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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
ELEVEN HEADS DEMANDED.
Allies Name Many Chinese Officials
for Execution.

Allies Name Many Chinese Officials
for Execution.
At meeting of the ministers held FRI
day in Peidn the powers were found TO
be unanimously agreed to demand the
execution of Prince Tuan and four other
Manchu princes one duke and three min
listers. total of nine named for punish
ment In the imperial edict Of Sept. %
Gen. Tung Fun Slang aud the governor
of Shansi were also included, bringing
the number to b punished for aiding the
Boxers to eleven.
A correspondent asserts that the list
comprises most of the highest officials
who wee the leading spirits in the mas
sacres and richly deserve death. There
are many other guilty officers, but none
ferocious and influential. The execution
of these eleven will do substantial justice
and will remove the worst obstacle to a
satisfactory treaty and permanent peace.
These men would prove a constant men
ace TO future good government and AMIGA
bic foreign relations.
Yu HsieD, governor of the province Of
Shansi, has committed suicide. 1t was
he who organized the Boxer movement in
Shan-tung and personally led the Boxers
in the slaughter of the missionaries in
Shansi. With Hsu Tung and Kang vi.
he makes the third notorious Boxer leader
now removed by death.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
'PUIPHaro
PREACntR

The Church Missionary Society Of
England received contributions during
the year just closed Of more than ST.
100000.
Prince Max Of Saxony has accepted a
position as professor Of canonc law at
the Dominican school in Freiburg, Swift
aerland.
Bishop Sharretti of Havana is expect
ed to arrive in this country soon, accom-
PAM by number Of students for the
Catholic University in Washington.
President Tucker says that the pulpit
VIII have In coming years the greatest
power it has ever had, provided the
preacher gets the requisite knowledge OF
men.
Permission has been grated by the
authorities for III, establishment Of a
third Jewish Creche in Warsaw, and 10
open for this purpose a public subscrip-
ton for 1900 ruhles
The Rev. J. owen Davies, rector of
Grace Episcopal Church, Haddonfied.
y. j.. has accepted an appointment TO
the chair of constitutional history in
Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio.
Mgr. James Mcmahon, the Sulpician
priest who gave $4,000 to the Catholic
University Of America in Washington a
few years ago. has now given that insti-
tuition eleven lots in Washington valued
at 100000.
The Pilots correspondent in Spain
SAYS: "The year 1900 will form a glorious
epoch in the annals Of the Catholic
Church, because it has Immensely in
creased here as elsewhere the devotion
and piety Of tens Of thousands"
There is a big field for missionary work
in Wyoming. Out of a population Of
about 1900 in large district it is est.
mated that less than 5000 are evangeli-
cal Christians and they are widely scat
tered over the 81 900 miles Of country
10 which the centers of population are
from fifty to seventy-fv miles apart.
The Rev. Reginald Heber Weller of
Stevens Point, Wis. has been elected
bishop coadjutor Of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese OF Fond dd Lac. The ven
cradle Bishop Grafton requested the
election Of an assistant some months ago,
and the selection Of Mr.. Weller Is said
to be entirely satisfactory 10 him. Mr..
Weller was born in Jefferson City, No,
and is 43 years old. He was ordained q
deacon in 1880, and was advanced TO the
priesthood in Milwaukee in 1884. He has
served important churches In Wisconsin,
and has shown excellent executive abil-
ity.
The Rev. George Whitefeld Stone has
arrived in San Francisco to take up his
suties as field secretary for the Pacific
coast, to which work he was appointed
asst January by the American Unitarian
Association. Unitarians on the coast are
more active than they have been for
rears, and there is much important work
IN hand which viii be placed in charge
pf Mr. Stone. The new field secretary
$ a New Yorker. but served his church
Tor many years in Boston. He was field
agent Of the church for the Missouri
Faliey for several years. with besdqusr
tiers IN Kansas City. LIE Is an eloquent
and forceful preacher.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
PAY CLERK IS MURDERED.
Attempt by Highwaymen TO Secure
Cash Ends in BIoody Battle

