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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
WILL ELIMINATE MEAT.
Chicago Restaurant Keepers Can Nc
Longer Buy at a Profit.

In Chicago the meat famine is rapidly
becoming a fact. Practically all the re-
serve stock in the storehouses is said to
have been exhausted. and the retail mar
kets are having difficulty in securing suf-
hcient meat to accommodate customers.
Restaurant keepers are having trouble
getting full meat supplies for patrons
who rebel at vegetarian diet. Some
markets had steaks but no roasts, others
had beef but no pork. In few cases
the butchers had meat OF no kind. Some
OF the best known restaurants in Chi
cago threaten to eliminate meat entirely
from bills of fare in case the market goes
higher
The sane g lditions prevail in many
of the lals q les in the middle West.
From Cinci.--.t comes the report that
tenderloin is so scarce that even
the highest p. restaurants are unable
to serve it. ST. Louis. Kansas City, To-
peka, Springfield and St. Paul are among
the cities which already are beginning
10 experience the first symptoms of fam
inc. In these center@. as well as in many
others in the East, including Boston.
prices have advss'd several cents
pOund
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
Tho odvices raceive
| New York.

r---7 The advices received
NpW Ynrk this week from special
L---1 agents of the Interna-
donal Mercantile Agency at the lead
Ing trade centers of the country are, in
the main, satisfactory The spirit of
optilaism is growing and confidence in
a good fall and winter business in
creases from week to week. Current
activity in the different irdustrial
lines Is not great but it is better than
1t was a year ago, with the very whole
some influence of faith in better
things. 4 decided reaction has occur
red in the movement OF stocks. but
this is not due to any material cnange
in business prospects.
The speculative months are now at
the top prices for this movement, hay
ing been helped by war scare which
produced an opposite effect on stocks.
The returns on wheat in the southwest
have stimulated business in that part
of the country. Collections in the st.
LoLs district have far exceeded those
of last year.
The first symptom of encouragement
that has been shown Mt Kansas City
is apparent this week in reports of a
slack condition of trade in most lines.
Chicago retailers are said to be more
pessimistic than they ought to be in
view of actual events. The packing
house strike casts a shadow ever trade
there, even with advance orders for
clothing, mems furnishing shoes, and
wearing apparel quite satisfactory.
Indianapolis indicates some improve
ment in dry goods and shoes. though
with hardware behind last year. The
most gratifying trade statements of all
are those from Pittsburg. This is due
to the improvement that has come
about in the iron and steel trade. The
tone in this basic trade is certainly
much better than it has been in year,
and sharp revival in it is not improb-
able after election,
There has been good growing wealth
er for the crops which are approaching
harvest under continued improved con
ditions. In the spring wheat sections
of. the northwest some rust has been
discovered which will reduce tie yield.
Harvesting is in progress il nearly
all Ct the leading winter wheat States,
and the results are better than farm
ers thought they would be two weeks
ago. 1t is beginning to be believed,
though, that the total yield will leave
a small exportable surplus, and that
the price of wheat and flour during the
next twelve months will be high.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

on strike they had to get cut. Some
left voluntarily; some were eyicted. An
exodus began from the place and the
roads leading TO the woods rented by
the strikers we filed with wagons
containing household goods. The ma
jofity of the strikers went into camp
at Camp Turner. near Christopher.
Some secured temporary shacks scat
tered about A few went to neighbor.
ing settlements.
Immediately Letter filed the town
with armed guards and sent out in
ducements for non-unlou men to enter
the place to work. mo trespass" signs
were hung around and telephones were
installed on trees for the greater con
yentes,"e of the private police. Mean
time the strikers at Camp Turner are
not inactive. They have thrown out
plckets TO intercept the entry of non.
union men.
Letter. who is engaged in this In.
dustrial war, Is Il man OF strong per-
sonality and stern determination. 1t
was he who engineered the great
wheat corner in 1897, as a result Of
which bread riots occurred in Italy
and other places, during which hun
dreds of persons were shot by the
military Another result of the "cor-
ner" was that his father. who went to
his assistance in the deal, lost many
millions.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
WHOLE TOWN EvlcTED.
Astonishing Industrial War at the
Town of Ziegier, Ill


