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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

1t is a fact. however, that the secret
service officers feared that Benque's dis
ordered mind might seek his revenge at
Oys.er Bay rather than at Washington,
rs experience has taught that the cranks
with grievances like that of Benque al
most invariably get after the President
before the matter is settled by commit
ment to madhouse.
4 more recent incident was the arrest
of the man John Miller at Syracuse who,
it was alleged, had made threats that he
would kill the President on the occasion
of Mr. Roosevelt's visit to that city on
Labor Day, when the President reviewed
the parade of the Letter Carriers Aaso-
citation and formally opened the New
York State fair. Miller denied that he
had ever used threatening Language TO-
wards the President, and said that the
woman who had given the Information. to
the notice had manufactured a lie out OF
the whole cloth. This case was entirely
in tho hands Of the local police, and the
federal set.res service had nothing to do
with II. IT was however, but an in
stance of TIE many such cases which fol
low the President wherever he goes. On
h;s trim ia Syracuse he was guarded with
scrupnlc,4s care Probably no President
in i.le of peace was ever hedged about
as Mr.. Roosevelt was ON that trip. The
recent incidenes had caused redolibling
OF precautions. for it is well known that
an unsuccessful attempt of the Well
brenner kind is calculated to infame 9TH
or unbalanced minds to jump into mo-
toriety by making a real or pretended at
Tack ON III President
1t is generally conceded by thoe who
have studied the question that there Is
Only one effective way of dealing with
these cranks. While they are undoubt-
eds unbalanced. they are IS rule not
80 much 50 ~ to be irresponsible.
t'z1leesz Of uni,i,-ss,Js lrrsnlory was good
type. There was - doubt that he was
not altogether sane. But he was e0mpe-
tent to know the difference between rich,
and wrong. Wsilhrenner may have been
q ttt,e more unbalanced but had he sue
eeetlei in ipfief4ng bodily injury on tbs
President, or evan in making an uBsEc
&c ,sful assault. the l2W would have re
saried him a. resnossiU1e. As it Is. hs
has been sent 10 a asylum for violent
lunsficz.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
Told in a Few Lines.

Owing to pressing demands at hoEnt
Lord Roberts, commander in chief Of tbs
British army, has cancelled his proposed
visit 10 this country
s. Z. Davis. president Of the First Ma
tiouaI Bank az Park Rapids, MINI. waf
drgvssed in Fish Hook luxe while sailing
with a party Of friends.
Two hundred and SIXTY Of the 1,00t
employees Of the American Smelling ano
Refining Company az Durango, Coo,
struck for an eigbt-hour day.
At a meeting Of the executive commit
tes. Of the board Of trustees Of the Unit.
ed Society Of Christian Endeavor, bek
in Boston. it was voted to bold the nex1
international cUBventioa in Baltimore
July 5, 1905.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
This and That.

The Bank Of Arrow Rock, al Arrow
Rock, Mo, was robbed Of a small sum
by four burglars.
VIII Ramsey, a 12yesr-old boy, was
kicked by family horse while passing
his stall ard fatally injured at Arkansas
City, Kan.
In an effort 10 lower his record, DaA
Patch paced a pile n two minutes on tie
grounds of ii5e Minn, sofa State Fair As
ISOLATION at st. Paw. The trial was wit
messed by a crowd " $1,000 people.
Major John II. BeacNr' Of the Sixth
United States infantry, stationed Of Fort
Leavenwortb. has been appointed United
States military attache to London, one
Of the most important positions in the
army.
The Canadian government has con-
tracted with French ship owners fo- mail
service between Quebec, st. Johns. Hall
fax and Bordeaux. France. A subsidy
Of SI33y00o will be paid fo5 twenty four
tEiDs-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
CORN AVERAGE HIGHER.
Increased Yield Is Indicated by the
Government Report,

