Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-24
Nicholas Prichard, an old resident OF
Randolph, died. aged So.

my has been opened at GAINESVILLE.
A six-day street fair and carnival wall
be held at Spooner Sept i will be the
opening day.
Nicholas Holmbe, aged % years. COM
mitted suicide by hanging in La Crosse.
disappointment in love.
James. the S-year-od son of Frank
Parent of Ainong. had his leg nearly cut
off by a moving machine.
The town of Coon has voted $4,000
aid bonds TO the La Crosse and South
eastern road, removing the last obstacle
in its path.
William Kafla, the 12-year-old son of
Mat Kafka, resident of Two Rivers,
was drowned while in bathing with a
number Of boys.
The body Robert Paine, a student
of Williams business college in Oshkosh,
was discovered in the lake off Neenah.
His home was in that city.
Edward Kemp of Blain. aged 10, kill
cd his son. aged 80, with small knife
by stabbing him in the neck. Kemp was
placed in Jail at Stevens Point.
One hundred cases OF typhoid fever in
the town of Mount Savage, with 200
inhabitants, have caused great alarm,
The epidemic is traceable to spring.
Peter Jepson, bartender in the saloon
Of NJ. Bone at MERRIAM, was shot and
killed by one Of two tramps who had
been about the town. Both tramps were
arrested.
Frank Arndt, a young man of p, died
al In III ne
bitten by some poisonous insect, but
medical skill seemed unable to check the
progress OF the infection.
The 500 Railway Company is making
a survey for a new road to run from
Ladysmith to Superior. The new line,
when constructed. viii cross the Omaha
few miles from Minong.
Carl Kohler member of the manufac-
turing firm eff j. NJ. Kohler Sons Com
pany, who died suddenly in Sheboygan,
IS believed to have swallowed carbolic
| acid by mistake for medicine.
An explosion in the cilhouse OF the
Huber Brothers. in The rear of the Main
street drug store at Fond du Lac, wreck
ed tat building and seriously burned one
/ of the clerks, Louis Thurman.
Two men arrested in Chippewa Falls
| had a large amount of expensive china
ware and other articles belonging 10 l..
| NJ. Newman and hey are being held on
a charge of burglarizing Newmans resi-
| dence
If move being made proves success
| full, there viii be an electric railway in
| operation within the next two years be-
4 fxynayt ATiixx-atybna anil T2aYat4
| with the present line from Beloit to
GAINESVILLE
J. S. Deveraux. a Shell Lake mer.
J chant, submitted to a painful operation
I'D had some of the cuticle taken from
mis- body to be grated on his son, Man
rice, who lost his foot in a railway acct
| dent at Bruce.
The Milwaukee committee appointed
10 select young woman 10 cAristen thu
| cruiser Milwaukee. which will be launch.
| ed at San Francisco Sept. 10. has chosen
! Miss Janet Mitchell, daughter of the late
ex-senator John l.. Mitchell.
Lewis Uehiling of Alton was kicked
| by n vicious horse and the joints OF his
windpipe dislocated. Apparently he was
doing well when suddenly the dislocatioT
| before medical aid could be summoned
Edward Kemp of Blain. aged 81. XIII
ed his son. aged 81. with q small knit,
by stabbing him in the neck. The youn,
man died within ten minutes The trou
BILE was family dispute Kemp wa
taken 10 Stevens Point and placed in jail
The State board of control has engaged
the services of Dean f. +. Turneaure
head of tlle university college of engi
neerng, TO investigate tn" system o.
sewage disposal and water supply at til,
State hospital for the insane at Men
dota.
While his narents were waiting hi;
| arrival in Racil he from Chicago. wnen {
family reunion was to be held, Edward
| Held, 22 years of age and employed u,
clerk in the main postofiice at Chicago
| was struck down aud run over by
street car. His left leg was cut off above
| the knee. II is feared the young man
cannot recover.
Jennie Cunningham. aged 10, and hel
| mother Mrs. 4. L. Cunningham OF Ma
| rietta. We're arrested On charge ot
! abandonment Of 10-days-old child
which it is alleged, the girls father LET
wrapped up in paper beside the Milwau
kee tracks. near Blue river, where i
| was found still alive early the next morn
| ing. Cunningham is a mechanic and i,
| supposed to be in Chicago. The gir /,
the mother of the child, but did not admit
the fact until given sweat box treatment
An automobile played the part Of 4
life saver in Madison. rescuiug Angelo
Leahella from an angry mob whicl
threatened 10 lynch him for the attempt
ed murder OF linguistic Capo whom Lea
bella shot under the window OF the State
| capitol Leabella fniled to inAiet fata
| wounds, but the crowd which saw tbt
| shooting pursued him when he tried Y
escape on bicycle. He fell and WI.
| overpowered, but a policeman threw hi0
| into M automobile and the man was
soon safe from violence.
| At the annual meeting OF the Old
/ Maids League Of Bristol. four of tn,
| leading Young women Of the village were
| elected 10 membership. Before they were
| admitted to the mysteries OF the organ
! izati0n each Of the girls vas forced L
! AXE an oath that she would use al
J honorable means 10 become a wife during
= the next twelve months. The girls in
lated under this original obligation were
4 .isees Lulu Rowbottom Lydia Curtis
! and Jessie and Jennie Garland 1t f.
claimed that none Of the girls is engaged
| 20 be married. but the WORK Vf the league
! has been SO successful in the past that
wagers Of two to one are made that ali
the girls win be married before the end
| Of the year.
From poor fireman on the Milwaukee