Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-10
SEEN AND HEARD
in WISCONSIN


mere as the result of being run over by
the Portage and Horizon passenger
train at Cambria. He with several other
men was engaged in leading horses on
car when the accident happened.
Both legs were mangled and crushed,
and he was brought to the Bentley hos
pital here in a special train in homes
of saving his life. He was thirty-fiye
years of age, unmarried and a son of
Adam Wolslegel.
Barron.-Anson Merla, John Pan
lick and John Rokrenbach We're fined
$50 and costs in the municipal court
on the charge of dynamiting for trout
in Hay river, near Almena The case
win be appealed to the circuit court
Trempealeau-Phill Brody, a To-
cal saloonkeeper, and his wife, were
arrested charged with being the per-
petrators of a series of burglaries here
during the past winter,
Fond du Lae-FranK Denasus, al
legged horse thief, was placed on trial
in circuit court. His was the first
case taken up at the May term. He
attempted to break Jail three times
within the last three months.
waukee.-Following a strike OF
! between six and seven hundred paint
ers the Master Painters association
In meeting at the Hotel Blatz decided
to refuse to grant the demands of the
union for an increase from 427a to so
cents an hour, and voted to conduct
open shops in the future
Sheboygan.-The body of Fred Mar
ohm, aged forty-ive, was found in the
Sheboygan river. He left home to at
tend a lodge meeting and did not re-
turn. There were 10 marks of violence
on the body.
Appleton.-Arthur W. Little of Park
Rapids, Mimi, senior at Lawrence col
lege, has been awarded the University
Of Wisconsin scholarship for excellence
in work at Lawrence.
Washburn.-Nine criminal cases,
20 grand jury cases and 10 cases
of fact for court are on the calendar to
be tried at the regular May term of
the circuit court. The one large dam
age suit is the case of r. A. Herring
against the Du Pont Powder company
| for $4,000. This case has been before
the courts for the last tive years, hav-
ing been taken to the supreme court
on two different occasions.
Beicit.-Rev. z. ]. Evans, rec
tor of st. Pauls Episcopal church, has
just received a gift of tour of Europe
| from former congregation. He de-
clines to state where the generous con-
| gregation is located He will leave on
May 26. going first to Wales, his birth
| place, and later to England and conti-
mental Europe.
| Racine.--Mrs. Christine Lamp,
aged seventy-ive, widow of Henry
Lamp and mother-in-law of for
mer Mayor Peter B. Nelson, was
| stricken on the street with heart dis
ease and died in a drug store into
1 which she had been carried Her
| daughter is in Alabama and son-in-law
! in Minneapolis.
| Madison - That the University
of Wisconsin is instructing 9,469
students this year is shown by the
new catalogue now in press. OF these
| 1888 have been in attendance at Mad
| ison, and 1891 have received instruc-
/ ton by correspondence through the
! extension division. The total attend
ance at Madison, 5,53S, is an increase
of 591 over that of last year, gain
OF 11.9 per cent.
/ Sparta.-Three prominent La Crosse
men-A. A. Morse, DR.. C. d. Main
and Mr. Gleason-narrowly escaped
serious injury in an auto accident on
the Cataract ridge north of Sparta.
/ They turned out of the way of team
| and went too close to the edge of
hill which, giving away, toppled the
| machine down a steep embankment.
| Beyond few bruises the men es-
capped injury. The machine turned
over three times. landing about sixty
| feet from the road, the engine still
running.
Marshfield-When the clevis on
his pillow broke, Christian Bartelmess
| of the town of Cameron, was drawn
/ forward by the horses over the double
1 edged coulter, the upper portion of
/ which cut three of his ribs and ex-
! posed his right lung. Bartelmess then
/ walked an eighth of a mile to his
| home. He will recover.
| Misunderstanding not only courage
| but presence of mind and GOODNESS
rare in a lad of his age, Roland Nc
Laughlin, aged twelve, saved the life
/ of Seymour Scripture here when the
| latter fell into the river while fishing.
/ After Scripture had gone down for the
/ third time. Mclaughlin dove after him
| and dragged his unconscious body to
| the bank. Willie the other lads ran
| for help Mclaughlin proceeded to re-
suscitate his companion and worked so
/ successfully that when physicians ar
rived he was already conscious.
| La Crosse.-John Humphrey of
1 the state board of arbitration an
nounced that there would prob
ably be a settlement of the button
workers strike within a few days.
Manitowoc.-Stanley Spaetek. who
/ killed a mad dog by throttling it with
1 his hands and was severely bitten. has
/ been sent to the Pasteur institute of
! Madison by the county. Health de-
partment officials are conducting a
/ rigid inquiry and seven dogs, suspect
/ ed of having been bitten by the dog
killed by Spaetek, have been dis
patched.
/ Beaver Dam.-Miss Matilda Zinke.
aged forty. who lived alone was
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