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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

commission will not hand down a de-
cision in the 2-cent fare case this
year and probably not until the leg
islature is in session next January,
and it is argued that the laT pro-
posed by Mr. Thomas would kill the
objection to a uniform 2cent fare
that it would discriminate against
the smaller railroads of the state
which cannot afford to do business
on 2-cent basis.
Mr.. Thomas will also recommend a
law prohibiting officers or stock
holders of railroads from engaging
in other business which use the
same railroads extensively for the
transportation of freight.
Docket of Rate Cases.
The railway commission has issued
a calendar for the December term,
beginning Dec. IL.
No. 1, W. H Andrea versus the
Milwaukee railway, is in relation to
better train accommodations between
Milwaukee and Corliss
No. ?. H. P. Bradley versus the
Milwaukee railway, is in relation to
better switching facilities between
Wauwatosa and Milwaukee on the
same basis as between South Mil
waukee and Milwaukee.
No. 3, Harvey Clark versus the Mil
waukee railway, is an attempt to
compel the company to switch cars
coming into Evansville on the North
western railway to the State Home
fof the Blind.
No. 4, the village board OF the Ill
lage of Fall Creek versus the Mime
apois and O. oha railway, is in rela-
ton to crossing protection at Fall
Greek.
No 5, Vaughn Manufacturing Co.
versus the Northwestern railway, is
an attempt to compel railroad COLI
panies to transfer freight at Water
town Junction from the st. Paul to
the Northwestern and vice versa.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
FOREIGN,

The volcano Kilauea, in Hawaii,
is again active.
The house of lords passed the sec
ond reading of the trades dispute
bill.
London papers praise President
Roosevelt'se stand on the Japanes
question.
The Yokohama town hall in this
city. a memorial of Gen Grants visit
was destroyed by fire.
Cuba is satisfied with President
Roosevelts message and regards it
as a reiteration of old promises.
The Duchess of Marlborough gives
up all the family heirlooms to her
husband and prepares to leave Eng
land.
Government departments and com
merCial bodies of Hawaii have or
ganized to secure a pan-Pacifc con
gress
Chancellor Won Bulow in a speech
IN reichstag defies the clerical party
and assumes a more independent at
titude.
The British house OF lords has
disagreed on the education bill and
the government may withdraw the
measure
Fire in the business district OF
Montreal caused a loss Of $3.50, zoe.
Zero weather handicapped the work
Of the firenlen.
Hope of a compromise in the fight
in England on the house OF lords is
ended by the prime ministAr who de
clares war to the knife in upper
chamber.
Count Boni de Castellane, it is
said, will marry Nine. Menier the d.
eorced wife of the Paris chocolate
manufacturer, who has millions in
her own right.
At Paris four international crooks
were arrested One of them is an
American, Alexander Hess Of San
Francisco. who formerly was con
yicted as Philip Monroe
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
DOM

Six men died in a fire in the Saliva
ton Army hotel in ST. Louis.
j. G Rawlings and Aft Moore were
hanged for numbering the Carter chill
dren at Valdosta, Ga.
Myron Clark, charged with the
murder of his wife, entered a plea
Of guilty at Sioux City, Iowa.
A woman was arrested in New
York for threatening to kill John D
Rockefeller unless given $1,000 900.
The amount alleged to be due I'LL
nois from the Illinois Central railroad
in back taxes is said to be s., OOO, 900.
Abe Ruef and Chief of Police
Oman were indicted for extortion and
perjury in the Frisco graft investiga-
ton.
B. F. Weber, a former brilliant
judge of Minnesota. committed sui
eide in fear of going to the poor
house.
Three banks in McDonough coun-
ty-, owned by Z. v. Chandler of Ma
comb, H., were forced to close their
doors.
New York court ordered George ].
Gould to pay salts sheriffs fees in
connection with a suit growing out OF
a mining suit.
General Nettleson of Chicago in.
vestigated discharge of negro soldiers
and declared that President Roose-
Welt was justified.
A jury found Chester E. Gillette
guilty Of the murder OF Grace Brown
in New York. verdict means death in
the electric chair.
The Waters-P Pierce Oil Company. a
Standard subsidiary, was twice in
dicted at St Louis and faces fines
aggregadng s1,520,0OO.
Sylvester Bautsch, the 12-year-old
son of A. J Bautsch of independence
Wis, was drowned while playih. on
the ice on the mill pond.
Lewis Emery, Jr,, the unsuccess-
ful democratic Lincoln candidate for
governor of Pennsylvania, spen;
S25.561 in his campaign.
The federal court of appeals in
Ohio declares the Continental Wa!
Paper Company to be the most com
complete and ingenious trust
Billy Sunday. the Chicago evan
gelist, received $500 from the PEG
pie of Kewanee, ILL.,, as a freewiu of
fering following revival services.
Portland (MeJ democrats gained
control Of the entire city government
for the first time in fourteen years
he Tmayor and council are demo
cratic
Julian Salvatore, rs years old, a
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WASHINGTON.

