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Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
BEATS "TALLEST" IOWA CORN.
South Dakota Farmer Has Stalks X
Feet 3 Inches High, he Says.

OSt - itS'y t~ OS'J
Yankton, S. D., Sept. 5.-IOwa has
sent out some "tall' corn stories dur
ing the present season, but there is
on exhibition here a hill of corn from
the farm of Ben Schlaef1i, three miles
east of town, which by actual meas
urement beats anything ever grown in
South Dakota, and it is doubtful II 1t
can be beaten in Iowa.
The longest stalk in the hill is Is
feet inches high from the point it
leaves the ground to its tip. There
are three stalks in the hill and each
has two ears upon it. The distance
from the ground to the base of the
lowest ear is s feet inches, and it is
necessary to use a step ladder to
reach it. The length of the largest
ear on each stalk is respectively IA,
Is and IL inches.
Schlaef1i says he has eight acres in
the field the hill was taken from and
he thinks that this was one of the
shortest hills, but he is not absolutely
sure of it,
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
WHAT KNABENsHUE WILL DO.
Must Circle City Hall Tower and San
Back to Fair to Earn $500.

Must Circle City Hall Tower and Sail
Back to Fair to Earn $500.
Roy Knabenshue, who has made
wheels of industry and finance stop
while all New York watched him sail
over the city in his airship, come down
Broadway, circle the Flatiron building
and return to the northern extremity
of the metropolis. has agreed to dupll.
cate the feat during the coming state
fair in Milwaukee. Knabenshue has
defied nature so long that he does not
hesitate to stipulate that he is to re-
ceive no compensation unless he does
the almost impossible. He has agreed
to sail from the state fair grounds
every day that the weather will per-
nit to the city hall in Milwaukee and
return, and forfeits MS fee OF $5,OOO
unless he accomplished the difficult
feat of aerial navigation. His recent
flight by night from New York to
Massachusetts coast town and his safe
landing next morning 200 miles from
the starting point has been the talk OF
aero clubs all over the world At one
time he was out over the sea and was
seen passing vessels, having lowered
his big silken bag to talk with the cap
tain of passing ship. This trip has
demonstrated that Knabenshue>can di-
rect his aerial craft at will and that
all who come to the fair will see the
most extraordinary exhibition of aerial
navigation ever given in the West.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
TRAIN is DYNAMITED.
Engineer and Fireman Are Hurt by
Wreckinu of Enuine

Engineer and Fireman Are Hurt by
Wrecking of Engine.
The Wisconsin Central ore train
was wrecked near Iron Belt by an
explosion of dynamite. Engineer
Charles Nelson and Fireman Patrick
Walsh narrowly escaped DEATH
The dynamite was placed on the
track, supposedly with malicious in
tent, by unknown persons, and the
train was moving more than twenty
five miles an hour when it struck the
explosive. The engine cab was en-
tirely demolished and the track torn
up.
Fireman Walsh was badly cut and
bruised and was taken to the Ashland
hospital. Engineer Nelson escaped
with slighter injuries The engine was
disabled and the train delayed until
another engine arrived from Ashland.
This is the first attempt to wreck
a train in Northern Wisconsin by
means of dynamite.
The Wisconsin Central has placed
its entire detective force at work on
the case. and the perpetrators. il
caught, will be vigorously prosecuted.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
Northwest News.
FAIR BREAKS ALL RECORDS
NEARLY 100000 PEOPLE ATTEND
ON OPENING DAY.. j. HILL
is ORATOR.

st. Paul, Sept 5-Nearly 10000
fair yesterday. A conservative esti-
mate is $4,000, and the chances are
that the actual attendance will come
nearer the six-fgure mark than fall
below this estimate. lie was record
breaking crowd, not only for the Min
nesota state fair, but for all EXPOSE
tons of a similar character.
1t was great day for the Mime
sofa state fair. Not only was the at
tendance the largest in the history OF
state fairs, but the attractions were
such as to warrant the large attend
ance No doubt the large morning at
tendance was due IN a great extent to
the fact that James J. Hill was to
speak in the new stock pavilion. Mr..
Hill is always a big attraction when
he is billed to make an address on
subjects associated with agriculture
or stock raising, for he has devoted 6
large part of an active life in an en-
deavor to build up the agricultural in
terests of the Northwest
Another factor which operated as d
special attraction was Dan Patch,
the king of PAGERS, who went against
his record of 1:55 IA. Dan made the
mile in 1 :56 IL.
The opening day was a grand sue
cess from every point of view. The
cf6wd was there; the exhibits were
there in readiness at the opening OF
the fair; the amusement program was
varied and complete; in fact so com
plete that no one person could see
more than a small part of it. The day
was ideal and the grounds were fresh
and clean; in fact everything joined
hands in providing an enjoyable time
for those in attendance.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
BOOTH MUST PAY THE PIPER
Traced to jackson, Mich, and Arrest
ed for Alleged Embezzlement.

