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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
DIE In MOLTEN GLASS.
DISASTER CAUSES THE DEATH
OF THIRTEEN BOYS.
Over One Hundred Persons Injured aud
Many of Them Fatally Roof of Fac
tory Overlooking Football Game Cot.

The collapse of the roof of glass fac
tory in San Francisco from which a large
number Of people We're watching foot
ball game between Leland Stanford and
the University of California, caused the
death 0f thirteen people and serious in
juries to nearly 100 others, several of
whom are fatally injured and many 9th
ers will be MANNED for life. Those who
were injured fell into the furnaces and
seething glasspots below and terrible tor
ture was suffered in many instances.
About twenty minutes after the game
had commenced, and without any warn
ing, corner of the roof collapsed, carry
ing with it in its fall all those who had
been standing thereupon. Luckily the
whole roof did not give way or the disas-
ter would have been even more fearful.
As ii was at least POO fell into the interior
of the works, and few more in the rush
that ensued in the other portion of the
place TO get down were hurled to the
ground.
The portion OF the roof which collaps-
ed was the covering over the yentilator
bars at the apex of the building and was
not constructed TO sustain any heavy
weight. The horizontal timbers in the
center, corresponding to the ridge pole
OF an ordinary structure, broke near the
center, and the light framework under
meath, with its covering of corrugated
iron, turned inward, forming chute
through which the men and boys were
precipitated into the furnaces beneath
Most of those killed or injured were
boys between and rs years of age.
Nearly all of the victims had their skulls
fractured or limbs broken and sustained
serious internal injuries.
The factory has been shat down for
some months, and for the first time the
fires in the furnaces had been relighted
and in all the watts glass in its various
forms was being melted and refined.
Into these seething pots Of molten matter
the victims OF the accident were hurled,
some being bodily east into the fires, 9TH
ers falling into watts where the matter
was glowing, and still others being incin.
Grated by f0lling into those huge pots
where the glass seething and bubbiing,
was being purified. Some of these were
killed instantly and others were roasted
slowly to death, their position being such
that help could not be given them.
The few who were so fortunate as to
escape death by the furnaces suffered in
juries by falling upon piles of glass Stag
with sharp, Jagged edges, which lay by
the sides of the vats, or by falling upon
the floor and, stunned by the shock, be-
ing scOrched and burned by their proxim-
ity TO the intense heat. Seldom has an
accident happened wherein the victims
who were not killed have been subjected
to such fortunes, and the cries of those
who in their helplessness and the inabil-
ity of those to suceor them We're being
burned to death were piteous to hear.
To add to the terrible calamity the
falling of the timbers into the fires set
the building ablaze. The fire was not put
out until the greater part of the factory
had been consumed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
Eotca or Current E,ent..

Caesar Turner, III. eolored. Norfolk,
Va, died.
Portugal no longer recognizes the
Transvaal flag She forbids it's display.
Work on Sir Thomas Lipton's ehal-
lenger, Shamrock H., has been begun at
Glasgow.
The Society Of the Army Of the Tennes-
zee reelected Gen. GrenyilIe NJ Dodge
president.
The ST. Petersburg press urged indie
pendent action by Russia ia the Chinese
negotiations.
The powers will demand that China
erect expiatory monuments in all foreign
burying grounds whore graves have been
pr9faned.
The little Grand Duchess Olga Of Rus
sia IS the richest baby in the world. The
week she was born II 10000 was invest
cd fnr her.
L.rd Wolseiey. it is said, intends to
visit the scenes Of his campaigns in Can
ada, 1861: South Africa, 1879, and
Egypt 1882.
A moral reform war Is said to be
spreading over Japan, and various chan
nels Of immortality have been closed az q
result Of the purity crusade which has
been wszsd
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

