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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
Municipal Matters

Minneapolis citizens are taking steps
for a new city charter.
Philadelphia Is to have labo- temple
TO cost not less than 100000.
Flushing and Newton. L. /. are to have
forty miles Of new gas mains.
Hartwell, Ga, was the scene Of a
'horse swapping convention recently.
Indianapolis and Loganspert viii soon
be connected by new electric railway.
AT Kansas City the construction Of a
new theater TO cost $4,000 wiz soon be-
gin.
Charleston is 10 builI big mill for
manufacturing cloth from Sea Island cot
ton.
Two rival trolley lines are fighting over
possession Of the streets in Wilmington,
Del.
The ancient Mechanical Society Of Bal
timore celebrated its both anniversary
recently.
New York police complain Of the
wretehed sanitary condition OF a number
of the stations.
New York has a school in connection
with the FIRE department. where fremen
are taught to scale buildings, catch dunn
mics and handle furniture.
Philadelphia pays sDlaller salaries to
its public school teachers than New York,
Boston on Chicago.
Dublin tIrelandl citizens charge the
prevalence of typhoid fever there 0 lax
ity Of bcaifh officials.
New York has bpngbg IN island in
Spuyien Duyvil creek which was nee
essary to the extension Of Broadway.
While New York courts have ruled
that automobiles can enter Central Park
the park board insists they shall not.
AT Jamaf.a. r. r, Che crowded condi-
ton OF school buildings has forced the
authorities te open school room TEN
p0rarily n q barn
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
Odds and Ends.
Vienna, Ga, had a big fire.

Vienna, Ga, had a big fire.
Salem Mason, 10s, colored, is dead,
Nashville, Tenn.
Several stores. Cleveland. Tenn, burn
ed. Loss $4,000.
Thomas Peak was killed in a row at
Sweetwater, Tenn.
Zine trust is said to be forming with
$100,000,000 capital.
Thieves got $500 at Pollard Bros
store Newburne, Ala.
/ James Crocker's store, Huntsville, Ala,
burned. Loss $1,000.
Engineer Galloway was killed in a
wreck, Clarendon, Texas
Thread manufacturers have advanced
prices 10 cents a dozen spools.
Society of ethical culture in New York
has begun crusade against vice.
Chas. Yocum, Harrodsburg, KY, aeci-
dentally shot and killed his wife.
Sousa's band will attend the Paris ex-
position as the official American band.
Cunningham & Co.'S sugar estate burn
ed at Sugarland, Texas. Loss $4,000.
Indian leaders are said to want to send
troops to the Cape to fight against the
Beers.
Henry Oppenheimer, 10, New York,
leaped from burning building and was
killed.
Geo. NJ. Settle, dry goods merchants,
Paris Texas, has failed. Liabilities
100000.
Smooth thief relieved Sam johnson, a
Cincinnati truck farmer, Of $4,000 in
Spanish war bonds.
Paterson, n. j., will erect $4,000
bronze statue. life size, of the late Vice
President Hobart.
VIM. Baldwin, %, drowned at New
port. Ky. lie was the champion bag
puncber of Kentucky.
New municipal buildings at Norwich,
England, are proposed by the corpora
ton at a cost of 100000.
Britain gains f2G6,500 year from the
tile tax which falls on patent medicines,
pills, liver cures and ointments.
Mexico and China have completed at
Washington a general treaty OF trade,
navigation and immigration.
Negro woman and her two children
were found dead from smallpox in Chat
ham County, sorth Carolina.
Abraham *. Lefeyer, prominent Lam
caster County, Pa, farmer, died after
terrible suffering. with bydrophoba.
The Councii of Jewish Women will
hold It's second triennial meeting 10 Cleve-
land, Ohio, from March i TO II, 1PU.
Bubonie plague is said to have made
its appearance in Noumea, capital Of the
French penal colony of New Caledonia.
Since March 10 Of last year New Jer-
sey has enrolled corporations that repre-
sent face stock value Of S4 ,403, AGO.
600.
Two intoxicated men on horseback,
naar Seipio, |. T., shot into a house with
Winchester. instantly killing Mrs. Plum
kett.
Congressman Sulzer wants the birtL-
days OF Thomas Jefferson an Abraham
Lincoln, both in April. made national hol-
idays.
At recent local option election in
Cio export, Ky. women and preachers
crowded the entrance to the polls and
sang hymns, while church bells were
ringing. The temperance advocates woD
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

WE'RE LOST FOR CENTURIES.
Tribe of Eskimo Recently Found on o
Lonely Island in the Hudson Bay.

