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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
TeIeeraphic Brevities.

Wife OF Jimmy" Michaels, London,
has secured divorce.
Prof. Mazzoni believes the Pope will
| live to see the new century.
Clara Ward Rigo is about to launch a
society journal in Cairo, Egypt.
Fred NJ. Kerns Parsons, W. Va, goes
| up for life for killini Lacy Day.
Hosting tub fell ia 4 mite, Joplin, Mo-,
killing Alex. Sharp Of M:iiport, Ohio.
George Barrow, New York kidnaper, is
working on the stone pile, Sing Sing.
Grand stand burned at Topeka, Kan,
races. Unknown man burned to death.
German reichstag has formally adopted
the treaty with Spain for the Carolines.
l. NJ. Woodward, Jr., Roanoke, Va,
shot himself to death. I'll health,
Bal players arrested in Buffalo for
playing Sunday; found not guilty.
severe electrical storm visited Gallipo-
| lis. Ohio Two barns burned. Loss $4,
009
Degree OF Ill. d. conferred on Rear
Admiral schley by Georgetown Uniyer-
sity.
Pending the courts decision, automo-
biIes win be allowed 10 run In Chicago
parks.
Second immunes mustered out, Camp
Meade. The Nineteenth is the only feg-
ment left.
Detroit people VIII probably vote on the
question of municipal ownership Of street
railways.
Tug y. f. Bronson reported burned on
the ST. Lawrence river. Loss $4,000.
Two men missing
Body Of newborn white girl bai,s
believed to have been murdered found
near Columbus, Ohio.
National music teachers, III session at
Cincinnati, raised 81 900 in thirty min
utes, to square accounts.
"ouail hunter" Kennedy, convicted of
train robbery. Hartsyille. Mo-, has ap-
piled for new trial.
Masked maa in Australia is said to
have held up two bank clerks and robbed
them OF $4,000 which they were taking
to pay of miners.
DR.. ]. j. McrE. Chat.anooga. Tenn,
fatally injured Powell Love with beer
mallet- Saloon row.
Coal operators and miners IN Kansas
have reached a settlement and general
strike has been aycrted.
-Four prisoners escaped from the Hali-
fax. NJ O.. Jail after fatally injuring
prisoner who was aiding the jailer.
Parents OF William w Sloan, Cam
bridge, Mass, who eieped with Rose Ed
wards. cut him off without a son.
Announced Id London that Prince Ba-
rIofinioki, Russian minister has MIR
ried Cavalier. an Italian dancer. whose
mother Is washerwomaa.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
TO RAISE TEN REGIMENTS.
Enlistment of yolupteers for Service
in the Philippines Is Ordered.


in the Philippines Is Ordered.
The order for the enlistment OF tef new
regiments Of infantry was issued Thurs
day by the Secretary of War. 1t IS the
intention of the President to raise ten
regiments Of volunteers besides filing up
all the vacaaicies existing in the regular
army now at Manila.
Two of the volunteer regiments have al
ready been organized at Manila, and Of
the remaining eight one win rendezvous
and be drilled at Plattsburg Barracks. N.
y, two at Camp Meade, Pa, one at CO.
lumbus Barracks, one at Fort Thomas,
Ky, one at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, one at
Leayenworth, Kan, one at San Ant ,nio,
Texas. and one at Vancouver Barracks
Regular army officers who command ed
volunteer re egiments in the war with Srain
will be assignedto command the nine vol
uateer regiments, and these officers will
be directed to proceed Immediately with
their captains to the post at which their
respective regiments will be recruited and
drilled and take Measures to enlist men in
all parts Of the country without reference
to the regular recruiting stations. By this
means the War Department expects that
BY August all the men necessary to form
the regiments will have been obtained and
that by the following month they will be
in shape to sail for their destination
the total number of volunteers who will
be enlisted will be 13, ISL II, ,781 for the
nine regiments to be organized in this
country and 1000 in Manila. Each regi-
ment will leave fifty officers, so that the
regimental strength will be 1850 men.
Some slight changes have been made in
the recruiting instructions, which are in
tended to be broad enough to cover the
enlistment of both regulars and volun-
faarS
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12