New York-rt is true that the business
transacted on the stock exchanges is al
ways more or less OF purely speculative
character, but at the same time it is none
the less true that the movements Of the
markets can usually be taken as pretty
correct index TO general business condi-
tons and as reflection Of the sentiment
Of the best-posted people with regard to
those conditions. Only TO the extent that
the markets anticipate the future is there
ever any variance between their move
ments and the actual state OF affairs in
the commercial world. Recently there
has been an enormous demand for the
better class OF dividend-paying stocks,
and prices have been advanced all the
way from IS to SIS share, and in few
instances even more. Sales on the New
York exchange since Nov. Z approximate
2o,00Q,00 shares, a record for that
ength of time that never before has been
qualed This extraordinary activity ia
securities and the strength of values has
been a surprise to even the most opumis-
tic of the bulls. Money continues sur
prisingly easy in view o. the greatly in
creased activity in trade and s. SPECULATION.
Chicago-Interest in the grain market
during the week was largely centered on
the corn, and more especially regarding
the probability of enough ,orn of con
tract quality being procuraSis TO III! sales
made for the current month : delivery.
At the close of the week preceding there
were only about 100000 bushels of the
desired grade in the public warehouses
of Chicago, and not much more than p
100000 bushels OF all kinds in both public
and private elevators. Wheat has not re-
covered from the depression of the week
preceding, but the tone of the market
was heavier than appears from decline
of only u cent n bushel. News concern
ing the growing crop of Argentina is so
varied in character that it is difficult to
arrive at any definite conclusion. Unless
the crop 81 ould prove considerably small
er than the production of the previous
year there appears little hope of the high
prices for wheat that seemed probable
when the traoN was stirred by reports of
extensive damage to the domestic crops
of both winter and spring wheat. The
plentiful supplies, notwithstanding I'M
doubted failure Of the crops over extern
sive areas, is a striking illustration of
the marvellous resources of the country
and its vast agricultural area; likewise
of the wonderful compensation provided
by nature for failure in one section by
extraordinary abundance in another.
Small stocks Of provisions hold the mar
ket firm. As the receipts Of hogs com
tinue in excess of those at the corre-
spending time of the year previous, it is
gratifying indication of the excellence
of the demand for the manufactured pro-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
BIG CRUISER is SUNK.
Yosemite Goes Under in a Typhoon
Near Island of Guam.

Yosemite Goes Under in a Typhoon
Near Island of Guam.
During Il terrific typhoon which visited
the Island of Guam the United States
auxiliary cruiser Yosemite was wrecked
and thousands of houses, among them
the headquarters of Gov. Schroeder, were
demolished. The towns Of IDdrajan and
Terraforo were swept away. and 1t is
estimated that hundreds Of natives met
their deaths.
The typhoon was of unprecedented yio-
lence The Yosemite had two anchors
down, but both were dragged a mile
across the harbor entrance. At IL a. M.
it struck the reef and stove in forward
1t drifted for an hour, and at noon struck
the rock near Somaye, carrying away the
rudder and damaging the propeller.
A launch had been sent to find shelter,
but it capsized and the occupants, FIVE
of the crew, were drowned.
Meanwhile the Yosemite was clown
seward, her head down and the forward
compartment filing. The boiler and en-
CINE rooms, however, were free of water
and the pumps We're kept going The
cruiser was kept afoat until the after
noon Of the second day afterward, when
the United States collier Justin, which
also had suffered damage TO its anchors
aud had narrowly escaped the reef, was
sighted. The Justin attempted TO tow
the Yosemite with two chains and Two
cables, but these parted. Finally 1873
of the Yosemites crew, 36 marines and 8
officers were transferred to the Justin.
together with $4,000 Mexican. The
Yosemite soon plunged head foremost
and sank
The Yosemite was a second-class con
yerted cruiser which was purchased by
the United States government from the
Morgan Line during the war with Spain
Her name when She belonged to the mer-
chant marine was Eel Sud. Her gross ton
mage was 1865 When she came into
possession of the government she was
comparatively new and stanch boat. with
steel bottom. She was built at New
port News, 1892, aud was purchased
with three other ships from the Morgan
Line for the auxiliary navy. She was
armed with ten six inch quick-6ring guns,
six six-pounder quick-firers and two ma
chine guns. Her complement was 2S5
men, peace footing, and $50 men, war
footing Her service during the Spanish
war consisted in patroling the coast OF
Cuba, but she did not take part in any
action. She was manned by members
Of the naval militia. chiefly from the
State Of Michigan.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
v Buggins and the Bow.wows

