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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
THE RUSH TO CAPE NOME.
Nothing Like 1t Has Been Seen in the
Past Half Century.

The greatest rush to u new gold field
for half century is now in progress.
Cape Nome is the destination of the
crowd, The rush to the Klondike was
the largest 10 any gold mining country
since the excitement in California, but
statistics show that fewer than 10000
went to the klondike and the Yukon riv-
er country during 1898, and there was g.
200 more in 1899. 1t is estimated that
10000 or $4,000 people are preparing to
start for Cape Nome.
The season OF navigation in the Arc
tie has just opened and already 5. 100
men and women have sailed from Seattle,
Vancouver and San Francisco for Cape
Nome. Passage to Cape Nome has been
provided for about 1000 more who win
sail this month. Capt Hanchett, who
has long boen in the Alaska steamship
business. thinks that almost 10000 men
and women will have gone to the Alaska
mining fields when the season of naviga-
ton closes next October.
The rush to Cape Nome involves the
transportation of an enormous quantity
of mining machinery portable houses,
tents, beasts of burden, stocks of mer-
One steamer started from San Francisco
last week fer Cape Nor'e with hydraulic
machinery aboard to the value of $780,
ooO, and another steamer similarly laden
left Seattle two days later. For months
the iron founders and mining machinery
builders of the Pacific coast have been at
work on new devices 70 meet the de-
mands of gold mining on the sandy sea
beach and among the gravel beds of the
creeks of Cape Nome. for, in some re-
spects. the mining conditions in the new
Alaskan field have revolutionizeu placer
mining methods A race is now on
among several freight steamers to see
which will reach Cape Nome soonest and
thereby make the profit there will be in
disposing of newly invented machinery
FOR washing the golden specks from sand
and gravel. Several machine companies
have each put tens of thousands of dol
lars in gold rockers and mammoth sluices
for use in the Cape Nome placers. \
half-dozen schoonels cleared from Seattle
and Vancouver week ago, laden with
coal and lumber for use in the new min
ing field, where there has been u very Sc
rious fuel famine all winter. A company
of Denver and Ell Paso capitalists have
invested $4,000 in barges and steam
tugs for carrying freight from the ocean
steamers to the land at Nome.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
VISIT THE PRESIDENT.
Boer Peace Enjoys Are Received at
the White House.

Boer Peace Enjoys Are Received at
the White House.
Messrs. Fischer, Vessels and Wolma-
rams, the three Boer ENJOYS, who are
now in this country, visited the White
House Tuesday morning, according 70
previous arrangement, to pay their. re-
spects to the President. No official stat
us was given the visitors and they pre-
scented no credentials.
The ENJOYS were received in the blue
parlor, no one being present but them
selves, the President and Secretary Cor
telyou. At first the conversation touch
ed upon variety of subjects. The Beers
talked about Washington; told how they
admired the city and the President es-
corted them to the porch at the rear of
the executive mansion. where a splendid
view is obtainable of the Washington
monument and the Potomac river. Presi-
dent Kruger's name finally was mention
ed and the visitors then stated their pur-
pose in coming to this country. They
said they understood that what Secretary
Hay had told them was final and that the
position of the United States was that
this country could not interfere in the
present struggle in South Africa. The
President confirmed this view. He said
that the action he took some time ago
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
MAKES MANY MOTHERS MAD.
Address of Professor Chrisman Is Re-
sented by 5000 Women.

