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The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
STAYS ALLEGED
WRECk[R OF HOME
HARRY THAW, WEALTHY PITTS
BURG MAN, SHOOTS FAMOUS
ARCHITECT.
MORE SOLDIERS IN MUTINY
SINISTER RUMoRS IN CiRCULA-
TON REGARDING UHLAN
REGIMENT.

New York, June ~ Stanford
White, the eminent architect of the
firm of McKim, Mead & White, was
shot last night and almost instantly
killed by Harry Thaw, a members OF
a prominent Pittsburg family, during
the performance of a musical extrava-
ganza, "MamZelle Champagne" on the
roof of the Madison Square Garden.
Mr.. White died before an ambulance
could be summoned and Thaw was ar
rested.
The Madison Square roof garden,
which has been closed for several
years, was crowded last night with a
fashionable audience.
Tragedy in Midst Of Comedy.
While Harry Short, who fills the
principal comedy role in the piece,
was singing a comic song and the gar
den was echoing with the laughter
and applause of the audience, series
of shots ratified in the rear of the au-
ditorium, and man in evening dress
| was seen to fall across table at
which he was sitting with a party OF
| friends The man who had fired the
shots fled, pistol in hand, toward the
nearest exit, where he was seized and
| disarmed by police.
Instantly the great audience was
thrown into a panic and a wild STAN
pede occurred during which chairs
and tables were overturned and men
and women fought with desperation to
escape from the roof.
The man who was shot was quickly
identified as Mr.. White, but his assail-
ant was not positively known to be
Thaw until after he had been taken to
| the station house.
The woman who accompanied Mr..
Thaw was Evelyn Nesbitt, whose mar
riage with Thaw for a time estranged
the latter from his family. She was
member of the original 'FlOrodoro"
sextette.
Mystery still surrounds the cause
of the tragedy, but it's solution may
| be found in the words attributed to
Thaw Immediately after the shooting:
well, he ruined my wife and | got
| him"
It is known that for years bitter en-
nifty had existed between White and
Thaw on account Of the formers at
tentions to Mrs. Thaw, which had be-
gun prior to her marriage.
Mrs Thaw disappeared in the ex-
citemen while her husband was being
taken to the station house, and up to
a late hour last night could not be
| found
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
ROB THAW HOME OF
100000 IN JEWELS
SENSATIONAL ROBBERY IN PITTS
BURG JUST COMES TO
LIGHT.
FRANKLY ADMITS THE KILLING
PLEADS IN JUSTIFICATION THAT
WHITE RUINED HIS WIFE
SENT TO ToMBs.

New York, June 2S.-Frankly adj
hitting that he killed Stanford White,
the famous architect, and pleading in
justification of the deed that White
had ruined the life of his wife, the
beautiful former chorus girl and
artists model, Florence Evelyn Mes
bit, Harry Kendall Thaw of Pittsburg,
brother of the Countess of Yarmouth,
occupies a cell in the Tombs awaiting
the action of the grand jury on
charge of murder His counsel will
offer the defense of insanity. Yester-
day the prisoner was examined by emf
nent alienists.
Wife Must Testify
The coroner's inquest Will be held
On Thursday and in all probability the
case will then be considered by the
grand jury, when the prisoners wife
will be required to appear before that
body.
Lewis Delafeld, who took charge Of
Thaw's interests Immediately after his
arrest, announced that the firm of
Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bonynge. OF
which Former Governor Frank S.
Black is the senior partner, had been
retained to conduct the defense.
Mrs. Thaw Appears.
The whereabouts of Mrs. Thaw, who
disappeared from Madison Square
Garden in the confusion that followed
the tragedy, remained a mystery until
yesterday afternoon. when she arrived
at the offices of Delafield & Longfel-
low, where she remained in cOnsulta-
ton with counsel for several hours.
The district attorneys Office is bus
lily engaged in looking up Thaw's ante
cedents, his mode of living, reported
designations and indulgences, with a
view to Analysing their bearing on his
mental condition. On this point Mr..
Mott said:
"Thaw is not insane now, nor was
he insane at the time he shot White"
Mrs. White Frustrated.
Mrs. White came in yesterday
morning from her summer home at
st. James, in Long Island, and went
to the town house in Gramercy Park.
Mrs. White was reported to be COM
pletely Frustrated by shock and grief.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
The News Of the Week
Casualties.

