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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.

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.

Thomas Gavigan son of John and Mary (Collentine) Gavigan operated the Gavigan Hotel from 1892- to 1896 at the Corner of Main and Elm in Downtown Blanchardville. Thomas was on the board of Directors for the Blanchardville Driving Association (racing, training horses)
Hotel Gavigan / Hotel Ryan

Today in History

1811 - Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82 1912 - Léon Dierx, French poet (Aspirations; Les Amants), dies at 74 1949 - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed [...]



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.

Ruby Christine Lund Heydon
Ruby Christine Lund Heydon



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.

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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.

James Earl Stevens Died age 2
James Earl Stevens Died age 2

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.

Image NOT Ida May Slawson Stevens

1983: Madison West Goes 18-2 to Win the State Hockey Championship

1983 Madison West Regent State Champion Hockey Team
1983 Madison West Regent State Champion Hockey Team


Q: Where did the original Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota end up?
Answer: The Bill Weege farm near Barneveld Wisconsin
Joe Gavigan & Peter Weege Barneveld WI
Joe Gavigan & Peter Weege Barneveld WI - 1980's Before Tornado
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
Harold Francis ETHRIDGE11 JUN
Christopher James STEVENS11 JUN
Mary Catherine COLLENTINE12 JUN
Carol Irene DORAN12 JUN
Mary FLEMING13 JUN
Anthony Albert RUPP13 JUN
Anna HAGARY15 JUN
Roseanna GAVIGAN16 JUN
Lincoln James BRYSON17 JUN
John R MCGILLIGAN17 JUN
Gracie Margaret BUCKNER17 JUN
Ada Verona BENKERT17 JUN
Upcoming Anniversaries
Petrus Joannes STEVENS and
Antoinette COLUMBE DE MEULENAERE
11 JUN
Harold F GAVIGAN and
Betsy G TROTTER
11 JUN
Vincent SINGLER and
Mary HEALY
12 JUN
William DOCHNAHL and
Katherine Evangeline MCGILLIGAN
12 JUN
James Eugene STEVENS and
Elizabeth Jean MCGILLIGAN
13 JUN
Marwein Glenn HOLDERMAN and
Farrell Ann
13 JUN
Edwin Richard STAUFFACHER and
Ida Rose MEYER
15 JUN
In Memoriam
Patrick H. CROWLEY11 JUN 1930
Iver B LUND11 JUN 1933
John T DEVANY11 JUN 1936
Lisette SCHWEINGRUBER11 JUN 1946
John LUND11 JUN 1948
Thomas Fitz-Christopher PLUNKETT12 JUN 1471
John GAVIGAN12 JUN 1871
John MULLEN12 JUN 1914
Joan M WITTMAN12 JUN 2009
Sarah Jane SCOTT13 JUN 1929
William B. GAVIGAN13 JUN 1935
Joseph MCDERMOTT13 JUN 1951
Cecile Harold ETHRIDGE13 JUN 1963
Marie H. CROWLEY13 JUN 1977
Catherine Marie "Kate" CROWLEY14 JUN 1950
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Patrick H. CROWLEY

Birth: MAR 1873
Death: 11 JUN 1930
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Iver B LUND

Birth: 29 MAR 1852
Death: 11 JUN 1933
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John T DEVANY

Birth: 1864
Death: 11 JUN 1936
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Lisette SCHWEINGRUBER

Birth: 30 APR 1867
Death: 11 JUN 1946
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John LUND

Birth: 04 FEB 1865
Death: 11 JUN 1948
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Thomas Fitz-Christopher PLUNKETT

Birth: 27 SEP 1408
Death: 12 JUN 1471
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John GAVIGAN

Birth: 1788
Death: 12 JUN 1871
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John MULLEN

Birth: 11 NOV 1866
Death: 12 JUN 1914
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Joan M WITTMAN

Birth: 07 MAY 1928
Death: 12 JUN 2009
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Sarah Jane SCOTT

Birth: 16 APR 1876
Death: 13 JUN 1929
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