Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-12-31
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! conklin died, aged eighty-nine years.
5uperior.-A $4,000 or $4,000 pipe or
gan, the gift OF Andrew Carnegie for
the Hammond Avenue Presbyterian
church, will soon be installed
Acknowledgements agents who ac-
cept packages of venison for ship
rnent without knowing their con-
! tents may be held for damages. accord
ing to Attorney General Owen.
/ Two Rivers. Charles Albrecht,
eighteen. employed at the Wiscon-
sin Woodworking company's plant.
was caught in shaft and so seriously
/ injured that he died few hours later
| His home is at Kewaunee.
Madison.-Donald Springsteen, one
! Of the suspects held in connec-
| tion with the murder of John Long
field. was released. His partner. Cleve-
land Jones, was also given his freedom
They were not in Madison the day on
which the murder was committed.
Janesyille.-Wolyes have been found
/ IN the vicinity of Dunkirk, Dane
county, driven from the northern
woods last winter by the cold for food.
| They have been raiaing sheep folds.
Hunters are planning to make a
| Christmas week hunt for the pack.
Beaver Dam.-Fire destroyed the
store building and contents owned
! by G. w. Kleist at Minnesota
Junction. The loss is $4,000.
Mr.. Kleist is postmaster at Minnesota
| Junction and the post Office was To-
Gated in the store. All the mail sup
| plies were burned
Milwaukee.-Ruby Koenig, daugh-
ter of the Two Rivers aluminium
king, has decided to practice law in
Chicago. according to a dispatch from
her home. She is well known at the
University of Wisconsin, where she
took both the courses in agriculture
and law, after her graduation from
Milwaukee Downer college, a school
for girls.
Waukesha. Ruby Winzenried,
three-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Winzenried, was seri-
ously injured when attacked by
large cat The child's mother was
also painfully scratched when she res
cued the child. Mr.. Winzenried is a
butcher. The cat had been raised on
raw meat and it was its thirst for
blood which caused it to be persistent
in its attack upon the child.
Depere. Depere has two high
schools, one on tie east side, UNI
der the city system, and the other on
the west side, under the district sys-
tenn. This double system is expensive
to the city and a movement has been
started by the civic association to
unite the systems and build one high
school, to be located in some central
location, pear the approach to the
bridge which unites the two sides
Reedsburg.-Judge Giles Stevens.
dean of the Sank county bar. died
at his home in Reedsburg. Judge
Stevens had been in practice in Reeds
burg since the late SOS, had served as
county judge and was one of the law
yers of the old school, whose industry
had done much to shape the course of
the law in the state. During the Civil
war he served as captain of Company
b of the Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteer
infantry, which he organized. He was
prominent also in Masonic circles.
Westby.-Ffve hundred employees of
the tobacco sorting plants went
on strike, resisting an attempt
to reduce their pay from 80 to 50
cents per 100 pounds. The plants
were obliged to close. A committee
Of the tobacco sorters was named to
meet the employers. Employees 1t
Sparta and Viroqua. where many more
hands are employed. have not yet
been drawn into the controversy, but
may be later, If a settlement is not
made
Depere.-Lewis Devroy, aged thfr-
ty, lost his life by breaking
through the ice on Fox river while
skating. With a number of compan-
ions he attempted to cross the river,
which had frozen over only the night
before. Another young man with him
went into the water at the same time,
but saved himself by climbing upon
the ice. The body has not yet been
recovered. This is the first fatal
skating accident in this vicinity this
winter
Milwaukee.-Thet in many instances
of recent violations of the Mann
white slave act the women in
the case" were equally guilty as the
men. and should have received SEN
fences similar to those imposed on the
male violators, is declared by United
States Attorney Guy d. Goff. He fur
Their declares that the majority OF
these women actually enter into a con-
spiracy with men and that he intends
TO bring charge Of conspiracy against
q woman complainant when a certain
case comes up for trial in few days.
Mr.. Con cited several recent cases
tried in Milwaukee, where, in his opin-
ion, the women in the cases were as
guilty as the men he has sent to the
penitentiary.
Sheboygan. - William Drain, a
pioneer sailor on the Great Lakes.
died here, aged eighty-fiye. Born in
Ireland in 1928, Drain came to Canada
in 1885. When fourteen he went 70
sea and circled the globe. In 1852 he
married. Began sailing on the Great
Lakes at Buffalo, coming to Sheboy-
gan in 1857. He retired in 1885.
Mondovi.-Fiye hundred rabbits
was the bag of two teams of SO
men each who secured the woods
near here The contest was for an
oyster supper TO be furnished by the
touaru Ono ai1o IrfIInd 9nn 80 A. ~.