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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
TAlRrY.FWe PLUNGE TO DEATH.
Fall Sixty Feet Into IA Torrent Beneath
the Southern Railway.

Fall Sixty Feet Into n Torrent Beneath
the Southern Railway.
Thirty-fve persons lost their lives in q
wreck on the Southern Railway, one mild
north Of McDonough, Ga, and twenty
six miles south OF Atlanta, at 900 o'clock
Saturday night. Although a flood of rai1
was falling and the train was partially
submerged in the bed of "aging creelu
many of the victims were burned to
death.
The train, running at the rate Of forty
miles an hour. plunged into Camp creek,
and engine, cars and sleeper were piled
up together. The storm had caused
torrent of water 10 rush down the creek.
sweeping away the 125-foot trestle just
before the appearance of the train, which
rounded curve and fell over bank six
ty feet high. Lamps in the coaches ex-
ploded, setting fire to the cars, and many
Of the victims who were pinned down
were burned to death, others We're drown
I'd in the rushing water and still others
we're killed by the wreckage and fearful
fall of the train.
A hagman named Quinlan was one OF
the first to get out Of the wreck. He ran
to McDonough, notified the telegraph OPP
orator of the wreck and fell fainting to
the floor. Citizens organized rescung
parties at midnight and the work was
kept up all night and the next day. With
the result that thirty-fiye bodies have
been recovered. Only three women were
on the train and Of these two escaped.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

Withdrawal Of Erie from joint passer
ger committee may disrupt the agreement
and result in n general rate war. affect
ing all lines.
Rate clerks Of the Western Passenger
Associations Eastern committee territory
will meet in St Paul to revise all-year
tourist tariffs
The executive committee of the West
ern Passenger Association will meet to
consider rates for the fall meetings of
wholesale merchants.
The order abolishius the sliding scale
for party rates east went into effect on
July !. A party Of 500 cannot now travel
any cheaper than a party Of ten.
Omcials Of the Illinois Central Eail-
road are considering q plan for pension
ing employees Of that road who have been
forty years or more in its service.
The Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad
was reincorporated nc Dubuque. with a
capital of $15.000.000 and embraces the
Illinois Central and a the branches in
Iowa
The Southwestern Passenger Associa-
ton has voted down a proposition to
grant reduced rates for merchants meet
ings to be held 10 New York in the au-
tuInn.
The Canadian Goyea1ment has receiv-
ed three different offer from New York,
Chicago and Eastern capitalists to build
a railway from Winn.fHg TO Duluth. Civ
ing Government control Of rates.
a bin was flied in the Circuit Court at
Baltimore to force the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company to pay dividends
70 the State Of Maryland upon the stock
Of the Washington branch. The State
holds 5000 shares Of the capital stocE.
The amount due the state is said 10 be
about S1.OOp.O00
Agents Of the Western Passenger As
ISOLATION have secured evidence which
tends 10 show that many tickets o. he
Republican national convention were
forged Several people who purchased
alleged forged tickets. including an opera
tive Of the association, are said 70 have
been expelled from trains.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad has closed contract with the
Crow Indians for the grading OF sec
ton of roadbed near the red mems reser-
walton II is hardly necessary to gay that
most Of the hard work will be done with
crovbars, while sealpers win operate Oh
that section Of the road long before il is
open for general traffic.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
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William Durant OF boston. who has
just celebrated his SD birthday, has been
a newspaper man FOR the past sixty-iye
years.
4 man has just died at Middleboro,
KY at the age Of 81, after drinking.
/ chewing and smoking all his life. For
forty years, it is said, he drank half
gallon of whisky a day.
Mrs. Arson Jones has just celebrated
in perfect health her eightieth birthday
in Houston, Texas. She is the widow Of
the president OF the Texas republic. She is'
the president of the Daughters OF the Re
public Of Texas.
Kuggles ". Clapp, who went to Cali
'ornia in the gold craze days OF 40, is
now - years old. lie is mining expert
and aas large income. but he has never
been able to control a craving for drink,
which took hold upon him half century
ago.
Hiram Hedges Of Anderson, Ild,, aged
l08 years who some time ago whipped
his S0-year-oid son Hiram at Indianapo-
lis and placed him in the hands of sur
geons who sewed his scalp together,
claims the distinction Of being the man
who drove the FIRST spike on the first rail-
way ever constructed in Indiana.
Upper Sandusby, Ohio. people believe
they have living IN their city the oldest
married couple in the United States
/ Uncle Peter" Stansley and his wife,
Aunt Susan" have a record Of eighty
que years of married life, and only few
lays ago they eeletsated their wedding
anniversary Uncle Peer" is now 103
years old and bis wife Is "a. and neither
Of them is an Invalid.
Abraham Stingley, an eccentric resident
Of northwest Missouri, who died at the
age Of ~ at his home near Kavenswood,
Mo- was a most ardent Democrat, and
had voted for every President candidate
from Jackson TO Bryan. Among his pc
auliarities ii is recorded that he never
gave a note, never paid a cent Of interest,"
never took dose Of medicine from ply
stefan and never lost any of his teeth,
although they were worn down to the
gums at the time Of his DEATH"
John MacGowan Of Clay County, Fla,
claims 10 he the oldest pensioner in this
country According to papers now on file
tn Washington he is 12l years old. He
was born in ireland OF March Is, 1879,
and came 20 this country in 1904. He en-
listed in The Seventeenth Connecticut reg
iment 10 1863. when he was ~ years old.
Tn pension officials are inclined TO be-
keye his statement.
Nine RI .tc~i, who is now 70 years old
ard was a rital OF Rachel's nearly half
q century ago. is stili vigorous She de-
.lyered an address at the recent dramatic
congress in Rome.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
THE BADGER STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY
CONDENSED.
Test of the Raddatz Submarine Boat
Firemen's Annual Election Supreme
Court Refuses Rich Woman a Divorce
Lightning Strikes a Church.

