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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
- 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.
- 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.
Today in History
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.
Past Reunions
Upcoming Birthdays
| John LUNDA | 18 MAR |
| Walter J SCHWARTZ | 18 MAR |
| Margaret CLEARY | 19 MAR |
| Miles R GAVIGAN | 19 MAR |
| Eldon L. WILSON | 19 MAR |
| Marjorie Ann BENKERT | 20 MAR |
| Otto Edwin MIELENZ | 20 MAR |
| Kathleen FLANAGAN | 20 MAR |
| Kathleen OLEARY | 20 MAR |
| Bernt I LUND | 21 MAR |
| Mary Ann MCCAULIFF DOYLE | 21 MAR |
| Mary COLLENTINE | 21 MAR |
Upcoming Anniversaries
| Thomas Leo GAVIGAN and Ida May LUND | 27 MAR |
| John Wilbert GAVIGAN and Catherine J FLANIGAN | 10 APR |
| Robert Raymond CUMMINGS and Jeanne Estelle BEAUBIER | 14 APR |
| Jack LARSON and Debora KUBLY | 15 APR |
| John CONWAY and Sarah COLLENTINE | 17 APR |
| Edward James FLANAGAN and Mary Elizabeth GALWAY | 18 APR |
| David William ROWE and Ellen Nora FLANAGAN | 20 APR |
In Memoriam
| Maurina C YAGER | 18 MAR 1905 |
| Laura Delilah ETHRIDGE | 19 MAR 1887 |
| Edward Francis GALLAGHER | 19 MAR 1893 |
| Margaret GAVIGAN | 19 MAR 1903 |
| John ETHRIDGE | 19 MAR 1904 |
| Earl F. BATCHELOR | 19 MAR 1950 |
| Dallas Grier JUDY | 19 MAR 1962 |
| George Roger CUNNINGHAM | 19 MAR 1965 |
| Ross BUCKNER | 2 MAR 1928 |
| Mary A. MCCUE | 2 MAR 1972 |
| Robert Raymond CUMMINGS | 2 MAR 1996 |
| Johanna FLANAGAN | 20 MAR 1905 |
| John J. CROWLEY | 20 MAR 1919 |
| Bridget FLANAGAN | 20 MAR 1945 |
| Daniel E FLANNERY | 20 MAR 1975 |
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