Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-04-26

MAX Ihom was drowned while playing
ON logs in the river at Oshkosh. The body
| was recovered.
Joseph Richter. aged 40, committed sui
eide at La Crosse by hanging in the wood
shed of his home.
Clarence Gray, an employee of the Mari.
nette paper mills, was taSen to the Osh-
kosh insane hospital.
The residences of Michael Driscoil and
| of Mrs. w. G. Peterson at Antigo We're
entered and robbed by masked burglars.
A. A. Bliss. prominent grocer at West
Superior, is missing. He drew $3.50 from
the bank and dill not return TO the store.
Mrs. Lars Hanson, aged 43, committed
suicide at her home in the town of Cids
ton by hanging herself in barn With
| rope.
Charles +. Timing has been appointed
superintendent of the Washburn. Bayfield,
and Ironwood Railway, vice H. Parks, re-
| signed.
George Lewis, former pioneer bust
ness man of Marinette, died suddenly in
Chicago. He had large property interests
| at Marinette.
| Fire in the engine room of the Dells
Lumber Company's planning mill at Eau
| Claire did damage to the extent of 81 800.
/ The mill was shut down
| Mark Davis was arrested at Amigo af-
ter holding off the police aud two men
with revolver. The revolver was twice
discharged in the tussle.
| Deaths in the State: John Fl. Carrie,
| aged "a, GAINESVILLE; Mrs. Maud Caswell,
pf 4 IN, 81 al
Mrs. Carl Franzen of Chiffon.
| Weddings in the State: Miss Mary
| Bishop and Harvey G. Mclaughlin, Be
foit: Miss Hattie Il. West of GAINESVILLE
| to Rev. William Diehl of Chicago.
| ID. X. Jeffries planning mill, recently de-
| stroyed by fire at GAINESVILLE, win be re-
| placed by modern two-story sash and
door factory, to cost fully $4,000
Albert Landreth, head of the Albert
Landretb Canning Company at Manito-
! woe, died at Clearwater, Fla, of fever.
| His death was entirely unexpected.
| The grocery and meat market of III. b.
| Henneman at Chippewa Falls was closed
by the sheriff on a chattel mortgage held
by Drummond Bros. of Eau Claire.
The plans of the Kenton Bridge and
| Iron Company of Canton, Ohio, for Jail
and sheriff's residence at Oshkosh to cost
S25,O00, have been accepted by the Coun-
| ty Board.
| Corporal Lester +. Penewel of Tomah,
brakeman on the Milwaukee road, was
killed at Nekoosa while coupling cars. He
was a member of Company X, Third Wis
ccnsin volunteer infantry.
| The case of Hattie Everson against the
city of Elroy was decided in favor of the
plaintiff, the jury bringing in verdict of
$1,00S for injuries to the plaintiff from
fall upon defective walk.
Williai Rasmussa, who has a wife and
six children at Appleton, is missing. He
left home several days ago to go down
town and has not been seen since. The
family is in destitute circumstances.
William Churchill and Charles Warwick
blew out the gas at the Athearn Hotel
in Oshkosh. One Of them got up in the
night and tainted. The noise awakened
a bell boy, who broke into the room and
found it full of gas. Some difficulty was
| found in reyiying the men. They hail
| from Marion.
| -Four men were committed to the State
prison by Judge Brindley at La Crosse.
John Foy, NJ. A. Lally and Conrad Rourk
stole gold watch and got one year. n.
Rasmussen passed Peruvian dollars for
the currency value of nited States dol
lars and pleaded guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses. His SEN
| tence was eighteen months
| Joseph Landre died from injuries sus-
tanned in runaway at Menominee- while
Ix..r Il
with a lady friend at break-neck speed
| The buggy crashed into a telegraph pole
and the occupants were thrown heavily on
the pavement. The lady received slight
bruises. Landre suffered a fracture of
the skull and died Of conclusion of the
brain. The horse was killed.
| The A. +. Tanner Furniture Company
| of Milwaukee was put into involuntary
bankruptcy, the Plankinton estate, the
Davidson estate and one other creditor
| filing the petition. Mr.. Tanner says that
some. days ago, when he found the firm
would be unable to meet its payments,
he called meeting of the creditors and
all but 5 per cent of them agreed to ac-
| cept 40 cents on the dollar. The assets
are supposed to be about $4,000 and the
| liabilities $4,000.
| Judge Ludwig in the Superior Court at
| Milwaukee directed verdict which the
| jury agreed to in the case of the Illinois
| Steel Company versus Bernard Blot and
| wife, Jones island squatters, in favor of
the steel company. The case is one of
| 1S5 of a similar nature which decides the
title to Jones island property, valued at
about 81 100000. The island has been in
| litigation number of years 1t is beliey-
| ed this decision will cover all the cases,
| An appeal will probably be taken to the
| Supreme Court.
| The newly elected City Council at Ke-
n0sha repealed at its first session the ordi-
nance passed by the late Council, giving
| q fifty-year grant to the Milwaukee, RAJ
! cine and Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany to operate an electric line over the
streets of Kenosha. That ordinance
aroused a great deal of resentment among
the citizens and every effort has been
made to block the construction of the line
| The usual rules of the Council were sus-
pended to allow the ordinance to have its
] three readings and be placed on its pas
| sage, the whole episode taking only three
| minutes. By this act of the Council the
| connecting link in the line connecting Chi
| cago and Milwaukee has been broken and
| the electric line will once more have to
renew its attack on the City Council for
| n grant.
Twin City sports got together to see
| rat-killing contest Marinette dog killed
| twelve rats in three minutes and the Me-
! nominee dog killed ten rats in two min
| utes. Marinette was declared winner.
Indian Agent Campbell announces that
| the Government is to build the set of
school buildings on the Lac Court
| d'orielles reservation near Hayward soon.
The cost Of these buildings will be $780,
900 and the contract will soon be award
/ ed. This set of buildings will include a
| school house, dormitoyies, etc, and will
be fitted up with all modern improve
| ments.
Thomas Maher of the town of Exeter
! was making some repairs ON the tower of
a windmill, when the wheel began to re-
volye, throwing him to the ground, dis
tance of fifty feet He received internal
| injuries from which he died an hour and
| half afterward. He was 80 years of
age.
| 4 number of small houses, barns and
other buildings on the outskirts of La
Crosse we're destroyed by fire. Many
homes OF workingmen burned and to them
| the loss will be heavy as they carried
very little insurance. 1t was a long run