Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-04-26


Haddick shot and killed Butler.
President Roosevelt is to be the
chief CUES tat the convention of the
National Educational Association,
= which meets at Asbury Park July g.
Kelsey Crawford, aged %, was killed
! and Walter Crawford wounded near
, Broughton, Ca, by iour negroes, who
waylaid them as they were on their
, way home.
An attorney for the New York bar
associations brands Justice Hooker as
a corrupt supreme court magistrate i'll
an argument before legislative
, committee
The big boiler of the Union Ice
works in Los Angeles, Cal, blew up,
, seriously injuring two employees and
setting fire to the 100000 plant, which
was destroyed.
Two children of Byron Sweley a
! farmer, burned to death in bed near
Ma jhalltown. Iowa. The house
caught fire while the parents were at
, the barn.
Before She could make an cutlery
| Mrs. George Lucke. formerly OF Gin,
, ton. Iowa was forced to see her nus
band drink fatal portion of carbonc
acid at Minneapolis.
The supreme court of Nebraska has
refused a new trial to Frank Barker,
who killed his brother and his
brothers wife near Red Cloud last
year, aud he will be hanged June To-
Mrs. S. W. Wider the wife of a
newspaper man. shot and killed Mrs.
H. c. Douglass of Colorado Springs in
the National hotel at Cripple Greek,
Col. jealousy is supposed to be the
cause.
AT Milwaukee, Adoipn Funk, 20
years Of age, was strucE BY a moving
freight train and killed while trying
to avoid arrest for cutting his sweet
heart, Meta Schneider, with broad
knife
Rural Mail Carrier James Williams
was nearly killed near Sigourney,
Iowa, He was driving across a ran
way track when an engine struck the
buggy. killing the horse and bruising
Williams.
AT Huntsville, Ala, Fl. A Ballard.
nephew Of Governor Cox OF Ten
nessce. was shot by Miss Oma Hardie
mis- sweetheart, who then killed her.
self The tragedy resulted from
quarrel. Ballard died.
Carrie Nation, Myra McHenry ami
Mrs. Lucy Without We're found guilty
In Wichita. Kan OF destroying
property. and were given heavy sen
fences punishment being suspended
pending good behavior.
Mrs Desroches and her daughter
Annie were murdered ia their home
at Pe2etanguishe. Ont. and their
bottles thrown into the cellar after
having been stripped Of their clothing.
The mt rderer used an AK.
At Mprshalltown, Iowa, the coro-
ner's jury investigating the death OF
the Indian girl Ma Sha Che, returned
a verdict Of murder with a blunt instu-
meut.ln the hands Of George Soldier
the girls divorced husband.
At Warren Ohio. A G. Judd has
been appointed receiver for the Penn
Shovel company, Liabilities are es-
timated at $4,000. with $40. 900 quick
assets and sufficient outstanding
claims to pay all Indebtedness.
BY order of District Judge Frank
Johnson the jury n the case Of f. NJ.
Johnson, former president of the de.
funet Fidelity Savings association of
Denver, charged with ENLIGHTENMENT.
returned a verdict of not guilty.
Secretary Taft. for the government,
took possession of the Panama rail-
road at a meeting of the company in
elected president, and the directors
voted sl.25O0O0 for Improvements
st. Louis passed a gloomy Sunday
under the lid practically all bust
ness being suspended. and citizens 60
ing thirsty. in many instances. Near
~ every line of business was closed
down with the exception of drug
gists
Sewer gas In a conduit along Jet
fersOn avenue, Cass avenue and Gar.
risou avenue. st. Louis, was ignited
by some molten metal and the ex
ploslon damaged the streets for two
miles. broke windows and burned four
workmeut.
The Mystic Print and Dye Works
New Jersey corporation located in
Medford, Mass. was placed in the
hands of a receiver. Clarence NJ. Mer-
lam of Kansas, who committed sui
eide, being named in connection with
large out standing notes
Fred Hand of Peoria. H. son OF
Judge Hand Of the supreme court. ami
one Of the Illinois commissioners to
the Lewis and Clarke exposition said
the commission was considering the
reproduction Of the nome Of Abraham
Lincoln as the Illinois building
Word has been received that George
and Edward Vernon Gates OF Alameda
Cal, wanted for the murder ct Tx
press Messenger O'Neu in the hoid.up
OF tie Oregon Express a year ago
were recently killed in a fight with a
sheriff > posse near Separ. n NJ.
Mrs. Cassie l. Chadwick pleaded
not guilty to the new Indictment re
Gently returned charging her with ald.
ing and abettjng Cashier A. q Spear
of the Oherlin bank in making false
entries in the banks books and untrue
statements TO the comptroller of tGt,
currency.
The legislative committee which is