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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
OPEN FIELD SAFEST PLACE.
Person Less Liable to Be Struck by
Lightning Danger
Gus Places.

About the most dangerous place to
seek shelter in thunderstorm is un.
der an oak or elm tree, as was proved
again by the experience Of a dozen
persons in Prospect park, Brooklyn.
only a short time ago. This fact has
long been known to scientists, but
many persons are killed every year by
lightning because of the lack or dis
regard of this knowledge.
The total annual loss of lie by light
ming is not known, for complete statis-
tics ON the subject have never been
kept. A few years ago the United
States weather bureau attempted
something of the kind in a tentative
way. It's experts figured out the aver.
age number of persons killed by light
ming yearly in the United States as
49, But this was not complete. From
several states In the union the wealth.
er bureau received no reports.
The reports received did show that
of all that lightning killed, only a
few were struck in the open field.
Most of the killed and injured, it was
found, had sought shelter from thun-
derstorms under trees, In doorways of
barns or near chimneys.
While no record of the kinds Of trees
most often, struck by lightning has
ever been kept in the United States,
the lightning rod conference held in
England in 1881 reported that in the
United Kingdom the trees most often
struck were the elm, oak, ash and
poplar. It also said that the beech,
birch and maple were seldom touched
by lightning. 1t was an elm that was
struck in Prospect park on July 8.
For period of II years in the prin.
cipality of Lippe-Detmold exhaustive
records were kept of all trees struck
by lightning. These showed that trees
standing near water seemed to be the
most likely to be hit and gave this
table of comparative danger: Oaks,
100; elms, II; pines, 80; frs, 10; flr
trees in general, q; oeeches, by far
the safest of all forest trees, 2.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
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st. Paul. Judge Lewis in the dis
trict court sustained the demurrers to
the complaints in the suits brought by
Samuel Berman and Aaron Berman
against O.. O.. Rindal, &c. N. 3 CosgroYe
and franklin II. Griggs, to recover
IS, coo damages in both for an al
legged false arrest and imprisonment
at the state fair grounds in 1908. The
demurrers were based on the ground
that here was an improperS joinder Of
parties and cases OF action. 1 sk..
TT The Germans, who are brothers.,
claim that they visited the state fair
grounds during the fair of 1908 and
were arrested by the defendant Rim:
dial, one Of the Especial officers ems
ployed on the fair grounds, and im-
prisoned in the fair grounds Jail on a
charge of being picl<pockets Wv
Suits based on thes same grounds
were brought against the state agri-
cultural society but the supreme court
held that the society is a part Of the
state governmentand cannot be sued:
The present suits were then brought
against O. Q. Rindal, the special officer
who made the arrest. C. N. Cosgrove,
president Of the society whose duty,
the complaints allege it was to en-
employ the peace officers On the fair
grounds, and franklin II. "Griggs, at
torney for the society. A's>ss.et. 4.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
Japs Know Good Music

Picking up menu card of a hotel
in Yokohama, one sees thereon a mu.
sic programme, made up entirely of
compositions by Beethoven, Flotow,
Haydn, Strauss and List. Which
proves that the Japanese know good
music and evidently like it, else the
hotel management would not make up
it's programme from composers of this
grade. This is an improvement on the
American taste, which goes in for
''ragtime" or such chaste works as
"Bedelia," Smoky Mokes, - "The St.
Louis Tickle" The more we hear
and see of Japan and it's people The
more we are inclined to the view that
in many respects they represent q
higher degree of civilization than
boastful America and Americans Rave
yet reached. =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10

NOVEL FIGHT WITNESSED BY
STe' TWO HUNTERS. .<
BIG CAT STARTS TROUBLE
he Internationally Ducks Animated
P1ncushion and Trouble Quickly
zFollows-Both Are FL
-" nally X lied.

