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Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14
Almost Human.

Why, Antonio" said the mortified mat ron, who had tossed a 5-cent piece at the monkey, "does he always put coin in his mouth when he picks it up?"
 Not his mout', signora," corrected the organ grinder. "Her mout'."
Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14
Couldn't Deny It.

Prospective Investor-The earthquake, of course, has disturbed property values out here a great deal.
 San Francscan-Well, sir, to tell the truth, our real estate fluctuated like the mischief while the quake was on.-Chi. cago Tribune.
Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14

There is one thing about carrying an umbrella during threatening weather |: If there Is no rain, the umbrella won't hurt you.
Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14

Argentina, with nearly one-third the area of the United States and Alaska, has population of only 5,0O0000, while 1t could easily support 75,0O0,000.
Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14

Juvenile crime in France has decreased by 30 per cent among boys and 42 per cent among girls since 1881.
Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14

The Parisians ate 23,OO0 horses last
Holbrook argus., 1906-07-14

The United States lighthouse service cost $4,5O0,00O year.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
WOMEN STORM THE COMMONS
British Parliament Scene of Outburst
of Suffrauist Hystera.

London, Oct 25.-Unusual excite
ment in connection with the reopenlng
OF parliament yesterday was caused by
the presence of about 100 women sui
fragists, many of whom, despite the
protests of the police, managed to md
their way into the outer lobby OF the
house of commons, with the intention
Of buttonholing the members in sup
port of. their movement. A number of
the suffragists mounted vacant chairs
in the lobby and began to harangue
the few members present in that part
Of the house.
The women resolutely refused to
leave the house without being elected
%y force, chung tenaciously to the stall
Wart policemen, the ratings or other
means of support and offered Strenu
Gus resistance to expulsion, while
shouts Of I'VE will have votes!" and
you coWardly men dare not give us
justice" resounded through the halls.
Finally the police were forced to
carry out several of the women bodily,
and the struggling and shouting sui
fragists were all ultimately deposited
in the palace yards, where for some
time they continued their vehement
protests. A procession of house OF
commons attendants followed the
women, bearing hats, cloaks and frag-
ments of millinery and finery dropped
in the scuff1e.
So noisily demCnstrative were some
of the leading suffragists that after
hey had been expelled from the house
the police arrested eight of them and
marched them off to the nearest police
station
The reassembling of parliament
drew large crowds to Westminster de-
spite the fact that the opening of the
sessions was devoid of sumDtuous GER
emory or the appearance of royalty,
as this was merely a resumption of the
preceding session.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
FAMINE SPREADS IN RUSSIA
DEATH EXPECTED TO FOLLOW IN
PATH OF DIRE WANT IN PROV
INCES.

| Paris, Oct 24.-According to CORE.
spondence from Moscow, widespread
famine is in prospect in Russia.
Everywhere in the Russian provinces
the peasants are selling off their cattle
for few roubles an animal and are
with difficulty finding purchasers.
This years crops are a failure and
the autumn sowings are effected with
difficulty or not at all. Extensive emf
grafton is taking place from the cen
trail districts. A large proportion of
the peasants are subsisting on the
soup kitchens established in great
numbers by the Zemstvos, but the
resources of these institutions must
soon fail, and it is expected that in
few weeks many deaths from starva-
ton will occur.
Looking for Conspirator.
ST. Petersburg, Oct. 23.-The police
are searching for man named Vo-
ronin, a brother-in-law of M Onipko,
convinced that he was a ringleader in
the conspiracy to blow up the building
where the court-martial trying the
Cronstadt mutiny cases was sitting, in
revenge for the executions of mutt
|neerS.
1t is now learned that this plot was
originally planned for Oct 1, the day
Onipko, who was one of the leaders
of the peasant party in the former par
lament, was condemned to deporta-
ton and the loss of all his civil rights
for participation in the mutiny The
plot was abandoned on account of the
comparatively light punishment meted
out to Onipko and the expectation that
the death sentence on the sailors
would be committed was then revived.
Teeming With Conspiracy.
In spite of the apparent quiet ST.
Petersburg is teeming with conspiro
cy. There are almost daily ares
and domiciliary searches, and the
capture of bombs and arms goes on
apparently without end.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
Criminal.