Cash Ends in BIoody Battle.
As result OF an attempt of four ltal-
ian or Russian highwaymen, armed with
reyolvers and dynamite. TO steal $1,000
Tuesday afternoon, Paymaster w. IL.
Hosler of the Southwest Connellsyilie
lPal Coke Company, and two would-be
highwaymen are dead. another robber IS
fatally injured, and another was wound
ed, but not seriously.
Paymaster Hosler and a colored SER
want named Harry Burgess left the Cid-
zens' Bank in a light spring wagon
drawn by two horses. They had $1,000
in small safe with which the men at
Alyerton We're to be paid. Near Mount
Pleasant two men, who were walking
Just ahead of them. grabbed the brides
OF the two horses. AS Mr.. Hosler sprang
to his feet pistol shots rang out from
the rear, and the paymaster sank back
dead
Hosler's assistant never hesitated. He
whipped out a b-g revolver and fired at
one OF the men at the horses b as. The
man sank down in the road. Burgess,
without looking to see the result of his
shot, wheeled ON the men in the rear.
Two reviewers were on leye with him,
but before either of them could FIRE Bur
CESS dropped on his knees in the seat Of
the wagon, shooting as he knelt. A sec
ond robber fell forward. The remaining
two hastily dashed into the woods.
crowd OF 5000 men, armed with
guns, tracked two of the robbers to a
dense thicket, where one of them was
shot to death. The other surrendered
and but for the interference of officers he
would have been torn limb from limb.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
MERRIAM TELLS OF
CENSUS BUREAU WORK,

In speaking of the work Of the census
bureau Director Merriam slid; 1T has
been the custom heretofore 10 make a
rough count, using the names ON the
schedule as basis, but in this decade
IT was determined TO avoid the errors
likely to arise from preliminary count,
and also the necessary expenses and de
lay incident to sneh proceeding. The
plan was adopted of verifying the count
at once by the use of the electrical tabu'
lating machines
The early completion of the tabulatiou
OF the population of the States CRADLES
the census office to submit the figures to
Congress as soon as ii convenes in De
eember, thus giving that body the Infor'
nation necessary TO dispose of the ques-
tlon of the superintendent Of representa-.
tiyes at the coming session. All the field
work of the twelfth census, so far as II
relates TO the collection of the data relat-
ing TO population. agriculture, vital sta
tistics, and manufactures, is now COM
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
SAYS HE swoRE FALSELY.
Witness in Goebei Case Declares His
Testimony Was Perjured.


Finley Anderson, a telegraph operator,
who gave important testimony against
Caleb Powers, who was convicted OF COM
plieity in the murder of Gov. Goebei. has
confessed that he committed perjury:
that he accepted a hribe for so doing, and
charges Thomas Campbell. an attorney
for the prosecution. with instigating his
false statements. The foregoing is in
bsief a story printed by the Louisville
Evening Post, accompanied 10y an affi
davit from Anderson.
Anderson tells Of meeting Attorney
Campbell in Cincinnati, and continues in
his affidavit: Col Campbell then told
me that Joe Owens had told him that |
mad said that Caleb Powers. at the hotel
In Barbourville, prior to the 25th of Jan
uary, had used these words speaking of
William Goebel: If we cannot get him
killed and 1t is necessary | will kill him
myself They say he wears a coat Of
mail, but it won't do him any good /
said to Mr. Campbell that l had never
told any one any such thing, and that
Powers had not made such a statement to
me, nor any statement resembling it in
any way. Campbell and Owens insisted
| had made such a statement, and |
afterward, ,Hpon Campbell's suggestion,
sat down and wrote ont statement. in
which | included the foregoing statement
of Powers, which was untrue in every
particular, and upon the trial of Caleb
Powers | swore TO it as a fact when in
truth it was not n fact.
II have received from Campbell. both
before and after l was a witness az
Georgetown in the Powers case. various
| sums OF money. and have since such
conversation with Campbell and Arthur
| Goebel received from Arthur Goebel va
| rious sums aggregating about $500. and
| upon one occasion $40 from Justns Goe-
| bel"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