The town of Zeigler, ILL.,, bids fair
% achieve the notoriety of another
Cripple Creek on account of its :xbor
troubles. Practically the entire work
ng population Of the place has been
.vi, ed and men. women and children
are housed In tents in the woods five
miles distant The town itself, which
IS private property and owned by Jo-
seph Letter, of Chicago, is an armed
camp. Guards, with rifles and revolt
Gers, pa. ade the streets and dominate
every avenue of approach. The coal
mine and coke works, where the men
now living in tents were formerly en-
oloyed, is surrounded by high stock
ade, inside of which and outside of
which heavily armed men, with in
structions to shoot If provocation is
given, parade by day and night. No
person is allowed within the town lin
It's unless he can show permit or give
4 plausible excuse for his presence.
Those who are unable to measure up
with these requirements are escorted
put of the vicinity of the settlement
and are impressed with the prudence
If not returning
This peculiar and dangerous condl-
lion of affairs was preclpitated by the
failure of the miners and Joseph Lei
ter the sole owner OF the mines, coke
works and town. to agree on the ques-
ton of wages. Letter submitted
schedule of wages. which the men re-
fused to consider. The men claimed
that the scale was below that paid by
mine owners in other sections of the
State. and It's acceptance would mean
reduction by competitive employers
Of labor, who would be placed at d dis
advantage In the market.
Whereupon Letter began to apply the
vast power that lies in his hands. As
said, Letter owns the town. Every
inch Of land is his. No one can pur,
chase n lot there. even churches and
like institutions having TO be salts
fed with leases instead of deeds. One
Of the conditions upon which an en-
plOye is allowed to rent house is that
he shall. upon twenty-four hours no
tee, vacate the premises after his
name has been dropped from the roll
call. Accordingly when the men went
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

William S. Deyery, after having been
barred from Tammany Hall for two
years, has been invited by Judge Parker
to visit him.
Secretary Shaw, opening the national
campaign in an address in College Point.
n. Y, attacked the record of the Demo
cratic party on finance.
Lieut. Gov. Frank w. Higgins likely
will be given the nomination for Gov
ernor of New York if Elihu Root finally
declines to accept the nomination.
Chairman Taggart is known to the
South through one of the saddest tIa,e-
dies of the gulf. his daughter having
been lost in naphtha launch wreck and
he searched many weeks for her.
Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna. widow of the
Senator, has sent a check for $4,000 to
the Republican national committee. Mrs.
Hanna also has sent check for $1,000
to the Ohio Republican State committee.
Former President Cleveland calls on
Democrats to rally to the support of
Parker. expr SEES his satisfaction at the
downfall OF ver and declares the can
didates's stand for gold is worthy of the
highest praise.
Albert b. Boardman, law partner of
Frank II. Plat. son of Senator Plat.
and one of the most prominent members
of the New York bar is said to Lave ex-
pressed a preference for Judge Parker
for President.
Former Senator William II. Reynolds
of New York has made the first big cleo
ton bet Of the presidential campaign.
He wagered $4,000 that Judge Parker
the Democratic nominee, would carry
New York State.
None but gold Democrats has found a
place on the new Democratic executive
committee The members are William II.
Sheehan, who win manage the campaign:
August Belmont, James NJ. Guffey
James Smith Jr., and John r. Mclean.
At the Democratic territorial conven-
ton at Oklahoma City. Ok. resolution
repudiating the clause in the Hamilton
statehood bill fixing the capital at Guth-
RE until 1910 was passed. The Populist
territorial convention. which was also in
session. rejected the offer of fusion made
by the Democrats and nominated y. T..
Straughen OF Lincoln County for Con-
guess by reclamation.
or the ffty-three States territories and
other political units represented in the
recent Democratic national convention,
Ill except twelve cast their votes as a
unit. In these twelve each delegate was
allowed to express his own preferences.
The Nebraska delegation, for example,
divided its votes among seven presiden-
tial candidates, winch was the greatest
diversity exhibited by any one group.
Each national party convention APP
points committee to inform its candi-
dates of their nomination to the presi-
dCncy and the vice presidency. This Gus
tom originated before the invention of
the electric telegraph, when the notitea-
ton was one in fact as well as in name.
Nowadays the notification is the occasion
when speeches are made to I've used rs
campaign documents Mr.. Roosevelt aud
Judge Parker, within FIVE minutes after
the votes were counted. knew that they
had been nominated.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