Buggins and the Bow-Wows
.'Never again." growled Mr.. Buggins,
who has no children, do l take Mrs.
Buggins walking on Chestnut street ac-
companied Is her dog. OF course, Pm
quite as fond of the animal as she is.
but when / am in public curb my en-
thusiasm. She, on the other hand, is
more enthusiastic in her terms of en-
dearment. We were walking down
Chestnut street, the three of us, when
we came to toy store. and in the win
dow were several mechanical toys.
Among them were number of little
woolly dogs seated in automobiles.
These caught the alert eye of Mrs.
Buggins. and nothing would do but we
must stop. oh, there's one that looks
just like RufusH she exclaimed. Rufus,
you know. is the name of orr dog.
Come on / said. But she wouldn't
have it that way. His papa must lift
him up aud see the little bow-wowsn
she remarked in indignant and unfor-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

ONE members Of his
hurch sleep duriag
he services. He
charges one Of the
deacons with sleeping
ifteen out Of sixteen
Sundays. Last Sunday
Rev. Mr.. Jones de-
tected a deacon nap.
ping while he was
preaching. The pastor
at once cut his sermon
short and dismissed
the congregation. He
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Remintier.

An ingenious Austrian inventor has
just patented a speaking clock which
he claims will be of the greatest vasxa
to persons of forgetful and Irregular
habits. 1t consists of a clock phon.>-
graph COMBINATION. In place Of the
usual striking attachment is phene-
graph, which can be set to speak sem
tence at any time desired, thus becom-
ing an unfailing reminder to its owner
of the duties of each successive hour.
People are becoming mighty tired OF
personal reeollections of great men
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

tunately loud tones. There was. az
course, crowd around the window,
and got the ha ha all right enough
Lift him UP, papa, and see the bow
wowsr yelled crowd of messenger
boys, following me down the street.
Isn't that enough to drive an exemplary
citizen to drink Philadelphia Rec-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
$4,000 from New York; schools.

In response to an appeal Tor subscrip-
-ons 10 a fund which viii be devoted to
the rebuilding cf schools and purchasing
4 school supplies 70 replace those los.
u the Galveston disaster, the pupils and
teachers Of the New York schools have
raised an amount estimated to be not
less than $4,000. The amounts handed
Ia ranged al the way from cent 20 $40.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

phritis, Cushman
X e llogg Davis,
chairman of the
committee on for
eign relations in the
Senate, died Tues
day evening at his
home in st. Paul,
Mimi. He had suf-
fered greatly dur
ing his sickness and
gra d IL a lily sank
away. being uncon-
scious for several
hours before death,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

" f" % q "A lInpt 90 sd . %
Village of Stoddard.
ownsrs' name. lot. blk 4mt.
Peter ondeil z & zee
City Of Viroqus-Lsyns's
Addition.
Owners, name. lot. blk. Ams.
] p joyce a . y e.
un.y Clark, Vernon county. wts
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
UNREDEEMED LANDS.

COUNTY cIERKs OFFICE September 18Th lsoa
and u
made andpr o
unst
he a. day REDEMPTION toxh. Aay lnh lgl
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
SENATOR DAVIS DEAD.
MINNESOTA sTATEsMANATLAST
SUcCuMBS.
Was Chairman of Senate Foreign Re-
Iations Committee and a Member of
the Paris Peace Commission The
Story of His Career.

After an illness. beginning two months
ago in an apparently trivial abrasion of
one of his feet, developing later into
blood poisoning and still later into ne
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
HuBBTs RIGHT is MAINTAINED
Can Come and Go in His Own House
Hereafter as He Secs Eft.

Husbands who keep late hours have
rights which the courts respect. In San
Francisco Mrs. Nellie Coakley had her
husband arrested for threatening her. She
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

Township IA, r Z Wset-
Owners Name. Des. Sec. Ause
II Biice lot swksEA o ga
Village of De Sofa.
Owners narne Lot Block Amt.
Susie Ingerson pit frae 4 lot 50
81 I'd
Village OF victory.
Owners Name. lot. blk. Amf
a J Wizard lot s.bal Of 7. & - 80
Village OF Ontario.
Owners Name. Lot Blk Ans
@ Culver nKnn L 8 SIS
" nGn1 2 5 70 ~
8 z MArsden . 9 u u
3 p Msrsden 10 s 2xt
Village of Rocktoa.
Owners Name Lot Blk Amt
Mrs Katie Roberts S ISG
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

Rev. w. C. Jones. pastor Of the First
Congregational Church in Sharon, Pa,
has resigned. giving as the reason that
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

Derby cup Of 1000 soyereigns was won
at DerbJ. England. By Innocence. ridden
By Cannon. ]. ReiE was second on Syria.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

Township II, r 7 West.
owners Name. Des. Sec. Amt
Jobs Topper seAneA IL st4
II B West seksek "a 8 "a
Township 10, R 7 West.
Owners Name. Des. Bee. Amt
Unknown sekuwk . Q es
DON SHERMAN. O,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05
Townehip Ia. r. 2 VOL.
Township II. Z. 3 West
Township -, Il 8 West.

