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WORLDS WOMEN MEET.
International Council Commences

International Council Commences Its
ecssions In London.
The lnseraational Council Of Women
opened In the conyocat;on hall of the
church house. London, England. The
Countess of Aberdeen, president of the
council, in her address, after cordial
words of welcome, sketched the duties of
the council. She said international arbi-
tration shoe!d ever be placed foremost in
lis program, advocated the establishment
OF an international bureau OF informa-
ton regarding all that affects women, and
warned women against arrogating to
themselves alone the duties Of curing all
evils.
Lady Aberdeen afterward introduced
Mrs. May Wright Sewall OF the United
States, vice-president Of the council, who
was enthusiastically received as a posi-
bic successor to the presidency.
For officers the international council
has some of the most prominent women in
the wcsld. They are: President, roan-
tess of Aberdeen; vice-president, Mrs.
May Wrigh Sewall Of the United States;
treasurer, Baroness Alexandra Grippen-
berg of Finland; recording secretary,
Nine. Maria Martin of France; corre-
spending secretary, Miss Teresa f. Will
son of London.
The nations represented at the congress
are the United States, Great Britain,
Carmany, Sweden, Canada, Denmark,
Holland, India, New South Wales, Tas-
mania, Norway, Palestine, China, New
zealanf and the Argentine Republic. The
lnste5 states Is lpresented by Mrs. Fan
ME HuapEreys taaffney, Susan B. An
tony and Rev. Anna III. Shaw. Among
q ie well-known American women who
ss,e in attendance ali the congress are DIR.
Sarah Hackett Stevenson, Mrs. Cynthia a
Westoser Alden, Mrs. Annie Jenness Mil
Ter, Mrs. Florence b. Kelley, Mrs. Eliz.
abeth q. Grannis and Miss Alice Bur-
diff
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The Cleveland Leader tells of a fam
lily whose cook has not been in this
country all her life. The members of
the family have tried to be good to her,
but 1t seems that they have failed to
meet her expectations.
Molly wrote to her folks at home, not
long ago, that she was not satisfied
with her place. She first wrote With a
pencil, and then cop ed her letter with
pen. Her mistress found the pencil
ed copy In the kitchen, and, very i'm
properly, read it. Here is part Of
the epistle:
They make me work very hard here,
tley do. It's cookin, baykin and
swaypin' ain all the time, and here /
am now at this mint writin to yez
wild me right hand, claynin' the snow
from the sidewalk wild me left hand,
and shovelin' coal into the furnace wild
me otherr'
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
TeIegranhic BrexItie.

Carl Tssi, 45, and son, George. 10. Nor
folk, Va, convicted Of circU' sing spurious
half dollars.
Pat Sweeney, Cincinnati, attempted to
eject an unknown man from a theater.
Sweeney was shot and seriously wounded.
The paper board mills Of McEwan
brothers at Whippany, y. j., were dam
aged $4,000 by an incendiary FIRE.
Senatorial pure fsed committee. Chi,
cago, says that almost oil beer is adulter.
ated with salicylic acid.
Jacob Shafer. Ammon Beers and Rob
ert Snyder, Allentown, Pa, were killed
By cave-in at a quarry.
Bertha Behn. 1G, jumped from a win
dow Of the Good Shepherds home. CIeye-
land, Ohio, and was fstaily injured
John Zigouras, Geek. was found gull
~ Of killing feiloyf countryman in New
York. lie viii be electr0cuted.
New Orleans aas voted TO spend $50,
600 900 for sewerage and drainage.
Cleveland, Olio. may limit the speed OF
trolley cars to six miles an hoUy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
sparks from the Wires.

