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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
FOREIGN.

New Years day in Rome was busy,
the pope had strenuous time in
meeting his church duties.
The trial began at st. Petersburg
of 1863 members of the duma charged
with treason as a result of signing
the Tiborg manifesto.
Willard MeGill. aged 8 years, the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John c. McGill,
we'll known people of Kenosha, was
drowned in Pike river.
BILLY" Cartwright, stocking maker,
was elected mayor of L.oughborough,
In Leicestershire. England.
On the grounds of cruel treatment,
Attorney Willard T. Saucerman of
Monroe has been granted divorce.
AT Marinette, Leo Birman, aged So
years, was smothered to death in a
fire caused by Birman leaving his
lighted pipe on~the washstand.
Gen. Barry held grand review Of
the garrison at Camp Columbia, tr ops
to the number of $500 taking part,
the whole comprising a model minia-
10y 'iNHS PsVtV III CfNiJ ASNht'S
and ready for instant active service.
At Lethbridge Alberta, because
they believed that prominent citi-
zen had been murdered in Chinese
restaurant, 1900 men wrecked the
oriental quarter, Restaurants and
laundries were smashed. and doors,
windows, and entire fronts of build
ings We're reduced to splinters. A
brigade of mounted police had to be
called out to quell the riot
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased
20 ieGrn that there IL at least one dreaded
disease that science has ben able to cure IN
ell Its stages, and that is catarrh. Hairs
Catarrh Cure Ia the only positive cure now
known 20 the medical fraternity. Catarrn
being constitutional disease. requires =
constitutional treatment. Halls Catalrn
Cure L. taken internally, acting directly
spon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
Of the disease. and giving the patient
strength By building up the Institution and
assisting nature in doing It's work. The
proprietorp have 81 much faith in its cura.
i've powers thG. they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that 1t falls to cure
Send for list Of testimonials.
Address r. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08

1897. In 1910 he came vest to Prairie
,iu Chen. He went to st. Paul il
lS47.
President Roosevelt received at the
customary new years reception at
the white house. 5.645 persons taking
him by the hand
Application was made for the APP
pointment of receiver for the Sea
board Air Line, which represents Sc
eurities for S1S,0O0,00O.
Jesse Carnes, a veteran of the
Mexican war and quartermaster gen
eral in the civil war, died Tuesday at
Muncie, Ind, aged 70 years.
Governor Hughes in his annual mes
sage to the New York legislature adj
vocates Imprisonment instead of fine
as punishment for gambling.
1t is definitely decided that Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw viii rel ell her story ~
the second trial of her husband for
the murder Of Stanford White.
Rosamond F. Goodrich, widow of
Albert F. Goodrich, former president
of the Goodrich Transportation com
pany, died in Chicago at the age of a
years.
Mother NJ. Boniface, superior Of
st. Mary's Institute at Quincy, H., for
the past forty-fye years, died. She
was born in Bavaria, Dec. 26, 1886, and
was educated at Milwaukee.
Boardman Carnes. minstrel inter
locutor and assistant business manager
of the AL. G. Fields Ministries, died at
Point Pleasant, w. Va, of pneumonia.
He was "a years old.
Commissioner Smith Of the bureau
Of corporations issued a vigorous
statement in defense of the fine of
SO, 100000 levied by Judge lands on
the Standard Oil company of Indiana
Mrs. Clara Spear Lawrence, wife of
William E. Lawrense,, died in Detroit,
IF pneumonia and complications Her
husband for many years was general
western freight agent of the American
Line
Secretary Taft is the bearer from
the mikado Of Japan to President
of the positive assurance
that the island empire wants peace
and nothing but peace" with the
United States.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08