Owners Name. Des. Sse Amt
J d Eieks nSHnsh 2 8 70
Allen Fish sEse 10 10 70
Lyman Riser ept~ekseA q s 70
uehus4 % 8 %
% seAnHA 2G 8 -
J o. 6srris seknsA y 5i7
Geo ChuTchiii A tract o. land
commencing 81 NV cor sw
running south on acc line .
rds south 6s5< degrees east So
rods north III degrees north
~ rods west 90 rods 70 place OF
beginning. swknek ~ 2 %
Lyman..Kiscr neAlneH ~ Q 80
Geo Churchill All Of seAsvh
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-12-05

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{ wner's Name. Dee. Sec. Amt
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Township ID, r ] West
Owners Name DE =. Sec. Amt
JIM Curtis sw4sek 10 S. re
Township IA, Il Z West.
Owners Name. Ds. Sec. Amt
Vim DObbs WISE SIS 30
W A Dobba e5Sseh 9 10 Ie
2 p Carr nv ksvA 70 Is 10
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Township 10, X. 3 West.
Owners Name. Des. Sec. Amt
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Township 11,R. 4 West.
Owners Name Des Sec Amt
JE Clancy seAnek IS
Lewis Anderson nwk ! Is 30
Township I3, Il. 5 West
Owners Name. Dos. Sec. Amt
II VI Hanson w1seA . a5 05
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-18
POWELL SUES FOR DAMAGES
WANTS SOUTHERN TO PAY HIM THE
SUM OF $4,000.

Suit the Result of Statements Made
in Atlanta Paper and Attributed
to Southern Officials - Says the
Statements Impute Criminal Con-
duct to Him-ThOmpson and Bar
rett, the officials Named - The
Strike Situation.
Atlanta, April NV V. Powell presi-
dent of the Order Railroad Telegraphers,
who is directing the strike of the tele-
graphers on the Southern Railway, filed
in the City Court here to-day a suit for
$4,000 damages against the Southern on
account of a publication which appeared
in a local paper yesterday.
Mr.. Powell claims the article holds him
up to public hatred, contempt and ridi-
Guile. ID contains an interview with Mr.
]. S. B. Thompson, assistant general su-
perintendent. and telegram from Gen
eral Superintendent ]. H. Barrett of the
Southern. Regarding the publication, the
petition for damages says:
THE purpose and meaning of the entire
article and each part thereof, as publish
ed, was to hold petitioner up to public
hatred, contempt and ridicule, thereby
injuring and destroying his usefulness and
reputation Petitioner shows that all these
publications were well known by defend
ant to be false and were deliberately made
for the purpose of running him In the
minds of all good people. and of injuring
him in the successful conduct of the bus
mess of the order of which he is presi-
dent
Among the most important auega tions
the petition reads:
Defendant in using the language,
their criminal actions are only in line
with Powells general methods in connec-
ton with the preceding clause, intended
to charge petitioner with being guilty of
criminal conduct and melting and causing
criminal conduct.
Defendant used the following language
Powell knows that there is no strike in
fact, hence his desperation Defendant
intended by the use of said language
taken In conjunction with the proceeding
clause. to charge petitioner with sending
out false tatements."
Thu reports concerning the progress of
the strike from the headquarters of the
strikers, and the railroad officials. are to
the effect that the situation is satIsfac-
tory to both.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-18
DEFENSE OF THE FILIPlNOS
Continued from First Page.

