Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-08


trained workers from Freeville, N. Y,
headquarters OF the parent organiza
ton, started.
Miss Florence Bishop, so years old,
formerly a popular actress, was found
burned to death in the rear OF a
smokehouse at the hone Ct her en-
ployer, w. A. Hayiland. near Lock,
port, n. Y. It is suspected that she
may have committed suicide.
After REPEATED criminal assaults on
Mrs. w c. Cheatwood, wife Of a
farmer, near Admission, Ala, Ray Rois-
ton, negro. was hunted down by a
posse of citizens and after being rid
died with shot, was burned. Mrs.
Cheatwood is in critical condition
Fred T. Robinson shot his wife and
then himself at Beatrice, Neb. There
is little hope that either will survive.
Robinson has shown signs of being
mentally unbalanced. Recently he
wrote the police tina the "black hand
was after him.
Howard Little, charged with murder
Of Aunt Betty Justice, and five
others, was found guilty at Grumpy,
Va. The murder took place at Hur-
ley Buchanan county. Little was
sentenced TO be electrocuted in Rich
mond, Jan. Z.
Leonard Ettler, aged Is, died at his
home in Harrisburg Pa, from blood
poisoning caused by an injury to his
knee while playing football. The
boys knee was badly twisted in a
game on Oct. 80 and he neglected to
get medical attention for two weeks.
Blood poisoning then set In.
Mrs Earl McGill of Minneapolis,
was found lying on the floor of her
home, her face and throat horribly
mutilated. Mrs. McGill lapsed into
unconsciousness just as the police
were about to question her, and no
motive for the crime or the details of
the assault are known.
George Gillespie and Harry Hart,
police characters of ST. Joseph, Mo.
caught burglarizing farmhouse on
Sunday, attempted to escape by swim
ming a river Overcome by the icy
ooldness of the water the men were
forced to surrender when but few
feet from shore.
Former Gov. Andrew L. Harris OF
Eaton, o. and MIS-. Harris were
slightly injured and narrowly escaped
death at Richmond, Ind, when the
automobile in which they were riding
collided with street car. They were
able to continue the journey home
later.
Announcement was made at Harris
burg, Pa, that the American Union
Telephone company, which controls
practically all of the independent tele-
phone business in the state outside OF
Philadelphia, had been purchased by
the new Continental Telephone and
Telegraph company of New York.
Congress is TO be assailed by reform
organizations within a day or so after
it convenes. for the officials of various
organizations announce that a ere
formers conclaye" is to be held at
Washington between Dec. IL and II.
President TAFT, andrew Carnegie and
General Frederick d. Grant are among
those who have been invited to speak.
The hearing of a testimony in the
case OF w. Y. Ellis, a lumberman
charged with the killing of N. r. Will
lis, a business man of Indianapolis.
began at Little Rock, Ark. The de-
Tense will contend that Ellis. al
though previously and subsequent to
the killing was perfectly rational, for
the time being was insane and ire
sponsible for his actions.
When he failed to welcome guests
who had come to join him at Thanks
giving dinner, search was instituted
for Charles Lukens. aged q, former
ownerNo Oak Glen ranch, near Red
lands; Cal, and his dead body was
found. An automatic shotgun lay
across the lower strand of barbed
wire fence near by.
Mrs. C. w. Tull, wife of Capt. Tul
Of the Panama canal commission, com,
mitted suicide in her Panama home
- ~ w. a. h1A Jushfdl NG4u Win Il
Ratchet, according to adviees received
at New Orleans. AT first, it was be
lieyed she had been murdered, but
Investigation showed that the Ratchet
had been specially sharpened Ap
parently, IS, Tull wished to make IL
seem as IL a murder had been com
mitted. Mrs. TuIl was 20 years old
and was known as one of the prettiest
women in the isthmus.
Two women burglars, mashed and
armed with revolyers, entered the
residence of Mrs. w. Crosman, a Min.
neapolis society woman Mrs. eros,
man heard noise in the hall and in.
vestigated. She saw two women lei.
surely taking hatpins from their hats
on the rack. She was speeches. with
fright The intruder went up to her
and she saw the muz Gle of revolver
protruding from the sleeve of the
burglars waist. Mrs. Crosman man,
aged to keep out of reach. The rob.
bers took about S4O0 in valuables.