Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-21


isoii has offered 70 settle with creditor.
at 40 cents on the dollar.
Postmaster George w. Smith Of Ear
Claire was recommended al Washington
By Representative Esch for reappoils
ment.
r. Helm. a homesteader near Three
Lakes, while engaged in saving a tree
down was struck by a falling limb and
killed.
Two bullets from mysterious source
entered the windows of John Humberg
at La Crosse, narrowly missing his
daughter Edna.
A building owned by the Rusk estate
was badly damaged by fire at Chippewa
Falls. The millinery stock of Mrs.
Brooks was ruiHed. Fire loss is 5000.
Arthur Montange and Charles An
drews were discovered unconscious froE'
escaping gas in d. C. Tanners mill in
Baraboo. Both were saved with diff
Guilty.
Fire damaged the stock and building of
the New York store in Racine to the ex-
tent of $4,000 Irs. NJ. Sklute. owner
of the store, says her stock was worth
S35. 900.
G. w. Hanson, station agent for the
Milwaukee road at DuplainyilIe, was
struck and killed while riding on his rail-
way yelocipede about mile east of Pc
waukee.
AT North Fond du Lac James la Flure
was seriously burned about the face and
hands by the explosion of coal gases
that had accumulated in the furnace in
his house 10
Christian Barber, aged "A years. of
| Greenfield, was given a coal stove for a
Christmas present, and, not understand
ing how to regulate it. was suffocated by
the fumes.
Professional cracksmen opened the
safe in the store of John Hagens, south
Of Brandon, and secured $500. Last SUM
mer the same store was robbed of $500
worth of goods.
The servant girls of Oshkosh have re-
Gently organized secret union. The
| object of the union is not for higher
wages, at least at present, but for self
protection against hard mistresses.
Carl Bluhm. an employee of the James
| vile Barb Wire Company, had a darning
needle three inches long removed from
his thigh Bluhm is supposed to have
taken the needle into his body through
his mouth.
A runaway team of horses crashed into
a Washington avenue street ear in Ra-
cine, seriously injuring $. +. Christian
son, the motorman, killing one of the
| horses, wrecking the car and creating
panic among the passengers.
A rural free delivery route will be es-
/ TutliSl,nA Eab Mt (Nt1rfigC with nna car
rier. The route embraces an area of %
square miles, containing population Of
AT. The postof1ces at Justin, Hallway
and Ralph are to be discontinued
| During the annual ball given by La
Crosse knights Of Pythias, pickpockets,
supposed to have worn dress suits and
posing as guests at the affair. stole jew
els, valuable furs and trinkets to the
amount of several hundred. dollars.
| The opening of the Hillsboro and
| Northeastern Railway was celebrated by
| 5000 visitors At 6 o'clock a procession
| formed at the depot and marched
through the principal streets of Hillsboro,
headed by bands. There was a display
OF fireworks
| Matthias Kapellan, shoe dealer at
| Neillsyille, has filed a petition in bank
/ ruptcy with the clerk of the United
! States Court at La Crosse. He schedules
his liabilities at $46,63711 and his assets
amount to SLABS. Many firms through
out the State are involved in the loss
The large store Of the Beaver Dam
Lumber Company at Cumberland was
completely Quilted by fire, entailing a
loss Of $1,000, partially covered by insur-
ance The blaze was started in the dress
making department by a girl who poured
gasoline into an oil stove instead of kero-
senes
| Two trains have been put ON the Wis
| consin Valley division of the Milwaukee
road for the conveyance OF logs from Star
lake to the mills of the Chippewa Falls
Log and Boom Company at Chippewa
Falls. distance of 22S miles This is
the longest haul ever attempted in the
State since the transportation of logs by
rail was first begun.
| One of the pet dogs Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hans Olson, living nine miles from Ra-
cine. attacked their 5-year-old daughter,
| tearing one of her arms terribly, biting
flesh out of her side and decorating her
cheek A 15-year-old brother of the girl
happened to discover the dog tearing the
child to pieces Securing pitchfork
he went at the beast, which turned on
him. After a fight of fifteen minutes the
boy killed the dog without having been
bitten once The girl will recover
Gov. p. NJ. La Toilette was inaugural
ed for his second term as Governor of
the State of Wisconsin at exactly II
o'clock Monday. 1.-The ceremony took
place in the Assembly chamber of the
State capitol. which was packed to its
utmost capacity, fully 100 people be-.
lug present, while 500 more stood cut
side in he corridors. The oath of Office
was administered by Chief Justice Cas-
soday of the Supreme Court Following
the Governor the new State officers We're
sworn in in turn. and after this ceremony
each took the seat occupied formerly by
the former incumbents of the respective
offices.
W. Ii. Bradley the wealthy lumber
man. who married his private secretary.
Mary Hannemyer, died at Milwaukee.
Mr.. Bradley was taken i'll some weeks
ago. He went to attend the funeral of
his first wife, who died about the mid
die of November, and was taken sick
with liver trouble. Mr.. Bradley was
horn in Maine sixty-hve years ago, and
came West when Wisconsin was young
State. He began numbering in a small
way at Oshkosh, and then formed a com
pany and began operations near Muske-
gon. Mich. Estimates of his wealth run
from S3,O00.O00 TO S10.000,000, Mr..
| Rraftiev was the founder of the town of