The Raddatz submarine boat made a
short but successful trial trip under the
surface Of Milwaukee bay. The start
was made shortly after 3 o'clock in tie
afternoon. The party included the inven-
tor, Mr.. 2addatz, Benjamin Leuzarder
of the Allis company, u newspaper re-
porter and crew of two. A steam launch
accompanied the boat, and was prepared
to follow as nearly as possible the course
of the submarine craft, and to render any
assistance required. The boat was only
eighteen inches below the surface, but
Mr.. Raddatz said it would work as well
fifty feet below. His boat is provided
with a diving room, from which a diver
can be set ON bottom and have his air
supplied from the tanks aboard the boat.
He has instruments that tell his depth
and temperature and pressure while un
der water, and glass plates through
which he can see through the water. The
boat is expected to be especially valuable
in wreckage work. He does not make
any special war claims for it.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
EYMoUR is SAFE.
Allied Forces Under the British Ad-
niraI Have Been Relieved.


miraI Have Been Relieved.
Advices from Chefoo via Shanghai say
that Admiral Seq mour's expedition has
been relieved, having failed to connect
with Pekin. The Berlin foreign Office
also received news from Russian source
confirming the report that Admiral Sey-
mour is safe and that the ambassadors
and legation stats are with him. The
report says that the relief forces reached
the international troops just in time Ad-
mira Seymour's expedition is returning
to TienTsin. His force suffered greatly.
The announcement that Admiral Sey-
mours relief force has been rescued is
welcome to the western world This in
ternational force left Tien-Tsin for Pekin
when the foreign legations in the capital
were threatened with attack. 1t appears
now that Admiral Seymour did not enter
Pekin, but his main object was accom-
plished when the foreign ministers and
residents, with their own guards, had
been conducted out of the capital and
placed under his protection. His return
march to Tien-Tsin has been slow. the
Chinese mobs having harassed him great
ly.
A dispatch from London says the sit
uation in China is clearing slowly, but
surely The losses and dangers of the
foreigners in TienTsin are now known
to have been grossly exaggerated by the
rumor mongers There has been no mas
sacre of foreigners. The casu3 tiles have
been few and dangers to property have
been slight. Dispatches received from
Shanghai and Chefoo agree in minimizing
the peril to which the foreign quarter had
been exposed, and a European who has
reached the coast from Tien-Tsin reports
that there has been anxiety there, but no
approach to panic.
The relief column which entered 1ien-
Tsin Saturday night met with little re-
sistance The Russian Losses are report
ed as four killed and twenty wounded,
and the casualties of the other detach-
ments were light.
Admiral Seymour's mixed force, which
was retreating toward Tietl-Tsin, does
not appear to have been in SO desperate
plight as the earliest and most sensation
al dispatches made out. The safety Of
the foreign legations is assured. The
foreigners, with their own guards, were
conducted out of the capital and placed
under the protection of SeymDur's force,
which retired slowly toward Tien-Tsin
with its sick and wounded. The column
was harassed by Chinese mobs and COM
PEELED to move slowly, but apart from the
difficulty of securing supplies it does not
appear to have been in serious danger,
much less in great extremity.
Dispatches from Shanghai reiterate
the announcements of the massacres of
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
Traie and Indnsfrv.

