Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-03
Mrs. Viii Hobbs and her mother were

down and killed near Kenosha, by IL
Northwestern freight train.
Esther. the 2-year-old daughter of Mrs
August schmidt of West Bend, was
sealded by boiling coffee and died.
Alfred Anderson killed his wife with
a hammer at West Superior, because she
had been away from home all night.
Michael o'Laughly was killed and his
two daughters We're injured in a runaway
at Acadia. They were returning from a
funeral
\, ID. Simpson. travelling salesman Tor
4. NJ. Slater y Brothers. dry goods, Chi
cago, was drowned in two feet OF water
in Cheduamegan Bay, at Ashland.
Frank Fang, who resigned as agent OF
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Mt New London has been succeeded by
George Hosting of Port Washington
Because his wife had left him and gone
TO the home of her parents to live Emil
kehrke. aged % years, attempted to com.
NIT suicide at Oshkosh by drinking chic
reform.
Burglars broke into the store Of Mey-
ers & Chase at Abbotsford Between
ST. and SIS in cash is all they go. This
is the fourth time this store has been
robbed
Carrie Drown. said TO be the latest
girl in this country, died at Caledonia,
aged %. She weighed 650, pounds and
was feet : inches in height. Her death
was caused by heat
Adolph W, Moerke, aged 2S years, was
Il "A l.. A.
Blue river, near Prairie du CHEN. He
stepped of an almost perpendicular sand
bar into deep water.
i4-months-old son of Fred Krasse of
Maple Grove had the back of its head
blown off by the accidental discharge OF
a gun his father was attempting to hang
on the wall of his hoise.
Mary Landermasen. aged % years. de.
liberately walked into the lake at Lake
Mills and was drowned. She was dis
charged from the Northern insane Asy-
lum a few days before as cured
Miss Jessie Jones, school teacher OF
the town OF Beloit, surprised her friends
by announcing her marriage last August
g, Ehen Cass of Manchester township
The marriage was kept secret because
of the brides school engagements.
Sidney Larson, Clarence Renee and Ar.
thur Palm of Port Edwards were drown
ed in the hill race at that point. They
were all under IL years of age and had
gone swimming without the knowledge Of
their parents. The current was too strong
and they We're swept into deep water.
Arthur G. Tillon of the Standard Oil
Company at Green Bay was married to
Miss Garcia Whitman OF Appleton. Not
desiring TO run the gauntlet of rice. the
bride, after the ceremony. left the house
alone while the bridegroom climbed down
rope from the third-story window in
the rear OF the house. Both met again
at Appleton Junction.
The oil boom seems to be extending it,
self in all directions. 4 gusher has been
found at Baldwin. There is well Of
clear water in the street in front Of w.
G. Borchsenins house, only nine TO ten
feet deep, that does not exactly spout
oil, but yoE have only to leave pail
standing short time before the surface
of che water in 1t is coated with oil
DR.. Cartmill was held up at Ashland
by highwayman at thc point of a re-
volver. When the footpad was search
ing his pockets for money the latter
/ clinched with the fellow and lively tus-
sic ensued, during which the revolver
! which the man was holding In his hand
went off. shooting DIR. Cartmill in tbs
/ right hand and wrist. The footpad es
capped.
| Frank korherr. tinsm,;h attempted
to commit suicide at the Wisconsin
I House in Chiffon. He ignited two sticks
| Of dynamite and the explosion which re-
suited wrecked portion of the building,
but he escaped uninjnred. Two and one.
half additional pounds OF dynamite.
which did not explode, and seven or eight
dynamite caps were also found in his
| room.
AT Manitowoc the jury in the case Of
Peter Myszewski~- gainst the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railroad Company. In
which Myszewski sued for $1,000 dam.
ages, brought in verdict awarding the
| plaintiff 1920. Myszewsh was perme
nently injured about year ago by fall
| ing through an open hatchway on the
+. x T. NJ. steamer No. ), while she was
in port loading grain
There are likely to be many complica-
tions in the Neenah school board over a
recent Supreme Court decision which is
supposed to invalidate every act of the
| board in which Wesley Mott commission
| e. from the Third Ward, voted Mr..
| Aiott has resigned from the hoard, pro-
vidmg that the impeachment proceedings
against him and Supt. W. H. Healy be
discontinued. The city attorney viii stop
the proceedings.
The contract for the construction OF the
new power house TO be erected By the
| Fox River Electric Railway Company in
Appleton. was awarded to O'heefe d
Orbison. The new plant is TO operate the
Fox River Electric Railroad between
Neenah and Kaukauua and furnish pow
er for the Appleton electric light system.
1t will have a $500 horsepower water
power aud will also be equipped with a
duplicate steam power.
Leander German. farmer boy in the
town Of Somerset, had n miraculous es-
cape from death While out in the pas
ture driving up the COWS, he was attack
ed by bull knocked down. stamped on
and rolled and dragged along on the
ground for nearly fifteen rods, and the
life had about been crushed out ~ him
when an older brother came to the res
cue with pitchfork, which he promptly
plunged through the animals nose. hold
ing him at bay until both were on the
Other side If the fence. The younger boy
had no bones broken, but he was terri
bly, bruised.
Frank ]. Tack VAS sentenced at Mil