Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-03
DOMESTIC.

Three persons were fatally injured
in windstorm near Decatur, ILL.,
Thirteen others were slightly hurt.
Isaac McCoun, charged with the
murder Of William Toney and Charles
Simpson of Sioux City near Kadoka.
last summer, entered a plea of not
guilty, at Pierre, S. u.
East-bound passenger No. ID, on the
Rock Island, was wrecked near Nicola.
Iowa, when 1t struck a horse. just as
it was entering town. The passeu.
gers were badly shaken up but none
was seriously injured
A posse returned t. Vinton New
after shooting to death Charles VIII.
Eams, a negro, one of two robbers
who held up a hotel at Vinton. All
OF the Jewels and money taken from
the hotel were found on the negro.
AS the result of quarrel over the
possession OF parrot Charles Bum,
of Anderson, Ind. shot and fatally
wounded his landlady. Mrs. Robert
Nelson and then ended his own life
by sending two bullets through his
brain. The woman had filed an affi.
davit charging him with the theft OF
the bird.
Two engines on the Milwaukee. pull
ing extra trains, were wrecked at
Doubleday, Iowa, by head-on COLI
sion. A defective switch caused the
accident. No one was seriously hurt,
James Opal superintendent of No.
s, branch TaInmack mine, at Cau-
met, Mich. was killed instantly by
falling into shaft
Ten men are dead, TWO are injured
and one is missing as a result OF an
explosion in mine No 10 of the Rock
Island Coal company at Harborne.
Okla. Nine bodies were recovered.
The men are believed to have gone
beyond a dead line" with lighted
lamps in entering the mine. the lamps
ignitiug escaping gas.
Almost an octogenarian. Jasper
King of Little Falls Mimi. walked
seventy miles In two days. The aged
man w3s left with Charles Davis OF
Clear Lake while relative went to
the Dakota fields. Later the old man
left his home and clothed in only a
pair of overalls, jumper and pair
of shoes without laces, he wandered
seventy miles and stopped but once
for food and drink
The partly nude body of woman,
lying half in and half out OF a brook,
the mead being under water. was dis
covered by Louis Russell and Fred
erick Husback of Bridgeport Conn,
while h.utiGg near Indian Well,
about three miles north of shelton
The clothing, not on the body. was ly
ing on the bank about thirty feet
away. There was nothing about the
body to identify it.
Fourteen years in the state peni-
Tertiary is the penalty Wyatt H. In
gram. Jr., of Now Orleans. cWbman,
must pay for embezzliug $4,000 OF
the funds Of the Eibernia Bank and
Trust company The Jury after hear.
ing the testimony only twenty min
utes brought in a verdict Of guilty on
wv Wal 6IS Va tIi 6tAS' 4A6t dAAA ID
the son OF a Baltimore importer and
is said to have been short as much as
100000 at one time.
When John Hames, jailer at the St
Paul police station, entered a cell to
give Timothy Campbell drink oil
water, he was suddenly attacked byI
the prisoner and forced against the
bars. Campbell hit Hames' arm and
tried TO gouge his eyes out. During
the struggle that ensued, Hames
1oored the man and held him down
until officers came to his rescue. III
took three officers to remove the man
TO the county jail. and there was an
other struggle before he could be
forced into a cell