Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-05-10
state items of Interest.

Patrick Reardon's residence in Rantoul
burned while he was away from home.
The large farm house Of Joshua Thayer
near Palmyra, with nearly all of the CON
tents, was destroyed by fire.
Rev. j. w. Hargrave Of Cleveland, OF,
has accepted the call to the First Congre-
gational Church of Baraboo.
Deaths in the State; III. French, aged
60, Galesville; Mrs. Eliza Bidwell, aged
90, Galesvile; Peter Steffs, Ashland
Natural gas has been found in the south
eastern part of Milwaukee County in the
town of Oak Creek The supply is beliey-
ed TO be inexhaustible.
The Kenosha Board OF Education decid-
ed to erect at once new eight-room school
building for the people on the north side.
The building, exclusive of furnishings, is
to cost $4,000.
The labor troubles which have been on
at the Badger brass works at Kenosha for
the past few months have been settled,
and through the Intervention of the State
federation the boycott on the product of
the company has been lifted.
The Park Street Hotel in Kenosha was
afternoon, everything worth carrying be-
ing taken away Some of the boarders
report that they had left considerable
money in the rooms. Two agents who had
been boarding at the place are suspected.
Weddings in the State: Miss 0ritha
Russell of Augusta and Charles Bush of
Winona, Mimi. Miss Genevieve Webster
and Orestes A. Crowell, Stevens Point;
Miss Nina b. Oestrieh and Henry f. Ia
chow, Stevens Point; Miss Alice Durham
of GAINESVILLE aud l.. Il. Ransom of Jewell,
Kan.
A farmer living in the town of Cutler
was severely whipped by eighteen masked
men This is said to have been done for
his alleged cruelty to his wife. The man
was called from his house to help repair
a broken wagon and when returning was
caught by the men who administered the
punishment.
George Hanks of Iron Mountain, Mich.
drowned at the Stoddard pond on the Pike
river. He was working on a rollway when
a skid flew up, striking him in the head
and knocking him into the river.
Roy Sarahan and Fred Foster, Baraboo
small boys, were injured about the head by
a blast of powder going off unexpectedly
while they We're trying 20 discharge il. The
Foster boy will lose at least one eye.
Samuel Iioper, farmer residing Ia the
town of Eigei, brought in five wolf scalp;
to Chippewa Falls. and, upon presentation
of same to the county treasurer, received
$50 bounty from the State and county.
James NJ. Carpenter, aged 30. an almost
lifelong resident of Beloi;, and for many
years leading merchant, died in hos
pital in Milwaukee.
Mitchell Peters, Shawano Indian. was
one of driving crew that broke big lam
above Sturgeon Falls. He made a fool.
hardy attempt to cross the river on one of
the logs and was carried over the falls.
The falls are forty feet high and consist
OF two pitches and a rapids. Peters VS.
given up for dead and the driving crew,
thought it useless to search the river for
his body, as the logs were piling over the
falls at fast rate. Imagine the surprise
OF all when Peters walked into camp the
next morning for breakfast.
George Warren Skelly, a young busi.
ness man of GAINESVILLE, was married ~
Miss Emma Hardee at Rock Ledge. Fla,
the brides home.
Judge johnson in the Circuit Court al
Milwaukee, in the case of the Illinois Steel
Company against Joseph Dudzicz, a Jones
Island squatter, decided in favor OF the
latter. A parallel case was decided in the
Superior Court two weeks before. an on
posite decree being entered. The cases
win shortly be appealed TO the Supreme
Court for final settlement. Title 10 Jones
Island property, valued at nearly $1,000
600. is involved. The litigation is Of long
standing aud about 200 squatters are ii.
tercsted.
Ralph c. Worthington, aged 40, father
of Dr. III. s. Worthington Of Oak Park.
ILL.,, committed suicide at his home in Cen
.ralia by shooting
Judge Sutherland of Milwaukee ordered
the appointment of receiver for the Ger.
mania Spar and Rauverein,
Judge Nirje IA the Circuit Court at Su-
perior issaed a decree in the Webster case
against tie County Board officials by
which they must reimburse the county for
money claimed to b. illegally drawn. The
amounts average from $50 to 81 800.
about $4,000 ID all. The order eompels
payments with costs returned to the conn-
~ and in default Of payment executions
are to be issued TO the sheriff.