Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19

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Traine * Co. plumbers of La Crosse,
died Of blood poisoning resulting from
vaccination.
! The lS-months-old child of Joseph
Steeras, living north OF Chippewa Falls,
ran in front of an Omaha passenger
train and was killed.
Arthur Paulsien. a Manitowoe young
man. who was TO be tried ut the present
term of the Circuit Court on the charge
of burglary, has been missing for some
time and cannot be found.
NJ. Kreely and son, prominent farmers
residing two miles south OF Arcadia,
were struck by lightning while driving
into the barn on their return home from
town. Both were instantly killed.
Chris kosen. derrick engineer of the
bridge building crew. was instantly killed
near Fairchild, several cars OF work
train passing over his body. He leaves
widow and five children at st. Paul.
For the FIRST time in many years Ke-
nosha was visited by June frost, and
| great damage was done to the growing
crops in the county. The truck farmers,
raising produce for the Chicago market,
sustained heavy losses.
In their raid at Random Lake burglars
secured watch. jewelry thirteen pairs
of shoes and elothirs They were stolen
at Tittenhofen's store, in nil 500 worth
being taken 4 bicycle was then stolen
| to get out of town on. belonging to Miss
Alma Altenhofen.
Two safes in Nye, Lusk 81 Hudsons
/ lumber office and one in the Thorpe Mer-
! camille Company's store. all located in
! the same building at Thorpe, were blown
open by burglars. Nye. Lusk x Hs.'son
lose between $500 and Si00 and the mcr-
camille company S24tsl5.
| A party OF Iowa attorneys and capital
| lists have purchased a halfsection OF land
| along the Green Bay and Western road,
| between Dexterville and City Point,
| which will be plated into a village. The
| Green Bay and Western will build de-
| pot at that point and a postotiice will be
| asked for.
| John L. Boyle is the donor of the new
/ sanitarium to be erected near Fond du
Lac at a cost of $4,000. Ii will be cali
| ed st. Mary's Springs sanitarium and
will be managed /. the Sistcrhood Of
| st. Agnes. The corner stone of the new
! Duliuiug was idlu TIE olutT GuAs -tbSu-
bishop katzer officiating.
Charles Viii was granted decree Of
divorce from his wife, Rosie Wiesung
| Viii. in the Circuit Court at Kenosha.
| The case has attracted great deal of at
tenton on account of the ia It that the
/ defendant in the ease was but Ii years
of age. She eloped to Waukegan with
| Viii two years ago. Their married life
was a stormy me. and it is alleged that
on account I. his wife Viii killed Tony
Bruno two years ago. The wife deserted
Viii shortly after he was acquitted of tn
murder
Judge Fish of kenosha has decided
that the fact that woman did not de-
sire TO do homework was not sufficient
reason for her TO desert her husband. The
point was made in the divorce suit of
William Schilling and Amy Schilling.
Mrs. Sehilling and her husband had been
married but five months when the hus-
| band asked her 60 do the Homework and
she deserted him. The judge granted the
husband a decree. The divorced wife is
but 10 years of age and is now residing
in Chicago.
The safe in the store of G.. A. Kim
ball q Son Of Pine River was blown open
the other night. Four doors had been
blown Oh and the robbers We're working
with dynamite on the steel chest when
two clerks returning from dance at
O'Clock frightened them away. Twenty
two holes had been blown in the iroT
ceiling above the safe, which was thu
larger Of the two and contained the post
Office supplies and $1,000 in cash. Th'
handsome store, which has been recently
completed, is badly damaged
The old Catholic church at La Pointe
Madeline Island, was destroyed by fire
The church was an ancient landmark and
had been visited by hundreds of tourists
annually. The original church was built
in 1885 by Father Baraga and rebuilt al
later date. 1t contained an ancient
painting THE Descent from the Cross. v
which Indian tradition says was a gift tC
the La Pointe mission in 1863 by Father
Marquette. 1t is the opinion of some
that the picture was stolen and TIE
church set on fire TO cover up the loss,
It has come TO light that John r. Sears
formerly cashier of the Bank of Month
cello. who WINS found dead June at this
foot of a windmill. on a farm belonging
to him. was in an unfortunate financial
condition. On the day of his death ht
was to have met the directors of tbs
bank and to explain to them some dis
crepancies in his books. The directc r.
were already in session when the news
came that the former cashier was dead
having apparently fallen from the plat
form of the windmill, sixty-tive feet from
the ground. Whether the fall was an nc
cident or whether Mr.. Sears jumped Il
his death probably will never be known
The residence and several othef build
ings belonging to Mrs. Hannah Booth
located at McDill, were destroyed bs
what Mrs Booth declares was an ineen
diary fire. She places her loss at be
tween $500 and $4,000 and there wa:
no insurance on the property. Mrs Boot
and Miss Daisy Clerk were the only
occupants of the house At 1890 the1
were awakened by sound MS IL caused
by someoA hammering outside, They
ran ont in their seaDty attire and found
the woodshed all atro inside. The ontei
door. Mrs Booth says. hal been spiked
and the fire set with kerosene. Then q
man appeared in the darkness and made
some insulting remark aud was ordered
of the grounds Before going he said III
would be a clean sweep If the barn womb
go, too" The barn was located ON the
opposite side Of the street In about ten
inmates the barn began to blaze up, and
l shurtfv oFtars-arl tho man came hack