Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-11-30

lactory men.
Fred Eicksteadt. aged 81 years. died
in Sheboygan. on the siXty-tirst anniver-
sary of his wedding He leaves a widow
ana three children
William Kraemer, one Of Sheboygan's
! pioneer business men. died the other day.
He was 20 years of age and resided in
Shehoygan since 1854. He leaves two
| children.
Henry Peck, a business man Of Sey-
mour. narrowly missed death while out
hunting. His foNling piece was accident
ally discharged AM he charge tore away
a portion of one egc id.
The property of the Oshkosh Furniture
Company has been sold by William l..
Doughty to j w. Wallace, a Chicago
capitalist, The former owner is expected
to retire from the premises by Dec. To-
The dead body of man. with bullet
hole in the neck, was found a few miles
from Mel EN-. The remains are supposed
TO be those Of milwaukee, business man
who had been hunting in that vicinity.
Arthur Rederburg. aged 23 years, of
| Chicago. has been arrested charged with
stealing horse and buggy at Wauke-
gan. Rederburg attempted to fight the
| officers when taken in charge south of
| Raci ne.
William Policy was instantly killed by
the accidental discharge of a gun while
hunting in the Fisher river in Chippewa
! county. Policy had stumbled and fell
forward on to the gun and it was acct
'lentally discharged.
f. Z. Osborn, a wealthy retired farm
er, aged 70. hung himself in his barn
near Milton and was found by his
brother when life was extinct. He was
married n month ago ard no cause can
be assigned for his act
Roy Giddings. a resident of La Crosse,
Went cunning after a wildcat, and when
upon the animal shot his gun. 1t ex-
ploded and he win lose his right hand.
The wildcat showed fight aud then seam
! pered off into the woods.
| Mrs Emaline Marshall died at Del
ton. aged 50 years. She was tic mother
Of Judge r. d. Marshall of the Supp enc
! Court at Madison; Henry of Bloomer;
William Of Canning, Texas, and Mrs.
Samuel Jenkins of Chippewa Falls,
Henry Schlosser. an employe Of the
Burlington road, while working near
Alma fell thirty feet from bridge to
raft of logs in the river below. suffer
ing compound fracture of one leg and
| internal injuries. He will probably live,
Helen Truax, stepdaughter Of John
| Knight. a real estate dealer, was nearly
| killed in a runaway in Racine, She was
driving pony attached to cart, and
was thrown backwards from the vehicle.
/ She was taken to her home unconscious.
| AT Waukau occurred the fatal shooting
| Of Vernon Westorer, aged IL years. He
had gone to the woods near his home
| hunting and. not returning at nightfall,
party went in search Of him, finding
! his body about midnight. y charge of
| shot had passed through his head.
! The case of Walter Mason, the fresh
| man who shot a member of hazing par
| ty in Madison. has been turned over to
| the discipline committee of the faculty.
| \ large c: ovid of students were out to
| find Mason, but failed 10 locate him, and
! the students believe he has left for his
! home in Brookline, Mass. Acting upon
this presumption. 100 students packed
| Mason's belongings into a trunk and
shipped them to his parents.
Enos S. Fish, aged 80 patient al The
ST. Louis city hospital, who had said
| he wis from Eau Claire, recovering from
self-inficted wounds. succeeded in end
ing his life by hanging. He imagined
/ he was being Swallowed by detectives
| who. he said, believed him TO be a leader
Of the Morris Yaughn-Roseneaur gang OF
i 81.
cot when he ended his life He rolled
| from bed after placing an improyised
moose around his neck and was prevented
from falling to the floor by the strap
around his right ankle.
| Mrs. A. Barbous Of Little Suamico
while driving to a creamery with a wag
on load of cream and milk. was attack.
ed by a large gray timber wolf. which
| leaped from the side of the road and at
tackled the horse. For several miles the
wolf followed. swapping at the horses
hoofs the animal going at full speed and
| leaving a milky way" dotted with mill
cans behind. Not until clePi.ug was
| reached did the wolf desist W. Ives hav.
been seen frequently in the vicinity this
fall. and have killed many sheep al
Little Suamico aud vicinity.
John Neveaux Of Bayfield,, who saol
and killed his uncle. Murray, on Manifor
| island. was acquitted upon the plea OF
| self-defense. u was shown that his
uncle had been ~. an election spree and
1 drank quart of whisky "a few minutes
after reaching the island. He then seiz-
ed his wife by the throat, after having
a.. I
| Neveaux mterfered grabbed his shot
gun and aimed it at Neveaux J'he
| Young man then shot twice the second
shot piercing the heart. Mrs. Murray
who was held as an accomplish. also was
released.
The right Of over 100 families. involv-
| ing nearly 600 neope to occupy the land
which they and their predecessors OBJ
| tanned from Jacob Muza on Jones island
| in Milwaukee twenty years ago was con
6rmed in a decision handed down by the
| Wisconsin Supreme Court in the case Of
| Xavier Jeka against the Illinois Steel
Company. While the Illinois Steel Com
pany held the record title to the property,
Iekn claimed the title to his property
| Lv adverse possession on the ground that
he HJG IlNtI tNtfs CONTINUOUSLY Tor
twenty years. having obtained his title
from Jacob Muza, once owner Of almost
the entire island The property oecu-
pied by the settlers on the island is said
10 be valued at approximately $2,000000.
The residence Of John Wall in Askea-
ton, together with all the contents was
destroyed by FIRE There was no insur-
ance. 1t is believed that the fire was