Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-10-04
A Presbyterian church has been started

Harry Johnson OF Ititcine fell from q
wagon and was killed.
G. a. Dewey has been appointed a
commissioner of the Paris exposition for
Racine.
Capt. Rogers has closed his recruiting
Office 1t Beleit, having enlisted twenty
one men.
C. r. Crosby win move his sawmill
from Strickland TO Hawkins, when it viii
be reconstructcd.
Adolph Zimmerman while hunting near
Peshtigo. shot the FIRST white coon ever
seen in Marinette County.
Torrance Mahoney, son Of Mrs. johann
ma Mahoney Of GAINESVILLE, was killed by
the cars at Fremont. Neb.
Ralph Won Loe, a Beloit school boy, fell
from his bicycle. lie ran a slate pencil
into his eye, destroying the sight.
Anton PoSiki Of Ashland, d Polish Ia
borer, fell from q trestIe bridge and re-
ceived injuries frora which he died three
hours later.
1t is said the Kewaunee, Green Bay
and Western Railway will build an cx-
tension of its road north from Sturgeon
Bay, probably as far as Ellarsom's Bay.
Mrs. n. G. Hacker OF Baraboo, receiy-
ed word that she had fallen heir to an
estate valued at $500, COO by the death
Of her aunt, a Mrs. Williams, who re-
sided in California.
John Domhrowski, i coal HEAVIER at
the yards of the Chicago and Northwest
ern road in Amigo, fell a distance of
twenty feet from a staging inro a pile of
coal, fracturing his skull.
Property to the value Of $1,000 was Of
fered to the Protestant Hospital Asso-
citation of S~heboygan County, which viii
be available as soon as subscriptions
warrant the beginning of a building.
At East Troy, the barn OF the Buena
Vista House, owned by j. Il. Jubes, was
destroyed by FIRE. Seven horses and some
carriages. as well as an icchouse and
woodshed were burned. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, with small insurance.
Leonard johnson, Is years old. lost his
way in dense woods near Marshfeld. For
nearly two days and two nights he wan
dered aimlessly and frantically through
the forest. Searching parties located
him two days aiterward. He was tenn
p%orarily derangcd by his terrible eype-
rience.
Section Foreman james Anderson of
Johnson's Creek was instantly Killed,
and William Smith, laborer Of the same
place, seriously injured on the North
western road. The men were engaged in
inspecting the track and, with the hand
car, were working their way to Jefferson
Junction.
Burglars made a rich haul at the resi-
dence of former Comptroller Fred Ring
in the fashionable part of La Crosse. Sew
eral hundred dollars, diamonds, gold
watches, jewelry and family heirlooms
We're stolen. Ex-SherIf Gideon G.. Lang's
residence was robbed. Only jewelry was
taken, but will foot up quite a sum.
Albert Sherman, a laboring man at
work for George Evans, about three
miles from Camp Douglas, was killed by
the cars. He was seen to go between the
cars just west of the camp. One leg and
a part of his head were found in the yard
at Tomah; other parts of his body were
found just west of Camp Douglas.
The will of Elisha d. Smith of MIena~
sha was filed at Oshkosh. The real es-
tate has not been inventofied, but his per-
sonal property is estimated at 5000, 900.
His two sons, Charles and Henry. are
made executors without bonds. To his
widow he bequeaths his personal belong
ings, homestead. library, etc. and 80
shares of the capital stock of the Mena-
sha Wooden Ware Company. After
numerous requests to relatives, friends,
churches, colleges, etc, the residue Of the
estate is to be divided equally among his
three children. Charles, Henry and Jen-
ME.
The Supreme Court has confirmed the
Judgment of the Circuit Court in the
case of Mrs. Lottie Potter against the
Necedah Lumber Company, of which
Congressman J. w. Babcock is the prin-
cipal stakeholder. Mrs. Potter's husband.
while a member of the company, went
insane and later his shares were purchas-
ed by the other members of the company.
Mrs. Potter alleged that she was fraud
ulently induced to sell and that the af-
fairs of the corporation were ~wrongfully
manipulated to this end. She lost in the
lower court and now that decision is sus-
tanned.
b. Nj. Palmer, a wealthy farmer of
Verona and a Grand Army veteran, was
swindled out of $500 in Chicago by a
confidence man. He was returning from
the national encatmpment at Philadelphia
and on the train got acquainted with a
supposed comrade, who, on arriving in
Chicago. went out with him to see the
sights. On the elevated road they met a
young man who represented himself to be
a So of Banker n. B. Van Slyke of Mad
ison. He went around with them for an
hour ns tyro a.,I than, +oDI- 4l,a,,, -, H.,
place of business, where Palmer was in
duced to sign a draft for $500. Palmer,
who is a careful business man, says he
was %hypnotized. When he recovered his
senses he demanded the paper back and
was given a dummy paper, which he tore
up.
Hans Hanson, a travelling salesman
employed by Joseph Wolf x Co, brokers
and commission merchants, Chicago, com.
mitted suicide in Manitowoe. The body
was discovered on the south side lake
beach, near Krueger's and. Hanson had
been in the city about a week. He reg.
;stered at the Williams House, where he
remained several days. and later stopped
ut the Northwestern House. lie left the
latter hotel at S O'Clock one morning and
did not return. Just before leaving he
borrowed ST. of the proprietor of the hotel
and left his watch as security. On his
person were found some business cards,
a memorandum hook. a box Of cartridges
and a postal card addressed TO Mrs. Hans
Hanson, 219 Webster street, Cincinnati,
Ohio, on which was written Cause,
madness and fear of lunatic asylum"
Mrs. Rice Dearborn died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. John Foster. In
Beloit, at the age of SD years. She was
the first woman school teacher in that
part of the country.
Bul s,lars attempted TO enter several of
the business places in Hartford. The
only place entered was Tony Welsch's,
where they succeeded in getting in by a
back door and securing some change. sew
eral bottles Of whisky and some cigars.
They were frightened away by Peter
W~estenburger, who had been watching
their operations aud fired a ~reyilyer at
them.
The public schools of Sturgeon Bay
have been closed by order Of Health on
Ger A. j. kreitzer. by reason Of the prev
alence of d nhtheria, which he claims has
been kept L Ter cover by many families
and thus exposed a large number of peo-
pie. Fifteen or twenty cases have been
unearthed.
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