Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-09-06
The red brick primary school house at
Wonewoc burned. The building and con-
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years. The amount is S12,5 SOC.
Among the parties taking out a hunt
ers license at La Crosse was Mrs. L. J..
MansuS of West Salem. She is the first
woman to apply for license there.
Hugh Connen of a bridge crew fell
dead at Cumberland at the breakfast ia
BILE at the Windsor Hotel. Connen was
married and lived in Minneapolis.
While the driver was filling a tank at
the Pecatonia river at Beloit a team be-
longing to George Gleasman. a we'll
known farmer, ran into the stream and
drowned.
West Superior police found an unknown
man dead in a Northern Pacific box car
at the east end. No money or papers
were found on the body to aid in ldenti-
f~cation.
About thirty Chinese Masons held their
annual State session at Oshkosh. The
day was spent in strange festivity, no
new members being taken in or lodge
work done.
Government surveyors are at work
measuring from the stumpage the
amount of timber which has been unlaw-
fully cut from the Indian reservation. 1t
is expected suits will follow.
A team owned by j. L~ucterhand ran
away at Marshfield, throwing out the oc-
cupants of the buggy and seriously injur-
ing Lucterhand and his WI e and break
ing both bones Of her right leg.
Mabel Roderick, a bright little girl, 5
years old, daughter Of William Roderick.
was run over and crushed to death by a
wagon belonging to the Landreth Pea
Packing Company at Manitowoc.
The machinists' helpers of the Eastern
Minnesota repair shops at West Superior
went out on strike. They have been re-
ceivhg $3.50 per day and demand $1.75.
The strikers number about $50 men.
The largest barn in Eau Claire County
was struck by lightning and consumed
with forty tons of hay, over 1000 bush
els of oats and three horses. The prop
erty was in the town of Washington.
The Rev. Peter B.. Morrison of Eau
Claire, widely known in the Ancient Or
der of United Workmen, was stricken
with a strange illness resembling paraly-
sis and was, for a time, unconscious.
An intarurban car on the Chippewa
Valley Electric Railway struck a wagon
containing seve npersons, severely injur-
ing Mrs. s. l.. Stafford of Eau Claire.
The others escaped with slight bruises.
w. B. Pearl, proprietor of the Cliff
House, Devils Lake, has a pair of huge
oyster shells sent him from the Philip
pines by Gen. Otis. Their weight is 375
pounds, and the freight bill amounted to
$3.50.
Mrs. John Parman of Kaukauna, who
was confined in the county insane asylum,
escaped and was found at Bear Greek
with another escaped inmate, q Mrs.
Buck, whose home was formerly at that
place. Both are returned.
John Miles, a boy employed at Hotel
Racine, confessed to the Racine police
that he lad been pihering from guests of
the house. He said that he had once
worked at the Hotel Pfster, Milwaukee,
and was discharged for dishonesty.
Five prisoners dug their way out of the
county jail at Hurley and made good
their escape. The sheriff has issued cir
culars to officers of surrounding towns
and counties to look out for them, as
they are known to be tough characters.
The big Mcbride ice house at Twin
Lakes was burned to the ground. The
Mcbride icehouse was the property of the
Knickerbocker Ice Company AMI was
said to be the largest owned by the COM
pany in Wisconsin. At the time of the
fire the house was almost emptied of ice
and had been used rs a s%torehouse for
tools and other equipments. The loss from
the fire. is said to be about $4,000, with
partial Insurance. There is no theory as
to the origin of the fire, as when it was
discovered the property had almost been
consumed. 1t will be rebuilt at once.
James Clarke, a banker, whose home is
at Steele, N D., jumped from a Pioneer
limited train N the Milwaukee road neal
West Salem, while the train was ~runnir.
at a high rate of speed. Clarke was trav-
cling with his wife on his way to see his
father, who is critically i'll at his home in
Ohio. This is supposed to have proved
upon Clarke's mind, and. together with
the intense heat, is thought TO have made
him temporarily insane. Clarke tried to
cut the screen out of his section of the
sleeper, but was prevented from doing so
by a porter and the conductor, who were
summoned by Mrs. Clarke. He after
wards assaulted Mrs. Clarke with the
same knife.
A number of paper mill changes have
been made at Appleton during the sum
mer months. In the list is the placing Of
a new machine in the Telulah plant of the
Kimberly q Clark Company. The ma
chine, formerly used at Quinnesec Falls
was rebuilt and has taken the place Of
the mario Yer machine formerly used. The
Riverside Fiber Company has just placed
the fifth d~igester in its plant. The old
Atlas mill, which was operated for many
years by the Kimberly & Clark Company,
is being torn down, probably to be re-
placed by some new building, Though the
company will not at present make any ex-
PLANTATION of its plans. The fume Mt the
mill went out in the spring and the inten-
ton was not to use the plant again. The
Gilbert Paper Company has taken down
one machine while a new root is being
placed on its buildings.
Mrs. Jacob Ressler of Edgerton died
an overdose of laudanum. taken
with suicidal intent while temporarily
She was about 30 years of age.
BY the running away of the horses he
was driving ID. w. Davies, known wide
ly as Web" Davis, lost his life at his
in Cady. He was Il prominent mill
man and a member of the Masonic order.
The Segelke & Kolhaus Manufacturing
of La Crosse has sold its saw
mill and a large tract of land at Dancy, |
where it has been operating for the past
twenty-five years, to the Grand Rapids |
Company Of Grand Rapids.
The handsome new school building for
he Sacred Heart parish of the German
Catholic Church at Appleton was dedi-
'ated with elaborate ceremonies, fifteen
societies participating in the ex-
'reises of the afternoon. including organ
cations from Appleton, Neenah, Menasha
Ind Kaukauna.
A 13-year-old boy, son of Jay 3. Loom
s of Valley Junction, ran away from
OH the night of Aug. IS, and no
race of aim has been found. The boy
cared arrest for some crime which had
'een committed by a number Of boys. II
5 thought he is in Milwaukee or some
ther city in the southern part CT the