Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12

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property was insured and will be rebuilt
Isadore Cohen was taken to Janesyille
FROM Milwaukee by Sheriff Appleby on
the charge Of obtaining $500 from the
Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance Com
pany under false pretenses.
A new yacht was launched in Neenah
by Messrs. John and James G. Kimber-
~. Gene Ramaley of White Bear Lake,
Minn., built the yacht. 1t has been
christened the Harpoon
Miss Hattie Van Luven, 20 years old,
took ont homestead before the clerk Of
the court at Marinette. She came way
from New York State to prepare place
of abode for her parents, who win arrive
as soon as she completes dwelling for
them
AT Milwaukee, Arthur Bittlekow, a son
of Charles Bittlekow, will probably lose
his eyesight as the result Of a carnival
prank. Someone threw powder in his
eyes. It is claimed the powder must have
been heavily charged with lime, as the
eyes are badly burned
The town of Jackssnport is all stirred
up over two suicides which took place the
other day. About noon the body of Fred
Raatz was found hanging in the barn Of
ppssai Leist. The suicide had contracted
to carry mail across Deaths Door to
Washington Island, and, claiming the
matter had been misrepresented to him,
refused to fulfill his part A lawsuit was
threatened and his trouble so preyed on
his mind that he committed the rash act
TO get out of it. He was 35 years old
and leaves a family. About 8 o'clock the
same afternoon the dead body of Mrs.
Ernest Steminger was found at her home
in the same town. She had taken paris
green. The cause Of the act is unknown.
A beekeeper named Travis, whose home
is at Elkhorn, recently moved 800 swarms
of bees a distance of nearly 200 miles.
Travis has one of the largest apiaries in
the State. Last winter the severe wealth
er killed about all the white clover in the
vicinity of Elkhorn and he was forced to
seek other fields on which to feed his
honeymakers. Travis and his son hGuled
the 300 traps on a hayrack to Ellshorn
station, where they were loaded into
box car. Father and son chtnf'.d into the
car a,id rode with the bees from one end
of the journey to the othe, at Yesper,
neither suffering a sting. The 200 buzzing
families Immediately went to work in
their new home. Mr. Travis will return
to Elkhorn with the bees in the fall
There have come TO light two cases of
mysterious death in La Crosse. In a
barn in the rear of a saloon the body of
man was found, badly decomposed and
evidently dead week or more After
considerable difficulty it was identified as
that of John Dolan, laboring man, 26
years old. Dolan resided in that city, but
had not been missed. He was supposed
to be out of town working. John Platt
was found dead in Jehlen Bros meat
market, where he had been accustomed
TO sleep on top of an ice nox, some eight
feet from the floor. He celebrated his
seventy fifth birthday the day before. 1t
is presumed that he went to bed and fell
down, crushing his skull in two places.
He had no money, and nothing to indi-
cate foul play.
A surprising case of youthful depravity
mas come to light at La Crosse Mary
Melzarek, IA years old, reported to the
police that burglars had entered the home
u her father, John Melzarek, and had
stolen over 500 belonging to the Young
Ladies' Society OF Holy Cross Polish
Catholic Church, of which she was treas
urer. Following the alleged theft the
house was set on fire and tie blaze extin-
gaished with considerable difficulty, after
much damage had been done. The police
made a thorough investigation and the
young girl broke down and admitted that
she had stolen money from time to time
and spent it, and to cover up her crime
had set her home on fire. The girls
father will make good the shortage in the
cash account, and owing to her age she
probably will not he prosecuted.
A most atroeious murder by an I'M
known assassin occurred at Harshaw.
Charles +. Ball, saloonkeeper, was shot
through the head and instantly killed by
some person whose identity cannot be as
certained Ernest Day, woodsman, was
seen outside of Balls place when he
heard shot within the building. He
turned, and upon stepping inside saw a
man standing near the bar. The lights
had been extinguished and Day could not
see plainly. The man told Day to remain
there while he went out and passed
through the back door and out into he
night Day, thinking the man was Ball,
sat down and waited until 1 o'clock, when
he went home and told his wife his expe-
rience The woman would not allow Day
to investigate until the next morning,
when he gave the alarm and a party ac-
companied him into the saloon. Ball was
found near the foot of the bar, dead. A
wallet lay near him, which contained but
few cents, and the till had been sified.
a bullet hole between the eyes told its
mute tale.
Ole Berg, iaborer of South Superior,
fell from ladder at his homo, break
ing his back. He cannot recover.
Mrs. Mary Kraus, an old woman resid-
ing near Boyd, was attacked by highway
men a few days ago on a lonely road, and
her death, from the ill-treatment she re-
ceiyed, Is expected.
Miss Harriet Trowbridge Of Milwaukee
committed suicide by shooting. She was
% years af age and was the daughter Of
one of the pioneers Of Milwaukee County.
Two years ago she suffered from an at
tack of nervous prostrafion, from which
she never fully recovered.
This summers tournament of the
Whist Association wiD oe
insi33 At Vest Superio:. The date will be
some time u August
AT Manitowoe, the jury in the Hempton
murder trial brought in a verdict that
the accused was sane at the time the
murder was committed. He will now be
tried on the charge of murder.
James Cavanaugh, a farmer living at
Lakes Mary and Julia, near Marinetfe.
having seen a monster sea serpent
in the lakes several times. He says that
il Is about sixteen feet long and has inn
mense fappers on its jaws. He has shot
at Ii several times as it moved across the
lakes.
a scaffoiding on the ID. c. Gle resis
le.lce at Marshfield gave way with three |
carFent,srs. Charles Raun and Theodore |
MusseI fell twenty feet. while John clop- |
per ciung 10 the roof. The two men were |
seriously cut and bruised.
Emil Carlson, resident of Mer.ill. met |
ieafh IN peculiar manner near Toma-
hawk He was seen to mount the cow
catcher Of a north-bvund passenger train |
With the intention u beating his way to
Minneapolis. At Gayland's Ferry the en-
zine struck d horse IN the tracks with |
such great force as 10 hurl Carlson to the |
ground, he receiving fatal injuries by the |
ANIMALS weight crushing him up against |