Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-11

The W iSC0liSlu sugar Company will
/ build S60O.000 beet sugar factory in
/ Chippewa Falls next fall
Chris Nicholson, a resident of James
! Vile, was sent to State prison for one
year for burglariaing Z. H. Reus saloon
ON Jan. -.
Coy. La Toilette has issued st procla-
nation Offering a reward of $500 for the
arrest of the murderer of William Brad
shaw in the town Of Gratiot.
At Glenwood. while shooting at a tar
get Sven Carlson accidentally shot and
killed his G-year-old brother Oscar, the
bullet entering the boys stomach.
The keystone block at West Superior
burned. causing loss of Sl50,000, the
Floan 4 Leveroos and Bloom Dry Goods
companies being the heaviest sufferers.
The steamer David Vance. large
coal carried owned by the Milwaukee
Steamship Company, sustained $4,000
damage by fire at the Milwaukee dock
The old Milton House barn. built in
! 1889 by Joseph Goodrich. founder of
Milton, was destroyed by fire. rhe loss
is $1,000, with insurance of $500. The
fire was undoubtedly of ineendiary origin.
Oscar Linberg, aged "a years and mar
ried, committed SUI. eide by shooting the
| top of his head off with a shotgun. Lin
berg resided in the town of SigeL The
suicide is believed to have been caused
by insanity brought on by illness of Il
long duration.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
general store of T. A. Mellem in Madi-
son aud got away with $500 cash and
$3.50 in silver They were experts, pack
| ing the safe so the noise of the explo-
sion did not awaken Mellem's family, liv-
ing above the store.
Rev c. H. Smith has received reply
to his request to Andrew Carnegie for a
donation for library building for To-
nah. The chances are good TO get the
donation if the city will furnish a site
and guarantee to give Literally to the
| support of the library.
The International brotherhood of Pa
per Makers, at a conference with the
| Appleton manufacturers. yielded to the
requests of the mill owners, and will re-
turn to the long-hour schedule. This
means seventy-two hours work a week
and until midnight Saturdays
It
sha Gas and Electric Company destroy
Fed the electric machinery and badly dam
! aged the city water heating system. The
dynamos which were to furnish power
for the street railway also were destroy
ed and the loss is not less than $1,000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by
| burglars to enter the jewelry store of
| Postmaster Ii. j. Smith in Racine. The
| burglars secured an entrance 20 the rooms
Of the Lakeside Printing Company,
which are over the store, and coInmene-
ed boring holes through the flooring
above the vault. which contained sew
eral thousand dollars worth Of diamonds
and jewelry. 1t is believed that they
were frightened away by the night watch
man when they had the holes half bored
through the floor.
Frank Pierce of Randolph is in Jail
at Manitowoc, sentenced ~ the Circuit
Court for contempt of court in not pay
ing $40 per month alimony which he was
/ ordered to give to his divorced wife. The
case developed a sensation, Pierce al
| leging that he had been robbed of $500
at Randolph in hotel a few months
ago, and was unable to pay the alim0ny
ordered. 1t was shown that since the
divorce proceedings had been instituted
Pierce had disposed of $4,000 worth of
property He recently fell heir to $40
600.
The examination INTO the charges Of
gambling, among university students has
not ende with the eases of Instructor
! Wheeler and Student Atwater. Report
| is that four more students have been
suspended for gambling and that Act
| ing President Birge had several eff the
younger members of the faculty before
him on charges of drinking. Acting
President Birge is determined to stamp
out gambling and drinking, which, while
prevalent among but a comparatively
small number of students, reflects to
some extent upon the whole student
body.
A sensational clopement in which enc
man and three women figure has created
stir in the neighborhood Of Madison.
George King of Brooklyn left that vii
| lage the other day in a bob sled taking
| with him the 16-year-old wife Of his
brother, who had $3.50 in her possession.
! They fed northward to the village Of Sun
| Prairie. and the village Of Deforest, n
| little farther on. At Deforest King gave
his brothers wife the Sip, retaining the
$3.50. which she had intrusted - his care,
and took with him another woman he
picked up at Madison The couple start
ed for Columbus, at which place King
again exchanged partners, leaving No.
behind in his sled. lie then started east
ward with his third companion in light
wagon. This was the last seen or heard
of them.
! Charged with setting the FIRE which
caused the destruction of the entire vii
| lage Of Bear Creek last July. entaiing
a property loss of $4,000, Miss Lucille
Colbert was arrested Suspicion was di.
reeted toward her by letter addressed
to a Catholic priest at Bear Greek which
was read from the pulpit and which pur-
/ aortad to he the death-bed confession of
man in Chicago hospital. Miss Co
| bert is held und ar $1,000 bonds. She
| was proprietress # tla millinery store
| in which the fire starred and for which
| she collected $500 insurance The writer
OF the letter purported to confess that
/ he set the fire through 3 desire for re-
yenge. alleging that he was Miss Co
bert's Tilted lover The letter was IN
| signed, but the writing was said TO re-
semble Miss Coberfs. 1t gave all the
! details of how the fire was set
The Lemonweir drainage district mat
| ter which has been pending for several