Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-01-08

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Mrs Frank Grimmer was held up az
Chippewa Falls and robbed of a gold
ring and So The robber escaped.
Rudolph Schroeder, welI-known
young man Of Wrightstown, was killed
whilaat work in lumber camp a Wells,
Mich.
At Mequon Otto Norbuek, aged 32 I'M
married, was accidentally shot and killed
while cleaning his gun in preparation for
hunting trip.
Mrs b. juneau, i widow living at the
Cary mine, Hurley. was found dead in
her bed. Death was evidently caused by
heart disease.
The s-year-old daughter of John w.
Rhodes Of West Superior was shot and
killed by her older brother. The affair
was entirely accidental.
The sawmill of Isaac Rund Of Pound
was totally destroyed by fire, causing 4
loss If $4,000, with no insurance. The
nre vas Of incendiary origin.
Elmer Bonnie was killed in saloon
fight in j. B. Gouelett's place at Rhine
lander. The authorities are endeavoring
to locate the man who fred the shot.
While hunting in the woods at Ne
koosa with other boys Guy Gorstcin, aged
Is years. accidentally shot and fatally
wounded himself The whole charge of
shot entered his abdomen.
With the price of lumber higher than
in previous years, there seems to be lit
tie demand for woodsmen this winter.
Lumberjacks and teams are waiting for
an opportunity to go into the woods.
Judge Bum of the federal court at
Madison has entered a decree directing
the public sale in about a month of all
the property, real and personal, of the
Superior Consolidated Land Company
valued at 100000
The 2-year-old child of Herman Witt
died at Sturgeon Bay from the effects
of scalding. While the mother was out
hanging up clothes the little one pulled
the plug out of the patent washing ma
chine. The scalding water poured over
the head. face and chest of the child, who
was parboied and died in awful agony.
Sheriff Johnson arrested Il man by the
name of Elengreen, who resided with
Mr.. Gronquist near Deer Lake, and took
him to Balsam Lake to be examined as
to his sanity, as la.er he proved TO be
violently insane He had one of his spells
| late in the afternoon. He secured a small
| piece of maple stove wood and cut his
| throat from ear to ear and died few
moments later.
George Priest, formerly of Prairie du
| Chen, met with a terrible accident AT
| Vinton, Iowa. He was a brakeman on
| the why freight on the main line of the
Burlington. Cedar Rapids and Northern
Railway and while at work in the yards
at Vinton slipped on the lee, falling I'M
| der a moving car, which passed over both
| legs, practically seyering the left from
| the body. He was taken to Cedar Rap
ids, where both legs are to be ampu-
| tated.
Charles Hoekenbrock, son of Aid. John
Hockenbrock of Chippewa Falls, whc
suddenly disappeared from his home
| eight years ago at the age of ii years
| returned to his home while the family
| were seated at the supper table the other
| night He had been given up for dead
no word having been received from him
| since his departure. For the past three
! years he has been serving as a private
| in Company II, Twenty-third United
| States infantry, in the Philippine Islands
! Frank Rause is man. OF that the
| postal authorities and Milwaukee police
! are satisfied. His golden hair is a part
| of the effects which he uses in his bust
ness as Rause said himself. He still
maintains his innocence of the crime
| charged against him and holds to his as
| sertion that all he knew of the jewelry
| or woman was that the latter hired hin
| to go to the former. The postal authoFi
ties are at work trying to locate Rause
or Mrs. Saunders" while the game was
| being worked at Randolph.
The town of tranklin is under water
| because III an artesiar well on the farm
| of L. Busch The season has been NJ
unusually dry one and the residents wer,
| praying for rain there. Water was Sc
scarce that Busch started to drill an ar
| tesain well and had bored down 237 fee
/ before any result was obtained. Then {
| gusher spouted a column of water thirty
| feet high and six inches thick, and it ha'
/ been running without cessation evel
since. The whole surrounding country
has become a lake and all the farms il
| the neighborhood are under water.
The GOODNESS of priest saved st
| Jam IS Roman Catholic Church in Keno
sha from destruction by fire and prevent
ed Z panic while mass was being eele
brated. The church was crowded. WheI
| the priest was at the main altar the dec
orations in front of st. Josephs ALTA
caught fire and began to burn, Many o
the congregation started on il run for th'
| door, bet the priest signaled the choir t,
| continue the music, and he proceeded
| with the mass many of the people kneel
ing at his example A number Of mc1
near the front of he church rushed int
the chance and ex.inguished the flames
| The altar was badl. damaged and tht
| large arch in front of It was destroyed.
Tho first steps to tesS the validity O
| the lee TAX law passed nv the last Wis
consn Legislature were iken in Racine
when Henry Rossmiller of Burlington
| superintendent of the F,nickerbocker Ic
Company of Chicago was arrested OF
| complaint ef Chief Of Police Fred Pts
ter on a charge of having cut - car Loaf
| of ice from Browns lake and shipped j
to the Hagel Ice Company OF Chicago
TIE ice companies claim that the law j.
not constitutional. and the Governor o
the State and Attorney General claim
| that 1t is constitutional The case vii
| be carried to the Supreme Court. Their
are shipped every winter ont of the STAT
| 1000. 900 tons Of ice, and If tax j
! legal the treasury viii receive Sl00,o0
year
Eriek Klung. who resides two and
half miles northeast of OSceola, kille'