Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-08-09
WISCONSIN
BREVITIES

/ state superintendent of public prop
/ erty, may be chosen warden OF the
state prison to succeed Henry Tow ;,
! resigned. Mr. Essman spent a nj Ii
here, looking over the prison and y
\ ferring with the Rev Daniel w
/ ward. the member Of the state board
Of control. who is Temporarily In charge
/ of the institution. Mr. Essman has
had some experience in prison work,
/ having served as deputy warden Of
/ big prison in Indiana, and might,
I it is said, consider the wardenship
4 here Il It were offered him. The leg
/ islature al its recent session Increased
the salary of the warden from 50 900
20 $500, with maintenance for him.
/ self and family, which is equivalent
( to $1,000 more. The legislature also
! increased the salary of state superin-
tendent of public property from $4,000
e $4,000.
Manitowoc.-For more than thirty
/ years Charles Butler, Clark's
Mills pioneer, who died at Frank
fort, Mich. a few days ago carried
I q prove VI NiONA AtOiu Ills Sn4Al III
his lungs and the presence OF the
cloth caused cough which on several
occasions threatened his lie. Butler
was a soldier in the Union army in
the Civil war and ct Perryville was
shot through the lung. The bullet was
cut from his back, but a piece Of his
wooden shirt which was torn away by
the bullet lodged in the lung
Green Bay-Money which has
been due E. K. Ansorge for forty
six years and which he had forgotteu
having been entitled to was paid to
him by the war department. The
amount was not large, being only
S1.73, and Mr.. Ansorge was more than
surprised to receive a check from
the government. The money was to
cover the value of blanket and other
articles which Mr.. Ansorge turned in
to the department at the close of the
Civil war
Prairie du Chien.-Harry Schmidt.
aged fifteen, whose mother has just
returned from the hospital where
she had been confined for weeks, went
to the bank of the Mississippi to
gather clans, and came home an hour
later with a hatful When he opened
the third one he and his parents were
amazed to see 31-grain pink beauty
drop to the floor. William Moore,
local pearl dealer, gave $500
Tor it.
West Bend--Mrs.s Martin ]. Cav
anaugh, wife Of a Chicago business
man, is dying and her husband is seri-
ously injured as a result of an auto
mobile accident near here, when their
machine turned turtle on a newly
made gravel road north of here.
They were on their way to the
! Dells.
Neenah.-A Telegram received
here said f. w. Mathewson, for
merly a Kenosha manufacturer and
well known throughout the state, was
/ killed in an auto accident at Everett,
! Wash. The machine went over
high embankment, crushing Mathew.
son beneath it.
Neenah.-Leslie Dietz, son Of
John Dietz of Cameron Dam fame,
said attorneys who have charge Of
the case of his father will be ready
to present their arguments for new
trial to supreme court before Janu-
airy. He said the attorneys have
| learned something of late which will
put a new phase on the situation at
Cameron Dam, but declined to make
1t public.
Manufactured with violating
the state game laws through IL
legal fishing, Charles Peterson and
Charles Messman, the latter city Of
fetal, We're arrested by game wardens.
Soon after their arrest Peter
son escaped. Messman pleaded not
guilty.
Madison.-The new. state affairs
commission met in the governors
Office and organized by elect
ing former Senator w. H. Hatton OF
New London as vice chairman Under
the law, Governor McGovern is named
as chairman. A secretary will be
elected at another meeting of the
commission to be held in about a
month The governor was requested
to look up a good expert accountant
who can be employed by the commits
sion TO devise a uniform system OF
state accounting
Madison.-Brushed from his foot
hold by a swinging steel beam
while working fifty feet from the earth
on the framework of the new capitol
dome, Frank McCabe of Milwaukee
saved himself from instant death when
he grasped another beam and broke
the force of his fall. He was picked
up unconscious from the concrete
foundations and lies in local hospi-
tai suffering from serious injuries.
Fond du Lac.-Befors the first
national convention of the Luz
theran Aid association adjourned a
committee consisting Of Carl Fritz.
Saginaw. Mich; E. R. schneider, Mar
inette. Wis; H. P. GLASGOW, Fond du
Lac, Wis: A. H. SLIDER, Mankota,
| ,dinn; and Martin Dorm, Joliet, Ill,
was appointed to confer with the