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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
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The manufacturers of automobiles viii
have no difficulty in watering their stock.
St Paul Dispatch.
The automobile never gets its leg over
n shaft or kicks holes in the dashboard.
Minneapolis Times.
The assertion that the automobile has
come to stay should be amended to read
come to go.-Tacoma Ledger.
The automobile has the distinct advan-
tage of not being obliged to wear net
in fy time.-New York Telegram.
The horse will never be wholly dis
placed until the automobile can be used
in an auise-seed fox hunt.-Detroit Trbi-
une.
s.They tell me Jim Brewster has new
road wagon that's hummer" Yes;
it's n gasoline motor."-Cleyeland Plain
Dealer.
The public are accepting the horseless
wagons because they may lead to the ex-
tinction Of the horse shows.-Birming-
ham Age Herald.
While the automobile ly eventually
tend to kill the horse, SUM nervous driy-
ers claim that it is soaring them to death.
Philadelphia Times.
The horse is supposed TO 20, but his go
iug is the going that knows no return.
The automobile is the propelling power
U,schester Democrat and Chronicle.
When the electricians can throw To-
gether an automobile ls cheaply as ma
ture does the horse, it viii begin to ac-
quire popularity Minneapolis Journal
DIR. Playfair. the Lonion physician wno
was condemned TO pay $4,000 damage
for libel a few years ago, WAS hurt il a
queer automobile accident recently. Lie
was going up hill when something gave
way and the carriage began to roll back
ward down the slope. The driver applied
the power brake to the rear wheels, for
getting that he was going backward.
with the result that the carriage stood
up on end and tipped backward. bruising
DIR. Playfair as it fell upon him.-New
York Sun.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
wrecked, the whole loss being beyond es-

wrecked, the whole loss being beyond es-
innate.
Minnesota evidently suffered more from
hail than from rain and wind. The hail
grew in size and the impetus behind it
seemed to increase when The gale reached
South Dakota The damage in this
State, where the crops are ready to be
harvested, is unknown, but it is under
stood to be hea;y. But little grain in
this section that lay in the path of the
storm had been cut, so the injury is ec
yond estimate.
Corn and uncut grain in Nebraska were
knocked fat by the wind and then
drenched and thrown into aoddy heaps
by heavy rain. A number of buildings
were also demolished. These reports are
duplicated in a thousand others from all
parts of the States which fell under the
aim of the storm.
Farmers generally were anxious for
little rain. but most of all they dreaded
wind and hail. Coming at this season Of
the year, which is high tide in harvesting,
the damage is necessarily much greater
than it would have been had the storm
been timed differently and of different
nature The storm was very severe over
the northern part of Nebraska.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

Boston has new crusade aud a new
crusader in Miss Lillian Jewett. who is
24, rather above the medium height and
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
INDIANS ARE ROUTED.
Revolt of the Yequi Warriors Is Prac-
tically Crushed.

ttSaity NfuSHcu.
Dispatches received from Mexico show
that the revolt of the Yaqui Indians has
been practically crushed and that from
now on the military authorities will con-
duct war of determination, so as to re,
move all danger of other uprisings in the
future. 1t is ssso known now that Gen.
Torres was not killed by the Indians in
battle, as at first reported, but only
wounded.
When the treaty of May. 1897, was
signed the Government agreed to provide
each Yaqni with a portion of land and
supply them with Germ until their farms
We're under cultivation. The Indians
were also allowed To retain their arms,
since that time the Government has fed
the Indians, but they refused to work
their farms, and as consequence the
supplies Nare stopped This was the
primary motive Tor the present waf.
Capt. Modanado. who as chief tetabi.
ate had led the Yaqui forces, had sworn
allegiance TO the Government and had
been made captain under Gen. Torres.
With an escort he was sent to confer
with the Indians. The natives deceived
aim. On the 21st Moldanado was de-
toyed into the woods by his tribesmen
and there surprised and attacked by a
arge number of the Yaqui. His escort
Was routed and the captain was murder
I'd by the very men he formerly COM
handed. On the same day the Indians
attacked a detachment of the Twelfth
battalion of infantry in the city af Ba-
snm, but We're repulsed.
Gen. Torres Immediately led a column
Of soldiers into the district to punish the
warriors. After a forced march he came
mp with the Indians, and the battle com
menced. The Indians were routed and
llriyen into th~ woods, leaving forty dead
on the field, while there were many
wounded. Th. Government lost one kill
ed and had ten wounded. Gen. Torres
followed them up, and in the next en-
gagement killed forty-three, among them
four chiefs, Jopo, Slaumayanca, Fierros
and DioniSpn
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

