Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-02

dead.
Henry Smith Pritchctt Of Boston has
been chosen as president of the Dniyer-
/ sity Of Wisconsin to succeed Charles
Kendall Adams.
Gustave Husting. brother Of Pete
Husting, the crack American League
! pitcher, sustained a fracture Of a leg IN
ball game at Mayyille.
ii. II. Rand of Wisconsin has been APP
| pointed assistant superintendent Of the
/ salary and allowance bureau Of the Post
Office Department in Washington.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg has started for
Havana to take up his duties as ernsul
general. He was joined at Chicago by
his private secretary, Harry H. Robbins
Of Madison.
/ The Stevens Point Textile Starch and
| Gum Company has been declared insol-
vent The failure is said to be due 10
| the high price of potatoes during the
past few years.
Charles Jensen, aged 10 years. was
attacked by strange dog near his home
at Racine and terribly bitten. The dog
was driven off after hard light. Phy-
sieians state that the boy will live.
Mrs. frankie Willis. wife of w ii.
| Willis. barber in Chicago. pleaded gull
| ty at Racine to the charge of horse
stealing and was sentenced 10 serve two
years in the peniteRtlary at Waupun.
Charles A. Moves. ageut of the Mil
waukee road at Kilbogrn, f'ed Of heart
! failure. Mr.. Noyes was one u the old
est agents in the employ Of the company,
having held the Kilbourn position since
1868.
Fide1 Kneifel of New Burgh Corners
| is dead, the result Of drinking pail and
half of water kneifel. who was 80
years old. fell from barn some time ago
and afterward he displayed queer antics
at times.
A letter from Senator Quarles states
that there is now no doubt that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and portion of his cab
met. together with the Wisconsin corr
gressional delegation, will visit La Crosse
Sept. %.
At Osceola while Oscar Fisk's G-year-
old son and another boy aged IL were
playing with rifle, Fisk's boy was shot
through the stomach, the ball passing
clear through, and it is feared the boy
win die from the wound.
At Hurley. in fight between half a
dozen Finlanders, Jacob MENDOZA shot
| and fatally wounded a man whose name
is unknown MENDOZA lied to the woc's,
but was captured and lodged in jail, abe
Firms came from Ironwood-
Arvey and Hobart Eimerman brothers,
aged IA years and 8 years, We're run
down by a Wells street electric car on
EtheWauwatosa line at Milwaukee and
instantly killed. The boys were crossing
the track on their way to a swim.
The Amigo Manufacturing Company's
saw mill and staye factory at Kent was
destroyed BY ire. The origin of the fire
is unknown but it is believed TO have
caught from sparks which came from the
woods where farmers were burning
brush.
Albert Behling of Pound. while remov-
ing a double-bitted ak from the handle
was struck in the eye by piece OF iron
from the ak. Blood poisoning set in
and he had to go to Milwaukee and have
the injured eye removed in order 10 save
the other one.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. J. Steuerwald Of Che
boygan. left for Albany, n. Y, upon re-
ceiving the announcement of the death
of their daughter Alice. she being in
stantly killed by fall The young lady
was a member of a theatrical company
playing in Albany.
l.. r. Hastings, who has been agent
for the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
road in Neenah for several years, has
resigned his position and left for Suwa-
nee. Tenn. where he will enter the Uni
versity of the South and study for 0taeis
in the Episcopal Church.
Laurence V. Frazier of Viola sradu-
ated from West p int Military Academy
with high honors. He Fanked among
the first seven for his four years work.
As a result of his good work he is entitled
to position in the engineers corps with
salary of 81 500 per year.
John Lindahl. an employee of one Of the
railroad construction camps near Chippe-
wa Falls. while returning to the camp
fell from the Wisconsin Central Rail
road bridge upon a pier. six feet down.
This saved him from falling into the
river below and going over the fails.
Charles Mishank. employed as lumber
piler in the yards of George f. Wood at
Woodhoro. waited until the mill whistles
blew at o'clock on recent night he
fore he committed suicide by cutting his
throat from ear 10 ear. Some fellow
workmen in the yard saw the man fall to
Z ground and when they reached his
side they found that he had ended his
life
Charlie Woodman. a young business
man of Niagara went to Marinette on an
excursion alone He returned with Miss
Wnnifred O'Connell of Marinette rs his
bride The young couple had been post
poning their wedding on account Of par
entail objection. bur the groom, like
young Lochinvar, stole his bride away
and went to Mcneminee where the cere-
mony was performed by a priest. and
they returned to the grooms home man
and wife
Axy Walker, the 15-year-old girl who
was drowned with her companion Maude
Moore. in the mill pond az Kingston. fore
told her death and the death of her
friend several months ago She predict
ed at the time that she and her friend
would die together. Some time ago. when
a girl friend was visiting her. she made
a will in which she disposed "f ner be-
longings to friends and relatives and also
appointed her pall-hearerS. The docu-
ment she gave to the girl TO keep for
her until she was dead.
Miss Sarah Adamson, well known in
Kcnosha society. announces that she win
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