Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-31
Edward S Los / joy, one Of the old resi-.
dents OF Mondoyi. died suddenly of paral-

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ANA was drowned.
John Tunney. aged about 43, was acct
den1ally shot while hunting with com,
panion near Rhinelander
| The Wisconsin Redmen elected A. 5.
Andrews Of Superior great sachem River
I Falls was chosen for the next session.
While drawing gravel Io,cpa Oos,er,
huis Of Waldo fell from loaded wagon
under the wheels and was badly crushed.
The League Of Wisconsin Municipali-
| ties selected Racine us the next meeting
place and elected II G. True>del presi-
dent.
An unknown man picked zip 10y the
Racine police broke all records for fits.
He had tweuty-three attacks il three
hours
$. s Gle. well-known citizen OF
| Clyde. died while at The Breakfast table.
| He was so years old and had lived in
Clyde fifty years.
Miss Rena A. DE Cries Of Chicago was
| drowned in Delayan Lake. She went
ont with a party of friends in sailboat,
which. in gust of wind capsized.
Lightning partially destroyed the resi-
dcnce Of c. X. Millimore near James
Vile So m, ch rain fell that the fields
| were flooded and the creeks swollen over
their banks.
The creamery building. together with
an its contents belonc&ng TO Gharles Lon
.ciI in the town of Oakland, VAS burned
to the ground. The cause OF tie fire is
hot known.
y cry of fire while the house was in
/ darkness during song started panic in
the La Crosse theater. Employees thre y
| open the exits, lit up the house, and all
| escaped without injury.
The body of Kit Jacobs, the 15-year-
| old hoy who was drowned in the Wis
consin river near Bridgeport, has not
vet been recovered and all hope Of fud-
ing the remains has been given up,
The entire pickle crop, which was
thJ eatened with ruin, has been saved by
The rains. For some days the farmers
! aear La Crosse have given UP their GU
| cumber crop Oh account of the dry wealth
er.
r. Hasinotot and $. Ichii. rei rescnting
1 the japanese government. have been in
the vicinity Of Jancsrille for several days
past purchasing fine boodod stock for
the imperial stock stable near Toxic,
Japan.
A Chicago and Northwestern train was
dcrailed, it is supposed by spreading rails,
a. Perryville. The cars were completely
wrecked and the 200 passengers tumbied
into heaps, but fortunately no one was
killed and only two were seriously in-
iured.
While sailing Lake Denevue, a sum
mer resort near Fond du Lac. W. w.
Leake's yacht capsized in the middle OF
the lake and sank. A party q young
women campers. seeing his plight. launch
ed a boat, went to his rescue and saved
| him.
Anna R4mke. girl of 10. residing in
tine village of Edgar, committed suicide
| by taking carbolic acid. When discoy-
ereG she was unconscious and died Il
short time after The cause for her ac.
| ton is attributed TO an unfortun love
affair
The body Of Martin Anderson of La
| Crosse. employed on the government
works as laborer, was found dead neal
! Genoa on the burlington right-of-way
Some of his friepds advance the theory OF
murder, but the coroners jury found that
he was probably killed by a tra.I.
Mrs. Anna Hoefe is dead in Edgerton
aged so years. She was the wife OF
Richard Hoefe, and came to this coun
try from England in 1919 locating ii
the northern part of Rock county. and
later moving to 'Edgert-n. Mrs. H0efe
leaves two sons and two daughters.
William Campbell, farmer. aged
about 40 years was instantly killed
while raking hay on his farm on English
Ridge. by being thrown from the machine
on to his head. One wheel of the ma
chine ran into a deep hole. The skull
was crushed. The body was not found
until the team came home without a
driver.
The county Jail was struck by light
ming at Janesvile during a heavy thun-
der storm. Th prisoners were complete
IL coweJ and frightened and begged to
be taken to ? place of safety. Eddie
Fay. held awaiting trial for robbery of
the Superior postotlice, was directly I'M
der tie spot struck and was panic
stricken.
Nate Baldwin was killed the other
day while at work in the plant of the
Wausau Paper Mills Company at Bro
kaw. In working over digester lie fell
in and chips falling on top of him coy
cred him to the depth Of thirty feet He
was not missed for some hours after and
the exact time Of the accident is not
known. He died from sutfocation.
Judge Bum Of the federal court in
Superior has decided that woman can
not collect claim against her husband
for labor performed. \. }. Winkels re-
Gently failed. and his wife. formerly II
clerk in his store filed claim for ST.,
500. which sEp said was due for wages.
Creditors objected to the claim and Judge
Bum sustained them. The suit will now
20 to a higher court.
Mrs. w. NJ. Powell and four children
had narrow escape from death at the
ST Paul crossing near ,Iauesville. \
freight train had just passed the cross
ING and despite the warning of the brake
man Mrs. Powell started to drive across
TIE cars made q sudden rebound ami
Mrs Powell was thrown out of the buggy
on to the track and under a car. Two
Of the children landed on the track AMI
two others near it. The switchman in
some manner dragged -,lrs. Powell off the
track and tossed the two children to 4
place of safety.
4 crowded house ut the appleton the
alter came near stampeding the other
night on account Of three lads in the gall
-. ..al1;,,g ..E'irp'f The cylrfafn haJ