Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-08-18

ballon for the the polar dash was be.
gun July 81.
Six hundred dollars concealed in
closet by Mrs. Charles Hart, wife OF
New York contractor, was burned
when match was ignited by the
closing of the closet door.
William d. Mahon, president Of the
Amalgamated Association OF Street
and Elevated Railway Employees, will
go to New York in few days to or
ganize the car employees there.
Guillermo Velasco, son of the min
lister of Mexico to France, has been
lost while ON an outing at Satello.
Mexico. 1t is feared he me with foul
play and searching parties are seek
I ing him.
Thomas E. Watson, at one time
candidate for president on the popu-
list ticket says he favors the division
of the United States into -four ma
tons ard predicts the countryt re-
lc,netnction.
1t is reported that 1913 deaths from
bubonic plague and thirty-five from
cholera occurred at Annoy, China, in
the two weeks ending last Saturday.
Conditions in the interior districts are
greatly improved.
DIR. r. A. Torrey, the Chicago evan.
gelist, probably prevented a murder
at Huntington beach, near Los An
geles, when he knocked down and sat
upon man who was attacking an
other with spade.
Work has been secured for 1000
persons during the past six weeks
through the information division Of
the department Of commerce and la
Dor Most of them have gone 10 the
wheat fields of the northwest.
Persons of light complexion fill the
prisons and asylums of the United
States, according to figures compiled
by DIR. G. e. Woodruff, an army sur
geon. He holds that there is toe
much sunshine for blondes in Ameri.
ca.
A tariff issue has arisen in Kansas
CITY over a consignment Of twenty
seven carloads OF zinc ore from Mex.
leo. The shipment crossed the Mex
lean frontier five hours before the tar
liff bin was signed. The importers
..aim 1t should be admitted free.
Samuel F. Smith, former mayor OF
Davenport Iowa, son OF the author OF
America. died suddenly at Toronto,
Ont, on his way to Boston to see his
wife and daughter, following his re.
lease from the Iowa penitentiary,
where he was serving term for en-
bezzlement
The plan for the organization of a
negro anti-tuberculosis league, pro.
posed by the United States public
health and marine hospital service
has met with a prompt response. Five
state organizations have been formed
and the movement has received the
Endorsement Of the conference OF
| STATE duu iGEtibOi Adi DOaiub VI
John Williams, New York state com
missioner of labor, has issued bull
lletin saying that March 81 81 per
cent. OF the organized wage earners
in that state we're idle, while on the
same date last year 1851 per cent
were unemployed. The report shows
greater prosperity among worker:
than in the average year.
In passing Judgment on man
charged with having blackened his
wife's eyes Police Magistrate House
of New York declared: What New
York state needs is whipping post
for wifebeaters and l am willing tc
head a movement to establish ii. 4
also need something for the wives
who are beaten. From ten to fifty
whipped wives come here daily for
warrants for their husbands, but
when the brutes are arraigned the
women plead for forgiveness for
Them"