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The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-11-11
Crimes and Criminals.

Because his wife refused to live
with him on account Of his propensity
for liquor, John Lee Phillips, an en-
gineer, shot and fatally wounded her
in front of a boarding house at Pitts
burg, Pa. Then, before any one could
interfere, he turned the revolver on
himself and sent bullet into his
brain, dying in a few minutes.
George Washington Murray, negro,
once member of congress from
South Carolina, will have to spend the
next three years cracking rocks and
road building as a member of the
chain gang of Sumter county, Ga, al
though he is the largest land owner in
that county. The supreme court denied
the appeal of his attorneys for. re-
hearing. His punishment is for forg-
ing the names of ignorant negroes to
land leases.
Edward Rebel, late of Grand Marais,
shot his wife five times at Munsing,
Mich, and leaving her for dead, jump
ed from a dock and drowned. The
woman is expected to recover.
The New York court of appeals de-
MED the motion for Encouragement of
the appeal Of Albert r. Patrick from
conviction of murder in the first de-
gree and sentence of death for the
killing In 1900 of w. M. Rice, an aged
millionaire of New York city. The
motion was made Oct. 2, by former
United States Senator David B. Hill.
Elias Johnson, who shot and killed
his wife at their home near Slater, Sa-
lima county, Mo-, was convicted Of
murder in the first degree and his
punishment fixed at ninety-nine years
in the penitentiary. Johnson, on Dec.
s, 1904, shot his wife and afterWard
made the claim that he thought he was
shooting an owl.
Tom Eassa, the 17-year-old boy who
eloped with a 40-year-old widow, Mary
Eassa, his cousin, is under arrest at
Sioux City for embezzlement, the
charge being preferred by his mother.
The arrest was made at Yankton, S.
D. The boy was brought to Sioux City,
while the elderly wife will go to Akron,
Iowa, to visit relatives. The boy
mother made the accusation that he
stole 5000 in order to get him home.
She will endeavor to have the mar
riage annulled.
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MEN FOUGHT REGULAR PITCHED
BATTLE, WITH A RING AND
SECONDS.
BOTH TRAINED ATHLETES
FIGHT AROSE FROM A REPORT
FOR A BREACH OF
DISCIPLINE.

Annapolis, Nov. 8. Midshipman
James r. Branch, son of James r.
Branch OF the Hanover Bank of New
York and secretary Of the American
Bankers association, who was seri-
ously injured in fist fight with an
other midshipman, died yesterday.
Midshipman Branch fought with
Midshipman Miner Meriweather, Jr.,
of Lafayette, Ind. The fight took place
by arrangement on Sunday night, and
was a regular pitched battle with
ring and seconds. 1t lasted twenty
three rounds, and ended when Branch
was knocked down and struck the
right side of his head against the floor.
It was not considered that the in
juries were very dangerous, but on
Monday morning Branch's condition
was such that it became necessary TO
let his condition be known to the au-
thorities. Young Branch was taken to
the hospital and an operation was de-
termined upon. 1t was performed
Monday night by Surgeons Finney or
Baltimore and Kerr of Washington, as
sisted by the academy's medical staff.
It was thought to be successful, but
turn for the worse took place yester-
day morning and the patient died at
10 o'clock, not having regained con-
seriousness. Both his father and moth
er were with him at his death.
Meriweather in Hospital.
Meriweather is also in the hospital
as a result of injuries received in the
fight. and for that reason the authori-
ties have not put him under arrest.
The question of his accountability to
the civil authorities on charge OF
manslaughter has also been discussed.
He is suffering from sprained wrlst
and a bruised face.
Branch was a second class man ana
Meriweather a third, but the latter IS
slightly older, being nineteen years OF
age last January, while Branch was
not nineteen until August. Both have
some reputation as athletes, Branch
as a wrestler and Meriweather as a
football player.
It is understood that the fight took
place because Branch had in his line
of duty reported Meriweather for
breach of discipline. No one is al
lowed to see the latter, but it is re-
ported that he feels the matter most
keenly.
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REFORM SWEEPS PHILADELPHIA.
Republican Ticket Is Defeated by
From 10000 10 $4,000 Plurality.

