Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-10-12
All Over the State.

Architect II. A. Foeller has completed
plans for a $4,000 Catholic church a!
Fancher.
Guy A. Young has been appointed
postmaster at Eagle Point, vice Grant
A. Young, resigned.
The congregation of st. Francis al
Holland has decided to erect a new pa
rochial school building to cost $4,000.
John Marslcek. ex-chief of police OF
Kewaunre. is dead. He had BEEN suf-
ferer with consumption FOR several
months.
NJ T. Covey died in Elkhorr of lock
jaw caused by stepping on n nail. He
was II years old and leaves a wife and
six children.
II. A. Hubbard died at his home in
Eikhorn, at the age of ~ years He
came from Livingston county, \. Y, to
Spring Prairie in 1854.
While hunting, Robert Gratow, an en-
pioye of the Burlington Electric Light
and Power Company, accidentally shot
himself, causing instant death,
Rev. Frank Peters of Vt Frances
Seminary, Askeaton has been appointed
pastor of st. Johns church at Morrison,
IN place of Rev, Hunck, resigned.
While the parents and neighbors were
threshing grain. the 3-year-old daughter
of Peter Christensen. near Rib LAKE,
was suffocated in the straw stack.
Frank Herbek. aged 80. an old soldier
and early settler in Kewaunee county,
was killed by falling from a wagon in
Kewaunee. His neck was broken.
Lightning destroyed the residence Of
James Mcdonald in Madison, and also
burned a large barn on the farm of 7.
c. Hammersley, three miles west of the
city.
Oscar Rasmussen of Appleton was en-
gagged in pulling stumps when his leg g0t
caught and was fractured in three
places. His foot will have 10 be ampu-
tated.
Of the three men who were charged
with the murder Of Endrius Hersherger
at Mellen hast April. all are now at lib
erty. Hershberger was stabbed in Il
scuflie which had originated in a saloon.
Frank Tesone. Tony Calone and Michael
French were the men hrst arrested.
French was discharged at the prelimi-
nary hearing. Tesone was acquitted 10y
a jury. and because there was 40 posi-
tive evidence as to which of the three
struck the fatal bl0w, the case against
Calone was dismissed
While working at the top of q tele-
graph pole. John Steele, an electrician in
the employ of the La Crosse Electric
Company, lost his balance and fell upon
a live wire .nd was electrocwed.
Eighteen young men, including the
Sturgeon Bay football team. returning
from Menominee. had a narrow escape
from going down in Green bay. They
were IL the little launch Mabel K. when
her engines broke down. There was a
biz sea ola and the boat was AT the mercy
of the waves until a sail was ri=geI.
She finally reached Egg Harb0r after
being buReted about Tor fourteen Eour-,
On the plea that she wished to rlslt
friends in GAINESVILLE Miss Rose Therein
Of La Crosse. who was moving with her
parents to Chicago. stopped of between
trains in Janesville and was married 2,
Fred w Steem of Chicago. She the.
went on to Chicago. and joined her par
ents
Much alarm was caused al Ihe -.aciEc
College grammar school because Of the
sudden illness OF $50 students and ten
teachers. II appears that al the evening
meal chicken was served and it is beEev-
ed the dish contained poison. as half
an hour after the meal and white the
students were in class room nearly all
81 them were taken III.