At Carmia, near Greenwood, B. c.,
James A. Dale, boarding housekeep-
er, is alleged to have killed two men
and to have wounded a third.
John Middlestad, a farmer, thirty
seven years old, living on farm four
miles southeast of Maynard, Iowa,
committed suicide by shooting.
The corner stone of tn enew M. E..
church at Grant, Ohio, which was laid
Sunday, has been stolen. The stone
and it's contents were carried away
by the thieves.
Mrs. Mahaffy of Latonia, KY, shot
and killed DR.. Fred w. Kolthof, a
physician of Covington. The shoot
ing occurred at the home of Walter
Unger on Water street.
Reno Hutchinson, secretary Of the
Y. M. C. A.. was shot and killed by a
highwayman at Seventh and Howard
streets. in the best residence section
of Spokane.
Remorse because he had shot his
friend instead of a supposed enemy
caused PaSque ShuIe or LOgansporC
Ind. to turn the same revolver upon
himself and blow out his brains.
DR.. E. M Pingree, a cousin of
Former Governor Pingree of Michigan,
committed suicide in Chicago by lock
inc himself in his bedroom and turn
ing on the gas. DR.. Pingree had been
practitioner in Chicago for more
than thirty years.
Wayne r. Gooch, known to the
revenue officers as the "King of the
Moonshiners," pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Richmond, Va.
to indictments charging him with con
spiracy to defraud the government.
Judge Waddill fined him $1,000 and
confiscated the distillery. Gooch is
said to have accumulated a fortune OF
100000 by the manufacture and sale
of illicit whiskey.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
From Other Shores.

| The legislative assembly at Perth,
Australia, by vote of 10 to 8, adopted
motion that the State of Western
Australia secede from the rest of the
commonwealth.
| All the miners who were entombed
alive, as the result of an explosion in
the Wingate colliery near Durham,
Eng, have been rescued. Twenty-Five
were killed by the explosion.
The Bank of Guadalaria, Mex. will
lose 100000 as a result of populations
of it's recent manager. It is alleged
that evidence is at hand to prove that
the books have been falsely entered.
The Chilean congress at it's coming
session will discuss project to raise
loan of $25,000,000, to be devoted to
the work of reconstructing the public
buildings, ETC., destroyed by the recent
earthquake.
| Fighting has occurred in the Air
district between the Turkish troops
and the Bemichar tribesmen. The
troops lost 100 killed and so wounded,
while the Arabs are alleged to have
lost 200. The troops were repulsed
The Warsaw police have captured
twenty young Turks who recently ar
rived here for the purpose of studying
the revolution and for levying contri-
buttons on Turkish residents and Mo-
| hammedans generally, with the view
of promoting revolution in Constant.
nople
According to reports from Guadela-
lara, Mex, the state gendearmerie and
a gang of Mexican cattle thieves
fought a battle near Layula, in which
| four bandits were killed and seven ar
rested. None of the gendarmerie was
wounded. The theft of cattle had been
frequent in that section and the SOL
diers believe they have the leaders.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
Personal.

