Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-06-17
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD


on garden rake a week age. Alfred
Schrank. five years old. is dead.
MerriliI-Rev. c. L. Nisbet has been
Installed as pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church of this city.
Shawano.-Mr. and Mrs. Gustav
Grabrecht of this city have just cele-
brated the fftieth anniversary n their
wedding.
Osseo "A silver cup is being offered
by the Osseo Recorder for the grower
of the best corn in Trempealeau
county.
Baraboo.-The annual meeting of
the Sank County Holstein Cattle
Breeders association viii be held on
June II at Devils Lake.
Neenah.-Felix wolkowsky. sixteen
years old, fell of a bridge while fish
ing and was drowned before a rescue
could be made
Neenah.-The biggest fish catch
made in Lake Winnebago this season
has been 1Ss, This record breaking
catch was made by party of seven
local fishermen
Stevens Point.-After being sen.
fenced to the state prison for IS
months. August Lubesky complained
of rheumatism until given the freedom
of the Jail. then he made his escape.
Appleton.--Mrs. Dora Wellhouse,
who was found guilty of running her
home for immoral purposes, following
the closing of the red-light district,
was sentenced to three years impris-
eminent
Ashland. d. Brownell. head of
the English department of North
land college two years, has been
elected president Of the college Pres
ident NJ. j. Fenenga resigned to so to
the Pacific coast
La Crosse-The annual meeting OF
the Western Guernsey Breeders asso-
citation will be held in West Salem
June 49, 1t is expected the meeting
will be attended by hundreds of cat
tlemen throughout the West
Janesville.-Fifty dollars and costs
is the fine that Judge Maxfield
is assessing automobile drivers who
exceed the speed limit, and one dollar
and costs for the bicycle riders who
travel on the walks Without warning
the police started crusade and the
motorcycle officer began rounding
them up.
Madison.-Formal announcement Of
his candidacy for United States
senator was, made by Gov. Fran
els E. McGovern. He is standing
upon his record as governor of the
state, for downward revision of the
tariff and for a reorganization of the
methods of distribution of food prod.
ucts. The latter is his most impor-
tant issue.
Janesville.-An aged man. accom-
panied by his son, came back
to his old home to select his last rest
ing place" in Oak Hill cemetery. With
w, T. Shearer, president Of the Gene
terry association, he picked out a $40
burial lot and presented a SIS check
in payment. receiving s35 in change
Mr.. Shearer is out the $35, for the
check has been declared bad.
Sheboygan His miraculous es-
cape from injury. to say nothing
from instant death, in an accident a
few years ago, caused Rev. Father
Charles Gerhard Myers. VINO was or
dained to the priesthood at ST. Fran
els June /. and read his first mass in
Tho CO pafar Cla,av ob,,rol b1~a -
study for the ministry. While working
in his fathers machine shop ma
chine under which he was working,
weighing over ton, accidentally fell,
but in some manner it's fall was
stopped within few inches Of him
Marinette -Nettie St Clair. aged
twenty-five, a professional aeronaut,
was dashed to death In the pres
ence of several thousand people at
Lakeside. She had ascended a dis
lance of 500 feet. AS she was over the
water it is presumed she untouched
the safety belt that held her to the
parachute so that when she fell she
would not be dragged under the va
ter While doing this she seemingly
lost her hold AS the water was shall
low the impact caused almost instant
death.
Sheboygan.-Th the two young
men who robbed a store in Man
itowoc worked similar game here
and escaped to Milwaukee is the
belief of the local police, and the Mil
waukee police have been given de-
scription of them The robbery was
committed in broad daylight. Shortly
before noon one of the strangers en-
tered the office of the Singer Sewing
Machine company and purchased
bottle of oil, rendering a 500 bill in
payment, that he might see where
the money was kept. An hour later,
when the bookkeeper was alone In the
office, the other stranger came in and
inquired for a crate and was taken to
the basement. While the sale was be-
ing made his confederate entered the
store and robbed the safe Of S45. The
robbery was not discovered until the
men had time 10 leave the city.
Superior. Much improved in
health and, it is believed. on the road
to recovery, Judge Frank A. Ross OF
the Eleventh district circuit court has
from St Paul, where for three
months he has been confined at a sani-
tarium as the result of a stroke of par
alysis.
Amherst-Rev. John P. Jockin-
- . r,a,,hnr - A. yTtf.s.