Casualties.
A passenger train and through
freight collided two miles north Of
Middlesboro, KY, seriously iniuring
nine persons
Lloyd Emerson, twelve years cid, Of
Poplar Grove, N. Y, who has been Wis
iting his grandmother, living near Ma
son City, Iowa, was drowned while
bathing.
Private William F.. Colvin, Company
C, Eighteenth infantry, whose home is
in Logansport, Ind, was accidentally
shot and killed by a fellow sentry at
Fort Leavenworth.
John T. Baldwin, the eight-year-old
son of c. A. Baldwin, a millionaire,
was killed in North Cheyenne canyon,
in Colorado. He was thrown from a
burro and his skull fractured.
The steamer Steel King, bound
down with ore, was beaehed at Harbor
Beach, Lake Huron, having been seri-
ously damaged in a collision with the
steamer Manchester of Milwaukee in
a fog.
J. B. Baremore, a farmer, his two
children, Emma, aged five years, and
James, aged eighteen months, died at
Little Rock, Ark, of ptomaine pois-
oning. A daughter, aged seven years,
is at the point of death.
DR.. William G.. Hare and Charles
Delzell were drowned in Saginaw bay
at Bay City, Mich, when steam
launch in which a party of six men
had started on fishing trip capsized.
The four other men we're rescued.
Two early morning fires at st. Louis
did damage estimated at $215,000 by
completely cutting five-story Office
building and burning a large livery
and undertaking establishment. Fifty
horses were incinerated in the latter.
Five 1umbermen were drowned in
the Shoshone river, near Wapiti, Wyo.,
while attempting to cross in boat.
The men belonged to a gang working
on a log jam and had been warned by
the foreman not to attempt the trip.
The boat contained eleven men and
capsized in mid-stream. Six were
rescued with difficulty.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
Notes From Washington.

Senator Hepburn, who has been Ill
for about month, has returned TO
his duties at the senate.
The controller of the currency has
issued a call for the condition OF ma
tional banks at the close of business
on Monday, June Is.
A bill was repassed by the senate
providing for the disposal of the lands
of the Fort Rice reservation in North
Dakota, under the land laws.
The conference report on the execu
tive, legislative and judicial appropria-
ton bill was adopted by the house,
which passes the bill, the senate haV-
ing already adopted the report.
The house adopted the conference
report on, the bill providing for the
subdivision of land entered under the
reclamation act This bill fixes the
farm units of not less than twenty
acres nor more than 100 acres.
Senator Morgan recently celebrated
his eighty-second birthday by making
a long speech in the senate in support
of the bill for a sea level canal across
the isthmus of Panama.
Without sending the nomination OF
John G. A. Leishman of Pennsylvania
to be ambassador to Turkey to com.
mittee, the senate confirmed it within
a short time after it was received
from the president.
A Minnesota firm, D. H. Freeman
irrigation contract by Secretary OF the
Interior Hitchcock. 1t is for con
structing the canal work and other
excavations on the lower Yellowstone
project in Montana. The award was
made at $245,138.
Senator McCumber presented to the
senate a petition from the board OF
trade of Superior, Wis, for an investl-
CATION of the grain inspection prac-
ticed By the Minnesota authorities.
The board claims a shortage of about
100000 bushels on account OF the
method used. The senator urged the
investigation as in the interest Of all
parties concerned.
The house has passed the bill in
troduced by Representative Volstead OF
Minnesota, proposing the reimburse
ment of receivers at general land OIL
ces for moneys expended in contests
over entries on the public domain. The
Volstead bill proposes a permanent
statute on the subject to cover the de-
cision made in this connection by the
controller of the treasury.
Another star was added to the Union
when President Roosevelt signed the
bill admitting Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory as one state. The meas
ure also provides that Arizona and
New Mexico may be admitted to state
hood as the state of Arizona, provided
the people of the territories vote in
favor of admission on the terms sub
mitted to them by congress.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
COLOMBIA WILL DIG A CANAL.
Another Waterway Planned as Rival
TO American Panama Canal.