The water in the Fox river and Lake
Winnebago is higher than it has been at
any time in about ten years and reached
a rather critical stage. 1t rose to fifteen
and one-half inches above the crest of
the Menasha dam. Frequent rains Of
unusual severity are responsible for this
state of affairs. People owning property
along the shores Of Lake Butte Des Morts
and Lake Winnebago reported being
flooded and considerable damage result
ew. Farmers will have no marsh hay
crop this year, because of this inundation.
Owners of summer resort property say
that their land Is being encroached upon
BY the water to an alarming extent The
unprecedented high stage of water of
the Fox river carried out the flnme of the
kaukauna Electric Light Company on
the Green Bay and Mississippi canal and
with it two railroad bridges on the Chi
cago and Northwestern and the turnpike
bridge to the Outagamie Paper Com
pany's plant. Sixty feet of railroad bridge
were undermined and all the material
which was piled up near by to rebuild
one of the old bridges was swept away
with the flood. The damage will be con-
siderable
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
MANY OUT AT HOMESTEAD.
Another Strike InaGgurated at the
d..


Big PENNSYLVANIA Steel Works.
A strike has been inaugurated at the
Homestead steel works at Pittsburg
which may rival the famous battle be-
tween capital and labor which was fought
there seven years ago. The discharge of
fifteen men at the plant during the last
thre" ~echs is at the bottom of the trou-
Bile. These men were dismissed because
of their affiliation with the newly formed
lodge of the amalgamated association.
The Homeste.~I strike was precipitated
when committee of nine men, who
sought the reinstatement of the discharg
ed men, were also discharged for the
same reason. Superintendent Corey in
formed the men that no organized men
would be retained, though it became nee
essary to close down the entire plant. At
a secret meeting of the men it was decid-
ed to stand by the organization, and in
the event of the discharge of any OF their
members all would strike.
When the nine men were discharged
they were not permitted to return TO the
mill, and the walkout was not immedi-
ately carried out, but eventually one of
the men gained access to the workmen,
with the result, according to the president
of the amalgamated association at Home
stead, that 1000 men have quit, and all
departments are more or less criDplrd
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
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FINANCES OF The NATION.
End of the Fiscal Yeaz Reveals a Fiat
tering Treasurv howing.

End of the Fisca1 Yea. Reveals Fiat
tering Treasurv howing.
Friday ended the governmental fiscal
year. According to the treasury figures,
which are subject to revision, the receipts
have been $514,116,911 and the expendi-
lures 604,644,972, thus making the de-
felt SOC, sos, ,081, or about $40, 100000 less
than the early estimates of Secretary
Gage. The receipts from customs were
$205,919, 116 and from internal revenue
$271, 773, 500.
This is an increase over last year of
500, S40,3 in customs, and of S103, ,293,
Oo1 in internal revenue or legitimate in
crease in receipts OF $159, 1873, 400. The
miscellaneous receipts, however, are SAT, :
S64, LOG less than last year, as the bulk
of the Pacific Railroad payments came in
then.
The expenditures are $161 ,256, ,093 larg-
er than the year before, or just about the
amount of the increase in customs and ia
ternal revenues, thus accounting for the
increase of S50,0o0,00 in round numbers
n the deficit
The war budget for the year was 5000,
O10,606 for the army and $64, 134, i59 for
the navy. or total of $293, 744, 166. AL
though the war began in April, 1898, the
heavy expenses for the army did not begin
to appear on the treasury books until the
present fiscal ysar began July l, so there
is an increase in the budget of $142 2,955,-
107.
Taking the fiscal year ending June 30,
1897, as a peace basis, the expeI,Aes of
the army and navy We're only $S3,511 ,S14,
so that at the same rate the extraordinary
war expenses of the last two years have
been $2T7,510,707, which may be taken
as the actual cost OF the war up to date.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
snarks from, the Wires.

postoftice, Congers City, \. T., robbed
Of 900.
England orders battalion of fusileers
to the cape.
Fifteen miners reported drowned, Gals
ton, Eng.
Germany will pay s4,1s7.75o for the
Carolines.
Silver workers, Niagara, returned to
work
Robert Love. Trimble, Ohio. killed by
Hank Kelley.
Troops in Cuba and Porto Rico may be
sent TO Manila.
..Malt tonic saloons in Indian Terri
tory have been closed.
Hiram Rogers, business man, Winehes-
ter, Ky, killed by a train.
Nelson Walters. Altoona, Pa, fell into
a vat of boiling liquid. Dead.
Dominick Tauro, Niles. Ohio. died from
a stab received in an Italian fight.
schooner Benson sprung leak, San
dusky, Ohio, and went down.
Minister Bryan at Rio Janeiro cables
that Brazls wants to bus thirty miles Of
street ear rasls.
Thomas Connolly, Bridgeton, \. j., fa-
tally shot Sadie Henitz because she Tilted
him.
Fun 100 tons OF rock fell or the New
England Railway, near Wiz d, Conn.
blocking the track fer four hours.
Robbers attempted to tap the safe Of
the 1sreet railway company, jamestown,
Il. VI. but were frightened away
Bariness Fannie de Bara. Chicago. for
using the mails 70 defraud, goes to prison
for one year. Her husband gets three.
Philip McDermott and George Wabro-
gel. New Workers, loved Jennie Cleefeld.
and auarresee- Wabrogei stabbed TO
death.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
Em mbarr.ss.n. Il menbrancs

