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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.

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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.

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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
Nancy Ann GIBBONS27 SEP 1885
Hanorah MCCUE28 SEP 1933
John Edward MCGILLIGAN28 SEP 1944
Merrill James MCGILLIGAN29 SEP 1998
John MONAGHAN30 SEP 1929
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Nancy Ann GIBBONS

Birth: 1818
Death: 27 SEP 1885
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Hanorah MCCUE

Birth: 06 NOV 1878
Death: 28 SEP 1933
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John Edward MCGILLIGAN

Birth: 19 JUN 1888
Death: 28 SEP 1944
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Merrill James MCGILLIGAN

Birth: 11 OCT 1937
Death: 29 SEP 1998
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John MONAGHAN

Birth: 01 APR 1852
Death: 30 SEP 1929
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Robert WILLIAMS

Birth: 13 SEP 1876
Death: SEP 1941
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