Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-10-08
WISCONSIN NEWS.
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st. Clair, died.
Madison.-WilIiam Ambrose OF
GAINESVILLE escaped from the Mendoza
asylum. where he was sent Septem-
Der 9.
j Northumberland entered the
postofice at Mason, blew the safe
and escaped with about 5000 in
money and stamps.
Florene Ransom Roberts of Long
Lake. is in the county Jail awaiting
trial for pulling gun on A. Daigle,
who is deputy sheriff of Long Lake
Green Bay.-Edward vande Cas-
telie, former editor OF the Depere
Standard. suffered a stroke of apoplexy
at Washington, and Is in a critical
| condition.
Madison. - Governor McGovern
granted a conditional pardon to
Morris Gullikson, Stevens Point, from
an industrial school for boys at Wau.
kesha. in order that he may return to
high school
Sturgeon Bay-More than eighteen
miles of crushed stone road have
been completed this year by Highway
Commissioner H. A WAGNER, besides
repairing SO miles of roads built in
previous years.
sheboygan.-Ada Louret, sixteen
years old, living near Waldo, was
accidentally shot by her brother, Ben
| jamin, ~ cleaning a gun. The
bullet entered her left temple and she
died instantly
WaukesL a.-Robert d. Shields. Jr,
fifty-three years old, OF this city
was killed when his shotgun ac-
cidentalIy discharged as he fell
down an embankment while hunting In
the town of Vernon. The full charge
entered his stomach and he died few
hours later. He leaves wife.
Kenosha.z-Joseph Comenski, aged
twenty-eight years, an employee OF
the powder mills at Pleasant Prai-
rie, was struck and killed by North.
western train at the high bridge cross
ing. Comenski had come to Kenosha
in response to the news of the arrival
of son at his home. The mother was
Frustrated.
Madison.-Dane county veterans
held their reunion and elected
| these officers: A. L. Lund Cambridge,
president: C. w. Netherwood. Ore
gon, secretary; l.. Post, Madison,
treasurer. In body they marched to
the home of DIR. Jane Wilson. aged
ninety-two, who during the war minis
tered to the sick and needy at the
home where she received them.
Appleton.-A S. Galpin of Apple
ton and w. ]. Hay of Oshkosh
met head-on in their automobiles on
the Ridge road. Both cars were prac-
tically demolished. There we're eight
persons in the crash. and none was
hurt. In collision between an auto
mobile and an interurban car William
Wing of the Fox River Paper company
was painfully hurt and his machine
damaged
Washburn-That the children in
the Washburn public schools may
gain a better knowledge OF farm
ing and fruit raising in general de-
partment has been established in the
public schools of this city through
which the children may receive In
struction along these lines. The new
department is in charge of Louis X
Wilson of Milwaukee. graduate of
the agricultural department of the
University of Wisconsin.
Green Bay. NJ Clifford, Escan-
aba, Mich, was appointed super
intendent of the Superior division of
the Milwaukee road. TO succeed E. X.
Hastings. resigned. Mr.. Clifford an
nounces the appointment of e. E. Pc
tiers, Milwaukee. chief train dispatch
er at Green Bay, to succeed o. A.
Keyes, and M. NJ. harrington, Green
Bay. as chief train dispatcher at
Claiming. Mich, to succeed w. C.
Zimmerman.
Madison. - State Insurance Com
missioner H. L. Ekern called
meeting of the special committee of
the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners on fire insurance rate
making. which will be held at the La
Sale hotel in Chicago on october 6.
Commissioner Ekern is chairman of
the committee. which was created at
the last meeting of the national asso-
citation. At the initial meeting in Chi
cago the work of the committee will
be outlined and the manner of pro-
cedure determined
New Richmond-The mystery sur
rounding the finding of the dead
body of a laboring man in a
strawstack on the farm of John Haw-
kins, near Hammond, has been cleared
and the theory that the man met
death through injuries received in
fight in a Hammond saloon efectually
disposed Of 1t develops that the body
is that OF transient known only as
Shorty. employed with a threshirg
crew. The district attorney and cor
oner decided that the man died OF al
coholic poisoning rather than from in
juries received in the fight.
oregon.-The Farmers National
congress at Plano has elected
the following officers; President. W.
l.. Ames of Oregon: first viee-presi-
sent, r. II. Kirby OF Dallas City. H.:
second vice-president, II, F. Stock
bridge OF Atlanta. Ga; secretary. o.
D. Hin Of Kendalia. W. Va: treasurer,
o. X. Unsiker OF Wright Ia
Madison. State Superintendent
c. p. Cary appointed Miss Berg
old. Superior. as assistant library
clerk. The last legislature passed the
Huber law creating the position. Miss