Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-07-31
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
DOMESTIC.


The earl of Euston, an officer in the
British army says abolish uniforms
and war viii soon be a thing of the
past.
Mrs. Minna Field Gibson of Chicago
was granted a divorce from Preston
Gibson upon convincing the court OF
brutality.
Despite the expose made by the in
terstate commerce commission, 1t is
doubted that E. H. Hartman will be
prosecuted.
Engineers of America and Europe
were amazed by the performances of
Inventor Hewitt's mile-a-minute boat
at New York
Rev William A. Sunday, the evan
gelist, closed a three weeks revival
at Gibson City, Ill. He made LOCO
new converts.
Clinton, H., officials started for San
Diego TO bring back F. H. Magill and
his bride, who had held on the charge
of poisoning Magills first wife
At Dalehart, Tex, eight convicts
sawed through the Jail ceiling and
escaped, making ropes of their
blankets. They are still at large.
Florence Wood, arrested in Chicago
in connection with the embezzlement
of s96, 900 from a New York bank,
was sent to Bellevue prison.
Places of business conducted by
Greeks in Roanoke, Va, were wrecked
n race riot which bids fair to bring
on International complications.
An epidemic of bank thefts in New
York caused great alarm in financial
institutions, all clerks are put under
bond and employees arr spied on.
A son of Datto Ali, a Moro chief
killed by United States troops, will
ask President Roosevelt to erect a
monument in honor of his father.
The arrest of several witnesses for
the defense in the Haywood trial at
Boise on perjury charges is a part oil
a new attack on the miners leader.
There were 1000 delegates at
Springfield, Mass, for the third ma.
tional triennial convention OF the
Ladies Catholic Benevolent associa
ton.
The need of the twentieth century
is Christ, asserted Right Rev. Mgr
Schrembs of Grand Rapids at Ameri
can Federation of Catholic Societies
convention at Indianapolis.
The form of organization and
statutes for the Sisterhood fo,
Negroes and Indians, organized By
Miss Catherine Drexel of Philadel
phia, have been approved and author
lied by the pope.
Friends OF Paul o. Stensland. for
mer head of the Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank, Milwaukee, circulate {
petition among the depositors in ar
effort to have the prisoner parole(
from Joliet.
Four experts reported to the Ma
tional Civic Federation on the re
suits OF municipal operation of light
ing and water plants in American
cities. Two fine municipal owner
ship bad, while two find it good.
Rabbi David Philipson of Cincin
natl, the newly elected president Of
the central conference of America
rabbis, said that the report that the
conference at it's recent meeting in
Frankfort, Mich, Endorsed Zionism is
without foundation.
E. H. Hartman and the Union
Pacific We're arraigned by the inter
state commerce commission for the
acquisition of the Southern Pacif,
and San Pedro lines and for BUYING
stock in other systems and the Rocl
Island was denounced for the Alton
deal
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker had {
narrow escape from death while rid
ing on train between Norfolk ant
Richmond, Va. A bullet fired through
the window imbedded itself in tn,
woodwork of the car opposite wher,
he was sitting. Who fired the shot i,
not known.
Warning against reduction of rail
road rates by legislatures in respons,
to popular demand, without careful
study of the issues involved as
basis for intelligent action, was givel
by Logan &. Mcpherson, lecturer OF
transportation at Johns Hopkins uni
versity.
At Chippewa Falls, Peter Burk hi
son Ed, and daughter Lena, IL year
old, were arrested for alleged illega
fish shipments. The father is sal
to have shipped quantities of FISH t
Chicago and tried to evade the law b
using the names of his children. Lat,
ly fish had been sent In the name G
Burk, and an investigation bega
showed that the name belonged I
Burkes Is months old infant.
Police have been unable to solve tn
mystery surrounding the finding of tn
body Of an unidentified man on tn
river bank Sunday, An inquest ha
been held and the body viewed b
hundreds OF people. George Ward
street car conductor. identified tn
body as that of man who boarde
his car GA the south side and rode (
the west side, leaving the car With
two blocks of where the body wa