Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-02-10

T. Albers died ia Sheboygan from hem
orrhage OF the heart.
The village school at Batavia has been
compelled to close down temporarily ow-
ing to an outbreak of diphtheria,
The directors Of the Lake Chetek As
sembly have decided to hold the assem-
bly, this year from July II to - inclus-
i've.
II. G. Wagner informed tie Progress
siye League that work would begin about
Feb. on the new beet sugar factory in
Chippewa Falls.
james McCrea. a wealthy farmer who
resided about four miles south Of Ran
dolph, was beheaded by a train on the
Milwaukee road.
a new shirt, overall and underwear
plant viii be constructed in Appleton.
| The name of the concern will be the
Russell-IIughes Company.
President Plantz of Lawrence Univer-
sity has issued an order forbiddilg the
Lawrence team making any engagements
to play on Thanksgiving day.
An iron mine is to be opened on lands
| owned by Holmes Il Sons, the loggers,
near Dunbar. explorations there for some
time past indicating valuable deposits of
ore.
Evangelist LaBelle, aged about 80,
was burned to death in Il fire at Colburn,
which destroyed the residence Of Joseph
Bernier, logger, whose loss is about
| s., 600
The depot at Highhridge burned down.
The agent slept in the depot and had
/ to leave in his night clothes, and his
feet were frozen. The cause OF the fire
| is unknown.
While Mrs Edward Smith was chop
/ ping wood at La Crosse her daughter,
years old, placed a baby brother in
! hot oven. closed the door and baked the
baby to death before the mother re-
turned.
| Fire Quilted the saloon of Claude Sim
ons and the confectionery shop of Mrs.
| Margaret Cassell at Milwaukee First
/ Assistant Fire Chief Clancy fell through
a hole to the basement twenty feet and
was badly injured.
| John Schroede. a prominent town of
| Center farmer, died in his wagon while
| driving to a blacksmith shop His body
was jolted out Of the vehicle and found
to have caused his death.
| c. c. jacobson, assistant architect in
the building of the huge pepper mill plant
of the Consolidated Water Power and
Paper Company at Grand Rapids, fell
into n vat of boiling hot water and Sc
yerely scalded the lower half OF his body.
| The Kimberly Clark Paper Company
/ may not rebuild its plant at Kimberly,
| burned Two years ago. we have plan
red for the MILL" said James C. Kim
| berly. but labor and material is So high
/ that we cannot see our way clear to it at
present"
\ company has been organized in
| Athens tG manufacture brick 1t is com
| posed of Joe Braun and Frank Neitan-
! hans and Fred Riatbrock of Milwaukee
and is capitalized at $4,000 and expects
| to turn out 10000 brick Il day. About
| thirty men will be employed
Albert Platow was sentenced to fifteen
days imprisonment in the house of cor
| rcction at Milwaukee for stealing loaf
Of bread from a bakery. lie told the
court that he had not had anything to
! cat, had been out of work for three
| weeks and one daughter has a broken
arm.
Miss Ellen Hansen, a Danish girl II
years old. left her sisters home in Pleas
ant Prairie a few days ago, saying she
was going To kcnosha. n distance of five
miles. AS nothing has been heard from
her it is feared she lost her way and
was frozen to death. Miss Hansen and
her sister. Mrs. Nelson. had quarreled
and the girl refused to longer remain i'll
the house.
/ Mrs. Lucille Colbert 60 years old CON
| victed in November Of setting fire II her
millinery store in Bear Greek and shus
starting a con6agration which Destroyer
| the business portion of the village, was
| brought before the court in Appleton on
! writ of error The writ was denied
and she was sentenced to three years in
| the penitcntiary. \ stay of execution
was granted and the defendant admitted
TO bail in the sum of $1,000.
| The dis riot school boards of La
Crosse, Vernon and Monroe counties
| have been swindled to the amount Of
| $4,000. notes for which have been de
! posted in several banks in the counties
named. The swindlers took conditional
| contracts for books and other school sup
| plies, representing themselves as agents
of a Chicago concern The conditions
are on an end of the document, and short
| ~ after the contract is entered into it
| hobs up at a bank as a note, the condi
tons having been torn off.
| The estate of Robert II. Baker, one
of the founders and owners Of n fourth
| interest in the Case Threshng NJ "hine
| Company Of Racine, was ordered paid
to the four heirs, the trustees having
been discharged after having had charge
! Of the estate for twenty-one years. Since
the estate was placed III trust it has
| increased in value from Sl.J00,00 to
| S2500O0O. and it is divided between
! three sons, Charles H. Baker of Chicago,
| Edward md Robert Baker and Mrs.
! Clarence Richards OF Racine
Law students at the State university
are indignant over the proposed change
| in conducting the February examina-
| tons. The new dean, who comes from
| Harvard, is reported to be the source Of
/ the plan The reported Scheme is to
/ have a number Of instructors FRI N the
"hill'' watch the classes during the ex-
animation. TO prevent "cribbing' The
| students resent this action, feeling il a
| reflection on their honor. and indigua-
| ton class meetings will he held to oppose
/ the plan. The Icing h Of coordination pc
| RODS has also been ca: ron four to three
| hours.
| Fred Herrick Of Milwaukee il the de-
/ feadant in suit for 5000 brought by