Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-30
State Items of Interest.

AT Junction City, the store of Jacob
Skibba was robbed.
The bust of the late President Albee
will be unveiled at the Oshkosh normal
school on Sept. 4, Labor Day.
George Putney, a farmer residing near
Appleton, reports the theft of $500 in
coin and a SO watch and chain.
]. j.. Trux, pioneer and one of Sparta's
most prominent citizens. is dead. He
lived in Sparta over forty years.
Daniel Watt, 20 years of age, residing
in the town of Maple Grove, committed
suicide by hanging himself from a fence.
The postoffice at Fox Lake will be-
come a presidential office on Oct. 1. The
salary of the postmaster is raised to ST.
100.
D.. +. Sullivan of the Omaha road
gave Chief Higgins a check for 500 on
behalf of Superintendent Scott for the
capture of the boy who stoned an Omaha
train.
Harry Reed, the pickpocket who mar
rowly escaped being lynched Mt the Mod
ern Woodmen picnic at Union Grove,
waived examination at Racine and will
plead guilty.
Ex-Gov. w. II Upham of Marshfeld
will put in lumber camps on Isle Royale
to cut Mt least 1O,000,0O o feet this winter
and will build Il large sawmill there in
the spring.
An attempt was made to burn the home
of J.. a. Proctor at GAINESVILLE. Mr.. Proc
tor was startled by a binding flash of
light just as he was going to sleep, fol
lowed by an explosion that shook the
house.
Richard Nelson of Racine, one of the
members Of Company Il, who was at
Florida and who nearly died with fever
and was brought home on a cot, has be-
come mentally ~deranged.
ORR J. Sorrensen of Davis, Sorrensen
& CO., whose plant burned at La Crosse.
saws the total loss is between SIS, 900 and
$4,000, instead of $12, 1000, as first esti-
mated. The insurance is $500.
Carl Schultz, an inmate of the Manito-
~ Jc County insane asylum. walked away
as run over by a Chicago and
-,ol nosstern passenger train near Cleve-
land station and instantly killed.
The Fond du Lac Canning Company
will turn out 1,000,0 900 cans this season.
and of that amount fully half will be
peas and tomatoes.
Mrs. augusta Doughty of Butte des
Morris Jumped from a dock at that place
and drowned. She was a widow with
two children. She was afflicted with
nervous prostration and it is believed she
was temporarily insane.
The civil service commission has issued
n schedule of examinations to be held
this fall for the departmental and gem
eral service. Examinations will be held
in Wisconsin as follows: In Milwaukee,
Sept. % and % and Oct. II; at Stevens
Point, Sept. %; at La Crosse, Oct. A..
lightning struck the barn on the Coon
farm in the town of Clear Creek. 1t
burned at a loss of $1,000.
Rev. !. II. Nandoren of Fond du Lac
has issued a circular in which ne charges
the Milwaukee Presbytery with making a
pauper of him by refusing to grant him
n transfer to the W~innebago Presbytery.
At Rice Lake, the State Board of Arbi-
tration held a conference with the strik-
ers and the mill company and the strike
was declared off. The men agreed to go
to work at eleven hours a day, the com.
many guaranteeing to advance the pay So
\ month. and take all the men back de-
string TO work. A union has been or
ganized.
Near Chippewa Falls. a work train on
the Wisconsin Contra Railway ran down
and badly injured Charles Yeager, a sec
ton foreman. who was riding a railroad
tricycle. on the track. His right leg was
badly injured and four fingers of his
right Land we're severed.
Miss Josephine Wallensheim. house
keeper for Rev. Father Nav at Boyd. in
some way set her dress on FIRE. Being
alone, she ran frantically from room to
room. setting FIRE to several articles of
furniture and finally ran out doors, at
tracing the attention of neighbors by her
screams. She was burned from hesd to
foot and died after two and a half hours
OF agony.