Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-29

and Ladies OF the Maccabees will be held
| at West Superior June 9 and I.
! B. j. Stallard's general merchandise
| store at Altoona burned The damage
/ is estimated at $4,000; covered By in
/ surance.
| Joseph Busert, at WATERFOWL, filed his
mouth with powder and then placed a
/ fuse between his lips and Ii. it. His
head was blown of.
August Hagen of Lafayette township
reports that while he and his family were
away at party thieves broke into his
house and TOOK SIS and a lady's god
watch.
| Louise Schro .der. who was sent to pris-
on June 1G. 1854, from Manitowoc Coun
| ty for poisoning her husband. died N
| Waupun. She was serving ! fourteen
! year sentence.
Paul Sabo of Racine has received dis
| patch informing him that his nephew.
! Steve Bolock. and his eomrade, Andrew
| Russie. were drowned while fishing IN L
small lake near Muskegoa, Mich.
The vestry of the Stevens Point Epis-
copal Church extended a unanimous call
| to Rev. DR.. Jenner, arehdeacon of Ash
land. TO succeed Bishop Weller of Fond
du Lac as rector of the local church.
Frederick Bingham, a laborer, aged 80
! yeaes. shot himself dead at Withee. \
| justice who was issuing peace warrant
| for his arrest heard the Shot and found
| him dead. A Jury returned verdict Of
| suicide.
| A man named Anton Spindler. Ger
man, was found dead in barn at Marsh
field. He was chimney sweep, about
80 years of age. Nothing is known of his
relatives. Death was caused by heart
| disease.
In Ashland Col John II. Knight has
commenced suit against ]. S. Stearns of
| the Stearns Lumber Company for &c.,
! 600, making demand for portion of
| the p offs from saving Bad River Indian
reser' alton timber.
| Henry Schlichting. ST.. one of the old
est and most prominent merchants of
| Sheboygan Falls, died after an illness OF
| eight weeks. He was GO years old and
was a native of Mecklenberg- Schwerin.
| Germany. He came to Wisconsin in
1858.
Frank Iittlefeld, aged 23, a mill ia
borer in the yards of the Brown Bros
| Lumber Company at Rhinelander, receiv-
| ed notice from an aunt living in Waus-
| hara County that by the death of a
| grandmother living near Berlin he had
/ inherited $4,000.
! James Carruthers, former we'll
| known hotel man of Milwaukee, COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the river.
| Mr.. Carruthers was proprietor of the
Kirby House for many years. Despon-
deney is said TO have b. i the cause.
| He was 46 years old.
| The other day Mrs. Kern, young
! Marinette widow. awoke from sleep
which had lasted forty hours. All efforts
TO arouse the sleeping woman had proved
| futile until physician succeeded in
| awaking her. She does not feel any the
worse for her strange experience.
| The strike in the lumber yards at
| Rhinelander has been settled, the men re-
ceiving the increase of Is cents day
| asked for As the lumber after it leaves
| thu saw and goes to the yard is handled
| by the thousand, the contractor and not
| tie mill firm suffers by the strike.
4 four-foot boiler in the bathroom of
! j. :. l.. Wink's barber shop ut Lodi ex-
/ piOQtti ne DOlleE WAS III Inc DdStIubUL
and tore through two floors. badly wreck
| ing the building. No one was injured.
| The ground floor was occupied by the
| Mandivile Furniture Company, which
sustained considerable loss.
Thomas j. Smith, an old resident of
] Stevens Point, was fatally injured while
! trying to cross the Wisconsin Central
| tracks near his home. He was going be-
: tween two cars when a switch engine
showed one end of the train on to lin,
| crushing several of his ribs, his right an
| kle was broken and he was otherwise
| bruised
At Oshkosh in the Circuit Court Paul
! Reynolds, the partner of Curtis Pulliam
| of Milwaukee in the Percy store robbery,
was sentenced to prison for thee years.
| This is identical with the sentence Pull
! liam received. Frank Mondl, convicted
| of stealing wire from the Winnebaso
| Traction Company, was sent 20 Waupun
| for one year.
Ben Simon, foreman of the Racine
| Boat Manufacturing Company, is in a
| critical condition. While at work in the
wood department his clothing caught in
| the shafting, causing him to be whirled
| aIOuhu W lIilES. Ills tlSAI arm
was broken IN five places. his right leg
| badly crushed. He was terribly bruised
/ and internally injured. He managed to
catch hold of a piece of wood nailed TO
the ceiling and struggled for several min
ute7 before the accident was discovered
and the machinery stopped.
Walter Ketehen, a Eye lr-old boy, was
accidentally shot b. his brother, aged Ii,
! while the boys were playing in the yicin-
| ity of the family home about two miles
southeast of Fond du Lac. The older
| boy had secured a rife, and not knowing
that it was loaded, he snapped the trg-
! ger. The weapon was discharged and the
| bullet entered Walters face just below
the left eye apparently lodging near the
throat. No blood vessels were severed.
and the physicians say there is no reason
to doubt that the boy will recover.
a secret agent of the Milwaukee. Bur
| lington and Lake Geneva Company,
which is making an effort to enter Nil
yankee on elevated tracks from the south
and make a terminal near Wisconsin AMI
Jefferson streets, gives the information
| that the Hartman syndicate, which OBJ
| tanned control Of the Chicago Terminal
| and Transfer Company. known as the
! Inner Belt line, is behind the deal. He
says also that an understanding has been
reached whereby the Haynes Clausen
Il,