Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-11-06
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

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acknowledgement. Nels Soren-
son, a tailor. ended his life by
hanging himself in a chicken coop In
the rear of his home The body was
discovered by his wife and son. On
three previous occasions during the
last year Sorenson had attempted sui
! eide. The last time he took a quaint
ty Of rat poison.
Kenosha. county officials
are going to learn lessons of
road making from Milwaukee county
and under the auspices of the Keno
sha Automobile club more than sixty
| prominent men of Kenosha will make
an automobile trip over the concrete
roads Of Milwaukee county. The
party will include the members of
the Kenosha county board and the
members of the city committees in
charge of streets and alleys.
Madison.-Four woman students,
| three in the long course and one
special student, are registered
in the University of Wisconsin agri-
/ cultural school. Two of these. Miss
Julia Avery OF Philadelphia and Ellen
l. Cavanagh of Fond du Lac. are soph-
| ignores; Nina Willis of Rewey is
! junior, and Mrs. R. F. Avery. mother
Of Julia, is registered as an adult
! special.
Onalaska.-While excavating for
dry well in the back yard of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Holtz's place.
| Benjamin Haby unearthed the skele-
tons of two human beings. The
bodies, which were probably those of
Indians. must have been buried many
| years ago, as the bones were so far
! decayed that they crumbled upon
coming in con tact with the air
Sheboygan-Wh hunting ducks
at Lake Puckaway, Adolph Book.
druggist of this city, was shot
by a companion, August Kavel. Book
was concealed in the brush when Ka-
vel fired at brace of cartridges. He
was shot in both thighs. Seven shot
were scattered through his chest. one
| going through his lip, two into his
| forehead and one through his right
ear. He will recover. Ray Saeger was
shot through the hand by 32-caliber
rifle while walking along the lake
| shore.
Plymouth As the Iel to
marital troubles dating LEX six
months, Alvin Roehr, aged twenty
three, shot and killed his father-in-
law, Phillip OFT, aged forty-five, his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Phillip OFT, aged
forty-two, and his wife's grandfather,
Fred Haul, aged eighty. Then, after
vain search for his divorced wife,
who had concealed herself in a closet.
| Roehr hanged himself in a nearby
wood. That Roehr did not slay his
divorced wife and her baby was due
to the fact that the girl sought safety
behind a sliding partition in closet
in tho OFT farm house. With her
baby ciasped to her breast, one hand
! over the infants mouth to still its
cries. the girl wife of Roehr crouched
behind partition while her husband,
armed with a shotgun and with the
blood lust in his heart, sealched the
closet for her. For three hours the
girl remained in her hiding place,
only coming out when she felt it safe
to do so.
Marinette. - The body of John
! Miller of Menominee, Mich,
woodsman who had been missing
since August, was found hanging to a
tree near Florence. Fred Langen-
berg. close friend of Miller's, killed
himself few months previously. 1t
| is reported that a suicide pact existed
between them.
Westfield-Mrs. Jane Hamilton,
aged one hundred years and six
months and a resident of Milwaukee
in the early fifties, died at her home
here. Mrs. Hamilton up to a short
time ago had enjoyed the best of
health She observed her one hun
dredth birthday anniversary on April
Is last, and the residents OF Westfield
turned out to pay honor to Grandma
Hamilton" as she was known in the
community.
Racine-Myron, the fve-year-old
son of Ernest King, was burned
to crisp on a farm three miles
east of Elkhorn, where the fam
lily was visiting. The child and his
| brother were smoking cigarettes in
play and accidentally set fire to the
barn and the granary of Charles Blu
chow which burned to the ground,
entailing a loss of $4,000. The child's
charred body was not found until Sun
day noon,
Baraboo.-Martin Singo was ar
rested at Merrimac, charged with
| the murder of Heber Navick, and
placed in Jail here, while awaiting ex-
| animation. Both men we're employed
by the Northwestern railroad as la
| borers and during a quarrel Singo is
| said to have drawn a knife and
stabbed Navick in the groin. from
which he died shortly afterward.
Marinette.-A touring car owned
/ by Charles Matson of Marinette
/ turned turtle on the Peshtigo road
three miles from Marinette at
Deaths curve" while travelling at a