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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Charlie Oberlander and Barbara ii. Mes

Charlie Oberlander and Barbara VI. Mes
senger, citizens of the United States,
against the Government of Mexico, is
against the claimants. The only expense
to which Mexico will be put will be to
pay half of the cost of the proceedings,
while the United States will not only have
to defray its share of the expenses, but
has lost what administration officials have
considered the best claims on file ll the
Department of State. The award hf the
arbiter, which is final, has been filed in
the Department Of State and in the De-
partment OF Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
The claims Of Oberander and Mrs Mes
seIger grew out of the alleged brutal
treatment of the man and the inhuman
treatment of the woman some years ago.
Oberlander was deputy sheriff of the
county of San Diego, Cal. He went into
Mexican territory to examine into a suit
IN progress Just across the line and be-
came involved in dispute. He was
knocked down and searched by Mexican
police, who found in his pocket warrant
for the arrest of Mexican who had COM
mitted an offense in California. Ober-
lander was at once taken to Jail, but man
aged to. escape and get to the house of
Mr.. Messenger, just across the boundary
line in California. Mrs. Messc1 Ger was
very much frightened when the Airxican
officials entered her house and seized her
guest. Despite her protestatians, Ober-
lander was dragged out of the louae. The
matter was finally brought to the atten-
ton of the American minister in Mexico,
who secured the release of Oberlander
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12

Chicago Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $575; hogs, shipping grades,
$3.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $500
to $40; wheat, No. 2 red, 90c to 92c;
corn, No, 2, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2, 21e
to 23ci rye, No. 2, Acc to 4Sci butter,
choice creamery, zoe to &c; eggs. fresh,
2lc to 23c; new potatoes, SOC to 65c per
bushcl.
apolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
So.I5; hogs, choice light, $500 to S3.T5;
sheep, common to choice, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 92e to Ole; corn, No.
white. PIC to Zoe; oats, No. 2 white, 24c
to PC.
St. Louis Cattle, $500 to S5.25; hogs,
$500 to S3.75; sheep. S3.00 to s4.T5;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94ci corn, No. 2
yellow, 26c to 21c; oats, No 2 white, 23c
to 24c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46e.
Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to S525; hogs,
$500 to S3.75: sheep. $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, 92c TO 94c; corn, No. z
mixed, 2Se to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c
to 26c; rye, No. ., Acc to 4Sc.
Detroit Cattle, $3.50 to S5.25: hogs,
$500 to S3.75; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50,
wheat, No. 2, 9oc to 92c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 29c to 3lc; oats, No. z white, 24c
to 26c; rye, 47c TO Ace.
Toledo-Wheat, No red, Ole to 93c;
corn, No. 2 mixed, 2Tc to 2tc; oats, No.
white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, acc TO 4Tc;
clover seed, $500 to S3.25.
MISUNDERSTANDING, No. 2 spring. S5c
to SIC; corn, No. 8. &c to 27c; oats, No.
2 Nhite, 24e to 26c; rye. No. 2, 46c to 4Sc;
barley, No, 2, 3Sc to 44c; p"-H, mess,
Ss.T5 to S925.
Buaalo- Cattle, $500 to S5.25: hogs,
$500 to S4.00; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No, 2 red. 94c to 96c; corn, No.
2 yellow. S2c to 33c; oats, No white.
2Tc to 29c,
New York-Cattle, $500 to S5.25: hogs,
$500 to S4.25: sheep, $500 to S4.75:
wheat. No. 2 red, S1.00 to S1.o1. corn, No.
2 SIC to 36c: oats. No. white. sc 70
29c; butter. creamerf, 15c to 23c; eggs,
West I'm, &c to PC.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
YELLOW FEVER.
An Italian Physician Has Found the
Microbe that preads Death.