Lonely Island in the hudson bay.
The strangest anthropological discov'
cry recorded in the last decade in the
nineteenth century has been made on a
lonely island in Hudson Bay and is moth
ing less than the locating of a lost tribe
of Eskimo, which had been without in
tercourse with other representatives, and
whose members never saw white man
until few months ago. They are still
in the stone age, knowing no metals; they
grow no plants, and their houses are
built of the skulls of whales.
The home of this strange tribe, which
seems to have been cut off in some I'M
known manner from the rest of the
world ever so long ago. is on Southamp-
ton fsland--a piece of water-girt terra
firma nearly as big as the State of Maine,
situateS 1t the north end of Hudson Bay
Appare.Iy the people have dwelt there
ever since pre- Columbian times, and to-
day live and subsist in exactly the same
way as they did then. The whale is the
chief means of subsistence of these
strange people, who hunt the mighty
cetacean in skin boats much like those
used by other Eskimo.
The tribe comprises only ffty-eight in
aividuals, about equally divided as to
sexes. lis n.nrcIoers speak a dialect pc
cuIiar 10 themselves, and quite unlike
that employed by any other Eskimo. Rec
ord of their discovery will soon be made
to the American Museum of Natural His
tory.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
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WOOL FROM LIMESTONE.
The Remarkable Chemical Process of
Young St. Louisan.

a Young st. Louisan.
e. G. Hall. young chemist from st
T,u,is who is with the Union Steel Com
many at Hagerstown, Ind, is making
wool out of limestone. He has labora'
to.y near the city limits, the entrance
to which is very jealously guarded. Ihefe
is a strengthening furnace, INTO whien
he feeds by a special mechanical device
the limestone that is found in the neigh.
borhood in great quantities. At the op'
nosite end of the furnace white Wool-
lile substance is blown out. The Wool
has not the properties which make y ue'
si1 able for weaving, but as a noneon-
duetor it has no equal ana possesses 'he
chef quality of asbestos.
The process is a secret one, put y, Mt
Hall tells some things about It. Inc
stone found in the neighborhood is VI
ne .uliar chemical formation Wheh nfs'
married. and when in that condition
mnIts readily at certain Temperatures
While in a molten state it IS mixed Win
chemical solution. in which powdered
el1ss is thought to be one OF the lngre-
di.nts. IT is then subjected to blow
;ne process which separates 1t into
Threads like finely spun wool 1t mas
sufticient strength, but the nap Is not
loug enough for weaving
There is a residue in the shape OF siaall
heads of a glasslike substance which MI
Hall has thus far been unable to get oh'
of the wool. He cannot subject 10 the
combing process, and is now at work ol
scheme of chemical dissolution wnlcn
will run the beads out and at the same
time have a refining effect upon the tex
ture of the wool. As it stands to-day, N
~. ar,,sa state II Is a wool silica.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
FEW VICTIMS Or PLAGUE.
Babonic Disease in Hawaii Nigorousi.
Held in Check.

Babonic Disease III Ha"ah ti-oA
Held in Check.
Tbere have been sis deaths from bu-
bnnir plarue III Honolulu. Five ofthem
oncurrea within period of thiry-slx
hours. Dec. IL and II. The s%tl oe.
rrrred Dee. IA. Strict quarantine OF the
districts in which the plague appeared
b.s been established. A house-to- house
cleaning OF an the infected distriets mas
haan made, aud it is believed thai no
u.ore cases will develop, or 4 they 10
that there will be 40 chance Of the as
ease gaining foaiholG or assuming Inc
nroportsons of an epidemic.
az the six victims four were Shinese,
ono was n Gilbert islander and one 4
hawaiian woman, The four Chinese aud
the Hawaiian woman died in the Aslahc
ouarter of the city The Gilbert island
), as~s sotae siir s8nce away N another
ouarter. with tie outbreak Of the plague
: complete system Of public medical al
tendance was inanguEated- Every case
Of sickness Of whatever nature is repoI :
"A III ,nediately To tlie board of health
an, 4 physician from the hoard + sent
In make an examination aiid make GER
tain that it is not case of plague
Ii il feared that the bubonlf plague
has reached Manila. and the b tith aa-
.horities are exercising the utmost yigi-
lance to prevent the spread OF the
seourge. Two suspicious deaths have al
ready occurred.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
Llrs Loss OF sPAnlsH wAR.
Statistical Exhibit of the Government
Shows Volunteer Mortality.