Salaries of all members of con-
gress may be increased to $500 a
year. The speaker may get $4,000.
Secretary Root urges the house
comittee to make liberal appropria-
tons for the employment of tariff ex-
perts.
Passage of the appropriation bills
and as little legislation as possible is
given as the forecast for the short
session of the fifty-ninth congress.
The minority in congress will de-
vote itself to forcing the tariff issue
to the front to make campaign ma
terial for the elections two years
hence.
Presidents attitude on Japanese
question in California startled and
shocked congressman of every party
Hint at armed interference Mortified
the California delegation.
Marcus Daily estate offers to set
tie the famous suit of the government
for Illegal devastation of forests in
Montana by paying $4,000. Victory
Of the government opens the way
for obtaining recompense for vast
frauds perpetrated in the west.
Former United States Senator
Cockrell of Missouri is desperately
Ill at his home in Washington and
has had to give up work on the in
terstate commerce commission, of
which he is a member, and take to
his bed owing to a final breaking up
of his vital forces.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

ant of the ill-treatment of C. K. G..
Billings mare, Which resulted in the
latter's utter failure to show form in
the race and the winning of the ST.
600 gold cup by Major Delmar. When
the charges were made suit was
brought by the Memphis association,
but was stopped by an injunction. The
hearing was for the purpose of deter
mining the facts. The case occupied
a whole day but was soon decided aft
er the board retired for elaboration
last night.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
FALL TO DEATH
WITH ELEVATOR

Waynesboro. Pa. Dec. 6.-Three
men were killed, one fatally injured,
and five others severely hurt yester-
day by the fall of an elevator in the
Geiser Manufacturing eompany's
shops. Eleven men were on the lift,
together with a five-ton milling ma
chine and heavy truck, when the
cable parted. The men were dropped
pit, and George Fireman, John Tor
son and Larar. pipeman, were
crushed to death. Nicholas Bunson
was fatally injured.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
FEDERAL LAW MAKERS.

Washington, d. c.. Dec. 4.--The
Japanese question, which has given
every indication of being an acute
one, famed forth in congress today.
While the members of the California
delegation in the house were up in
arms over the manner in which the
president treated of the subject in
his message Senator Rayner of Mary
land, who last sess' n attacked the
administration upon it's Santo Do
mingo policy, introduced resolution
directing the president to notify all
the world, Japan included, that the
states have exclusive rights over
their own schools. No action was
taken on it. Upon request of Mr..
Foraker, two resolutions calling for
information relative to the dismissal
from the army of three companies of
negro soldiers, went over without
prejudice.
Representative Slayden of Texas
introduced bill which provides
that: ON or before June 10, 1907.
all enlisted men of the army who are
negroes or OF negro descent, shall
be discharged from the service of
the United States and thereafter no
negro or person or negro descent
shall be enlisted or appointed in the
army Of the United States.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
FOUR CHILDREN
BURN TO DEATH

