Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-02-28


The butcher shop and residence Of ia
cob Storzbaeh at Algoma burned to the
ground. There was loss OF about So,
900 and insurance of $3.50 on shop and
$500 on stock.
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Schelling have
brought suit against the city of Racine
for $4,000 on account Of the death OF
their r. on. 1t is alleged the
child fen on q fective sidewalk.
\ large and handsome oil portrait OF
Walter Duncan McIndoe, one of the po-
litical leaders of Wisconsin in its early
history, has been hung upon the walls of
the State Historical Society art gallery
at Madison.
Christ. Ourst, who was badly injured
~ the runaway at the Harmon Cheese
fact-y in the town of Lyndon, died as
the result of his injuries, at the Harmon
House, where he was taken after he was
injured He was 26 years old.
Mrs. ID. Guthrie of Racine stepped on a
match and it ignited and set FIRE to her
clothing and before the blaze could be
put out she was seriously burned. The
match also set fire to a carpet and an
other member of the household was
burned on the arm while attempting to
extinguish it.
The family of Len Werst of Neer ah
had a very narrow escape from death by
asphyxiation. Mrs. Werst, her daughter
Mabel and an infant child occupied q bed
room near the sitting room, where a coal
fire was burning. In some manner the
gas escaped from the stove and filled the
rooms after the family had retired for the
night Mrs. Werst awoke and was al
most suffocated. She managed TO crawl
10 the outside door. which lie opened tc
admit the fresh air anu TO allow the gas
to escape.
DIR. Paul Malmstrom, who was arrest
ed short time ago in kenosha at the
instance of the board of MEDICAL examin-
ers, won a complete victory when he was
acquitted by jury in the justice court.
DIR. Malmstrom was graduate of a GER
tain medical college of Chicago. against
which the State board recently started a
fight. The attorneys interested say that
the decision in the Malmstrom case VIII
practically do away with all the power of
the State board to discriminate against
certain colleges.
The Chicago passenger train on tue
Northwestern road leaving Milwaukee at
1:15 a. III. had a narrow escape from
being badly wrecked near County Line.
While the train was running at the rate
of sixty miles an hour the axle vi the
journal on the engine broke. One OF the
larger drive wheels was thrown, going
about 375 feet in field, knocking down
several fences in its path. The train ran
a considerable distance before the engi-
neer was able to bring it to a stop. No
one on the train, excepting the engineer
and fireman, knew that an accident had
occurred until the step WIS made.
Following Immediately on the heels OF
the Kehr murder trial comes another
stabbing ARRAY in the lower part of La
Crosse. Joseph Ausfelder, German ho-
telkeeper, aged II, is alleged to have
been attacked and probably fatally stab
bed by Joseph Praus, cripple with
wooden leg Ansfeider had befriended
the cripple, boarding him for three
months past without nay Of any sort
Praus, when already drunk, demanded
another glass of beer, which Ausfelder
refused. Ausfelder was then attacked
with large knife, and two stab wounds
in the chest aud shoulder were inflicted.
William ellis of Oshkosh, while work.
ing in s. w. HOLSTERS logging camp
near Shawane, was seriously injured
about the head and back by a falling tree
Gen. Il. S. Bragg, commander OF the
Iron brigade kept open house at FOND du
Lac in honor of HE I'D birthday, and
flags tIoatcd from all public buildings
there in honor of the event. At . O'Clock
a delegation Of Iron brigade members,
headed by Gen. Wheeler OF Milwaukee
and Col. C. III. Mcconnell, the former
of the Second Wisconsin regiment and
the latter Of the Twenty-fourth Michigan,
made the formal pilgrimage to Gen.
Bragg's house. where congratulations
we're extended, speeches made and toasts
dNnk. Scores of kilograms of congrat-
ulation were received.
C. C. Rice's potato car caught fire near
Pembine, and a ;roung man from Pound
who was inside had narrow escape
from death The fire WAS put out by the
train crew.
Woodman hall at Dale was totally de-
stroyed by fire. 1t caught fire from de-
fectiye chimney during the progress of an
entertainment given by school children.
The loss is S2.500.
AZ La Crosse John Kelley and Fred
Rogers pleaded guilty and Judge Brind-
ley sentenced them to Waupun for nine
months Kelley is a professional sneak
thief with long criminal record.
Grand Rapids and Centralia are to vote
on consolidation on March -. The two
towns have 5000 population. The bust
ness portions are separated only by
jG0-foot wagon bridge over the Wiscon-
sin river.
Subscription for stock TO the amount of
$50. 600 is now being raised in GAINESVILLE
for the purpose of locating there one of
the largest cigar factories in the West.
Pittsburg men are behind the enterprise.
They intend to employ in the ncighbor
hood of 200 men when running full force.
The firm asks fige years rent Of some
building where the rent $500 year.
The firm only intends to manufacture
cheap grade Of cigars.
The three-story brick block in La
Crosse owned By SpetteI Bros. burned.
Richardson Bros. d Co. grocers. and A.
+. Spettel's photograph gallery and living
rooms were burned out. The total loss
was $4,000, with $500 insurance. The
origin of the FIRE is unknown.
An attempt, it is believed, was made to
burn the new Harris-Sawyer Public Lii
brsry building nj Oshkosh. Fire was
started apparently in two places in the
basement: but it was extinguished be-
fore much damage was done. A short
So,