Chlttenden, VIA novel battle be-
tween "a Canadian lynx and a big
hedgehog was witnessed recently by
Roy Pritchard and Ralph Stewart, who
were" hunting cartridges in the vicin-
1ty OF Rocky pond, in the mount aims
northeast of here.
the men were eating their lunch
con on the shore of the pond. when
they observed mammoth hedgehog
crawl out on log and dip his nose
into the water for drink. Pritcllard
was about to crawl toward the point
from which the log projected, when
ne saw: lynx creep out of the bushes
and leap on the log. The jar upset
the hedgehog, and he went into the
water with a splash.
While the surprised and indignant
animated pincushion was swimming
ashore, grunting at every stroke of his
clumsy paws, the lynx lay down On the
log, wormed his way toward the end
and Tapped the water thirstily. He
paid no further attention to the hog
and was greatly enjoying his drink
when he received a prick in the flank
which drew from him a howl of pain
and rage. His unseated adversary Lad
crawled up behind him and nosed him
in the leg.
When he felt the sharp quilts the
lynx turned and cuffed the hog into
the water again, but the chastisement
cost him dear, for he, too,> toppl I'd in
and came down belly first on the raised
quilts. For a moment the animals
struggled until the hog fixed his long
and sharp front teeth in the paw of the
big cat. when they swan, rolled and
splashed ashore to have it out on tho
bank. =
1t is seldom that any animal will
tackle q hedgehog, but in this instance
the lynx went into battle with a de-
termination that BODIED i'll for mis- en-
emy.s He bit, scratched and tore at the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
WALKS tJl' % DOyvN
Wall s. OF. skYScRAPER.
Daring Feat OF a steeplejack to Win
Bet of Two lars-Crowds +
~ Witness Performance. III.

New York.-Clinging like fly to the
surface of the Flatiron building, John
>Garricls, a steeplejack,, walked, down the
side of the tall building from the TWEEN
tieth story to the street and up again
several times the other day, while thou
sands below stood trembling at the dar-
ing. feat Women tainted from the
strain ON their nerves, men turned
white, while Garrick, as lnconcerned
as though he were strolling along Broad
way, was rapidly" ascending and de-
scending, stopping to pose for his pho
tograph, waving salutations to re-.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10

need!e-like quilts until his mouth, paws
and large part of his hide were
fairly bristling with them, and the hog
looked like patchwork bed quilt For
the most part the enemy lay with it's
nose~between its paws, -jealously guard
ing it's one vulnerable part, but now
and then 1t got telling nip and let
60 only when his thin skull was ex-
posed to a blow from the cats power
full raw.
At the end OF ten minutes the lynx
had annexed most of the hogs quilts.
and it was beginning to look as though
he would finish his antagonist, when
one OF the slender points penetrated an
eye. Blind from pain and fury, he
spun around in circle, and the hedge
hog, seeing that he finally had his tor
mentor at disadvantage, caught him
by the throat and held ON until he vas
almost disemboweled. !
Up to this time the men had re-
Trained from taking hand in the
fight, as their guns were loaded with
fine birdshot, but now, realizing that
they would be doing service to botE
they ran forward and put the coIcbat
ants out of misery. When the lynx
was stretched out his hide was found
to be SO filled with quilts as to be
worthless. Several had penetrated his
throat, and as the points were poi
soned, it would have been but a mat
ter of time before he died, either from
the effect of the poison or from per-
foration of the windpipe. The hog
was badly torn, and could not have
survived long.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
Exciting Hunt After Snake.

.sMcKeesport, Pa.-Residents of the
Tenth ward had an exciting hunt for a
copperhead the other day, but the rep
tile escaped, and the women of the vi
cinity in which it was located are in a
state Of nervous apprehension. The
snake Is said to be three feet long. It
took refuge from its pursuers under a
porch at the residence of Thomas Ed
mundson, in Pacific avenue, and has not
been seen since 1T is sbelieved the
snake wriggled out Of a load <of. hay
brought from the country. I'D. =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10

when they all got asleep, and began
to cry, and wish was dead, dad woke
up and said: Now + won't do a
thing to your Creeks and he went
around to the sleeping bandits and
took all their knives and all their
money, and he took off the petticoat
they had given him to wear and tied
blanket around his waist, and he
tied their legs together with strings
of the saddles of the mules, and Just
before daylight on the second morning
dad and got on tbs Biggest mule and
started down the trail, and when we
struck level ground we mauled that
mule and he got q move on him and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10

