Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-08-23

ls.g MS WIG sui LET divorce, say
the action was brought because Of
the failure Of certain persons to block
mail him
The New York legislature selected
the leading attorney of the state ia
conduct the Equitable inquiry. Joseph
II. Choate may serve. Other big com
panies are to be investigated also.
Manufacturers Of trolley cars, to
e@tner with electric companies, are
said to be planning a gigantic consoli.
dalton, the matter to be determined al
a convention in Philadelphia early IN
September
Alarmed by the efforts to induce
the sailors of the Italian cruiser
| Dogali watch has been anchored OFF
Fort Lee, to desert, the Italian
minister of marine cabled Capt.
Capomatja to take his vessel from
New York Immediately
Every theater in Brooklyn was
closed by order of Health Commits
s!0ner Darlington of New York city,
who declares they much not be >peaed
until changes to safeguard the public
are made.
The final rites over tle dead of ne
Bennington we're performed at the
military cemetery at Fort Rosecrans.
California, in the presence of the
survivors of the Bennington, the Of
ficers and crew of the Chicago and a
large concourse of people.
The People Gas company of Coffey-
vile, Kas.. sold to the Kansas Natural
Gas company, for $1,000 900 its gas
territory of $4,000 acres in Mont
gomery county containing 12S wells
with a daily capacity of 100000 cubic
feet of naturalfow pressure gas.
I Sir Patrick Manson. physician and
medical advisor to the English colonial
office. has arrived in Frisco to deliver
a course of lectures on tropical
diseases. He was the first to advance
the hypothesis that the mosquito fur
nished home for the bacillus OF
malaria
AT Bemidji, Mimi, Mrs. Frank Sill
versack, wife of business man. has
been placed in the county Jail on a
charge OF arson preferred by her hus-
Land, and is unable to secure bal! The
husband claims that his wife attempt
ed 10 burn business block and barn
/ belonging to him.
| An offer of $4,000 has been made
| by the English authorities to j. c.
Rhodes, a Roxbury (Mass.) photog
rapher said to be a cousin of Cecil
Rhodes. to stop the prosecution of a
claim of s12,000,O00 now held in
chancery and deposited in the Bank OF
England 299 years ago.
Charles NJ. Schwab, who returned
to Neg York from Braddock, Pa, re.
vealeA That his coming trip abroad is
for tle purpose of investigating in
Germany a new and secret process for
! the manufacture of steel, which may
have an important bearing on the
! future of that industry
A farmer on the Michigan shore IS
said to have found bomb n a case
directed to Gov. La. ~-ette, Madison,
Wis, and hurled it into a ire, the ex,
plCsion teariI up the earth for fifty
feet around. 1t is fancied that a pros
| peetive assassin changed his mind and
threw the bomb into Lake Michigan
The East I'D street police station at
New York was stormed by crowd
] which demanded revenue on Patrol
man Hale, who had dubbed John
Hogan into uneonsciousness, Hogan
was removed to a hospital. where il
was said that his skull was fractured
and tlat probably he would lie Inc
crowd finally dispersed.
Managers of the Metropolitan
! Museum of Arts of New York ave an
other legal figut on their hands for
possession of the estate of the late
Jacob S. Rogers, valued at s6.O00,o00
Mrs Virginia neinisch, ha.l-sister OF
the dead locomotive builder brought
proceedings in Paterson, N. L., to re-
cover $1000,000 with accumulated
profits
AT Watseka, III. FOUL play is suspect
ed in connection with the finding Of
the bodies of two boys in a lumber car
in the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
yards. An accurate description of the
boys has t5een received from Venice,
Ill, and it is believed that they are rot
Clarence and Lawrence Barnard of
Fairmount H. as was Supposed The
Icoroner's jury has adjourned to await
| further information.
Following the decision. .of United
States Circuit Judge Van Deventer.
denying an application for an in
junction to proh.Oit tle enforcement
o. a fraud order by the postal
| authorities, the directors of the PEG,
pies United States bank of St Louis
bave voted to go into voluntary
| liquidation. Notwithstanding this
! action the circuit court later appointed
a receiver. but withheld bis name
At Moweaqua, H.. Mrs. Frank
Chew died from taking corrosive subh-
mate, which had been sold to her by a
druggist by mistake for calcmel.
Hay dealers In Inciana testified be-
fore the Indiana railway commission
that their business hal been nearly
ruined by eNtortiongte rates charged
by the Evansville and Terre Haute
, railroad. General Freight Agent Hill
man Of the road admitted Bartlett.
Kuhn & Co, had special rate on
grain which was only 80 per cent. Of
the amount charged 70 other shippers