Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-02-16

feat or our SenerdJlon. his aoluty 10
break through a Gordon of New York
reporters and drop. for such a period,
completely out of human ken at a
time when he was as much in the
nmelight as The president himself, and
just when the minds eye of the entire
civilized world was holding a very
vivid image of his features, has been
feat almost as wonderful as would
have been his much-bragged of discoy-
cry of the "boreal center"
Our last previous mystery OF dis
appearance-one of which yet remains
unsolyed-was that of Leon Ling, the
Chineman, who is alleged to have
murdered Elsi Sigel, granddaughter of
Major General Franz Sigel, and to
have packed her body into the trunk
wherein 1t was found last summer in
room over a New York chop suey
house. 1t has now been more than
seven months since this Oriental dis
appeared, and, despite the fact that
his photograph and complete descrip-
ton have been published broadcast
in the newspapers and are in the
hands of every police official in the
civilized world, his eclipse from the
sight of man remains as complete as
though the world had swallowed him
up. But Leon Ling had a running
start some days before the public be.
came acquainted with his crime or
his physicgomy, and his detection was
rendered unusually difficult by the in.
ability of our race to readily disting-
ash one Oriental of a given type
from another.
If We should attempt to recall all
of the mysterious disappearance of
the past year we would soon have
several newspaper pages full and no
space left for the really remarkable
cases of other years. read the other
day that in a year over $4,000 people
had been reported missing in London,
and that only one, half of them, or
1850, had been accounted for; and
1t is not unsafe to say that like pro.
portion Of New York's population is
annually lost to sight within the
span of twelve-moDth.
Is Lost Grand Duke Here?
The most looked for of all of the
noted disappearers of the past years
is the Austrian Grand Duke Johann
Salvador, who, after falling into dis
favor at court by contracting a NOR.
ganatic marriage with Ludmilla Stu.
bel, a pretty Vinese comic opera
singer, mysteriously disappeared with
her in England in a big ship, the
santa Margarita, in which he and his
beloved, sailed away as plain "Mr. and
Mrs. John Ortiz" They put out for
South America, touched at Monte.
video and July IL sailed thence for
Chile. This departure from Monte
Vedlo was the last authentic news the
world has had of the mysterious pair
Some shippers of the South Seas he.
heye that the Santa Margarita was
wrecked while trying to round the
norn, while others have been sure
mat they have seen her refitted and
sailing under another name. A
former soldier under the Archdnka
has confessed" to having met the
couple In Los Angeles and to have ae.
ceeted bride to keep silent as to
the meeting, while various other an.
thorities have identified Johann Sal.
Vator as Admiral Yamagata. hero Of
the China-Japanese war. as tho com.
mander of troops in the Chilean rev.
ointion of the early nineties, as a
ranchman in Argentina and as +bo
leader Of a New Thought" sect in
Tacoma. In June. 1907. he was "nosi.
lively seen" in London, while last
summer his mystery was solved" by
a Chicago newspaper which devoted
the entire front page to a storv IF q
machlnist working in a shop at
Fainevilie, Ohio, who Confessed, that
ne had come to America after his he.
loved Ludmilla had been killed by the
eruption at Mt. Pelee. Wherever To.
hann Salvador may be. his cons,r
Franz Joseph of Austria, believes him
10 be still alive He lately issued an
edict that the large estate which
awaits the runaway in Austria be held
intact until 1917.
TWO Vanished Naval Officers.
The mysterious disappearance OF
Two OF our naval officers troubled sbe
public for three years prior to the
vanishing of the archduke. February
II, 1887, Lieutenant Edward w Re
mey, brother of former Judge Ad-
Focate General William B. Remy. and
OF Rear Admiral George c. Remev
walked down the gangplank of the
steamship Roanoke to be swallowed
IN the mazes of New York CITY and
never heard of more Had he been 4
man OF irregular habits there might
nave been some suspicion as to the
cause of his disappearance, hut he
was a sober, highly esteemed and
popular officer, with an irreproachable
record. Detectives of the world over
nave searched for him without avail
Our other vanishing naval officer
was ex-Passed Assistant Engineer
Richard H. Buel, son of Rev. Samuel
Buei, then dean of the General The.
oiogical Seminary in New York. The
younger Beul had served in the civil
war with distinction, and was well.
known figure in both naval and engi-
neering circles. December 20. 1889, he
started from New York to BOSTON
btlf has never he.ar hao,.d 20 -.x r.