Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-12-02

! Judge Baensch of Manitowoc has for
( mally consented TO become a candidate
4 for the Republican nomination for Gov
4 ernor against Gov. La Toilette
Nikoli Opaeicu, an Austrian. - years
| of age. who formerly resided in Milwau-
/ kee. WIS asphySiated in room in the
! Sterling Hotel in kenosha. 1t Is sup
posed that the death was accidental.
! Revenue officials have discovered that
/ at least 135 Wisconsin cheese factories
are engaged i'll the illicit manufacture of
! whey butter. which is largely sold in
Chicago at half the price of the pure
! article
! W. ID. Clarke. aged 81, and his wife
were struck by the passenger train run
ming between Milton and Davis Junction.
Mr.. Clarke is very deaf and did not
hear the train. The carriage in which
they were riding was demolished
At meeting Of the Baraboo City
Council it was decided to appoint board
! of appraisers. who shall value the water
works plant at not more than 100000,
nor less than $4,000. and shall not take
| the value of the franchise into consid-
Grafton.
To the long list Of hunters shot while
| in pursuit Of deer in northern Wisconsin
and the Michigan peninsula in seven days
/ are added the names of julius Wyman.
! killed by the accidental discharge Of his
| gun while hunting near Rush. and Frank
! Grevoch, fatally woundel while hunting
near Lanark.
| For the second time recently the IL
rich building and the three-story block at
Fourth and Main streets were burned in
La Crosse. The loss is about $4,000.
! The principal losers are the He'll Shoe
| Company, $4,000, and the owner of the
| buildings, $4,000. The fire started in
a vacant apartment. The Ulrieh build
| ing was once occupied by Brick" Pome-
roy.
| Captain George Rreckenfeld, aged G.
| years, one of the brayest and best known
| life ssyers on the chain of lakes. has
retired MS captain Of the Racine life
saving crew on account of long service
| and age Captain Breckenfeld has been
| in the United States life-sayins service
| over twenty yeirs. During his service -
| Racine eighty-fix lives were saved. He
is to be succeed ed by Captain Gus Luf-
burg
Officers Wlipple, Rohel and Qualmin
| had an exciting running fight with two
| burglars who had stolen n lot OF furs
from &. Il. Pages store in Beloit Two
( of tie officers came across the robbers in
an alley ani gave them a chase and many
shots were exchanged. After running
the robbers along the river bank and
| through the railway yards the trace of
ths men was lost and it is supposed they
| escaped on train.
Matthew Murphy. of Benton. who died
recently. by his will gives seventy per
cent of his estate for the purpose of
| building a court house for La Fayette
| County The estate is estimated at $780,
| 600. which would give the county $123,-
600 T. c. J.. Maekey, cashier of the
| First National Bank of Darlington, is
named executor. The remaining 30 per
cent of the estate is to be divided among
| relatives and friends
The marriage of w. J. Zimmers, as
sstant city attorney of Milwaukee, and
| Miss Meta Borchert was the elimination
of romance N which the usual condi-
tions were reversed. The attachment
began last summer a. Elkhart lake, when
Miss Borchert saved Mr.. Zimmers from
drowning He was giving an exhibition
of his swimming prowess and became ex-
hausted and she brought him to shore.
The engagement was announced soon
after.
Miss Katie Kinney, aged II years.
swallowed strychnine in GAINESVILLE with
evident suicidal intent. DIR. Merritt saw
81 her life Hazel Miller, chum Of
Miss Kinney. a few days ago tried to end
her life in the same way. She took NOR
phine and was saved. Both girls belong
to good families and are of a coterie who
are inseparable companions. The Miller
girl went with Miss Kinney when she
bought the poison and the authorities are
working on the theory that a suicide club
has been formed among these young girls.
The girls will not admit that it exists
Municipalities cannot grant franchises
to corporations for lighting and other pur-
poses If the rights of the municipality
are not Conserved the business interests
of the place judicously looked after, or
il the corporation is given an unreason-
ably high price or long term of exclusive
privilege The action was upon fran
chise granted by the village board Of
West Allis. near Milwaukee, granting a
franchise to the Northwest III Electric
Light and Power Company Ior fifty years
exclusively and at high prices for medi-
OGRE service. Property owners fought the
franchise in the Milwaukee courts and
were defeated, but won the appeal to the
Supreme Court.
Three more persons have been killed
aud three injured as the result Of hunt
ing mishaps in Wisconsin William Schil-
ling. who lives near Altoona, was shot
while hunting by some one unknown. He
may not recover John Zangel, while
driving with his daughter near Escanaba,
ran into a fusllade fired by hunting
party The horse was killed and one
shot struck the buggy. John Lawrence
was accidentally shot and killed while
deer hunting near Strickland. Charles
Rigg was killed while hunting in the
town Of Merrima. His own gun was
accidentally discharged Near Ashland,
Henry Porter. a farmer. was mistaken
for a deer and shot through the legs.
Mike Thomas. an employee of the Han
son furniture factory, was held up in
GAINESVILLE 10y four men and relieved Of
his weeks wages, amounting to Sl2 lie
had just left ~. factory with his little
girl. No traces the men has been Sc
cured.
The Marinette County Board Of Super
visors appropriated money for the con
structfon Of two Interstate bridges. one
between Niagara and Quinnesec, Mich.
and another from Norway. Mich, to