porter, |clinging all the while to the
sheer wall with his. fingers and toes in
theinch- and-aquarter deep grooves that
indent its surface, and all to earn a 81
bet: Garrick did not touch window
sill save to enter or leave a window.
1T is safe il you are careful" said
Garrick afterwards, "as safe as walking
the street" Garrick is about 80 years
old and lives in Brooklyn. At one time
in his career he was an aeronaut, but
at present he is an awning-hanger.
Taking the elevator to the twentieth
story of the Flatiron building, he en-.
tered an Office facing the Broadway side
and opening. the window, stepped out
on the ledge. The Flatiron building is
286 feet high and from the window ledge
where Garrick stood there was sheer
vertical wall below him, with the pave
ment more than 27O feet away. A sim
gle false step or lost hold meant death.
Garrick did not hesitate an instant
Lowering himself carefully over thu
edge of the window he felt with his feet
for%a hold in the grooves that run hori-
Zontally over the wall. These grooves
are onlya an inch and quarter deep and
two inches wide Garrick quickly dis.
appeared from the window, to the
amazement of the clerks in the office,
who rushed forward to see where he
had gone. They thought that he was
trying to- commit suicide. AS they
leaned out they saw thesman already
many feet down the wall, climbing dag
onally to avoid window castings immedi-
ate1y beneath the point of departure. He
looked like man on an Invisible ladder.
When he started Broadway was bus
thing about it's usual business, but before
he reached the corner many women
looked upward and caught sight of him.
One woman screamed and everyone
within reach of her stopped and stared.
With rapidity the news spread through
the crowd The traffic on Broadway
and along Twenty-third street was
blocked.
Down he went, one foot after the 9TH
er, and one hand grasping the thin ledge
below, before he released his grip on the
upper one. -. - 81. &. T., ssssss = s.
He looked from the#streetz and from
the roof Of the Bartholdi hotel like a
man walking on an invisible ladder.
Never for an instant did he falter or hes
itate, but with calm, even movements
as though his inch of foothold was the
step of staircase, the steeplejack came
down to the street Later he ascendod
in the same way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
x Corpse Drives Merrvma kers

Philadelphia, PA dead loan dro7e
a party of horsemena mile from the
Belmont race track to Narberth sta
ton. The dead man was William
Devere, aged 20 years, driver. Tie
old man, who has been a familiar fig
ure on the Lancaster pike for many
years, went to the driving park for
passengers. and obtained a hack load.
He answered some questions, took ,di-
rections. jumped lightly to his seat, aud
started his horse. When Narberth sta
ton was reached one Of the party
called to the old man to stop. The
order was not needed. The man
jumped from the hack, stopped the
horse, and, after berating him Tor not
stopping at the station, reached up
to shake the silent driver. It was
they found that Devere was dead-of
apoplexy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
Avoids Bath 22 Years.

.Marshalltown, 1a.-Because, as the
pla Unfit alleges, her husband has not
bathed for % years, and brags OF the
fact, Mrs. Phoebe Naumann, wife OF a
farmer; filed. q petition for divorce.
She asked the custody Of seven minor:
children and 5000 of alIsnsn1ly one
third Of the defendants propaeI.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10

The Bad Boy and His Dad at Chris
tian Science Boarding House-The
Bad Boy Tells His Uncle How They
We're kidnapped In dreece-Dad
Sang "Hot Time0 In the. Bandits
Cave and When They Were Asleep
Escaped on a Mule.
BY HON GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Ed
itor Of "Peck's Sum-" Author of
"Peck's Bad Boy" etc.)
Copyright, 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles.)
well, I suppose you have got your
European airs worn of, SO you can
come down to plain American living
again. saidthe old groceryman to the
bad boy when he came into the grocery
with kerosene can, and sat down on
the barrel of dried apples; and reached
into the barrel of lump sugar, and filled
his pocket. The old man had just cut
a new cheese, and he sliced off thin
piece of cheese and laid it. en- big
square cracker and handed It to the
boy, saying: Just lay that inside
your ribs and tell me if you got any
thing to eat in Europe that could hold
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
Prolific.