to American Panama Canal.
New York, June 28.-La Zemana, a
Spanish weekly news bulletin, publish
ed a report from Colombia that the Bo-
gotta government has in contemplation
a project for an interoceanic sea level
canal, through Darien, n modification
of the original plan of the AtratO Tru-
ando route. According to the private
advices which bring this information,
Colombia has been assured of the CO.
operation of various sister republics
of Latin America.
The plans for the canal do not pre-
sent any new engineering problems.
More than half Of the total cost, which
it is estimated would be about S170,-
600, 900, would be for labor. The la
borers will be soldiers of the Colon
bian army and contingents of soldiers
from the other republics interested in
the project, each country to pay its
own men as if they were in actual
service. This cooperation is to be
paid for by shares of the stock of the
canal and by certain franchises.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
Crimes and Criminals.

While attempting TO escape from a
policeman at Chester, Pa, William,
alias Chick" Horsey, a negro, was
shot and killed.
The federal grand jury at Omaha
returned indictments against thirteen
prominent Nebraska cattlemen in con-
nection with land fraud cases.
Edward L. Groves, real estate
dealer of Springfield, ILL.,, was found
dead in a hotel. He had committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Four dead and one perhaps fatally
injured, all white men, is the result
of an attempt by three life-term con-
victs to escape from the Angola (La.)
state convict farm.
Police Officer Spellman of Denver
he had placed under arrest. The shoot
ing occurred in district inhabited
largely by negroes.
Mrs. Sallie Bode, wife of railroad
engineer, was shot and killed at Sa-
Ida, Colo, by Mrs. Harold Hutchin-
son, wife of a switchman. Jealousy
was the cause of the shooting.
J. B. Binns, formerly a lieutenant
in the United States army, committed
suicide by jumping overheard from
the steamer Ohio while the vessel was
en- route from Nome to Seattle.
Unknown persons cut with a dia-
mond or other instrument nearly ev-
cry plate glass window on Main street,
Dubuque. Scores of windows were
ruined and the damage will run into
the hundreds of dollars.
Fred Price, wanted in Portage, CO.
1umbus county, Wis, has been arrest
ed at Belgrade, Mont, and is held at
Bozeman pending the arrival of an
officer Price is charged with ques-
tionable bank transaction.
A jury in the ST. Louis circuit court
acquitted Sergeant J. J. Connors of
the st. Louis police force, who was
indicted on charges of bribery grow
ing out of the investigation of alleged
graft in the department.
Penitentiary Guard G. c.. Guant shot
and killed Richard Smith, negro por-
ter in the Pacific house saloon at JEFF
lferson City, Mo-, because Smith had
asked Guant to move in order that he
might sweep. Guant was arrested
| Albert L. English, former director OF
public safety; Philip H. Johnson, arch
itect; James D. Finley, inspector, and
Henry E. Baton, member of the firm
of Henderson & Co., were acquitted at
| Philadelphia of the charge of conspir-
acy to cheat the city in the construc
ton of the municipal hospital, by di
rection of Judge McMichael.
Despondent because he feared he
was losing his mind, Ira Iverson, a
well-to-do Clinton, Iowa, man, commit.
ted suicide by hanging himself in the
boiler house of the City National bank
where he was employed as ianitor
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
INVESTIGATE FARM PROBLEMS.
Twenty-second Annual Report of Agri'