About 1000, 600 600 bicycles have been
made in Europe and America
Kansas has 300 -four mills. with ca.
pacity Of 10000. roo barrels a year.
The coal famine in Germany is lessen
ing the output Of pig iron materially.
A F. Nathan Of Kansas City Is plan
ming 10 build smelling works to combat
the trust.
The wholesale price Of English shoes
laid down IN Sweden averages from 81 90
10 S2.53 a pair.
France consumes s2j, OOO. 90 gallons Of
wine annually, equal to PAP gallons per
capita Of population.
The proposed ocean cable from Copen-
hagen to Iceland will be 404 miles long
and cost about $4,000.
Il is estimated that the losses by bust
ness failures during the last ten years
amounted TO s., 800, 900, 900. which Is over
twice the amount Of the country's eircu-
lsttsg medium.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
Rr,et state happenings.


At Manitowoc the jury in the case of
Anton S. Schauer. charged with embez-
cling S19, returned a verdict of guilty.
Miss Hester Jenkins is going to Con-
stantinople to become q member of the
faculty of the American university of
that city.
Al terrific windstorm struck east of
Blanchardyille. A number of cattle were
killed and everything in the path of the
storm was torn up.
Del and John Poole, two brothers for
merly of La Crosse, later of West Supe-
rior, have been arrested in the former
city, charged with murder.
The city of Rockford, ILL.,, has offered
a $4,000 plant all ready with machinery
to the officers of the Wisconsin Carriage
Company, whose plant burned recently
at GAINESVILLE. Rockford ask that the
company furnish $1,000 in cash.
The protracted drouth has greatly in
jured the hay crop and in some sections
where the soil is sandy it will be almost
a total failure. In the clay regions the
prospects are not quite so bad and the
promise is that there will be a fairly good
yield.
The wel-known law firm of Bleekman,
Bloomingdale & Bergh of La Crosse has
been dissolved. former City Attorney
Martin Bergh retiring to practice sepa-
rately. Mr. Bleekman's eldest son, A. +.
Bleekman, Jr, who graduates from The
Wisconsin law school this year, will sue
coed Mr. Bergh in the firm.
Lightning rod agents have been again
operating. Edward Staudemeyer, "a
wealthy Caledonia farmer. signed a con-
tract for what he supposed was for S2T,
but later discovered. he says, that it read
500. He refused to give up the contract
and followed the agent to town, but the
fellow escaped before he could be arrest
ed The man represented himself to be
member of the Modern Woodmen camp
of Pardeeville.
The preliminary examination of crack
Paulson. who is held for the murder of
Mary Seldom of Pepin on June rs, 1898,
which has been in progress in Justice
Bradford's court at Durand, is closed
The prisoner vas bound over to the fall
term of Circuit Court.
After a duh and uninteresting trial,
unite devoid of sensations of even a mild
TYNE. Joseph r. Clements of La Crosse
has been convicted of grand larceny in
the second degree, which in this particu-
lar case covers the crime Of wrecking the
Fillmore County Bank in Preston. Mimi,
which closed It's doors on Aug. is, 1898.
The second mortgage bondholders, the
Central Trust Company Of New York,
have hid in the property Of the West
Superior Street Railway Company for
$3.50. 90 at 4 receivers sale. The Thomas
Lowry interests are to assume control at
once, connecting it with the Duluth line.
T. W. orbison Of the Appleton engi-
neering firm Of 0'keefe * Orbison has
been in Park Fails to consult with the
officers of the Flambeau Paper Company
regarding plans for rebuilding at once
their paper mill. which was destroyed by
FIRE May IS. The new mill will be some
what larger than the old, and equipped
with larger and fasteF-Yunning paper ma
chimes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
New Hand Fire Engine.