1t is only the tactful people WHO
should be allowed to give personal
"reminiscences, but unfortunately they
are not the only ones who do give
them.
How well | remember your father,
when | was a little girl.' lately said
an elderly woman to Massachusetts
clergyman. He used TO come often to
our house to dinner; we were always
delighted to see him, children and ALL
That is very pleasant to hear,' said
the clergyman, with smile; but the
narrator remained gravely unconscious
of his interruption.
Il remember what a hearty appetite
he had" she continued, bIandly. 1T
was y real pleasure to see him eat.
Why, when mother would see him com
ing along the road of Il morning, in his
buggy, she'd send me running out to
cook. ana say, Tell Bridget 10 put on
just twice as much of everything as
She had planned, for here is Mr.. Brown
coming to dine with us.
The eminent son endeavored to pre-
serve a proper expression OF counter
ance at this interesting reminiscence,
but his composure was sorely tried
when, with great cordiality, the lady
said:
you're so much like your father!
Won't you go home to dinner with
me-"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
TlN-PLATE MILLS ARE ,oLE.
Prediction Made that the scaie Will
Re Signed coou

All but four tin plate mills in the coun-
try are closed, and aeariy $1,000 wofkmen
are now idle. The situation, however, is
not serious. and the prediction is made
that the scale will be signed and all the
mills in operation within few days. The
headquarters of the trust are in Chicago,
but ii is known that the combine is will
ing to grant an increase of wages, and
will DO so soon.
1t is the custom to shut down about this
time for repairs and stock-taking, and
when the joint scale committee failed to
agree at the recent Chicago conference
the Amalgamatcd associations represent
atiyes unayoidably played into the trusts
hands by asking for postponement. Had
the scale been signed the plants would
probably have been closed within few
weeks. Well-informed labor leaders say
that the Unions will sick TO the demand
of 20 per cent raise, aud it Is believed
that this will be granted by the trust as
soon as the various plants are put ito
good running order
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GREED OF CANADA.
Again Upsets Negotiations for Settle
ment of Boundary DISPUTE,

Late developments in the efforts of this
Government to effect temporary settle
ment of the Alaska boundary dispute
have demonstrated the futility of hoping
to accomplish anything by the means
usually employed when diplomatic ques-
tious are concerned.
The latest evidence OF the greed of the
Canadians is contained in their claim to
the Porcupine district, and their demand
that It shall be recognized in the modus
yivendi as Canadian territory. This pre-
posterous claim affects the rights of over
1000 American miners. 1t has shown
the President and Secretary Hay that
Cancellation and concession are lost upon
the Canadians; that the time has come
for the American Government to stand
against further greed.
The instructions to Ambassador Choate
have been very positive regarding the
stand he is to maint ain. He has been
directed to notify Great Britain that the
United States cannot entertain the most
recent proposition for a temporary Alas
kan boundary. He has been told to say
that, if the proposition is insisted upon,
this Government cannot continue negotia-
tions. The position of the United States
ig almost mn lfltima tilrll
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12

