Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-08-02

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not know it was to be used in Fads
and Fancies.
Governor Hocn of Kansas, who has
been criticised BY some OF his con,
/ stituents for attentions to negro
leaders. has an neSt-door neighbors
family of blacks.
| The net earnings Of the United
States Steel corporation for the
quarter ended June 30. are reported
as s3O.305,116, as compared with s29,.
O25,S96 preceding.
| Chairman Paul Morton of the Equit-
able Assurance society says the pen
| sion of $4,000 a year to Mrs Henry
B. Hyde nas not been discontinued
yet but may be.
Naval officers at tne Mare island
say the machinist on board the Ben
nington was inefficient. Forty-seyen
ailors were laid to rest by the com
rades at San Diego.
An immigrant declared unfit to
enter the United States committed
suicide in New York by leaping from
the vessel which was to have taken
him back to Germany
The funeral OF General w. w.
Blackmar, late commander of tae
Grand Army of the Republic, was held
at Boston, thousands of people at
tending tue public services.
Shippers from Chicago, st. louis
and Cincinnati met in Chicago ana
framed plans for a campaign against
railroad rate discrimination by the
eastern and southern lines
Up to date thirty-four persons
have died OF yellow fever in New
Orleans. One hundred and fifty-four
cases have been reported AMI fifty
are now under treatment
1T Minneapolis Miss Lima Rasle, a
stenographer, quarreled with her
fiance, and, declaring that 1t would
break her heart to return aer en-
gasemeG+ ring, took poison. from
which she d.ed
Police Chief Collins declared ne
would DIVE every gambler and hold
up man from Chicago he began by
raidinf, all big poker clubs in the loop
district, formerly Celieved to be
protected.
Consul General Summons of New
clwang. Manchuria, announces the ar
rival at that place of cargoes OF oil
direct from Philadelphia. He reports
also that the Chinese prefer the
American to the Russian oil.
United States Senator John Fl.
Mitch~n of Oregon was sentenced to
six months n prison and to pay fine
of $1,000 for lending his high office
to the fraudulent uses of land con
spirators ami himself prohting by
tleir acts.
The annual report OF Insurance
Commissioner Cutting of Massa.
chusetts denounces the methods of
the big companies and declares them
ruled by the present-day mania for
graft and gamble Sweeping reforms
are demanded
At Milwaukee negotiations for an
amicabla settlement of tde financial
settlement of the financial culties
of the Northwestern straw works
have failed temporarily and the Mil
waukee Trust company was elected
trustee under a bond OF 100000.
Al Deadwood. S D., announcement
was made by Congressman w. e.
Martin that he will be a candidate for
the United States senatorship to
succeed Senator Gamble Mr. Martin
made a national reputation at tle last
sesson of congress in the beef trust
investigation.
Tae sixth alleged victim OF Fred
erick f. Carlton. who is in a New
York jail suspected OF having married
many wives and killed two OF them,
is found in the person Of Mrs. Lulu
Referring Of Rcches er. sad to have
been welded to the man. WAC, it is
asserted, tried to poison her.
francesca CefoIi an Italian. was
hanged at Brockville. Pa, for thf
XII. ling OF Pasuuale !fuegrino. at
Sykesville. on Sept "a, 1904. ON the
way to the scaffold and on the scat.
fold Cefot created quite q scene. He
rayed, declaring himself innocent,
and it was only by force that he was
placed on the trap.
The sentence OF Emil Totterman.
wlo was to be executed for murder
on Aug. l, was commuted by Cover
nor Higgins to life Imprisonment. !
Totterman was sentenced for stabbing
10 death Sarah Martin in a New York
lodging house. He had been a sailor
on The Oregon and had won several
medals for bravery