Enthusiastic descriptions are given,
according TO the Philadelphia Record
of new hand fire engine for use IN
suburban and country towns, where
the public service Is not within easy
call, which has lately been brought out
in Great Britain. This machine is
portable, being mounted on a pair OF
strong iron wheels, and can pump fifty
gallons Of water per minute against a
head Of siXty-fiye feet, or, when used
in emergency, can be forced TO deliver
one hundred gallons a minute. The en-
CINE rests on four iron feet. this posi-
ton being effected by raising the han.
die of the carriage, and lowering the
boiler II is of the quick raising steam
type, and may be run mp to a working
pressure in a few minutes, which for
emergency work Is. of course, Of great
Importance. The pump can be dscon-
nected readily.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

ers would join the north and vast mobs
OF fanatics would have to be conteade5
with They would be insuficiently armed
at first, but enormous quantities Of arms
wer, being constantly smugeled TO them
and owing to the countless b0rdes of ia
natics and the vast territory covered they
could for some time defy the whole world.
Gen. Stahl added that the hostility be-
tween Japan and Russia was serious
complication in the present crisis, as il
would interfere with the unanimity ne
essary at this time
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
r.iegrnphic Brevit,er.

Mrs. Phyllis E. Dodge. New York. WIZ
recofer SCI 900 worth of jewels seized by
cnstoms officers. Jury found in her IA
,ar. Sac must FIRST pay heavy tariff.
Tbe tfe of knight Of the Legion Of
Honor has jas; been conferred mon
Naval Lieut.. Brisson for distinguished
services rendered in French Dahomey
last year.
Told by q fortune teller that he was -
Ing to meet with business rcverses, Gea.
Belier, wealthy retired banker, commit.
ted suicide at bis hone in Braoklyu.
y. Y.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
TO ISOLATE CONSERVATIVES
Radical Measure Adopted by Boston
Board Of Health,

The Boston Board Of Health took a
radical step the other day when it pro
mulgated an order to isolate cpnsunp-
sives. Ind r the terms Of the order all
consumptive patients who cannot be car
ed for properly in their homes, insuring
the protection Of their associates, vii be
removed BIZ the board 10 an island hos
pital in the harbor. or to the State aims
house at Tewksbury, Mass. Several pa
tents have been sent already to these in
stitufions. but they will be treated diff
ferently from people having acute dis
eases, like scarlet fever. typhoid, diph-
liberia OF smallpox They viii Be allowed
to receive visitors. and life ~ill be made
as pleasant for them "a the rules OF the
institutions will permit.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
Newspapers in thu British Museum

In the British museum there are lG,-
600 volumes Of London newspapers.
There are A 600 volumes Of provincial
newspapers from England and Wales,
and about 1000 volumes Of Scotch
newspapers. with something slightly
less for Ireland Last years accessions
were 800 volumes OF London newspa
pers. 92D volumes Of provincial papers
from England and Wales 127 volumes
from Scotland. and something less
from ireland.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
BATTLEsHIP OREGON. ORDERED TO TAKU CHINA
WILL BE A BLOODY CONFLICT.
German Army officer Says the Boxer
Movement Is Spreading.

movement Is SpreadInE.
Gen Stahl OF the imperial German ar
my, who has been investigating condi-
tons in the orient under a special com
mission from the German Government,
has arrived at Vancouver, b. C., on his
way home. On being asked If he Thoughts
the Boxers would be quickly suppressed,
he said that in his opinion the powers had
started in upon long, bloody conflict.
In the end, the Boaers would be disband-
ed. but the sacrifice Of life would be APP
palling, for the movement was spreading
like wildfire throughout China's vast ter
ritory.
The south was also about to take up
arms and his information was that the
uprising in the south was very grave and
OF great dimensions The southern Box
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

By decision of the Supreme Court
Pauline Cawker-Johnson of Milwaukee is
still the wife of Charles c. johnson. A
decree of divorce was granted by Judge
Siebecker, but the Supreme Court holds
that there was not sufficient grounds for
granting the decree. Mrs. Cawker-John-
son is very wealthy woman in her own
name, and has made several attempts to
get rid of her husband. johnson was
charged with cruelty, but the Supreme
Court holds that his inability to secure
work and make money was not cruel and
inhuman treatment
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
Firemen at Jefferson.

