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- 1869
Distressing Suicide
A Woman Drowns Herself in a Well
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.
- 1900
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.
- 1892 - 1896
Today in History
- 1942
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.
- 1920
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's Lucky Number is...
8647
Farm Tragedy
A tragic moment in Time regarding the Stevens family happened in 1936 on the farm of Harry and Jennie Stevens in the Skelton Township of Carlton County MN when Harry Eugene (Gene) Stevens accidentally drove over his brother James Eugene Stevens (age 2) with a tractor.
Wagon Accident
Another tragedy for the Stevens happened on a steep grade in Colorado where Ida May Slawson Stevens died at age 49 when a wagon she was riding in overturned and she was killed.
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
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.
Upcoming Birthdays
| Harold Francis ETHRIDGE | 11 JUN |
| Christopher James STEVENS | 11 JUN |
| Mary Catherine COLLENTINE | 12 JUN |
| Carol Irene DORAN | 12 JUN |
| Mary FLEMING | 13 JUN |
| Anthony Albert RUPP | 13 JUN |
| Anna HAGARY | 15 JUN |
| Roseanna GAVIGAN | 16 JUN |
| Lincoln James BRYSON | 17 JUN |
| John R MCGILLIGAN | 17 JUN |
| Gracie Margaret BUCKNER | 17 JUN |
| Ada Verona BENKERT | 17 JUN |
Upcoming Anniversaries
| Petrus Joannes STEVENS and Antoinette COLUMBE DE MEULENAERE | 11 JUN |
| Harold F GAVIGAN and Betsy G TROTTER | 11 JUN |
| Vincent SINGLER and Mary HEALY | 12 JUN |
| William DOCHNAHL and Katherine Evangeline MCGILLIGAN | 12 JUN |
| James Eugene STEVENS and Elizabeth Jean MCGILLIGAN | 13 JUN |
| Marwein Glenn HOLDERMAN and Farrell Ann | 13 JUN |
| Edwin Richard STAUFFACHER and Ida Rose MEYER | 15 JUN |
In Memoriam
| Patrick H. CROWLEY | 11 JUN 1930 |
| Iver B LUND | 11 JUN 1933 |
| John T DEVANY | 11 JUN 1936 |
| Lisette SCHWEINGRUBER | 11 JUN 1946 |
| John LUND | 11 JUN 1948 |
| Thomas Fitz-Christopher PLUNKETT | 12 JUN 1471 |
| John GAVIGAN | 12 JUN 1871 |
| John MULLEN | 12 JUN 1914 |
| Joan M WITTMAN | 12 JUN 2009 |
| Sarah Jane SCOTT | 13 JUN 1929 |
| William B. GAVIGAN | 13 JUN 1935 |
| Joseph MCDERMOTT | 13 JUN 1951 |
| Cecile Harold ETHRIDGE | 13 JUN 1963 |
| Marie H. CROWLEY | 13 JUN 1977 |
| Catherine Marie "Kate" CROWLEY | 14 JUN 1950 |
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