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The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
Dom estIc.

Engagements are announced of 3d.
100000 gold for shipment to Paris.
Refrigerating plants and forced air
apparatus are to be installed in the
subway in New York to cool and i'm
prove the ventilation.
The unwarranted increase in tuber-
culosis in Kansas is laid to the imper-
feet and unsanitary condition of the
Pullman sleeping cars.
Ignace Paderewski, the pianist, has
resolved $1,000 from the New York
Central railway for the jolt he received
in an accident at Syracuse, N. Y, on
April %.
Surrounded by friends and relatives,
Judge Stephen Neal, author of the
Fourteenth amendment of the United
States Constitution, died at his home
in Lebanon, Ind.
BY practically unanimous vote the
Chicago teamsters refused to accept
the terms recently offered by the en-
ployers. and the latest peace prospect
in the strike has vanished.
The remains of a number of victims
who persisted in the Gen. Slocum dis
aster have been found in the hull of
that vessel at Camden, N. J., where the
vessel was towed after the disaster.
Prospectors coming into Bull Frog,
Nevada report that they found two
men wandering aimlessly about in
Death valley, down beyond the Funeral
range. These two men were insane
and nearly naked. Their tongues were
swollen. Their misfortune is but a
repetition of the disasters of that Sec
ton during the past week. The springs
are drying up and the usual supply of
water is lacking.
With a party of government astron-
omers aboard, the cruiser Dixie has
left the League Island navy yard for
Algeria and Roma, where the party will
disembark to observe the eclipse of the
sun on Aug. 30.
A sensation has been caused in mer-
camille circles in New Orleans by John
A. Lewis, for twenty years the vice
president and general manager of the
Mississippi Cotton Oil company. an
nouncing to his friends that he has de-
cided to give up his business in Meridi-
an and to become an apostle of Dowie-
ism. He will devote his entire for
tune to spreading the cult
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
TWO JOBS FOR MACON.
Minister to Panama as Well as Gov
ernor of Canal Zone.

ernor of Canal Zone.
Oyster Bay, n. Y, July 4. - PreSi-
dent Roosevelt yesterday authorized
the announcement that he had ap-
pointed Charles E. Magoon as United
States minister to Panama. Judge
Magoon is at present governor of the
canal zone and member of the exec
utive committee of the isthmian canal
commission. The determination of the
president to have the office of gov
ernor of the American zone and min
lister to Panama filed by the same
man was reached soon after the re-
organization of the isthmian canal
commission two or three months ago.
Experience has demonstrated that a
conflict of authority was likely to
arise between the governor and the
minister, and in addition confusion
was created among the Panamans,
particularly the officials of the repub-
lie, by the presence Of two officers ex-
ercising similar powers.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
MUST PAY FIRE LOSS.

500 Road Is Ordered by Supreme
Court to Pay $4,000 Damages to
Cock.
The supreme court of the state OF
Wisconsin decided novel and interest
ing lawsuit by affirming the action OF
judge Hastings of the circuit court OF
Marinette county in ordering a judg-
ment of $40, 900 in favor of the plaintiff
in the case of Cook VS. 500 Railway
company.
The plaintiffs in the case were suing
the railroad company for the recovery
of the value of a quantity of cedar logs
which were destroyed by fire while
piled along the 500 tracks in Marinette
county. The Cook people claim that
the fire which destroyed the logs was
the result of the negligent operation OF
a locomotive on the 500 line and OF the
negligent condition of the right OF
way, and accordingly entered suit
against the railroad company. The
Soo's defense was that the fire was
common forest fire.
The Cook people secured a verdict
in 1896 from a jury in Marinette, the
jury finding, however, that there were
two fires which combined to cause the
destruction Of the logs. The case then
went to the supreme court, which or
dered a judgment in favor of the rail
road company.
The plaintiffs later consulted with
Attorney l.. K Luse of Superior and
Judge Sanborn of Madison, with the
result that a new action was brought
on the ground that the 500 had agreed
to furnish cars to carry the logs away
as soon as they were piled, this ar
rangement having been MAIDS on ac-
count of danger from fire. 1t was
claimed that the railroad had violated
its contract and was responsible for
the loss. The case was tried before
another jury in Marinette and occupied
twenty days time, the jury finally find
ing in favor of the plaintiffs.
The action of the supreme court es-
tablishes a new precedent. No case
could be found in the law books where
damages of this character had been re-
covered for breach of contract.-W.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
FIREMEN's MEET is ENDED.
Reedsburg Is Hose Race Champion and
Sprino Green Takes Ladder Contest.

