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- 1869
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.
- 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.
- 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 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, [...]
- 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.
1983: Madison West Goes 18-2 to Win the State Hockey Championship
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!
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
Catherine Frances DALEY | 10 FEB |
John R DENSON | 11 FEB |
Ross BUCKNER | 11 FEB |
Stella Mary CASE | 11 FEB |
James Howard WALRACK | 11 FEB |
Dorothy Violet TROTTER | 11 FEB |
Margaret HARDYMAN | 12 FEB |
Kathleen Jane VANCE | 12 FEB |
Janine Marie GOERING | 12 FEB |
Hannah CONWAY | 13 FEB |
Malcolm “Dutch” MUENICH | 13 FEB |
Brian HARRISON | 14 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 DERLETH | 10 FEB 1865 |
Mary SMITH | 10 FEB 1889 |
James FLANAGAN | 11 FEB 1884 |
Charles WILLIAMS | 12 FEB 1888 |
John B JONES | 13 FEB 1891 |
Michael CAVANAUGH | 13 FEB 1894 |
Mary Jane WARREN | 16 FEB 1880 |
Leonard CROWLEY | 16 FEB 1914 |
Charlene Berthette DORAN | 16 FEB 1977 |
William R DUMOND | 17 FEB 1990 |
Martha GILBERTSON | 18 FEB 1919 |
Thomas CONWAY | 18 FEB 1923 |
Harold G JAEGERS | 18 FEB 1981 |
Donald Raymond LANE | 18 FEB 2016 |
Brennan MCDERMOTT | 18 FEB 2017 |
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