Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-08-15

| S33 .0I0 fee, Yalulng his service at
$500 a day.
Deep water from lakes 10 gulf will
| be discussed by J:ans-M Mississippi
commercial congress in Kansas City
Nov. 2O-23
Three train men were killed in a
freight wreck on the Buffalo ROch-
ester and Pittsburg railroad near
Harmony, Pa.
The sleam,. Puritan. with 500 peO-
pie aboard was disabled off New Lon
don. Conn, and passengers were taken
to shore in tugs.
a death from yellow fever nea"
Havana has been reported to the
Louisiana board of health by its in
| spectors in Cuba.
DR.. Thomas and Roy Knabenshue,
New York aeronauts, made balloon
trip from New York to Brant Rock,
225 miles, without mishap.
a Milwaukee physician contends
that smallpox. yellow fever and other
pests are not contagious and got
mad because ne is ignored.
The Milwaukee Avenue State bank
of Chicago was closed by Bank Elk
aminer Jones and Cashier Herring
and President Stensland of the insu-
tuition can not be found.
William Weber, a prominent gov
eminent contractor, killed himself at
Huntington W. Va, by taking poison.
Weber's wife committed suicide by
drowning two months ago.
w. J. Cooke is dead in Memphis.
Tenn. as a result of fight at a
polling booth w. G. Wellington. a
former Chicago man, was killed out
right when The trouble started.
Or. Dudley A Sargent, director Of
tho Hemenway gymnasium at Harv-
ard has received a commission from
the Greek government to furnish in
foratiou regarding american gym
nasiums.
All the cargo on the United States
collier Nero. stranded near Block Is
land. r. l., must be thrown overheard
iu order TO float the craft Admiral
Evans says there is a chance to save
the Nero.
AS a result of the demands made by
San Francisco union bakers for an
increase of SO a week in their
wages, which has been granted bJ
the master bakers, the latter will
raise the price of bread.
Former County Auditor John W
Neff of Warsaw. n. Y, convicted of
grand larceny in connection with the
alleged graveyard scandal at Buff
falo, has been sentenced today to
seven years in Auburn prison.
Louis Holbert, who was arrested
in Chicago charged with the rob-
berry OF iewelry valued al $4,000
from the residence of Edward L,
Welsh at Chestnut Hill suburb oI
Philadelphia, has been held in $40,
900 bail for trial
NJ. Schneider an electrician of the
third class attached &c the converted
| yacht Wasp. has equipped that ship
with a wireless telegraph outfit at his
| own expense, which sends messages
thirty-five miles and has received
messages over a distance of thirty
miles
A leave of absence for the succeed
ing ten days has been granted 10 post
masters Of second and third class Of
/ fees by Acting Postmaster General
! Hitchcock to enable them TO attend
The conventions of the National As.
sociation Of POstmasters in Detroit
on Aug %, % and "a
A new industry is being developed
/ along the Fox river in the western
part of kenosha county in the way
I Of pearl fisheries, and tue few people
! now engaged in business are said to
I make it. pay Many valuable pearls
have been taken from clans raked
I from the river. One old man, who
established the business some time
ago. has on exhibition at Wilmot a
handful of pearls several Of which
are as large as a bean,
The manitowoc common council has
again refused to confirm the appoint
mer ~ Rev. Kruszynsh as a library
appointee, vice Mrs. J. s. Anderson.
! whose term has expired and no is
now holding over pending the con
frmarioG By the vote the woman,
who alleged by Mayor Stoize to
have made the city begger because OF
her successful efforts to secure a
public library appropriation from
Andrew Carnegie, will remain mem
Der of the comissiOn
Miss Ruth MacumDer. a highly ed
uca ed Young woman 25 years Of
age, daughter of c. Fl. Macumber Of
Beloit, assistant state secretary Of the
Home Missionary society of the Con
gregaional church, was drowned
near Camp Collie in Lake Geneva
and in his efforts TO save her. Henry
d. Smith, general secretary of Pc.
lott college, nearly lost his life and
even now he may not survive Miss
Macumber with a company Of Beloit
Young ladies' went to Lake Geneva
to visit Acting President George L..
| Collie and wife for a short time, and
Mr. Smith was also stopping at the
/ lake
OBITUARY.
! 0 Hough. aged 81. died al
MOWeaqua ILL., Of heart failure. He