Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
Badger News
Briefly Told

Mauison--fOrty-el sophomoreS
of the University of Wisconsin plead
ed guilty in the student court 70 a
charge of hazing freshmen in Lake
Mendoza.
Supsrior.-The badly battered body
of John Hagberg, a transient laborer,
was found in the old levee district.
Robbers had beaten him to death and
thrown his body into a swamp. the
/ police say.
Wausau.-Wnliam Laffin of the
town Of Hewitt collected the boun.
ty on large wolf which he trapped
near his home lie reported that a
| flock of thirteen had been killing sheep
and other animals there for some
/ time
Madison.-The legislative inves-
tigation of the drainage laws OF
the state. with view toward working
out comprehensive code. will be
started in few weeks by the special
committee created by the last legisla-
ture.
Mauston.-August Schieving and
"SAA AuAtSAs uOtn VI seven Mic
Creek. have been arrested, charged
with stealing 20 head of cattle from
Riley Stone and others. District At.
torney Clinton G. Price announces the
men will plead guilty.
Portage.-James Lehan, who had
lived in Portage for sixty years,
died at the home of his niece. Mrs.
Charles Boylan, in Fort Winnebago.
near here. He had been i'll for a month.
MIR. Lehan was eighty-three years old.
He was born in Ireland. He came to
Portage soon after his arrival in this
country and lived here ever since He
owned considerable real estate
Sheboygan.-The annual convention
OF Kings Daughters of Wisconsin
closed here with the choosing of
GAINESVILLE as the place for the
next meeting. The following officers
were elected; President, Mrs E. NJ.
Parmalee, Sheboygan; vice-president,
Mrs. L. G. Catchpole. Janesville; sec
rotary, Miss Jennie Schrage. Sheboy-
gan; treasurer, Mrs. S. c. Chambers.
Milton.
Neenah.-The Kimberly-Clark Pa
per company, the biggest paper
manufacturing company west of
Massachusetts. has announced a pen
sion system, to go into effect the first
of the year 1t affects all subsidiary
companies ALSO and applies to work
men and women over sixty years old
who have been in their employ twenty
years. Pensions range from a mini
mum of SIS per month to $50 per
month.
Stevens Point.-John X Rand, en-
gineer at Stevens Point brewery,
was killed when his automobile
skidded on Riverside road and went
into the river. The water was shallow,
but the car overturned as it plunged,
pinning him in the water underneath.
Three hours later Mike Wietrzykowski
and five in his car were capsized at the
same spot. but ali escaped as they
were thrown clear soi the car when it
went over.
observation-disclosures were elected for
the ensuing year by the Welsh
Christian Endeavor union of Wis
consin and northern Illinois at the
close of its session here as follows:
President, Rev. Gwilyn Z. Jones, Chi
cago; vice-president, R. w. Jones, Ran
dolph; secretary, Edward Williams.
Waukesha; treasurer, Miss Mae Will
liams, Milwaukee; superintendent of
juniors, Miss Elizabeth Elias, Wales.
The next meeting place will be Wales
Sturgeon Bay.-The first fatal hunt
ing accident in Door county this
season happened when William
Newman, aged twenty-four, received
a gunshot wound from which he died.
The young man was hunting rabbits
near his home in the town of Egg Ear-
Dor, when he fell off stump. In pick
ing up his gun he grabbed it by the
muzzle and pulled it toward him, the
trigger catching on a root and dis
charging the shell. The charge struck
him in the groin.
Brillion.-Wilhelm Persohn. a con-
genital cripple, the romance of
whose life lay in his devotion to the
little Methodist church at Brillion, left
$4,000 TO the pension fund of the
church, t was announced in Chicago.
Persohn never was able to stand on
his feet unaided and his parents, who
brought him to this country from Ger
many when he was thirteen years old,
taught him to be cobbler He in
vested his meager savings in land and
the land grew in value. All went to
the church.
ha.-Announcement was re-
ceived here that Mr.. and Mrs.
w. F. Kumlien, both graduates of Law
renee college. who have been teaching
at Moradabad. in the interior of India,
are en- route home. Mr. Kumlien was
teacher at the Bishop Parker Me-
mortal high school in India. Mrs.
Kumlien was formerly Miss Eva The
leen of Kenosha. They were married
in India after Miss Theleen had trav-
eled thousands of miles, the last lap
of the journey being made on the back
of an elephant.
Neenah.-Miss Matilda Kruger of
this city has recovered a watch
lost in Serbia while attending
wounded soldiers at field hospital.
While there she was taken i'll with
pneumonia. About this time the time
piece was missing. Several days ago