Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-04-30

I North Point, pulled Otto Borchart out af
I the lake Borchart jumped in with the
evident intention of committing suicide
The strike in he Thilmany paper mill
/ at Kaukaana. the largest tissue mill in
/ the world. has been settled This ends
I tte labor troubles In the Fox River val
ley.
The S-year.old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Pagan was burned to death
at Shell Lake while playing near pile
1 of burning rubbish. She was burned be-
| yond = srate OF recognition.
Fire destroyed the Daniel Shaw Lun-
Der Company's barn in Eau Claire.
! TwenU-six horses. logging outfit. fifty
/ tons of hay aud other contents were de-
/ stroyed The loss is $4,000.
The G-year-old son of Frank Bittler
! of Prairie du CHEN was. shot in the an
! domen and playmate. aged II, injured
about the face by the discharge of az old
rusty gun barrel which they had found
in back yard.
| Anton Smith. a farmer Ewing several
| miles above La Crosse, Oh the Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Paul road was killed
| by the fast mail train. just how the
accident happened will never be known,
| but a suicide theory is advanced.
farmers fcud growing out of claims
of Fred Schlabaeh 10 use wagon road
crossing a farm owned by the Williams
brothers. situated in Pine Greek valley,
| eliminated in tgkt al Inch Schlabach
received what may prove fatal injuries.
At 0gdenshurg the 4-year-old child of
! Albert Stria',ach was playing cut in the
field with its father, who was burning
brush. when its dress caught fire and be-
fore It could be extinguished the cloth
ing had burned almost entirely from it's
body.
Mayor-elect IL. S. Gilmore of Beaver
Dam was severely injured at his farm.
While showing how TO run roller he
fell aud the roller passed over him.
Though his injuries will confne him for
some time yet he hopes to be able TO
take his seat May q.
An unknown man was instantly killed
at Burlington by a Wisconsin Central
train. He was refused passage on the
through train because 1t did not stop
Mt his destination. He then walked
down the tracks, and it is thought he
was accidentally run over.
The executive committee of the Inter
national Oratorical League at a meeting
held at Stevens Point decided that Am
brose C. Grace of Milwaukee had been
guilty of plagiarism in his oration upon
Alexander Hamilton. which won the see
~, IL
Superior.
The first death of the season from
jumping the rope was recorded at La
Crosse. the victim being little 9-year-old
Gretchen Henschel. She jumped a hun
bred. as the little girls reckon it, and
| then complained of a severe headache and
laid down in the house. She died in a
few minutes.
Because he had been discharged for
negligence to duties. Frank Roska. an
Italian, drew a stiletto and fatally stab
bed Edward Francis. foreman of the
Belle City Malleable iron works in Ba-
! cine. Francis was stabbed in the back,
the assailant approaching him from be-
| hind. Roska lied.
Lille Smith, pretty Chicago girl who
| disappeared from that city several
months ago, was found by her mother in
| Racine. She was engaged as servant
! girl 1t developed that' when she left
home she followed young Racine man
whom she loved. She was taken home.
Her parents are wealthy.
In three different ways Ella Murphy,
4 negres-. tried to end her life in the
West Superior city Jail. where she was
held awaiting a hearing First she tried
to cut her throat wi IA hatpin but fail
ed Then she wra pped herself tight in
the bed clothing aud set fire to it. trying
10 burn up. The smell OF smoke drew
the attention Of the officers and the wom-
an received Slight injuries. She then
tried to hang herself with a hair ribbon.
but the officers heard her choking and
cut her down in time.
The labor supply and demand in Wis.
consin run about equal. according to the
records of the free en- ploy 4aent bureaus
at Milwaukee and Superior. established
July 1. 1901, under act of the last Leg
stature. In a total of over 6000 each
Of applications for employment and APP
plications for help filed with the bureaus
during the forty-one weeks of their cX-
istence ending April 10. there were 6, 1873
applications for help. The positions filed
numbered J,149 there being ,0f0 APP
plications for employment and 96S appli-
cations for help untitled.
The supreme Court Of Wisconsin gave
d black eye 10 the many schemes to CON
meet Milwaukee and Chicago with an in
terurban electric railway in a decision
affirming the decision of rae lower court
granting an injunction TO Mary Hale Al
len against the kenOsha Street Railway
Company. The substance of the decis-
ion is that any owner of property abut-
ting on the tracks of the company can
have it restrained from operating or com
PEELED to remove It's tracks aud poles. The
court decided that the franchise was
valueless because the grantees had failed
to perform a condition precedent to the
obtaining Of any rights under the fran
chise in fniiing to file guaranty com
pany's bond approved by the Mayor OF
the city before Aug /. 1900 At the
present time the road is ready for opera
zion. but with this decision Of the court
there is nothing left for the company to
do except to pull NJ the tracks or secure
a new franchise.
Three children Of Even Medium. a
GARNER of Lewis Valley. were buried in
the same coffin Two Of them were twins
and all were quite small. The trio were
taken i'll with lung trouble about the
same time and died Al almost the same
time.