Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-01-11
State Items of Interesf.

Company + has been mustered into the
National Guard by Assistant Adjt. Gen
Patton.
Mrs. Henry Hockdanner, aged 73, died
from the effects of an amputation at Sioux
River.
Deaths in the state: John Taylor, Be
lott; Mrs. Ferdinand Prochnow, aged 81
Jackson.
At Packwaukee, Mrs. Jane Sastman
was severely burned by her clothing
catching fire.
Mrs. William Smell died in a dentists
chair at Milwaukee while under the in
f1uence of chloroform.
Wilmot Sager of milwaukee, formerly
of Duluth, has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy. Liabilities $104,S24.
The cook in the Drummond Lumber
Companys camp was found dead on the
road between the camp and town OF
Drummond.
Finley Morrison, general manager OF
the e. g. Filler logging interests in Wis
consin and Minnesota, purchased of Mrs
Laura A. Day and J. w. Robinson and
wife of Minneapolis 25,000,000 feet OF
timber for $4,000 at Ashland.
The greet pumping engine at the Hygeia
spring in Big Bend, which furnished wat
er to the Worlds Fair through pipe line,
is again in operation under the manage
ment of Mr.. Mcnamara of Chicago. The
works are undergoing a thorough testing.
Charles E. Albert and Edgar G. Kerkel
filed petition of bankruptcy in the Unit
ed States Court at Milwaukee. The LA
bilities are about $4,000, besides a judg-
ment of $37, 7,125.95 against the firm in
favor of Emily Albert. Petitioners have
property valued at $146.
the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Com
pany of Racine has received another order
from the United States Government for
42.5OO of their gold medal camp beds.
With the orders on hand and beds that
have already been shipped, the total or
ders received loom up to $4,000 beds.
The West Salem Fish and Game Pro
tective Association will make one more
effort to stock the trout streams about
West Salem, but if results are no better
than in the five years past, it will be aban-
doned.
Thomas Neill. while on his way from
his home near Madelia, Mimi. to West
field, down the line of the Portage road,
spent two or three days in Stevens Point,
and his experience was an unpleasant ore,
according to a story told the police. Neill
said he exhibited a well-filled poeketbook
while taking a drink and that he was re-
lieyed of check for $50 and $40 in cash.
Fishermen of Oshkosh are ;aaustriously
circulating petitions among the business
men of Oshkosh asking for an open sea-
son for net fishing on Lake Winncbago.
The petitions are being quite numesously
signed, and win be presented to the Stste
Legislature.
In August last the report reached Nee
nah from Tampa, Fla, that DR.. Louis
Foeltzer had died there. The report was
not confirmed and his parents were very
anxious to learn the facts. On Dec. Is,
Chief of Police p. d. Kraby wrote to the
War Department for particulars in regs rd
to the death Of Foeltzer, and he received
reply. This would show that the report
of his death was mere rumor.
William Scribner, who was serving thir-
ty days In the county jail at Racine on
charge of carrying concealed weapons and
who is waated ar Waukegan, Ill, for bur-
glary, rsade his escape.
A sneak thief ccured considerable plum
Ter at the Tsy,or House in Chippewa
Falls. while nearly everyone connected
with the establishment was at dinner.
The thief succeeded in getting to the third
.torv of the hotel without being detected,
and ransacked the rooms of the female
baln. In one room he secured abont SO
IN cash and in another be 9t away with
a S45 gold watch owned Dy one of the
vifls. All trunks in the rooms were brok-
"a open and small valuables taken.