and he is a rich New Yorker He has
been called the Father OF Trusts" he
having seen as early as 1878 that the
trend of business was toward consolida-
ton. In that year he organized the k.x'
port Lumber Company, and has since
that time been the moving spirit in the
consolidation of number of other COM
binations. Mr.. Flint was the conhden-
tial agent Of the United States in nego'
tiating the reciprocity treaty with Bra
iii. this being the first treaty under the
Aldrich amendment. At the time of the
Baltimore incident in Chilli Flint took
part in the efforts for peaceable adj
justment of the affair. During the
China-Japan war he acted as the agent
for Japan and purchased the Esmeralda
for her. His services during the war
with Spain were invaluable to the United
States. He purchased vessels, munitions
of war, and his agents all over the world
kept in touch with the negotiations of the
Spanish government and on several oc-
casions thwarted the attempts OF Spain
to buy war vessels abroad. Ii was he
who gave the United States the first
Information of the sailing Of the Spanish
feet from Cape Verdi. He arranged the
purchase from Brazil Of the Nichteroy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

United States Judge Estee of Hav7i
has decided that Cinnamon from any
part Of the United States have the right
to LAID In Hawaii.
Gen Miles. in his annual report to the
Secretary OF War. will renew his recon.
mendation for further use of the auto
mobile in the army.
The government receipts Of September
aggregated S45, 304, 32G and the expendi.
lures S39. 1891. The War Depart.
ment's expenditures were s14, 125, 2S4.
The Uniteu States, Germany and Eng.
land are closing up the agreement with
the Samoans, whereby $3.50 was 20 be
paid for each ride surrendered by the ma
tives.
Judge Day. arbitrator Of the claim OF
John d. Merger & Co. against Hayti
for damages for the seizure Of property.
has decided that Hayu must pay 81, 600
within SIX months.
The money orders issued during the
last fiscal year aggregated $3.50. go, O27.
and those paid amounted TO s240, 12O,s
2S5. The business Of tks gear before az
gregated S442, 4SS,3G4.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
TERRELL is FOUND GUILTY.
Train Robber to Suffer Death for Muir
der of Charles Lane.

At MarysviIle, Ohio, the jury in the
murder on the night of Aug. 10 Of Chas.
Lane, an express messenger on Pan
handle passenger train, returned YER
diet Of murder in the first degree with
out recommendation. The verdict carries
with il the death penalty, which in Ohio
is by elecTocution. The cost Of the trial
TO the State and Union County will be
about $500.
The murder Of Express Messenger
Charles Lane on the night of Aug. 10
was one of the most brutal and premeti-
itated deeds in criminal history. Charles
X, II. Terrell an ex-employe Of the Adj
ans Express Company. was engaged TO
marry Miss Lillian Costello Of Column
bus, Ohio the wedding to take place on
Aug. 1G. The prospective groom had
been without employment for months ad
needed money TO wed. Terrell as an ex-
express messenger knew that Pennsylya-
mia train No. $, between St. Louis and
Columbus, usually carried large sum Of
money in the way safe. The messenger,
Lapc. was his friend: on these facts tue
murderer counted on the success OF his
crime. which included the murder Of
Lane and the robbery Of the express safe.
Suspicion pointed to Terrell. who had
paid long overdue bills since the murder.
Detectives sought and found him at the
home Of Miss Costello discussing their
approaching marriage.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

plete. 1t is the aim of the officials in
charge of the work to push the tabulation
Of the seturns so as to give the complete
reports TO the public ia accordance with
the law, which requires that they shall be
issued by July j, 1902.
The enumerators' accounts, numbering
something over $4,000, have all been
paid, with the exceptica of ffty-fve,
whose accounts are held up for various
technicalities. In the last census it took
eight or ten months 10 pay all the enum-
orators. The cost of the administration
of the bureau up to this date, including
the expense incident re the preliminary
work, as well as the cost of the enumera-
ton and supervision, is S6,36f,961.fS, of
which over 81 100000 has been expended
for supervision and emu IeratioB."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
APPoRTIoNMENT BASIS 100000
That About the Figure on Which the
House Will BE Made Up.