-cted with Mrs. John Drew fifty years
ago. The Drew family has been on
the stage in America for nearly a cen
fury.
Secretary Root. has bought the old
Root homestead, The Hemloeks, at
Clinton, n Y, from the widow of his
brother, DR., Oren Root The price was
$4,000.
George Harvey, editor of various
publications of the Harpers, has been
appointed to the Bromley lectureship
at Yale for 1905 The lectureship is
on Journalism. literature. or public af-
fairs.
DR.. Coleman Sellers, the famous en-
gineer who was instrumental in the
adoption of the form of equipment
used by power plants at Niagara
falls, is seriously i'll at his home in
Philadelphia
That Floretta Whaley, the girl who
elOped last April with Rev. Jerre
Knode Cooke, then pastor of ST.
Georges Episcopal church of Hemp
stead, may now be in Louisiana is in
dicated in a letter received by Samuel
T, Wright, chief clerk Of the Nassau
county surrogate court. The letter
says a girl who gave the name of
Floretta Whaley was brought to New
Verda, La, last April by a man named
Cooke. The man said the girl was
his stepchild.
At Philadelphia, Martin Maloney,
through a personal Kiend. has issued
a statement saying that Helen Ma
loney. or Mrs. Herbert Osborne, who
caused sensation by clipping with
Samuel Glarkson, a young Englishman,
three months after having married
young Osborne. a Princeton student, is
with him (Maloney) at his residence.
Bey0no saying that the runners about
the precarious condition of his d u'gh-
ter's health are unfounded, Mr.. Ma
loney will say nothing
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08

Prohibition went into effect in
Georeia Jan. (.
Prcgressives In Iowa united on
Csarst for governor. while stardnat-
ters IRE sniff on a number of candi.
dates.
Gov. Hasleir o. ot-Iahopla IS boomed
as the eomire- nrchisition Leader. He
nav he q candidate for president in
1912
The ballotirg for Tinted ctates
senator IN succeed GEORGE paahofv
wetrncre win beein in the Rhode t.
Hand ~ereral aseenhlv on Tan. -. At
81 lost session of the general assem-
NV thern were three candidates, Sena-
TOR wetmora and Samuel p Colt ra-
nrhliean and Gel, Robert #. 7. Good
ard, democrat
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
LATER.

The Wisconsin Ant Saloon league
is preparing to invade Waukesha.
Cecilia LOTUS. the actress, under
went an operation Tor appendicitis.
Breaking through the ice of the
Yahara river. Earl CLARK, y year old,
drowned at Stoughton.
Fierce rioting In Muncie accom-
panied street car strike and scores
of persons were injured.
Liquor men opened a fight on the
prohibition law Of Alabama, claiming
that II is unconstitutional.
Convicted members Of the first
duma voted to appeal to the senate,
the highest tribunal in Russia.
Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills was
taken suddenly III after o prayer
meeting in Plymouth Church, n. Y.
The idle from other parts of the
country flock To New York and find
the city already oyercrowde6 with the
unemployed.
Simeon Pearl Folsom, the first city
engineer of st. Paul. died In that city
at the age of IS. He was graduated
froRi Maine Wesleyan Seminary in
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
NEWS OFiTHE WORLD
WASHINGTON

President Roosevelt granted Gov
Sparks Of Nevada three weeks Of
grace in which TO convene the legis-
lature to act on the Goldfeld situa-
ton
1t is stated officially that negotia-
tons between the French and Ameri-
can governments looking to a reciproc-
tty agreement are progressing en-
couragingly. The hope Is further ex-
pressed that an agreement probably
win BE reached
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08

coppersmith, became blind on the
steamer Lithuania, and is now 4 pris-
oner at Ellis island, New York. await
ing deportation.
Thomas Sachs dropped of his chair
dead after drawing four aces in a
poker game in Cleveland. There was
1915 IL the pot.
While hunting near Aiken, S. c., B.
II. Tyler accidentally shot the top of
his nephew's head off, causing death.
The boy was the II year old son of
C. A. Humphrey of Atlanta. Tyler
afterward tried to kill himself.
Capt. Oliver Kulp of the Iowa ma
tional guard is held to have disobeyed
orders in not. stopping a prize fight.
This verdict is the report of the court
martial at Des Moines to Gov. Cum
Minis. The penalty is 2 reprimand.
]. Frank Zahm, prominent broker
and tobacco manufacturer of Toledo,
committed suicide by shooting. 1t is
believed that melancholy induced by
i'll health caused the deed. A short
time ago Mr.. Zahm's physician In
formed him that he would probably
not live more than three months.
Three were drowAed, and six barely
escaped the same fate because of the
breaking Of thin ice on a skating pond
at Castleton, VT Kate, Mary. and
George Clark, all under 10 years of
age, were skating on the pond and ven
tured on unsafe ice. The ice broke
and they went into the water Six
young people went to their rescue, and
were thrown into the water. Mil
hands heard their cries and succeeded
in saving all but three, the three
Clark children being uneoncious when
pulled out of the water. Those
drowned were Ida Putnam, aged 20
years; George Hunter, and Ada
Franklin, aged 20 years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
CRIME.