HGDuUbtCdu
From 10000 10 $4,000 Plurality.
Philadelphia, Nov. 8.--Philadelph1a
has been swept by the reform move
ment. the City party ticket winning by
a surprisingly large plurality.
While returns from only six OF the AZ
wards in this CITY had been counted
I'D to midnight, enough is known OF
the results in the remaining wards TO
indicate the defeat of the Republican
local ticket by from 10000 to $4,000
plurality.
The victory of the City party carries
with it the election of William II.
Berry, Democratic and reform candl-
date for state treasurer. j. Lee Plum
mer, the Republican candidate for that
office, was badly cut throughout the
CITY and state and he has lost his own
county, which is usually Republican.
The result has every appearance or
landslide for reform, not only III Pnll-
adelphia, but throughout the state.
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The News OF the Week

The retiring viceroy, Lord Curzon,
who has been making a farewell tour
of India, is Frustrated at Lahore with
fever. His departure from Lahore
has been indefinitely postponed.
Christopher Robinson. Canada
great constitutional lawyer, is dead of
pneumonia. In the Bering sea arbitra-
ton it was said that it was his presen-
tation Of the case that brought Cana
dian victory.
An expedition to the north pole I'M
der the patronage of the Belgian gov
eminent is about to be organized. The
expenses, estimated at 100000, will
be betrayed by a national lottery on
an extensive scale.
King Victor Emmanuel laid the cor
ner stone of the new harbor works at
Genoa. Over 100000 spectators were
present and in the narbor were forty
three warships, including the United
States cruiser Minneapolis.
The announcement that King Ed
ward had charged Prince Arthur of
Connaught to proceed to Toxic early in
1906 on a special mission to bestow
the Order Of the Garter on the emper-
or of Japan has caused the greatest
satisfaction among all classes at Toxic.
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Foreign.

A dispatch from Corunna, Spain,
SAYS that the Spanish armored cruiser
Cisneros foundered off Villanova after
striking a rock All on board the YES
sci were saved.
The Cuban government has accept
ed the invitation of Emperor Nicholas,
conveyed through Baron Rosen, to
send delegates to the second peace
conference at The Hague.
The preparations which were going
on at ConstantinCple for the execution
of Ghirdis Vartanian, who claims
American citizenship and who was con-
demned for the murder of Apik Und-
iian. a prominent Armenian, were sud
denly stopped on the receipt of note
from the American legation, setting
forth in unequivocal terms that such
an act would inevitably produce seri-
Gus consequences.
Capt. J. w. Broatch and twenty-six
marines, constituting the American le-
cation guard, have left Chemulpo on
the cruiser Cincinnati, after stay of
eleven months in Seoul.
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PRESIDENT HEARS RETURNS.
Returns to Washington After Voting at
Oyster Bay.

Washington. Nov. 8. - President
Roosevelt spent the greater part OF the
evening in the executive offices re-
ceiving the election returns. With
him were Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary
Root and Assistant Secretary Bacon
of the state department. President
Roosevelt reached Washington from
Oyster Bay at 4:40 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, having been on the road
since 1890 Monday night with the
exception Of the twenty minutes he
spent at Oyster Bay casting his vote
and chatting with his neighbors.
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Casualty.