That About the Figure on Which the
House Will BE Made Up.
Bitter partisan and sectional debates
may be expected in Congress during the
coming session over the bill to reapp0r-
ton Representatives among the States in
accordance with the twelfth census. The
basis on which the last reapportionment
was made was one Representative to
each 49, persons or major fraction of
taat number shown by the census of 1890,
ard the present membership Of the House
is 3eS. Ii IS not desired to increase the
representation greatly, and 1t is the gen
eral opinion among politicians who have
considered the subject that the basis for
the new apportiJnment will be at least
100000.
1t is not the determination of the basis
of an apportionment. however, that will
excite the most acrimonious debate. II
is tn eproposition which the Republican
leaders have under consideration of re-
ducing the representation of those South
ern States that have adopted constitu-
tionai amendments DISTINGUISHING the ne
groes. They find their warrant for this
in the 14th amendment to the constitution
of the United States. As soon as the
count of the population by States has
been completed at the census Office the
work of compiling the statistics of illit-
eracy will be taken up, go that if Con-
gress determines to go into the question
o. reducing the representation in States
where negroes are DISTINGUISHED on the
ground of illiteraey the data will be avail
able
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
The Eminent Kidney
and Bladder Specialist.

There is disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because so decep-
tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by
it--heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure
or apoplexy are often the result Of kidney
disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad-
vance the kidney poisoned blood will attack
the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Then the richness Of the blood-the albumen
leaks out and the sufferer has Bright's
Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer Swamp-Root the new dis
covery is the true specific for kidney. bladder
and urinary troubles. 1t has cured thousands
of apparently hopeless cases, after all other
efforts have failed. At druggists in ffty-cent
and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free
by mail. also book telling about Swamp
Root and its wonderful cures. Address
Or. Kilrner & Co., Binghamton. n. Z. and
mention this paper.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

You ought to have known that
when you ceased to be regular in your
courses, and you grew irritable with
out cause, that there was serious
trouble somewhere.
You ought to know that indigestion,
exhaustion, womb displacements,
fainting, dizziness, headache, an d
backache send the nerves wild with
alright, and you cannot sleep
Mrs. Hartley, of 221 w. Congress ST.,
Chicago, ILL.,, whose portrait we pub
lish, suffered all these agonies. and
was entirely cured by Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound; her case
should be warning to others, and
her cure carry conviction to the minds
of every suffering woman of the I'M
failing efficiencyo Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
>lNl9 RNUS
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Hanlon has secured FIVE championships
"a seven years. This is the greatest rec
ord ever accomplished by one manager.
There is some talk Of bringing Cham
pion Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey, the
sailor lad, together for a six-round bout
Ia Chicago.
Prince Andre Poniatowski, who no "
controls two-thirds Of the racing interests
near San Francisco. has started out to
place the turf on as high a plane in Cal
ifornia as it now occupies IN England
More than 100000 will find its way
10 the pockets Of the 800 professional
ball players employed during the season
by organized clubs under the national
agreement, writes Tim Murnane. OF
this number less than 10 per cent reach
the standard necessary to retain a posi-
ton IN the strong league teams.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
antiaui les Of Baseball

A North Missouri editor, who first
studied baseball rules while Sunday
school boy, enters into the following
antiquities of the national game: The
Devil was the first coacher. Eve stole
first. Adam stole second. When Isaac
met Rebeeca at the well she was walk
ing with pitcher. Sampson struck
out a good many when he beat the
Philistnes. Moses made his first run
when he slew the Egyptians. Cain
made base hit when he killed Abel.
Abraham made sacrifice. The prodi-
gal son made home run. David was
a long-distanee thrower and Moses shut
out the Egyptians at the Red Sea-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

There IS more catarrh In this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together. and
untf the asst few years was supposed TO be in
durable. or great many years doctors pro-
remedies. and by constantly failing TO cure with
ocal treatment. pronounced 1t incurable. Science
has proven eatarrh 10 be a constitutional dis
ment Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by f.
j. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio. is the only con-
stitutiOnal cure on the market. IL Is taken In
ternally In doses from 10 drops TO a teaspoOnful
1t acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case 1t fills 10 cure. Ser for
circulars and testimonials. ADDRESS
+. J. CHENEY & CO., oledo, o.
EN- Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Ha< Vanity Pills are the best
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

Salisbury will give up the foreign office
portfolio, but it does not name his sue
eessor.
Lord Salisbury looks back upon polit-
scal career Of nearly half a century. In
1853, when only % years of age, he was
elected a member of Parliament for
Stamford and he represented this borough
for fifteen years. He took an active part
IN all public measures which affected the
interests of the established church and
she chief political questions of the day.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07

'Why are you so fond Of Shak-
speare:'' asked the acquaintance.
''Becatse," answered Stormington
Barnes, he is the great, the peerless,
poet, thu. man who spoke alike to peas
ant ant, philosopher and moved the
world To higher emotions. Besides, you
don't have to play Shakespeare any roy
alties for the use of his plays" Wash
ingtor Star.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
WOMEN MUST SLEEP.
Avoid Nervous Prostration.