In Chicago the trial os John R.
Walsh has been Continued owing to
the Sllnes If Juror.
Joseph Frank, an italian. has been
arrested in susquehanna Pa, charged
with the murder Of John ]. Sullivan.
an Erie switchman. Frank is IN the
county jail at Montrose, Pa
Robbers entered the home or Cam
er6n Cool at West Pittston, Pa. and
after fracturing Cool's skull with a
blunt instrument robbed him Of $500
He viii die. His assailants escaped
On complaint Of the New Jersey
Roller company Of Boonton, n. J.
Samuel Fl. DebrelI was arrested and
placed in the Morristown Jail. charged
with the embezzlement of s35. 900.
De5re1 was employed as bookkeeper.
At Des Moines. J. C. Cain, convicted
murderer of Charles II. Morris,
wealthy mine owner. committed sui
eide In fail. He Struggled a razor into
his cell. and cut his throat Cain was
waiting transportation to state prison
for life Imprisonment.
At Bennington. Vt. jury has been
secured in the trial OF Alfred Mahan,
charged with having caused the death
of year old Ethel Mahan, his niece
The child was murdered on April %.
Mahan confessed that he had taken
liberties with the little girl, and that
ne killed her to prevent her telling her
parents.
Blue prints of the homes Of John
Jacob Astor ana John D. Rockefeller,
New York, were found in the posses
sion of Ernest Archer, who was ar
rested after desperate fight. Archer
had represented that he was an in
spector Raymond Hoagland reported
chat he missed $500 worth of goods
after visit by Archer
). B. Blakely Of the Define farm,
near Westhope. n. D., was the victim
Of murdero'.s assault at the hands
Of an. Italian Vaif whom he had taken
in out of the cola and allowed to sleep
in his parlor Though almost over
come Biakely struggled to his feet and
his assailant fed only 70 be arrested
later.
LHther Wallace. Z3 years old, who
shot and killed Lee E,dridge On
Christmas morning, was captured by
q possee Of citizens. headed by Sher.
if Hortenstile near Abingdon. Va
He is being heavily guarded.
Eldridge was assisting in the arrest Of
Wallace for breaking INTO postoftice
when the latter fred
The Iowa oo9rt martial trying Capt
Kulp q compaa7 Il. Flft5-fomth reg
ment, for alleged failure to stop
prize fight pran the orders Of Adjt
Zen. Thrift ga the night Of Nor. %
las returned q verdict holding thu,
Capt Kulp, while he may not have in
tentionally disobeyed orders, did So
and the court recommends that he be
reprimanded.
The arrest oil Samuel A. Collins in
Detroit will. it is believed, clear up the
mystery of the theft Of $4,000 in cash
and $4,000 worth Of iewelry at the
home of Samuel Plaut in Brooklyn
end at the same time clear Mrs. Ella,.
Neil, a scrubwomaB, who was ar
rested on suspicion, but afterward
freed by the court
DOMESTIC.
Motel Kroun who eft Russia for
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
BANK INCREASES CAPITAL.
Barron County Saving, institution
Doubles Stock.

The Normania Savings Bank of Bar
ron, Barron county, has filed an
amendment to its articles of ineorpor-
alton in the office of Commissioner
of Banking Bergh increasing its cap.
ital stock from $4,000 to $4,000. The
bank has grown and finds its business
will be better handled with doubl@
the previous capital.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
INDUSTRIAL.

Chicago is overrun with a swarm of
idle m7n. conditions os the middle
SOS being repeated.
At New Orleans. on the application
Of William = Luck. who represents
several large manufacturing con-
Germs. Judge St Paul has placed the
Schwartz Foundry company in the
hands Of a receiver.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08

this city for 1907, according TO re
ports compiled yesterday, was 49,.
59S,943 coins, representing a value OF
$50, 1853 ,104.93. For 1906 the output
was 1855, 233 pieces.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
DOMESTIC.

Motel KrOun who eft Russia for
America expecting TO bring his family
"a this country as soon as he had
made enough money az his trade as a
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
Fifty Years Since He said His First
Mass.

Mass.
Rome, Jan. 1.-The popes jubilee
will begin today In December, 1858,
he said his first mass. Yesterday his
holiness remarked that twenty years
had elapsed since the opening Of the
jubilee Of Pope Leo XIII, when
100000 pilgrims gathered here FROM
all corners of the earth to render him
honor. In contrast to this, the jubilee
of Pope Plus will open very quietly
and without the coming together Of
a multitude.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
FIRES.