schedule of $24,- PHILIP n. ARMOUR.
4S5 read S500,000 when the 20. X"
stamp of the review board decorated its
face. Mr. Young's new assessed valua-
ton is 100000. 1t was ST, 800 in 1898.
Mr.. Higinbotharl's for 1899 amounts to
100000 also. When he paid taxes a
year ago it was on the basis OF $4,000.
Charles r. Yerkes felt the effect of the
reviewers action to the extent of $780,
600, as they raised his assessors esti-
mate of 100000 to an even million. The
late street railroad presidents 1899 as
sessed valuation will be 100000, as
against 1885 record of $4,000. Nelson
Morris keeps Mr.. Yerkes company with
boost of $650,00O at the hands of the
reyisionists, the assessors rating in tie
packers case being raised from 100000
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
Sparks from the Wires.

AK. of p. lodge will be Instituted at
Havana.
John L. Sullivan, ex-champion pugilist,
will open a saloon in New York.
Iron mills at Harrisburg, Pa, will in
crease wages Of puddiers % cents ton.
Hazelbridge, ho. Sc valued at $500,
fell dead ON the track at Greenville, o.
German National Bank, Marietta, o.,
has begun business with 100000 capital.
Lynn Kespezewski, IA, was killed by a
train at Scottdale, Pa. Was asleep on
the track.
Ferdinand Lebeux, abseonding cashier
of the Bank Vile Marie, Montreal, has
been captured.
Notorious Bill Rose, ringleader Of
moonshiners in Jackson County, Ky, has
been captured.
Chief of Police Lees, San Francisco.
has recommended the introduction of au-
tomobiles as patrol wagons.
Rev. Louis E. Holden of BeIoit, Wis,
College has accepted the presidency OF
fhe Wooster, Ohio, University.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

In the great amount of matter which
has been printed in regard to the trans
Siberian railroad which Russia is build
ing. the fact has been almost overlooked
that she is also constructing one of the
greatest ship canals in the world. 1t will
reach from the Baltic to tic Black Sea.
a distance of 1850 miles. on more than
a hundred miles further than from Chi
cago to New York 1t will be PIT feet
wide and 30 feet deep so that the iarg-
est war vessels may steam through with
out danger of stranding. Its estimated
cost is S125, 100000.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
SCORE ARE DEAD.
Maine ExcursiOnists Near Bar Har-
bor Drowned by CoIlapse of a Pier.

Twenty or more excursioniSts from va
rious parts of Maine were drowned and
forty ne others were injured at Mount
Desert 'erry, eight miles from Bar Har-
Dor, Me-, Sunday morning by the break
ing of an old and weak slip.
The Maine Central Railroad ran ex.
cursion trains from all over its line in
Maine to permit of people visiting the
which had arrived in the harbor from
Newport Il. l. The trains were switch
ed of the Boston and Maine road to the
short line of the Maine Central which
at Mount Desert ferry connects with the
small steamer Sappho, which plies be-
tween that point and Bar Harbor.
The first train brought 1900 persons,
and as the crowd had been told by train
hands that the steamer could not 40
commodate one-fourth of the number
there was a rush for the ferry slip as
soon as the train stopped. About 200
gained the decks of the steamer and as
many more were on the slip, when with
crash that sounded like the explosion
of a boiler the weak, ed structure broke
in two in the center and the people were
swept off each end into the water.
1t was high tide at the time and the
200 people were penned into a box-like
area of 20 by 30 feet and beyond the
assistance from the people high above
them or the wharf Their only means
of escape was by diving down FIVE feet
under the side wall planking and swim
ming to the shore Few could do this,
for the crowd was panic-stIicken, and
the members of it fought like wild ami
mails fNr thew lives
The peopl4 on shore for several min
utcs kept crowding forward, 70 cing
some fIty more upon the struggling u ass
of humanity in the water below
The railroad and steamboat employ IS
FASTENED to the rescue, and with ropes,
panks and ladder quickly aided $50
persons to safety, and there were num-
erous heroic rescues. Fred G. Green
ough. station agent, who was among the
first hurled into the water, held many
women and children up to willing hands
of the workers above and he did not
leave the inclosure until every person
above water had been got out. He was
the hero of the hour, and his nerve and
coolness quieted the panic-stricken people
more than any other one thing, and when,
exhausted, he was drawn up a mighty
cheer went mp from the crowd that by
the arrival of another train had grown to
fully $500 people.
Forty-one of the rescued were SO seri-
ously injured that they required immedi-
ate medical and surgical attention, and
they were removed to hotel close by.
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TO MORMONIZE EUROPE.
Missionaries Bound for England, &c
MANY aud Other Lands

