Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-07

WAS cnAFEeu Win the tAtAl VI Il uiSSSiS'
Herman Heese, murderer of Helmuth
Bergmann committed suicide by hang
ing in the county jail at Milwaukee. He
used long towel, tying it around his
neck and fastening it to the upper bunk
of his cell.
The ST. Mary's parsonage, the home OF
Rev. Dean William White, was destroy
ed by fire at La Crosse. His niece. Ma
mic White. was overcome by gas and
smoke and only rescued by hremen
plunging through the flames.
When Mr.. and Mrs. August Post Of
Brodhead awoSe the other morning they
found their 1-yeur-old boy dead between
them. The little child had been in good
health when his parents retired. The
cause of the sudden death is not known.
John Smith Of Dudley had both legs
cut off in his fathers mill ut that place
and died N the afternoon from his IN
juries. In stopping over to pick up
stick he accidentally pushed lever
which started the saw and he was pulled
to it by chain.
A combine is said to have been formed
by the Retail Merchants Association If
GAINESVILLE to ship all their freight over
the Milwaukee road. During the last
month the Northwestern has taken many
families from GAINESVILLE and sent them
to Fond du Lac.
frankie Bittner, the 6-year-Old son of
Aid. Frank Bittner, who was wounded
in the abdomen by the explosion Of a
dynamite cartridge with which he was
playing and hit with hammer, died at
Prairie du Chen The little fellow suf-
fered intense pain until the end came.
At Gratiot FIVE buildings were destroy
ed and sever ! others damaged by hire.
The loss is es,imated at $4,000. Among
the property losses are Ganshirt Broth
ers. furniture and harness store: Kate
Troy. millinery; Brannan & Kerwan,
meat market; John Marriott, drug store;
Masonic lodge, C. NJ. Lund. general
store: j z. McCully, saloon; Collins u
Son, hardware.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs Ullrich Leger at Elmore was
rudely broken up by the death of Mrs.
Leger. Two hundred guests had assem-
bled to assis' in celebrating the event.
The aged couple We're pas ling into the
dining room. receiving the congratula-
tions of guests, when the excitement
proved too much for Mrs, Leger, and she
was stricken by paralysis, expiring two
hours later.
Relatives of C. J. Worth, proprietor of
a general store in Wheatland, have re-
ceiyed a telegram stating that he had
been found dead on the street in Du-
buque Iowa. Mr.. Worth left Wheatland
to go to Chicago IL purchase goods, and
since that time no word lad been heard
from him. 1t is thought that he became
the victim of Chicago sharpers, who lur-
ed him to Dubuque, where he was rob-
bed and murdered. He had a considera-
bic sum of money with him when he left
Kenosha.
The revelations of Supervisor Of As
sessment Winter and his deputies, L..
Kleebcr and +. II. A. Nye, to the effect
that they have unearthed over $1,000
600 worth of untaXed mortgages in La
Crosse County. has caused quite a stir
in the community. and the attempts to
enforce the tax will be fought by some
of the mortgage holders. They claim
that the new law taxing farm mortgages
is in fact double taxation, and they will
resist on that theory. 1t will increase
the revenue Of the county $4,000.
w II. Hamilton OF W atertown, \. .;
| an organizer of the United bfothefhool
of Paper Makers who has been WORK
ing in Eau Claire anu elsewhere IN tH ne
State, was arrested ana paced IN Jau
there wiliie on ms Why ~ 'ne D e,,;.aav
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TONS
Receiver Frost Of the Washbnrn and
Bayfield, Raii%aT was gwen PERMISSION
in the federal court al Maaison 10 a1-