Among the traditions likely never TO
be proved or disproved is one that vel
low fever originated in the holds of
slave ships, where hundreds of poor
wretches, stolen from their homes,
were fastened down for weeks without
breath of fresh air or the privilege
of seeing the light. When the SLAYER dis
charged her terrible cargo of misery
and filth an effort was made to cleanse
her, and in this way tropical ports
caught an infection that has lasted ever
since. In a similar manner, though
with more of certainty, cholera is
traced TO the unspeakably unclean pill
grimages of Asia. Both cholera and
yellow fever seem to have originated
in conditions so unwbolesome as to be
appalling. Once generated and set in
motion their distinctive poisons are in
some way carried from person to per-
son, with different degrees of yirulence,
modified or ayerted by good sanitation.
and at length dri zen out by a freezing
temperature.
1t is but lately that the microbe of
yellow fever has been found and identi-
fed. Its discoverer, an Italian physi-
clan named Sanarelli, now one of the
faculty of a South American college,
gives an account of his Investigations
in the London Lancet, 1t was while
searching for the germ at Montevideo
that he caught the disease in a severe
form. On recovering he pursued his
germ studies in the yellow fever hospi-
tails of Rio Janeiro and Flores. 1t was
at the latter place that he first distin-
guished the yellow fever microbe, but
not, as he expected, in the alimentary
canal He found it in the blood and tis-
sues. 1t is Il Tod-shaped microbe crea-
ture with rounded extremities, gener-
ally combined in pairs or groups. At
ter experimenting with 1t on 1000 ami
mails DIR. Sanarelli believes that II af-
fected most of them. though birds less
than others. II was fatal in few days
to mice and rabbits. The doctor be-
lieyes that ii is blood poison and
transmitted by the air as well as by
water. 1t is needless to follow his de-
scription Of the action of the poison on
the different organs. Frequently it af-
fects a community in light form.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Changes Are Looked for.

Complications which are rapidly gath
ering about the Nicaragua canal project
promise to occupy much attention from
the State Department and the President
at Washington. Recent occurrences have
aroused the Government to the necessity
of great alertness. The suspicion that
American interests are seriously threaten
ed has received such recent confirmation
that the gunboat Marietta has been dis
patched from San Francisco to La Liber-
tad, the roadstead port of San Salvador.
To say that a plot is on foot to invalidate
the American concessions and open a
dicker with certain English promoters,
who would like to obtain an interest in
the canal, would be stating as fact what
has long been a suspicion, and which has
an undoubted basis in truth. But to say
that the scheme of few Central Ameri-
can Spanards, to whom plotting is sec
ond nature, is on the verge of fulfillment
would be presuming on the facts at hand.
j'he latest report states that revolution
is on foot involving the confederated
States of Nicar. qua, Honduras and San
Salvador, known as the Greater Repub
lie of Central America. This report comes
close on the heels of statement by the
representative at Washington that the
confederation of separate States was
about to be cemented into single republic
by the adoption of constitution and the
establishment of Federal government.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
BORN AMID GREAT FEAR.
Autonomy in Cuba Begins Under a
Threatening Cloud.

Autonomy was formally implanted in
Cuba Saturday morning by the admins
tration of The oath of fidelity to Spain and
the new constitution to the members of
the colonial cabinet. Only four members
were present, Senor Dolz, minister of pub
lie works, being in Spain, and Senor Go
win, minister of the interior, not having
arrived from the United States. The
| new regime was ushered in under threat
ening auspices. 1t is believed that an out
break against autonomy was only avert
ed by extraordinary military precautions.
The Government had been in possession
| for several days of information that trou-
BILE might be expected on New Years
eve, the signal for an outbreak being the
ringing of bells at midnight. Precaution-
ary measures were taken with great Sc
crecy, but enough became known to con-
vince the intransigentes and the turbu-
lent element of the utter futility of the
success of demonstration.
Much bitter feeling was manifested over
the action Of the Gov ernment. The in
transigentes declare that the end is near
when the weapons of the Spanish soldiers
are turned against the only loyal Span
iards in Cuba, and ask if autonomy is to
be thrust down their throats with the
bayonet.
Marshal Blanco, the captain general,
escorted by number of J gh Spanish Off
| cials, the consular corps, army and navy
| officers, politicians, etc, reached the
throne room at o o'clock a. m. A new
Bible was open on table, and upon it
the secretaries took the oath of fidelity
to the queen, the monarchy and the Span
ish Government, placing their right hands
on the Bible and kneeling as they repeat
ed the words required. Senior Galvez,
president of the cabinet, was first sworn
in, and then the oath was administered
to the others.
After the conclusion of this ceremony
all present attended the celebration of
mass by the bishop in the chapel of the
palace. All present knelt down at the
elevation of the host, except the British
and German consuls. At the CONCLUSION
of the ceremonies the captain general re-
mitted the death penalty imposed upon
persons WHO had been convicted of COM
mon crimeS. Cable messages of congrat-
ulation were exchanged during the day
between Senor Sagasta, premier of Spain,
and Marshal Blanco,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
REBELS IN CONTROL.
General Pando Left without Base of
0perati0us.

