Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-03-05

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Gen. Edward s. Bragg of Fond du
Lac. sole surviving commander of the
old Iron Brigade. celebrated his seventy
fifth birthday the other day.
Jacob Daniels. a prominent farmer of
Brighton. and Henry Richter and John
Tsenbert of Burlington were each fined
$50 aud costs for breaking the game
laws.
Edgar Thornbury and Miss Ella
Kratchwill. two young La Crosse society
people. were secretly welded at Vino
ma. 1t was a great surprise even TO the
parents.
Richard Asby, aged Is. son of r. d.
Asby. a Racine merchant, was accident
ally shot while duck hunting. He lost
several fingers and the left side of his
face is badly torn.
The house and barn and all their con
tents belonging to George Chefiings, ST.,
farmer living one mile west Of Hickory
postotiice, burned. causing a loss of ST.
200. with no insurance.
], Madison has sued the La Crosse Gas
and Electric Company for $1,000 for in
juries alleged to have been sustained by
falling in hole near the gas plant. He
wheeled ashes for the company.
The Chiffon House one of the oldest
buildings in Chiffon or in the State, will
soon be torn down to give place TO a
modern structure that business men of
that place propose to erect on the site.
Eugene Reible of Farmersvile. while
in Mayville, had a runaway at Furnace
bridge; the rig upset and hurled him and
his son oul Of the vehicle Mr.. Reible
broke his leg and the boy was badly
/ bruised
Alice Bortel. who is only IA years old,
was granted Il divorce from Arthur Bor-
| tel. and allowed to resume her maiden
name of Gaffery. She lived at Eau Claire
and was secretly married to Bortel. He
| deserted her.
Mrs. Mary Fernctte. aged 81, and
pioneer of Prairie du Chen. died at the
home of her son at st. Paul. She is
mourned by a husband. eight children,
126 grandchildren and thirty-eight great
grandchildren.
| Eau Claire has received the agreement
of Andrew Carnegie to give 100000 for
a library. with the usual proviso that 10
! per cent of the amount donated be APP
| nropriated annually by the city. and that
| th, citv give a site.
! BY way of Lenten sacrifice. a num-
! bcr of the young men of Brillion have
| bound themselves to novel agreement.
| None of them are to shave until Easter
| Monday. If the compact is violated, the
| guilty one or ones will be compelled to
! pay the barber bills of all the rest for a
month.
Cilus Brunncn one of the shipping
gang of the Case Threshng Machine
| Company in Racine. was fatally injured
at the plant while loading machines on
Hat cars. He was struck on the fore
head with the handle of a windlass and
! his skull. from temple to temple was
| fractured.
Mrs Catherine Titus Of Coleman. the
mother of seven children. has been COM
mitted to the asylum. Her mania took
| the form of desire 10 set the beds afire
and she would have cremated all her chill
dren had it not been for neighbors, who
| discovered the blaze and put it out be-
fore much damage was done.
Joseph the 12-year-old son of John
Andres a farmer living near Marshfeld,
accidentally shot and killed his 9-year-old
| sister Mary. He was carrying double
| barreled shotgun down the stairs and
when at the bottom the gun discharged
! blowing off the top of his sisters head.
| The girl was standing nj the opposite side
Of the room and was instantly killed.
Abraham Thorne. a farmer residing
about seven miles north Of Waukesha
made a startling discovery while chopping
| down a dead tree on his property. The
tree was a hollow oak and had been de-
void Of life for many years. After it
| had been feled Mr.. T'horne walked to
| the short stump which remained standing
and was Mortified to see a skeleton Of a
! little child enclosed by the wood The
! body must have been laid in its hiding
| place scores of years ago. and it is not
| unlikely that ii was that of an Indian
| rapoose placed in the hollow trunk of
! tree % keep it from the ravages of wild
/ beasts A few glass beads are reported
to have been found near the crumbling
! bones.
| Swapping like mad dog Ernest Olson,
night marshil Of the village Of Kalesville.
was committed to the Mendoza insane
asylum crazed from the effects of hu-
man bite AIout two weeks ago Olson
arrested Henry Prenker for being drunk.
/ Brenker was fined the following morning
and few days later he was again arrest
! ed on the same charge. While on the
way to the lookup Brenker bit Olson in
| the hand. Nothing was thought of the
| injury until several days afterward, when
| the wound began to swell. Olson was
! taken violently Ill and showed signs Of
/ in sanity. The other night he sprang from
/ his bed and ran into the street. tcrroriz-
| ing The villagers. He presented a CHASTITY
| appearance. foam triokling from his lips.
! II -equired six men to take him back 10
| his home.
Fire did several hundred dollars worth
of damage in the meat market Of Butt
mann Bros. at Oshkosh. The store Of
Rouse & Son and the house Of Henry
! Buttmann were also damaged
Sidney A. Sage. former wealthy Ra
cine citizen and politician, was attacked
and severely stabbed in the face. head
| and breast at Chicago by Michael Bern,
| his wife's former husband. who was once
well-known railroad man. 1t is said
! that Bern called al the Sage fiat 20 see
| his daughter and a row ensued. IN which
he cut Sage with his pocketknife. He
made his escape
\ head-on collision between two
! freight trains occurred on the Northwest
! ern road near Summit Lake. Fred Ly-
ons and Roy AIiddaugh. hrakeueu. and
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