Charged with the murder of her step
daughter Mrs. W. X. Krauss, bride Of
a druggist in Hartford City, Ind, Is I'M
der arrest Circumstantial evidence
strongly indicates that Mrs. KrausS poi
soned the 1S-year-old girl in order that
an estate which the girl inherited from
her own mother might pass into the pos
session Of her father aud eventually be-
come the property Of the second wife.
Crystal Krauss died of strychnine poison
ing on Tuesday night Mrs. Kranss pro
duced a bottle Of strychnine which she
said she had found in the dead girls bed,
together with note alleged to have been
written b. the deceased, saying that a
disappointment in love had caused her to
take her own life. The handwriting Of
this note resembles Mrs. Krauss' hand
A boy in the neighborhood testified that
Mrs. Krauss recently sent him to town
fifteen miles away to purchase strychnine
with which, she told him, she intended to
poison rats.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
A DISASTROUS YEAR.
Many Lives Suutfed Out in Various
Way. During First six Mouths.


Nay. During FRS: six Months.
TIE death roll from various accidental
causes during the first half OF the current
year has reached alarming proportions.
Although the Iroquois Theater fire Mt
Chicago occurred three days rrioE q the
beginning of the new year, it is reckoaeG
with the Slocum horror and the sinking
of the Norge rs one of this years great
fatalities; in fact. these three awful
events are scarcely paralle!ed in the his
tory of any year But FIRE and hood,
rushing train and sweeping tornado are
not alone responsible for the long Est Of
victims in the casualties Of the past six
mo..ths. The suicide and the murderer.
OF cunrse, have helped to swell tb. NUM-
Der, but in addition to all these there
were numerous seSths from causes far
less common than those mentioned.
From abroad. wheIe SO many OF oCr
wealthy eople so to spend the vacation
season. there comes the cry that the
death roll in the Alps is increasing this
year with terrible rapidity. and promises
Z, exceed that Of any other year or
which reliable records have been kept
There have been already no fewer than
100 deaths. either from avalanches or
climbing accidents. in the SWISS and
French Alps.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
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Sfxo. 1SNeeS

Chicago-Caitle. common TO prime,
$500 to 5000; hogs, shipping grades,
SAOo to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.I5
to $500: wheat. Ne. red, 93c to 91c;
corn. No. ., sic to SIC: oats. standard,
3l5c TO SEC: rye. No. ?. 62c 10 Gle; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to s14.o0; prairie, 5000 TO
S11.50: butter choice creamery, 16c to
lie: eggs. fresh, lie to Ice; potatoes,
4s,e TO 60c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep, $500 to $4.-5;
wheat, No. =, Ole to 93c; corn. No. ..
zoe 10 sic: oats. No. .. 34c to Soc; rye,
No. =. G6c to CSC.
Cipcinnati-Cattle. 500 to 1925;
hogs. $500 to $685.; sheep. $500 to
So. s.: wheat. No. new. SIC to 9ac
corn, No. mixed. ole to 53c; oats. \
. mixed. Soc 10 40c; rye. No. .. 90 70
~,
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs
500 to $40: sheep. $3.50 to 1915;
wheat. No. .. CSC 10 soc; corn. No. 8
yellow. 52e 70 54c; oats, No. 5 white. 41c
TO 43c; rye. Ne. !. T1c to &c.
Wheat. No . northern.
S102 to S104: corn. No. s. sic to 53c;
oats. No. white. ale to 42c: rye. Ne. l.
69c to 70c; barley. No. :. bic 10 Soc;
pork. mess. Si2.97.
Toledo-wheat. No. . mixed, 92c to
94c: corn. No. mixed. 52c to 54c;
oats. No. . mixed. 4Ic to 42c; rye. No. ?,
64e 10 Csc; clover seed, prime. $6.35.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
ROBERT & PATTlsoN DEAD.
Former Governor of PenuysyIvania
Falls "a Victim to Pneumonia.