La Crosse, Wis, Sept. 81. w.
Booth, former local manager of the
North American Telegraph company,
has been brought to this city from
Jackson, Mich, where he was employ
ed as train dispatcher, charged with
embezzling 5000 belonging to the
North American company. At Jack
son he went under the name of J. W.
Mordaunt He left this city on July
i with woman, and after his de-
parture a shortage was discovered in
his accounts He came here from
Duluth the latter part of April.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
HEAD ROLLED FLAT.
Horrifying Death Is Fate of Uniocnti-
fled Man at Wausau.


fled Man at Wausau.
One of the most horrifying deaths
in the annals of Wausau befell an uni
Identified young man recently. Inc
young mans head was pressed hat I'M
der a street roller which became I'M
manageable while being operated on
new pavement near the south bridge.
The man, who had just come from
the West side, jumped onto the rear
of the roller, to which two boys pre-
viously had been attracted.
The roller had finished it's course UP
the hill from the bridge and, as usual,
the engineer moved it backwards to
turn the machine around. At this mo-
ment the engine became unmanageaDle
and the engineer called to his three
associated passengers at the rear TO
get off, This the two boys fastened TO
do, but the young man refused and re-
piled, 'I'll stay on as long as you do.
However, when he saw that the rear
end of the massive machine was likely
to strike telephone post the young
man jumped. His head struck the &C.
ment walk, and when the roller passed
over his head the telephone pole was
broken off below and above and the
cement walk was badly damaged for
few yards
An undertaken and physician and
the coroner were summoned immedi-
ately.
When the undertaken picked up the
corpse, the brain dropped entirely
from the crushed skull onto the walk
The left eye was opened and seemed
very lifelike, while the right eye, to-
gether with that side of the face and
head, were entirely demolished.
The mans clothes were those OF a
working man, but further than this his
identity has not been determined.
There is a theory that the man was
somewhat intoxicated and that his
recklessness probably could be ex'
planned by his condition.-W.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
The State o . pA9 p :
TOBACCO RAlsERs ENRICHED.
Average Price for 1906 Crop Estnat-
ed at Over IL 21-2 Cents.

Average Price for 1906 Crop Estinat-
ed at Over IL 21-2 Cents.
Prosperity is the word that best de-
scribes the tobacco conditions in Wis
consin, and the great Wisconsin sta
pie never promised better results in
the history of growing the weed 1t
spells better times for the Wisconsin
farmer, better times for other Wiscon-
sin people who deal with the farmer,
and last of all, but not least, it reju-
venates the faith of the grower in
the value of tobacco over other crops.
Fifteen cents for the leaf in the
field-and in large number of cases
before the plants were set out-shows
the extent of the manufacturers need
for Wisconsin leaf. 1t has gone as
high as 10 cents, and Editor Coon OF
the Edgerton Reporter estimates the
average will be above a shilling.
It is an interesting fact that Dane
county raises the most tobacco of any
county in the United States, and that
the town of Pleasant Springs, the ban
ner town, grows more of the weed
than any other like area in the world.
Next to Pleasant Springs comes
Christiania, then Dunkirk, with pos
sibly Albion next. The acreage this
year is about one-third greater than
last year in both Dane and Rock
counties.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
PROMISE A NEW LINE SOON.

Chicaqoans Who Are Working on
Read From GAINESVILLE Visit Madison.
II. Fl. Clough and David McAllister,
both of Chicago, representing the syn
dictate which is projecting an interur-
ban electric railroad from Chicago to
Madison, were in Madison recently
looking over the field. They assured
business men there that the line would
be built from GAINESVILLE to Madison
by way of Stoughton just as soon as
the materials and labor could be Sc
cured.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
NEW CHURCH CORNER is LAID.
Work on Fine Edifice at Ripon Is Well
Under Way.

