Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-31
All over the state.

George iced, young man from Trip
vile. was drowned in the Baraboo river
in Elroy, while bathing.
Thomas LAWYER, one Of the oldest
woodsmen Of Dunn county. was killed
falling tree.
Word has been received that Thomas
Lawler of Menomon;e was accidentally
killed while working in Stairs lumber
mill at Weston.
The servant girl problem is settled as
far as La Crosse is concerned More
applications for work THAN places are
now registered.
Fourteen box ears, loaded with lum-
bnr and coal, were derailed and badly
wrecked at Spring Brook on the Omaha
line. No one was injured
\ hailstorm during which stones an
inch in diameter fell did great damage
TO fruit trees around In Crosse. Hun
dreds of panes Of glass in greenhouses
were broken.
c. A. Hamilton. q me rman employed
by the Eastern Wisconsin Railway and
Light Company, had his shoulders in
jured by the passing of two electric ears
while he was at the switch in Fond du
Lac.
William Koepke. farmer residing
two miles south OF Kewaskum. was
found in m unconscious condition in his
orchard. His skull was fractured. \ son.
said to be slightly demented, has left the
home, and diligent search is being made
for him.
Wenzel Strachota. Alderman of the
Sixth Ward, and J. f. Klein, inspector
for the Pittsburg Steel Pressure labora-
tory. were seriously injured because of
the parting of an elevator cable i'll a new
building of the American Mating Com
pany in Milwaukee. 1t is believed both
will recover
Haunted by the sight, always before
her, she claimed, of the suicide Of J. G.
Hyman in Milwaukee about month
ago, Miss Lizzie Kamrath. % years old.
is supposed to have committed suicide
at the farm home of her parents in the
town Of Muskego. The body Of the girl
was found floating in cistern few
feet from the house. aud Indications at
that time seemed to point to death by
drowning. but further developments 20 to
show that q mystery may surround the
cause of death. DIR. J. r. Noble of Wan
keSha and DR. Il. l.. Stinson of Frank
liIr made a pOst-mortem examination and
although they report nothing officially it
was understood that death Was not due
to drowning. There was not n particle
of water in the lungs. The body was
clad in light ublc:-arInent only and
there was a scalp wound
John RosciszewSki, aged 10 years. and
Jan Wijricicowski aged 80. both for
merly employed at the stock yards in
Chicago, b n thrown out Of work by the
present st ike, were found dead in
room at a Kcnosha hotel. An open gas
jet revealed the cause 81 death.
Michael Ritter. prominent business
man OF Sparta. was killed by an electric
wire while on his way 20 his place of
business He Slipped aud iD falling
caught hold Of Il guy wire crossed with
IN electric highs wire. lie called for helm,
bat before anyone reached him life was
extinct.
For seven day. and nights William
Good has remained unconscious at the
Palmer hospital in GAINESVILLE. lie was
injured while alighting from an electric
car on the Rockford Beloit and James
vile line He struck his head against
road pole and probably suffered cOncus-
sion Of the brain.
A New Lisbon dispatch tells Of the.
death there Of George Salter, ST.. who
was noted as an inyeterate foe 20 In
dams. Back in 1863 his wife was muir
dered By a-war party at her home. Sal
ter. when he learned Of il. vowed ven
geance and killed eighteen Indians In
revenge. He never got over his enmity
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