The monthly report of the chief Of the
bureau of statistics of the Department Of
Agriculture shows the condition Of corn
on Sept. / to have been SOL. as compar-
ed with TS.T on Aug. l, 1903; S4.3 on
Sept. 1. 1902; 51.7 at the corresponding
date in 1901 and ten-year average of
1913. These figures as we'll as those on
other crops indicate the condition on
Sept. l, and no attempt is made to an
ticipate the results from future weather
conditions.
The following table shows for each of
the twenty principal corn States the con
ditian ON Sept. / of the last three years
ami that on Aug. /, 1908, with the ten
year averages:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23


rear the President as if he were Euro
peaD sovereign. Indeed, There are some
of the Kings of the eifete monarchies Of
the Old Werld who are rot hedged about
by anything like the divinity and six
shooters that keep ill-wiiled and unbal-
anced persons away from the head ser
want Of the people of this democratic re-
public. Had it not been for the vigilance
of the secret service officers who are on
constant guard at the Presidents home
the intention Of Weilbrenner, the muir
derous Innate who was arrested at Oy-
ster Bay moi long ago, might have been
put into serious execution. This Incl
dent startled the officers who have the
duty of guarding the President into a
realization of the danger in which every
man who reaches the exalted office
stands. Whatever his personal or polit-
ical popularity. the very fact that he is
President attracts the attention of the
diseased inteilects which seek TO redress
fancied wrongs or gain notor'ety by the
killing of persons in high places. The
public has not the least idea of the great
number of dangerous cranks who are
turned aside by the Presidents body
guard Of secret service men. AS far as
possible these incidents are withheld
from the newspapers. The cranks are
not arrested unless they have committed
some 0yert acs which shows them TO be
dangerous persons. Many are handed
over to the police merely as disorderly
persons, and they find their way into the
insane wards of the warehouses.
But recent events. have convinced the
federal officers whose duty it is to guard
tie President that more stringent meas
ures are needed. What is required is a
general law which will follow the Presi-
dent wherever he goes. The Weilbrenner
Incident was really more serious thaIAit
was made 20 appear in the reports given
out. The officials realize that the Presi-
dent had narrow escape from a dan
gerouS mnatic. Weilbreuner had repeat
eddy tried to pass the guard about the
Presidents home. and when in the scuffle
his revolver was disclosed and he was
placed under arrest he had penetrated
to 100 feet of where the President was
standing on his porch with the light from
the omen door streaming upon the Chief
Executive and making him a good tar
get. Following closely upon this Incl
dent came the arrest in New York OF
Francis NJ Benque for sending threaten
ing letters to Secretary Hay. Benqut
was a photographer who was expelled
from Germany. He claims $4,000 dam
ages from the German government, and
because Of the failure Of the State De
partment at Washington to collect the
amount, he made threats of bodily VIC
lence in a letter to the Secretary of State
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

ment by his re
markable course nj
Bogota. was ap
pointed minister TO
Colombia early in
the present year
Minister Beaupre
was born and bred
near Aurora. Snice
he was 81 years old
he is now just 80
Tho has almost con
tinuously held office.
President Mckinley
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
HAVOC OF A STORM.
Two Score Lives Lost in Hurricane on
che Atlantic Coaa4

Tvo Score Lives Lost in Hurricane on
the Atlantic Coast.
Two score or more lives lost and ST.
100000 damage ON sea and land-such is
the result of the storm which swept the
eastern coast Wednesday. Stories of
death and loss and of thrilling escapes
prove that the hurricane was one of the
most destructive which ever visited the
Atlantic.
OFF the coast of Maine, near DamariS-
Gotta, fifteen men lost their dives in the
gale. The Gloucester smaekerel SEEMING
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

Taft becomes Seere-
tary of War in jan
uary next, is now
vice governor Of the
islands and a mem
Der of the Philip
pine commission
Gen. Wright is "a
years of age, q ina
tive of Tennessee.
He fought through
out the Civil War
as 9, private in the
Confederate army
49, 1,.a, "a
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

eign titles on the
ground that ii is hui
initiating TO ATneri-
can pride, has devot
ed most of her life
TO philanthropic and
charitable work and
has spent more of
the famous hnan-
cier's money with
her right hand than
she would care to
have her left hand
know about. She Is
as,,ae;a1lv iutpregY Oh
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

