Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-03-26

| Fire broke out IN the undergrad Of the
| Eland Traffic Company. destroying about
500, 600 feet of lumber
The Park Hotel at KiIburn was de-
stroyed by fire. The los is 5000. part
I ~ covered By insurance.
Rey. J. d. Brothers. one of the pioneer
Methodist ministers of northern Wiscon
sin, died at Menomonie. aged 20 years.
Students of Racine College put out n
fire in the college laundry which threat
ened to destroy all the buildings on tho
campus.
The mewng aud coughing of a eat
saved the family Of Henry Barthold from
death by asphyxiation from coal gas IN
La Crosse.
+. F. Mansfield has secured a fran
chise for electric lights at Seymour. He
has the city all wired and expects to have
plant running by April II.
Christian Book, aged 6S years. Ger
man residing five miles northwest Of
Pittsvlle. committed suicide by hanging.
He had been ill for year or more
The molders at the plant of Fairbanks.
Morse & Co. in Beloit have returned 20
work The basis of Il e settlement is
secret. Several hundred men were af-
fected.
While removing shells from double
barreled, breech-loading shotgun Frank
Riemstoc' Of Racine, aged ID years, shot
and killed his 7-year-old sister, Emma
Renistock.
Peter Jacobs, 30 years of age an en-
ploye of the Kenosha Pure lee Company,
~,
ban railroad tracks He says he was
beaten and robbed.
Patton & Millel, architects of Chicago
have been commissioner to draw the
plans for the new Stephenson library at
Marinette, to cost $4,000 Work will be-
gin in about a month.
August Ebert Of the town of Pres ton
was shot by the accidental discharge of
his gun, while hunting. Part of the
charge penetrated his chest and also one
eye, destroying the sight.
Frank Lynch of Mazomanie. who
pleaded guilty to forging his brothers
name to a draft for S119. was sentenced
to year in the State refOrmatory His
mother refunded the amount of the draft.
The second bank to be organized in the
new county of Gates has been recently
opened at Bruce with paid-up capital of
$1,000; William A. Blackburn. cashier.
1t is to be known as the Bank of Bruce.
George Yue president of the Balm
wagon works, sent to the i1i-ilding COM
mittee of the First Baptist Church a
| check for 5000 as his contribution to
the fund now being raised for the cree
ton of the new church building in Re
nosha.
Three men were killed and one was in
jured in boiler explosion that destroyed
Wheeler Gavitt's sawmill near Gallon.
The explosion hurled pieces of machinery
and parts of the mill 800 yards. The
cauSe was an insufficient quantity of wat
err in the boiler.
Mrs. Julia Hart, wife Of John Hart
of Steuben. was brought before Judge
Curran at Prairie du Chen to be eX-
| amined as to her sanity Several years
ago she tried to end her life by taking
poison and later swallowed package of
sewing needle. by mixing them in bread.
Fire ut Fond du Lac almost complete
| y destroyed the wooden block of build
| ings on the west side of Main street,
| owned by William Clancy and NJ. NJ. An
derson and occupied by the Kietlow
Bros cigar factory and store. the Sum
merfield barber shop and the Ideal res
tuurant, owned and operated by Mrs. r..
T. Case.
According to the returns made by
county registers of deeds to Secretary of
State Froehlich, the total number of
births in Wisconsin in 1901 was nearly
I In, bc f,racaIiVee Tho
| greatest decrease was in Winnebago
County, which reports a falling off Of
| nearly 100 per cent The number of mar
riages increased 800 and the deaths 40.
The badly decomposed body of man
was found by hunters in the Mississippi
river. mile below Prairie du Chen. 1t
was identified as Peter Holley, who dis
| appeared suddenly last October from All.
ren's dairy farm. where he was employ
ed. and had not been heard from since.
! The general impression is that Holley
was murdered for S12 which he had just
received for his wages.
! Two masked robbers tried to rob w. f..
| Hallenbacll at Dunbar. He was alone in
! his sitting room when he heard someone
step up on his porch and rap. He picked
| mp a pair of large shears and went to
| the door. On opening il one of the rob
bers showed a revolver in his face and
told him to hold up his hands. He
struck at the fellow and then slammed
the door shut. The robbers were evi-
deptIy green at the business.
The grand total of logs brought down
on the Menominee this year will show Il
shrinkage if over S0.000000 feet from
last years total The estimate of logs
| banked 'on the Menominee river and
branches during this season. as shown by
the Menominee River Boom Company s
report. is 149. 2S0,1S1 feet This is based
on the scale up to March 1. Compared
With the palmy days. when Io0,O0O,0OO
ieet floatcd down in a single season, this
years output seems ridicuhIusly small.
Will Ripple of New Abba. brakeman
on the Chicago. milwaukee, and St Paul
road. was saved from cert2in death at
La Crosse by his watch. The conductor.
fireman aud Ripe used a coal pick as a
lever to loosen q tight brake. and when
the brake !ooseued the former two lost
their hold, both jumping out of the way
| Rippe was not so fortunate, and the iron
bar few around, cutting Il deep cash in
his side. He carries his watch in a Pc
cularly large leather case and this stop
ped the blow. else the. bar would have
gone through him.
When William Heating, a newspaper
man employed by the Oshkosh Times. a