At Shreveport, La, fire detroyed
the plant Of the Queen City Furniture
Manufacturing company. Loss $780,
600, insurance $780, 600.
Eighty children fed from a fire
which destroyed the Norwegian Luth-
eran children's home, Chicago.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-01-08
hOGOlFor indigestion.
PoPE's JUBILEE QUIET.

INNIISNts 5UUT sLUIldCu,
oalpitation of the heart. Digests whatyou eat.
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
IS HELD FOR COURT
IN PIGS FEET CASE

John Warden. oolored. was held for
the upper court in 500 bail this morning
in City Court by Deputy Judge Joslyn
The charge against him was one of lar
ceny. It being alleged that he store some
pigs feet yesterday from a stand in
King street owned by David II. Megin
Warden spent the night before AZ the
police station as a lodger. He and a
white man left the station yesterday
morning and in going down King street
some nice pigs feet weer spied. The col
ored man told the court that he did not
take the pigs feet but that they were
stolen by the man who was with him.
Joseph Reiner n young white man.
was witness and said that he saw War
den take the pigs feet. Reiner reported
the matter 10 the police and later pointed
out Warden in Front street 10 an officer.
Reiner WAS also lodgcr at the police
station night before list. but this morn
ms after having got his witness fee he
said that he was going to stay in the
city and get Job. He told the police
that he came from Philadelphia.
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
BOLTERS MIGHT
INJURE TRI-STATE
Petition to Draft Territory
Would Prove Dangerous
to League

Tri-State magnates see behind the
requests Of the Eastern League and
American Association play on the part
OF the Eastern League in particular To
secure some territory now held by Tho
Tri-State, namely Trenton where The
Eastern League has been trying to lana
for some time In one Of the sections
Of the demands Of the Glass A boilers
permission is asked TO permit the East
ern League and American Association
to draft territory from other minor
leagues under terms and cond;
tions TO be prescribed This would
allow the Eastern League to take Tren-
ton, Wilkes Barre Wilmington or any
other good city which it wanted to Sc
cuee and would prove most unjust
rule
The petition Of the Glass A leagues
cities that the change which was mace
In the national board Of arbitration Of
their organization by the addition of
two members TO that board. has place0
the management of the two largest
leagues i'm the United states except .ht
major leagues i'm the hands of mon
from leagues which a.c far below The
Glass A leagues in attendance, invest.
ments and importance. To avoid con
ments AMI importance. To avoid con.
stant friction in business relations the
Class a leagues cite that they have
decided 10 withdraw from the National
Association, and in taking that action
ask certain privileges and concessions"
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
BASEBALL NOTES

George Washington Heckert, Of Har
risburg. would like to possess the title to
Joe Ward.
George w. Hcckert is in New York try
ing to make deals for players during tho
week OF meetings
A rule viii be adopted this winter which
will regulate the spikes on ball players
shoes so that accidents" may be fewer
In the future.
Big Frank IIuelsman, the Harrisburg
outfelder will be given thorough tryout
by Connie Mack OF the Philadelphia Ath-
etics next spring on the southern training
trip.
Harry Wolverton has signed with New
ark. and will manage and play third base
for that team next year. This is the most
soevre blow OF all which the Williamsport
club has met Wolverton's ability as a
manager placed him far above any Other
I'm the Tri-State and his work on the dia
mond and with the stick made him mos
valuable Wniamsport will look a Ions
time for a man who can satisfactorily III
his shoes.
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
TRIED TO BRIBE
THE UMPIRES
We're Offered Big Money to
Throw Pennant Game
to New York

