy and a 16-year-old girl has just been
discovered, although the ceremony unit
ing the youthful lovers was performed six
months ago. The parties to the romantic
affair are Florence Sherman, daughter of
William Sherman, artist, who until re-
Gently resided in Milwaukee, and Herold
Duncan, her first cousin, Inc son of Au-
gustus Duncan, a mining prospector resid-
ing in Boston. Recently Duncan went to
Utah to see his father, who was there on
business. He dropped off at Denver,
where Miss Sherman now resides with
her parents. Then the secret was reveal
ed. The wife is still with her parents and
tbn how hpi &c ho IN, NTi1rro o,,lz
at his desk in a manufacturing company s
offices endeavoring to accumulate cash
and age enough to go to housekeeping.
John Blumenroeder, an old miser resid-
ing two miles north of st. Joe, in the
town of Marshfeld, was found in his log
hut dead, three revolver shot wounds be-
ing found in his back. Mr.. Blumenroeder
was 70 years of age and lived in a log hut
on the farm of Lawrence Foestner, who
came to this country from Bavaria, the
same place in which Mr. Blumenroeder
was born. The hut was about 100 feet
from the Foestner house. 1t has been the
Foestner's custom to take the old gentle
man his meals. and ON entering the door
they found Mr.. Blumenroeder lying on
his face and his clothes saturated in
blood. The alarm was sounded. The men
gathered and talked the matter over, but
nothing further was done. Mr.. Blumen-
roeder was an old shoemaker and during
his lifetime had accumulated a large for.
tune, which was supposed to have been
secreted about the cabin. Whether the
murderers found the treasure or not is not
known.
Neither Crystal Spring Lodge, |. o. G..
t., nor the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union will be able to build temple
with the money of the late Elizabeth Ann
Sutton, Judge Johnson at Milwaukee held
that II was impossible to determine what
was meant by bequest for temperance
purposes because there was too great a
difference of opinion as to what consti.
tutes temperance work The litigation
over the Sutton estate has attracted the
attention of temperance advocates every.
where. She died in 1895 and left three.
fourths of her estate TO be used in the
cause of temperance, and TIE lawyert
have been fighting over the will ever since.
According to the will if either Crystal
Spring Lodge or the w. c. Il. U. desired
to erect building for temperance work
they were to get large sum from the
estate for that purpose. A contest of the
will failed, it being held by the court that
the testatrix acted 6f her own free will
and was of sound mind, and then the con
testants advanced the claim that it was
impossible to define what temperance
work was, and this contention the courf
now sustains and the money will go to rel.
ativcs.
Miss Elizabeth plankinton. daughter of
the late John Plankinton, has made a
proposition of a gift Of 100000 to build
a home for the Young Women's Christian
Association of Milwaukee The gift is
conditional that a suitable site must first
be obtained.
At one session Of the Wisconsin Chris
tian Endeavor convention at &anitowoe
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, w. Z. Starr,
Fond du Lac: secretary, Mrs f. Meter.
Mich, Neenah; treasurer, Louis Beaton,
Two Rivers; junior superintendent, Miss
Matte Wilkie. Fond du Lac.
Samuel Cohn's general merchandise
store at Bsloit was closed by creditors.
There are claims aginst the stock to the
amount of 81, 600 and the stock is esti.
mated to be worth not d. er $500
John Hermann. who resides at Mani
towoc committed suicide by angling. His
b1dy N-1s discovered hy one Of his team
sters suspended TO one OF he rafters OF
the stable by halter strap and was still
,xarra Medical assistance xvos e;ttntuop