Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-09-09

traeted, thought he heard a fire alarm
and jumped through window, being
fatally injured.
j. j. Williams O West Point, Miss,
brother of Congressman John Sharp
Williams, died at Jacksonville, III.
Henry Layayes. a prominent fin
aneieF and politician OF Los Angeles. Is
dead He formerly resided in North
Dakota.
Gen. John ". Clouse. retired. Il
the United States army, died IN 81.
Luke's hospital in New York, at the
age Of II years
Frederick c. Hewitt. a retired ban
ker and Yale graduate II the class
of 1858. IS dead from apoplexy al
Owego, n. Y He was GO years ola
and bachelor. He was related to
the Theodore Frelinghuysen family
and was a cousin of Senator Thomas
C. Plat
The P.ttsburg. Pa, authorities are
hard at work in an endeayor to clear
up the mystery surrounding the sui
eide Of the unknown man, who, after
having destroyed his features with
carbolic acid, drowned himself in th
Monongahela river at McKeespOrt, Pa.
one week ago
The Rev. A. Judson Kempton, aged
Al, pastor Of the First Baptist church
OF Muscatine. la, and former pastor
Of the First Baptist church of Madi-
son. is dead from typhoid fever. He
leaves widow and three young chill
dren. His widow was Miss Annie
Main, a niece of former Senator John
G. SpOoner.
DR., Henry CASTOR, 81 years old, died
after a lingering illness at his resi-
dence in Harvey, Ill. He was born in
, Delaware county, O., and came to
Illinois in 1866 He left a widow, a
daughter. Lucy Page CASTOR. superin-
tendent of the National Anti-Cigarette
league, and son, Edward Page Gas
ton Of London, England.
Dreading life imperiled by the rava,
ges of disease more than the horror OF
violent death, Charles A. Lawson.
confidential secretary to ]. T. Hara-
han, president of the Illinois Central
railroad, jumped from the steamer
City OF Benton Harbor, with body
weighted, and was drowned. Accord
ing to members OF the family. Lawson
was suffering from a high fever.
W. G. Modissett, general freight and
M, .
Western railroad, died at his home in
Green Bay from asthma at the age Of
80 years. Before going to Green Bay,
Mr.. Modissett was connected with
the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
road the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas
City road and the St. Louis & Hanni-
bal road.
/. The dead body Of Edward Salsoo of
Blanchardyille. sarm laborer aged 80
Yeas, was discovered in Lake Mo-
mona near the Broom street pier at
Madison. Bruises on the head lead
the police to believe that the dead
man was struck by train while walk
ing on the tracks near where the body
was found Salsoo came to Madison
Saturday and was last seen alive at
10 O'Clock that night
Rev. Donald Sage MacKay, DID.
LII. D. OF New York, president of the
general synod of the Reformed
Church Ia America, died sud
denly in the union station at Port
land. Me. while on his way to his sum
mer home at Bluehill. He had been
in i'll health for more than a year.
Rev. DR.. MacKay was pastor of the
Collegiage Church of st, Nicholas,
New YolR, the edifice which President
Roosevelt attends when in that city.
Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Russell
Sage are members of the parish.
Alexander p. Stewart, one of the
last two surviving lieutenants of the
confederacy, died at Biloxi Miss,
eight-seven years old After the
death four months ago of Lieut.. Cen.
Stephen D, Lee. commander in chief
Of the United Confederate veterans,
Gen, Stewart and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner Of Kentucky were the only
surviving lieutenant generals of the
Confederate states army. Gen. Stew
art was horn in Tennessee and spent
the greater part of his life in that
state. but recently moved to Biloxi, on
the gulf coast