manp auU Otner IhuuSs
a party of twenty-five Mormon mis-
sional;es sailed from Philadelphia for
Europe last week. going to Liverpool.
They are mostly young men, two of them
being under 20.
The Mormon missionaries, unlike those
of other religious denominations, are not
paid or supported by their church. Each
man undertakes the work voluntarily,
and pays his own expenses from the time
he leaves home until he returns at the
end of two or three years. The men
who went abroad are tradesmen, me-
chanics or clerks, who are willing to
abandon their respective callings for the
time being, and devote their time and
means to the propagation of their faith
in foreign countries Each man has
been indorsed by his bishop and though
some of the party are married they left
home and family cheerfully to prosecute
the work for which they felt they had a
special mission. They will be distributed
throughout Great Britain, Scandinavia
Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Aus
tria, and will be followed at intervals by
others who will keep up the work OF
propagandism.
The youngest of the party was Thomas
Sumner, who is but Is years old. His
home is at Provo, Utah, where he re-
ceived good education. He is n native
Of Lancashire, England, and thither he
goes to seek converts
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
FACE DEATH IN LAKE.
Passengers Spend Night of Terror
on Lake Michigan

Two hundred passengers on the steam
er City Of Grand Rapids, which left
South Haven, Mich, for Milwaukee Sat
urday night, faced death through the
long hours of the night in a violent north
easter, which caused the leaking boat to
nearly founder and which threatened to
rend the vessel from stern to bow at any
moment. With the water in the hold
within two inches of the fires the cap
tain put about for South Haven and af-
ter desperate struggle with the waves
and water the steamer reached that port
at 6 O'clock Sunday morning almost in
a sinking condition. One force pump of
all on board was serviceable and this
lone pump alone saved the passengers
from what seemed certain doom.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

GOES MILE IN l:22 2-5,
Major Taylor Esats the WORLDS Rec
ords on "A bicycle.

ords on "A bicycle.
In the presence of a yelli'e frenzied
crowd Major Taylor, the SWIFT colored
professional cyclist, rode mile behind
his steam motor at the Garfield Park
track in Chicago Thursday in the phe-
nomenal time Of % %, thereby beating
Tie worlds record by ) 3-5 seconds.
There can be absolutely no doubt about
the authenticity of the performance. At
least five watches caught the blur of
yellow and black as it sped across the
crack abreast of the pacing machine, and
all were under 1:23
Taylor's performance is the more re-
markable in that it was not aided by
wind shields or any other device; it was
simply straightaway, paced race. Me
Duties record of :2S was made with
the aid of wind shield which protected
him from all currents and so fashioned
as to make his machine practically Il
light wedge on wheels, tapered before
and behind.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
WITH TATTERED FLAGS.
Nebraska and Utah Volunteers Parade
in Sau Francisco.

