Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-03-12


man Jenkins. was severely burned a.
Chippewa Falls. while cleaning a cash
register with benzine.
Oshkosh is soon to have cereal mill.
which will be established by II. II. Cole.
The plant is to be built by a stock com
pany AT a cost Of 100000
Conductor Charles Rodd Of the Wis
cousin Ceatral Railway had a foot near
~ severe" by a barrel of syrup falling
ON it from a box car at Boyd.
A man supposed TO be William Riley.
an employe Of the Simmons Manufaetur
ing Company. was killed by a Northwest
ern freight train south Of Kenosha.
Chris. Brack an employee of the West
crn Lime and Cement. Company at Ham
ilton. died fr-.I NljAgles received by be-
Ing crushed beneath the wheels of
freight car.
Philip Gardner, formerly Of Winnecon-
ne. has brought suit against the Paine
Lumber Company Of Oshkosh for $4,000
damages resulting from the loss of his
right hand in the company's mill.
August Wehner. said to have been
employed by the Universal Publishing
Company of Chicago, and an unknown
woman were found dead from asphyxia-
ton in rooming house at Milwaukee.
Elmer Winmore, az years old, a farmer
in the Edison township. was killed in a
runaway. He had sold his farm and
was TO have left with his family for his
former home in Germany, where he owns
another farm.
Charles Adams and his family had a
close call at Appleton from being suffo-
Gated by coal gas. There are six ne'A-
bers in the household. The trouble was
due TO coal stove which MAD not been
properly closed.
William II. Watson. president of the
Pioneer Furniture Company at Eau
Claire, who died suddenly, left an estate
worth about $4,000, but no viii and no
heirs. Diligent inquiry by wire fails to
reveal single relative
The last acre of good county land in
Chippewa County has been Sold a deal
| having been made whereby Richmond Il
Richmond of Arcadia become owners of
the last FIVE ''forties.'' This makes a
total OF 10000 acres disposed of.
A mass meeting of the citizens Of Reav-
er Dam was held to take up the matter
of having a beet sugar factory located in
| or near the city. The experience of rails
ing sugar beets last season was so salts
factory that many persons believe that
the increased acreage the present season
will warrant the erection of a sugar
plant.
A message from Congressman Jenkins
confirms the report that John Il. Hegg of
| Cumberland was murdered by Filipinos
on Bohol Island. Jan. 81 The body
has not been found Hegg was gradu-
ate of the Cumberland schools and the
State University and was superintendent
OF construction of government roads in
the Philippines.
f. Lufsky has been arrested at 0cono-
mowoc. He was wanted in KenoshG on
charge of forging Rev. L. A. Me
Moody's name to a check for $50 and
passing it on the local secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. 4. He left Kenosha without
paying $50 board bill. AT one time
Lufsky was pastor of church at South
Oshkosh. 1t is alleged that he has swim
died Y. NJ. c. a people in many parts
of the State and in Michigan.
The engineer of the Smith & Russell
Hardware Company at Wauwatosa. set
| the Menominjee river on fire. He did it
| by filing a tank with gasoline to over
| flowing and when the fire under the boil
ers was started there was an explosion.
The burning gasoline ran through an ex-
haust pipe half block to the river. There
it made a blaze which lit up the heav-
ems for miles around 1t was all the fire
department could do to prevent the de-
struction of the suburb.
George and Bernard Hopp. two boys
of Door County. We're recently frightened
by what they claim to be genuine wild
| man. They were hauling wood at the
time and say that suddenly a strange
looking being. covered with long shaggy
hair. appeared before them and they i'm
mediately took to their heels Others in
that part of the country have seen the
strange being and GOttfried Hopp, father
of the boys, bears them out in their state
ments 1t is thought that the man may
be some demented person who mas been
wandering in the woods for long time.
Prairie du Chen was visited by a $780,
600 blaze late on a recent night. The
stables of the G. Holman Brewing Com
pany, on which the insurance expired
only few days before. We're destroyed.
The loss to the brewing company is about
$4,000. The carriage shops of Lesar
Bros were destroyed. loss $500. insur-
ance 5000. The Dousman building oc-
cupied by the Courier Publishing Com
pany. is almost wreck Insurance Of
81 600 was carried The law Offices of
o. 3. Thomas on the second floor were
badly damaged. Most of the valuable
papers were saved. but the library suffer-
ed great damage. The damage to the
Courier office amounts TO $1,000.
As the result Of a raid by deputy Unit
ed States marshals on parties who have
been furnishing Poor 10" with fire.
water. on the Odanah reservation. near
Ashland. eleven men. some of the In
'jans and half-breeds. were arraigned
/ fore Judge Bum in the federal court
at Madison to answer the charge of vio-
lating the United States law by carrrIrg
liquor on to an Indian reservati =. All
had been indicted by the graz : jury,
and all pleaded guilty TO the charge
Many were accused of taking only pint
bottle of whisky on to the reservation,
but none got off with less than SO fine
The heaviest penalty fell on John Nc
Carly. who runs a saloon midway be-
tween Ashland and the reservation. Sew
eral separate offenses were charged
against him. and he paid fine of 500 in
settlement of all the cases.
The largest load Of logs that has been
recorded during the winter was hauled