The corner stone of the new Polish
Catholic church, to replace the one de-
stroyed by, fire at Ripon recently, was
laid with imposing ceremonies. The
service was conducted by the Rev. B.
Celichowski of Milwaukee, assisted by
the Rev. T. Cosgrove, pastor of st. Pc
ter's Catholic church, and the Rev.
Wencelaus Kruszka, the pastor. Fa-
Their Kruszka now has over $4,000 in
hand for the new edifice, which will be
of brick and cost $4,000 when COM
pleted. 1t is expected the new struc-
ture will be ready for occupancy about
Dec l.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
DOOMED TO DIE; KILLS SELF,
Cancer Victim Ends Life With Paris
Green,

Midtown, Wis, Sept. 5.-Because
he was suffering from a cancer on the
side of his neck and had been told by
physicians that he could not live
much longer, Michael Hurley, living
about a mile from Long Lake, took
Paris Green and died after twelve
hours of terrible agony. Hurley was
seventy-six years old and one of the
pioneers of Polk county, having resid-
ed here ffty-fve years. He was I'm
married
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
THOUSANDS AT DARLINGTON.
County Fair Has Great Attendance
and Politicians Are There.

County Fair Has Great Attendance
and Politicians Are There.
Fully $4,000 people attended the
fair at Darlington. There are nearly
500 more entries this year than last
and every class is full. The accom-
modations for cattle are not large
enough and some of the exhibits in
this department are quartered outside
of the regular barns The show of
Herefords is especially fine, and is
said by experts to be one of the best
ever gotten together in this state.
Among the well known men present
were Former Mayor Rose, James S.
Nolan, H. A. Cooper, John Luchsinger
and Julius Rowland, candidate for
state treasurer All the local candi-
dates were out with the glad hand.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
Child Killed bv Train

Bloomington, ILL.,, Sept. A train
on the Chicago & Alton was wrecked
near here yesterday. None of the pas
sengers was injured in the wreck
proper, but a two-year-old child wan
dered onto the clear track and was
killed by another train
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
TWO New Routes Started.

Rural mail service on two new
routes out of Willmar was started
Sept 1. The new routes are Nos.
and 5. Samuel O. Leslie has been ap-
pointed carrier on No. 4, and Samuel
B. Chaplin substitute. On No. 5 Will
helm F. Hanson has been appointed
carrier and Ole Rasmussen substitute.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
MARKET OWN POTATOES.

The Northwestern Produce company
of Waupaca, composed of about 200
farmers, has purchased one of the
largest warehouses here and intends
to ship and market it's own potatoes
instead Of selling them to potato mer
chants
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
MILL AND HOUSE BURNS.
Blaze at Fessenden, NJ. D., Supposedly
Started by Tramps.

Fessenden, N. D., Sept. 5.-The
Shadley mill of this place burned yes
terday, and with it the residence OF
Peter Fable also burned The fire is
supposed to have been started by
tramps camping in the sheds. One of
them has been arrested, but only on
suspicion. Peter Fable and his bride
are away and do not as yet know OF
the destruction of their home.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
MINER HAS FATAL FALL.
Man Loses Footing and Every Rib Is
Broken on Side.

Butte, Mont, Sept 5.-While as
cending a chute on the 1,O00-foot level
of the Bell mine last night Joseph
Lynham. miner residing at Center
Vile, lost his balance and fell ten
floors, a distance of eighty feet His
skull was badly fractured by the fall
and all tie ribs on one side of his
body were broken. He has no chance
of recovery.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
SEE EXHIBIT AT BARABoO.
Wisconsin Horticultural Society Holds
Summer Meeting.