ny osoOo W umeus
At the second days session of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers in Des
s1oines great indignation was raised by
the address of Oscar Chrisman, A. NJ,
FIJI. d., professor of pathology or child
study in the State normal school at En-
poria Kan. Men never love rs
women do he said. Instantly the big
convention hall was filled with Kisses,
and it was several minutes before the
speaker could proceed. He continued to
say that women were made for love and
men for reason. This was greeted by
an indignant protest from 5000 throats.
The professor dropped this branch of the
subject and went on with his address.
At its conclusion a dozen women leaped
to their fec' and demanded recognition.
Mrs. Birney, who was presiding, gave
the floor to Mrs. Winfield s. Hall oe Ber-
wyn. ILL.,, who cried in voice that reach
ed the street. Men do love- Mrs. Hail
then gave Prof, Chrisman a tongue-lash-
ing for fifteen minutes. When she ceas-
ed man and fifteen women jumped up.
The man, 7. H. Smith of Harlan, Iowa,
WAS recognized. 1T Is false" he said.
Men do love. 1t is > Islander that the
professor has given YOU, He ought to
be ashamed of himself for standing be-
fore this audience and saying such
things Men do love their sweethearts
and wives. As boys they love their moth
ers. As men they love their families.
Prof Chrisman has queer ideas for an
educator of the young, He has no bust
ness telling this congress OF mothers that
men do not love. They know better. and
] am glad of this magnificent rebuke the
speaker has suffered justly at your
hands" The man closed, and the women
cheered.
The meetings of the congress were well
attended and full of interest. More than
1000 delegates were in attendance from
out of the town. Policemen had to help
keep the doors closed Tuesday on account
of the crush. Gov. and Mrs. Shaw re-
ceived the delegates in a formal recep-
ton at the State House Tuesday even
ing
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

Yates clubs are organizing all over Hi,
| nois.
Rockford. H., travelling men have or
| ganized Mckinley Club.
Indiana friends of Fairbanks viii boom
him for President in 1904.
Republican congressional committee
| headquarters will be in Chicago.
Hawaiians have agreed to join neither
the Republicans nor the Democrats.
James II. Keene has bet 81, 500 to $40.
900 that Bryan will be the next Presi
dent.
Webster Davis says politics are uncer.
tain, and no one is expected to keep
promises.
The Ohio House has adopted resolu.
ton urging Congress to pass per diem
pension law.
Alabama Democrats in Gen. Wheeler.
district have called convention for July
TO select Gen. Wheeler's successor.
Philadelphia convention hall only lacks
the decorations Otherwise il is ready
for the Republican national convention
In Ohio requests to the State and to
political subdivisions have been exempt.
ed from provisions of t'e collateral in
heritance tax law
There are indications Of lively presi-
Dental campaign in Delaware. Warrants
have been issued for two Republican lead
ers at the request Of two rival Repnbli-
can leaders in Kent County. the charge
being the use Of money in elections.
Democratic nominees for State Offices
in North Carolina are touring the State
in a body They are making their hard
est campaign in the counties where there
is most opposition to the pending consti-
tutonal amendment DISTINGUISHING tn
negroes.
Massachusetts, lawmakers want q high
or salary. and fifty-fve members Of the
House have pat themselves on record as
favoriug bill TO make the compensation
81 600 The Senate gave a majority for
the bill amended. to take effect at the
next Legislature.
Col John I. Martin, sergeant-at-arms
for the Democratic national convention,
says he will permit the committeeman 10
name assistants, and this will keep from
the hall persons not from the States
supposed to be represented The hall
work is ten days ahead of time.
The Young Mems Republican Club Of
Oklahoma has been organized at King
fisher by 100 OF the young party workers
Of the territory The object Of the or
ganization is to promote good fellowship
among active young Republicans by Civ
ing a banquet on Washington's birthday
Of each year It was decided 30 hold the
6rst banquet at Guthrie.
Following is A list Of the States which
by action Of their Legislatures have APP
proved election Of Senators by the people:
Nevada, Utah. Washington. Wisconsin,
Wyoming, North Carolina. Montana, Ar
kansas, Idaho, California, Colorado
Florida, Indiana. Illinois. Iowa kaneas,
Kentucky. Louisiana. Michigan. Mime
sofa Mississippi Nebraska, New Hamp-
shire. North Carolina. North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon. and Pennsylvania, New
York. Massachusetts,, Missouri, Texas
and New Jersey are among the States
which have taken no action.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
BIG NEW YORK FAILURE.
Price, Mccormick * Co. Go Up IRENE
dous Sensation on Change,

