Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-04-13

At The annual meeting of the Seymour
Fair and Driving Park Association. III.
j. Van Vuren was elected secretary and
T. Tubbs president. The next fair will
be held Sept. %. 30 and Oct. /.
Mrs. Anna Spiess. In Crosse woman
worth $4,000. was arrested charged
with stealing wooden cranes from the
marble works Of Hynne X Crosby. She
was released on her own recosnizance.
Gen. Boardman has issued letter to
the State militia, in which he SAYS the
National Guard of the State will not so
TO the St Louis exposition This means
the guard win go to Camp Douglas this
year
Peter Roshe was killed and James
Collier fatalls injured by a passenger
train on one ne the principal street cross
ings in Ashland The men We're riding
on a milk wagon and attempted TO cross
the track in front of the train
The coroner's jury inquiring into the
death of Miss Clara Brainerd of Osh-
koSh, who was found dead in st. Loais
oarding house. returned verdict that
q tn was due to irritant poison, Wbeth-
er it was an accident or saicide the jury
could not determine.
William Kinney, it is yaid. shot and
killed Tom McCarty at Gable. Kinney
had q row with another man by the
name Of Taylor and he fired ut him, bur
the Shot Went wild and struck McCarty,
who was a bystander. Kinney viii have
his hearing April ID.
Michael and Christopher Baritone,
twins. aged 50 years. celebrated their
birthday in Manitowoc at the home Of
their niece. Mrs.. Pellet. wife of Sheriff
Pellet. on April /. Michael is "a resi-
dent Of Manitol-oc and his brother of
Chicago. Both al bale oila hearty and
in possession of all their facultit
Had not George Scha i;l,ocrg, who WAS
killed in saw accident at seymour,
tried to save another man from death
in the same way, he might have been
alive to-day 1t is learned that George
Flick was struck by Tong pole rolling
down from a huge pile in the yard near
the saw, and Schaumberg. seeing this,
jumped 10 hold Eick from going over
into the saw. He lost his balance aud
as Killed.
Harold Stuart Peterson, graduate
of the University of Wisconsin and for
merly one of its most popular students,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head in his room in Milwaukee.
He was p years old. The parents Of
the Young man say that his act was the
elimination of strain caused by taking
up too much work at the university. Mr..
Peterson had held the position Of organ
list at All Saints Cathedral since the be
ginning of the year.
John Brink, aged % years. who is said
10 have been the first white man who
saw Lake Geneva and gave it its name,
has just died at Crystal Lake. Last
summer the spot on which Brink stood
when he viewed the sheet of water
around which Chicagoans have spent
millions was suitably marked. This
pace is near Glenwood Springs Brink
was one of the pioneer engineers Of
northern Illinois. and as such surveyed
most OF the land in that section. He
came West in 1881 and was carr ~;
claim when his work was interrupted by
the Black Hawk war, but he -esumed
it in 1910.
Fire at Rhinelander, though TO be of
incendiary origin, destroyed the large
barn belonging to Congressman ". f.
Brown. and contents, including four
horses, four cows. nine wagons and car
riageS. four sleighs and several sets of
harness, valued at $4,000 The barn was
i roaring furnace when discovered. The
building was insured The incendiary
theory is borne out by the fact that no
fire of any description was about the
hor xyrc.t sfsra Al
March Il last year and S1O0 worth Of
harness was ruined with a F:.i:o. An in
Ycstigation is in progress.
The famous Kenosha bribery case
came to a sudden Close when former
Alderman John Caster surprised the oc-
cupants of the Circuit Court room by
pleading guilty % the charge of accept
ing bribe in connection with the pas
sage of an ordinance granting a fran
chise for a street railway some two years
ago to g dstav l.. Claussen and Patrick
Haynes IF Chicago. Caster took the wit
ness st1nd and acknowledged receiving
1898 from Gustav l.. Claussen. lie also
conuecte we other Aldermen with tn,
deal and told how the money was dis
trihuied. His confession duplicates Al
bert Smith, Peter piersch, Christian
Wcier. John Seehorn, NJ j. Scholey and
several others. These men are all bust
ness men. Caster was fined $500 and
800 for costs.
One OF the strongest stories OF life
ferns basis Of divorce suit institut-
ed in Fond du Lac. The complainant Is
Mrs. Pauline Keilman. who asks for Il
divorr, from her husband, Adolph keiI-
man. Mrs. keilnan has a twin sister
Miss Emma Xix After Mr.. and Mrs
Keilman were married eighteen months
ago. the sisters were not separated, but
Emma came and made her home with her
sister aud brother-in-law This arrange
ment finally led 10 trouble, for the bus.
band came to have the same regard for
the sister that he had for his wife While
he and the sister were satisfied with this
division Of affections, the wife was not,
and she insisted that Emma Iceet not
live with them The husband on the
other hand, vas reluctant To see the sis
ter go. 50 lie decided 10 accompany her.
Accordingly Kellman and Miss Xix left
for the northern part Of the State. After
Trey had been there some time the hus-
band is alleged to have written his wife
asking her to come and live with them
as OF old. The request aroused the ire
of Mrs Keilman and she Immediately in
stituted divorce proceedings.
The funeral Of Daniel Carney. the
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