Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28

I A4A AAs ANpAA az NaltNcti4tNs
The citizens Of Chetek voted to con.
struct a $4,000 school building to replace
the one recently destroyed by fire.
George Holmberg, son of 4 Swedish
Methodist minister AT Cumberland, has
gone insane from smoking cigarettes.
Mrs. Anna Printz. wife Of n. d,
Print2. a farmer residing near Shamrock,
| took dose of paris green and died.
The Wisconsin Manufacturers Asso-
citation was organized at Milwaukee, with
Frank Bull Of Racine as president.
DIR. l.. E. Towne died at Brodhead at
the age of 76 years. He was born in
Vermont and came to Wisconsin in IS4S.
The new 100000 hotel project at La
Crosse is about n sure thing Ninety
thousand dollars Of the 500 900 has been
subscribed.
The La Crosse Council by close Yote
terminated stormy session by defeating
an ordinance providing for several miles
of pavement TO cost about $4,000.
The Fla 'mers' Bank of Browntown,
with subscribed capital Of $31, 100 and
an authorized capital of $4,000 was
chartered by State Treasurer kempf
The board of trustees of Monticello
have under consideration the granting
of a franchise to L. H. Staedtler for
merly Of Milwaukee. for the establish
ment of an electric light plant.
The official board of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Sheboygan voted
unanimously for a new church. TO cost
$4,000 provided sufficient bona fde sub
scriptions be secured to warrant the ulti-
mate success Of the enterprise,
Robbers entered the Mazomanie post
office, placed a dynamite fuse in the
crack of the Joor of the safe and blew off
the coordination The door was then
easily opened, and so in money and
stamps was taken from the strong box.
Passenger train No, s was derailed
at the north switch at Three Lakes. the
tank of the engine and two coaches be-
ing off the track. The accident vas
caused by an extra logging train having
chain dragging which caught in the
switch, throwing it open.
A small, dark woman with q little
baby, came to Eagle to pay Whitman
for the rig the alleged burglars used in
trying to escape. When interviewed she
would not give any information concern
ing her home or name. She is believed
to be the wife of one of the captured
burglars.
Postmaster w. Il. Tscharner of La
Crosse Is issuing circulars to all the
postmasters of the State calling for a
meeting at which they are TO organize
Wisconsin Postmasters' Association. 1t
sa JoA rkar %h
ing will be held, but it will probably be
Milwaukee.
Fred Weiser. an employe of the Wis
consin river paper mill at Stevens Point
was hurt and died in three hours. While
putting on a belt his clothing was caught
hurting him around the pulley and pulling
out his left arm above the elbow. besides
breaking both legs. He WAS about 30
years of age.
At West Superior the jury in the trial
of Jake Gustafson, after being ont forty
hours returned a verdict Of murder in
the second degree and recommended that
he receive the limit of Imprisonment,
which is twenty-five years. Gustafson
killed his friend, Isaac Niska, in a drunk
en- quarrel over Is cents.
A rig containing three lads. Edward,
William and Ernest Schultz, was struck
ut the Madison street crossing If the
Milwaukee road in Waukesha ty the
stone train. The boys had started TO
cross the tracks before they saw the
t, lin. The vehicle was demolished and
the horse injured, but the boys escaped
injury.
As result of the failure of the de-
mand by the merchants committee upon
the grocers' association that the latter
reduce prices on staples in order TO draw
the farmers to Eau Claire. it is now pro-
posed by merchants to subscribe $4,000
to put in package grocery house with a
Chicago man as manager and to fight the
local grocers' organization by underseil.
ing them
James Sanderson of Chicago an engi-
neer on the Northwestern Railway, in
charge of a wrecking train. narrowly es-
capped death at the village Of Salem. San
derson was in charge Of a large crane to
clear away the wreck of freight ear,
While the crane was in action the king
pin slipped out and the big crane toppled
over. The engineer attempted to throw
the belt, but failed and the iroa from
the broken crane struck one of the boil
ers of the engine and caused an explosion.
Sanderson was terribly burned.
Miss Emma Briggs. cashier for w
Simon & Co. of Neenah was robbed of
drafts, money orders ahu ether papers
valued at $1,000 on train between Nee
nah and Oshkosh. The theft was so
clevcrly accomplished that the young
4 4 hoo. u
reached the bark In Oshkosh where che
was to depoS. the papers. The drafts
were in an envelope which she had placed
in a bag suspended from her belt but |
when or how the robbery was accom-
plished she has not the slightest idea.
Charles Larayire, aged % years. was
found dead on an island In the Missis- |
sippi river opposite Lynxville He had |
been missing from his home since he and |
t.yo brothers. who had been to Lynxyille, |
guarrIied on the way nome and fist |
fight ensued, all three of the camlatants |
being badly marked. Charles. the young |
est, said he was gang to go back to the |
village, but he did not appear at that |
place and search was instituted. result |
ing In the finding of his lifeless body |
mile from the cabin on the island. where /
he had wandered away IN the brush. Be |
fore the officers arrived tDe brothers had |
: ken the body home on a handsled.
Daniel McCarty. youth arrested fot
a serious assault on John Spauldng two
months ago at Mauston. appeared before
Judge Fruit in Circuit Court and plead
ed guilty. He was sentenced to two |
years in the State reformatory at Green
Bay.