The average condition at harvest of
winter and spring wheat combined was
TAI, against SO on Sept /, 1902, S2.S
at the corresponding date in 1901, and
ten-year average of 1873.
The following table shows for each Of
the seventeen principal wheat States the
condition ON Sept. ] of the last three
years, with the ten-year averages:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

0nd road. as regards
mileage, In the Unit
ed States. 1t has
nearly 1880 miles
of track. This re-
suit was due TO the
purchase Of the Ser
board Air Line sys-
tenn by the ST. Louis
and San Francisco
Railroad, which be-
longs to The Rock
Island system. In
connection with the
Gaakaor1 and Tat.ra
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
Blizzard in the North west.

One of the earliest autumnal storms in
the Northwest for years swept over
Manitoba Saturday aud early Sunday
morning. The only fatality reported oc-
CURED at Gretna, where an Old man fell
from a buggy and persisted in the storm,
At Har.ney twelve horses died in the
Canadian Pacific yards, ard other live
stock is reported to have perlShed.
4 telephone message from Nj anedosa
reported that the storm was the worst
experienced there in five years. 1t start
ed to blow about 10 o clock in the morn
ing, and heavy rain followed. At noon
this developed into snowgtorm, and by
dark the snow was ten inches deep on the
prairie. This storm was a regular biz
zard, and neiaSnr man nor beast could
stand against it. Grain which was still
standing is almost ruined.
The steamer Park Biuff was capsized
In fierce storm on the Mississippi Sun
day night, between Prescott. Wis. and
Saltwater, and Engineer James Fergu-
son was drowned The others of the
crew were rescued by the crew Of the
steamer Glenmont.
Snow and rain have damaged crops in
the Northwest during the last week TO
the extent of millions. of dollars. Nearly
all the grain in shock. estimated at 80 per
cent and all the standing grain, much
of it fax, is under water The rainfall
has been eight inches in forty eight hours
Rain, sleet and snow are reported all
over the Northwest. Railroad tracks are
washed ont and trains are abandoned
Trains from the Pacific coast have been
pushing through deep snow for two days
and are from ten TO twenty hours late
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

II. p 4OAkl 81. SeaDuaFu HHl IVTIs
Haute deals, Wall street has found time
to wonder at the methods of President
b. II. Yoakum of the Frisco Railroad,
when it is question of buying railroads.
Within two years the silent and self-con-
tanned man who directs the Frisco aft
fairs has bought four railroads, and in
every case has begun and closed the
transaction within twenty-four hours.
-
Gen. Luke T. Wright, whom the
President has appointed governor of the
philinninns 10 takn nflee when Gov.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

of having a real
Sultan I'm our
midst" However,
we are not long TO
be without that
pleasure, for the
Sultan Of Johore
has announced that
he will visit us in
1904 for the pri-
mary purpose 0
making a tour OF
the United States
and incidentally
afoEiur iusf 4ho 81
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
STORM BRINGS DEATH
A TERRIFIC HURRICANE SWEEPS
THROUGH TIE SOUTH.
Many Persons Rcpsrted Killed in
Florida property Loss in Tampa
Alone Estimated at $i,ooo,ooO-

At least seven persons were killed and
property damage aggTegating million
dollars was done by the hurricane which
swept Florida Saturday and Sunday. THE
exact loss win not be known for sew
eral days. as the country is in a deplora-
BILE condition and telegraph service is al
most paralyzed. Great damage has been
done 10 orange groves and g2alens sud
it is feared that many Of the beautiful
winter homes of Northern people have
been damaged.
Monday the storm swept across Ala
bama and louisiana Al wires south Of
Montgomery, Aha, are down, and Flo
maton, Ala, and BirniI CHAN Montgom-
cry, Mobile AID New Orleans report high
winds. On the east coass many vessels
have been wrecked. Above Miami it is
reported that seven or eight boats are
ashore, The property loss in the city
of Tampa alone IS about 81 ,000,0 600 West
Tampa was flooded by the rain. No loss
of life is reported in Tampa, although
several persons we're hurt by falling
trees.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

clubs. has lived on
the South Side for
many years and has
led in the movement
10 close the saloons
in Hyde Park. lie
formerly lived in the
Nineteenth w ard,
and said that ward
was nearer heaven
than any other part
Of Chicago" He
has been active IN
the Civ Fedora =
ton. the temperance
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

