Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-10-24

mutes and Miss Kathryn Heating Of Mil
waukee will have charge. The lady has
now six scholars.
Frank Wood of Chicago. who was riv-
citing on the roof Of the Great Northern S
new steel elevator at West Superior, fell
40 feet and was instantly killed.
4 Burglars cut ont panel in back
door of the c. o. - store az Stevens
t Point Theg crawled through the open
ing and stole goods to the value Of SIS
Fred Johnson, who pleaded guilty al
Beloit to grand larceny and was sent 10
/ prison for a year, is a kleptomaniac. He
I told the judge he could not resist taking
! things.
| Oscar Black fell between moving
1 train and the depot platform at Baraboo
and had 4 narrow escape fro:n death.
One leg was CIT off and he was otherwise
injured.
Frank Felix. young man about "A
years OLD, employed as brakeman on the
Chicagosand Northwestern Railway. was
crushed to death at Oostburg while coup
ling cars.
The Butternut lake SUMNER resort, con-
Quoted the last two years by $. J. Reign
of Milwaukee, has been leased for the
coming year by Messrs Yankee and
Shienebeck.
Carver Johnston, aged years, son Of
| II. NJ. Johnston, Glenwood's most promi.
| nent merchant, is dead as the result OF
taking a few swallows from a bottle Of
earache medicine.
woman bandit has appeared in South
Milwaukee. She held up and robbed an
other woman in her own home and then
escaped The assailant was woman
about Is years old.
1t is reported that the Ann Arbor road
has purchased the Wisconsin and Michi-
gan road from the creditors and will use
1t as connection with the 500" to give
it direct interchangeable.
Edward Brunn, painter residing at
Wells, made desperate attempt to nd
his life by hanging but was cut down
before life was extinct. He will be tried
for attempting to commit suicide.
The large stock barn on the farm of
John Holmes, west of Kenosha, was
burned. The loss win amount to over
$1,000, with no insurance. 1t is reported
that the FIRE was Of incendiary origin.
Julius Klatt. a Pewaukee farmer, was
found dead in his field, shot through the
abdomen by shotgun which was found
on the opposite side Of the fence 1t is
supposed that the gun was accidentally
discharged
A large proportion Of the corn and po-
tato crops Of Outagamie County have
been ruined By the rains Corn is in
many localities sprouting in the shock,
aud undug potatoes rotted in the ground
throughout all the lowlands.
With r1 idea Of where he has been, Gus
Scallling. who mysteriously disappeared
several days ago, returned to his home
in Kenosha minus his money. 1t is
thought SchiIling was dragged and taken
from the city. His mind is perfect
blank.
A telegram was received at Menasha
announcing the dea h by accident of
Richard Trilltng, a former Menasha boy,
and which occurred near Butte Mont
Trilling aud other young men were
camping and he was accidentally shot
dead by one Of his companions. He was
- years old.
That the FIRE which visited KeIlners-
vile did not wipe out the whole village
was due entirely to heroic work done by
the villagers The fire started in the barn
Of Frank Vanish and although nearly
every house in the village was scorched,
the combined efforts Of four threshing
machine crews and citizens saved them.
Every well in the vicinity was emptied.
f. NJ. leon. q clothing salesman, WAS
found unconscious in a room at the Plan
kinton House Milwaukee. IT was found
that he had taken poison with suicidal in
tent He was taken TO the emergency
hospital, where he died Leon was 30
years old He left letters which said
that business reyerses led him to take
his own life Mrs. Leon said that they
were happy and that she had no idea that
her husband was respondent. but that he
had lost fortune Of 100000 left him
by his parents in a business venture in
Columbus, Ohio.
George Murray, a lG-year-old boy en-
ploycd at the Chippewa copper mine,
West Superior, is under arrest. charged
with shooting Arthur Thomas. superin-
teudenj Of the mine lie confes es thet
be probably fired the bullet which killed
Mr.. Thomas. The small 25-2O caliber
bullet found in the body identified the
gun used by Murray y was hunting
at the same time and says that he shot
at whar he supposed was a deer and near
the spot where the body was found He
saw something the color of a deer.
brown jacket worn by Mr. Thomas. and
fired twice, lie looked around to find a
deer, but concluded he had missed his
aim
-Four young boys narrowly escaped
drowning AT Grand Rapids They were
the sous Of Dr. Booman +. l.. Keilner,
+, Palmatier If Grand RAPIDS auG Eu-
gene Taylor of Spring Greek They were
padding across the river. hut the current
was too strong for them aud carried them
down stream The boat stuck on a rock
At The head Of the dam. Two ropes were
thrown 10 them and fastened to the boat,
but the parties on shore pulled in oppo-
site directions and the current capsized
the boat, throwing the occupants into the
water. where they struggled desperately
against the current Taylor was unable
"a swim and was just going over II foot
fail when Henry Ebert, an employe Of
the Twin City Electric Company. reach
cd out from projecting point and grab
bed the lad The others were rescued.
Farmers in the town of La Fayette
found Mary Young. an escaped inmate OF
the Winnehago asylum She was sitting
in the woods fatiSucS ,,Sd nearly famish-