Reedsburg Is Hose Race Champion and
Spring Green Takes Ladder Contest.
The state fremen's tournament is
concluded at Rice Lake. In the hose
race between the two companies max
ing the fastest time ReedSburg took
first, time 33 seconds. with Lake Mills
second. IN the contest between the
next two companies Lake Mills took
first, time 81 seconds. In the hub and
hub hook and ladder contest Spring
green won first prize. The time was
371-5 seconds. Oconomowoc took first
prize of the secondary teams. Spooner
was second.
In the single mans coupling contest
F. B. McGill of ElkhOrn won first, time
4 rs seconds, beating all previous rec
Ords two-ffths of second. Vessel Of
OconOmowoc was second, Bukine of
Lake Mills third and HOLLAND Of Reeds
burg fourth Ed Reed OF Oconomowoc
took first prize in the fireman's race.
In the individual firemen's race for a
distance of 100 yards, M. Woodward of
Reedsburg won. His time was IL
seconds. In the championship relay
coupling contest Reedsburg took first
place with 40 Is seconds. Ocon6mo-
woo was second.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08

Frank r. McCamyon, a waiter OF
Chicago, believing that he had shot
and fatally wounded friend and was
liable to arrest, committed suicide.
Mrs. Adelaide Foster, until recently
a resident of Chicago, committed sui
eide by inhaling gas in apartments oc-
cupied by her daughter in New York.
Thomas M. Casey, cashier of the Sal
mon bank, was arrested at Clinton,
Mo-, on charge of forging two notes
aggregating $4,000, preferred by W.
M. Stevens.
Ellwood Garman, convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree for the killing of
William Murray, was found dead in his
cell at Mifiingtown. He committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
During a quarrel over a game of dice
on an excursion train at Lafayette,
Ind, Sylvester Jones was stabbed IA
tally by Stephen Hurst, a One-armed
man Hurst is in Jail on charge of
murder.
Carrying out the request of Gov.
Haney that he enforce the law against
poolselling at the state fair grounds at
indianapolis, Sheriff Edward Sourber
and eleven deputies arrested eight
bOokmakers.
Former Chief J. w. Hill of the Phil
adelphia filtration bureau has been ar
rested on new charges of forging con-
tract slips of $4,000, after having al
ready been arrested for other similar
forgeries aggregating 100000.
Fifteen employees of an American cir
Gus were arrested at Grand Mere, Que,
by militia from Quebec, charged with
kidnapping and ill-using young
French Canadian girl at Robberval,
and shooting another girl at Cham
borg.
Frank Ward and Thomas Driscoll,
suspected of being implicated in the
attempted holdup of the North Coast
Limited train near Tacoma, were ar
rested at Seattle and are held in the
city jail Ward answers the descrip-
ton of the man who boarded the en-
CINE and fired a shot at the engineer.
The Vtgo County National bank of
Terre Haute, Ind, has announced that
Cashier ConZman has resigned and
that shortage has been discovered in
his accounts of about $4,000. CONF
man turned over securities amounting
to 100000. Following the announce
ment run was started on the bank.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
From Other Lands.

The Copenhagen correspondent OF
the London Daily Mail saysA 1t is
reported that Emperor William will
come here in the middle Of July, and
Will also visit King Oscar at Stock
holm.
Announcement is made that within
twelve wears a constitutional govern
ment will be established in China and
that the intervening time will be en-
ployed in bringing about the reforms
needed for so great a change.
In spite of Indian Secretary Brod-
rick's denial, it is reiterated that Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, has informed the
British cabinet that unless important
notifications are made in the orders
recently issued giving Lord Kitchener
supreme command of the forces in In
dial he will resign the viceroyalty.
The possibility of the retirement OF
Lord Curzon has caused an immense
sensation in India.
Secretary Frank N. Fowler of the
Northwestern Grain association has
issued his report covering the wheat
acreage. In Manitoba and the North
west there are 4,619,400 acres of wheat,
compared with 3,429, 400 last year, an
increase of $4,000 acres. The condi-
lions. says Secretary Fowler, are IA
vorable. except for too much moisture
in the Red river valley in Manitoba.
The Danish cadet training schooner
Georg Stage was rammed and sunk by
the British steamer Anaconda. The
Georg Stage sank in one and one-half
minutes. twenty-five cadets were
drowned and ffty-seven rescued.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
Railroad Regulation.

