Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-10-07
Seen and Heard
in Wisconsin


ers in st. Croix county. rive arrests
were made in one day.
Wautoma-Mrs. Frank Goick. who
was on trial in circuit court charged
with perjury in connection with the
dynamiting case last January. was
found not guilty by the jury.
Ashland - While playing on the
| bank of Bad river seven-year-oid
Nils Gross was drowned He accident
ally fell into the stream. The water
was so muddy and rapid that his body
could not be found until some Tine
afterward.
Berlin.-While returning from Ripon
Samuel Irwin OF this city In his
automobile struck a machine driven
by Frank Howard of Green Lake.
going at a high rate OF speed.
and the two machines were wrecked.
La Crosse.-The interstate fair,
which closed here. has been one
of the most successful in the history
of the association, both in the number
of exhibits and in the attendance.
which, owing to favorable weather.
was larger than ever before.
Madison. Madison police raided
the store OF Mrs. Peter Manesco,
an Italian woman, and confiscated
25 kegs of beer. She will be
| charged in court with selling liquor
without license. She claims the beer
had been bought by her countrymen
and left in her icebox to keep cool.
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Fox, forty-five. wife of Bert
Fox, woman long prominent in
Kenosha, committed suicide in the
cellar of her house by hanging. Mrs.
/ Fox was a daughter of the late Emil
Beyersdorfer. former sheriff of the
county and for many years one of the
leading Republicans and politicians in
that she had been respondent on ac-
count of the fact that she feared that
she was going blind.
| Waukesha.-While bringing, Rob
4 EFT Stock to this city to answer a
! charge of cruelty to animals, Mrs. E.
J. George, Pewaukee. humane officer,
nearly lost her life. Her automobile
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Mukwonago and wrecked. Mrs. George
was hurt, but Stock, who occupied the
rear seat, was not injured. When ar
| raigned before Judge Mucklestone
| Stock was fined FIVE dollars and costs.
Madison.-Students returning to
| the university this fall are facing
a general increase in the cost of
living Quotations on board and room
in the Latin quarters this fall show am
| increase of from ten to fifteen per
cent on board and from five to ten per
cent on rooms. Most of the boardiug
houses that received from $3.50 toss
| for board last year are charging from
S. to Sc this year.
| Grand Rapids.-Edward c. Ketchums
local ice and coal dealer of this
city. met death under his automo-
bile. He was returning from Pitts
vile. While just outside of the city
limits his hat blew off and in turning
to see where it went it is supposed
that he turned the steering wheel at
the same time, which headed his car
for the ditch and in his endeayor to
bring it back onto the road turned too
short, causing the car TO turn COM
pletely over, He was crushed under
the steering wheel He suffered a
fracture of the skull and his left side
was caved in. He died before he could
be brought to the city.
Madison.--Forty thousand pounds of
carp, two carloads, were taken out
of Lake Mendoza and shipped to,
the Lay Fish company, New York,
which has agreed to pay 515
cents per pound for them. The first
were taken from the lake by w. E.
Wiedner of Harpers Ferry, Ia, an ex-
perienced carp seiner. and under the
supervision of the state fish and game
warden. More of these fish viii be
taken from the lake next week. as they
are regarded as menace to game fish.
All game fish caught in the seines are
put back In the lake. The state re
ceives 30 per cent and the seiner 20 !
per cent of the proceeds of the sale of
the fish. -
Green Bay.-Sister Anna, motheR
project of the Little school. lo%.
Gated two miles north OF Green Lea&
Brown county, woman fifty-two yeaes
Did. was the victim of brutal shd
,icious attack and is in a state Iof
.Aervous prostration in a ManitoIoc {
hospital She was attacked while
asleep in the out-of-the-way school
building by man who first held twol
other sisters as prisoners by locking
the door of an adjoining room which
they occupied. Alfred Schroeder. twen-
ty-seven years old, who has worked as.
painter in the southern end of Brown
county for the last two years, is in the
custody Of the sheriff and a warrant
was issued by District Attorney Davis
The case was originally reported to.
the authorities as an attempt to bur
glarize the sisters school
Eau Claire-F A. Brehart of
Camp Douglas was killed. Edward
Klingbell. Fall Creek. was seriously
hurt as a result Of crashing into a
freight train on the Omaha road while,
riding on a gasoline speeder The
men were returning to Elkmound, after
attending to automatic railway signals.
between Eau Claire and Elkmound.
While closely following the freight at
a high speed an air hose broke on the
train. setting all the brakes. The gas