Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-01-01

LuidDeE COMPANY at OiesOi Was pax ~
destroyed by fire.
Gust Sellmer. while working in a
gravel pit few miles from Peshtigo, had
/ both limbs broken, one in two places.
Robert Holden, whose home is in Wat
ertown. was fatally injureG in corn
shredder accident on the John Garland
farm in Lowville.
Near Grantsburg farmers are planning
| to raise peanuts and sweet potatoes on
their sand farms next season. Many Of
! the farmers are also going into the An
| CORA goat business.
| The Methodist Church was badly dam
aged by fire at Mfurshfeld. The church
had been rebuilt and was to have been
dedicated the next Sunday. The loss is
protected by insurance.
Ross Miller of Appleton was seriously
sealded while he was taking bath at
| the Lawrence University gymnasium. lie
accidentally turned the hot water shower
and his shoulders and arms were badly
| burned
| Ned Frame, a young mechanic employ
ed by the Imperial Camera Company,
was sandbagged and robbed in the Eighth
street park at La Crosse by two men.
Seventeen dollars was secured by the
| hisnwaymen.
Fire was discovered in the general
store of e. II. Franklin. Jr., at Eland
Junction. Prompt work by the local
bucket brigade soon had the fire under
| control. The loss on the stock and build
ing will be $500.
Albert Gaertner, an employee of the
Adam Kroner Hardware Company in La
| Crosse, took from quart of bulk oysters
1 two pearls, the largest of which is as big
as a pea and which is probably worth
$500. The other is smaller.
Two men cremated and another fright
| fully burned about the lower part of
his body and the destruction of locomO-
tives and cars was the outcome of a
rear-end collision of two south-bound spe-
cial freight trains on the Northwestern
| Railroad at Little Suamico.
In the extreme northern part of Bur
nett County the house of Guy Griffin
was destroyed by fire. He and his wife
walked barefooted across a lake on the
ice to the home of neighbor, where they
J went for shelter. They were dressed
only in their night clothes, everything
else being burned. They arrived at the
| friends house in - frozen condition and
almost exhausted.
| In the Circuit Court at Oshkosh YER
dict of $500 was returned in favor of
| Charles Steinert against the Oshkosh
Electric Light and Power Company. The
suit was brought for $4,000 for dam
ages alleged to have been sustained by
the plaintiff through taking ho)d of a
loose guywire of the defendant company,
which had become charged with cleo
| tricity through dead wire of the city,
which had sagged across a feed wire of
the Winnebago Traction Company.
Conductor Tierney and his crew on the
south-bound fast freight on the Omaha,
had fierce fight with a gang of >hoboes
! at Wascott. The hobOes boarded the
train at Hawthorne and upon reaching
Wascott the conductor stopped to put the
tramps off. They resisted and at the
point of revolver made the conductor
give the signal to go ahead and haul
them to Spooner Tierney wired ahead
to the officials and upon the arrival of the
train at Spooner had the entire gang ar
| rested.
The people of Amberg will organize
Il NOlL uuul 10 Gel E4u VI Il PAIN
ing the region around that town, endan-
gering the lives of the school children.
Lien and Willie Randall, little sons of a
bomesteader, had a narrow escape the
other day. They were chased several
miles by the ANIMALS. They kept them
off with clubs until they reached home.
One of the boys was bitten. Wolves
throughout the northern woods are very
vicious this winter and frequently attack
human beings.
In the Circuit Court at Oshkosh YER
dict of $500 was awarded and p lid to
G. w. Frederick of Fond du Lac for the
death of his 12-year-old son, B. o. Fred
erick The verdict was against W. w.
Neff, captain of the steamer Evelyn. On
July %, 1900, the steamer was leased
by the Cotton Street Methodist Church
of Fond du Lac for Sunday school ex-
cursion. In the evening the Frederick
boy walked off the side of the boat and
was drowned. 1t was alleged that there
We're not proper guards and ratings about
the side of the boat
Another attempt at holdup in the
switch yards of the Chicago and North
western road at Appleton has occurred,
the victim being Frank Graf Mr.. Graf
was on his way home, and t. king the
shortest route possible he crossed the
yards at Morrison street when sudden
~ his assailant jumped out from between
some freight cars. striking him with a
huge club The blow, which was direct
ed at his head missed him, striking Mr..
Graf on the shoulder and forearm, caus-
ing painful bruises. lively fight be-
tween the two men ensued, Mr.. Graf
finally putting his assailant to rout
The arrest of an Oshkosh runaway cou-
pie by deserted husband ended a sem
sational elopement in Joplin, Mo, and
the injured husband congratulated his
wife and the man on their successful
elopement. Three weeks ago Mrs. John
Bubitz deserted her husband, taking
with her their 4-year-old child and $4,000.
She was accompanied by G. X. kimbal'
They went to Chicago Denver and Jop-
lin. where Mublitz located them. lie
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
his wife and Kimball and went to serve
it. His boy answered the summons, and
Buhlitz took the child in his arms. Kim
ball was absent trying 10 buy saloon
with Bublitz's money When kimball
returned Bublitz congratulated him.
Finally Kimball and Mrs. Bublitz re-
turned $1,000 Of Bubltz's money and
Bublitz took his child and left.
The residence OF Mrs. James Cashell
was completely destroyed by FIRE at Ra-
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