Fire In the plant OF the Michigan
Malleable Iron company in Delray,
Mich, caused $4,000 damage.
Ainsworth, Iowa, has been fire
swept. All the business district was
destroyed. The loss is $4,000.
Jacob Bosdeck, a pioneer farmer,
was killed at Iowa City, Iowa, by a
fall of twenty feet from a haymow.
His neck was broken.
A South Shore train ran down and
instantly killed an unknown man walk
ing on the track east of Marquette,
Mich. The victim is believed to be a
Finnish woodchopper.
Leslie Wise, aged fourteen years,
died at Milwaukee of injuries received
in a boys game Of football. He fell
in such a manner that a weed was
thrust up his nostril into the brain.
A runaway switch engine crashed
into the rear of a westjDound passenger
train on the Colorado Sc Southern rail-
road in the yards at Golden, Colo, III
juring seven persons.
Three shotfirers were killed in an eX-
plosion that occurred in the mines Of
the Central Coal and Coke company at
Hartford, Ark. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by gas.
Six persons were killed in a head
on collision between two freight trains
on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad at Casey, Iowa. Both trains
were badly wrecked and engines piled
up into a confused mass.
Three persons were seriously in
ured, one of whom subsequently died,
and a dozen others had narrow es-
cape from the flames in fire that de-
stroyed the priests house at Nazarine
orphanage at Raleigh, N. c.
Walter Scott, the Death Valley min
er who was thrown from an automo-
bile at Los Angeles while running fifty
miles an hour and was severely hurt,
will recover, according to the state
ment of physicians who examined his
injuries.
Passengers on the Louisville South
ern train No, had narrow escape
when the train was hurled from a
bridge seven miles from Lexington,
KY, into creek forty feet below.
Twelve persons were injured, but none
was killed. The tender, mail and bag
gage cars and smoker were splintered
and thrown into the creek, and the
bridge, which was $50 feet long, entire
ly destroyed.
w. F. Granger, one Of the members
of company playing melodrama at
Toledo, Ohio, was shot in the eye dur
ing the progress of play. The action
of the drama includes the rescue of a
girl from a cage of lions. Last night
one of the lions showed anger and a
revolver carried by the rescuer was
accidentally discharged. Granger may
lose his sight.
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Washington.

washington
Charles A. Darling has retired from
! the office of assistant secretary OF the
navy, which post he has held since
Dec. 16. 1901. He was succeeded by
Truman II. Newberrry OF Detroit,
Mich.
Announcing the results OF recent IN
vestigations of the future OF the cot
ton-protecting kelep of Guatemala, a
report now being issued from the de-
partment of agriculture declares keep
to be wonderfully adapted to the de-
struction of the cotton boil Weevll'
and portrays it's possibilities in check
ing pest ravages.
Secretary Taft has transmitted to
the treasury department his estimates
of the appropriations required for the
year 1907. These estimates aggregate
$104,988, 267.75, being $9,717,922.52 less
than the total appropriations made by
congress for the use of the war de-
partment for the current fiscal year
ending June SO. 1906.
In his testimony before the joint
printing committee Foreman Brewer
Of the senate folding room said there
are $4,000 un-called-for publications
stored in his department. Amzl
Smith, who has been in the senate doc
ument room for thirty years, said that
the supply for documents there has
quadrupled during his incumbency,
but there are not too many to meet
he demand.
The president has appointed Charles
A. Stallings of Boston as public print
err. MIR. Stallings is manager OF the
printers board Of trade Of New York
ciA. The appointment Of Mr.. Stall
lings was not forecast by any discus
sion Of his candidacy for the place.
The large printing firms Of New York
and Boston Endorsed him as a practi-
cal printer and executive. He was
also strongly Endorsed by Senator
Crane.
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CLEAN SWEEP IN CHICAGO.
only One Democrat Reaches the Prom
ised Land.


Chicago, Nov. 8.-The Republicans
made clean sweep Of the election in
Chicago and Cook county yesterday,
electing all of their candidates with
the exception of one man. The sole
Democrat to reach the promised land
was Webb, a candidate for trustee OF
the sanitary district. The Republic
ans elected four judges Of the superior
court. one judge TO fill a vacancy on
the bench of the superior court,
Judge of the circuit court and eight
ont of nine members of the board OF
sanitary trustees.
Gov. Utter Reelected.
Providence. r. T., Nov. S.-A heavy
poll for the Republican candidate for
the executive chair, Gov. George III.
Utter which is expected to give him
a plurality of at least 5000 over the
Democratic nominee. Lucius F. Garvin,
was the feature Of the state election
Yesterday Republican gains were
made in each branch Of the legisla-
ture.
Republicans Gain in New Jersey.
Trenton, N. j., Nov. S.-The cleo
ton in New Jersey yesterday in
creased the Republican hold upon the
state legislature and makes it impos'
sible that Democrat should succeed
United States Senator John f. Dry
den in 1907 In the state senate the
Republicans made gain OF three.
Labor Candidate Reelected.
San Francisco, Nov. 8. - For the
third consecutive time Eugene E..
Schmitz, the Union Labor candidate,
was reelected mayor by a majority OF
at least $4,000 over John S. Partridge,
the Joint nominee of the Republican
and Democratic parties.
Elect Democratic Governor.
Richmond, Va, Nov. 8.-Claude f.
Swanson, DEM, was yesterday elected
governor of Virginia by about 10000
plurality. The Republicans gained
view members Of the legislature.
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DEATH OF Ex-GoV. AUSTIN.
Horace Austin Dies Following a Minor
Operation.