Declare now that we will not take
these islands to govern them against their
will
Reject a cession of sovereignty which
implies that sovereignty may be bought
and sold and delivered without the con-
sent of the people.
Require all foreign governments to
keep out of these islands.
Offer the Filipinos our help in main
tanning order until they have a reasonable
opportunity to establish a government of
their own.
Aid them by advice. If they desire it,
to set up a free and independent govern
ment
Invite all the great Powers of Europe
to unite in an agreement that independ-
ence shall not be interfered with.
Declare that the United States will en-
force the same doctrine as applicable to
the Philippines that we declared as to
Mexico and Hayti and the South Ameri-
can republics.
"Then in a not distant future, leave
them to work out their own salvation, as
every nation on earth. from the begin
ming of time has wrought out it's own sal
vauon.'
A resolution offered by Mr. Tillman of
South Carolina was agreed to. 1t directs
the Secretary of the Treasury 10 adjust
the accounts between the United States
and South Carolina and report what
amount will be due to the state of South
Carolina on June &c. 1900.
Consideration was then resumed of the
Alaskan civil code bill, but no conclusion
was reached,
At 4:55 p m. the Senate adjourned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-18

men as our competitors for the worlds
trade are educating theirs. We must have
permanency and promotion in our consul
lar service, interna tional banks, ocean
cables, and all thar makes for wider mar
kets
ION land our unequaled railway service
has given us a great advantage. Our
railways carry our products 1000 miles TO
our seaboard for less than foreign rail-
ways carry them 200 miles inland from
their seaboard: and, as O whole, our rates
In this country are only about one-half
those OF other countries, while In safety,
speed, and comfort we are immeasurably
superior; and yet In legislative halls and
in the jury box we find considerable ele-
ment of hostility 70 our railroad inter-
ests. They are looked upon by some as
the original trusts. but they have done
more to develop the United States than
any other single agency, and the great
need OF large sections OF country 10
more railroads. In our foreign COM
merce the large organizations of capital
known as trusts" doing a work in
extending American markets that II would
be impossible for smaller units of capital
to accomplish. On the sea the lack of APP
probation or transportation service has
been even more pronounced We have
subsidized our transportation service on
land by grants of land and otherwise. We
have paid for the carriage of the mails
what the service was worth without
gard to the amount Of postage collected.
We have protected our coastwise trade by
ruling out foreign ships, but our foreign
shipping has been left, like Topsy, to
'just grow without any cultivation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-18
Missouri's Favorite "Chav.v
From the Kansas CITY journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
An old Missourian from one of the
brush districts of Saline county was
witness in the Circuit Court in Marshall
last week. the Index says. While wait
ing in an ante-room he pulled from his
pocket a chunk of tobacco six inches long,
two inches in diameter and perfectly
round and smooth and as hard almost as
flint. After he had cut off chew a man
who had watched him asked him what il
was. "Terbacker," he answered. Eyes,
L know, but what kind is it?'' my own
kind" "Where do you buy it?" Don't
buy 1t. It's homespun terbaker. / make
ii myself" In response to a good deal
of questioning the old man told his story
of how the roll of tobacco was made:
"Fust and fo'most," he said, you must
have good upland homegrown leaf ter
baker and cure it in the sun. Then you
stem it, takin out all the stalks. When
you're ready in the fall to make up your
years supply of chawin' terbaker. you
saw off a hickory log and bore a hole in
one end about foot deep with a tWo-inch
auger. You have your leaf soaked In
honey and peach brandy; or If you havn't
any peach brandy, apple brandy will do.
You put your soaked terbaker leaves into
the two-inch auger hole in the hickory
log and ram 1t down tight and keep put
ing in the leaf and ramming it down till
the hole is nearly full. Then you take
hickory plug made TO fit the hole, and
drive it in as tight as you can with a
maui This mashes the terbaker into
solid chunk. Then you put the green
hickory log on the fire and let It burn
slow till it is heated all through and the
sap begins to sizzle out of the ends You
take the log off then and put 1t out of
doors to cool over night. The next morn
ing you split the log open and there's
your chunk of chawn terbaker that will
keep as hard as leather in any climate
but it's the sweetest chaw in the world
There never was no store terbaker to hold
a candle to it for a sweet, juicy lastn'
chaw." Several tobacco chewers standing
around sampled the old mans homemade
plug and declared that it was the best
that they had ever tasted. I'm the old
days that's the way the fust settlers in
Missouri made their ehawin' terbaker,"
the old man said.