Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-02-08
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Wautoma.-I. E DurEee, residing
east OF this village. exhibited 4 pure
white owl which he shot at his place
The bird measured five feet from tip
20 tip and is the first of its kind seen
IN this section for years.
Crandon.-Grace Smell. who was
found crawling along the tracks with
both legs frozen. wiz undergo an op-
Grafton shortly to remove both feet 1t
develops also that her plight is more
Of her own doing. than of her father,
who she first said had driven her out.
Jeferson.-Andrew Carnegie has
written city officials that $4,000 will
be awarded the city for library build
ing. A lot costing $500 has already
been donated by the Promoters club.
Madison.-The Wisconsin commit
lee of the Prohibition national con-
gress have engaged two dry orators"
to give lectures in various Wisconsin
cities. Among the cities to be Wis
tied are: Milton, Cottage Grove,
Lone Rock. Brooklyn. St Ida. Wayne,
vile, Evansville. Darlington. Wayne.
Madison, Sparta and Waupun.
OlOuS ulOu---E EllCnOu H. OiSOus
aged thirty-nine, was found dead In
bed at the home of Mrs. Elisha King,
113 South Fourth street He was
unmarried. His parents live in Ber-
gen, Norway. He evidently died from
suffocation as he was lying face
downward on the bed wher found.
His mouth and nose were buried in
the pillow, which made it almost i'm
possible for him to breathe.
Racine.-Miss Ruth Grant of Mil
waukee will be the next general Sec
rotary of the Y. w. c. A. of this city,
to succeed Miss Florence Tompkin-
son, deceased.
La Crosse.-For the first time in the
5S years he has been employed by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road company, Peter Keaveny, watch
man at the North side crossing, failed
personally to draw his check when the
roads pay car issued checks to it's
employees. Mr.. Keaveny, who is eighty
FIVE years old, is Ill and his son drew
his check.
La Crosse.-If a suit to be started
by ]. H. Marden, former principal
owner of the land, succeeds, the fair
grounds Will revert to the original
owners. Marden contends the land
was condemned for city park pur-
poses 20 years ago, but has been used
as fair grounds in violation Of the
terms OF the condemnation proceed
ings.
Madison.-Two university goods.
the Misses Mary Conover, Riverside,
ILL.,, and Hazel Brown, Luverne, Mimi,
had narrow escape from drowning
while iceboating on Lake Mendoza.
With two members of the Sigma Chi
fraternity they were sailing in the
Edgewood, one of the largest craft on
the lake, and in attempting to leap
crack the boat broke through, Miss
Brown was hurled beneath the ice.
The young men succeeded in hauling
her out with the aid of other boaters
who came to their assistance. Beyond
chilly bath and a bad shock, neither
Of the girls suffered from their ex-
perience.
Wautoma. The body of Mrs.
tndIlGS w ullAGSLOChg lEOlIilS III
Oasis, who disappeared from home,
was found in an old unused potato pit,
about twenty rods from her home.
Mrs. Whittestock rose in the night.
clad only in her night clothes, went to
the granary, where she obtained
quantity of paris green and carbolic
acid, and after taking a quantity went
tbo v>o4oAn apI dfad
La Crosse.-While being re-
turned by friends from a Milwaukee
sanitarium, where she was taken when
her mind was affected by grief over
her husbands death last October Mrs.
Henry B. Meyer of West Salem leaped
from a fast passenger train between
Rio and Portage, breaking both legs.
Fond du Lac-Clifford H. MINIS,
aged thirty-three years, of this city.
a conductor on the 500 line. was in
stantly killed at Byron, ten miles
south of here MINIS was conductor
on the north-bound freight No. 33,
which was just taking the switch at
Byron. when a freight following
crashed into it. The accident was
due to the dense fog which obscured
the vision of the engineer on the Sec
ond train.
Beaver Dam.-Fhe body Of Jo-
seph Tres, who disappeared on
Thanksgiving day, was found floating
in the lake near the cotton mill dam.
At the time of his disappearance it
was thought that he had run away
and the police searched for him in
other cities. He leaves a family
Marinette.-Rev. Father Francis s.
Barth of Stephenson, Mich, has been
named by Bishop Els Of Marquette,
Mich, to succeed the late Father F.
J. Langan of Escanaba, Mich. Father
Barth is regarded as one Of the most
brilliant priests in the northwest
He has had calls to Milwaukee.
acine.-Joseph Thome OF Gale
donna has engaged attorneys to bring
suit for $1,000 against John Spang,
claiming that Spank struck and In
jured him. The two men quarreled
about a horse trade.
superior.-Ruth Thomas, seventeen
years old, a student at Superior Nor
NAL school. comllitted suicide while
on her way home from school She
went into a drug store and purchased
a bottle Of carbolic acid, then walked
down the street until opposite the
/ Superior High school building, when
she swallowed the entire contents Of
| the tfla Staggering along for a