Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-16

Water Works Company, was badly hurt
by falling to the basement Of the new
hotel
w. Z. Watson If Avon township died
at the age of SO years He was an
early settler, having lived on one farm
for sixty yea'
Howard Mirs.escn of Grand Rapids
II years old, accidentally shot himself
while out rabbit hunting. He died from
blood poisoning.
GOV. La Toilette has issue! procla-
nation setting aside Friday, May 6, as
Arbor day. and recommending the plant
ing of trees on that occasion.
Patrick Flaheriy. charged with rob
biug the Superior postofice. broke jail at
Madison by saving the bars of his cell.
Charles Dennis, his alleged aecomplice,
il still in confinement
Fire damaged the Y NJ. c. y. build
Ing in Oshkosh, the loss being estimated
at $1,000, fully covered by insurance.
The blaze is supposed to have started
from a stove in the bowling alley.
John kapfhnmmer. Jr., aged Il, was
attacked and badly bitten by fierce dog
near Medford. The animal was beaten
off and killed by farm hands. The lads
father fastened With him tc Chicago.
Mrs. Willis. who died Shehoygau.
has bequeathel the sum Of $1,000 TO
the local Chris ian Science church, Of
which Mrs X. Bangs, now a reader ut
M0zeit Hall, Milwaukee, is the founder.
The explosion Of a can Of maple syrup
came near disfiguring for life Mrs. David
IIen.tock of Sparta. She was warming
it on the stove when il exploded and Sc
yercly burned her about the face and
hands
Premiums are being offered on coal in
Appleton by several big paper mills and
other concerns, there being situation
at prcsan that rivals the coal famine Of
last H,iuter. Soft coal is in the lead for
scarcity
The grounds and buildings of the Be
LOTT Fair and Driving Association We're
sold At auction for $4,000, the amount
Of the mortgage The fair association
will BIZ reorgauized and the fair carried
on as usual.
Fire destroyed Conveys button fac
tory at Tarpers Ferry. causing complete
loss Of the plant ana $500 worth Of but
ton blanks The factory had jus; start
ed up with a ful! force of employees.
No insurance.
Division No. . Of the Supreme Court
in jefferson City, No. denied Collins,
convicted of the murder of Detective
Schumacher Of Racine, reheariuS This
means that Collins must die on the date
fixed 10y the court.
The Wisconsin Land and Lumber
Company Of Hermansville will build
about seven miles Of logging railroad
during the coming season. The line will
branch out from the Chicago and North
western road at Pentoga.
Gen. Thomas Curley died in Madison,
aged - years He was n veteran ana
was colonel of a Missouri regiment dur
Ing the war Afterwards he served two
terms in the Wisconsin Legislature and
moved to Madison and held a position in
the capitol under Gov. Peck for four
years.
James Kelvin. an oil resident, nearly
lust his life as the result of smoking
cigar. Mr. Kelvin was at one time an
inveterate smoker. but quit year ago.
Meeting friend who urged him to
smoke. Mr. Kelvin accepted a cigar. He
Immediately began to feel dizzy and sud
denly fell backward upon the street. A
horse being driven rapidly around the
corner was upon the PROSTATE man be-
fore he could be rescued. An ugly scalp
wound was inflicted.
An electrical invention by Otto Gle
berus, i young business man of Spring
Valley. is said to overcome gravitation.
BY the aid of electricity Mr.. Sieberus
has succeeded and is enabled to rise from
the earth and to raise other objects. 1t
has been known for centuries that two
electrically charged bodies attract or re-
0el each other according as they are
charged with the same or opposite kinds
Of electricity. 1t has been more than
suspected that gr Sitaton is merely the
pull of the earths electricity. But I'M
til now no one has succeeded in so oh arg
ing body with electricity thar the gray
itation would he overcome anu the body
be free to rise from the earth. Mr. Sic
brrus has made new form OF electrical
machine and charged his body one day
as an experiment. when he noticed that
his body was almost without weight. He
at once followed this line of experiment
and succeeded in getting the electrical
chs rye strong enough 10 overcome gravi-
taton The difficulty remaining is caus-
ed ~ the quick dis irntion Of the charge;
this Mr. SieheriS is seeSing.to overcome
by means Of silk garment.
4 State capitol % cost S5.0O0.O00 to
81. 100000 will be the outcome of the
recent statehouse fin. The capitol inn
provement committee created by the
last Legislature. made a statement an
,,cuacint, tbs determination To proceed
with all practicable expedition To secure
plans for II new ca,itol For this pur-
POSE $4,000 appropriated nj the last
legislative session will he expended. The
architects viii be given vide latitude in
the preparation Of their plans. which
mears that the old building will not
serve MS Il limitation ard that the new
Wisconsin capitol will bc of new and
iudercudent design and scale Of constrHc-
sion. The Legislature appropriated S100-
600 for the construction Of a Supreme
Court wing 20 the capitol. but tae COM
mites determined not to use any of this
moner because of the change uf pro-
gram resultant from the fire. For the
immediate present the $1,000 viii he
used n secure plans and the Legislature
will be depended upon TO supply ade-
ouatc funds. GOV. La Toilette. under
an existing law empowering him TO make
necessary emergent repairs to any State
building. will fix up the damaged parts Of
tn, old capitol. crowd all the depart
ments If the government into 1t and wait
for the election of new Legislature
Trrstee, Of the Racine Knitting Com
pany. n bankrupt concern. sold the as