Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-09-29
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occupants until police arrived.
Nenah.-Ernest Kay, a Chicago
steeplejack, leaped from the top Of
the Appleton waterworks tower, a
distance Of $50 feet, in a demonstra.
ton of tie apparatus being manufac-
tured by local IRE escape company.
Baraboo.-As a result Of a big
Northwestern track across the Wis.
consin river at Merrimac, all trails
service was suspended until the track
was repaired. which took several
hours.
Fond du Lac.-Representativ of
the local manufacturing. financial
and jobbing interests have taken
preliminary stel.s looking toward the
organization Of Fona du Lac brancL
OF the National ASSOCIATION OF Credit
Men.
Sheboygan.-Sheboygan will take
no part in the s1.000,000.0O0 loan
to the allies. This was made GER
tain when the four local banks in
serted advertisements in the Sheboy-
gan newspapers announcing they had
met and jointly passed up the oppor-
tunity to share in the loan.
Misunderstanding struck st. Johns
Lutheran church. demolish!ng the
big chandelier and setting fire TO
the loft. but the blaze was easily
put out. Lightning also struck the
cemetery chapel OF St. Mary's Catho-
lie church in Burlington which was
practically destroyed.
Eagle River.-John Zychowski, aged
twenty-three, wanted in Cleveland, o.,
for the murder September of Louis
Balik, was arrested by Sheriff Hall at
his brothers homestead at Pickerel
Lake, remote part of Wisconsin's
widest county. He was unaware the
sheriff was present until the sheriff's
gun was poked into his back.
Appleton.-Registra opened at
Lawrence college with a record
attendance in sight. Every dormi-
tory has been filed for some
weeks. and students who have failed
to obtain quarters in advance are seek
ing rooms with private families. 1t is
thought there will be nearly one hun
dred who cannot be accommodated in
dormitories or fraternity houses.
Chippewa Falls.-Robert Nichols,
twenty-five years old. Fort Dodge,
Ia, admitted his identity and plead
ed guilty to the charge of rob
bling at the point of a revolver the
station agent of the 500 line road
here, securing sos in cash and $1,000
in pay checks. He was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment. Nichols
also confessed robbing the station
agent of the Northwestern road at
Waukesha on the night of September
where he. obtained 5000.
Baraboo.--An attempt to escape
from the counts Jail by break
ing through the wall at the second
story was foiled by Sheriff Hale.
Bricks were removed from the inside
and enough were knocked from the
outer Wall to permit small person
to crawl through. The sheriff heard
the pounding and nipped the affair
Just in time to prevent a wholesale
Jail delivery. Clarence St. Claire. who
was convicted of burglary. is charged
with the offense and was sentenced
to three years at Waupun.
Kenosha.-Dennis Sullivan. for
mer Milwaukee man, now in charge
of the railway yards at Balm sta
ton, in this county, severed thirty
year-old domestic tie in municipal
court here when he was divorced
from his wife, Josephine Sullivan. He
declared that his wife disappeared in
Milwaukee eight years ago. He has
waited in hopes of her return, but for
three years he has heard nothing of
hsr. By the order of the court the
wife was denied any possible future
claim to alimony.
to inaugurate a campaign for an
endowment fund of s325,000 to be
raised before next January. The
Rockefelle. board, Andrew Carnegie
and o. H. Ingram have offered s135,.
600 on condition an additional $4,000
be pledged by friends of the school
This will be the first time towns.
people have been called on to con.
tribute to such a fund and they are
expected to respond literally. C. s.
Ward of the international committee
of the Y. NJ. e. A. will have charge
of raising the fund.
Green Bay.-The annual conven-
ton of delegates from Sunday
schools throughout the state will be
in Green Bay on November 8. 10 and
IL. II is expected between 600 and
700 delegates, representing all parts
of Wisconsin, will be present. Com
mittees appointed several weeks ago
are arranging for accommodations for
the visitors and working to make this
convention the best and most success.
full ever held in the state The execu.
tive committee is composed of liver j.
Terp, w. T. Ream and William Loose.
Kenosha.-John j. Mayer, prominent
in business and political life Of Keno
sha for more than forty years, was run
down by a motor truck, owned by the
Pabst Brewery company, sustaining
fractured skull and died four hours
later. Matt Floss, driver of the truck
is being held pending the findings OF
coroner's jury.
Waukesha.-George Adler. alias
John w. Barnhart, Forest City, Ark
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