Falls Victim to Pneumonia.
Robert +, Patuson. former Governor
OF Pennsylvania. one OF the leading Dem
ocrats in the United States and men
toned for the presidency in more than
one campaign az Wen as a leader In the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died Mon
day morning ut his home near Philadel-
phia.
Pneumonia, which developed Friday
and was followed by heart complications
was the cause OF death. Since 1902.
when he was defeated for a third term
as Governor Of PENNSYLVANIA by Mr.. Pen
nypacker, the Republican candidate. Mr..
PattiSon had not been in good health.
He was member Of the committee on
resolutions at the recent Democratic
convention at st. Louis, and his health
failed under the strain. As politician,
lawyer and business man Mr.. L, ttison
vas equally successful, and was esteemed
highly by all parties because OF his in.
tegrity. He was one Of the men consid.
>red for Vice President on the Bryan
ticket in 1900.
Robert Emory Pattissn was born at
Quantico. Somerset County. Maryland.
In 1850. His family removed TO Philadel-
phia when he was 6 years old. and he
graduated from the Central High school
in that city in 1870. Mr.. pattison had
become a law student In 1869 ani was
admitted to the bar in 1870.
In 1877 and in 1880 he was elected
Comptroller Of the city of Philadelphia.
He became Democratic candidate for
Governor of the State. and was elected
10 that office in lSSs
After the expiration OF his first term
se was appointed member OF the Unit
III States Pacific railway commission. He
Eas again elected Governor OF Pennsyl-
Yania in 1891, and was spoken Of as a
presidential possibility Mr.. Pattison was
candidate FOR Governor for the third time
in 1902. out was defeated, after o hard
contest. He was the personal choice Of
William J. BryGa for President IN the
last St Louis convsation.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

running hotels nearly all his life He
says he has given many man dys-
pepsia." Managing presidential cam
paign is strenuous task, but Mr. Tax
gar viii be equal 10 it. lie will have
capable assistants. In New York the
national committeeman. Norman f.
Mack, will cooperate with him aud
Cord Meyer chairman of the State
Committee. viii be relied upon.
Charles f. Murphy and his Tammany
allies will also he expected to do work
in the letropolis The Democrats must
carry New York 20 win and the Repub-
licans can scarcely afford TO lose it, On
the Republican side in New York. Gov
ernor Odell. William l.. Ward, William
Barnes. Jr.. and Charles IL Murray
will have to shoulder most of the bur
den. The Republicans will waste no
ammunition ON the solid South. and
the Democrats will ignore such strong
rJds of KepuhlicaniSm as northern
New England. Pennsylvania. Ohio and
the Pacific slope, The energies Of the
managers on both sides will be concen-
trated upon the States which each
must have in order to win. Generally
speaking, these States IN the East clus-
ter about New York and in the West
around Indiana
Each campaign headquarters will be
equipped with its literary bureau.
through which the news Of the day
will be given to the newspapers. Tons
Of printed arguments. consisting of he
letters OF acceptance of the presiden-
:ial candidates, the national platforms
and the speeches of the most promin-
snt campaign orators, viii be seat
throughout the debatable districts
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
CHICAGO

r r. G. Dun & Co.'S
| nhip11n weekly review of Chicago
! s0 trade says; The week
closes month usually one of the dull
est in business circles, and few inn
pOrtant branches have shown activity
exceeding or equal to that of n year
ago. Stocks of general merchandise
throughout the interior experienced d
satisfactory reduction and this encour-
aged improved orders in the selection
of full lines by country retailers. Lo-
cal conditions. however, We're not con-
ducive to better than normal con-
sumption in necessities. due mainly to
the accumulation of labor troubles, cur
tailed production and consequent d.
unfinished purchasing power of many
wage-earners in voluntary idleness.
The situation may be slow in right
ing itself, yet indications are not lack
ing which present the outlook in
brighter aspect Agricultural reports
reflect successful harvesting thus far
and the growing crops plenteous and
rapidly maturing.
Aside from the interruption due to
strikes the manufacturing industries
show no especial change, except some
effort to respond promptly to new de-
mands involving increased output This
applies mostly in the manufacture of
farm machinery, electric appliances,
furniture and mill work. New build
ing plans are more numerous than
those a year ago and require consider
able quantities of material. thus pro-
viding much work for producers
Grain shipments. 3,145,335 bushels,
are 10.7 per cent over those year ago.
Foreign buying remained narrow and
the increased shipments are due to
growing domestic requirements, stocks
of -four being regarded in low condi-
ton. Compared with last weeks clos
ing. prices advanced in wheat 3A cents
a bushel in oats 21s cents and in corn
u cent. Receipts of live stock, 1885,
279 head. are barely one-half the total
of same week last year. Sheep values
weakened 80 cents, but choice beeves
held steady and heavy hogs advanced
@. cents a hundredweight.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