Westfield, N. j.. Dec. 5.-Four chill.
dren, two boys and two girls. ranging
from two months to FIVE years,
burned to death at their home near
here last night. Mr.. W. F. Wezel and
Mrs. Oscar Felter, who lived together
with their two children each, went
out to work, leaving their little ones
at home alone. During their absence
the house caught fire. Firemen ex-
tinguished the flames and found the
odies of the children burned beyond
recognition.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
EIGHTEEN KNOWN DEAD.
Some Details 'yed of TIE Ari-

Some Details yed of she Ari-
zr.a Flood.
Solomonville, Ariz., Dec. 6.-As the
result of a 34-hour steady rain over
southern Arizona, the town of Clifton,
5000 population, was swept by ter
rife food and hundreds of peopl3
have fed to the mountains for safe
ty. Owing to the disabled wires, de-
tails are difficult to obtain, but the
known dead reaches IS and will doubt
less he much larger. A large major
ity of the population are Mexicans
and Italians, who live in squalid huts
now inundated. The town is built in
three sections-Chase creek, north
and south Clifton. The catastrophe
commenced with the breaking of u
big reservoir in the mountains above,
precipitating food Upon the Chase
creek section of the town. The prin-
cipal street was Completely destroyed.
1t was there that the fatalities &C
CURED, as the flood came in ahead
and engulfed the people without warn
ing. North and south Clifton were
swept by the current of the San Fran
cisco river. The new school bull l.
ing and a score Of houses were washed
away. The great smelling works Of
the Arizona Copper company are To-
Gated at Clifton and the compaoy's
loss viii be heavy. The Arizona &
New Mexico ilway also will be 4
heavy loser as its yards and shops are
inundated
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

stth ItH.tL APPLtGk EGp ~. ~ they cannot
-,arh tire scat OF the disease CatarTh Is blood
lr constitutional disease, and in order to cure it
you must take internal remedies. Halls CataFrh
Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure
IS not q quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by
Que of the best physicians In this coantry for
years. and is a regular prescription. 10 is com
posed OF the best t0nics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. This perfect combination Of
the two ingredients Is what produces such Won
derfui results In curing CataTrh. Send for teS-
umonlals free.
+. J. CHENEY & Co. Props, Toledo, O..
sold by Druggists price 75c.
Hairs Family Pi Is are the best.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
BIG SLAUGHTER OF DEER.
Season in Michigan Brought Down
5000 Animals.

Marquette, Mich, Dec. 6.-Statistics
compiled here show that during the
hunting season just closed $500 car
cases Of deer We're shipped to lower
Michigan via the straights OF Maclli-
nae Ia addition $500 were trans
ported by express to upper peninsula
points, and hundreds of others shipped
out of the district via Chicago lines.
This does not sum up the full
slaughter. Several thousand car
cases were b,cught into northern
Michigan towns by team. The total
killed il the state is probably It un-
der H. 600.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