Twenty-second Annual Report of Agri-
cultural Experiment Station.
Interesting and important informa-
ton concerning agricultural products
and industries in Wisconsin, obtained
during the past year by the agricul-
tural experiment station of the UNI
versity of Wisconsin, is presented III
the twenty-second annual report OF the
station. volume of 400 pages, giving
detailed and accurate accounts OF the
work done in the various departments
of research and experiment. Over sew
enty photographs taken on the farms
of the agricultural college and in va
r1ous parts of the state where expert
ments have been conducted, accom-
pany the reports in illustration OF
methods used and results obtained.
Food values for horses, cattle and
swine have been given close atten-
ton, as have also the varied problems
which arise in connection with tho
breeding and care of such animals.
Dairy herds and their products. with
especial attention to the Swiss cheese
industry; soil studies, tree pests,
breeding and .fertilizing grains and
forage plants and tests of sugar beets
have all been the subject of investi-
cation and experiment by the officers
Of the station. who now number twen-
ty-nine.
In connection with swine raising
and fattening, special attention was
given to the comparative values OF
cottonseed meal whole corn and
cornmeal. and of soy beans and wheat
middlings as supplementary feeds.
The value of grain rations in tatten-
ing wethers, the production of winter
lambs. winter exercise for young
wethers and rations for lambs are Civ
en- full discussion. Photographs OF
the new additions to the university
dairy herd, discussions of the food
value of dried beet pulp and of the
addition of salt to rations, of the in
fuence of dehorning and tuberculin
tests on milk yield and report of the
official tests OF dairy cows are present
ed in interesting form in the annual
report. One hundred pages are given
to the cheese and butter industry and
it's problems. The archaeological.
horticultural and horse breeding de-
partments also have full reports.
In carrying on these investigations
and in obtaining important results the
Agricultural Experiment association,
with it's membership of nearly 700
students in the agricultural college OF
the university. has been powerful
ally of the experiment station by Civ
ing the station immediate and close
connection with all parts of the state
The members of the association carry
out upon their farms experiments sug.
gested and directed by the station Off
GERS and report the results.-W.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
sULPHlTEs IN sAUSAGES.
Chemist Makes Analysis of Products
of Three Packers.

Kansas City, June 28.-A chemical
analysis of hamburger steak, bologna
sausage, Polish sausage, franNurters
and weinerwursts bought in the open
market from three leading packing
companies has convinced Or. B. w.
Lindberg, professor of chemistry and
toxicology in the Kansa City Hahne-
mann Medical college, that these prod
ucts of the packing companies contain
sulphites. In every sample Of the
products of two houses and in two out
of five of the other samples sulphites
were found.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
PRINCE CARLOS NEAR DEATH.
Bourbon's Auto Overturns and Mar.
ouis of Mes adeasta Is Hurt

Madrid, June 27.-Prince Carlos OF
Bourbon, who in 1901 married the late
Infanta Mercedes, queen of Spain
from the death of her father, Alfonso
XII. until the birth of her brother
the present king, had narrow escape
from death yesterday while returning
to Madrid from La Granja in an auto
mobile with the Marquis of Mesa
deasta The automobile was over
turned ind the marquis was injured
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QUITS CELL; is ARRESTED.
Montana ex-Convct Accused of Postal
Robbery.

Helena, Mont, June 28-Released
from the state penitentiary after serv-
ing a sentence of five years for rob
berry in Livingston, Jack Schell was
Immediately taken into custody by
United States officers to answer a
charge of robbing a postoffice in Pa
louise, Wash, in 1902. Deputy United
States Marshal Upshur was on hand
when Schell left the penal institution
at Deer Lodge last night and immedi-
ately rearrested him and took him to
Spokane.
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RABID DOG BITES MAN.
Is Third Case in TWO Weeks at Ada,
Mimi

Ada, Mimi, June 28.-Another mad
dog was killed near here yesterday.
The dog attacked and seriously bit
Marcus Peters, a farmer, aged sixty
five years. Several dogs were bitten
and killed, and the state health de-
partment has ordered all dogs shut up
for four weeks.
This is the third dog to go mad in
two weeks.
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LAND REGISTRY CONTINUES.
Total Number Is Expected to Be
About 10000.

Billings, Mont, June 2S.-The num-
Der registered for land in this city yes
terday was the second largest Of the
period, and was exceeded only by that
of Monday, the total for yesterday be-
ing 1891. Tho entire number SO far
is 1854.
Every train coming into the city
was crowded to the guards, and long
line was waiting at the land Office
when the doors opened at 9 o'clock.
The registration in this city will be
about 10000, and the total, from pres
ent indications, will aggregate about
10000.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
storm Ruins Fruit and Crops.

Creighton, Neb, June 28.-The most
violent hail storm ever known in this
vicinity swept over Knox county at Z
o'clock last evening, completely ruin
ing fruit and growing crops in terri
tory two by eleven miles in extent.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
Plants 100000 Pike Fry.

Browns Valley, Mimi, June Is
Through the efforts of Senator Schain
of this city the national government
has placed 100000 pike fry in Lake
Traverse, which is located one mile
north of Browns Valley.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
GEN. KING TO BE INSPECTOR.
Active Officer of the Regular Army
Cannot Be Secured.

