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

Patrick Noonan, n well-known resident
OF Hurley, was run down by a Wisconsin
Central orc train at Ironwood, Mich. He
was 20 years of age.
The school census just completed shows
that there are 1907 children of the school
age in Kenosha, an increase of 270 over
the census of last year.
William Hanscomb, who died March
q, 1898, in the p~enitentiary at Waupun,
has been granted an increase of pension
from So to <S a month.
The farm house Of John Bluem, nne-
half mile southwest of Horizon, was en-
tlrely destroyed by fire. The loss is about
$1,000, with light insurance.
Louis 8udzisz, a resident of Jones ISL
and. Milwaukee, while on his way to
work was run over by a freight train and
killed on the Milwaukee road.
The G. II. Sieg Manufacturing Com
pany Mt Kenosha viii be r~eorganized and,
instead of making bicycles, will mannfac-
tare automobiles and gasoline engines.
Gov. Scofield has issued another appeal
to the people of Wisconsin for additional
aid fol the sufferers from the New Rich
mond tornado. He says $4,000 more is
needed.
l.. Is. McLain, employed as an edger
at Bay Mills, met instant death by a 2x4
timber coming back, striking him above
the heart and going completely through
his body.
Christian Burkhardt bought from John
w. B%ashford, ut Hudson, as trustee, the
Boardman mill property, formerly owned
by William and James Johnston, consid-
GRAFTON $1,000.
j. j. Gregory, holding Il $1,000 a year
position in the Milwaukee p~ostofice, will
be dismissed for accepting the clerkship
Of the police and fire commission, which
only pays 5000 a year.
At a special meeting of the Oneida
County Agricultural Association it was
decided to change the dates of the fourth
annual fair from Sept. 4, 8, 6 and : to
Sept. II, L, 13 and IA.
At a meeting of the Hudson Council il
was voted to bond the city for S4, 00O
for a city hall. Among the objects of the
building are to secure an armory for Com.
pany c, Wisconsin National Guard.
There is a movement on foot at Osh-
kosh to unite the Citizens Traction Com
pany aud the Fox River Valley Com
pany, which would combine the electric
traction interests of the Fox river valley,
w. III. Hay, vice-president and treas,
urer of the Hay Hardware Company,
one of the wealthiest men in Oshkosh,
has surprised his relatives and friends by
m a tpyinp his baucaEaanar Arc Iut,a No
Court.
Rev. w. j. Patton, pastor of the Meth
odist Church of Marinette, and formerly
of Milwaukee, is a candidate for the po-
sition of commander-in-hcief of the ma
tional organization of the Sons of Vet
eraps.
The directors of the Kenosha Y. NJ. @.
A.. have decided to accept the plans and
specifications prepared by Architect Leon
bouts Of Milwaukee. Contracts will be
let immediately for the building, which
will cost $4,000.
Two men were detected breaking in q
Stevens Point store and were arrested.
The men were brought to time by the
officer firing several shots at them. One
gave the name of O'Bricn. The other is
supposed to be a Chicago crook.
Fred Forseth, one of a party of boys
who were fishing and swimming in Black
river, drowned at La Crosse. He went
down between the logs in but -four feet
of water, but was unable to get his head
above the surface. He was taken out in
a few minutes, but life was extinct. He
was 8 years old.
William Mahoney, a farm hand eIa-
ployed q few miles west Of Rhinelander
became insane. Escaping from those in
charge, he ran Il quarter of a mile to
Boom lake and plunged into the water,
Before he could be rescued life was ex-
tinct. He was about 2S years old. His
home is supposed tc have been in New
York State,
Paul Konee, a well-knowp Amberg
man, narrowly escaped death at the
hands of what is thought to have been q
robber. 4 stranger, whom he met during
the day, went out for a walk with him
up the st. Paul track and when they
reached the wafer tank, the man offered
Mr.. Konec a drink of whisky, which was
accepted.
John Ryan, a travelling salesman for a
tea and coffee house, started to cross the
railroad track at Kanosha when the vehi-
Gle in which he was riding was struck by
the engine. A small boy was riding with
him and the train threw both of them
out of the buggy. The horse was Instant
ly killed and the man and boy were
thrown into the ditch.
Ike WATSON. a farm hand employed on
Holmes * Sons farm, east of Wausau-
kee, was gored to death by a mad bull.
WATSON was going after the cattle, and
not coming home the men went out to
look for him and found him lying dead in
the pasture badly laceratcd. His head
was nearly severed from his body and he
was otherwise badly injured.
Charles johnson, employed by the
Pease Manufacturing Company at Ra.
cine, assembled q ladder with a kerosene
can in his hand and fell, the spout of the
can entering his neck and coming out
against the roo of his mouth. Johnson
near bleeding to death, but the flow
of the blood was checked and he may sur
yive the injury. He is So years old,
"a tu ~ thC mann w IilAllS aLItLllpL
ed to burn the large mill of the Bird &
Wells Lumber Company at Wausaukee,
but was intercepted by the Waterman,
who gave the alarm.
Five carpenters at work re~shingling the
of the l.. O.. Smith residence got a
frightful fall at Tomah by the giving
way of the staging under them. They
were Charles Il. Bell and his son Ray,
Lyman Leach, B. Durham and J. r..
Hubert. The distance from the staging
to the ground was nearly twenty feet and
all of the men were badly hurt, and it is
a wonder that none were fatally injured.
Fred Keller, engineer in Van Dusen K
sawmill at Prentice, was fa-
tally scalded by the bursting of a steam
pipe and died. When the bandages were
chunks of flesh came off, expos
ing the bone in places. He was 81 years
old and leaves a wife and two small chill
While Sheriff Malone and a deputy of
Marathon County, with a prisoner named
were awaiting a train at Eland
Junction, en- route to Waupun, Kenney
jumped in front of a passing train and
started for the woods. The sheriff and
deputy started in pursuit, using their re-
v~olvers, but were unable to ~recapture
him.
A Pole is under arrest at Crivitz for
shooting six horses. The animals broke
through the fence aroun his farm one
night and he shot them, claiming they
were destroying his crops.
Ole Monson, a laboring man living in
sl~arinette, created a sensation by at
tempting to drown himself in the Menom-
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