Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-04-24

| Clara Barnard attempted suicide at her
home in Oshkosh because her younger sis
ter persisted in going to dances She may
| recover.
Roy Allen, an employee Of the Central
Lumber Company at Hudson, met with
a fatal accident. a trap door fell on him,
| the bolts entering his head
Frank Liddell, farmer living near
Chippewa Falls. was accidentally shot
through the foot while cleaning a gun.
He did not know it was loaded
Arnold Huchting, Il years old. shot
himself at his home in Milwaukee. dying
| soon afterward. He was one Of the best
| known Germans in the city. Bad health
was the cause Of suicide.
/ The store OF William Greenberg was
broken int2 by burglars Mt Neee lah. The
cash register was broken open and so
! in silver take, also $50 worth of brs,
cutlery and jewelry. There is no Gle TO
| the robbers.
| Eugene Baker aged 10 years. was
drowned in Green lay, near Juttner
! point. He was hunting ducks and put
on pair of snowshoes to walk on the
ice and broke through His body has
not been recovered.
A funk belonging to Carl Arnt, Chip
pew, Falls bachelor, who has been in the
| MENDOZA asylum for two years, was open
| ed am found 10 contain $500 enclosed in
a wallet. 1t was supposed that Arnt was
the victim of the direst poverty.
Henry Lehman was killed in battle
in the Philippines and his body was
brought 10 his Old hons at North Free
| dom for burial Deceased Wds about 80
years old and had not been in active ser
! vice very long before he received the final
summons.
| The boarding house of the Menominee
River Lumber Company at Marinette,
| the largest frame structure on the river,
| was almost totally destroyed by fire. The
| loss is about $1,000, covered by insur-
| ance. Policeman jacobson was badly
| injured, fire escape ladder falling on
| him.
| Benjamin Sandon was instantly killed
| at Apolina while thawing frozen dyna-
mite. The explosion also injured Thomas
Moore and George Bates. the former
| probably fatally Sandon's body was
thrown hundred feet into the river, and
was terribly mutilated. Al the men are
| residents of Apolina.
! Nr. and Mrs Joseph Frederick receiv-
ed Sc ious injuries at AIenasha. They
were in a buggy with their 1-yearold
| daughter when their horse became fright
ened and threw them directly in front
| of al interurban car. The car was stop
| ped within few inches of where the peo-
| pie lay on the track
Judge Eugene s Elliott. in the AIilwau-
kee Circuit Court decided that Christian
| Scientists are not liable 10 prosecution
under the State medical law. The court
| ruled thar the scientists can no more be
! held Tor practicing medicine when their
mems for healing is by prayer than can
minister who prays at the bedside Of
the sick and receives therefor a fee either
directly or indirectly.
w. W. Smith, banker of Sleepy Eye,
Mimi. who graduated from Lawrence
| University in the class of 1881. has Civ
en- 500 to the fund for the new gym
nasium at Lawrence University. Apple
| ton. Several b,ndred dollars in small
donations has also been received recently
| and about three-fourths of the fund of
$4,000 necessary for the new gymnasium
/ is now in hand
Anton Steidl, an Appleton young man
| who was sailor on the Baltimore at the
battle of Manila bay. under Dewey, is
home from the navy. For some months
he has been with tie Oregon on the Ash
| attic station. and his time having expired
he was sent home from a Chinese port
and discharged at San Francisco. com
ing directly home. He served a term as
| apprentice boy aud was discharged as an
able seaman.
John Motif. a Chicago lawyer was
awarded the custody of John Bernard
Motif. years old. who was abducted
by his mother from the Chicago man last
August. The boy had been given by his
mother to Motif in 1895. After taking
the boy away the mother died, and the
lad was put in charge of his relatives,
who live at Altoona. Mofiit and his wife
were devotedly attached to the lad and
| made a vigorous search for him. After
| many weeks they finally succeeded in To-
| eating him by means of a registered let
| ter. and the proceedings for his recovery
were commenced in the courts at Eau
| Claire
\ case which has all the phases Of Il
murder was brought f0rcibly to the at
tcntion of the Ashland police when an
autopsy was held over the remains of
Louis Mattson. who died in a local dos
pital from the effects of a bullet wound
commencing at the base of the neck and
continuing downward into the liver In
the early part of the week Mattson in
company with Oscar Mann. was sitting
on the Wisconsin, Central Railroad
tracks near Rhnclander waiting for the
arrival of Il freight train Shortly before
/ the arrival of the train Mattson was shot
in the back of the neck and Immediately
became unconscious When the train
came along MattSon vas put aboard by
Mann and taken 10 Rhineander. where
he received medical treatment. Later
Hattson was sent to the Rhinehart hos
ptai ut Ashland Mann has kccn ar
rested and says that he. in company with
Mattson left Ohio about d week befo.e
to come 30 northern Wisconsin and take
up a mineral claim. While resting
along the line OF the Central" said
Mann Madison suddenly fell over with
a groan. Blood ~purtcd from an opening
in the neck. which | partly stanched with
my handkerchief took the wounded
man TO Rhinelandcr and put him under
the care of physician. Facts submit
ted by several different witnesses showed
that Maun. who was in a state of indi-
gence when he was at Rhinelander. de-
posted 500 in the First National Bank