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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
296 - Pope Caius, Bishop of Rome (283-296), dies at 51 1253 - Elias van Cortona, Italian vicar general for St. Francis of Assisi, dies at 72 or 73 1616 [...]
- 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.
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
Virginia G DERLETH | 22 APR |
Patrick Michael MCGILLIGAN | 22 APR |
Paul HARRISON | 22 APR |
Ellen Nora FLANAGAN | 23 APR |
Bridget C DALY | 23 APR |
George Elmer LUND | 23 APR |
George Anthony RUPP | 23 APR |
Mary Irene ROSE | 23 APR |
Austin John MCDERMOTT | 23 APR |
Ole Olafsen HOMMERSTAD | 24 APR |
Elizabeth Ann RUPP | 25 APR |
Thomas L CROWLEY | 25 APR |
Upcoming Anniversaries
Michael L YAGER and Susan MEUDT | 23 APR |
Sam BARLOW and Carol Irene DORAN | 23 APR |
John Robert MCGILLIGAN and Helen Elizabeth DUNN | 24 APR |
Gerald Charles DORAN and Sandra Diane RUEM | 24 APR |
Thomas GAVIGAN and Anna DURKIN | 27 APR |
Ralph Michael GAVIGAN and Bernadine Deloris SAINSBURY | 27 APR |
Edward C GAVIGAN and Hanorah MCCUE | 28 APR |
In Memoriam
Richard Patrick DORAN | 22 APR 1949 |
Mary GAVIGAN | 23 APR 1957 |
Mary Ellen DOWNEY | 23 APR 1963 |
Nora Fay JANECK | 24 APR 1917 |
Thomas Leo GAVIGAN | 24 APR 1981 |
Larry Arthur FELDT | 24 APR 2022 |
Laura Christin LAMBERTON | 25 APR 1935 |
Lillian K. SULLIVAN | 25 APR 1949 |
Thomas CROWLEY | 26 APR 1896 |
Michael F CROWLEY | 27 APR 1898 |
Edward Fletcher MCGINLEY | 27 APR 1950 |
Joseph Francis PURCELL | 27 APR 1974 |
Mary KINNEY | 28 APR 1893 |
Verna E EGAN | 29 APR 1973 |
Roy Albert SPEICH | 30 APR 1976 |
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