Percy Cox, 10, Westfeld, n. j., hanged
himself.
E. b. Weeks found murdered in his
home, Bogue Sound, b. n. 9.
e. q. Leake, Elkton, KY. stabbed Ho-
mer Scott, colored. to death.
Joseph Lincoln, 60, relative of Abraham
Lincoln, dead, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Il. G. Robinson, Lexington, Mo-, killed
himself in a Cincinnati hotel. Arsenic.
Congressman Charles Dick win manage
the Ohio campaign for the Republicans.
Joe Lepps, Louisville, KY, in family
row, killed his stepfather, George Bow
master
So much gambling in Cuba that Gen.
Brooke threatens to close some OF the
placess
John Hayes, Belaire, Nd, engaged in I
pistol battle with Policeman Bateman.
Both dead.
Emile Zola, at Paris. fled papers oppos-
ing the verdict condemning him to a years
Imprisonment.
Two principal witnesses in murder cases
pending in San Saba County, Texas, were
assassinated.
Jos. Hopper. Summeryille, Texas, sud-
denly became insane and killed Samuel
Davis with an ak.
Four freight cars crashed through the
bridge. Pacific. Mo-, and fell into the
river. No one hurt.
Capt. Peter Devries, Grand Rapids,
Mich. is trying to secure homes In
Georgia for 100 Dutch families.
Mrs. Margs1et Trishaan, Mammoth
Hot SPRINGS, Yellowstone Park, cut the
throas % her 5-year-old son. Insane.
Sheriff Joe Hazen, shot. BY the train
robbers while pursuing them, il dead,
Douglas, Wyo.
Columbia University, New York. has
honored Gov. Roosevelt with the degree
of Doctor of Laws.
Oae hundred silver workers. Buffalo. n.
u. struck because the management was
opposed to unions.
Camille Rouget, SO, and Alexander
Borne. 81, are suffering with leprosy in
st. Johns parish. Louisiana.
n. yanderkosen. prisoner, San Francis.
ee. who robbed church box, has fallen
heir to $4,000, left by a relative in Ger
mapx
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NO LIMIT TO ARMY.
Recruiting Officers to Make Enlist-
ments Until Notified to Desist,

Recruiting officers to Make Enlist-
ments Until Notified to Desist.
The War Department at Washington
has not yet placed a limit upon the num-
Der of men to be recruited for the Phil
ippines. Secretary Alger says that the
recruiting officers have been instructed to
make enlistments until the department or
ders to the contrary. He would net say
when the recruiting would stop. He an
nounced, however, that it was the pur-
pose of the department to furnish Gen.
Otis soldiers not only TO take the place OF
those incapacitated by sickness and
wounds and those killed in the harassing
sorties Of the Filipinos during the rainy
season, but also to furnish garrisons and
police fcsth cities and towns occupied
by the United States. At present com
paratively small force will be required for
this purpose. When active campaigning
is resumed after the close of the rainy
season, and the American army with Il
righting force of 10000 proceeds against
the Filipinos, their progress should be
rapid, and hence large reserve force
will be required to garrison the places
CAPTURED
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IIIRERT
WON BY PENN's GREW.
To Gallant Wisconsin,, However, Dot


To Gallant Wisconsin, However, Does
the Glory Beicag.
The honor of the West has been up
held. But for an unfortunate incident
the probabilities are that the most excit-
ing and hotly contested boat race known
to college history would have gone to the
University Of Wisconsin. A crate bob
bing ON the water directly in the course
of the Western eight made il necessary
70 veer at a sharp angle from the straight
patti. 4 avoid also the cluster Of boats
which crowded close to the channel Of the
Contestants. Ii was tco late then to re,
turn 10 the ''liye" water, and amid deaf
ening cheers PENNSYLVANIA crossed the
line the winner ny scant half boat
length.
The race occurred ON the Hudson river
at Poughkeepsie, \. y. Pennsylvania
won by scant half length in 20:04, Wis
consin being three lengths ahead of Cor
nell and the latter leading Columbia by
four lengths.
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NEW CANAL COMBINATION.
1t Proposes to Construct an Isthmial
Water Way.

- AopoSCS " NOustTuCt an lStnnIdn
Water Way.
Articles of incorporation for the Ameri-
can Isthmus Ship Canal Company have
been filed in Trenton, n j. Through
these articles the first announcement was
made of the new combination, which, it is
said, includes many men of large wealth,
headed by former Mayor William r.
Grace, and expects to carry to completion
the isthTlian canal scheme. Although the
nominal capital is $4,000, the articles Of
incorporation give the right to increase
it to $3.50, 100000.
1t is estimated that between $50, 0,000,-
900 and 200000,000 will be needed to
carry out the project, the greater part Of
which will be expended in buying off the
holders Of concessions According to the
papers of Incorporation, the object Of the
company is to acquire any and all con-
cessions, rights and franchises on the
American isthmus, to build canal from
the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, to own
lands. mines and railroads; to colonize
and to build, own and operate any canal
from ocean to ocean and to obtain aid
from the United States, England, France,
Germany or any other Government to
that end
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
LOST IN SHlPWRECk.
Steamer Margaret OlwiIl Goes Down
T.aIo