If you are dangerously sick what is
the first duty of your physician He
quiets the nervous system, ne deadens
the pain, and you sleep well.
Friends ask, "what is the cause ?"
and the answer comes in plying
tones, nervous prostration. 1t came
upon you so quietly in the beginning,
that you We're not alarmed, and when
sleep deserted you night after night
until your eyes f1irly burned in the
darkness, then you tossed in nervous
agony praying for sleep.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
NEWS FROM
OUR COLONIES.

The inefTiciency Of the mail service in
the Philippines continues a source Of
great irritation to the soldiers on duty in
the interior. A letter from an Omaha
volunteer contains the assertion that the
writer has not received scrap of mail
since the 23d of February. Eight or ten
letters have been mailed to him since that
time and a. bundle Of newspapers every
week. This is not an isolated instance.
Manila Freedom tells how mail. precious
to the troops, is diverted from its proper
destination. For whole dreary
month";" says Freedom, 500 sacks of
mail, destined for these islands, have
been rotting in the holds of the trans
port Hancock lying in an Asiatic port.
We are not concerned as to whether the
Hancock has gone off on fishing excur
sion or whether the commission held the
ship at Nagasaki in order to run up to
Toxic that they might see the keisha
girls dance. What Manila wants is those
800 sacks of mail.
The civilian clerks in some of the sup.
ply departments at Manila are beginning
to kick because they are not getting
enough pay. They work side by side
with enlisted men detailed as clerks. who
only get $3.50 a month instead of 500
or more, which is the pay of the clerks.
The curious thing about it is that the
soldiers would go out in the field and
hike about in constant danger Of being
shot, with never kick about their pay,
but as soon as they are settled down in
a comfortable billet in Town, with no dan
ger of any sort to furnish them excite
ment. they want just as much pay as
the civilian who does the same work no
better than they.
The authorities at Washington are se-
riously considering the adoption of some
measures designed to break 10 the com
bines said 10 he responsible for the great
~ increased cost Of living in Manila.
Practically all necessaries Of life have
been doubled since the American Occupa-
ton. entailing great hardships on the ma
tives and seriously retnrding American
progress in the city. Any relief the gov
ernment can afford will be heartily well
coined for the exaetious of merchants
have become almost unbearable.
-
The recent mutiny on the E,seano ami
the massacre OF the officers Of the ship,
coupled with the similar occurrence on
the Campania De Filipinss IN 1898. have
stirred up the ship owners. and several
firms have decided 10 send No more ships
10 sea without sufficient Europeans On
board to be able 70 haudle any outbreak
among the crews.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
DENIAL MADE BY CLEVELAND.
Ex-Presideut Repudiates Interview
Recently Published.

Recently Published.
ExPresident Cleveland Cleveland be-
ing shown a publication in the Philadel-
pbia Times purporting to be an interview
with him. said:
''1'he whole thing from beginning TO
end Is an absolute lie. without the least
foundation or a shadow Of truth. l have
never uttered a word TO any human being
that affords the least pretext for such q
mendacious statement"
The utterances ascribed TO ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland In the publication refer
red TO embodied an expression that there
would be landslide for Mr. Bryan the
morning after election"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-11-07
LORD SALISBURY STEPS OUT.
Premier Resigns His Post of Minister
of Foreign Affairs.

of Foreign Affairs.
The London Telegraph makes spread
on an announcement that Lord Salisbury
has decided to resign his post of minister
of foreign affairs, but TO retain the pre-
miership. His health, the paper says,
causes no anxiety, but trusted physicians
urge him to do less work. Lord Lans-
downe, at present secretary of state for
war, will. the Telegraph declares, sue
coed Lord Sab bury as foreign minister
The London Times confirms the state
ment of the Daily Telegraph that Lord