Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-09-23
DOMESTIC.


Of the engine was badly damaged.
DOMESTIC.
Eleven negroes arrested at Ninety
Six, S. C.. are in jail on the charge
Of insurrection growing out Of race
friction.
Joe Wright and George CIegg who
were serving life sentences in the
penitentiary at Chester, ILL.,. for muir
der escaped.
The business section of Keosauoua.
Ia, vas partly destroyed by fire. The
Manning bank and the Strickland and
Davidson buildings burned. Loss,
$4,000.
WI Tung Fang, the Chinese minis
ter, has received authority from his
government TO sign the proposed ar
bitration treaty With the United
States government.
New York detectives arrested Pas
quale Caponiari. an italian banker.
who is alleged TO have absconGed a
year and half ago with about $780,
900 belonging to depositors.
Captain Seth Bullock left Dead.
wood for Huron, s. D., to meet Ker
NIT Roosevelt and go for a three
weeks hunt in the Standing Rock and
Cheyenne river Indian reservations.
The balloon, Sky Pilot, with J. H.
Wade, Jr., and T. Fl Morgan of Cleve-
land aboard. landed at Lewis, o., ar
, ter travelling about 100 miles and re-
naming in the air over twelve hours.
On the last day for filing claims
against the city of Springfield, Ill.
for riot damages the total claims
reached $121,s56 The grand total
bin Of expense for the riots may run
up to s264,965.
With seventy-five first class passen-
gers, 200 enlisted men and large
cargo of naval supplies and stores
Tor the Philippines, the United States
army transport Crook sailed from San
Francisco.
lrishmen of New York united in
giving a warm welcome to John +.
Redmond and Joseph f. Devlin, Irish
members of parliament, and John
Fitzgibbon, an Irish leader, who ar
rived from Queenstown.
While attempting TO close his OF T,
flee window on the eighth floor of the |
Publication building, Herman A.
Schultze. Of Pittsburg. Pa, 50 years
years old, oyerbalanced himself and
fell to the ground He was instantly |
killed.
Four conyicts escaped from the ,
state prison at lohia Mich, by reach !
ing the basement with a false key
while the prisoners were being
given liberty in the corridors and
and then breaking their way through |
the basement walls.
State Heahh Omcer Blumby of
Austin, Texas, received a telegram
from Acting Surgeon General Glenn
advising him Of the appearance of an
other case Of yellow fever at Hava-
ma, Cuba, this being the second to oc-
cur within a short time.
About 100 veterinarians from all
parts of the country attended the
twelfth annual meeting of the Inter
state association of live stock sani-
tary boards at Washington. d. c, The
theme Of discussion was tuberculosis
In cattle and its eradication
Lieutenant Frank Rorschach, u. s.
A., offered reward Of $1,000 for in
formation leading to The capture and
conviction of the murdered or murder
ers Of his wife, Mrs, Mary Lawless
Rorschach, who was shot and Killed
in her Portsmouth home one year ago
William T.. MeNemar. ciyil war
veteran of Weston, w. Va, aged Go
years. shortly after receiving IA zen
sion check yrs found dead. The body
bore wounds supposed to have been
inflicted with club found near by.
Jacob pennegar is held in custody
awaiting the corouer's verdict.
Mrs Matt Berna of Elgin, H. who
administered poison to three Of her
, children, two OF whom died, and took
nearly fatal dose herself two weeks
ago, was adiudged insane by Judge
Claim of the circuit court and win be
taken to the northern hospital for the
insane at Elgin.
The grand jury at Ebensburg, Pa,
! has returned twenty.one true bills.
charging embezzlement against Bozo
| Goisoyic, foreign banker of that
! city who until recently was consid-
cred wealthy. Depositors in Boisovic's
bank. recently closed, and men who
gave him money to be forwarded to
old world countries are the prosecut-
/ ors.
| TRAGEDIES.