~
dous Sensation on Change.
Inability to effect a corner in cotton
brought the New York firm of Price,
Mccormick & Co. to the ground with La
bilities of $4,000 900. The reports of
good crops in the South were too strong.
Announcement of the company's suspen-
sion caused a tremendous stiF through
out Wall street and threw the Cotton cx-
change into spasm of excitement. Trad
crs in the pit went wild while cotton
slumped rs points on May, 46 points or
June, II points on July and - points on
August. Not content with these things
Wall street further excited itself by Civ
ing credence to ugly rumors concerning
the financial soundncss of other broker
age houses. all of which were put folth
on the strength of the failure.
The firm. composed of W. G. McCo1-
mick of Chicago, Theodore Price of New
York, Il. NJ Stuart Wortley of England.
son-inlaw of Rear ADMIRAL Schley. and
George Croker of California. had tried
for months to corner cotton. Prominent
as one of the oldest and most substantial
private-wirc firms in the country. it was
represented on the New York cotton OK
changes, the produce exchange and the
Chicago Board Of Trade.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
OURTEEN TORNADOES IN KANSAS IN ONE DAY.

laws of the denomination and one of the
principal features of the itinerant min
istry is laid aside, and preachers may re-
main in places. as long as the bishops APP
point them.
An event of great interest and far
reaching importance was the action of
the conference in changing the words
LAY man" to clay member" where er
they occur in the organic law of the
church. This admits women to the con-
ference and as result Methodism begins
the new century Cd Ne liberal platform
concerning women as the latter can ask.
Two measures such as the admission,
first, of the laity TO equal rights and priv
ileges in the qr adrennial conference, and,
second, the admission of women, are suf-
fcient of themselves to rank the present
conference as an epochmaking one in the
history of the Methodist Church.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

Bayard. Returning, he became an as
sistant district attorney of New York
City. When the war with Spain broke
out he offered his services and was placed
Old the staff of Gen. Wade with the rank
of captain. remaining in Cuba for six or
eight months. This service so affected
Capt Griscom's health that he went
abroad last spring, and while in Europe
he was appointed by President Mckin-
ley to his present post.
-
King Otto of Bavaria, who is reported
to be critically i'll, has been ncapacitated
since 1885,, and from that year to the
present tine he has been king in name
only He succeeded his brother to the
throne in 1866, and after twenty years
of caprice and trayesty ON kingship he
was put aside and his uncle, Prince Luit
pold, was appointed regent. Otto has
always suffered with mental derange-
ment. and his antics have been the sub
ject of world comment.
-
The quadrennial conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago
brought together 10 delegates from all
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
WARFARE ON CONSUMPTION.
A Vigorous Crusade Started Against
III in Boston.


1t in Boston.
Hereafter every physician in Boston
must report every case of consumption
that comes to his notice to the Board of
Health as he would any other case of
contagious disease. After death from
this disco Sc hereafter the premises viii
be entered upon by the Board of Health
officers and disinfection performed and
other means viii be taken TO guard
against the spread of the disease in Bos-
ton.
These new rules have jest been issued
by the Boston Board of Health. and the
plan is to enter vigorous campaign
against tuberculosis and stamp it out if
such thing is possible DR., Durgin Of
the Board Of Health says;
Boston is one of the worst places on
earth for consumption. The Board of
Health has decided that every precau-
ton must be taken against its spread
Consumption used to be considered an
hereditary disease Medical science, how
ever, has proved thar it is purely CON
tagious disease, and one of the worst
there is. We are going to try the plan
of rigorous disinfection and control"
Deaths in Boston from consumption
have decreased from 1,349 in 1895 to
,236 in 1899 and the board hopes TO still
further lessen its raVagPs
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
Some Fast Runs.

From Los Angeles to chicago
.. 26J miles in. ......-....s SO. % $500
Average speed per hour. .....-... 1913 miles
Made by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe
special train carrying c. X. Peacock to
Ifttsburg in time to aitend q meeting of
Carnegie directors.
From Chicago 10 Omaha. 1893
miles in ...... .......-.,...+., 100000
Average speed per hour. ......>... 5s-g miles
Made by the G.. r. & Q fast mail in con
test for government business on the night
of Jal. 2. 1899.
From Chicago TO Omaha, J02.2
niles in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10000
Average speed per hour. -.....-.. 4J.6 miles
Made by the Chicago and Northwestern fast
mail ia competition On the night VI Jan. ..
1899
Frcm Grand Central station,
New York, to East Buffalo. 43s.5
miles In ...........-. s..-.... 1880
Average speed per hour. 8l.5G miles
Made by the New York Central on Sept
II. 1891
Froa Cheyenne to Omaha. ST.
miles 10 ...-,........... -...+-... s.O9f)
average speed per ho8T. ....... 81 mites
Made BY the Union Pacific
The pay Of section men on the Chi
cago division Of the Eastern Illinois has
been advanced from $40 and S1.i1 go
$125. Scarcity Of laborers is the cause
Of the rise.
The United States Supreme Court hgs
rendered an important decision iu favor
of the Central Pacific In "a land gran
case between individual settlers and the
company, holding that the validity Of the
railroad claims may not be questioned
by fugitive and uncertain testimony Of
occupation by entry men years after its
title has apparently been fixed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
zsMhfRko g
aSstNo fA8Lfs