Gen. Wheeler of Alabama entered West
Point from New York.
Emerson's Essays are Queen Vietoria's s
favorite reading nowadays.
Lord Salisbury never walks, even the
shortest distance, when he can avoid it.
John NJ. Ward, once famous as base
ball player, is winning laurels on the golf
links.
For seventy years Roswell Beardsley
has been postmaster at North Lansing,
N. Y.
Jonas Brooks of Mcpherson, Kan,
walked thirty-seven miles to Salina to at
tend circus.
Ambassador Choate's son acts as his
private secretary. He has been out Of
college two years.
G. L. Watson, designer of the famous
English yachts, has never owned even "a
rowboat Of his own.
Mrs. Ii Hung Chang has more exten-
siye wardrobe than any other woman. Her
dresses number 5000.
Mrs. George GouIds children have a
head nurse, two assistants, two gov
ernesses, two grooms and two tootboys 10
minister 10 their wants.
Augustus j. G. Hare has roSm fur
nished entirely with articles formerly the
property of Pope Pins IN.
Three times Sarah Bernhardt has been
on the verge of bankruptcy. but friends
have come to her rescue
Sir Edwin Arnold says that he can do
his best werk when there is plenty Of noise
In the room where he is writing.
When DIR. S. Weir Mitchell 6egan to
write poems his friends said it would in
lure his reputation as physician.
Lord Rothschild confines his reading to
the London Times. He has read only one
novel, Beacons6eld's Young Duke !"
Paderewski is a farmer and knows a
good deal about horticulture, but his spe-
cialty is stock, his favorites being hogs.
Secretary Hollis of the American COM
mission to the peace conference can write
equally well with either OF his hands.
Canon Farrar knows the gospels By
hear, aud can recite them from the first
verse of Matthew to the last of John.
Enemies of C. d. Walker. Kansas
candidate for Congress, claim that he
wears plum-colored silk dressing gown.
Henry G. Frick, head of the new Carnc-
gle syndicate, made his fortune by an
early appreciation of the possibilities Of
the coke industry.
A Porto Rican paper says CT Maj. Gen.
Guy V. Henry: He has but one eye, yet
that is as sharp as a Mauser bullet.
Lord Curzon and the Ameer Of Afghan
istan are intimate friends and have been
exchanging letters for ten years past. The
Ameer once told Lord Curzon he found it
necessary to execute 1000 persons year
to suppress treason.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12

were expelled from the country and are
now in Paris waiting for Rechid Bey to
come along and fght them.
The prospective dueling is of interest
to Americans principally because the wife
Of Rechid Bey is a Yankee girl. She is
Miss Edith Collins, once the ward of
Chauncey NJ. Depew. and her marriage
10 Rechid Bey, Count Czaykowski, in
1897, in Paris, occasionod considerable
surprise. 1t was rumored at one time
that She was to marry her guardian. She
Is finely efiacascc, strii agly beautiful and
is very wealthy. Her husband is a bril-
liant diplomat, an adviser TO the Sultan
and has a handsome fortune. He has a
fiery temper, however. as the incident
related shows.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
WISCONSIN'S RECORD,
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Additional Taxes to Be Pat. By Life
Insurance Companies overfiow of
River and Lake Does Damage Cap
turc of Wild Man.


Under the Orfon insurance tax law. The
stock life insurance companies doing bus
mess in Wisconsin will have to pay a To-
tai Of $167 ,396.19 additional taxes in this
State this year. or this the Northwest
ern Mutual Life of Milwaukee alone
pays $152, 1921. The new law went
into effect May 5. The companies bad
already paid $500 license fee each March
!. In computing the tax to be paid this
year, the insurance commissioner, after
computing the total tax for the year IN
der the new law, ! per cent of the gross
premium receipts allowed each company
a credit of $247.64 to apply ON the II
cense fee after May 4, this being the bal
ance left from the $3.50 already paid AZ
Ter dedncting the amount due under the
old law for the sixty-five days frenl
March ] to May 8. The additional q
paid by the outside companies doing bn.
iuaSS in thiS gfafa xxy.,,o.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
state Items of Interest.

