Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-10-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

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q fall at the NATION, ILL.,, festival.
-Four we're killed, one fatally in
iured when a train struck their auto at
PottstoWn, Pa.
Newport is stirred by the rumor
that Gladys Vanderbilt's engagement
to count is broken.
John D. Rockefeller gave 100000 to
the Harper memorial library fund OF
the University of Chicago.
The president of the society for the
Prevention of Noises said the din of
New York did not compare to that OF
Paris.
Fear of aeronauts in the st. Louis
race that they may be drowned in the
great lakes led the Aero club to ask
marines to be on the lookout.
The Maloney family of New York
fears that Helen, who eloped to Lon
don with Samuel Clarkson, is vic
tim of a plot to secure money.
Robert Mather, president of the
Rock Island railroad, at banquet OF
the Chicago Association of Commerce,
declared for federal regulation OF rail-
ways.
The books of New York traction
companies show that men high in
their management have been in the
habit of charging club dues to the
treasures.
Ocean steamship lines are said to be
apprehengive of a government inquiry
into alleged rate discrimination, grow
ing out of revelations made in the New
York oil hearing.
Provisions of Nelson Morris will
were altered by agreement so as to
permit immediate distribution of $780,
100000 in equal shares to the widow
and Eve children.
Frank Hedley, general manager of
the PETERBOROUGH company of New
York anu formerly Chicagoan, has in
vented device to keep cars from
telescoping in collisions.
Miss Clara c. Leach, wealthy
woman of Worcester, Mass, has been
welded to John w. Maher, after wait
ing four years, while he served term
in the peuitentiary fer larceny and
forgery.
Announcement is made in New York
that cents per quart is to be added
to the price of icecream by the largest
manufacturers. Increased cost of milk
and rigid requirements under the pure.
food laws are responsible for the rise
In prices.
George Melville Boynton announces
In New York that with party OF
students and scientists he will pene.
trate the center Of South America and
explore country never seen by white
men. 1t is planned to leave next Jan
uary and be gone FIVE years.
Mrs. Anna Davies, 20 years old
daughter of Thomas Ford, one of the
early illinois governors, is reported re
duced to the point of restitution al
Middleton, ILL.,, and arrangements have
been made to care for her at the Sol
Robert Bacon, assistant secretary OF
state, played the role of life saver in
Boston harbor. He jumped overheard
from the Harvard launch Veritas and
rescued one of the two boys spilled out
of canoe. capsized by the wash of a
passing steamer.
One man was killed and eight in
jured at Pratt City, Ala, today, when g
Frisco and Louisville & Nashville
train collided. Pullman Conductor
J. C. Smith is dead, and among the in
jured is E. T. Wilcox, assistant genera
freight agent of the Frisco at Mem
phis.
Two new directors have been elected
by The Remington Typewriter com
pany. One of them, Miss Mary E
Orr, entered the employ of the com
pany 10 years ago as stenographer
This is said to be the first instance IL
which corporation has elected /;
woman to so high a place.
DR.. Frank Billings of Chicago WHIT
arrived at Butte, Mont, to consul
with local physicians regarding th'
illness of John D. Ryan, managing di
rector of Amalgamated Copper, an
nounced that the patients condition
was not such as to cause alarm. Mr.
Ryan is improving slowly.
Baron S. Mitsui, reputed to be tn,
richest man in Japan and ex-officio ad
wiser of the Japanese cabinet was thu
guest at luncheon in New York 0
e. H. Gary, chairman of the Unitet
States Steel corporation. Peace ant
trade were the principal subject
under discussion. The baron is sait
to have declared that all talk of wa
between the United States and Japal
is foolishness.
CRIME.