(From the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers Journal May, 1909
The congressional committee author
lied to investigate railroad practices
SO as to give the Senate more informa-
ton when the Esch-Townsend bill,
passed by the house, comes up at the
next session, probably in October, be-
gan their inquiry on April II. We be-
Iieve the Esch-Townsend bill will have
to be very much modified before it can
pass the Senate; but every subdivision
of the B. of L. E. in the States should
take an interest in this subject, which
they ought to feel is very near to
them, for the interest of the railroads,
in a large sense, is their interest; not
that it would result in a reduction Of
wages, but would, in all proba-
bility deter any advance and
would likely make it more diff
cult to sustain what we have,
and it would be good move either to
see or write each congressman or SEN
atOr, and express disapproval of any
measure which would take from the
railroad management the rate-making
power. Let the law be amended, it
necessary, to give the commission pow
er to cure such evils as are complained
Of, and give it unqualified authority to
enforce the interstate commerce law.
1t is very difficult for layman to see
wherein the government can infringe
at will upon the liberty Of contract OF
railroads in the interest of the shipper,
when there can be no legal restriction
placed on bakeshops in the interest of
the journeyman baker or the public.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
ENTRUSTED WITH FULL POWER
TO CONCLUDE A TREATY
OF PEACE.
ARRANGE FOR AN ARMISTICE
NEGOTIATIONS ARE NOW IN
PROGRESS TO STOP THE
FIGHTING.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 4.-Oficial
announcement was made by President
Roosevelt yesterday of the names OIL
the Russian and Japanese ENJOYS TO
the Washington peace conference.
The character and ability of the men
selected by both belligerents is an
earnest of the desire of their respec-
tive governments to conclude, if pos
sible, the tragedy being enacted in the
Far East. The plenipotentiaries are:
Russian = Ambassador Muravieff,
formerly minister Of justice, and now
ambassador to Italy, and Baron Rosen,
recently appointed as ambassador to
the United States to succeed Count
Cassini.
Japanese-Baron Komura, minister
of foreign affairs, and Kogoro Taxa
hira, minister to the United States.
Given Full Power.
The plenipotentiarie of both Rus
STA and Japan will be intrusted with
full power to negotiate and conclude
treaty of peace, subject, of course, to
ratification by their respective home
governments.
A day or two ago the Russian and
Japanese governments formally COM
municated to President Roosevelt the
names of the plenipotentiaries they
respectively had selected. Acting as
an intermediary, the president COM
municated the names Of the japanese
ENJOYS to the st. Petersburg govern
ment and those of the Russian repre-
sentatives to the government of Toxic.
Having received from both govern
ments assurances that the
Selections Were Satisfactory,
the president, according to his agree
ment with the belligerents, authorized
the public announcement of the en-
voys.
The presidents announcement con-
cludes the preliminary negotiations
for peace Minor details remain yet
to be arranged, but the conference
now seems to be assured While no
absolute date of the meeting of the
ENJOYS has been set it has been de-
termined that the first session will be
held in Washington about Aug. /.
Arrange an Armistice.
st. Petersburg, July 4. - Negotia-
tons for an armistice between the
armies of Russia and Japan, it can be
definitely stated, are now in progress,
presumably at Washington, but they
have no reached a stage where any
further announcement can be made,
The decision seems to rest with
Japan, which country is weighing the
REIMBURSEMENT of the prospects of
lettering her present advantageous
position against the enormous cost in
lives and money of another great bat
tie.
The chances for a decisive and final
Japanese victory, it is believed here,
are no better now than before Lao
yang and Mukden, and it is pointed
out that it is idle to talk of VladivOs-
tok falling like ripe apple into Jap
ans hands before the peace confer
ence meets.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
1000 LIVES ARE LOST IN FLOOD
Great Disaster OverWhelms Mining
City of Guanajato, Mexico.

