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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.

Hamacher Hotel on West Mifflin Street
Hamacher Hotel on West Mifflin Street

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

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 [...]



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.

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
Virginia G DERLETH22 APR
Patrick Michael MCGILLIGAN22 APR
Paul HARRISON22 APR
Ellen Nora FLANAGAN23 APR
Bridget C DALY23 APR
George Elmer LUND23 APR
George Anthony RUPP23 APR
Mary Irene ROSE23 APR
Austin John MCDERMOTT23 APR
Ole Olafsen HOMMERSTAD24 APR
Elizabeth Ann RUPP25 APR
Thomas L CROWLEY25 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 DORAN22 APR 1949
Mary GAVIGAN23 APR 1957
Mary Ellen DOWNEY23 APR 1963
Nora Fay JANECK24 APR 1917
Thomas Leo GAVIGAN24 APR 1981
Larry Arthur FELDT24 APR 2022
Laura Christin LAMBERTON25 APR 1935
Lillian K. SULLIVAN25 APR 1949
Thomas CROWLEY26 APR 1896
Michael F CROWLEY27 APR 1898
Edward Fletcher MCGINLEY27 APR 1950
Joseph Francis PURCELL27 APR 1974
Mary KINNEY28 APR 1893
Verna E EGAN29 APR 1973
Roy Albert SPEICH30 APR 1976
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Richard Patrick DORAN

Birth: 25 FEB 1887
Death: 22 APR 1949
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Mary GAVIGAN

Birth: 16 NOV 1879
Death: 23 APR 1957
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Mary Ellen DOWNEY

Birth: 07 AUG 1888
Death: 23 APR 1963
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Nora Fay JANECK

Birth: 24 MAR 1884
Death: 24 APR 1917
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Thomas Leo GAVIGAN

Birth: 23 MAR 1910
Death: 24 APR 1981
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Larry Arthur FELDT

Birth: 09 DEC 1941
Death: 24 APR 2022
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Laura Christin LAMBERTON

Birth: JUL 1860
Death: 25 APR 1935
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Lillian K. SULLIVAN

Birth: 1861
Death: 25 APR 1949
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Thomas CROWLEY

Birth: 06 OCT 1833
Death: 26 APR 1896
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Michael F CROWLEY

Birth: 1875
Death: 27 APR 1898
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