1t was decided at aespecial election at
Sun Prairie to put in a system of water
works at cost not to exceed $4,000.
George Davis, who followed circus TO
Eau Claire recently, pleaded guilty to
burglary and was sentenced by Judge
O'NeiH to three years in the penitentiary.
The managers of the Windsor Spring
Company Of Kenosha have decided to
erect an entirely new plant, They have
purchased a plat of ground west of the
city and work on the new building will
begin at once. The building will be of
brick, four stories in height and one of
the largest factory buildings III the city.
business deal of more than local in
terest was consummated at Neillsyille by
which John Paulns, Mont Brown, War
ren Page and John Mcmillan of that cits
become owners of the Neilisvlle Milling
Company's plant which was recently
transferred to Sam Hiles. The price paid
is thought to be close to 100000. The
purchasers will operate the mills as
company
Annie johnson of Marinette, employed
in the Hotel Marinette, was badly burned
by the explosion of a can Of gasoline She
carried the UldZlHS tdH itit0 u bdNhl1Shl
and threw ii into a tub.
Judge W. r. Hoyt of Chippewa Falls
received a telegram from his son Romeo
az Juneau. Alaska, who is now in Seattle,
stating that Arthur Goddard, who killed
his partner at Dawson City May 81, was
insane and was being held for trial Sept.
10. Congressman jenkins is in Wash.
ington consulting Secretary John Hay in
regard to baving the young man dealt
with ieniensly.
AT Oshkosh, Earl Aicxansiar fell upon a
ripsaw and lost his left hand. He Ssd
Just left school to work The accident
occurred in .ne Paine mill.
At Grard Rapids, fire, supposedly OF
incendiar.s origin, destroyed the barn Of
II. 4. Mullen, which was stored with
household furniture. The property is q
total loss.
Betweel 5000 md 1000 people attend
ed the mission fest Of the three Lutheran
churches of Sheboygan in the grove on
the banks of the Shcboygan river near
Wildwood cemetery. The people went
out early in the day, accompanied by
brass band. This il an annual event Of
the Lutheran churches of Sheboygan.
Otto Murphy, car repairer for the
Eastern Minnesota Railroad, was run
over on the ore dock at Allouez bay, beth
legs being cut off and his skull fractured.
He fell from a moving car.
The Neenah High School athletic
rtounds. which were laid ont few years
ago. are now for sale. The Athletic As
socistion has been unable 10 raise enough
money 10 keep the grounds up and has
not paid any OF the indebtedness. al
though about $500 was expended for
grand stand and fence. The property Is |
owned By ]. r. Conant OF Milwaukee. |
who was formerly principal OF the high
school. The property was purchased at |
cost Of 81, 500.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
ANXIOUS TO QUIT.
Aguina1do Realizes that His Fight
Against America Ia HoneIeas

Aguina1do Realizes that His Fight
Against America Is Hopeless.
Z A San Francisco dispatch says that in
the face Of all the Filipino American
news" that is being received from Ma
Mia concerning the invincible rebel chief,
Aguinaldo, there comes the information
from an altogether unprejudiced source
that the leader IF the insurgents in the
Philippines has tired of the fight, and that
his army consists of lot of bloodthirsty
bandits who are in holy fear of Ameri-
can bullets.
A copy of the japanese Times was Sc
cured from the steamer Nippon Maru,
and in it is an account ef the arrival at
Yokohama of two Spanish priests who
lately escaped from the insurgent camps.
One of the fathers, who is described as a
man of splendid education, a student Of
many languages and an authority on isl
and affairs, stated that the power Of
Aguinaldo will be broken Immediately on
the arrival of American troops to garri-
son towns that are taken
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
DIE III TEXAS FLOODS.
PROPERTY LOSS REACHES INTO
THE MILLIONS.
Streams cut of Their Banks, Many
Persons Drown and Valuable Crops
Destroyed Waters Rise go Sudden

The remarkably heavy rams in Texas
have done damage which will amount to
millions of dollars. Railroad traffic was
suspended in south Texas because IF the
numerous washouts, and many bridges
are gone. Every stream in the vicinity
OF Houston rose above high-water mark
and the angry waters have destroyed
thousands Of acres of cotton, corn and
cane, besides houses and cattle. At Cal
vert the rise was so sudden that when
the water went through the town several
negroes were drowned and five bodies
have been recovered. The Big and Little
Brazos rivers we Joined at Nayasota,
where they are 'rdinarily three miles
apart, and the whole couatry between,
mostly cotton and corn land. Is ruined.
1t is reliably stated that one family of
six persons perished. The loss in cotton
alone viii reach 81, ,0o0.o snlsss another
million will not cover the htss to ral. .eoa4s
and other property
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
a wild Man cantured.

4 wild man was captured in the woods
fifty miles north of Chippewa and placed
in the county Jail there. He is go years
of age and has lost nearly all resemblance
to human being. His hair and beard
are two feet long, and his raiment con-
sists 6 a solitary gunnysack wrapped
around his body, and on his head COON
skin cap. 1t is impossible to hold con
yersation with him. as he has lost all
knowledge of speech. This strange crea-
ture has been seen many times for the
last len years by land hunters, and is a.
hermit
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
Trie, Hard to Find Death.

An unknown woman, when the Milwau-
kee carnival was at its height, jumped
into the lake back Of 1856 Prospect ave-
nue.. The water at this point is not more
than three feet deep, but the woman de-
liberately fell on her hands and knees, as
il determined to drown. A colored man
saw the woman jump and gave an alarm.
His cries were heard by Officer Langley,
who jumped into the water and pulled the
woman out