Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-10-09


er. the New York brohc-. who
committed suicide here, had nearly
s150,00O life insurance. has been dis
covered By the local authorities. Rel
atiyes in the east write that he was
depressed owing TO the failure of his
venture, the retaining of Louisiana
swamp lands, in which he had in
vested all his money. and had induced
many friends to do likewise.
Racine.-Robert Smith, a promi-
nent citizen of Union Grove, is
dead as a result OF an attack of heart
failure, brought on by the strain OF
carrying the body of his friend, Emil
Neirahaghe, who was killed By train,
to the undertakers. and to the excite
ment incident to the inquest, at
juror. He had been a sufferer with
heart trouble for several years.
Madison.-Before the corn husk-
ing season begins in November.
farmers OF Wisconsin will receive a
bulletin designed to save them the
loss of arms. hands. fingers, etc, in
the deadly corn husking or corn shred
ding machine. Under statutes of the
last two legislatures the Industrial
commission is charged with the duty
Of enforcing the law which requires
that corn shredders and corn huskers
shall be guarded.
Manifestation Miller, woods.
man, sixty years old, dropped dead
in the saloon of Arthur Rettke.
Miller for ten years worked in the
woods at Pentoga, Mich Nothing can
be learned of his family. Coroner
James Tweedle will not hold an in
quest, having decided death was due
to heart trouble. Ne money was
found on MilIers person
Oconomowoc.-Trav between Mil
waukee and WATERFOWL on the
Milwaukee road was delayed sew
eral hours by the derailing of several
cars of an east bound freight train
few miles west of Ixonia The ma.
chinery of one of the cars broke,
causing several to leave the tracks,
and also tearing the tracks up. No
one was injured.
Racine.-John Cerny of Franks
Vile, Racine county, was killed by
| a Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light company car at the Willow
Creek switch, several miles north of
this city. 1t is believed he was asleep
on the track at the time of the acct
dent.
Wausau.-John Nevinski fell from
pier at Brokaw, and was
drowned in the Wisconsin river. His
body has not been recovered and his
home is not known.
Kenosha-With all the accompani-
ments Of real lynching with
The rope about the neck OF the victim
and the mob yelling at his heels, as he
was being carried away to the woods
to be hung to the highest tree, a
drama was enacted in the west part of
this county, which proved the resource
fitness of Sheriff Andrew Stahl of
Kenosha county. 1t was make be-
lieve mob and a mock lynching, but
it was Stahls last card in an effort to
force a negro, Wiley Davie of Ken
lucky, to confess to the crime of grand
| larceny. Davie had stolen shotgun.
The man could not be cajoled or
ttgeatened into confessing. so Stahl
carefully organized a mob of farmers
and ordered them to prepare to lynch
the man. Then it was, and not until
then, that Davie broke down. With
screams that could be heard for half
a mile, he shouted: Don't hang me,
boys, I'll get the gum and he did get
| it in short order. The gun was found
buried under a pile of leaves in a
swamp.
Milwaukee-With the Wauwatosa
/ Vanderbilt race course packed by
a dozen steam rollers and dried by
the warm sunshine, Teddy Tetzlaf.
driving a Fiat car, in the first official
practice since the postponement of
the races, shot around the circuit at
rate of more than seventy miles an
hour, Caleb Bragg, also in a Fiat, COM
pfeted the course in minutes and 80
seconds, only % seconds under TetZ-
laf's tine. "If the track remains in
good condition, I expect to take an
rate of more than seventy miles an
hour made on the Santa Monica
track" said Tetzlaff after his dash.
George Mason, who drives a Mason
car, was the first to experience an ac>
cident. He blew a tire while making
the "hairpin.
Madison.-The state board OF agri-
culture at it's meeting audited the
accounts of the state fair, but as a
number of bills had not been present
ed the board adjourned for two weeks.
when it will meet in Milwaukee. At
that time it will issue a formal state
ment. 1t viii also inspect and pass
upon the new section of the grand
stand at the fair grounds, which has
been erected,
Beloit. - While Chief OF Police
Charles Qualman was showing the
mechanism Of new automatic
pistol the weapon was accidentally
discharged, and a bullet passed
through the hand Of the chief and
struck the shoulder of Frank Roberts,
/ a Dodgeville man. Roberts collar
bone was shattered. The chief took
5 .ha srfured man tn a hospifol