The State Firemen's Association, in
session at Jefferson, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President,
III. j. Grell. johnson Greek; first vice
president, f. NJ. stevens. Delavan; sec
ond vice-president. X. e. Miller, South
Milwaukee; recording secretary, E. j.
Biensang, Jefferson: corresponding seere-
tary, J. w. Page, Elkhorn; treasurer, +.
B. Brown, 0conomowoe The next CON
vention and tournament will be held at
Elkhorn in June, 1901. There were
twenty-five companies there. When the
street parade took place there were 1900
men in line
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
A Mil1ion-pol1ar House.

: million dollars for a summer home,
This is, perhaps, no uncommon thing at
Newport c. Bar Harbor, but the Western
resorts can boast of few such. Neyerthe-
less, j. Hobart Moore, Chicagc's mete-
oric fnancier, who lost the value of
principally on Diamond Match and gain
ed the value of two on National Biscuit
is building house on the shores Of Lake
Geneva which will easily cost him ST.
100000 and as much more will be laid
out on the grounds, barns and other
buildings
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

ne Dearest. d. not break Of our gu
gagement because I have fallen of ana
drunk wine once or twice. Believe me
! will do better
Shc--Bgt you can't expect me 10 wait
tn that happens Yes. It's simpler t.
marry somebody else New York
World
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

Predecessors OF the Prince of w ales.
There have been sixteen predecessors
Of the present Prince Of Wales, and OF
these only ten assembled the throne.
Each Prince of Wales Is created. >"
The title was originally granted by Ed
ward l. 10 bis eldest son and his heirs
the King Of England" so each Prince
Of Wales retains the title after mount
ing the throne until be diyests himself
of It ny formally passing fl along to his
heirapparent
Never las the title been bestowed
upon any one except the eldest living
SOD Of the sovereign except IN the case
Of George IL. who received II as the
eldest son of deceAsed Prince Of
Wales and hcir.appa ent The present
holder Of the title is ! knight Of all the
grent orders II Europe He usually
wears the insignia of he Garter.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

Nina Brown, &c years old, negress
black as ink, chopped the head off a
white man named Frank Bonn in Mil
waukee He came six weeks ago from
Chicago to work in asphalt pavements
and his home is in Sioux City, Iowa She
says they quarreed and that he beat her.
She snatched n big butcher knife from a
table and carved him to death.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04

native Christians in the inland districts
which rival the Armenian horrors. The
officials at the places watched by gum
boats make a show Of protecting the mis-
sionaries, bHt there is not even a pretense
of protection for the converts in the inte-
rior, who have been butchered by whole
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
str,les while CHURCH Is Fun,

During severe thunderstorm the Unit
ed Brethren Church at Dillingham; was
struck by lightning during services. Lew
is Peckham, youth, was instantly kill
ed by the bolt. The entire congregation
was shocked, and Julian Hart and S.
Filey were rendered unconscious. The
building was badly wrecked.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-07-04
snanallnt Ia smnI,e-

The camera has been brought into
requisltion in London for the identifi
cation o. black smoke. Whenever
clouds OF smoke appear the police lake
& snapshot.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

20 its mechanical care. The charge S1r such
services viii 0e far less than the cost q main
tanning horse and wagon in a livery stable.
as az present. Then again. should an accident
occur % a vehicle attached % a motor " heel
the person in charge has ouIv 20 teIenhon= %
the nearest station. when emergency wagon
Will Be sent ont at once either % repair the dam
age or % substitute another motor wheel 5-
% take the vehicle hack Co the station
Negotiations are now pending for the estab-
hshment - these local companies or agencies
In the United states and canada. A syndfcat-
IS also being formed in England for the con
struction and Introduction of the motor wheels
abroad
The plans 0f the promoters of this great en-
terpTlse are % make the International Motor
Wheel Company the parent organization. The
stock of this company Is held by a few prominent
New Workers and only a small lGt is offered FOR
sale The Farmers Loan and Trust Company. or
this city. \ the fiscal gent
Those Interested IN the develop pueur % the en-
terprtse are all men or sterling character NJ
Walters himself is an old sea captain no o. late
years has been a consulting engineer IN ths.
employ ~ the United States Government IN
which capacity be has desi gned many improve
meuts in marine machinery. For the last two
years he has given all his time and energy TO
the designing and perfection of the motor Wheel