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Tragedy On Lake Monona
There were occasional tragedies. The first year one of the girls in Slightham’s dining hall was scalded by boiling water.
On July 26, 1900, Jennie Rupp, Fannie Dunn, and Nellie Dunn were being rowed back to Madison by Alexius Baas at 11 p.m. when their rowboat was struck by one of the lake steamers, the Tonyawatha, and the four were thrown into t he water. Jennie Rupp drowned. “Lex,” the oarsman, saved both of the Dunn sisters.
He claimed he did not see any lights on the Tonyawatha; crew members insisted the lights had been on.
Rev. Edward L. Buckner Dies After Being Shot Near His Home
Rev. Edward L. Buckner, of Zalma, died last Friday morning at the Cape hospital where he had been taken for an operation after being shot by an unknown person near his home Thanksgiving morning.
He was but a short distance from his home when the shots were fired at him with a shot gun.
Distressing Suicide
A Woman Drowns Herself in a Well
Hearing rumors this morning that a woman had drowned herself in a well near Hamacher’s Hotel, we set out to investigate them, and ascertained the following the facts:
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Johanna Janeck, a German woman some 85 years old, wife of Mr. Gustav Janeck, for more than a dozen years employed in Mr. Darwin Clark’s Cabinet and Furniture establishment, and for some time foreman of the shop, went to visit Mrs. Lang, who lives in the first ward, about a block south of Nolden’s Hall, near the edge of the flat north of the depot.
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In Memoriam
Sarah COLLENTINE | 24 MAR 1914 |
Thomas CONWAY | 25 MAR 1898 |
Fay Francis GALWAY | 25 MAR 1980 |
Nora A GAVIGAN | 25 MAR 1995 |
Mary Jeanette DURRSTEIN | 25 MAR 2014 |
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Hugh MONAGHAN | 24 MAR |
Margaret MONAGHAN | 24 MAR |
Robert Willard ROWE | 24 MAR |
Lisa Mary GALWAY | 24 MAR |
Edward Malcolm MONAGHAN | 25 MAR |
Regis GAVIGAN | 25 MAR |
William Mark HUMKE | 25 MAR |
Cecil Harold ETHRIDGE | 26 MAR |
Sam BARLOW | 26 MAR |
Michael Thomas CUMMINGS | 27 MAR |
Iver B LUND | 29 MAR |
Leo William CROWLEY | 29 MAR |
Upcoming Anniversaries
Thomas Leo GAVIGAN and Ida May LUND | 27 MAR |
John William GAVIGAN and Catherine J FLANIGAN | 10 APR |
Jack LARSON and Debora KUBLY | 15 APR |
John CONWAY and Sarah COLLENTINE | 17 APR |
Edward James FLANAGAN and Mary Elizabeth GALWAY | 18 APR |
David William ROWE and Ellen Nora FLANAGAN | 20 APR |
Ernest C KILLIAN and Helen Katherine MELZER | 20 APR |
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