Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-02-05

RacinS-Three men were seriously
burned IN the foundry of the Case
plant at Lakeside when the bottom of
large ladle filled with molten iron
dropped out, the spreading metal
causing a panic. One of the employees
threw pail of water on the iron caus-
ing it TO fly into the air, striking sew
| eral men and burning Charles Thomas
and Robert Neiss, both foremen. Gere
Antula. who threw the water. was also
| badly burned
Appleton - Sergt. Harvey j. Piert
who was reported missing in action
during the first battle of Chateau
Thierry, is home on a furlough from
the hospital in Columbus, o. Sergt
Piett was struck on the head by a
piece of shrapnel. He was able TO
crawl out of no mans land to the first
aid station and after that became I'm.
conscious, losing his powers of speech
hearing and eyesight for over three
weeks.
Fond du Lac - Becoming despond
| ent over the loss of tax receipt
Julius Edwin, Green Lake county farm
er, AZ years old, committed suicide by
| hanging. Edwin rose early, MIXED two
cows, then stood on the milking STOOL
fastened a rope to rafter and kicked
the stool out from under him. He
strangled before help came.
Oshkosh - W. H. Oliver, repair
tailor here for thirty years was found
| unconscious in rooms over his shop
as the result of gas escaping from a
hot plate gas stove, and died at To-
col hospital shortly afterwards. In.
| dications pointed to the asphyxiation
being accidental.
Rhinelander - At the coroner's in.
quest in the deaths of Frank Buris and
Chris Filos, who were killed in a
wreck on the Northwestern road
here, the jury found the railroad re-
sponsible for the accident, but did NOT
place any blame on the train crews.
La Crosse-President Z. A. Birge OF
the University of Wisconsin will b.
the guest of honor and principal
speaker at the fifth annual banquet OF
the University of Wisconsin club OF
La Crosse in the Chamber of Com
merce Feb. s.
Fond du Lac-Dorothy c. Roberts
| 20 years old, of Cambria, and a stu
dent at Ripon college, committed sui
eide by throwing herself in front of a
train. Dependency over the death OF
her father is believed to have led her
to end her life.
Rhinelander - Lumbermen operat-
| ing in Oneida and other northern Wis
ccnsin counties declare that it will be
| necessary to lower the wages Of
the woodsmen, the present scale being
too high. Men for logging work ale
reported plentiful
Green Bay-Arthur Hendricks was
electricuted while working inside a
boiler in the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul shops. He was using an elec
trio light and short circuit was
formed within the boiler.
Janesville-George School, a section
aborer OF the Chicago & Northwest
I'm railroad. shot and killed himsel.
when he became violently insane
while suffering from an attack oi
Spanish influenza.
Oshkosh - Benjamin Edwards, for
many years member of the county
board of supervisors, and former
treasurer of Winnebago, died at his
home in the town of Utica, aged 6S
years.
West Bend Washington county has
voted its entire $3.50 of the Arme-
nian-Syrian relief quota out of its
war chest. This is the third county to
actually make this appropriation.
La Crosse-Ross Bankus was bound
over to the federal grand jury by
United States Commissioner Alfreu
Harrison after having been arrested
in a Viroqua blind pig raid
Neenah--Dr Ronald B. Rogers Of
the medical corps is back in the coun-
Try after seeing active service in
France and on shipboard He was one
of the first Neenah men to enlist.
Madison - The Wisconsin high
school. conducted by the university,
Las nearly 800 students, compared
with maximum of $50 heretofore.
Beloit-The federal labor board has
denied reports that in Beloit dis
charged soldiers are refused employ
ment in nearly every case where an
application has been made. Positions
have been offered soldiers, it was an
nounced.
Rhinelander-Fran Cole, a Rhine
lander business man, caught a FIVE
pound tiger bass while fishing through
the ice on Manson lake. To catch a
bass at this time of year is very IN
usual
La eros se-The Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul road will not be allowed to
build new depot 20 replace the one
that recently burned until the govern
ment has passed on the public de-
mand for union station, according to