Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-26

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been disbarred for unprofessional con
duet.
Albert Bloch OF Oak Center, an EN-
ploye of Silas Weed, was struck by light
ming and killed.
A well-developed plan is on foot at Eau
Claire to buy the water works plant. IT
will cost the city 100000.
Robert Maxwell, aged s years, and Ar.
thur Young, aged 10. were drowned in
the river at Richland Center.
There is q movement on foot in Mil
waukee to secure an entrance for the
Wisconsin Central Railway into the city.
The st. Croix County Agricultural So
ciety, in spite Of the heavy losses by the
tornado recently, will hold q fair this
year, Sept. 81, % and 20.
-Four Beloit milk dealers were arrested
for violation of the State pure food laws
in having used a preparation to assist
milk to keep S oct. Two pleaded guilty
and were fined So each.
AT Marinette, the infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Giniesse had a narrow
escape from fatal poisoning. He drank
a saucerful of water which covered n
lot of poisonous fly paper.
John Wilson, formerly of M~arinette,
who was killed by lightning in Montana,
left an estate valued at about $4,000
and most of it was in money. He was
about 40 years old and a bachelor.
Beloit College has selected Prof. Wal
lace of Toronto, Canada, to teach Eng
lish literature and rhetoric in place of
Prof. Ii. NJ. Whitney, who has been
granted a years leave of absence.
The stove factory Of Nye, Lusk & Hud-
son at Thorpe was destroyed by fire, with
damage resulting of $4,000 on the build
ing and $4,000 on the stock. No insur-
ance was carried. The plant was stocked
to the beams when the fire, the cause of
which is unknown, started. A great many
people are thrown out of work.
The striking coopers who walked out
Of the Pabst brewery at Milwaukee be-
cause the company used its cooperage ma
chinery to manufacture barrels have been
ordered by the State executive board of
the American Federation of Labor to re-
turn to work on the ground that the
company was entitled to use machinery.
James Markham, who resides on the
northern limit of Outagamie County, re-
Gently sold his farm for about $4,000. A
few days later he started for Appleton
and has not been heard of since. The
farmers fear foul play. Markham has 10
relatives living. as far as is known. He
was a man of about % years of age,
Adjt. Gen. Boardman has issued orders
for the annual encampment of the Wis
consin National Guard at Camp Douglas.
The Second regiment will be in camp
from Aug. 5 to II, the First from Aug.
IL to 1S, the Third from Aug. 10 to %
and the Tenth, separate battalion and the
light horse squadron of Milwaukee from
Aug. 26 to Sept. /.
At Oshkosh, Henry Ziebell was badly
burned about che face and arms in the
Diamond Match works by the explosion
of a grinding machine. He was grinding
rosin when the explosion took place.
Marinette people are losers to the ex-
tent of about $4,000 in the tax land
scheme which brought the ~Stoughton
bank to an untimely end. Eight or ten
well known S~candinavians invested from
1000 to $4,000 apiece in the land sold
by the Grand Falls company. They ex-
changed valuable city property for the
wild forests around Grand Falls, Texas,
and are now rueing their Investment.
Fire partly destroyed the building and
tie contents of the store of Joseph Bentz
al C%iintonville. The origin of the fire is
unknown. The loss is about $4,000, with
insurance of $1,000.
Robert Blackburn of Chicago, superin-
tendent of construction of the Oshkosh
library building. met with q fatal acct
dent while walking on the staging of the
building. He was standing on the second
fioor when a loose board precipitated him
70 the ground, thirty-hve feet below. He
struck On an iron beam in his descent and
broke his neck. He then fell upon the
floor in the basement and broke several
ribs. One lung was punctured by the
Jagged edges of the broken ribs,
O!iyet Is all worked up over cyclones.
there having been three small ones near
there this summer At the recent annual
school meeting a sum of money was vot-
ed by that district TO build a cyclone
cellar in the school yard, large enough for
the whole school of over 100 pupils.
Gov. Scofeld has ended a sharp contest
between the pflnclpat cities or the State
for the two Spanish cannon awarded
Wisconsin by the War Department. One
of these trophies is to be placed in the
~statehouse park at Madison and the other
in the city park at La Crosse. The three
Spanish cannon presented the State by
the Navy Department have been award
ed to Milwaukee. Oshkosh and Monroe.
Edward Lynwood. aged IS, Of Left
foot lake. near Marinette. filed the hub
Of an old iron pulley with powder, and
the discharge blew it to pieces, which
struck him and FRACTURED his leg so that
an amputation was necessary. He died.
Carl Schultz, an old soldier. ~ years of
age. was instantly killed in the shops of
the Fish Bros. Wagon Company, at RQ-
cine. He came from Bassett for the pur-
nose of being es mined by the pension
nhy~sieians, and wandered aroUnd the city
to see the sights. He went into the shops
and passed under a freight elevator. He
got across safely, but stopped TO look up
and the descending elevator struck him,
fracturing his skull, killing him instantly.