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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
There are many mysteries to be solved in the Flanders family history line, and JANE FLANDERS is one of them!
Steven Flanders is the first Flanders listed in America. It is said that the ship that he sailed on towards America sunk before reaching land, and that his wealth and possessions were lost. However, due to him having “spektacles” (eyeglasses), he was known to be of European higher-class and educated. He married a woman named Jane, listed as ‘Sandusky Indian’, and family stories state that she was an Indian princess.
As early as the late 1500’s, the Sandusky tribe lived on the banks of the Sandusky River in Ohio. For some reason the tribe …. Read More here
- 1895
William Gavigan of the township of Adams perished with Monday night’s storm. He was found yesterday afternoon frozen stiff in a field with nothing but his boots protruding from the snow. Monday he attended a grubbing bee at the home of Rube Garrison. Returning home …. read more here
- 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.
The team moved to 598379 and was going to await the helicopters or until darkness and then move out.
After waiting an hour. the VC opened up on the team again from about 10 feet away. This broke up the team. The initial burst killed LCpl DOWLING. LCpl SOLOVSKOY returned fire and killed two VC
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- 1931
Merrill McGilligan
Suicide By Taking Poison
Monday afternoon about 4 o’clock Mrs. Annie Schwartz, wife of John Schwartz, a farmer residing 4 miles west of this city (darlington), while in an insaine condition. took “Rough on Rats“, from the effects od which she died at 2 o’clock Tuesday Morning.
She has for years been subject to fits of insainity, and several times attempted self destruction. She was 46 years of age and leaves a husband and several children, the youngest of which is but 4 years old. Read More
“Rough on Rats” was marketed as a “cure-all” for pests like mice, flies, and bed-bugs, it was famously used for rats and, due to its accessibility and high toxicity, unfortunately became a common, well-known method for suicides in that era.
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
| Ole C HANSEN | 17 FEB |
| Johanna FLANAGAN | 17 FEB |
| John Francis MCCUE | 17 FEB |
| Leroy Francis KEEGAN | 17 FEB |
| Brenna JENKINS | 17 FEB |
| Richard GRAHAM | 18 FEB |
| Thomas HARDYMAN | 18 FEB |
| John STRMISKA | 18 FEB |
| Jerome Leo GAVIGAN | 18 FEB |
| Patricia CROWLEY | 18 FEB |
| Betty Ellen GAVIGAN | 18 FEB |
| Eileen FLANAGAN | 18 FEB |
Upcoming Anniversaries
| Alfred RASMUSSEN and Mildred Eva GALWAY | 21 FEB |
| Joseph Robert GAVIGAN and Maria Louisa ANTON | 24 FEB |
| James Patrick GAVIGAN and Euphemia WOOD | 27 FEB |
| Caleb PINKHAM and Mary DOWNING | 10 MAR |
| Charles DORAN and Bertha Marie Katherine BUEHLMAN | 12 MAR |
| Thomas Leo GAVIGAN and Ida May LUND | 27 MAR |
In Memoriam
| Margarethe RöDERER | 17 FEB 1776 |
| William R DUMOND | 17 FEB 1990 |
| Edward John STEVENS | 17 FEB 2001 |
| Daniel Charles O'ROURKE | 18 FEB 1876 |
| Mary Ellen BURKE | 18 FEB 1894 |
| Martha GILBERTSON | 18 FEB 1919 |
| Frederick Bernard JAEGER | 18 FEB 1942 |
| Harold G JAEGERS | 18 FEB 1981 |
| Donald Raymond LANE | 18 FEB 2016 |
| Brennan MCDERMOTT | 18 FEB 2017 |
| Adriaan ONGENAE | 19 FEB 1761 |
| Henricus Antonius VAN SCHINGEN | 19 FEB 1855 |
| Horace SAWIN | 19 FEB 1891 |
| John Francis MURPHY | 19 FEB 1904 |
| Cora THOMPSON | 19 FEB 1919 |
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