Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-01-20


ally Killed at Mcmillan while loading
logs. He leaves wife and one child.
Waverly lodge, Masons, is consider
ing the erection of Masonic temple in
Appleton. The cost may reach $4,000.
Fast mail train No. 81 was wrecked
near Lyndon, The wreck was caused
by the breaking of drive wheel No
body was hurt.
4 nov postoftice has been established
in the southern portion Of Polk County
to be called Anderson, with Canute An
derson as postmaster.
School opened in the new school house
recently constructed in Chetek to replace
the one destroyed 10y fire last year, The
new edifce cost $4,000
r. J. Welsh of Lodi, who reported that
his safe was robbed of $1,000, is in jail
at Madison, being unable TO furnish ST.,
600 bond that he will not leave the State,
The school building at Twelve Corners,
in the town of Center. was destroyed by
fire, together with all the books and fix
lures. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin.
The third annual report { the State
Inheritance tax collection of IJtagaEnie
County shows the total amount Of prop
erty taxable under this law in the county
is estimated at about S122O00.
The big Corliss engine at the mill Of
the Patten Paper Company in Appleton
was smashed, entailing a loss OF $4,000
and making necessary a shutdown for
several days. The accident was caused
by the condenser becoming disarranged.
The winter term of school opened in
| Cumberland's handsome new school
house, just completed at a cost of $780,
600 The building contains twenty class
and recitation rooms, library, gymnasium.
| baths and auditorium, is electric lighted
and steam heated.
A disastrous fire started at the e. L.
| Baker farm, near Spooner, by the explo-
| sion of gasoline engine Daniel Melby,
/ foreman on the farm, who was working
near the engine, was seriously burned.
while the fire destroyed the large gran
airy. entailing a loss of $4,000, with no
| insurance.
The Racine Water Company has pro-
posed that if the city of Racine will
agree to refrain from rising automatic
| flushing tanks and TO refrain from vast
| ing water that the company will dismiss
all pending suits against it. each party
| to bear its own costs. The proposition
was accepted.
a Northwestern train at Appleton
| Junction was stopped by the cries of a
man outside on the car platform. The
| conductor pulled the rope and stopped
the train, when the man, whose name is
unknown. came into the car. got a pair
of rubbers from under a seat and leis-
urely left the train.
George Galster and Robert Richards
| both under 10 years of age held UP Nels
| Nelson. in charge of the La Crosse Gas
and Electric Companys factory office
Nelson sounded the police call before
| the robbers could get any booty. They
were pursued, arrested and were sent
to the reformatory at Waukesha.
DR. A. II. Levings of Milwaukee, as
sisted by Drs. Beveridge, Ryan and
Richie of Appleton, performed Il remark
able operation ON the S-year-old child of
IL. A. Paulson of Appleton for congen-
ital dislocation of the hip. by the Lorenz
method of bloodless surgery. For the
| first time has such an operation been sue
!
| wears.
| Fire in the basement Of Pettibone's
| department store dressmaking depart
ment in Appleton almost caused a panic
among fifty girls employed there. The
| fire started in the basement below and
was of small consequence, but worked
| through the floor and started among
some boxes and papers piled up in a
corner. The telephone girls of the Wis
consin company. in an upper floor, brave
/ ly stuck to their posts through all. No
one was hurt and the damage was small.
The first large fire in Whitewater in
| eight years occurred the other night,
when the tobacco warehouse was de
stroyed Several hundred cases of tobac-
co, valued at 1900, belonging to c, A.
Culton of Edgerton, were destroyed and
| there was 10 insurance. The loss on
the building was $1,000. w.:t Insurance
of S1.SO0 j. wn5 owI-ad by MAJOR
| Kestol. The fire was caused by spon-
taneous combustion and viii throw fifty
people. mostly women and girls. out Of
employment.
Captain Frederick Pabst Of Milwau-
kee, whose funeral was held the other
day. was noted for large gifts, but his
greatest was that on Christmas to his
wife and -four Childr IN. He had been
told that he could not survive another
Christmas, so calling his wife and four
children--CJl Gustave G.. Frederick,
Jr.. Mrs. W. T. Goodrich and Mrs.
Henry Soehmlein of Germany-to his
side. he made each present of 81 000.-
600 worth of stock in his brewery The
value of the estate is believed to be in
the neighborhood Of $12,000000. He
carried S165, 600 in life insurance
By the heroism of Motorman Louis
Happel. who remained at bis post in the
face Of threatened death. thiTty-five pas
sengers on n north side street car in La
Crosse we're saved when flying Bur
lington switch engine crashed into it at
the crossing. fifty feet north Of the La
Crosse river bridge. While the motor
man saw the approaching engine in time
TO reverse the current. the wheels slipped
on the icy tracks, the car reaching the
crossing Just as the engine shot over the
tracks. Though he had time TO jump TO
safety, the motor1nan stayed by his
charge. The engine crashed through the
front end of the car, striking the motor
man. He was badly cut about the body
AMI is thought to be injured internally.
Detective Wood who was among the
passengers. was injured about the hands
but all Of the other passengers escaped
unframed
An invitation 70 the Wisconsin Press
Association to hold the next annu,l con
vention in Fond du Lac has been ex-