Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-08

a. ~ turtlS- FORMER MHflneLte lum
herman, is reported to have made severa
hundred thousand dollars in Texas OF
| laads.
| Twenty-three head Of stock in the towI
Of Spriss Brook were killed by order o
the State veterinarian on account of tn
berculosis.
La Crosse will be represented in this
school system Of the Philippine Islands
by Miss Winnifred Mitchell. who has
been notified of her appointment as {
school teacher in the islands.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
/ pany has a crew of men repairing The
levee ON the Chippewa river in Chippews
1 Falls, II is estimated that 10000 square
/ feet Of rock will be used in the work
/ A 100000 incorporated company, com
posed of wel-known Chicago capitalists
| has Professionally leased the Gottfredser
brewery in Kenosha for the manufacture
of electric dynamos of all descriptions.
The first free rural mail delivery route
| for Kewaunee County will he inaugural
ed in a short time. The route will be
about twenty-five miles long and will EN-
brace territory containing about 10t
| people,
| The body of Louis Knuteson, who was
| drowned while repairing the dam of the
Grand Rapids Paper Company at Biron
last October, was found by John Steit
| about two miles above the Grand Rapids
wess side water works.
About 800 acres Of land have been
| sowed with peas by the w. Seyk Canning
| Company and \. + Wanninger, proprie.
| tors of the two canneries in Kewaunee,
| This will be the fist season of the Seyk
| cannery, which has capacity Of about
2,000,000 cans.
To save her father from being injured
| by his son, who was brutally assaulting
the old man, a young woman. living near
Hayward shot her brother through the
hip. Eugene Buell. was arrested aud
lodged in jail charged with committing
a vicious assault.
The colony of French people who left
Rudolph last month for Alberta. Canada,
have been heard from at Wetaskiwin,
Alberta, and it is sorry story they tell
of the climate they found. The promises
mad by the Canadian government agent
in regard to land, accommodations, etc.
are said to be unfultiled, and few of the
party are comfortably housed.
The board of appraisers, who have been
in session valuing the Appleton water
works plant, with a view to its purchase
by the city, have reported fixing the fig
ure at S330,000. The price is generally
considered too high and the probabilities
are that when the question is submitted
at the special election the people will vote
for the city to build its own plant.
Jay Conley. Chicago peddler, met
with terrible death under the wheels
of south bound passenger train in Ke-
nosha. Conley had been walking along
the track and. in order to avoid a north
bound freight train, he stepped over TO
the track and was crushed by the passen-
ger train. His body was thrown forty
feet in the air and every bone broken.
The body OF Jacob Biederman, who,
because OF disappointment in love, drown
ed himself on the night of April g. was
recovered at Oshkosh 1t was seen float
ing in the river between the Wisconsin
avenue and the Wisconsin Central Rail-
way bridge, and Robert Sawall and W.
B. Potte' took small boat and secured
the remains. \ physician examined the
body and stated that there was no evil
denee of foul play.
The circumstances attending the death
of Mrs. ]. L. Totman, formerly of La
Crosse. who was fatally poisoned by eat
ing soup few weeks ago, are being in
vestigated at Missoula, Mont. where her
husband now lives. The servant girl who
prepared the soup has been acting very
strangely since the occurrence. and re-
fuses to eat c" talk, according to reports
from there For the past couple of weeks
she had been melancholy. and morose,
and her sanity is now questioned.
Join Berg, the 23-year-old son of ex-
Postmaster Adolph Berg of kenosha,
was arrested in Racine on the charge of
burglary. He admits that with three
others he entered the stores of Henry
Deberge and Henry Anderson and TOOK
$500 worth of dry goods and hardware.
Officer Frank Lane surprised the burg
lars and fired a shot at one of them, but
all four escaped, taking an electric car
at the northern limits Of the city. Young
Berg refuses to tell the names of his
companions. He says he was intoxi-
Gated at the time he entered the store
He intimates that he will implicate sew
eral prominent young mel with him.
Daniel Phillips, an old war veteran. is
on his way to the national home at Mil
waukee. reconciled to the hopelessness of
ever seeing his wife again. from whom
he has been separated nineteen years
Philips is 70 years old and in the early
days resided near Winona. He Staked
ont claim in the Western gold region
and wrote to his wife to join him. Phil
ippss never received any reply and he set
tied down on his claim, concluding that
his wife would come when She got ready.
Philips longing for his wife rrcw and
a short time a. he started ont in search
of her He followed up other rumors.
but despite his persistent efforts 10 find
her he has failed
William A. Bcuortle of Milwaukee, an
elderly timer succeeded in his third at
tempt. a suicide. 10 which he was driven
BY the spiGitS, according to HIS own story.
First he gashed his hand with II knife,
telling his daughter the spirits TOT him
TO draw blood. The next day he preach
cd a sermon from his porch warning the
neighbors TO prepare for death. On the
di'rd day he smashed a kerosene lamp
over his head, setting fire to himself and
the house. Finally he consulted his me-
dum agaiu and came home to go into a
four days trance The family sent a
doctor TO see him He saw the medical
man coming and drank two bottles of car
bolic acid and was dead when the ply
stefan got into the house