Mrs. Peck, wife of former Gov.
George w. Peck of Wisconsin, died
suddenly at Winnetka, Ill.
George F. Kimball, sixty-five years
old. a retired business man who lived
in Chicago, died of apoplexy at New
York hotel.
Frank Mordaunt, a well known act
or and manager, died in sanitarium
at Bedford City, Va, after suffering
four years with nervous disorder.
R. P. Murdoch, editor of the Wichita
Eagle, Wichita, Kan, died at the Chi
cago hospital of myocarditis. The
body will be taken to Wichita for bu-
rial.
Prof. Henry B. Richardson, director
of the German department at Amherst
college, died Off bronchitis. He had
been i'll but short time. He was
sixty-two years old.
Rev. Sam F. Jones, the well known
EVANGELIST of Gainesville, Ga, died OF
heart failure in sleeping car on
Train No. 4 of the Rock Island rail-
road near Perry, Ark.
William Carmack, for twenty, years
master car builder for the Wisconsin
Central railroad, died in hospital at
Oshkosh. Wis, following an ocera-
ton. He was sixty-nine years old.
Rev. George R. Darros, eighty-slx
years old, one of the 0ldest Baptist
ministers in the Northwest, is dead at
Butte, Mont, where he had lived for
twenty years, and where he had
preached for one year. The remains
will be shipped to New London, Conn.,.
for interment.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
WASHINGTON,

The cases of alleged peonage in the
region south of Tampa, Fla, were
brought to the attention of President
Roosevelt by Miss Emma Stirling, an
agent of the State of Florida HUI
name society. The department OF
Justice will make thorough investi-
cation and bring criminal proceedings,
if warranted by the facts developed.
The large decrease by death in the
number of Civil war pensioners Will
have the result of lessening the ap-
preparation for pensions during the
fiscal year, beginning next July by the
sum of $2,OO2,5OO. Only $13S,243,OOO
will be needed for the payment OF
what the government has decided 1t
owes to the soldiers on account OF dis
abilities contracted while serving In
the army and navy.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
WAS WORST STORM ON RECORD
Blizzard in Colorado Most Severe Ever
Known for This Time of Year.

Blizzard in Colorado Most Severe Ever
Known for This Time of Year.
Denver, Col, Oct. 25.-Eastern Col
orado experienced a blizzard yester
day but the weather bureau holds out
hope of clearing weather. Snow ceased
falling in Denver this afternoon. the
storm center having moved eastward.
The storm takes rank as the most Sc
we're at this time of year of which the
weather bureau has any record. Snow
began falling here last Friday night.
and continued about ninety hours. The.
actual fall in Denver was about TWEEN
ty-one inches, and in some other por-
tons of the state it was four feet or
more.
The weather map issued yesterday
shows a great change in weather con-
ditions in the last twenty-fOur hours.
The low pressure which has prevailed
over Northern Colorado and it's east
ern strip and Southern Wyoming has
filed up
Cripple Creek, Col, Oct. 25.-
Heavy snow yesterday morning COM
pletely tied up the high line electric
system and compelled most of the
mines on Bull and Ironclad hills to
close down. Trains were several
hours late. The weather cleared late
in the day, but a high wind drifted
the snow badly.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
Otherwise.

An intimation that Richard Croker
former leader of Tammany Hall, may
soon visit New York, was given in a
cablegram which has been received
by his son, Richard Croker, Jr.
The Lackawanna Steamship Co. OF
Cleveland has been Incorporated with
$1,250,000 capital. The principal stock
holders are the chief owners of the
Lackawanna railroad The company
will operate line of freighters.
1t became known at Ell Reno, Okla.
that E. A. Darlington, inspector gen
eral of the United States, read an or.
der from President Roosevelt several
days ago to the battalion of the TWEEN.
ty-fifth regiment (colored) here. stat
ing that the battalion must give the
names of the men in the recent
Brownsville (Tex.) disturbance or be
dishonorably discharged
Judgment for $13S,O00 in favor OF
Mrs. Eva Ingersoll, widow of. Col Rob
ert Ingersoll, given by lower court
was set aside by the United States
circuit court of appeals at Boston. The
Judgment was given in suit brought
by Mrs. Ingersoll to recover an
amount alleged to be due for legal
services by her husband in the settle
ment of the estate Of Andrew J. Davis
of Butte, Mont
The executive committee of the Mas.
sachusetts institute for technology an
nounced that DR.. Andrew Fleming
West of Princeton university had been
invited to accept the presidency of the
institstes as the ssccessor of DR.. Hen
ry S. Pritchett.
The new Madison Square Presbyte.
rian church, of which Rev. Charles A.
Parkhurst is the pastor, was dedicated
in New York last week. Dr. Park.
hurst paid high tribute to the genius
of Stanford White, the architect, whose
final achievement was the designing
of this church.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
Casualty List.