Minneapolis, Nov. S.-For the sec
ond time within a week death has
taken former governor of Minnesota
Horace Austin, governor from 1870 to
1874. jurist, soldier, writer and for
thirty years continuously holder OF
high public offices, died at st. Barna-
bas hospital at 1855 yesterday morn
ing. following a minor surgical opera
ton. He was in his seventy-fourth
year, having celebrated his birthday
with his wife and children, at his
home at Mound, Lake Minnetonka,
Oct. Is. Former Gov. McGill who died
a few days ago, was his private secre-
tary during one term as governor.
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Clearance barrow Quits Dunno.

Chicago. Nov. 8-Clarence Darrow
special traction counsel for the city o.
Chicago, resigned yesterday, declar
ing in a letter to Mayor Dunno, tina
he had no desire to continue in tn
employ of the city inasmuch as mum;
ipal ownership cannot, in his opinion
no effected until the spring election.
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Lady Florence Dixie Dead.

London, Nov. s. - Lady Florenc'
Dixie the well known writer, explorei
and champion of woman's rights, who
acted as war correspondent for Lon
don paper during the Boer war, dice
Yesterday at her home, Glen Stuart
Dumfrieshire. Scotland.
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Man and bride Found Dead.

Newburg, Or, Noy 8.-Carl Hurford
and his wife, a bride of six weeks.
were found dead in their home here
by neighbors attracted to the house by
the firing of shots. More or less mys-
terry surrounds their death.
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Killed hY Train

Mora, Mimi, Nov. San east-boun6
freight train struck and instantly
killed Ole Tangwald, a farmer living
eight miles northwest of this place
near the Great Northern depot. Tang
valid was drunk at the time.
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IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Republican Candidate for Governor Is
Elected

Boston, Nov. S.-Lieut. Gov. Curtis
Guild, Jr, of Boston, the Republican
candidate, was elected governor of
Massachusetts in the state election
yesterday by a plurality of 29,435.
The Republicans also elected seven Of
the eight members of the executive
council and the usual large majority
in both branches of the legislature.
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La Crosse, Wis, Nov. 8.-An expT'
sion of unknown origin, but suppose
to have been caused by can OF case
line, blew out the plate glass front c
the Koblitz awning factory, shootin
flames thirty feet in the air. The fir
Quilted the building. Loss, $1,000.
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A general merchant advertises for
a man who is a good saw filer and a
bass singer. If the man is expected to
sing at his work we're glad we don't
have to sit around and listen when
those two kinds OF noises effect juno
ture.
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Foraets Money and Fails.