Operations.
1t is reported from Santiago de Cuba
that Gen. Pando Is greatly dishearteued
on account of the obstacles which pre-
vented successful campaign against the
insurgents in that province. He declares
that he has no base of operations, the in
surgents being in control so completely
that it is impossible to convey supplies to
Spanish columns operating in the interior
of the province. Gen. Pando is said to be
convinced that the insurgents of Santiago
de Cuba province will not accept auton-
omy. When he was in Spain he did not
realize that the insurgents in the province
had such strength.
1t is said that Gen. Sagua, operating in
Santiago de Cuba, has been unable to
agree with his superior officers, and on
the pretext that he is sick he has arrived
in Havana and will return to Spain by
the first mail steamer. Ex-Minister Ca
nalejas, the Madrid editor, who has been
investigating the situation in Cuba, is
said to be thoroughly discouraged with
the outlook.
Mr.. Amblard, who has just returned
from the United States, is said to take
the same hopeless view Of the situation
as Canalejas, and it is stated that he will
decline the proffered appointment of sec
retary to the Cuban autonomist cabinet.
Mr.. Capules, governor of Santiago de
Cuba, has resigned, being unwilling to
make appointments dictated to him by
the Government through Gan. Pando. The
military commander, Oliver, is acting ia
Capules' place. The Diario de la Marina
calls the attention of the authorities to the
pitiable condition of the people in the
town of Alonzo Rojas, in Pinar del 2;J
province. During the first ten days of
December 100 persons died. Whole fam
lilies of eight and ten persons have per-
ished. or ninety-two volunteers only
nineteen are fit for duty, the remainder
being sick with smallpox.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Told in a Few Lines.

The third international convention Of
student volunteers will be held in Cleye-
land Feb. % to 81.
A boiler explosion near Helena. o.,
fatally injured Henry Kneaster, George
Robbins and Phil Goodrich.
Lieut.. Gen. Weyler, no~ in Spain. is
preparing to publish protest against
President NcKinley's message to Con
gress.
Prisoners in the Dover Del.) jail have
broken out four times within four weeks.
1t is understood that the management will
offer colored picture cards hereafter at the
end OF each month for regularity in at
tendance.
The Ward liner City of Washington,
from Vera Cruz, has arrived in Kew
York and carried in her strong rooms
S600,000 in Mexican coin. The strong
room was broken into en- route, but only
So 900 was taken.
Corbett, who is yellow" in all respects
save as boxer, places the Importance Of
sports in this order: Pugilism, bicycling,
baseball, golf, racing, football, rowing,
athletics, tennis and yachting.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
FLOOR GOES DOWN.
Thirty Persons Dead by Disaster at
London, Ont.

Thirty persons are known to have been
killed and many injured by the collapse
of a floor in the city hall at London. Ont,
Monday night. The night closed the m,l-
nicipal campaign, and at the >iost of the
polls crowd gathered in the ci,y hall,
where it has been the custom for years
past for the successful candidates to ad~
dress the electors
The building was crowded to the very
doors, probably 1000 people being jam
med in its narrow space. There was a
lull in the proceedings when the audience
called for several of the newly elected
aldermen at once, and there was some de-
lay in securing speaker to address theia.
Aid. Carrothers joined the Mayor in an
effort to secure quiet. In response to
numerous calls r. NJ. Toothe was pushed
forward to the platform on which the
speakers stood. As he reached it there
was an ominous cracking and the raised
platform on which the Mayor and newly
elected aldermen were seated seemed to
pitch forward to the floor.
There was a sagging of timbers and the
next moment hundreds of people We're
hurled twenty feet to the floor below. A
beam running twenty feet along the cen
ter of the hall had given way and the
crowded mass standing above that section
of the floor was thrown in heap to the
basement. A large safe stood III one cor
ner of the hall, and, with huge steam
coil weighing half ton, came crashing
down ON the heads of the victims.
Following the crash there was a wild
rush for the doors. At the south door,
where the majority Of the crowd had ell
tered, there was a terrible panic. Those
in front We're thrown down by the on
coming rush, all shrieking and fighting
for the door and safety. Only one-half
OF the rear door, a space probably three
feet wide, was open. In the mad rush no
one thought to open the door in its en-
tirety, and 800 people struggled through
the narrow space, the strong bearing down
the weaker
Several men lowered ropes and endea-
vored to haul the wounded out of the pit.
From under the massed weight OF the
broken beams came many cries for help.
The windows on the ground floor were
broken in, and the living and the dead
were tenderly passed to the waiting am
bulance.
An investigation of the wreck after the
catastrophe disclosed the fact that whole
section of the floor had dropped, the joists
having been as neatly cut off as if the
work had been done with saw. The
building was an old one, having been
erected in the early sos, and of late years
additional stories had bedn placed on the
old walls.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
M:. DEADLY GULF STORMS.
Recalled by the Recent Visitation tina
Scourged Two Texas Towns.