A pamphlet has been issued by the
adjntant generals office in Washington
under the title of Statistical Exhibit
Of St.1 9Th Of Volunteer Forces Called
into Service During the War with Spain.
with Losses from All Causr - The vol
unteer force co..~.sted of 10,017 officers
ah.i 213,21S enlisted men, total of
22s3 .2sSo who were engaged in the war.
The deaths numbered 14S officers and
4.356 men
During the war fourteen volunteer Of
ficers and four officers Of the regular
army holding volunteer commissions We're
killed in action, three died from wounds,
10 from disease ant eleven from ether
causes. of whom three were suicides. OF
the enlisted men 1910 were killed in action,
Is others died from wounds received and
3,12y from disease. There were, fur
ther, l59 deaths of enlisted men from
various causes, 81 oi whom died from ac-
eidenys. Il were drowned, ii were sui
cides and 80 were victims of murder or
homicide Desertions from the ranks
numbered 3069.
The total losses in the volunteer forces
were 1,7lS officers, including sight dis
alSStis OtcAdts1 ftSiEts-%taDtlSf uuu hiS-
charges, and 30,5S5 men, including 3d.
363 discharged for disability by court
martial and by order.
In the list of officers killed in action.
Kansas and South Dakota lead with 3
each; Nebraska had 2, while no other
State had more than one. or enlisted
men killed in action or dying from
wounds received in action, Nebraska lost
%, Kansas 30 and South Dakota II;
New York lost IL, while 20 of the States
had no losses.
In the total number of enlisted men
who died from all causes, New York
leads with AT, Illinois 2SI, Massachu-
setts 274, Pennsylvania 239, Ohio 225
and Michigan 205. Nevada lost but one
man.
The losses of men from murder or hom-
icide were three from Alabama, three
from North Carolina, two each from
Florida, Kentucky, New York and Vir-
ginia, and one each from nine other
States, besides seven among the United
States volunteers. OF the suicides of en-
listed men, three each came from Ala
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
Told in a Few Lines.

Mingo, Ohio, had a slElu hFe.
Christian political party Is new one
in Chicago.
fonsogfdatea oil company, capital 81.
600, GOO, has been Incorporated trenton
n. J.
Russia has standing army Of l.s0o,-
900 men.
London new water supply viii cost
f17,O00s100-
only cue man IN 2o3 is over Sax feet
in height
The London churches are 70 have sol
tiiers' sunday.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
uIsfn.,. cannot ne cured

BIZ local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion Of the ear. There IS only one
way tn cure Deafness. and that Is BY eonstitu-
ttofial remedies Deafness IS caused by an In
famed condition Of the mucous lining Of the
EustachiaD Tube. When this tube gets lniiamed
YOU have a rimbliBg sound or imperfect hear
Ing. and when Ii Is entirely closed Deafness Is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can Dc
taken out and this tube restored TO us normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever:
nine cases out Of ten are caused by catarrh,
which Is nothing but an intiamed condition Of
the mucous surfaces.
We WIN give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness tcaused by caiarTh) that cannot
Be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
s''a ~" F.J CHENEY Co. Toledo. o
e. Sold BY Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

hama and New York and two each from
Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee.
In deaths from disease among enlist
ed men New York had $50 out of about
10000 enlisted, Illinois had PA out of
about 13,000, Massachusetts, 265 out of
about 6,S00, Ohio 2f9 out of less than
14.000, Pennsylvania ZIG out of less than
1900 and Michigan 200 out of less than
5000
In desertions from the ranks New York
IS charged with 514, or about 21a per
cent. while North Dakota and the Dis
triet of Columbia had none and Utah had
but me Tennessee had 249 out of
total of about 6,000, about per cent.
One desertion is charged to general Of
i;cers and staff
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

