Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD
WISCONSIN.


minors playing billiards or pool.
The annual convention Of group No.
of the Wisconsin bankers viii be
held in Chippewa Falls on Jan. %.
The body Of an unknown man was
found by a freight crew at Colfax. 1t
wss badly cut and was taken 70 Chip
pewa.
Joseph Brown, a Fond du Lac fish
erman, has fallen heir to an estate OF
$1,000 left him by relative in Ger
many.
The Fond du Lac county board has
voted to remodel the central part OF
the county asylum at cost not to ex-
coed $4,000. :,
The work of harvesting the annual
supply of ice on Lake Winnebago has
been started The ice is fifteen inches
thick and of good quality.
Ernest Schultz OF Sheboygan, IL
years Of age, has been sentenced to
ninety days in Jail on a charge OF bur
glarizing the Leader store.
Chicago Masons to the number OF
200 invaded GAINESVILLE in full dress
suits to conduct the initiation OF Attor-
ney William G. Wheeler into the order
Deputy Game Warden Craig of Su-
perior has Investigated the report that
the La Toilette hunting party bought
deer, and says that he finds nothing to
t..
Mrs. Edna Du Bots has sued the
city OF Belolt for $4,000 damages for
a broken arm which she sustained on
Dec. Is on a walk which she declares
was defective.
Lawrence Baehler, proprietor OF
Sheboygan barber shop, has been ar
rested on charge of employing his
brother Ferdinand, who is said to be
without a BARRIERS license, in his shop
F. Il. Hill of Almena, has been con
victed of retaining money out of the
purchase price of a bridge for the
county which he was to have turned
into the treasury, and was fined SIS
and costs.
A new Sunday school for the "un-
churched, unorganized and unlabeled,"
was opened at La Crosse by Catherine
McFarlin. The school will be open for
all creeds, and is being made as an
experiment.
The wife of DR.. z. G. Horton of
Whitewater, suffered stroke Of pa
ralysis and is in a critical condition.
Mrs. Horton was a volunteer nurse
with the union army, her husband be-
ing an assistant surgeon.
w. w. Dietz of Rice Lake, brother
OF John F. Dietz, the alleged outlaw
of Cameron dam, is under arrest on
the charge of sending yenison to a
friend In Chippewa Falls. He was ar
rested at Rice Lake by Game Warden
Hubert, and his trial has been set for
Jan. 20.
Mrs. Henry Carleton, wife of the
proprietor of the Carleton hotel, at
Beloit, was robbed of sS5 in cash,
which was taken from a bureau
drawer in her room. Jewelry worth
$40e and three gold watches, which
were lying in the same drawer, were
not taken.
Jay Gleason, aged Is years, stud
ent of the GAINESVILLE high school, iv-
ing In the town of La Prairie, was
struck by Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul passenger train while driving
from school and his head badly gashed.
The train was stopped and he was
found lying a few feet from the track
unconscious.
A train killed Andrew Peterson Of
Colfax near Chippewa Falls. Ander-
son was walking along the track, and,
hearing the whistle, stepped of. He
was struck by the steps of one of the
cars. He was 60 years old and had
lived in Dunn county for over thirty
years.
A flood of applications for admission
to the Wisconsin state tuberculosis
sanatorium at Wales, is reported by
DR.. Chester A. PAUL, the superintend-
ent, and the completion of the new
shack will permit OF the acceptance
OF at least seventy-five more patients,
making a total of 100.
Property owners about Camp Doug
las are indignant at the action of the
special board of survey in recommend
ing the Sparta site for national ar
tillery field and army camping ground.
They claim that the members CT the
board were given but a cursory view
of the Camp Douglas site.
Henry Kitzrow of Iron River, was
attacked by huge lynx while hunting
rabbits, but managed to dispatch the
brute before it could iniure him.
Wild animals are finding difficulty in
getting food. owing to the lack of
snow, and have become unusually bold
IN their half starved condition.
Charles Alexander Eastman, q full
blooded Sioux Indian, who attended
Beicit college twenty years ago. has
written a volume Of legends and
stories entitled "Old Indian Days"
He was sent to Beloit from the Sisse-
ton reservation by the Rev. S. r.
Riggs. and is the only member of his
race who was ever a student at Be
lott
A man representing himelf to be an
employe of the Bissell Carpet Sweeper
company victimized many owners of
the machines Mt Neenah He took
the machines away to repair them,
and NEGLECTED. 10 return some did noOr.