Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-16

Thomas w. Finn, Il nagman on one
of the gravel trains, was killed near
Ionia by passenger train. II is thought
he went to sleep beside the track.
The pestofiiee and store of A. Alien
/ burg at Dancy was robbed. Three stran-
gers seen in the village in the afternoon
are suspected and officers are now on
their trail
William Youcum was killed in Keno.
sha by touching an electric wire. He
died almost instantly. Youcum was in
| spector of streets and sewers, - years
of age and unmarried.
The monotony of the opening Of school
) broken in one of the La Crosse dis
tric5s by one little boy objeeting SO siren
uously to going that he had to be carried.
kicking and squealing, in his fathers
arms to his seat.
| Dedication services for the new Meth
odist Church at Olivet occurred Sun
| day with very large attendance. Rev.
| MeKibbin who built the church, win not
return to mis- pastorate again, as he has
a larger field In view.
A convict serving q life sentence in
| Waupun prison escaped while the gang
were loading car in the "buE pea. He
made direct for ctrntield about a mile
distant, but was captured after a short
hunt by Clerk Campbell and Deputy
Warden Harvey.
| The southern fever seems to have
struck Tomah and vicinity, as several
! people have decided to locate in Tennes-
| see. Among those who will permanently
reside in that State are; w. r. Lock
wood. George u. Bigelow, H. \. johnson
and H. r. Weaver.
Mrs. w. o. Carpenter, wife of Chi
cago lumberman, had narrow escape
from death while out driving in Mari
nette., \ runaway team dashed on her
| carriage and the tongue of the wagon
was driven through the side of the car
riage, just missing Afrs. Carpenter.
After faithful dog had saved the
family of William Graf, Milwaukee,
| policeman as mad. Anna Radie. ser
want, was found dead from the gas when
| the barking of the dog aroused the fam
lily and saved them from like fate.
BY an explosion of sodium with which
he was experimenting. Max A. I'usse-
witt was injured in the face and eyes
and may lose his eyesight He is in
structor in chemistry in the State normal
school in Milwaukee and while alone in
the laboratory met with the accident.
Sheriff Ackley arrested Eddie Heff.
aged II. at his home at Madison on a
/ el arge of attempting to wreck the Wis
corrsin Central limited at AIhertsvile a
month ago. Heff was held for trial with
out bond in the Circuit Court. Young
Helf does not deny his guilt, saying that
lie committed the deed to get even" with
the company for putting him off train.
4 Northwestern passenger engine
hauling a heavy train left the track just
south of Cudahy, bumped along on the
ties for 100 rods and then tumbled into
the ditch. Although the train was run
ming toward Chicago at a speed of fifty
uliles an hour, no cars left the track
and no one was hurt. Nothing can be
found wrong with the track and the en-
CINE seems all right.
William Smith, rich cattle dealer and
an old resident of Waukesha County, has
appealed to Sheriff School for protection,
claiming that he has been threatened
| with death unless he pays $1,000 to an
| unknown person within few days. The
threat was made through the medium of
an anonymous letter. Sheriff School has
appointed special deputy to guard Mr..
Smiths home in Pewaukee day and
night.
Harry Stoker of Brooklyn. y. Y, EN-
ployed as night clerk at the Williams
Hotel in Manitowoc some time past, is
under arrest on charge of burglary,
- in bo Of v.fH
the room of the manager of the house.
His capture and arrest was made only
after a long chase in which the fugitive
sought tc escape on freight train in the
! Wisconsin Central yards. He is % years
of age and was recently discharged from
the employment at the hotel
Miss Lillian Bredritch of Chicago has
the honors for the most remarkable
| catch that has been recorded in Wiscon-
sin during the fishing season. In the
neighborhood Of Horlick's dam, at Ra-
cine, in company with her father, she
hooked what at FIRST was supposed TO be
| a fish of unusual size. When brought
to the surface. however. it was found
that She had pulled up dilapdated
looking pair of mans trousers. The
pockets we're searched and in them was
found $s.13.
John Sschmitt. a butcher of the village
of Pleasant Prairie, swore out warrants
for six prominent men of that place,
| charging them with pouring hot tar over
his head and body. Schmitt had trouble
| with some Of his neighbors, and it is said
they took this method of getting rid of
him. When they went 10 his place they
told him that if he would leave end not
come back they would do him no harm.
When he refused they produced a pail Of
hot tar and bag Of feathers. They
| poured the tar down his head and back.
The mans screams brought relief and
his assailants fed.
/ bad wreck happened on the Chi
| eago. Milwaukee and St Paul Railway
near Star Lake. A work train driven by
| Engineer James with Conductor Murphy
4 in charge was struck by a logging train
| in charge of Conductor Carman, with
| Charles Blair as engineer and Thomas
Close as fireman. The logging train
was backing up with the caboose. The
FIRST warning that was received was
when one of the brakemen. who happen
ed to see the other engine gave the
alarm and jumped The other brakeman
| followed, but ii was too late for the FIRE
man or engineer to escape and they were
pinned in the engine Fireman Close
was pinned close to the boiler and died
| in about twenty minutes, while Engi-
ncer Blair lived nearly an hour.
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