Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-04-22
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD


Misunderstanding to word from
Washington. D, c., the following
Wisconsin pensions were granted:
Ella Clarkson, Neenah: Katharine
Kuska, Pulaski; Dorothea Trefethen,
Winneconne; Emma jackson, Verona;
Sarah w. Lowe, Green Lake; $12 each
Ashland.-Senator A. w. Sanborn,
Roy Beebe, Z. J. Delwiche and
]. NJ. Anderson have been named
as the four delegates from Ashland to
attend the marketing conference az
Chicago on April IL
La Crosse.-Navigation on the up
per Mississippi river opened when the
Percy Swain. government boat. passed
through the bridge going down from
her winter quarters at Fountain City
with string Of barges In tow.
Ashland. - The primar, house,
one of the principal buildings OF
the Lake Superior iron & Chemical
company, was destroy ed by fire. Adam
Stem. prominent business iaan, who
was watching the fire. fell from his bi.
cycle and broke his neck
MISUNDERSTANDING Harbur. the
little village at the state line just
south of Kenosha, had the biggest
fire in its history when the home of
George Kirk, president of the village.
was destroyed by fire. The loss is $5.-
600
Eau Claire.-Fire starting from
sparks from an engine destroyed a big
barn, granary and grain machine shed
and all machinery and silo on the
farm of Reinhart Wilmer of Meridian.
The loss was $4,000, with no insurance.
La Crosse-The sheet metals work
ers' strike in La Crosse. which has
been waged for II months and one Of
the longest and bitterest in the history
OF the labor unions, has been settled
and the strikers have been granted
their demands
Matchmaker an all night vigil,
Game Wsrdens Conrad Asmuth
and Ben Lanning. Black Ri7er
Falls, arrested six men on a charge of
using nets out of season. The nets
we're found at an outlet of Lake Mo-
mona. Caught in them was found the
largest pickerel officers of the depart.
ment ever saw. The fish weighed 80
pounds and was 43 inches long.
Sheboygan.--Rev r., E. Dresser,
pastor of the First Baptist church and
one of the best-known preachers in
Wisconsin, has resigned. Rev. Mr..
Dresser has held pastorates at Sheboy-
gan Falls, Oshkosh and Ashland and
at the time OF his resignation was dean
of the Protestant ministers in Sheboy-
gan. It is understood he is consider
ing two different calls.
Grand Rapids Clarence Wellhoef-
err, six years old died at his home
in Rockville as the result OF in
juries. The child was alone at the
time, playing in the barn and no one
knew that he was hurt until he ran
into the house and said his head
ached. Later a physician was sum
moned, who discovered that the child g
skull was fractured. II is presumed
that he fell from the hay loft to the
stone floor
Madison.--The Wisconsin county
work committee of the Young
Mems Christian association viii meet
here Wednesday. After banquet ad.
dresses will be made by II A. Moeh
lenpah, Clinton, chairman of the state
county work committee; DR. Fl. l.. Rus
sell, dean of the college of agriculture
and A. e. Roberts, New York, senior
secretary of the county work depart
ment of the international committee.
Representatives from Waukesha, Wal
worth, Columbia, Sank and Rock coun-
ties, which are taking up county work.
will attend
Racine. - Property owners along
the lake shore have suffered thou
sands of dollars in losses through
the land falling into the lake. In the
last five years many acres have dis
appeared This year the fall seems
greater than ever. The J. /. Case
company is a heavy loser Several
hundred feet of land all along the
compAny's shore property has been
washed away by the waves. The lake
shore property owners are talking of
organization to construct a co-opera-
tive lake shore protection this sum-
mer.
Grand Rapids--John Olson. twenty
two years old, of the town of
Rock, Wood county, died in ST. Jo-
seph's hospital as the result OF an acci-
dent three weeks ago, He was riding
with a neighbor farmer In lumber
wagon with loose board seat. The
horses became frightened and threw
the men to the ground. and the young
er man was run over by one Of the
hind wheels of the wagon. He was APP
parently unhurt and after the horses
we're stopped the trip was continued,
and he was apparently as well as
usual. On the seventh day he became
violently Ill and was taken to the hos
pital where he remained until his
death.
Milwaukeee-Three hundred mem
bers OF the Brewery Workers
union quit work at the plant OF
the Pabst brewery. giving as reason
that a transfer was made by one of
its members from one department TO
another contrary to the wishes OF the
union officials.
Manitowoc.-The Two Rivers life
saving crew rescued the fish tug
Dorothy and crew of three when