Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-23

Incorporated the Red CrCSs hospital and
sanitarium at that place.
Roy Burdck Of Albion attempted to
jump off a freight ear at Stoughton and
was pulled under and killed
Samuel Johnson the first hotel keeper
ii. that section died ut Bruce. He start
eG the hotel at Bruce forty-onc years ago
and is well known
John Moe the La Crosse man who is
said TO have shot and killed Nels Orweck
AT Bettrami, Mimi. must stand trial on
the charge of murder.
John Herms. believed to have been the
youngest soldier who went TO the Civil
War from Racine. died recently at Fort
Thomas, Ky. aged 81 years
Tom Burns, employed as night foreman
at the Rock County Sugar Company's
kilns in GAINESVILLE. was overcome by gas
and was revived with difficulty.
The sands of Pacific township in Co
lumbia county have been pronounced by
experts the very finest in existence for
use in the manufacture of plate glass.
Fred Ribitsky. proprietor of the Mex
leo House in Two Rivers, has sod his
property to Fred Hemple of Fast Glib
son. who will take possession ut Cnce.
Miss Ellen Bosworth of Merrill, a
teacher in the Ashland public schools
was found dead in her room. \ defective
rubber tube from the gas jet caused her
death.
John Reinscn. aged 40. farm laborer,
was killed by Northwestern passenger
train in Madison. He was walking along
the switching track, when run down aud
instantly killed
Benjamin Watson Hubbard, n former
Assemblyman from that district, died at
his home near Evansville. Besides Il
wife he leaves family of seven sons
and one daughter,
The high water in Black river has ex-
tingushed the fire in the made groun i
between the north side and west La
Crosse which has been smoldering for
many weeks. Firemen had been unable
to extinguish the blaze
Miss Addie Williams has brought suit
for $1,000 against John Stoffel, a
wealthy Racine c.car manufacturer, who
charged her with Sta ding furs from ais
daughter last winter. t was proved that
the furs belonged to Miss Williams.
At the last meeting Of the George ID.
Egglestom post it was decided TO build Il
monument which viii be placed ON the
soldiers lot ut Riverside cemetery. APP
pieton. A committee is now ut work
raising funds. The monument will cost
$4,000.
The 3-year-old son of /. Watson Ste
phensor, and grandson of Isaac Stephen
sen, was badly burned while playing with
matches in Marinette The child's night
dress caught fire. Mrs Stephenson put
out tue flames with her hands, which
We're seriously burned.
Taxpayers of Racine asked the City
Council to once more change the plans
for the Sixth street bridge. They claim
that the roadway. 1917 feet wide, will be
too narrow. Should the changes be made
the bridge repairs will probably cost
S25.000. The city officials refuse to com
ply with the request and an injunction
may be sought.
Two masked men entered Louis Gil
masters saloon in Ashland and COM
Ma aided Gilmaster and his son to throw
up their hands. Instead. they attacked
the robbers. who, after firing seven shots,
beat Gilmaster into insensbility with a
club, overpowered his son, and robbed
the money drawer. Gilmaster may die,
| The robbers escaped.
! The framework of the new dry kiln
building Of the Clark Manufacturing
| Company in Eau Claire had just been
| put up when it collapsed and buried five
men in the ruins. Henry Meyer had one
| of his legs crushed above the knee. Io-
| seph Roach was sever ely hurt on the
! head Harry Randall, Mr. Messner and
another man escaped with slight bruises.
Emmett Fallon. tcimstcr, jumped into
! the icy waters of the river in Milwau-
/ lsee and rescued his horse which had
| backed in Fallon did not wait even to
| take off his coat. Catching the struggling
horse by the bride, lac guided it between
| two piles and anchored its head above
water between two Of the piles. Then
| the tireboat came and put line around
the horse and flowed If TO place where
it could get to dry land.
! Thomas Wood of BaraboO was placed
under arrest by Game Warden II, II.
! Hubert, charged with dynnmiting fish in
| Devils lake The warden caught Wood
leaving the lake with fifty small fish in
! his possession. which showed no marks
Of hook and whose possession Wood
could not satisfactorily explain. Along
one of the shores Of the lake the warden
| found thousands Of young bass and pike
TINT had evidently been killed by dyna-
mite explosions.
Miss Anna Siegfried, for two months
an inmate of the home for the friend
less. and a cripple nearly all her life, has
found that her mother. whom she bcliev-
ed TO have lycn dead many years, is
alive and that she is heir to n consid-
rrahle estate If her fathers near st.
Louis During many years the mother
las been in an insane asylum, or working
as a servant in a poorhousc in Madison
county, III. Miss Siegfried has been
with relatives in Milwaukee aud Algoma.
The city Of Appleton has won point
against the Appleton Water Works Con-
pany In the Wnnebago County Court.
an injunction was refused the water
works company restraining the city from
constructing the Mason street sewer.
which is to empty into river just
above the intake pipe Of the water works
plant The court stated that 1t would
be impossible to make the injunction per-
manent. as city had right To con-
struct sewer anywhere it pleased.