Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-08-09
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the mayor.
Tie Liner Minneapolis collided with
a submerged wreck at sea and lost
blade OFF her propeller.
Robert E. Deane, formerly of Cnl
cagO, was shot and killed by a wealthy
contractor in Fresno. Cal.
AT Edgerton. the big feed elevator at
Shepard's sheep station was destroyed
by fire. the loss being $1,000.
The Northwestern railroad has or
dersd the equipment of its locomotives
WitA new smoke consuming device.
The naval court of inquiry is hearing
behind closed doors the evidence as
to the disaster to the gunboat Benning
ton
Thomas E. Post;es. a negro he
CORES the boss Of TIE Wilmington,
Del, city council by a trick on the re-
Cu0ljcans
One person was killed and forty
were injured in a fight between police
and striking longshoremen at San
Juan
George 7. Moore, q scientist in the
burEan of plant industry at Washing
ton. who figures in graft charges, re
signs
The probabilities are that the Ameri-
can rice bill win fail Of passage by the
Cahan congress, whose session will
close soon.
Tamnas PieIcy, a saloon-keepe.. was
stabbed and killed by an unidentified
maR after leaving a car TO go to his
h0ne-
Caief Collins announced the organ
cation Of murder a5ueau. like Scot
land Yard, with Captain Schuettler at
head
The Catholic Order Of Foresters at
its international convention in Boston
re-e8e=ted Thomas H. Cannon high
chief ranger
KN Orlando Caesar Buri, former
Episcopal minister, is claimed by
wives in Chicago, Milwaukee, and
NewtDn, Pa.
Az 81 Louis after spending the night
writins his win ana farewell letters.
Frank b'ootman, tailor, aged rs, com
mitted suicide by shooting.
Celebration of semi-centennial of
the opening of the 500 canal was be-
gun with naval parade witnessed BIZ
Vice President Fairbanks
William Jennings Bryan, Jr., son 1T 7
the Nebraska democratic leader. is in .
a Chicago hospital suffering from an
abseeax in the right knee.
Ssssn state insurance commission !
ers met in Chicago and decided to
visit New York and Investigate the
large life Insurance com 3anies.
President Stuyvesant Fish OF the
TIlihois Central declares that rate dis |
criBma:ion should be stopped, but OPP
poses the governments naming the
tariffs
,'Eae government takes an appeal to
the Uufted States supreme court in
the case of Senator Clark OF Montana,
charged with fIaud in extensive land
deals
Tne weekly weather bureau reports
the temperatures too low for the best
results in the middle Atlantic states
and New England. but elsewhere IA
voraA7e.
President Roosevelt visited sick
chFIFSren at the Sea Breeze Home on
C0res island and lent his influence to
the raising Of u fund to enlarge the
tnsizSztion.
st Ia Crosse Earl Trainor member
Of a. Saug Of alleged postodice robbers,
vTh1 was arrested with two others. has
bruEea san. leaving his companions 20
their Esfe.
A newspaper man caught in the
graft STATEMENTS at Milwaukee seeks
by the discovery statute" to learn
what evidence was presented before
the grand jury
Esa1sal Cowan, pretty 15-year-old
girl la New York City, fearing the
anger Of her foster mother, lived two
months in the pu5iic parks. subsist-
ing oD stray bits of bread
J0hn Mueller, on trial for the murder
OF hsz Hife and two children, declared
ON the stand that ne was In a trance
at ftG time and can remember nothing
after kissing his family goodnight
District Attorney Jerome scores
iusfIces of the New York supreme
court who engage in commercial en-
teTFFFses and criticised Mayor Nc
CIeIIan Tor appointing inferior men to
Office
Behaving that William Kents offer
of $500 reward will produce valuable
evitAEBce, State Attorney Healy ad-
vfsea fhe grand jurors to pass the la
Dor smuggling case to the September
jury.
In the Oregon land fraud cases coun-
sci frr the defendants. Congressman
Williamson, DR.. Gesner and Land
Commissioner Riggs, ended his con-
c5aszIng arguments yesterday at the
trial IN Portland.
BY the viii OF Mrs Z A. LETTERS. a
former resident of Richmond. IND. who
recently died at Chautauqua. n. T.
Ohio Wesleyan university becomes the