Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-10-25
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
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Miss Laura Rhodes, aged 80, COM
mitted suicide with poison near Terre
Haute, Ind.
The Denver grand jury indicted ten
bankers on the charge Of attempting
to steal $1.75o,A0O.
Eight people were killed and thirty
I'VE injured by tornado in a south
ern Illinois village
A former officer of the asphalt COM
pany acknowledges aid was given by
it to the rebels OF Venezuela.
Indictment against Senator Burton
of Kansas was quashed because of
error in return OF grand jury.
Miss Grace Wetherbee, New York
heiress and society girl, welded a
full-blooded Indian and adopts ways
of squaw
Marshall Field arrives in New York
with his bride and gives out interview
in which he denounced ownership as
a gras,ets ia
President Roose relt in a speech at
Richmond, Va, paid tribute to the
progress of the south and tho soldierly
yalor Of her SONS.
Senator Dubois of Idaho says the
Philippines will cause America much
trouble and advocates sale of the is
lands to Japan.
A Chicago physician. testifying in
the Schandein viii case at Mtlwauk ee.
regards Mrs. Schandein as havh 3
been Of sound mind.
superintendent of Police Taylor Of
Philadelphia told a committee OF the
councils that the city police are re
cruited from ex-conyicts.
Evangelical Lutherans adopted
canon prohibiting marriage Of per
sons divorced for other than adult.
cry or willful deserti0n
Thomas A. Edison takes issue with
the defenders Of the cigarette. say
ing the burning paper forms poison
which Kills aud drives insane.
Walter S. larson, county superin-
tendent of schools, was injured by a
runaway in Manitowoc his hcrse be-
ing frightened by an automobile.
William Daley was murdered at
Waverly, S. D., by Nels Mehrens, a
saloon Keeper. DALEY had fought
and whipped a friend Of dehrens.
President Edmund J. J.mes, in his
inaugural address at the University OF
Illinois, scored the endowed colleges
as champions Of ultra-conseI yatism.
Attorney General Stead made a new
Interpretation of the Illinois Central
railroads charter, showing 500. GOO
coo in back taxes is due the state Of
Illinois.
Mayor Rose of Milwaukee. address
ing the delegates to the American
Gas Light association. accused the re-
cent grand jur. of conspiracy in
politics
Mrs. Jacob Heyl Of Milwaukee, tes-
titles that she did not marry Heyl
because she loved him, but because
her mother Mrs. schandeln. wanted
her to.
George sisco was found dead in a
saloon at Spring Valley, H. 1t was
not known there was a corpse in the
place until the barkeeper brought him
a glass of beer.
Professor Louies NJ. Haupt. former
member of Panama commission. do.
clares the government has made a
sl0o,000,o00 error IN not selecting
Nicaraguan route.
The denial by a witness of receiving
Mutual Life voucher for 1901 NAV
lead to the first arrest in connec.
ton with the New York legislative
committee investigation.
The North Cnrctfr, Tgsr- r.-....... = A..
and the South Carolina body we're
consolidated, with a combined CAPT
tai Of s2o.0oo,000 and an output of
19o000.000 feet a month.
G, r. lookout. a vaudeville actor.
professionally known as Raymond
Eel, eoT.sitted suicide at ST. Joseph.
No His home was in Terre Haute,
Ind.
Protesting his innocence TO the last.
John Rooney was hanged at Bis
marck. n D.. fer the murder of Har-
o. Sweet on Aug. %. 1902. He walked
onto the trap singing song Of his
own composition.
On plea of guilty. Joe White.
alats Joe Moore, was sentenced M
Jefferson City. Mo. to fifteen months
in the penitentiary for robbine the
postofice at Holt Summit, Mo,
year ago.
The failure of tie Enterprise Ma
tional bank of Allegheny. Pa. after
the cashiers suicide involves state
politicians, who are alleged to have
borrowed 100000 out Of Ss00. 900 of
state funds on dtposit
President McCurdy told the Arm
strong committee tina, the Mutual has
paid three former state insurance
commissioners large sums in recent
wears. He defed the inquisitors and
refused TO answer many questions.
a former official of the Waters.
Pierce Oil company declares in NJ
vestigation at St Louis that com.
pany always made at least 500 per
cent profit on a S400. 600 investment
and that two-thirds of this went to
the Standard OH company
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