Wisconsin HCrIiCulLuFdI 0oSiCly ''S'"S
Summer Meeting.
The summer meeting of the WIS
consin state horticultural society con-
yened at the Congregational church
in Baraboo for a one days session
The exhibits of small fruits, apples,
etc., was the largest ever shown. Inc
attendance was large. The speakers
were: e. G Marriott, mayor OF Bara-
boo; William Toole. Baraboo; Dr. T..
Everett, Madison; John Tiplady, Lake
Geneva: w. A. Toole. Baraboo; VIII
liam Longland, Lake Geneva; Mrs. }.
E. English. Baraboo: Franklin Jonn-
son, Baraboo; Prof. A. B. Stout, Bara-
boo: Prof. Sandsten, University or
Wisconsin; E. T. Mische, Madison
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
GIRL WITH ALLEGED CROOK.
Beaver Dam Woman Expected to Wed
Man Caught at Beloit

Beaver Dam Woman Expected to Wed
Man Caught at Beioit.
John w. Wilson, alias Harry Davy,
alias J. B. NJ Darlington. alias George
Dollin, was arrested at Hotel Hilton
at Beloit by Chief of Police Scheibel
on a charge of having cashed forged
check on a hotel man at Waukesha
The police say he admits the crime
The officer almost lost his man be-
cause of the numerous aliases under
which he travelled and because he had
already taken packages consigned TO
him from the United States Express
company, but the chief was not dis
couraged and kept on the case until
he found his man. With Wilson is
Miss Elsie -Four of Beaver Dam, who
says that Wilson had promised To
marry her.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
Footpads Get 6 Cents.

Billings, Mont, Sept. At. E.
Qulrk, Northern Pacific trainman,
was held by two unmasked men and
robbed of cents, which was all the
money he had or his person.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
Bow camner Shot Dead.

Bemidji, Mimi, Aug. 31.-Fred
Wheeler, fourteen years old. son of A
T. Wheeler of this city, accidentally
shot himself with a shotgun while
camping with other boys a few miles
south of this city.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
Oldest Master Mason.

Rockford, Ill, Aug. 31.-Ottis Eddy,
the oldest living master Mason in the
world, celebrated the one hundred and
second anniversary of his birth here.
Mr. Eddy became Mason more than
eighty years ago.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
"BEAR" AN INSANE MAN.
Woods Secured for Beast, Which
Proves to Be Asylum Inmate.

An exciting bear hunt occurred in
the woods around Maple Bluff, tho
aristocratic summer resort on Lake
Mendoza. 1t was thought that bear
had escaped from passing train. The
men all turned out and after thrash
ing the woods found the supposed bear
was an inmate who had escaped from
the Mendoza hospital.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07

There was much talk a year age about what Roosevelt and the repub- lican party were going to do to the railroads and trusts of the country. This talk must have been amusing to Elkins and other railroad Senators. The fact is that there is today opez revolt in the republican party against the president. He has no power to control the trusts of the country b. cause the leaders of his party will no: allow it. If Roosevelt is really in earnest in desiring to carry out dem ocratic platforms in the matter of railroad control. be can accomplish his purpose by announcing himself for w. J. Bryan for president in 1908. The election of Bryan and Q demo- cratic Congress would do the busL ness. No republican president can do l.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07
4 CHICAGO ALDERMAN OWES HIS ELECTION TO CHAMBER
 LAIN COUCH REMEDY.

q can heartily and conscientiousiy recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for affections of the troat and lungs says Hon. John Shenick, 220 So. Peoria St, Chicago. TWO years ago during . political campaign. I caught cold after being overheated, which irritated my throat and l was finally compelled to stop, as I could not speak aloud. In my extremity friend advised me 10 use Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. took two doses that afternoon and could not be lieve my senses when found the next morning the inflammation had largely subsided. took several doses that day. kept right on talking through the campaign. and l thank this medl cine thaJ 1 won my seat in the Coun Gil" This remedy is for sale by all dealers in patent medicines.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07

During the last campaign the demo crats contended that the election of Mark Smith would defeat joint state hood. That prediction has been row practically made good, accord ing to late reports from Washington. All the sojourners to the national capital of late, republicans and dem ocrats, have given testimony as tC the splendid work of our delegate iu the statehood fight. We do not de sire to take from the prominent re publicans in Arizona who have also worked early and late for the preser Vation Of the political autonomy O. Arizona, but we want to say here and now, that this joint statehood fghr is not oyer with the defeat of the Hamilton bill, and we know of uc man in Arizona better able to pToteci Arizona in Washington than Ma-s Smith.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07