Senator Fairbanks will be the leading
platform exponent on the Republican
side, and he will be aided by such men
as Senator Lodge, Elihu Root, Frank
$. Black, Senator Beveridge, Senator
Foraker, Senator p c. Knox and
host OF others.
On the Democratic side Mr.. Bryan's
may prove rather an embarrassment
than an aid. Grover Cleveland, Rep
resentative w. Bourke Cochran. Chas-
a. Towne. Representative Williams OF
Mississippi. Senator Carmack of Ten
nessee, and score more of national
reputation will expound the new"
Democratic faith.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

Another important branch of head.
quarters work will be the management
CT the campaign orators. There is no
prospect that tue political contest of
this year will be characterized by the
'whirlwind" tours in which William ].
Bryan and President Roosevelt were
the most striking figures in the last ma
tional campaign. President Roosevelt
VIII make no political speeches and
Judge Parker will deliver few, If any.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

nope ludl tney VIII WIN III spltc VI lAC
odds against them and the Republican
leaders realize that they have on their
hands the hardest fight they have Hn-
dertaken since 1892. Millions of tai
lars are to be spent; system of close
communication Is to be established on
both sides throughout the country, I'M
der which the thousands of workers
who viii be engaged in carrying out
the plans of the political generals will
act in harmony; careful watch is TO be
kept for danger spots and arrange
ments are to be made by which sud
dea emergencies may be met without
the delay of an hour; appeal is to be
made orally and by printed argument
as directly as possible to every voter
in the land; finally, the general plan
Of campaign must be so framed as to
meet the requirements of the fevered
climax that is TO precede election day,
when the ambushes and surprises that
are relied upon to rOut the enemy, per-
haps in quarters where he thought
himself most secure, are to be uncov-
cred
There promises to be little appeal to
passion or prejudice in the contest. 1t
will be a business campaign through
out. The Republican managers will
endeayor to convince the commercial
interests of the country that Senator
Hanna was right when he advised
them to "stand pat" and to let we'll
enough alone, while the Democrats will
seek to create he belief that the for
tunes of the nation are in peril and
that its peace and prosperity can be
preserved only by placing Alton B.
Parker in the White House as the head
of safe and sane" administration.
Among the men who are IL assume the
responsibility of guiding the campaigns
for the great parties the chief candi-
dates themselves are the most conspic-
uous. 1t may be assumed that no i'm
Portant move will be made by the Re
p 1blicans without the sanction of Pres
ident Roosevelt. and that nothing of
vital moment will be decided upon on
the Democratic side without the assent
of Judge Parker.
The Campaign Managers.
In the actual work of the campaign
the Republicans have the start Of their
opponents. George b. Cortelyou. the
chairman # the National Committee
located i'm New York, viii devote his
time chiefly to tine Fast, while in the
West Harry S. New, the Indianapolis
editor, will doubtless have charge with
headquarters at Chicago In the East
Mr.. Cortelyou will be assisted by L.
A. Coolidge. of Massachusetts,. Thomas
Taggart will be the active head on the
Democratic side and his reputation as
resourceful leader insures the conf
dence of his subordinates. Virtually
he will be The manager of the Parker
campaign. He has been Mayor of In
dianapolis several times. He has lived
In Indiana since 1877 and has been
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
Held Up in a Box Car.

Three Inen held up and robbed quar-
tet IF harvest hands in box car on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
near Hutchinson, Kan, and in fight
that followed wounded all of them. The
robbers escaped. A. b. Frazier waa shot
In the leg and foot and ]. s, Frazier was
cut in the throat but not seriously, Will
lam Ross and Scot Fleming. the latter
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were badly
beaten.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10

With a report that could be heard over
n mile distant several thousand railroad
torpedoes packed for shipment in the
yards Of the Versailles Railway Signal
Company's plant at Versailles, Pa. ex-
pIoded. Three Of the buildings of the
plant were completely demolished, three
employees were seriously injured and ey-
cry window in the vicinity was broken.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-10
TO SPEND MILLIONS.
POLITICAL GENERALS MARSHAL
ING THEIR FORCES.
New York to BE the Chief battle-ground
of the Presidential Campaign, with
Indiana and Illinois Vital Points
Some of the Orators.
washington correspondence:

HILE the voter
is digesting the
issues of tn e
campaign a n d
saying m e a II
Things a b o u {
the candidate he
will vote against,
the men upon
whom viii de-
volve the man
agement of the
campaigns f o +
the presidency
are marshalling
their fore Q s .
With the Demo
Gratis there Is