Sheboygan, Wis, Nov. 8.-Frank M
Corbett, cheesemaker, failed because
he put $3.50 check in an old coat ano
forgot it. After being declared bank
rupt his wife found the check, which
would have saved him.
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A new SO counterfeit is in circula-
ton which we are told may be dis
tinguished by its size, being longer
than the genuine note. What is want
ed is a $1O-bill that will not merely
look longer, but last longer.
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A farmer in Berks county, Pa, aged
80, has his third set Of natural teeth.
Imagine the trouble Uncle Methuselah
may possibly have had, with thirty or
more experiences in cutting teeth.
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A Connecticut man went out to haul
his lobster pots, and came back with
a live deer. Here, here! Stop that!
If this keeps on, we shall all be in the
dizzy house.
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Now that they have fixed up a rap
prochement between France and Ger
many the sultan of Morocco will
awake to the fact that the drinks are
on him.
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Marie Corelli is reported to be dis
couraged because she is developing
double chin. That's where Hall Game
has the advantage of Marie. Nobody
can tell about his chin, because in
locking like Shakespeare he has to
have whiskers :
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Maybe the ameer Of Afghanistan
really needs the dentist whom he has
summoned from a distance and may
be this is merely his willy oriental
way of bidding for the worlds SYM
pathy.
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A woman is suing for divorce from
her husband on the ground that he
hasn't taken a bath for twenty-five
years. Naturally she wants to duck
him.
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People say they might as well be
hung for sheep as lamb, but that
only shows lack of discrimination in
appetite.
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A Pittsburg man who is the father
of fourteen boys has adopted little
girl. This case would seem to upset
the theory that hope springs eternal
in the human breast.
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The "anesthetic highball" is likely
to become popular, but many chronic
sufferers will continue to take the
highball without the anesthetic at
tachment.
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The wages of sin remain the same
as heretofore, but frequently the sin
ner has to wait a long time to get
what is coming to him.
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1t is kind and considerata on the
part of Mr.. Edison, but the obstinate
people of this country will go on
pounding their ears and clogging
their intakes as heretofore.
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Business is war;" says magazine
writer, and Gen Sherman told US what
war is.
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Harry Liberty is in jail at Burling-
ton, VT, charged with stealing a
horse. Somehow the pun suggested
by his name doesn't come out right.
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Miss Susan P. Fowler of Vineland,
N. J., has worn trousers for fifty
years, and expects to die with them
on.
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HEARST CHARGES ILLEGAL VOT.
ING AND WILL CONTEST
THE ELECTION.
REFORM in PHILADELPHIA
LANDSLIDE IN CITY AND STATE
OHIO RESULT Is STILL
IN DOUBT.

New York, Nov. 8. - After a cam
paign, unusual in it's public interest
and excitement, Tammany Hall met
defeat yesterday in it's hard fought eff
forts to elect James w. Osborne to the
district attorneyship of the city by
probably only a few thousand votes.
Returns TO midnight indicate that
George B. Mcclellan, DEM, is re-elect-
ed mayor of New York by between
5000 and 1000 plurality over w. r.
Hearst, Municipal Ownership, and
that William r. Jerome, Ind, is re-
elected district attorney by about 5000
over James w. Osborne, Dem.
Hearst Will Contest.
At midnight Mr.. Hearst declined to
admit his defeat, and declared lis in
tention to contest the election. AT
that time returns from 1874 election
districts had not been received. Nc
Clellan had 2C5,598, Hearst 203,370 and
WINS 130,326 votes.
The following statement was issued
by w. r. Hearst:
eve have won this election. All
Tammanys frauds, all Tammany's cor
ruption, all Tammanys intimidation
and violence, all Tammany's false reg
istration, illegal voting and dishonest
count. have not been able to Overcme
a great popular majority. The recount
will show that we have won the cleo
ton by many thousands of votes.
Will Fight to the End
81 shall fight this battle to the end
in behalf of the people who have cast
their votes for me and who shall not
be DISTINGUISHED by any effort of Grim
inal bosses"
The chairman Of the Municipal Own
ership party declares that he has ev-
idence that $4,000 illegal votes We're
cast.
Tammany Badly Shaken.
The extent to which the Tammany
organization was shaken may be
judged from the fact that there was
no fusion Of the opposition parties,
the means by which the organization
has been cOmbatted heretofore, but
that Jerome, running as candidate
of no party and with his record III Of
fee as his platform, succeeded in
overcoming the former prestige OF the
Democratic organization. and William
r. Hearst, standing as the nominee OF
the Municipal Ownership League, a
new clement in New York politics,
came within fe wthousand votes or
being elected mayor.
Triumph for jerome.
Jerome's triumph was almost en-
tirely a personal one, and showed that
an appeal may be made successfully
to voters on the strength OF personal
honesty and persistent, systematic de-
nunciation of graft.
Violence at the Polls.
From many parts oil Manhattan re-
ports poured in Of the greatest Vlo-
lence and crimes at the polls that
New York has ever known. The &C
lions of John McKane in his strong
hold in Gravesend were declared to be
mild compared to the deeds commit
ted in the Tammany districts led by
Thomas Foley, Big Tim" Sullivan,
little Tim" Sullivan, Joseph +. oak
lev and Charles T. Murphy.
Murphy refrajned from appearing III
person during these attacks, but oak
lev. commissioner of water, gas and
electricity, led his own band through
the Fourteenth assembly district, and
with clubs and fists beat the Hearst
and Jerome men without mercy.