Scourged Two Texas Towns.
Probably the most severe storm, with
its resultant tidal wave, in the history
of the Gulf of Mexico, occurred Aug.
10, 1866, striking the coast line, at the
| mouth of the Mississippi. This storm
lasted three days. Such was the weight
of the wind that the Mississippi rose
twenty feet at Donaldsonvllle, which Is
more than 100 miles from the rivers
Nmouth. Six hundred people We're
drowned ON Lille Derniere, or Last
Island, New Orleans summer resort.
Many hurricanes have occurred since
then, but folks in Louisiana still speak
of that as 'the great storm" The
stroller in the graveyard of the Cres-
cent City frequently finds a messy
stone recording the name of some vie
tim CT the disaster No bones are un-
derneath. The body was taken Ear
TO sea by the mighty retiuX and became
food for fishes. The stone was erected
merely in memory.
In 1875 the witch call of the West
Indian air demon sounded along the
Texan coast. From Brownsville to Sa-
bine Pass the diapaSon thundered and
the lashed waters ate up the land. In
Matagorda Bay, in Kokomo Bay, La
vaca Bay no ship might ride. Looking
southward Il man saw only a world of
mountains in upheaval. The sky was
gray, but no clouds We're visible. All
were blown into the same dull smear.
Fifteen miles inland the limbs of such
trees as wore through the fight dripped
salt. Dead wild fowl strewed all the
prairies. Corpses were found on the
beaches in dozens. Sometimes only the
tip of IA leg or an arm projected from
the sand. Fishes gasped out their lives
where happy homes had stood. All of
that smiling and prosperous country
was ruin. Of the thriving little town
of Indianola some three or four houses
were left, but no one lives in them to
this day. 1t Is deserted village. More
than half of its people were drowned.
Others escaped in ways grotesquely
strange. One woman rode out the
night with her baby clasped in her
al ms, IA tHS Nop VI Il llSt thut h'iu
shaded her porch. When daylight
broke she was ten miles inland. The
father was never seen again. Dozens
of small towns were partly destroyed.
The death lists are still Incomplete.
Galveston was far to the eastward,
yet it suffered loss of life and prop
erty. Waves washed through the prin-
cipal streets. Goods in cellars were
ruined. Houses on its famous beach
put out to sea. Little children were
drowned in front yards. Shipping was
ground to pieces against the wharves.
New bars were formed and new chan
nels dug. 1t was time of terror of
which the Gaivestonian still speaks
with bated breath. Indeed, it may be
said that the people of that prosperous
city of $4,000 souls live in expectation
of a similar disaster.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
NEW MENACE FOR ENGLAND.
British Possessions in Africa Threat
ened by Rival Nations.

Nheh Wy hhNdh ANdhlOuSs
The Cairo correspondent of the London
Daily Mail says, as part explanation OF
the British advance up the Nile, that it is
believed French expeditions Hqye arrived
quite close to Khartoum. According to
the same authority, the British force will
be commanded by Maj. Gen. Sir Francis
Grenfelt
The Rome correspondent OF the Daily
Mail says: Il learn from private sources
that the Italian foreign office has receiv-
ed information that Emperor Menelek
has summoned the Abyssiniays to arms
in support of the French enterprises in
equatorial Africa, and especially the plans
of the Russian, Count Deontieff, governor
of the equatorial provinces of Abyssinia.
"Mehelek himself is setting out at the
head of an army, and it is believed the
movement marks an expedition against
the Anglophile Ras Mangascia, whose
province, Tigre, the negus wishes to an
mex. / also hear that Menelek, calculat-
ing upon the remissness of the Italien n
Government, purposes an advaGae toward
the coast"
A dispatch from Cairo, via Paris, on
Friday announced that a French expedi-
ton had occupied Fashoda, on the Nile.
about 400 miles south of Khartoum, and
that it was reported among the natives
that the French were descending the
river.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
Sparks from the Wires.