Two hundred thousand persons is a
conservative estimate of the crowd which
gathered along Market street, Golden
Gate and Van Ness avenues, San Fran
cisco, and gave the Nebraska volunteers
q welcome hom.. which the men will re-
member as long as they live. The sight
of their once spotless silk flag, which was
presented to them by the people of Ne
braska, coming home with only the blue
field and a few tattered ribbons of stripes
left, set the people along the line of
march wild with enthusiasm. Another
feature that made the thousands mingle
tears and cheers was eight ambulances
filed with the sick and wounded at the
end of the procession. Many of the sick
were consumptive, going home to die, and
all bore the stamp of hardship and suffer
ing The spectators shewered the poor
fellows with flowers and cheered them
from the time they left the dock until
they turned into the Preside military
reservation. The volunteers and the Utah
light artillery were in heavy marching
order.
They looked like seasoned veterans. All
of the business houses along lower Mar
ket street suspended business for half an
hour while the regiment passed in re-
view. The gun stores We'd with one an
other in an endeayor to make the most
noise, and the factories blew their whis-
ties while the steam craft in the bay
responded with loud toots to the shrill
sounds from the shore.
The parade was led by detachment of
police and the Nebraska band, with de-
tachlneat Of regulars. Then followed the
Nebra kans. The sick men of the regi-
msnt were conveyed in ambulances from
the Preside. The Utah battery was
next The Nebraska men carried their
Springields and rolls of blankets. After
the ambulances with the Utah sick came
battery o, Third artillery, and troop o,
Sixth cavalry. The proudest men in the
line were the bearers of the tattered coll
ors of the two commands The Nebras-.
kans carried their regimental and nation
al colors. The Nebra@kans' flag, torn and
shot-riddled, acted like an electric battery
on the crowd. The sight of the old flag.
frayed and mangled by long service and
punctured with shot, sent a thrill of emo
ton through all who saw it. Even the
most reserved and dignifed Of citizens
rushed excitedly forward, and lifting
their hats, shouted warmly: Three
cheers for Old Gloryr'
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to S750,000. When Mr.. Morris settles
his tax bill next spring it will be on the
basis of an assessed valuation of $780,
000 instead of 81 900 for 1893.
Philip ID. Armour was not So heavily
punished as his fellow millionaires. The
reviewers only added $450.000 to the as
SCISSORS estimate of 100000 in his case,
explaining afterward that they regarded
$750,000 fair valuation Cf the packer
philanthrcr:si' personal wealth, on the
ground that the great bull. of his money
ed capital is invested ii the firm of Ar
morr & Co. and its various allied inter-
ests. Nevertheless, Mr.. Armour will
come to the support of Cook County on
an assessable basis of S150.000 for S4,-
900 when he last cnntrihuted
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
WARNING TO CENSUS TAKERS.
Director Merriam Notifies Them of
Things to Be Avoided.


Census Director Merriam has complet.
ed the preparation of his official instruc-
tions to supervisors, and each of the 230
appointees viii receive Il copy The cir
cular of instructions will accompany the
commission of the supervisor and his oath
Of office form, which he is expected to
fl out and return TO Director Merriam.
Merriam wishes the supervisors to inn
press upon the minds OF their enumera-
tors that there is to be no backing
down" after they accept the tasks as
signed to them. After taking up the
work they must go through with it,
whether they like it or not. Census enum-
orators who tell what they learn in the
performance of their duties are liable to
a fine of $500, the director warns them,
and if they are caught making oath to
untruths they are liable to 20 to prison
for three years for perjury and to pay a
sne of $500.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

Ne ofer One hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Uf Catarrla that cannot be cured by
Hall CataFrb Cure.
i. }. CHENEY ( CO. Props, Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned. haze known +. j. Cheney
for the last u years, and believe isiIu perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and fnan-
c5a!lY able 10 carry oat any obligation made W
tlIclr firm.
Ntst n Trlax. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. 9.
WaliinG. Kinpan Marvin. Wholesale Drug
gisti. Toledo Ohih.
Rails Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and MUCOUS surfaces cf
tie system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by ~
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
LAKE OF BOILING FIRE.
Volcano of Mauna Loa Presents
Spectacle of G ~andeur.

Volcano of Mauna Loa Presents a
Spectacle of G GRANDEUR.
The main crater in the volcano Of Maui
ma Loa, Hawaii, has ceased to belch
forth anything but smoke, but the new
crater, two miles down the mountain
side. continues to feed the great lake Of
LIQUID fire which is steadily flowing to-
ward the tow of Hiio, which will un-
doubtedly be destroyed.
The scene is one of such grandeur that
words fail to describe it. Daring tour
lists tell of great stones of white heat
heayed hundreds of feet into the air, only
to fall back with terrible kissing roar
into the lake from which they were vom-
tied. Besides the large lake, there are
about ten smaller fountains of fire and
lava. which form another flow going to-
ward Wimea, from the same crater.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
FAILED TO RETAkE CAL AMBA.

