Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-03
Col. Napoleon Boardnan. aged "a.
dead Mt Fond df Lac.

= lue aHuudi iuetiiHE Oh tue sStdet 11Vi-
tieultural Society wili be held at Madi-
son, Feb. 5 10 II, inclusive.
John Arquette. charged with burning
the training stables of Dixon and Dillon
on April s. was acquitted at Janesyille.
A school house IN the Crivitz district
of Marinette was burned. The loss is
about $1,000. The building was unin-
snred
The I2-year-old son OF Jacob Matek
Of AIanitowoe had his leg broken. Jo-
seph Herman ran into hina. with BIZ
cycle
The Odd Fellows OF Sturgeon Bay have
decided o erect new hall next season
and plans are now being prepared for
the proposed building.
The police raided every gambling den
in Kenosha. made thirty-seven arrests
ans captured equipment and furniture
from the rooms valued at over II, GOO.
While hunting for rabbits in the yicin-
ity of Brighton Beach. Antoine Hahn
came across wildcat Of unusual size
and which he lost no time in adding 70
his bag of game.
Mrs Caddie Falvey has been granted
a divorce III the Circuit Court from her
husband, Dr. John EaiveY Both par
ties are prominent in the upper circle Of
society AT Racine.
John Hollister, athletic director and
coach for Beloit College. has been ad-
mitted to practice in tbs Rock County
bar. lie viii continue his association
with the college as in the pas
The jury disagreed in the case Of VII
liams Jones of Clinton, charged with
conducting insurance business for com
p..nies which are said 10 be doing busi-
ness III the State without a license.
During quarrel at the Klondike the
ater at Hurley Lester Rieble was thrown
from an upper box into the parquet by
man named Nelson from Bessemer
Mich. Rieble received serious injuries
at Valley Junction soren oleson,
Danish farm tempted suicide by
hanging hiInssl He was cut down be-
fore life was extinct II is supposed the
man is insane. He is about 90 years
old.
g. w. Harger. Walter Alexander and
Il. G. Zimmerman have filed with the
State Treasurer certiScation of incor-
poration, reeharting the Marathon Coun-
ty bank under its old name, and with
capital stock Of a19,s9a.
State Veterinarian Clute met with a
painful accident at Marinette. He was
attending to vicious horse, sewing up
cut, when the animal pushed him
against the side of the stall He was
laid up for several days.
The home of August Bakeman at Mar
inette caught fire from the furnace. Mr.
Bakeman was critically i'll with typhoid
fever and his wife was also dangerously
i'll. Both were carried out after mar
row escape from suffocating.
Nineteen horses and fourteen cattle per-
ished in barn which burned near Eu-
refa The cattle were sanctioned and
were unable to make their escape The
barn belonged to Charles FLOYD, veal
thy farmer in the town of Rushford.
Misses Mamie and Dora Crancy, two
well known young ladies living in Paris,
met with a serious and perhaps fatal
accident in Kenosha The Young women,
when they attempted TO drive across the
Northwestern track at the Park street
CROSSING, were struck by a switch en-
gine. Both wsre thrown from the buggy
and seriously in; cred.
Mrs Shipman, wife of the late Isaiah
III. Shipman, wno died about two years
ago, was found in the road near the home
a. her daughter Mrs. II. w. Knicker-
booker, at Bloomer, almost frozen to
death and died soon after she was found.
She had wandered off from the main
road, and as her mind was very weak,
she could not get back again.
Henry T. Corbett. who has been posi-
lively identified by the Rev. and Mrs.
David s. Cheney as the man vi shot
them on Dec. 9. was arraigned in RAJ
cine on the charge of vagrancy and the
| ease dismissed. He was then rearrest-
ed on the charge of assault with intent
TO murder Mr. Cheney. Corbett was
remanded to jail. He expects to prove
a perfect alibi.
Thomas Curran, young farmer living
| about four miles north of Icm' Jells-
port, was shot in the head by ALVIN ku-
| ter, young son of neighboring farmer.
s. NJ Futer. The full charge of shot
entered Curran's scalp. tearing il almost
entirely off. The two had been out hunt
/ ing rabbits, but rot IN company with
each other. They both saw the rabbit,
when they were about t4ur feet apart
and both tried to shoot it. Curran's head
got in range of Kuter's gun without the
latter realizing it and he fired.
Coroner Kortsch and DIR. Selbaeh of
Eau Claire. in response to a telephone
call from Rock + alls. drove thirteen
miles iii the country 70 hold an inquest
on Michael Nhilo, bohemian laborer,
aged 90. He had been in an open field
from midnight till O'Clock, and was
supposed to have been frozen 10 death.
| The coroner and doctor found him laid
ont stiff at the Widow TomaSeheks
farm house. but Khilo thawed out and
sat up Just before the inquest began.
| Tae doctor and coroner worked over him
till he was fully restored. Ii is said he
had fallen in fit on his way home.
A log famine is among the probabilities
for the head Of the lake mills next sum
mer. Last summer the mmbermen clean
ed up nearly all the timber that had been
cut, running the supply down closer than
they ever had before. They depended
| upon busy season in the woods this
winter to supply them with plenty to do
next summer Now good part Of the
winter has passed and practically no log
/ ging has been done. They say that it
viii be impossible to get out all the logs
that have been contracted for and that
/ it is doubtful whether they will be able
to gel out enough to give the mills their
feed"
Nels Krogstad, an old settler Of Bloom
er, while working in Andrew Hanson 8
camp, near Fifield, received blow from
a falling branch of tree which kiIed
/ him almost instantly. He was about 90
| years of age and unmarried.
/ Detective Malledy of Chicago arrested
! FIVE boys in GAINESVILLE for stealing guam
| tity OF mixed candies from freight cars
en- route from Chicago {. Watertown.
/ Those arrested are Charles Ross, John
Griffin. Frank Fellows. John Cornelius
and Charles Davis. The boys are com
nected with well known Janesyille fam
/ lilies.
James Manning, a camp foreman for
| the Flaribaau Lumber Company, died at
Lac du FIambeau from the effects Of
large dose Of aconite which he took by
! mistake. He wanted to cure cough
which troubled him and thought the AGO.
mite was cough medicine. The aconite
! had been used to doctor horses.
/ A boiler in the laundry room Of the
/ Racine College exploded, causing panic
| among the students and professors and
doing 5000 worth of damage to the build
! ing. The report of the explosion was
heard for half mile, and the city fire
department. was hurried TO the scene. The
/ FIRE. however, was subdued by the fac
ulty and employees.
! The first meeting of the Winnebago