St. Cloud. -Luxemberg, a township
in Stearns county, is in no apparent
danger Of depopulation by race suicide,
according to the reports in the hands
of the state census bureau There are
in the township s1O$ people, and as
there are only 90 families the average
number in each family is 70. There
is mo family with less than .fve4mem-
bcrs. One family has Is members,
two have fourteen, one, ID; three have
IL; have II; sixteen have 10; IS have
nine members; twenty -four have 8
members, and twenty-three have z.
The census bureau. officials say they
have several other townships ''nearly>,
as good" z-eSga
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
Must Paw.

st. Paul Attorney General Young.
says there is no way in which Stevens,
county en- repudiate the bonds held
by the state for payment of seed-grain
loans. The county commissio ncrs
have stated that they do not intend to
pay theloans, having been advised by
the county attorney that such actioniss
not necessary. The attorney general
says the only point that can be,
raised Is the constitutionality of the
law under which the loans were made,
and it is tooslate to make that defense,
now that the loan has been made and
the state has the bouds. sa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10

Wayzata-Fire destroyed the gem:
eral store of .Bodin: Bros. at Mound.
Lake, Minnetonka. : 5
st. Paul-W. c. chabdelain, 60 East
Eleventh street, who took a large dose
of morphine died at the city hospital
St. Paul-Three shots ina week have.
been fred at the windows of Rice &.
C:ymer, printers, - East Fifth street,;
No damage has been done except the:
breaking Ola window pane. The pos.
lice have been notified. The shots
fred On separa e days. sssszss5sssssssesss
Springfe1d-A1bert Nuessle, the son
of appointment merchant audlmember.
Of the university football team, season.
1904 ACCIDENT y shot himself IN the
left arm, l:cting bad flesh wound.
Winona - Several members ofstho3
Winona board .of trade and business.
men visited the beet syndicats fields
near Stockton for purposes 81 inspec-.
ton. The found the beets inexcellents
condition and ready TO be cat,
Minneapolis Aftersa quarrel Dave.
Riley, . stonemason, living at s49o.
Girard ayenne n, shot and killed Bar
ney Canerty, his next-dpor neig hbor,
and then killed himself
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
!. TiedUp.

Duluth. -Anzor1er restraining tho
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
roads from moving cars of grain
brought 70 Superior and inspected by
the: Wisconsin inspectors has been
signed and is now In force. The order
includes over 700 cars at present. Wis
consin claims that the inspection fees
have not been paid and is holding tho
cars until the money is turned over.
The roads arepractically tied up a. far
as the grain movement is concerned ii. Il
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
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Suicide

Aitkin.-Dr: VIC. Arons. the bone
setter, convicted Of bi gamy and5sgrand
larceny and sentenced to six years il
the penitentiary in saltwater, COM
mitted suicide in his cell, blowing his
head completely off with a 44-caliber
Colt revolver -
Sheriff C. G. Haugen had just gone
down town, leaving the Jail in charge
of Deputy Sheriff John Erickson, who,
it seems was writing at his desk in the
sheriff's off &c, when he heard the door
by loud and continuous knocking on
the inner door of the Jail room. When
the officer opened the door the doctor
gave him a violent push against the
back wall and Immediately. rushed to
the sheriH'sdesk, and opened it, grasp
ing 4-caliber Colt revolver, turned
upon the deputy, shouting: "Get out
of my way rushed back into his cell,
placed the revolver to his head and
scattered his brains all over the floor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-10
Royalties.

Duluth. revenue to the state
from royalties on its iron ore proper:
ties this year year gives promise of be-
ing great record breaker. The state
received $127, $3.50 II during the first
three quarters of the year, being on
IA, 1853 tons Of ore. The receipts for
the third quarter alone amounted to
81, 1924 81 for 1886, 5S7 tons of ore Dur.
Ing the same quarter last year 1s1, ees
tons were produced, and the state got.
$4s,O3O3l B
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-28

rates, rules and regulations Gas ,s-
ed in the Esch-Townsend bilD, A. ing
differentials, and equalizing natural
advantages and disadvantages.
ut seems very plain to me that the
opinion of the commission is entirely
wrong. But it seems equally plain
that if their views are sound they in
vite the people of the United States to
of the commercial destinies of the ma
ton
IF the power to make rates is con-
ferred upon the interstate commerce
commission that body will be imme-
diately confronted with the RESPONSE
bility of making rates to and from
every port in the United States. II 1t
makes a. rate to Or from Philadelphia
it must not give any preference to
that port over Baltimore or any of the
numerous ports on the Atlantic sea-
board in other states than Pennsylva-
mia.
1.-The interstate commerce commits
sion insisting that the preference
clause of the constitution is not ap-
plicable boldly takes the logical step
of asking that they be permitted In
making rates to establish differentials.
and that they be trusted by this great
commercial nation with the power to
preserve harmony between all the
ports and commercial centers Of the
United States. If the interstate COM
merce commission were gifted with SUI
perhuman knowledge and superhu-
man sense of justice and fair dealing.
they could not do what they are ask
ing congress to permit them to do"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-28
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE
Was Stricken With ApopIexy While
On His Way From Boston to Wash
inston Today-Entire Left Side Par
aIyzed-outeome May be Fatal.

