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Tragedy On Lake Monona
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, Jennie Rupp, 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. 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.
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.
Distressing Suicide
A Woman Drowns Herself in a Well
Hearing rumors this morning that a woman had drowned herself in a well near Hamacher’s Hotel, we set out to investigate them, and ascertained the following the facts:
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.
We remember you...
In Memoriam
| Cathrine Ruth CONWAY | 13 MAY 1945 |
| Severnus Anton YAGER | 13 MAY 1988 |
| Ellen PLANK | 14 MAY 1924 |
| William George GAVIGAN | 14 MAY 1961 |
| Lillian C PAGEL | 15 MAY 1993 |
Upcoming Birthdays
| Margaret THORNTON | 13 MAY |
| William B. GAVIGAN | 13 MAY |
| Leo Joseph STARRY | 13 MAY |
| Oliver William "Bill" MORIG | 13 MAY |
| Mary Elizabeth GALWAY | 13 MAY |
| Nellis Francis LEWIS (BRAZEL) | 14 MAY |
| Earl Charles ETHERIDGE | 14 MAY |
| John Edward MCGILLIGAN | 14 MAY |
| Leo Patrick GALWAY | 14 MAY |
| Harold Eugene STEVENS | 15 MAY |
| Roy JENKINS | 15 MAY |
| John Alfred LUND | 17 MAY |
Upcoming Anniversaries
| Stephen Charles MEYER and Patricia K SUEMNICHT | 17 MAY |
| James Harry CROWLEY and Frances E. O'NEILL | 18 MAY |
| Steve OLEARY and Doreen KUBLY | 21 MAY |
| John MONAGHAN and Jane GAVIGAN | 22 MAY |
| Vincent Duane MANN and Rose K. WIFLER | 25 MAY |
| Edwin Richard STAUFFACHER and Hazel Kathleen HOLDEN | 28 MAY |
| Duane Vincent MANN and Audrey Jane EVANS | 28 MAY |
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