Filipinos Rcpuised by Americans, Who
Lose One Killed.
The Filipino insurgents Sunday made
an attempt to recapture Calamba, which
was taken by the Americans on Wednes-
day. A force of 2,400 rebels attacked
the town simultaneously on the north
and south. In repulsing the attack the
Americans did not even require all their
force Two companies of the Twenty
first regulars, some cavalry and one gun
were sufficient to repulse the attack on
the north, while 400 men from the Wash
ington Volunteers drove the enemy back
on the south The American loss was
one killed and seven wounded.
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MORMONS SWIM FOR LIFE.
An Infuriated Georgia Mob Threatens
to Lynch the Elders.

BY jumping creek three Mormon eld-
ers escaped lynching ut the hands of an
infuriated mob near Monticello, Jasper
County, Ga. The men were seized by
mob at the home of William Crnnard
and hurried away to the woods. When
they reached the banks of creek the
Mormons were told to offer up their last
prayers, as they were to die at the end
of a rope Immediately. Tie three men,
with one accord, jumped into the stream
and swan fol their lives The mob pur-
sued them, but they managed to escape
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

In ten years An AArican life insurance
companies have doubled their assets, the
amount rising from St57, ,12S,642 in 1855
10 s1.3Ii, Dol, JOS in 1898. The increase
has been decidedly the greatest since
prosperity returned TO the COUNTRY.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

ors in cases where schedules were not
filed. They proceeded to demonstrate
that the assessors who had turned in
sworn stat ements were equally deficient
as gnessers, and raises ranging all the
way from 10 to 3 zoo per cent tell the
story in convincing figulcs.
In point of aggregate of increase the
hardest blow was dealt TO Marshall
Field, who must pay personal property
taxes on full value of $500, 600, in-
stead of the $1,250, 900 at which the as
SCISSORS had rated him. This means that
the dry goods merchants assessed valua-
ton for 1899 is $50e 600, as against S21,-.
600 last year.
After landing on Mr.. Field. the review
ers developed reserve power by jumping
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

The letters addressed to the President
average 1000 day. Eighty per cent of
them never reach the eye of either the
chief executive or his private secretary.
They are sorted by the clerks under the
direction of Private Secretary Porter and
sent 10 the proper departments for atten
ton. The largest proportion of the let
ters ask for financial assistance. The
next largest number pray for the Presi-
dents assistance in purely personal mat
tiers. 4 large per cent are from people
who imagine that vast fortunes are I
the vaults of the treasury, to obtain
which it win be only necessary for the
President to make the proper order.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
BRITAIN STILL RULES The SEAS
Controls, with America, One Half the
Merchant Shin Tonnage

Merchant ship Tonnage.
Lloyds' register of shipping gives the
entire feet of the world as 2S, $50 steam
ers and sailing vessels, with a total ton
mage of q, 7,613, ,52S, of which 39 per cent
is British.
The Americans come next with 3,010
vessels, with a total tonnage of 2,465,-
3ST. Norway has 2,52s vessels, tonnage
1904, go. Germany has 1876 vessels,
tonnage 2,453,33
Sweden has ,40S vessels. with 605,-
991 tonnage. Russia has 1,21S vessels,
tonnage 643 ,527: Italy has 1,150 vessels,
and France 1,132. No other nationality
has over LOCO ships.
The British and Americans together
control one-half of the entire merchant
ship tonnage afioat.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09

Outside of the army and navy the only
life positions under the general Govern
ment are those of the justices Of the Su-
prerle Court, of judges of the Circuit
Courts. of justices of the District Courts,
of i,.dges of the Court of Claims, OF JUS
tices Of the Supreme Court of the Dis
triet of Columbia, and of the judge of
the Consular Court in Egypt and OF the
Chief Justice of Samoa.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-08-09
COURT AWARDS MILLIONS.
Old Patents Held br- a Tooth Crown
Company Are Valid.

NUW pdTy IfFt dTfUs
A decision rendered by Judge Town
send in the United States Circuit Court
at New York is estimated to affect
claims amounting to $4,000, COO. The de-
cision is in favor of the International
Tooth Crown Company and sustains the
validity of 1881 patents held on the sys-
tenn of applying tooth crowns. Although
the patents expired during the litigation.
the decision confirms the right Of the
complainant company to collect royalties
on all infringements covering the whole
existence of the patents.