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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
| Nancy Ann GIBBONS | 27 SEP 1885 |
| Hanorah MCCUE | 28 SEP 1933 |
| John Edward MCGILLIGAN | 28 SEP 1944 |
| Merrill James MCGILLIGAN | 29 SEP 1998 |
| John MONAGHAN | 30 SEP 1929 |
Upcoming Birthdays
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| Ida Rose MEYER | 27 SEP |
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| Jay Robert ETHERIDGE | 27 SEP |
| Mary Ann KELLY | 28 SEP |
| Earl F. BATCHELOR | 28 SEP |
| Baby MCDERMOTT | 28 SEP |
| Jenny C | 28 SEP |
| Betty Jean HOMMERSTAD | 29 SEP |
| Margaret Alice DALY | 01 OCT |
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| Maurice E GAVIGAN | 02 OCT |
Upcoming Anniversaries
| Martin Vincent CROWLEY and Loreto Marie WAGNER | 28 SEP |
| Jerome Leo GAVIGAN and Billie Claryce REEVES | 30 SEP |
| Thomas Sam GAROFOLO and Betty Jean HOMMERSTAD | 30 SEP |
| Milan Leroy HOLTON and Ruth Annette DORAN | 13 OCT |
| Lawrence Taylor MCCONNELL and Mary Elizabeth HARRISON | 19 OCT |
| Merchant MANN and Mary B. CHAPIN | 20 OCT |
| Richard (Rick) KUBLY and Kelly FULTON | 22 |
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