Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-10-22

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Mrs. Matt ohIbranz was arrested al
Berlin, c.iarged with stabbing her hus-
band with butcher knife.
Holmes & Son, logging contractors, are
| extending their logging road seven miles
! further into the large tract of land in
the Pembine district.
/ 4 proposition to establish manual
training in connection with the public
! schools Of Beloit was defeated by large
I majority of the electors.
The Barahoo gas and electric light
| plant was sold to Brown & Mayer Of
Chicago. A new plant viii be put in at
! 2 cost of about $4,000
! J.. C. Stanley of Chippewa Falls and
! W. X. Bartlett of Eau Claire have dis
| posed of their holdings in Oregon and
the consideration was over Sl,OO0,OOO.
| Julius Eckhart, a Civil War veteran,
hanged himself at Milwaukee. Ie v'..-
widower, SO years old. and his wife died
a year ago, having cut her wrists with
suicidal intent.
| Harry Hubbard Of Milwaukee, who
! has been operating a shooting gallery in
Beaver Dam. was accidentally shot
through the windpipe with a 22-caliber
rife in his gallery. He will recover.
A. z. Nelson, cashier of the First Bank
| Of Gfantsburg, received a telephone mes
| sage the other day stating that his 2-year-
! old daughter Constance was instantly
killed in the Board of Trade elevator at
Duluth.
Miss Gertrude Anthony of Central
| City, Iowa, teacher of science in the
Madison high school, is at the isolation
hospital with smallpox and precautions
have been taken to prevent an epidelnic
among the 600 pupils.
Burglars broke into Stockman Bros ;
store at Woodville and secured $50 in
money and $275 in checks. The safe was
found open by the burglars. Burglars
aleo broke into the postOfice at Elntwood
and secured 5000 in money.
The purchase of large tract of land
along the lake front and surveys begun
along the dock lines lead to the belief
that iron docks are to be built at Ash
land. The purchasers of the land are
said to be Pittsburg men.
The passenger steamer Mystic, which
was chartered by party Of hunters, sank
in shallow water fifteen miles above Osh-
kosh, in the Wolf river. The boats
wheel got tangled in weeds and her shaft
broke. No one was injured
Secretary John NJ. True of the State
Board of Agriculture estimated that the
loss to Wisconsin farmers on the corn
crop this season by reason of the cold,
wet weather during a portion of the sum
mer and the early frosts this fall approx
mates $5,000,000.
Peter Caski, known as Crooked Pete"
and man named Johnson, both of Hur-
ley, tried to force an entrance to saloon
at Pence, where Isaac Strang was sleep
ing. He admitted the men and COM
menced shooting. killing Cask; instantly.
Strang was arrested.
The town of Burlington was threaten
ed with destruction by fire. The fire
started in the plant of the Burlington
Mating Company ana within an hour the
buildings were in rGiEs, causing loss of
100000. with insurance of $4,000. In
the building were 10000 bushels of malt
and barley owned by An ert Schwill IL
Co. of Chicago.
Martha Bolt, the 1S-year-old daughter
of John Bolt living one and one-half
miles west Of Abrams. was accidentally
shot by the discharge of a shotgun in the
hands of her younger brother, who was
cleaning it, not knowing it was loaded.
The shot hit her in the right side of her
forehead. There is very little hope en-
tertained for her recovery.
Dan Avery, the negro who shot and
killed his sweetheart, Ray Davis, at Ke-
1
the police refused to turn him over to
the Wisconsin authorities. The officers
say Avery tallies perfectly with a man
wanted elsewhere for murder, and they
will hold him pending inquiry. Avery says
he killed the woman because she bad
once tried 10 poison him.
Forest fires are burning near Middle
Inlet, and thousands of dollars worth of
property is in danger of destruction. The
large farm house, barn and granary of
f. Vankeuran was burned the other day
and the lumber ward of George Dillon.
Every woman and child fought fire with
buckets Of water. The fires were start
ed by farmers clearing land. and, as there
has been little rain for weeks, the flames
Travelled rapidly.
Sheriff Reinhardt and District Attor-
ney Thomas returned to J1au Claire from
northern Polk County, where they ar
rested John Roche, q hDmesteader near
the St. Croix river, On the charge of
murder of LUXE Schneider, whose skele-
ton was recently found at Coon Fork,
near Augusta, and identified by his
widow, who lives with her nine children
near Humbird. Schneider met his death
on or about June -, 1898.
BY decision of the Supreme Court.
which reverses the decision Of the Circuit
Court. George Yeiser of Beloit retains
the possession of the Slaymaker farm,
for " ch a bill of sale was given him by
the trustees of the estate. Certain of
the heirs of Emanuel G. Reigert brought
suit to set aside the sale. claiming that
the trustees had no valid right to sell.
The property involved was farm valued
at $500 Mr.. Yeiser is the widower of
M. Slaymaker's widow.
Otto Wenzel. the man who shot the al
Legged insane man near Wausaukee. has
! been bound over to Circuit Court at Mar
inette on the charge of murder. On the
examination it was proven that the de-
ceased wes shot first through the leg and
then four times in the back as he was
running away. This discovery has caus-
| ed a sensation 1t has been ascertained
| that the alleged insane man was George
| Arnold. son of Philip Arnold, living at
| Kewaunee. The father is wealthy man.
At Berlin Stanislaus Pozodo shot VIII
| lie Brown, 14-year-oid son of David
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