NGHnOL DC SCSdi GU"
Adjt. Gen. G. r. Boardman has is
sued orders announcing that Ger.
Charles King of Milwaukee will con-
duct the annual field inspection OF the
Wisconsin national guard at Camp
Douglas next month. An effort was
made to get an active officer of the
regular army to conduct the inspec-
ton. as had been done in former
years. but none could be secured be-
cause they will be busy with their
own duties during the Wisconsil en-
campment Gen. King recently finish
ed the army inspection of the guard.
The system of markings at the camp
this year will be the same as that used
in former years, and the minimum linn
1t allowed will be 70 points.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
ROB HOME OF 100000 IN JEWELS.
Sensational Robbery of the Thaws
Just Comes to Light.

Sensational Robbery of the Thaws
Just Comes to Light.
Pittsburg, June 2S.-Following close
ly upon the sensational shooting of
Stanford White by Harry Thaw in New
York Monday night comes the disclo-
sure of still another incident that
brings the Pittsburg family into public
notice, and that was disclosed last
night while information was being
sought as to the presence of the vari-
Gus members of the Thaw family. A
100000 jewelry robbery from the
Thaw home on Beechwood boulevard
is the story and it's disclosure was
made through leak" unconsciously
dropped by one very close to the fam
lily.
Matter Kept Quiet.
The exact time of the robbery is not
known, but it occurred while the Thaw
family was in the city, and, although
the police and detective forces of the
city were Immediately notified, the
matter has been kept under cover I'M
til the present time.
The Jewels are said to be some OF
rare value gathered by Mrs. William
Thaw in her travels and include
strings of pearls, diamonds of rare
value and perfect color, and silver
plate. Heavier pieces of plate of
cumbersome bulk were left behind.
Amounts to PrinceIy Sum.
when the case was first reported
the family was in entire ignorance of
the time the robbery occurred and
could give no explanation of how the
robbers entered the place. The fam
ily's loss, while amounting to prince
ly sum, was not, however, the whole
burden of regret over the affair. In
cIuded in the stolen property were
many gifts to Mrs. Thaw from the
late William Thaw on their wedding
day, and also many other jewels given
her soon after the wedding.
1.-The general belief is that the
booty has been carried out of Pitts
burg and every city in the country
has been notified of the robbery, with
a description of the pieces of jewelry
stolen"
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-30
ESTABLISH FUND AT RELolT.
Coed Alumni Take Action to Help
COLLEGE Girls.

College Girls.
The Daughters Of Beloit, an organf-
cation of Beloit alumni, have estab'
lished fund for the aid of girls who
desire to take college course. The
commencement exercises included an
open-air performance of "A M1dsum'
mer Nights Dream" by the Women's
Shakespearean club and the presenta'
ton by the seniors class OF huge
boulder for campus rostrum.
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ARMY REVOLT GROWS SERIOUS.
Suppress Peasant Organization in Eff
fort to Stem the Tide.


St. Petersburg, June 27.-Appre-
hension of the government with re-
gard to political agitation in the army
is the direct cause of it's efforts for
the suppression of the development of
the peasant organization. AS the ma
iority OF the soldiers comes from the
peasant class any disaffection in the
army is sure to be spread in the peas
ant interest, based on parliament's
settlement of the agrarian question.
Therefore, the government is anxious
ly watching the peasant movement
and taking strong measures toward
preventing it's further development,
and to this end is trying to balk meet
ings of the organized peasant group In
parliament and the Peasants league,
which latter is organizing an agrarian
strike movement and which was for
hidden by the police to hold pro-
posed convention in this city.
The uneasiness among the Jews is
still manifested in deluge of appeals
to members of parliament for protec-
ton against attacks.
The mutiny of a portion Of the gar
rison of Batum is reported, principally
artillerymen and engineers. Cos
sacks surround the mutineers, but at
latest advices there had been no fir
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Rumors of Disaffection.

There are many rumors current OF
disaffection. 1t is stated that several
arrests were made at the Krasnoye
Selo camp after a meeting of disaf-
fected guards 1t is also asserted that
a ringleader of the revolutionary
movement among the chasseurs of the
guard, Sergeant Sitinsky, was cap
tured after having taken to fight.
Sinister rumors are circulating about
the morale of the Uhlan regiment OF
the Peterhof garrison.