New York saloonkeeper, was shot
and killed in his home in an east side
tenement early today by an unknown
assassin.
Mayor Schmitz' brother in Frisco
drew nearly $1,000 week from a
municipal brother according to the
confession of the manager to the
grand jury.
The body of a dead man believed to
be James Davenport of Cincinnati
was found in a lumber yard at New
Orleans. Appoplexy appeared to be
the cause of death.
Lezer Winakur of Baltimore, who
was charged with kidnapping Floyd
Bruner, a 12-year-old boy of Grand
Island, Neb., will not be prosecuted
as the boy has been returned.
Delegates of thirty states will meet
at Des Moines to consider the de-
STABILITY of an amendment to the
constitution so as to permit the cleo
ton of senators by direct vote.
Martin w. Littleton, counsel for
w. c. Mann of the Town Topics
Company, New York made applica-
ton for a panel of 200 jurors to hear
the trial of Colonel Mann, Dec. -.
Chairman Shonts Of the canal com
mission says President Roosevelt
took Panama by storm on his recent
trip. and asserts that the work on
the canal is progressing satisfac-
torily.
C. E. Adams, agent at Kayford, w.
Va, has been arrested, cha; gtd with
the $4,000 robbery of the express on
fee. Seven hundred dollars sup
posed to be part of the loot was
found in Adams house.
The interstate commerce commits
sion will at once investigate the ex-
euse made by the railroads that there
are hot cars enough to move freight
and also look into exorbitant rates
charged and increased dividends paid.
A mob OF 500 masked men seized
the police station, telephone office
and waterwords at Princeton, KY,
and then burned two large tobacco
factories. Governor Peckham may
order out the militia to protect other
factories.
At the investigation of land frauds
at Salt Lake City it is claimed that
the fuel famine which cripples in
dustries, paralyzes manufacturing,
closes smelters and brings much suf-
fering to many homes is due 10 the
greed of the land grabbers.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany's alleged monopoly on the coal
business in Colorado and other states,
which is believed to have been OBJ
tanned through a combination of
dealers and rebates paid by rail-
roads, will be investigated by the in
terstate commerce commission.
Mayor Of Cimarron, Kan, and res
idents of North Yakima, Wash. made
desperate by the coal famine, con
fiseated coal from trains. The in
terstate commerce commission de-
cided to hasten it's inquiry into the
car shortage, which is held respon-
sibIe, and will begin with an investi-
cation in the northwest.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
FARMER is MURDERED.
Thomas connors Shot by Daniel Nc
Mahon.

Oconomowoc, Wis, Dec. g.
Thomas Connors, farmer in the
town of Mapleton, this county, was
shot and killed yesterday by Daniel
Mcmahon a neighbor The shooting
was the result +. of long standing
quarrel between the two men, and six
months ago Connors was arrested on
a charge of threatening to kill Nc
Mahon. Connors missed one of his
hogs and found it on the farm of Nc
Mahon. They are believed to have
Quarreled. James Mcmahon. a broth
er of Daniel, heard shots fred and
upon reaching the door of his home
saw Connors fall. When he reached
him he was dead Connors leaves a
wife.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
Made MANY Land Applieations.

Omaha, Dec. 6.-At the trial yester-
day of Richards and Comstock and
their employees, charged with various
offenses including conspiracy to de-
fraud the government by means of il
legal land entries, Frank Johnson, a
stenographer, told of working four
days filling out application and entry
blanks for the defendants.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
Message Praised in Japan.

Toxic. Dec. 6.--The clear, firm and
determined attitude of President
Roosevelt in his message in regard TO
Sau Francisco and the anti-Japan
question is warmly praised. 1t is
felt that however much the San Fran
cisco authorities may be affected by
local sentiment. they can only Yield to
II" moral weight the presidents mes.
sage carried
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
TWO-CENT FARE
en- BUSY LINES
PROPOSED BY RAILROAD CON-
MISSIONER THOMAS.
IN HIS FINAL REPORT
Meets Objections Raised by the
Smaller Roads Against Flat Re-
duction-Rate Commission viii
Not Cut Passenger Prices Until
Legislature Comes.

In his last report TO the governor
before the abolition of his office,
Railroad Commissioner Thomas will
the passage by the legis-
lature of law providing for a 2-cent
fare on all divisions OF the large rail-
roads where the business done war
rants a reduction. The railroad rate
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
NEW BATTLESHIP WELL
UP TO REQUIREMENTS

Rockland Me, Dec. 6.-Under rath-
er unfavorable conditions of weather
and sea the first class battleship Yer
mont had her screw Standardization
tests over measured mile OF The
Rockland course yesterday, and came
fully up to expectations. The fastest
speed with tidal corrections was at
the rate of 1852 knots an hour. The
contract requirement is Is knots.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
LONG EARTH MOVEMENT.
Shocks in West Indies Last for 80
Seconds.

