Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-17


i rick Gushing and James Sullivan
we're drowned in the Kentuck river.
/ The bottom of their skiff dropped out.
Two companions managed to swim
ashore.
Frank Brookman was shot and Sc
riously wounded at Mount Vernon, H.,
by D. b. Archer. The affray occurred
in the Third National Bank and arose
over farm, the possession Of which
is in dispute.
Theft OF mail pouch, which it is
estimated contained between s25. 1000
and $4,000 In express and postoffice
money orders, was revealed through
the cashing of several of the stolen
orders in Chicago.
That approximately 25 per cent of
! the deaths of persons whose occupa-
/ tions expose them to dust are due to
tuberculosis is the startling fact dis
closed in a bulletin prepared at the
bureau of labor by Frederick L. Hof-
man.
Engineer Chauneey Green and Fire
man Christopher Ryder we're killed,
F. o. Tracy, brakeman, was prob
ably fatally hurt, and two other en-
ployes were slightly injured in a
freight wreck on the Erie railroad
near Belmont New York.
Joe Webb and John Clark, farmers
living near Mint Springs, Ala, are
dead as the result Of shooting af-
| fray which occurred near their homes.
The shooting followed quarrel over
the possession of a bottle Of liquor.
Webb was Cls.rks father-in-law.
Following Il confession that he muir
dered Mrs. Mary Short, a Topeka,
Kan, woman, in the hope OF gaining
possession 0f her property, Fred Fan
ming has implicated Mrs. Minnie Eng
fish in the crime, and she was ar
rested as An accomplice.
Henry ). West, an aged former con-
Wet. wal arrested in Chicago, on a
charge of being leader of a gang of
bank swindlers who have obtained
more than $4,000 from banks in
Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, New
York. Wisconsin, South Carolina and
Canada
Several indictments were handed
down in New York by the federal
grand Jury in connection with the
sugar underweighlng frauds. Judge
Hand ordered the indictments kept
secret. It was reported at least one
assistant customs weigher had been
implicated.
Ben johnson, 16 years old, a stud,
ent of the Danville, ILL.,, high school,
was arrested charged with being the
sender Of the blackmail letters to q
l.. English. president of the First Ma.
tional bank, in which the sum of 5000
was demanded under penalty OF
death to the banker and his son
Johnson was captured when he called
for deeoy letter.
Walter Brazil. aged Is, died at To,
ledo, as the result of injuries received
In baseball game last April between
two classes OF st. Johns college
Brazil was sliding for base when
he struc,; his kneecap against the
stone, injuring the bone. Two weeks
later he was put to bed. The injury
was followed by complications.
Miss Gertrude Jordan, good-looking
Independent and % years old, was
elected treasurer of Cherry county
Nebraska Until recently she had
been a deputy in the office. She made
the race as Republican. The
county attorney questioned whether q
woman was eligible, and to settle the
dispute the matter was referred to At
torney General Thompson, who de
clared there was nothing in the cor
stitution to prevent Miss Jordan as
suming the office.
Two alleged kidnapers, Antonio Ire
ferio and Giovanni Gangi, caught after
a two years chase to the west and
back, were held for trial in New York
in $4,000 bail. Rosiano Gaidino.
, years old, who was kidnapped In 1907
identified the prisoners, and hel
mother, Mrs Petrio Gardino, declared
she had paid Gangi $500 when he hac
threatened to cut the girl up in pieces
! If ransom was not paid. Eighi
days after the kidnapping the girl was
} picked up in the street near her home
Two men we're killed and another
fatally injured in an automobile acct
dent near Greenville, N. c. The au
tomobile containing James Fleming
, Attorney Henry Skinner. Jr., and Ed
ward Flanagan, was going at higr
, rate of speed. when it turned out tC
pass a heavily loaded wagon. The
? automobile turned over. falling on its
passengers. Fleming's neck was
broken and he died instantly. Skin
!, ner's skull was fractured. He dlet
In a hospital. F1annigans back was
s,uken and physicians say he canno
live
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