0tedmCT MHTSareH OiWll OOes DOWN
in Lake Erie.
In a northeast gale the steamer Mar
garet Olwill, laden with stone from KEEL
leys Island to Cleveland, foundered in
Lake Erie off Lorain, Ohio. Nine per-
sons were drowned. Four members OF
the crew have been picked up by passing
steamers aud taken into Cleveland.
From the reports of the survivors the
Olwilfs cargo of stone shifted while the
vessel was laboring in the trough of the
sea. Shortly before it went down the rud.
der chains parted, allowing it to fall off
into the trough. As the helpless craft
rose on top of heavy sea the stone slid
to leeward, the steamer listed heayily
and sank to the bottom The rescued mem
bers of the crew were found floating on
the surface of Lake Erie, clinging to bits
OF wreckage. Their rescue was attended
by exhibitions of great heroism, for a
heavy sea was still running when they
were picked up
The Olwill lies in fifty feet Of water,
eight miles off Lorain. 1t belonged to Il.
E. and j. A. Smith Of Cleveland and had
been carrying stone from The quarries at
kelley's Island to Cleveland for the
breakwater now being built. The Olwill
was launched in 1887 and was 175 feet
long and "a feet beam. 1t measured 554
gross tons.
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BELIEVE SHE WAS MURDERED
Evidence Showing that EelIe Slavin
Did Not Commit Suicide

When the body OF Belle Slavin was
found in the Office of the National Bank
of Commerce at Wichita, Kan, death
having resulted from a bullet wound in
the head, it was supposed that she had
committed suicide. Later developments
seem to indicate that the young woman
was murdered and the police are working
upon that theory.
Miss Slayin, who was the banks stem
ographer, was permitted to take in out
side work. which often kept her at the
bank until 10 o'clock at night. Mr.. Jobes,s
president of the bank, now states that
On the afternoon previous a strange man
came to the bank and asked to have some
work done Miss Slavin told him 70 bring
it around after g o'clock. Mr. Jobes says
that he observed the stranger surveying
the interior of the bank very critically.
A citizen heard a pistol shot just after
O'clock. When Miss Slavin's father and
another citizen went in search of her they
found the bank door unlocked. papers
were scattered around the floor, the con-
tents Of several drawers were disarrang-
ed. and Miss Slavinis keys were missing.
The revolver found BY the young woman s
side was not hers.
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FALLS HEIR TO MILLIONS.
]. r. Osconnor, ehicago Attorney,
dears Unex pected News.

John r. O'Connor, Chicago attorney,
has received notice that he is one of four
heirs to $4,000, 600 estate in Scotland,
and is preparing to depart for England
to claim his heritage. A title and an old
castle. said to date from the time OF
Mary, Queen of Scots, goes with the for
tune. and it is believed that these. in ad-
dition TO one-fourth of the money and
lands comprising the estate, viii fall to
the share Of Mr.. O'Connor.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

LABOR WAR AT LAPEL, IND.
Union and Non-uniou Men Walk the
streets Heavily Armed.

Union and Non-union Men Walk the
streets Heavily Armed.
Union and non-union men walk the
streets Of Lapel, Ind, armed to the teeth
and carrying guns and reyolyers without
any pretense Of concealing them. Several
days ago the workmen in the two flint
glass factories at that point organized and
the management in turn locked them out
Since then the entire community has en-.
gendered a bitter feeling against union
ism. The union men held conference
and were attacked by a mob Of citizens.
The hotel was Iiddlcd with bullets. No
tees have been received By several union
sympathizers that their places would be
blown to pieces if they did not join in the
hostile movement against the unionists.
Sheriff Moore and deputies have practi-
cally established military government.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

GILBERT ". GATEs. 10 the arrest OF the
murderer.
Gilbert Gates was murdered near War
rensburg. Mo, ON the night of May 2,
1872, while be was journeying westward
by wagon with Alexander Jester. When
night came they encamped on the river
bank, and under cover OF darkness Jes-
ter, it is said. stole toward Gates and
shot him in the back He robbed Gates
and then attempted TO conceal the crime
BY burning his victims body Failing in
this, the murderer threw the corpse into
the river, whence it drifted down stream.
where it was finally discovered in Salt
river.
successful chase for Jester follow.
ed, and he was captured. A. A. Gates,
father Of the mursqred man, FASTENED
from Chicago 10 the West at that time
and was one Of a party which searched
the house Of a sister who was then living
eighteen miles north OF Wichita. There
Mr.. Gates says he found clothing which
had been Worn BY his murdered son. This
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Long Trolley Line Planned.