Sir Redvers Butler derives his Chris
tan name from Sir Richard de Rivers,
the first Earl Of Devon after the Norman
conquest.
The Czarina has taken mp the type
writer. and owns machine with gilded
type bars, the frame being set with
pearls.
The Duke Of Abereorn has supplied
the English Red Cross Society with 3DU
dozen silk handkerchiefs and 100 light
Eaqlsa gEan<
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

Sanford Ballard Dole, who has been
appointed Governor of Hawaii by the
President, is regarded as a particularly
available man for this important post.
His name and personality are part of the
recent history of the islands. Mr.. Dole
was born In Honolulu in 1914. His par
ents arrived as missionaries to Hawaii in
that very year. He received his prelim-
mary educ ION in Pubahan College, on
the island, and was later graduated from
Williams College, in tie United States.
He studied law and was admitted to the
bar in Boston and returned to Honolulu,
where he took up the practice Of law. In
1887 he was appointed to the Supreme
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

yer, IL; T. B. Nicely, Al; j. L. Berry,
%; G. ]. Little, 10; scattering, %.
The men who were given the highest
honor in the gift of Methodism in being
elevated to the episcopacy were escorted
to the platform and presented by Bishop
Warren amid tumultuous applause.
BY an overwhelming vote the general
conference on Wednesday decided to
abolish the pastoral time limit, by which
a minister has been able to remain in one
charge not longer than five successive
years. Thr~ one of the fundamental
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
Sparks from the WIRES.

Ahmed Ben Mussa, grand vizier Of
Morocco. is dead.
Total America exports in April
amounted to S11S,928, 50T.
Cholera has appeared in India, which
adds to the horror OF the famine.
Two soldiers killed at an artillery test,
Thorn, Prussia, by the explosion Of a
shell
Thompson's pitroglycerin magazine,
Franklin, Pa, exploded. d bag was
blown % atoms
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
MUTINY ON THE TEXAS.
Ten Men Are Court Martialed at the
End of a Long Cruise.

The crew of the warship Texas mutt
MED on the ships last voyage. which has
just concluded at the Brooklyn navy
yard. The commanding officer was in
suited, the officers and men guarding the
mutineers were attacked and one petty
officer was injured fatally. Orders for
the court martial of ten of the men have
be IN issued.
1'hls is the most startling case of mu-
tiny that has taken place on board a
United States vessel in years The Tex
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
TWENTY-FIVE DIE IN A MINE.
Co1liery Explosion at Cumnock, n. G..
Terrible in Its Effects.

Terrible in Its Effects.
Twenty-Five minerss ten white men and
twelve negroes, lost their lives in an ex-
plosion at Cumnock coal mines, Chatham
County, North Carolina, Tuesday after
noon. The explosion is sun osed to have
been caused by a broken gauze in safe
~ lamp. Between forty and fifty men
were in the mine at the time.
About City people from Sanford a
town six miles from the mine, started inn
mediately when the news OF the disaster
was received to assist in the work of
reseuing the dead and helping the in
jured. Within an hour after the explo-
sion the work of rescue began and by
night all the bodies except one had been
brought to the top This is the second
explosion this mine has had within thu
past -four years, the former one having
occurred on Dec. %, 1895. when forty
three men lost their lives.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
BISHOPS ARE CHOSEN
Methodists Elect David II. Moore and
7. w. Hamiltor.