victim of the terrible disaster which over
came the Highland brigade. They march
ed in quarter column to their doom. Gen.
Wauchope's last words: For G DDS sake,
men, do not blame me FOR This will
gladden. the hearts of his numberles-
friends. There was no accord between
Gen. Methuen and Gen. Wauchope IN
regard to the best methods of attack.
Gen. Methuen's plan prevailed. and the
mistake lost 700 men,"
A private of the Irish Rifles who
fought at Stormbefg, in letter to his
home, says that when Gen. Gatacre saw
the position. the guide had led the troops
into he shot the guide dead with his own
rayotuar
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
MUST KEEP ISLANDS,
SENATOR BEvERlDGE SO De.
FINES UNCLE SAM S DUTY.
Eloquent Young Indianian Makes an
Excellent Presentation of the situa-
alton IN New Possessions Charge that
Americans Encouraged Aguinaldo.

Senator Beveridge on Tuesday address
ed the Senate upon the Philippine ques-
ton, giving his opinions as to the pro-
priety Of the United States retaining the
islands, basing his reasons upon personal
observation during his recent trip threr gh
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
a s,;pht MISUNDERSTANDING,

Mrs. o'Harra-0i want cake av
soap.
Groceries. ma'am. Would you pre-
FER 1t scented or unscentedf
Mrs. O'Harr3-Yez nadent throHbie
to have it sinted; ORR take it along wid
me
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

The highest ranking officer OF the Unit
ed States navy who viii retire from ae-
tive service during 1900 beeanse Of tne
age limit Ii Capt W. q Gibson. Usn-
ally from one to four admirals are ie-
tired annually Dnring 1901 Rear Ad-
mirais aIeNair and Sehley Rili give ny
Sfffr.s sars-igs4
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Wordsworth gave the world a vol
ume of poetry al %, and some OF Its
lines were much better than any he
wrote afterward
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Gen. John b. Gordon has issued the
formal order for the annual meeting OF
the United Confederate Veterans to De
held in Louisville. Ky, from May 3o
10 June next He says i,24O camps
have now joined the association, snd ap-
pIications for membership hare been re-
ceiyed from about 200 more
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Chaplain Couden, who Is totally blind,
never permits a barber to touch his face.
While DIR. Couden has been blind for
number Of years. II has been his practice
to shave himself, and so well does be do
it that ne seldom If ever nick" his face
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

One of the largest and wealthiest
ranchers Of the Southwest is Delegate
Pedro Perea Of Bernalillo, n NJ, who
has come to Washington for his first
term. Mr.. Perea IS man Of medium
stature, has very black eyes. and in many
respects looks like Spanard. His fam
Ily is one OF the Oldest in New Mexico.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17
Mhat snail History sa.s?

What shall history say OF ust ShaII L s.is
that we renouneed that holy trust. left the
savage TO his base condition, the wilderness
10 the reign of waste. deserted duty, aban-
doned glofy. forgot our s0rtid profit even,
because we feared our strength and read the
eve aad the arihblcr's minds Shall IL say
shat called rs events 10 captain and com
maud the pron6sS...s ablest. pprest race OF
cIIned that great e0mn8fssEonE Our fathers
world not have had II 50. No. TAey found-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Senator Kyle ,f South Dakota, the
allest man in the Senate, Is very fond
OF small boys, and by some strange afiin-
ity he likes the shortest page in that
body.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

