Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-04-15
Badger News
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Hoth of Butternut
Fond du Lac.-Charles D. Smith, at
torney. who announced that he would
run for United States senatorship, is
still in the field. according to his ac-
ton in filing an expense account Of
s452.
Madison.-Just as the printer be-
, gan to set up the brief Of At
torney General Owen opposing the
appeal of John La Vale, convicted Of
murder in Fond du Lac county, and
sentenced to Waupun, word was re-
ceived of the death of the prisoner.
Sheboygan. - Miss Irma Schraut,
teacher in Franklin school, had
narrow escape from drowning in
Lake Michigan while posing for a
picture on an ice foe. A huge wave
washed her within reach of two COM
panions.
Madison.-Capt. D. Hoag. Delavan,
was appointed general chairman of
the annual military ball of the
University of Wisconsin corps Of
cadets. The ball will be held at the
armory April rs and promises to rival
the junior prom in splendor
Manitowoc.-Judge Schmidt is urg-
ing the parents of hayward boys
to find work for their children. The
parents of three boys are named in
particular in the advice given. The
youths. barely in their teens. are al
legged 10 have committed thefts.
Madison.-That every farmer in
the state may learn about the state
life insurance plans, Insurance Com
missioner Herman l.. Ekern has sent
an instructive letter to the clerk of
every town board in the state asking
him to read it before the town meeting
on April Z.
Manitowoc-Albert Matthias of She
boygan, steward on Pere Mar
queite car ferry No. 10, drowned in a
1 slip at the Chicago & Northwestern
docks when he attempted to leap from
the dock on to the moving ferry as it
was leaving the slip. The body was
! recovered.
Manitowoc-Tossing coin TO see
which aspirant for a political po-
sition should make the race proved
disastrous to the man who provided
the silver dollar. After the decision
the money could not be found and
Martin Rappel and G. T. Torrison, the
latter being the choice by the coin, are
/ looking for it.
! Green Bay.-That saloon keeper
4 is morally bound to care for a
customer who becomes intoxicated in
his saloon, and that failure to do so
constitutes grounds for damage suit
| is the contention of Judge Henry
Grass, who filed a decision in circuit
court in an action brought by Joseph
Beaumia for $4,000 against Anton De
Pas of Bay Settlement.
| Fond du Lac.-In clearing the wreck
of freight No. 81, northbound on
! the 500 line at Loon Lake, the
wrecking crew found a car loaded
with dynamite badly shattered and a
portion of track rail driven into the
contents. Railroad officials assert that
1 had the car exploded, terrible loss
of life would have resulted. Thirteen
cars left the track.
/ Madison.-The state industrial com
mission directed the Cambria Can
ming company of Cambria to pay
to John RuehI and wife of the same
| place the sum of $1.0S3.S0 as a death
/ benefit under the state workmen's
compensation act for the death OF
their son, John P. Ruehl. who was &C.
cidentally killed In the canning fac.
tory.
Racine.-Boys at Burlington stole
| so pounds of dynamite from a
storehouse and planted it in the coun-
! ty gravel pit nearby, expecting to en-
plode it and scare the people. The
police caught on before any damage
was done and recovered 35 pounds OF
the explosive. AS the missing IL
pounds are supposed to be somewhere
I in the gravel the entire force declines
to go to work. fearing for their lives
/ Plymouth.-Forty dairy farmers OF
Sheboygan county met here and
Testing association. The association
will engage the services of an expert
to make monthly tests of the cows
owned by all the members Of the asso-
citation The officers are: President
Arthur Zelm, Plymouth; vice-presi
dent, Charles .Nehrling, Lyndon, and
secretary-treasurer Frank Ubbelohde
Sheboygan Falls.
Kenosha.-The police and fire com
mission dismissed charges OF brib
cry brought against Owen O'Hare
chief of police of Kenoslia. The com
mission ruled that the basis was toe
fiimsy for the board to continue with
the hearing The charges against
O'Hare were made in the form 81 an
affidavit in which 1t was alleged that
he took money from the keeper OF a
disorderly house. Chief oHare
charges the plot to gamblers in the
city and has demanded the arrest OF
several persons.
anesville.-Nearly two hundred
dollars in cash prizes will be
offered to farmer boys OF Rock county
by the GAINESVILLE Commercial club in
an acre yield growing contest 1t Is
expected that over one hundred boys
win be enlisted in the competition.
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