Great Disaster OverWheIms Mining
City of Guanaj ato, Mexico.
City of Mexico, July 4.-Reports are
current here that from 100 persons
I'D, with one report claiming even
1000. have been drowned in great
flood at Guanajato, a mining city, now
the important seat Of activity OF sew
eral large American and British COM
panies The wires were down all day
Yesterday and the roads impossible.
No news has been received directly,
and two reports are current, one say
ing 1000 persons were drowned and
the other 100 were killed.
1t is said GuanajatO is completely
flooded and water already invading
the higher parts of the town, while
there are fears that the Laola dam
may give way, which would mean
Complete and General Ruin.
The city is built in great gorge in
the mountains and the streets ramble
up the mountainside in picturesque
fashion.
The storm began furiOusly on the
night of June 80, and after midnight
not one of the inhabitants dared to go
to bed, so tremendous was the fury OF
the elements. The water rose in the
lower or business streets, flooding the
shops and damaging thousands of dol
lars worth of merchandise. The low
er streets became raging torrents as
the water poured in rivers down the
upper streets. Doors were smashed in
by the
Force of the Water
and windows were no protection
against the furious food. Later adj
vices state that it is known that over
one hundred lives were lost at Guiana
iato. A dispatch to President Rob-
inson of the Mexican Central railroad
says there are 700 dead at Guanaja-
to. The town Of Maraflo, just below
Guanajato, was completely wiped out.
The raging water is carrying the
dead through every street. Messen-
gers say the water stands three feet
deep in houses and shops in the lower
part of the city, and the panic-stricken
people have gone into the mountains,
carrying their valuables. The storm
began to abate at o'clock in the af-
ternOOn.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
COSTS ODESSA MANY MILLIONS
Damage From Revolutionary 'neen-
diarisnr Placed at Forty Millions.

Damage From Revolutionary incen-
diarism Placed at Forty Millions.
Odessa, July At is estimated that
the total damage done by revolution
airy incendiarism will figure up be-
tween 100000 900 and $40,000,o00.
The greater part of the elevated
railroad, factories, packing houses,
magazines, private buildings, rolling
plants, and road level railway, seven
Russian steamers and more than ffty
sailing craft were all destroyed.
The public is distracted. All xmas
of contradictory reports are rife con-
corning the squadron.
Rebel Warship Sails.
The Kniaz Potemkine sailed Sat
urday, apparently in the direction OF
the Roumanian coast and nothing
since has been heard of her. With her
departure the situation for the mo-
ment has taken more favorable turn.
Vice Admiral Kruger's squadron
having left for Sebastopol, the Georgl
Pobiedonosetz is the only Warshlp
remaining here.
The only element of immediate
danger from mutinous sailors now
appears to lie with the Kniaz Potem-
kline.
The British consul has arranged
with four British steamers and one
Norwegian steamer to remain on
port SO as to be in readiness in case
of danger to remove foreign subjects.
Ask Forgiveness.
The crew of the Georgi Pobledon-
osetz sent forty men ashore yesterday
morning as hostages and have asked
the emperor's forgiveness for having
mutinied, pleading that they have not
damaged the ship.
According to some reports the sur
render of the Georgi Pobiedonosetz
was conditional upon the crew being
informed as to what their punishment
would be.
The vessel lies in the inner harbor,
in a position very unfavOrable Tor
bombarding the city. She is complete
ly under the heavy guns now mounted
in the boulevard overlooking the har-
bor
Admiral Kruger Gives UP.
st. Petersburg, July f. - The I'M
precedented spectacle Of powerful
modern battleship cruising around IN
the Black sea in the hands OF a crew
who, under the rules of international
law. cannot be regarded as other than
pirates, and of the admiral in COM
nj y
Tossing his inability to cope with the
situation and ordering the fires of his
warships to be drawn, has stupefed
the Russian admiralty.
On the Georgi Pobiedonosetz, which
cast its fortunes with the Kniaz Po-
temkine after its arrival at Odessa
and landed it's officers, the more loyal
or more timorous portion of the crew
again gained the upper hand and
agreed to surrender and
Disarn7 the Ship.
The rest of the squadron returned to
Sebastopol without venturing to take
m the gauntlet thrown down by the
mutineers on the Kniaz Potemkine,
and Admiral Kruger, after council
of war. finding that he could not de-
pend upon his crews, ordered the
fires drawn beneath the boilers of the
ships and gave permission to all the
disaffected officers and sailors to quit
the vessels and go ashore. The sail
ors of Ekatrina II. were known to be
so mutinous that the battleship was
left behind when the squadron started
for Odessa. the whole crew dismissed
and the ship disarmed.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
RAINS THREATEN CROPS.
Farmers Already Are Losers on Ac-
count of Wet Weather.