TIE fifty .hirl anniversary Of the adj
mission Of California ia the Union was
observed Several cities Of the State
celebrated the event GA large scale.
The largest gathering was 81 San joe.
where the Native Sous IF ths Golden
West neld fseir celebration.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

Louis worlds fair. The Sultan is the
ruler of the remnants of the old Malay
empire. He is. in fact. the only indie
pendent ruler in the Malay peninsula.
He has been the Sultau for about five
years.
-:
One Of the results Of recent events in
Wall street is that the Rock Island sys-
tenn has in two years become the sec
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

The Mckinley monument, which was
unveiled in Toledo the other day, is u
square column Of gray granite bearing
the inscription. william Mckinley" cut
on it's face On the four sides his life
history is briefly reeited. The shaft IS
surmountcd by Il heroic bronze statue OF
the late President Teighing 1,s0O pounds.
The statue itself is 8 feet high. The
monument was erected with the contribu-
tions of 26,0O0 residents of Toledo and
the surrounding country.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

in self-supporting women, and has done
much in New York to make their HveS
pleasanter Mrs. Sage is the guardian
Of her husbands health and dictates how
he shall live. She has been married 10
Russell Sage for thirty-fye years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

Arthur NJ. Beaupre, who has reused
the ire Of the Colombian government and
the nnxietY Of the limited States govern
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
TO PASS STRICT LAW.
NEW MEASURE FOR THE SAFETY
OF THE PRESIDENT.
Such win BE IntroiuceI When Con-
gress Meets in Extra session-Recent
incidents Have shown Necessity of
Making Access to President Difficult.
washIngten eorresponaenee:

NE of the first
measures TO be in
tr0duced in Con-
gress when it
meets in extra SEES
sion will be "a bill
designed to protect
the President of
the United States
and other federal
officials from the
attacks and threats
of cranks. The
precautions a I
present taken to
guard the Chief
Executive make il
as difficult for a
person without an
engagement 10 get
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

We have had a crown prince here and
the brother of an Emperor, but we have
never experienced the ineffable ecstasy
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

Democrat ali his life. He was educated
ut the University of Mississippi and IS
a lawyer of national reputation In 1868
he married, daughter of the Confeder-
ate admiral, Raphael Semmes. He was
made member of the first Philippine
commission and two years ago became
vice governor.
-
Mrs. Russell Sage, who has written
in protest of the growing tendency OF
American young women TO marry for
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

Rev. W. Il. Leach, the Methodist min
lister Of Wicker Park, Chicago, who
preached n sermon attacking women
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23

in 1897 appointed ARTHUR BEAUPRE.
him iirst secretary of legation at Guate-
mala. and he was subsequently, made
consul general at Bogota.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-09-23
Shark. from the Wires.

leagues and law and order movements.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-21
IN THE BEEksHiREs.