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The National
League ended It's annual meeting by
giving 10 the public one Of the most
startling as well as sensational pieces
Of ncws that has been announced I'm a
decade in the baseball world. This an
nouncement by President Pulliam is to
tho effect that an attempt was made
To bribe Umplrcs Klein and Johnstone.
who ofiiciated in the postponed game
between New York and Chicago at the
Polo Grounds on Octobr last While
tho amount Of tho bribe Is not stated.
II IS believed that the two umplres
were offered a sum we'll into the thou
sands II they would give their decis-
ions IN this game. on which hung the
title Of National League champion for
1905 and tho right 10 contest with the
American League chapion for the
worlds championship. so that the New
York team would win from Chicago
without doubt
Mossrs. KLEIN and Johnstone. Mr..
Pulliam says. submitted TO him signed
statements covering the whole affair
in which they made ahidavits OF the
attempt at bribery.
In one OF tho statements the name
OF the person who approached the um
pire Is given. as we'll as the names Of
persons whom he claimed to represent.
Mr.. Pulliam. however. declined to re-
veal tho identity Of these men at the
present time.
In the second statement no names
are mentioned. as the umpire who
made ii declares The man who offered
the hrihe was a stranger to him.
II Is necessary to state at this point
that no person connected i'm any ca
pacity with organized baseball is ac-
cused by the umpires
Mr.. Pulliam said that the names will
be withheld pending a ~egid investiga-
tion. which will be made by the follow
ing committee. headed by John r.
Brush. OF New York Charles II. Eb-
belts. OF Brooklyn; Garry" Hermann,
Of Cincinnati and Harry G. Pulllam.
This committee viii begin its inquiry
at once and report as soon as possible
II the committee Is satisfied that a
crime was attempted the matter viii
be laid before District Attorney Jerome
for criminal procedure.
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
NEWSY DOINGS
OF new CASTLE
United Charities Looking After
the Needy During the
Holiday Period
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.


NEW CASTLE. Dec. 12-The Unlted
Charities is now arranging that the peo
pie who are not working shall have
necessary things for the next few
weeks Some have suggested the idea
of tag day next Saturday, as youns
men and young women would Willingly
give their share TO the tag sellers
whereas the members of the Unitea
Charities 30 not solicit funds from
such people.
In TIE Sunday school Of the Methodist
Church last evening n pleasant entes
tainment was presented.
Robert Newlove has purchased fron.
L. H. Duncan one Of the brick houses
on the west side of North Second
street
The members Of City Council will be
asked to compel a property owner at
Fifth and Delaware streets to put
down a new pavement. The pavement
recently laid in front of the MacMackih
lot has been great Improvement.
The New Castle stores are looklus
seasonable with Christmas goods
The people of New Castle axe deter
mined to have a free wharf.
Tax Collector William A. Leach is
determined that all taxes must be pain
Immediately He has one property cd.
vertised now for sale and VIII sell
others unless the taxes arc paid.
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
new ATHLETIC
CLUBS Meeting
To Have a Basketball Team
as Well as Soccer
Club

The newly formed Wilmington A.h-
ictic club met in tie William Penn
Hotel. Fourth and Orange streets. last
night There was full attendance.
and 20 now members were received.
The organization Of a basketball
team was discussed and il was decided
10 form a team and engage a hall in
which 10 play.
There was an enthusiastic discussion
Of the soccer team. and a practice game
viii be held at RiVervicw this after
noon, when several new players viii be
tried out Nearly all the positions arc
filed. ami after to-day Manager Ken
nerly hopes 10 have a team capable OF
meeting all comcrs.
Games have already been scheduled
with the leading Philadelphia and Ches-
ter teams The schedule will be
published within a few days.
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
TWO MURDERED WOMEN
A NEW YORK MYSTERY

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Dec l2.-The police to-
day are working on two Of the most
banning murders in recent years. Both
victims are young women, unidentified
and good looking. one OF the women
was found with her throat cut from ear
to ear. IN her room on East Eleventh
street The second victim discovered in
horribly mutilated condition on the
tracks Of the Third Avenue surface rail.
way in Harlem.
The police are searching for man
known to have lived in the Eleventh
street house with the girl found mur.
dered there.
The police believe the woman found on
the car tracks was murdered then
brought 10 the car limo to give her death
the appearance OF an accident
Evening journal., 1908-12-12
TRI-STATE MEN AT
BASEBALL MEET

A number of Tri-State mon arc at
tending the meetings Of the National
and American Leagues In New Yom.
and some important deals may be-
made Much interest Is being taken IL
the probable reinstatement Of some of
the blacklisted players of Tri-State war
history. II has been given out on ap
paronily COOL authority that all of
them viii be taken back into the fold.
They include Jim Sobrlng. Joe Ward,
Dave Reisling, Jim Wiggs. Pop" Fos
ter. Chic Hartley. O'Dell and Re
mcnier Manage Hockert. OF Harris.
burg; Manager Jacob Wcitzcl Of Read
ing; Colonel Louis Porrinc. Of Trenton.
and Eddie Aschenbach. OF Altoona. are
among those attending the magnates'
uIectings
An of the Tri-Siate officials arc
looking after the leagues interests
and arc sure not to be lost in tho
shuttle caused by tho demands of 'ha
American Association and Eastern
League