Charles d. Smith of Fond du Lac has
proposed a scheme TO build an electric
railway from Madison to Fond du Lac by
way of Sun Prairie, Columbus, Beaver
Dam and Wanpun. The line is TO be
about seventy miles in length. \ branch
is to be built from Fond du Lac to Beav-
er Dam BY way of Oailfield. Knowles,
Mayville, Horizon and Juneau. This is
to be thirty-nne miles in length. The
cost of construction Of the main line is
estimated lit $4,000 and that Of The
branch at 100000.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

and other evidence was introduced IN the
trial, but before it was concluded Jester
escaped.
Since then he has been at large, and
efforts to find him have proved unavail-
ing. A few days ago the sister of the
murderer, Mrs. Cornelia Street of She
vance, Oklahoma, wrote TO Sheriff Sim
mons of Wichita saying that her brother
was living in Shewance under the name
of w. III. Hill. He was arrested and has
been identified-by John w. Gates. Jester
protests his innocence.
The bodies of George and Laura Gates,
Gilberts brother and sister, lie in the plot
at Oakwood Cemetery, near West Chi
cage. and between them rises marble
shaft ten feet high, on granite base.
The names OF the two children whose
bodies lie beside it are inscribed there,
and upon another face Is this inscriptions
GILBERT W.,
son of
A. A. and Mary Gates,
was murdered in Missouri
by Alexander Jester,
January %, 1871.
Aged 19 years and % days.
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TRUSTS ON THE DECLINE.
so Says Crawford Fairbanks, who
Organized Strawboard Com binc.

Crawford Fairbanks OF Terre Hante,
Ind, the brewery magnate and the pro-
moter of the strawboard trust, has a
vivid idea that the trusts are, so to speak,
on their last legs.
Did you read that expression Of the
Attorney General of the United States
in which he said that the investors in
trusts would be the sufferers-not the
public?" said he. "Well, his head may
be Level. The investors have stomach
full of trusts. Trust stock is down from
Is to 20 points and the investors don't
bite like they did. The furore is wearing
off. 1t takes bigger chunk of bait and
a better quality to have tempting effect
than it did awhile back. / don'T think
that it will be possible to put through stny
trust deal ON a large scale in the futurs," i"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Auother Bir EIeya tor.

A 10000 bushel elevator viii be built
in Superior by the United States Flour
Manufacturing Company, as we'll as the
one to be erected in Duluth. The plans
for the Superior elevator are not yet
drawn, but the house is assured. Its 10,
cation will be adjacent to the East End
mills of the company and besides being
run for them, will do a general grain bus
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Big victory for Hunters.

The Wisconsin courts have finally de-
cided the question of draining Muskegon
lake, and the famous hunting grounds viii
be permitted to fill to their level again.
This will be joyful news for hunters, who
account these among the best fields for
wild fowl in the country. The fight over
draining the lake has been on since 1887,
and has ragged with more or less intensity.
Sportsmen all over the State will rejoice
that the lake is not to be drained.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
AMERICANS SUE ONTARIO.
Lumbermen Claim Damages Under
the New Timber Regulations,

Don M. Dickinson of Detroi. has flied
a big bill uf damages against the province
of Ontario at Ottawa, on behalf of Mich
igan lessees of Ontario timber lands for
violation of the crown timber licenses.
Ontario now requires all these iessees to
manufacture the log into lumber in On
tario, and as consequence several mills
in Michigan have had to shut down. The
claims reach the total OF S936, 500. The
constitutionality of the Ontario statute is
now being tested in the courts, but the
case win not likely reach the final court
Of appeal, the British privy council, until
next NoYember.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

1898, he was relieved from duty at tho
Naval Academy 10 serve on the Brook
lyn. Admiral schley's flagship. IT was
while engaged on this service that he had
the famous conversation with Admiral
Schley. around which the dispute be-
tween the friends of the two commanders
centers.
49,
The formation Of the United Forward
ing Company. which is TO compete with
he older express companies, marks the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Gang of Car Robbers.

The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneai ,5lis and
Omaha Railway Company has detec-
tive at work IN Chippewa Falls routing
out a gang Of robbers who have been
breaking seals on box cars standing near
the depot and removing freight therefrom.
II Is thought that about $400 worth Of
freight has been stolen from the cars
within two weeks, aud the work has con-
tinued u.ltil the other night, when sew
eral boxes Of merchandise were CARRIED
away. Thf robbers, after breaking the
seal on the car door and getting In their
work, replaced he seal in such neancr
rs to avoid detection, aud the company
has been at loss to know where The
goods lave been going TO
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
The BADGER STATE.
NEWS or Tt1E WEEK coNclSELy
CONDENSED.
Tramps Try to Take Town-system-
attic Ihieving from Freight Care
Towns to Be Linked by Long Trolley
Line Peculiar Accident to d Child.