Tie killing of Tenny in a prize fight last week in San Francisco will probably have g deterrent effect on the manly art" in that city. Re garding prize fighting, which has re- gently become frequent in Los An geles, the Herald says: Mayor Mo Aleer declares that he will permit no prize fighting in Los Angeles. Ir- asmuch as such affairs are pulled o1 every 1ew days and have been for all the mayors term of office, the sin cerity of his declaration speaks for itself"
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07


 From every source of information on which the newspapers of the country depend comes the gladsome news that Arizona has been saved from the curse of joint statehood, and will be allowed to remain as 2 territory. We do not expect to see the statehood bill pass in any form. so far as including Arizona and New Mexico is concerned. If fthe Fora ker amendment is adopted We expect then to see that part of the bill re ferring to the farther western terri tories stricken out entirely. Senator Beveridge, nor the president would not agree to the passage of the bill carrying the provision of the Forakef amendment, for the reason that they know that it would be a waste of time and money to submit such a proposition to the people of Arizona Rodey, McCord, Ainsworth and Byrd would tell them that it would be useless. However, should the bill pass with the adoption Of the ForakeI amendment what a splendid oppor tunity it will give to the Isople Of Arizona to refute the slanderous statement that our people are willing to consent to become vassaIs of New Mexico.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07
A STORM
 BREWING

United States Senator J. P Doln- yer, a republican from Iowa, warned his associates in a speech delivered by him Thursday on the Hepburn rate regulation bill that "a storm is brewin = in this country.
 "The time is approaching" he said, when the citizens of the United States are going to make an inquiry into the right by which some men in a few years make hundreds of mil Hons of dollars, rendering them capa- ble of even overshadowing the na- tional government"
 In order to make this prediction wholly a party matter, the Senator emphatically stated that he was neither socialistic nor democratic in his ideas or tendencies.
 But the democrats have been mak- ing this sort of prophecy for a good many years now, says the Herald. They hoped for its realization long before Rockefeller became the rich est man in the world; long before Pierpont Morgan, Ryan, Belmont and the group of insurance magnates seized the money of this country and converted it to their own selfish pur- poses. But a majority of the people wouldn't listen to it. They just shut their eyes and went on voting trust agents into office; went right on ap- plauding the appointment of railroad lawyers to the Federal bench and railroad henchmen to state positions went right on playing into the hands of the trusts and the great combines Of wealth, imagining that they were voting fo- the old flag and the party of Lincoln and Grant. As a matter of fact, if Lincoln and Grant were alive today they would not be able to recognize in the machine-buiit trust-serving, corporation-loving re publican party the slightest shredded remnant of the organization they up held, which today is only kept alive by unhallowed appeals to the mem ory of their noble deeds
 Senator Deliver was talking to his own party associates when he warned them of the coming storm. It has been brewing for long time, gather ing up electricity and power in the West-a storm that should begin in California and sweep everything be fore it, even up to Maine, and from the northern lakes to the sunlit va ters of the southern sea-"
 The Iowa Senator is right. The people do want to know by what right, by what power. by what author fly the vast wealth of this beautiful and prosperous country is pouring into tue coffers of select score os Iaen who toll not, neither do they sr.n;" men who have cornered the necessities of life and are trading
Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-07

upon the very hearts and bodies of the people.
 Ard the citizens of this country are not going to ask the republican party to make that inquiry, either, knowing full well that the policies and acts of that organization-not the mass, but the machine leadership have fostered and encouraged and built up these vast fortunes into a condition which they now protect un- der the guise of vested rights" which appear to the people to be vested wrongs" Might as well trust a wolf to inquire into the whereabouts of stray sheep or a lost lamb. It isn't written that way in the books of the future.
 Senator Deliver, coming out of the West. coming from a state that contains no large cities, but only farmers and small merchants ana everyday working men, has hearG the first mutterings of the storm. Its tnunderings and its lightnings are be- ing heard and seen in Iowa-where republicanism has been installed and entrenched for half a century-and from Iowa Senator Deliver, like an other Paul Revere, has carried the news to Washington
 These be stirring times, indeed; and before auother year the people will have awakened to a realization Of the fact that the government is theirs and that is should be conduct ed by and for them. Watch thaa storm and its results.