Senator Quay has gone to Florida for
the winter.
A home for aged women is to be estab-
lished at Mexico, Mo.
William A. Liebold, aged IS, was con-
victed of forgery at Lancaster, Pa.
Five persons lost their lives In the burn
ing of an asphalt factory at Barcelona,
Spain.
A movement for decent football has
been inaugurated by the Southern col
leges.
The ice in the harbor at Lake CITY.
Mimi, showed and crushed the hulIs of
the steamers Merle, Spaulding and Comet
The Comet sunk, but was raised before
she disappeared. while the Merle was par
tally filled.
Men who plotted to kidnap DIR. 4. ID.
Porter, wealthy citizen and ex-Mayor
Of Memphis, in order to force him to sign
o check for $4,000, are prisoners at Do.
lice headquarters in that city.
The large octagonal barn of Mrs. Laura
A. Carter, near Austin, Mimi, burned,
together with thirty head of thoroughbred
cattle, several horses and a large amount
Oh hay and grain. The loss is $1,000.
with partial insurance.
The British bark Rlairlogie, CaptaiB
Mackay, from Delagoa bay for Portland,
Ore, has been lost with her cargo off the
Island of Matahiya, belonging to the Tua.
motu group. The members of her crew
have reached Papiti.
A bi-monthly service between New
York and the ports of Hayti has been es-
tablished by the Clyde Line Steamship
Co. 1t win be the first American line to
carry our flag under American registry
to HayH.
Nearly 81 900 has been contributed to.
ward the Kapiolani park race track, and
several hundred dollars more are needed
to put the track in first-class condition,
says the Honolulu Star.
Surgeon General Weyman, in his re-
port, says that the total number OF cases
of yellow fever reported TO the bureau ur
to Nov. 10 was AS and the number Of
deaths 423. Or these there were 721
cases aud 244 deaths in New Orleans.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-12
DUPLICATES SUMS LIGHT.
Marvellous Invention Claimed by
Logansport, Ind, Man.

Logansport, Ind, Man.
A Logansport Ind, inventor has con-
structed lamp that he Claims will super
sede electricity, gas and all other forms
OF artificial illumination, because of its
cheapness and utility.
The light is sealed up like bottle of
perfume and the inventor claims that II
will last forever 1t may be compared to
a bright electric flame or gas jet, bottled
in a glass sphere, and forever remaining
the same.
The inventor is S. b. Nickum, who for
the past three or four years has kept
himself locked up in his rooms. 1t has
been known by many that he was working
on some kind of an invention, but the ma
ture of the same has been a secret up to
the present time The device is now sc
perfect, in the mind of the inventor, that
the facts have been given to the press.
The process by which this new light is
produced the inventor will not at present
make public. He claims that the new
lights csn be made of almost any bril-
fancy, from the size of pea to that of
the most powerful arc lamp. The light
is a beautiful, never-changing, never
HlckeTlng White HRnl. Iuere are uo wires
and no electric current used. When not
in use the light can be placed in a bureau
drawer or any convenient receptacle till
needed.
The light is kept constant by the sur
rounding moving er-air-Nickum
says, but the globe is cold, there being no
loss of heat or movement from the inte-
rior to the exterior. There is no possi-
bility of a fire resulting from the use of
the light, for the very instant there is a
crack in the globe the light will go out.
1t could be broken in keg of gunpowder
without the slightest danger of an explo-
sion. The cost will probably not greatly
exceed the first cost of the incandescent
light in present use.
1t is now over three years since the in
ventor claims he first discovered that a
light could be produced by the ever pres
ent and perpetual vibration of matter, but
the secret has been kept in order that the
light might be brought to a higher state of
perfection, and that proper patent protec-
ton might be obtained.