Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-09-05

Nineteen cars OF freight Train Oh
the Milwaukee road were ditched and
smashed 1T Porters station, near Be-
lott. The accident was due TO the
spreading OF rails.
TheIgunboat Princeton arrived at
| Seattle from Victoria, bringing the
body of Rear Admiral Charles ]. Train,
late of the Asiatic squadron. who
died recently at Chifu.
Annie Dressback, aged 16, shot
Newt Muliken at Onadarko, Ok, By
accidentally discharging a revolver
and then. believing she had killed him.
shot herself Both will die.
The navy department has been H.
formed by cable that the floating drJ
dock Dewey was utilized at Olongapo.
Manila bay, for the first time when the
army transport Meade was locked
Two troops o. cavalry. under colt
mand of Major George Morgan, order
ed to take part in the celebration Of
the fiftieth anniversary of the battle
Of Osawatomie, Kan. arrived there.
A large number of Hindoos have
come into Vancouver B. c.. and Will
work as laborers in mills aud mines
Senator Macpherson, NJ. p, amour
ced that this immigration will not be
checked.
A call for the ninth annual session
of the American mining congress, to
be held in Denver, Oct. 16 to 10. was
issued today by J. Fl Richards. presi-
dent, and James F. Gallbreath, Jr.,
| secretary.
A twenty pound muskellonge, the
| first to be caught in the lake of Man
itowoc. and so far as known at any
other point on Lake Michigan, was
taken from the nets of Edward Groll.
a Manltowoc fisherman.
George Melich and Nellie Yukaman-
ovich, Montenegran miners, quarreled
in Phoenix, Ar. Melich shot five
| times without effect VukamanOvich
fired once, mortally wounding his Id
versary are is now in hiding.
John Finn was killed and Tour
wormen were seriously injured willie
engaged on the Wabash railway at
Brewster. fourteen miles southwest Of
Canton. o. A charge of dynamite
failed to go off as expected.
Or. NJ. c. BigelOw of Evanston and
G. E. Lawrence of Chicago who at.
| tempted to make a trip from Sauga.
tuck, Mich, to Chicago in a launch,
and were supposed to have been lost
in a storm are safe in Michigan City,
/ Ind.
Julius Streck was killed at Wausau
when catching a ride on a road roller.
In some manner the engineer lost con
/ troll of the machinery and the roller
backed into a telegraph pole. Mr..
Streck was caught between the roller
and the pole
The county commissioners of
/ Walaerth county. South Dakota, have
instructed States Attorney Carl +.
Clelant to bring suit against fifty citi.
zens Of Selby for $4,000 damages
for the destruction of the courthouse
at Bangor in 1904.
| Representative of the Oil Cifv
Boiler works, whose bid for furnishing
boilers for the New York and Massa.
shusetts was rejected, have made an.
other protest to Acting Secretary
Newberry concerning the award. Sec
rotary Newberry has granted the pro
testing company a hearing.
The Stoekbridge Indians were paid
the second payment at Keshena. Those
who were not paid at the first nav
ment received s179.33 and he others
800 less About $4,000 was paid
out on Monday and Tuesday. The
greater share of this amount win be
spent with the merchants of shawa.
no.
The engagement Is announced of
Miss Florence J. Van Eta and Charles
Prendergast, both well known Young
people of Madison. Miss Van Eta
is the daughter of the late Jacob Van
Eta, a widely known hotel proprietor
OF Madison, and Mr. Prendergast is
an officer OF the Madison Candy com
pany
Carp fishing at Lake Koshkonong
has been stopped for the present ow.
ing to the fact that the fishermen were
offered large inducements to go to
Oconomowoc lakes and rid them of
the pest. It is estimated that fully
100000 pounds Of carp have been taken
from the lake during the last nine
months.
A non-union moulder was nearly
pounded TO death In a Milwaukee sa-
loon by union sluggers The incident
is of no oecial Significance except as
indicati that the victim. however
murder 's his assaliants, recklessl :
put himself in the way Of trouble.
The consumption Of whisky at strike
is safe one for the Independents
workman tn avoid.
NJ. F.. Elliott, general counsel for
the Standard Oil company, who was
shown a telegram from Peoria. III.
to the effect that the Standard OIL
company has taken steps to acquire
all of the principal distillerles in the
United States as result of the pas.
sage of the denatured alcohol law bv
congress, said the Standard had taken
h}o steps in his direction and would
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