Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-04

John lTunzicker. who lives in the town
of Shields, v-es killed at Redwood By
freight train on tn Milwaukee road.
The Little Wolf River Telephone Com
pany is now come ted with Oshkosh. A
toll station has been established in that
city.
The rural free delivery of mail at Au-
gusta will be put in operation on April :.
John Victory has been appointed mail
carrier
A young son of Charles Hass, a farmer
living east Of Fox Lake, was killed in
runaway accident by being thrown out of
a wagon.
At the high school defamation contest
at Marinctte the Misses Helen Feeney,
Alice Seymour and Helen Hamilton won
the honors.
The dry goods store of Bort, Bailey &
Co. at Beloit was entered by robbers.
Silk dress goods to the value Of $500
were taken.
Clapp Miner, one of the oldest and
weaIthiest men in Kenosha County, was
found dead in bed at his home in the
| town of Salem. The deceased was 93
years of age.
Secretary of State w HI. Froelch has
returned from Washington. where he has
been pushing the bill to recompense Wis
consin for the 100000 acres of swamp
lands still due her under the old grant
to the State, the value Of which is estl-
mated at about $1,500,000.
A bold robbery was committed at
Janeseille Fletcher Bros grocery was
entered and $3.50 was taken frola the safe
and the cash register. TIE grocery
stores close at $50, and when the clerk
came back after supper to loci: the safe
he found the robbery had taken place.
The Rio State Bank was organized
with a capital stock of So 600. William
Moore, an extensive farmer of the town
of Otsego was elected president; I'll. A.
Hanson, vice-president; Andrew Amund-
son, cashier, aud Charles Caldwell, as
sistant cashier. The bank will open for
business as soon as a building can be
erected.
The business portion of the village Of
Kingston was almost wiped out by bre.
| The fire started in Joslin's furniture
store. Nine stores and dwellings were
burned The Following are the losers:
Dave Keeler, four buildings; William
Lueptow, Grstaye Marquardt, Edward
VIM II, s. Williams and George Viii
liams. The loss is about $4,000.
Three persons escaped from the Mari
nette County jail They were Charles
Reifscharser and Joe Martin, under SEN
tence for larceny. and John Carrigan,
short-term man. A key was carelessly
left in the door leading into the office
from their cells. Hhis they managed to
turn and made thei, escape through the
basement. Three ether persons confined
in the same quarters refused to leave
with the escaping men.
The sale Of the stock Of the Wafer
Yeast Company of Fond du Lac was eff
fected when the entire property was
transferred to board of directors COM
posed Of William MeDermott, f. j.
Wolff, Jay 7. McDermott G. A. Dobyns
and George l. McDermott. 1t is the I'M
derstanding that this board viii sell the
entire belongings of the Wafer Yeast
Company to the Northwestern Yeast
Company of Chicago.
The sale of the properties of the Citi-
zens' Traction Company at Oshkosh,
which has b IN pending for some time,
was formally hade in New York Elmer
son McMillen x Co are the purchasers.
The sale includes the electric car line
and the interurban line between Oshkosh
and Neenah, thirty miles in all, and
park south Of the city. The company
was capitalized at $225, 600 The pur-
chase price is not made public.
There was an unusual criminal case in
the county court before Judge Brindley
at La Crosse. Robert Gollinck, farm
er residing in the Mormon Coolie, per-
sistently laughed at the wife of Carl
Wolf, a neighbor, every time he saw her,
Wolf was ordered by his wife TO thrash
Gollinick and he did so, incidentally
breaking Golliniek's nose, Wolg was fined
so and costs, aud now he is to be sued
in a civil action brought by Gollinick for
personal injuries,
The future disposition of the Charles
H. Sieg Manufacturing CompaIy plant
at Kenosha v s solved when deed was
filed transfcrr NJ all the prop srty of the
company in that city to A. ID. Meiselbaek,
the Milwaukee bicycle manufacturer. The
price paid was $4,000 cash. The deed
is signed by Fred w. Morgan of Chicago,
to whom the plant was recently assigned
to satisfy mortgage of 400T0.92. II is
reported that the plant will be opened
within a month as rival to the trust.
Ahe Heinz Pickle Company of Pitts
burg announces that the much-talked Of
finishing plant viii not be located in La
Crosse this year. The failure OF the pro-
ject To 20 through hinges on the fact that
the company has not yet located the two
sailing stations at Argadia, Wis. and
Winona. Mimi as contemplated, and
without those two sailing stations in OPP
Grafton there would not be Sufficient MAJ
terial for a finishing plant La Crosse
offered liberal bonus for the location
of the plant
Anton Novak, hi- fatJer and another
man were arrested at Racine on a charge
of stealing pearl buttoTS from the Racine
pearl button factory. The men confessed
to having taken $500 worth.
A new ordinance which is 70 be pub
lishel at Appleton IA few days imposes
strict measures upon junk dealers besides
requiring them 10 pay an annual license
of 81 Tor carrying on their traffic.
John and Joseph Chasmor, brothers,
were struck Is train on the Wisconsin
Central while crossing the track in a
bugs near Cadott. Both we're instantly
killed They were residents Of Cadott.
A. West Superior John Curran, who
was sho, ia the leg a few months ago bJ
the spectral watcbman ID the employ Of
the Omoha Railway. has sued the com
pany for 5000 damages sustained 6
that account. Currsr nearly died from
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