Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-10-16

| A Norwegian steamer, bound from
Windsor, N. s., for New York, witt
plaster, went ashore at Cape Blomi
dou during a storm. The steamer lies
on the beach in a dangerous position
and its bottom is badly damaged. Il
is feared it will be a total loss.
clearinghouse mistresses OF West
| Springfield, Mass, have formed q
union to keep up the price OF board
and rooms, the occasion being the in.
creased price OF foodstuffs and the
higher rentals.
The New York Equal Suffrage
| league has Endorsed the suit of Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Batch against the
Hoffman house because she was
| denied admission to the restaurant
without an escort.
Mrs. Marguerite Pasquam, an Ital-
ian woman, applied to Bellevue hos
pital liz New York and offered 10 sell
thirty inches of her skin tor $50 in
order to get money to buy food for
her starving baby. Size then tried to
sell her hair but was unsuccessful.
Capt. August Richter mas resigned
his command of the North German
Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm as
the result of a supernatural warning
to quit the sea early in the summer
when the great ship struck an ice
berg OFF the grand banks.
At Fort Worth the National Asso
citation of Railway Clerks elected
| these officers: d. E. Barnes, Wichita,
Kan, president; James Garfield,
Syracuse, N. Y, vice president, and
George A. Wood, Portsmouth, n, H.
treasurer.
Stanley Gerrity and j. F. Fortney,
employees OF a construction company
at Gary, Ind, were killed, and three
workmen injured when a through
eastbound Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern passenger train ran into a
group of men who were about to
board a train at Gary.
Following Justice Jeffries' inyestl-
CATION. at Beloit, into the death of
Miss Edith Presley, proofreader in
the legislative printing office, Repre-
| sentative Charles T. Ward was held
for trial, charged with being a party
| to the girls death in a maternity hos
pital.
At Traverse. City. Mich, William
Egler, %, drowned in Lake Michigan
after his younger brother Harry had
swan a mile with him through the
| icy water and had reached shore.
The lads strength failed and the old
er boy died before aid could be sum
moned.
States Attorney Healey's gambling
| investigation, which vas expected to
result in wholesale indictments tend
ing to shake official Chicago to its
foundations, collapsed when the
grand jury reported that there had
Mt been submitted sufficient evidence
on which to base a single indictment
Stuyvesant Fish, ex-president OF
the Illinois Central railroad, in a sen
sational statement accuses E. II.
Hartman the present head of the
system, of making Illinois Central
employees solicit proxies for the
coming meeting In Chicago and OF
juggling the stock books OF the cont
pany so as to qualify certain men to
attend the meeting in mis- interest.
Judge Sewell has decided that
Eymoto, the Japanese restauraEt
! keeper whose place in San Francisco
was damaged by mob some months
ago, cannot recover from the city
and county of San Francisco damages
for anything but the actual loss in.
Cured. The complainant sued for
! $4,000 damages for loss of good will
and profits.
A fund of several thousand dollars
has been raised for Bertha CLAICHE
who is serving a two-year term in
the Bedford reformatory for killing
Emil Gordon, her former sweet
heart who, she declared, had en-.
shaved her in New York The money
will be used in fixing up a little
dressmaking establishment for the
young woman, who will be free in a
few weeks.
With reference to the published
report that Booker T. Washington
Jr, son OF the colored educator, and
! J. E. Gomez, son of the Cuban gen
eral had been forced to leave Philip
Exeter academy on account of race
prejudice Principal Amen denies the
story, He says that Washington vol
unfairly left school rather than SUB
nit to discipline Gomez, Washing
toms roommate, also left voluntarily,
it is believed, because he took ofTense
at rebuke from one oil the teachers.
Mayor Bennett OF Fort Dodge, who
gained fame by issuing a ukase that
all bachelors must wed within a year
or pay a fine, was taken at his word
by Nolan Snow, a chauffeur, who
eloped with the mayors daughter
Mabel
WISCONSIN.
The body OF an unidentified man
was found in Lake Butte des Morris.
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