Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-15
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he rebuilt.
Mayor Dennett of Sheboygan win give
his Sl.sOo salary TO the public library
fund OF the city.
Frank W, Jenkins has resigned as sec
rotary of the Northern Wisconsin State
Fair Association.
Galesyille voted to give the Norwegian
Lutheran Synod $1,000 towards acquir-
ing control OF Gale college.
The annual reunion and picni, II the
Old Settlers Society of Racine County
viii be held in Racine on june -.
The +. Il. Carter Brick Company of
Chiffon has decided not to operate its
plant during the ensuing summer.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs
David Harud 81 jefferson drank some
gasoline and died in terrible agony.
All the courses in the Racine high
school have tcen placed upon the ac-
credited list of Wisconsin university.
At Millston Albert Yeski, aged II, was
arrested charged VITA shooting Frank
Dittman, aged Is. The boys quarreled
while hunting.
The La Crosse Packers Packing Com
pany has been absorbed 10y the trust re-
Gently organised and known as the Ame.-
lean Can Company.
Richard Broderick, aged - years, was
| accidentally shot and dangerously injur-
ed in Kenosha by a companion, Julius
Eve, aged u years.
Trial of ]. Bascom Robins of Chicago,
accused of killing w. NJ. Fenelon at
Rhinelander, will be postponed owing to
illness of defendant.
At Cooma while unloading lumber Har-
ley Collins fell out of car, striking on
his head and shoulders, breaking his col
larbone on the left side
William Schenek. aged 20 years. n son
| Of one of the most prominent residents
of Racine, committed suicide. Schenck
left a letter. hut his relatives refuse TO
4. publish its contents.
| The blueberry acreage will be mate
| rally reduced in jackson County this
season, as forest fires have done immense
! damage. II is estimated that 5000 acres
have been burned over.
| Because he drank from a spring on his
/ land, Ernest Maggie attacked G. j. ia
/ cobson OF La Crosse with a stone and
beat him severely. Nagle was arrested
and sned SIS aud costs.
! Voice Sowa, who was convicted of
murder in the second degree for killing
Marshal Moore of Stanley. was sentenc-
ed by Judge O'Neill at Neillsville to four
teen years in State prison.
Congressman John j. Esch has secured
| for the high schools at La Crosse, Black
River + lis and Eau Claire SETS of pias-
ter casts of prehistoric weapons, from
| the Smithsonian institute at Washington.
Anton kocher OF Brothertown, who re-
Gently endowed Chiffon with a soldiers
memorial monument. has placed I'M order
with the same firm for $1,000 monu-
ment to mark his own resting place when
he dies.
The sensational case at Babcock. the
| alleged attempt 10 poison aged Attorney
Remington, has been dropped. Mrs.
Remington has gone TO Minnesota to
make her future home with her sou, Hen
ry Remington.
Lightning struck barn at Darien,
killing horse belonging to the Darlen
Creamery Company. Roy Weave. was
knocked down and Mrs. Arthur Weaver
who was in shed feeding chickens, was
also struck Her clothing was torn of
her and she was badly injured.
Six firms in Milwaukee that are doing
n general commission and brokerage bust
ness, dealing in grains aud stocks, ont
side of the Chamber of Commerce. have
paid the special internal revenue~>tax
levied against bucketshop keepers TO Col
lector Fink. The tax has been paid in
| pnph instance under DpOtpSt.
William Dangers. who about two
months ago, together with Ruth Wilson
was charged with robbing Richard Pearl
of 5000 in n Glidden resort and confined
in the county Jail since awaiting t-ia
in Circuit Court. was acquitted. Ruth
Wilson pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to Imprisonment in the State peniten
tiary for one year.
Owing to the continued dry weather
forest fires have been raging throughout
Richland County. Hundreds of dollars
worth Of fences and cordw0od have beer
destroyed The sawmill of Stowe 4
Barclay, one Of the largest mills in the
county. was burned to the ground, TO
gether with about 1000 feet of lumber
The mill win be rebuilt
The dread Of the pea louise, whose raw
ages last year caused the loss Of thou
sands Of dollars to Two Rivers farmers
as well as the canning institutions, has
| caused the farmers tc decrease the pea
acreage and in consequence the crop oi
peas. for which the section s noted, viii
be decreased by thousands of bushels
The raising Of hay will supplnnt the pea
crop in most instances.
John r. Simmons. special assistant
United States District Attorney, rcceiv
ed instructions from the Attorney Gen
eral to appeal the decision Of Judge
Bum in the case against James Stin
son to the United States Court Of Ap'
peals Stinson was formerly Of Snpe
| ror. but now resides in Chicago. The
| case involves the title OF fourteen quar-
ter sections Of land located in the CITY
| Of Superior which il worth S7JO.0O0 III
1874. under the presumption law. several
Swedes secured title 10 this land. As
| soon as they made entries they convey
ed the property TO Stinson. In 1889 the
| government began action TO vacate the IT,
| ties. holding that the property had been
| secured through fraud. as the Sweies
| had been hired to make the pre-empiion.
Tho government holds that the Swedes
never occupied nor improved the land.
| Judge Bum handed down a decision
| three years ago against the government.
John D. Rockefeller has given $1,000
! ia Waylnnd Aeadsmy of Beaver Dam,
providing an additional S20000 Is raised
| by July !. Rev Catchpoe the financial
| secretary. saws Sf1. 800 has already been