IWo hobos, clsin,:ng to be brothers, Civ
Ing the names Of Irving and G. 4. Strong
and claiming Holland, Mich, as their
homes took possessiri OF the village of
Avoca the other daysaS terrorized the
people until Marshal ! sch attempted to
arrest them when one drew revolver
and shot the officer in The side. The bct
let did not kill aud Leach knocked the
tramp down with club and beat him
into iisensibility. Then the other hobo
pitched in with slungshot and " puj soon
have finished the officer had not cit Iu,ns
rushed TO his rescue. Small hopes Of the
officer S recovery are entertained
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

sixtieEh anniversary
of the establish
ment OF the express
business. Its orig
inator was William
n. Harnden OF Bos-
ton, who on March
4. 1889, made his
first trip from Bos-
ton to New York,
delivering a few
bundles Of DO, ks
and some 5ank
notes for Boston
brokers. NJ farm
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Eve Is Pierced by n Nail.

Elsie North, an S-year-old daughter Of
Dr. and Mrs. G. II. North Of Beaver
Dam, may lose the sight Of an eye s the
result Of a peculiar accident. Two men,
one in the street and theaether on top Of
the new cold storage building, We're
throwing stones and nails at each other.
Elsie North happened 70 be passing at the
time and naturally looked up and a 10
penny nail struck her in the eye, inficting
a serious wound.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

Plant Of Western iron works. Butte,
Mont, burned. Loss 100000.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth Of proper
ty, Redwood. Ohio.
Fire did $4,000 damage in Lozier's de-
partment store, Brooklyn.
Painters hoop mill, Pittsburg, Pa, in
creased wages 10 per cent
Yellow fever is reported near United
States headquarters, Havana.
Republican Congressman of New York
have indoysed Henderson for Speaker
Five business houses burned. Whites
boro, Texas. Loss $16,500.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
SIR JULIAN TO RETIRE.
Ambassador Will Give Up His Ameri-
can Mission Eext April.

can NIssioH AseNt AprII
The correspondent of the London
Standard at The Hague felegraphs thes
he has had an interview with Sir Julian
Pauncefote. British ambassador to the
United States and head OF the British
delegation at the peace conference, and
been assured by him that he intends TO
retire from the Washington embassy ia
April next. The correspondent says: SIR
Julian will stay in England after the csn-
ference until October, unless the ALASKAN
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GIVES BERMUDA RECIPROCITY.

Treaty Effected i'm Washington and
Now Only Awaits Ratification.
A reciprocity treaty relating to the
British West Indian colony Of Bermuds
has been concluded. The Bermuda com.
mission has left for home with draft OF
the treaty, which is 10 be submitted to
the Bermuda Legislature before being
fisally signed, ON behalf of the two gov.
ernments, by Commissioner Kasson and
Mr.. Tower, the British charge
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

den made four trips a week, and made
himself particularly useful 20 the press,
as irs brought information from distant
points quicker than it was forwslded by
the mails. A year later Alvsa Adams
starred competing line, which has since
developed into the great Adams Exiress
Company. The first express lj:le west OF
Buffalo was established by Wells in 1915.
1t was the foundation OF the WelIs-Esrgo
express lines In 1858 the United States
Express Company was formed, aud in
1855 the American Express Company
came into existence.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
POWERFUL NEW SHELL TESTED.
Device of Far Greater Destructive
Power than Shrapnel Invented.

Power than Shrapnel Invented.
A shell of terrific explosive power, wide
radius of destruction and capacity to
annihilate by bursting fragments and a
shock as effective as streak of light
ming will be the feature Of the fall cam
paign in the Philippine Islands. Tests
of the charge Of this terrible engine Of
war have been made at Sandy Hook, the
Government guarding closely its secret Of
manufacture. A shell OF this nature
charged with an explosive equal to melin-
ite or dynamite falling near a battalion
of the enemy would kill or cripple very
large percentage of the battalion. The
chances of escape from this tremendous
machine win be deceased 100 times, ex-
perts say, as compared with shrapnel dis
charged at the same objects.