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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.

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, Ellen Jane  Rupp “Jennie”, 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. Ellen Jane “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.

Edward Roarig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Roarig of Fayette, died April 10th, at Trinity hospital, Milwaukee, where he had been taken for an operation. As was stated in last week’s paper the young man had been working for his uncle, Robert Williams, where he was kicked on the head by a horse. How long he laid in the stall under the animal is not known but he was found by Mrs. Williams in a semi conscious state and taken to the house.



Today in History

708 - Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies 1844 - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant and leader of the protestant Réveil movement, dies at 49 1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, [...]

Mt. Horeb, Wis. –(AP) — Victor R McKay, 38, of Madison, shot and killed Mrs. Ruby Lund Heydon, 25, of Mt. Horeb, and then fatally wounded himself while they sat in a car in a hay-field near here August 17, 1942, a coroner’s jury decided after an inquest yesterday. Testimony indicated the motive was either jealousy or McKay’s concern over the possibility he might be drafted and forced to leave Mrs. Heydon a divorcee.

Ruby Christine Lund Heydon
Ruby Christine Lund Heydon

1983: Madison West Goes 18-2 to Win the State Hockey Championship

1983 Madison West Regent State Champion Hockey Team
1983 Madison West Regent State Champion Hockey Team

Dan Gavigan grandson of Thomas Leo Gavigan was a member of this Team

1983: Madison West Goes 18-2 to Win the State Hockey Championship

The only State Hockey Championship in School History!


Q: Where did the original Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota end up?
Answer: The Bill Weege farm near Barneveld Wisconsin
Joe Gavigan & Peter Weege Barneveld WI
Joe Gavigan & Peter Weege Barneveld WI - 1980's Before Tornado
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.



Past Reunions

Upcoming Birthdays
Catherine Frances DALEY10 FEB
John R DENSON11 FEB
Ross BUCKNER11 FEB
Stella Mary CASE11 FEB
James Howard WALRACK11 FEB
Dorothy Violet TROTTER11 FEB
Margaret HARDYMAN12 FEB
Kathleen Jane VANCE12 FEB
Janine Marie GOERING12 FEB
Hannah CONWAY13 FEB
Malcolm “Dutch” MUENICH13 FEB
Brian HARRISON14 FEB
Upcoming Anniversaries
Thomas Francis BIRMINGHAM and
Margaret J GALLAGHER
10 FEB
Patrick H. CROWLEY and
Mary SMITH
16 FEB
Alfred RASMUSSEN and
Mildred Eva GALWAY
21 FEB
Joseph Robert GAVIGAN and
Maria Louisa ANTON
24 FEB
Patrick James GAVIGAN and
Euphemia WOOD
27 FEB
Charles DORAN and
Bertha Marie Katherine BUEHLMAN
12 MAR
Thomas Leo GAVIGAN and
Ida May LUND
27 MAR
In Memoriam
Michael DERLETH10 FEB 1865
Mary SMITH10 FEB 1889
James FLANAGAN11 FEB 1884
Charles WILLIAMS12 FEB 1888
John B JONES13 FEB 1891
Michael CAVANAUGH13 FEB 1894
Mary Jane WARREN16 FEB 1880
Leonard CROWLEY16 FEB 1914
Charlene Berthette DORAN16 FEB 1977
William R DUMOND17 FEB 1990
Martha GILBERTSON18 FEB 1919
Thomas CONWAY18 FEB 1923
Harold G JAEGERS18 FEB 1981
Donald Raymond LANE18 FEB 2016
Brennan MCDERMOTT18 FEB 2017
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Michael DERLETH

Birth: 12 MAY 1812
Death: 10 FEB 1865
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Mary SMITH

Birth: 1827
Death: 10 FEB 1889
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James FLANAGAN

Birth: Unknown
Death: 11 FEB 1884
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Charles WILLIAMS

Birth: 1872
Death: 12 FEB 1888
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John B JONES

Birth: 1841
Death: 13 FEB 1891
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Michael CAVANAUGH

Birth: 1823
Death: 13 FEB 1894
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Mary Jane WARREN

Birth: 23 DEC 1850
Death: 16 FEB 1880
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Leonard CROWLEY

Birth: JUN 1890
Death: 16 FEB 1914
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Charlene Berthette DORAN

Birth: 13 APR 1929
Death: 16 FEB 1977
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William R DUMOND

Birth: 19 JUN 1914
Death: 17 FEB 1990
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