La Crosse, Wis, July 4-Continued
rains, which have broken the records
for moisture for several years, threat
en- to ruin the crops in this part Of the
state and in Minnesota The berry
crop has been almost entirely ruined
and rust is found among corn and
grain. The loss, it is claimed. will be
great.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
FIND DEAD BODY IN LAKE.
Edward w. Smith, Public Charge, Be-
lieved to Have Committed Suicide.

The lifeless body of Edward W.
Smith was found in small lake near
Cable. He was an inmate of the Saw
yer county poorhouse and wandered
away from the farm two weeks ago,
and long and persistent search To-
Gated his dead body in the lake He
was subject to spells of insanity and
his death is conceded to have been a
clear case of suicide.-W.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
BIG HooslER COAL COMBINE.
CAPITALIZED at 100000, With Annual
Output of 100000 Tons.

Output or 3,UUU,UUU OTIS.
Pittsburg, July Ga combination of
twenty-six coal companies of Indiana,
controlling $4,000 acres of coal lands,
has been formed here under the name
of the Vandalia Coal company. The
new concern has a capital Of $1,000
600 and is said to be the largest coal
company ever formed in the West.
The annual output will be 100000
tons. M. Ogle of Indianapolis is presi'
dent.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-08
Montana Bank Is Looted.

Great Falls, Mont, July 4. - The
Bank of Bait, Mont, was broken into
Yesterday. The safe was blown and
about 81 900 stolen.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-01-10
LoSlsE MICHEL NO n ORE.
Famous WNmAn Of French Commune
Dead Mt London.

Dead Mt London.
PARIS, Jan. 10.-Louis Michel, prom
inent as communist and revolutionary
agitator for the last thirty-hve years,
died yesterday In Marselles, aged sew
enty-hve years. Death followed an at
tack Of double pneumonia. contracted
while she was on lecturlng tour Of
the southern provinces of France.
Louise Michel first came into promi-
hence during the Franco Prussian' war.
She had previously been a provincial
schoolteacher and had formed roman
tic admiration for Charlotte Corday AMI
other characters Of the French reyolu-
tion. When the war between Prussia
and France broke out she joined an am
bulance corps and took part in the de-
Tense of Paris, later siding with the
commune and advocating the burning
of Paris to prevent the entry of the
Versailles troops. She was arrested
and tried for treason and sentenced to
transportation 70 New Caledonia. where
she remained until 1880. when she was
allowed to return to Paris under an
amnesty act
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-01-10
A Messnge TO HONEYWELL.

HARRISBURG. Pa. Jan. l0-Rob-
ert Pitcairn. president of the Pennsyl-
vania Electoral college, sent the fol-
lowing telegram to President RoOse-
welt: by direction of the electoral col
lege of Pennsylvania, now In session
at the capital city OF Harrisburg. l
have the honor to advise you that In
obedience TO the expressed will of her
freemen, emphasized by majority Of
over half a million. the members of
this college have cast their entire
electoral vote for you for president of
the United States" A similar message
was sent to Vice President Elect Fair
banks.
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BENNINVtOk BRIEFS.
News OF the Town and village Briefly
Told for Busy Readers.

News OF the Town and village Briefly
Told for Busy Readers.
DIR l.. II. Ross was in Troy Monday.
william Nevis is home from Sche-
nectady.
Rev A. J. Barron has been confined
to the house by illness for several
days.
Miss Maybelle Frasier has been
visiting relatives In Rutland for the
past two weeks.
Miss Nellie Moore has been spend
ing few days Mt II. f. Lyons on
Park street road.
Mrs Frank Il. Howe and children
returned Monday from visit TO her
parents in Montpelier.
A movement is on foot to scrape the
snow from the athletic field and to
lCod IL making skating rink.
Lewis and Lem Lyons have return
ed TO their homes in Greenfield, Mass.
after spending the holidays with rela-
tives here,
Frank Smith of Greenfield, Mass,
who has been visiting his cousins,
Bert Waite and Wayne Maise, h s
returned home.
Mrs Patrick Whitney went to Albany
Monday to accompany home her sou,
John Whitney, who has had an oper-
alton performed.
The Knights OF Columbus will give
a card party, dance and social at their
rooms Wednesday evening for men,
bers and lady friends.
Rev John Cullion left Saturday for
! st A lbans. Last week he was present
ed with purse OF $3.50 all but $50 vi
which was from the congregation of
/ the church.
Mother; Johnny, how is it you
stood SO much lower in your Studies
in January than you did in Deem
ber?"
Johnny: II don't know, mother, un.
less it is because everything is mark
ed down after the holidays. Ram S
Horn.