Xingstown Island, ST. Vincent, B.
w, l., Tuesday, Dec. A prolonged
earthquake shock was felt here Mon
day night lasting fully so seconds.
People were thrown into a panic No
other shock felt here has ever lasted
so long. The island of Barbados
600 miles east) and the island of
st. Lucia (25 miles northwest) also
felt the shock. 1t was most severe
on st. Lucia. There mas been con-
tinuation of earthquake shocks here
at irregular intervals and of val y'ng
severity since last February.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
SMATHERS ExoNERATED.

Owner of Major Delmar Given Title
to Gold Cup.
New York, Dec. 6.-The Memphis
sold cup dispute was officially ended
last night when the board of review
OF the National Trotting association
decided that the trophy had been won
on merits and dismissed tire charges
against E. E. Smathers. The case
grew out Of the drugging Of Lou Dill
Ion at the Memphis meet, October 10
1904. Smathers, 40 owned Major
Delmar and drove him in the race,
was charged with having been cogniz.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
NEW WIRELESS RECORD.
California and Puget Sound in Com
munication.

San Diego, Cal, Dec. 5.-Messages
were exchanged by the government
wireless station at Point Iona with
the government station at Puget
Sound, 1900 miles away. This is
the longest distance any wireless sta
tion on this coast has ev er been able
to transmit messages.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12

Washington, D. c.. Dec 5.-The
senate passed without discussion a
resolution calling upon the secretary
of commerce and labor for all letters,
kilograms and official reports bear
ing upon the differences with the
Japanese over the school problem in
San Francisco. The house passed a
bill giving the secretary of the navy
discretion in fixing the amount of
certified checks required in contracts
for naval supplies. Representative
Brick of Indiana proposed an amend
ment TO the constitution relating to
marriage and divorce as follows:
The congress shall have power to
establish uniform laws on the subject
of marriage and divorce throughout
the United States and to provide pen
alties for violations thereof" The
bill permitting national banking as
Isociations to make loans on real
estate as security and limiting the
amount of such loans, passed by a
vote Of Ill TO 81.
After debate the senate postponed
the consideration of the resolutions
calling 70. information relative to the
discharge of the negro troops. Sena-
tor Lodge introduced a bill designed
to prevent the employment of child
labor by prohibiting interstate com
merce in any article in the produc.
ton of which a child under IA years
of age has been employed and the
prohibition extends to children under
Is years Of age who cannot read and
write The violation of the law is
made a misdemeanor punishable by
fine Of $500 and Imprisonment for
one year The president today sent
"a special message urging legislation
Civ ng the executive authority upon
his own initiative and responsibility
10 dismiss any officer whom he
thinks unworthy to remain in the
service The Law provides that in
time Of peace no officer shall be
dismissed except N pursuance OF a
.courI-marnal or in mitigation thereof.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-12-12
KOdOl
For Dyspepsia

enables the stomach and digestive organs
TO digest and assimilate all of the whole
some food that may be eaten. 1t nourishes
the body. and rebuilds the weak organs,
restoring health and strength. Kodol
relieves indigestion. constipation. dyspepsia
sour risings. belching, heartburn and all
stomach disorders.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-06-21
Melbourne.

Paper Read Before the ChautauQua Circle.
N N ELBOURNE, the largest city
Mv in Australia, is situated on
~ the north bank of the Yarra-
Yarra River, near the head
of Port Phillip Bay. Founded between
1910 and 1850, it soon rose into impor-
tance, especially after the discovery of
gold at Bendigo and Ballarat. Its
streets and its earlier public buildings
were built by convict labor, some of
whose descendants are today classed
among its wealtniest and most influen-
tial citizens. One of these men, whose
father had been transported for
poaching (killing rabbit on private
property gave the Melbourne Univer-
sity fifty Thousand pounds; and q
number of others have built public
hospitals and shown in many ways
their public-spiritedness and zeal for
the public welfare.
Peter Lalor, an Irishman, driven
from Ireland after the trouble of 1848
was made speaker of the House in
Victoria, and this in spite of the fact
that Australians are intensely loyal tt
the empire: blit they always insist or