Lenox. Mass. Oct. 20 (SpeciaI).-The autumn
coaching season has been fairly begun In tho Berk-
shires, and the arrival and departure OF coaches
daily event at the hotels.
Elliott II. Shepard, OF New-York. who had Mr.
and Mrs. O.. Howard Davidson and Mrs Oakleigh
Thorne. Of New-York and Mrs. Spencer Irwin OF
Philadelphia, his coach. has left Lenox for
New-York
J. Morgan Wing. OF New-York. arrived this after
noon on his brake. Besides Mrs. Wing his guests
were Mrs. Austin Fox. jr.. and Edward Winslow,
OF Great Neck, Long Island.
c. NJ. Wicker OF New-York who Is coaching
through tho Berkshires arrived this evening on
his coach from New-YOrk for a tour OF the hills
In his party Miss Wicker. Miss Robinson ana
Miss Daggett of New-York.
Henry A. Barclay and party arc expected N,
I.enOx from New-York tomorrow on hin mail
coach Mrs. Barclay and Mr.. and Mrs. J. Stevens
Uhlman. OF Short Hills. ". j.. viii be on the
Barclay brake.
C. Oliver Iselin. OF New-Yorlx Joined hts daush-
ter Miss Fanny Iselln. In Lenox to-day.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Butters OF London ar,
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen ID. Field ir,
StOckbTdge
s. l.. Higginson. OF Boston has arrived In Ienox
for weeks visit. other arrivals are Mr. and
Mrs Henry Hyde Dwight Mrs Hockton and Miss
Ethel Hockton. Of Boston: lsadore Luckstone and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick III. Bolts OF New-York and
Frederick r. Newbold. OF Poughkeepsie.
Miss Marian Haven. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George q. Haven. left to-day for Rosiyn, Long Isl
and. where she viii bo the guest OF Mrs Clarence
Maekay for week before going To Hot Springs
Va
Tho Ienox Club managers have voted 60 Keen IN.
club open all winter
Ar'' John Z. Alexander. Of Nsw-York. sntsr-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-21
THE EXTRA SESSION.

Congress is to meet in extraordinary session
on November Q, to give its sanction to the tariff
concessions granted Cuba in the Bliss-Zaloo
commercial treaty. In the call issued yesterday
by President Roosevelt no other public business
is recommended to the two houses for their con-
sideration. Attempts to give a greater hex,-
bility and elasticity to our currency system are
to be postponed until their urgency becomes
more evident and the friction sure to arise
over projected financial legislation of any sort
is not to be allowed to interfere with the per-
Torrance Of what has long been an imperative
national duty.
We cannot but think it fortunate that Con-
gress has been left to deal at the approaching
session singly and simply with the reciprocity
problem. So many excuses have been found in
one house or the other for neglecting the Cuban
market and Withholding from the Cuban Re
public that friendly ala which we were pledged
TO give 1t that even at this late day the selfish
ness Of sectoDalism or the perversenesS of party
prejudice might be again successfully appealed
to were the question of n fair exchange of
tariff favors with our West Indian neighbor
complicated with other issues out OF which po-
litical animOsities might be generated and party
capital might be made. AS it is, Congress must
face single question on which there can be
no valid pretext for political bushwhacking.
The terms of the Cuban convention must be
accepted or rejected Congress must either
approve them by authorizing the necessary
changes in our tariff laws which they entail or
dsapprove them by enacting no changes. But
between the modest measure of reciprocity eff
fected by the Bliss-Zado convention and no
reciprocity at all there can be no choice either
for minority pledged, like the Democratic OPP
position, to as free commercial intercourse as
possible with Cuba, or for a majority pledged,
like the Republican majority in the two houses.
TO carry out the policy Of generous and open
dealing with Cuba framed by President McKin-
ley and ardently espoused by President RoOse-
welt.
As matter of fact, opposition to that policy
has now virtually ceased The "nsurgent' Re
publicans who blocked reciprocity legislation in
the LvIIth Congress recognize the futIlity Of
renewing their fight. One of their most active
leaders, Representative William Alden Smith,
Of Michigan, recently stated that he would not
oppose legislation making operative our treaty
concessions TO Cuba. Mr.. Smith looks on Cuban
reciprocity as n fact virtually accomplished,
and, with most of the other Republicans who
stood out against what they mistakenly fmag-
ined to be a surrender of local industrial inter-
ests, will gracefully bow to what he now sees
has become an accepted national policy.
-Four weeks will elapse between the date set
by the President for the assembling of the
LVIIIth Congress and the date fixed by law
for the beginning Of its first regular session.
That time should prove more than ample for
the performance of a duty which, as a ma
ton, we have delayed beyond reason and be-
yond courtesy.