DR.. David H. Moore of Cincinnati, edi
tor of the Western Christian Advocate,
and the Rev. John w. Hamilton, also of
Cincinnati, COZ responding secretary vi
the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educa-
ton Society, were chosen bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church on the sew
enteenth ballot at the general conference
in Chicago Tuesday. The balloting was:
Teal number of votes, 665; necessary to
choice, 444; y. H. Moore. ga: j. w.
Hamilton, $40; ]. r. Day, 104; II. Spell
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

as has been on a long cruise, during
which it touched at Galveston and the
Bermudas. The crew was in condition
of INSTRUMENTATION during the whole
cruise and the Navy Department officials
are at loss to understand why severe
measures were not adopted at the very
first uprising. The cause Of the trouble
is said TO have been rum secured at Gal
vfsefof,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

the speaker went to work in the factory
from g o'clock in tho morning until s
o'clock at night At Ii be weat % work
a the forge He was a great reader He
read when he vas blowing the bellows;
sor years he never ate Il meal without
having book beside him. lie had ten
years Of severe toll succeeding his arrival
in this country. being forced az one time
10 carry the bod, while bis wife went out
sewing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

have the slightest
hesitancy in accept
ing his word for
that fact, just ask
him to show you
his badge. IL he is
really Uncle Sans
agent he will UNI
button his coat and
display a silver
badge just like that
shown in cur illus
ira ION This con-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

said, wss one Of
the best black-
smiths in England
he ever knew. His
Rrandfathers on
both sides Of the
house were sailors
before the mast,
and both were lost
at SEA- When he
WAS eight years old
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
PEACE ENJOYS FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC.

when, at the request Of the Government
of the Tran.vaal that this Government
should intervene. he offered his good OF
fees to England to bring about peace
he did with great pleasure in the hope
that it might possibly bring the conflict
to an end This offer had been declined
by Great Britain, and. he said, there was
nothing further that the United States
could do in the premises.
: The ENJOYS intimsted that they were
glad TO feel they had friends in this coun-
try and then babe the President good-ssy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

Court Of the Kingdom. Mr.. Dole, as
member of the Hawaiian Legislature,
took part in the reform movement which
eliminated in the revolution of 1892. On
July 4, 1894, he was made President OF
the Republic of Hawaii. Mr.. Dole was
the choice Of the conservative element in
the islands for the position of Governor.
He is thoroughly familiar with the needs
and the affairs of his country, and il is
believed his administration will be just
and wise
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Winfield T. Durham, the Republican
nominee for the governorship of Indiana,
has had varied career. After complet'
ing his education in district school and
in business college he became schoo.
teacher, then turned travelling salesman
and finally became successful as banker
-:--:-
This is the young Philadelphia whose
bold stand in Turkey, where he is serving
as charge d'aifaires of the American lega-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

tion. has attra ctcj
the attention of the
world. Capt. Girls
com who is only 81
years old, is a uni
versity man. hav-
ing graduated with
the class of 81. and
served as secretary
of the American
embassy at London
under Ambassad dor
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

parts of the world
and attracted thou
sands of people.
Bishop Stephen NJ,
Merrill presided at
the opening of the
conference. II his
venerable prelate
will he IS years old
Sept. Us next. Dish
op Stephen Mason
Merrill was born in
jefferson County,
Ohio and entered
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

In Newton, Mass, the other day. A
mans 50 Bll was blown out Of his hand.
cut q piece " paper iUsj the size If the
bill and liberated it NJ lac place whore
the man had lost mis- money. The paper
blew down the strees ard around Into an
alley. and there the man found the IS
bill
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

The Gar ordered the chief Of police Of
Moscow 20 cease all extraordinary pre-
cautions for his safety, saying II have
come 70 zee my people. not the police Of
Moscow" During his stay at Moscow
the Gar has gone about in an open car
rage without an escort and without the
streets being cleared for his passage.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

fers upon him all the powers Of az officer
of the United States Government, and<as
such he is entitled to all due respect.
When his labors are over Uncle Sam
generously is going to allow him to keep
the emblem of his authority as souye-
mir,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30
FACTS ABOUT
THE CENSUS.

When the young man with thAwinning
smile rings the door bell and announces
that he is a census enumerator, If you
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-05-30

future beyond forty-eight hours. Any
distant glimpses of the coming weather
are regarded by them as academic al
chemy of the rankest sort.