The resemblance between Roberts, the
solygamist, and Senator Pritchard of
North Carolina is remarkable. They
might be twin brothers. Both are OF
the same build, have the same cast Of
features, wear mustaehes trimmed alike,
and their curly hair might be duplicate
wigs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Adit. Gen. Corhin thinks the Lawton
fupa III finally reach 100000, which
will b~ invested for Mrs. Lawton in gov
eminent bonds and give her an income
sufficient to provide against all want and
enable her to educate her children prop
erly.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Brig. Gen. Greely, chief Of the signal
corps. is steadily recovering from the in
!uries inflicted on him by drunken ex-
pressman.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Very few of the old men in the Senate
show their age. Ne one would ever suss
pect that Platt of Connecticut is II, or
that Galloni of Illinois was 70 last No
yember. Senator Hawley of Connect
cut is %, Gear of Iowa will be 75 next
April, and Hoar of Massachusetts is 70.
Senator Teller is still vigorous with his
seventeen birthday rapidly approaching,
and Frye is remarkably young man for
his weight of nearly 20 years. Jones Of
Nevada is SO, and his colleague, Stewart,
is ~. Senator Bate of Tennessee, like
the late Senator Harris, will not disclose
his age. He must be 20 or thereabouts,
for he was a soldier in the Mexican war,
over half century ago."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Mrs. Dewey has shocked Washington
officially and socially and has created no
end of adverse criticism by disregarding
the customs of the capital Mrs. Dewey
attended the White House reception on
New Years day. She had prompted Ad-
miral Dewey to ask for a place in the
line of callers ahead of Gen. Miles. This
was refused, and the admiral and his
wife had to wait behind Gen. and Mrs.
Miles. Mrs. Dewey became tired of this,
and seizing Secretary Long by the arm
when he passed the doorway she moved
along with him. By doing this she pass
ed the wives of the judges of the Su-
preme Court and osSers who We're en-
titled to precede her.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

The preliminary estimate of the pro-
duetion of gold and silver in the United
States during the calendar year 1899,
made by Mr.. Roberts, the director of
the mint, shows a total gold production
of last year of S7,231 40. The produc-
tion of silver during the year is esti-
mated at 4,424 500, an increase dur
ing the year of $4,040,211.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Secretary of the Treasury Lyman j..
Gage intends to end his term of office
with the close of this administration. He
says it is his intention then 10 retire
to private life. Assistant Secretary
Frank Yanderlip also intends to sever
his connection with the Treasury De
partment at the close of the Mckinley
administration. But Mr.. Nanderlip will
not retire from business. He has his eye
on New York bank-or, rather, the
bank has ite eye on him-and he will
probably become its president.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-17

Twenty three years ago Senator Teller
entered the Senate. Only three Senators
who saw him sworn in are still his col
leaTues-AGison on Iowa, Cockrell of Mis-
souri, and jones OF Nevada. In the in
teryening twenty-tllree years over hun
dred Senators have died. But Mr.. Tel
Ter, although nearly three s. ore and ten,
is still strong and vigorous.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
FIRE FOLLOWS FLOOD.
Washington County Court House Badly
Damaged by the First Fire Built in
it Since the Recent Deluge.

Montpelier, Feb. 1S-About o'clock last
evening fire was discovered by passershy
on the street, issuing from the rear of
the County Court house. An attempt TO
rms in an alarm over the city system was
made but the system failed to work for
some reason and the department. warned
by the cries of fire arrived at the scene
just as the clock on the court house tow
er struck five, ten minutes earlier than
an alarm was sounded from the bell Of
Bethany church.
Smoke was pouring forth from the win
dowa In the rear of the building and from
out and around the tower and for a time
it was feared that the catastrophe of 1850
was to be repeated, when the court house
was destroyed by fire. But the prompt ac-
ton of the fire department aVertcd such
a calamity and by $40 the blaze WAS eX-
ting uished. fire was started yesterd y
morning for the first time since the flood
in the furnace in The basement of the
building. the water there having fallen 30
that there was only a depth of about l6
inches. This part of the basement was di-
reCtly beneath the grand jury room on
the first floor and the lawyers and judges
rooms on the second and at the extreme
rear of the building. Before the furnace
was started County Clerk Smile had the
apparatus thoroughly overhauled and adj
justed by an experienced workman II is
thought that the building caught fire from
a not air conductor which ran to the law
yers' room and for part of the distance
was in contact with woodwork and that il
had ignited the woodwork about noon,
when the furnace fire had been checked
and smoudered along until it was dis
covered. The windows were smashed in
and water thrown in The basement ard
upper floors until everything was thor
oughly drenched. The smoke was almost
ovcrpowering when access to the buildr z
was first made, but the tiremen stuck to
their task with commendable tenacity un-
I'll they had conquered the flames.
The building is valued at 5000 and tho
damage from fire. water and smoke. which
is practically confined to the apartment $
above mentioned is estimated not to exceed
5000 while some place it as low as 5000.
|, is thought that set of Vermont Re-
ports. valued at some $500, has been ruin
ed Some of these volumes cannot be du-
plicated. The only insurance carried on
the building is held by the Vermont Mu-
tual Fire Insurance company to the
amount of $500