lH9Ion oQdy-6OtJFe eSIS 0iu0 . Vat
aIyzed-Outcome May be Fatal.
Washington, April 2s.-General
Fitzhugh Lee, on his way from Boston
to Washington, was stricken with ap-
oplexy shortly after the train left Har-
lem river. His left side is affected.
The train bearing the general arrived
in Washington shortly after 10. and
the patient was removed to Providence
hospital. The news of the generals
condition had preceded him to Wash
ington and many of his army of personal
friends were at the Pennsylvania sta
tion to meet him. The general was
conscious and chatted with his friends.
He was stricken just as the train left
Fall River. Physicians were taken
aboard the train at Jersey City, Phil
adelphia and Baltimore. Since the
first stroke no change for the worse
has taken place.. The general has been
spending few days in Boston and was
returning to Washington on his way to
join Mrs. Lee. All the members of the
generals family have been notified of
his condition.
Major Kean. OF the medical corps
of the army, announced ,at 1 o'clock
that there was no apparent change, in
the condition of Lee. and it will be inn
possible to tell the outcome for sew
eral hours. The entire left side is
paralyzed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-28
FIGHT STOPS SHIRT PARADE.
Ann Arbor Students While celebratin!
Almost Cause Riot.

Ann Arbor, Mich, April %. - Four
hundred claws" and other students
formed night shirt parade last night
and marched thru the streets in imi-
tation of the annual senior swingout
of caps and gowns, which occurred
yesterday afternoon.
On one of the main streets great
crowd of onlookers attempted to tear
the shirts off the wearers and fight
ensued. Longman, the football man,
was the first. man attacked. He fought
as on the gridiron and got loose with
his Quaint attire almost in rags. The
battle then assumed larger proportions,
and flrece mixup followed. In the
midst of the affair the police appeared
and tried to make the fighters desists.
A dispute followed and one student was
taken into custody.
The night shirt brigade" then pro-
ceeded to the campus where a big
celebration was held. An amusing fea-
ture of the affair was when freshman
appeared attired only i'm a night shirt.
No other apparel was worn, for he
had been told that this was the Gus
tom. The poor lad soon looked like
a primitive savage. for his night shirt
was torn into shreds. He was finally
whisked off home by his friends.
With the swingout yesterday after
noon President Angel emphasized the
of politeness as essential
to business success.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-28
TOGO TO LosE-DEWEY.
Admiral Expects Rojestvensky to De-
feat Japanese in Coming Battle.

washington, April 2S-Admiral
Dewey expects Admiral Rojestvensky's
ships to defeat Admiral Togo's fleet
unless the inferior personnel of the
Russian navy completely offsets it's SUI
periority in battle ships. According to
Admiral Dewey the battleship is the
unit in naval warfare, and the nation
which has the most in line wins the
battle.
AS Americas highest naval expert,
Admiral Dewey's conclusions, shared
by many other prominent officers of
4 the navy, have shaped the policy now
being pursued by this government to
develop the navy in the direction of
Strengthening its battleship line. The
torpedo boat has not been discarded,
but has been relegated to subordinate
position, ard while gunboats and cruis-
ers are being added to the navy for
service as policemen in time of peace,
the real fighting strength is being de-
veloped by Increasing the number of
battle ships.
Admiral Dewey, like many of his.
fellow officers, does not think we'll of
the Russian personnel, but calculating
the probable outcome upon this theory
OF battle ship strength, the Russians
have decided advantage, and this ad-
vantage should bring them victory.
The Japanese may prove faulty Adj
miral Dewey's estimate of the value of
torpedo boats, but his conclusions are
based. upon a careful investigation, and