A cigar stub left in the opera house
at Bristow, Iowa, started a fire which
destroyed the business section.
Fire destroyed half of the business
part of the village of Poole, Neb
Seven buildings were burned. The
loss is not known.
Overwhelmed by a landslide in a
gravel pit, Casper Ertle and Dorothy
Rice, aged three, four and seven
years, respectively, were smothered
to death at Canton, Ohio. The chill
dren were playing in the pit when the
moving mass caught them.
A Chesapeake & Ohio passenger
train jumped the track at Iva, Va.
and the fireman was instantly killed
and the engineer was fatally injured
Three workmen employed at a
quarry near Roanoke, Va, were killed
by the premature explosion of dyna
mite.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27

Patrick D. Kelly, one of the pioneer
farmers of Lincoln township, south of
Hudson, Iowa, was fatally injured by
being kicked by horse.
Three persons were killed and one
probably fatally injured in grade
crossing accident on the Reading rail-
road at Camden, N T.
Two men were killed and three in
jured when forty horse power boiler
ct Frank Gosnell's sawmill at Vim
cennes, Ind. exploded.
Falling one hundred feet down a
shaft in the Rarus mine at Butte,
Mont, Richard Van Duren, miner,
was dashed to death on the rocks be-
low.
Passenger Train No. 4. east-bound,
and a freight train of the Great North
ern came together near Whitefish,
Mont, resulting in the death of three
persons.
Nine persons were killed and nine
were seriously and many more slight
1y injured in a railroad collision at
Epernon, department of Eure-et-Loire,
France.
William Teeter was killed and Frank
Prior seriously injured on the farm of
l.. w Warner at Groveland, N. Y,
when the boiler of a threshing ma
chine exploded.
Two railroad workmen were killed
and five injured at Hoppers, nine miles
west of Livingston, Mont, by the fall
of a trestle. Three of the injured
may not recover.
Lewis A. Grisler of Paulding, a Sc
nior at Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware, Ohio, and right end on the
varsity football team, fell dead on the
field after running down punt.
Heart trouble was the cause.
Willie McCreary of Knowlton, Iowa,
was stealing a ride on a train, and in
attempting to jump off fell backwards
under the wheels and was fearfully
mangled. He only lived about TWEEN
ty minutes after the accident.
Two more have been added to the
list Of dead as a result of the explo-
sion of the boilers of the government
pumping boat Slackwater at Lock No.
on the Ohio river at Legionville.
Pa, increasing the number to five
deaths.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
MILWAUKEE ROAD hit HARD
EXISTENCE OF COMBINE or
GRAIN MEN TO FIX PRICES
ALSO SHOWN.

Kansas City, Oct 25-Some Of the
things brought out here yesterday at
the grain hearing by the interstate
commerce commission were:
Evidence Of favoritism shown to the
managers of the Kansas City elevators
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pau!
railway in the matter of granting re-
duced grain rates to shippers.
The existence of a rule in the Kan
sas City board of trade threatening it's
members with suspension if they dealt
with irregular grain men, so called.
A combine of members of that orr
ganization to fix prices
Threats of Boycott.
Threats by grain dealers associa-
tons to boycott board of trade mem
bers who might buy from farmers and
others against whom the associations
had issued orders
A score of grain dealers. elevator
men and railway officials were exam
ined
E. w. Shields. elevator agent for the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
and active manager of the Simonds-
Shields Grain Company of Kansas
City. who was instructed by the COM
missioners yesterday to return here.
from st. Louis. proved an important
witness.
Had inside Track.
Mr. Shields said he was in Chicago
last fall. when he was called upon to,
advise about special export rate on
corn. He helped make a rate. effective.
several days later. then came home
and bought corn right and left. He
shipped 100000 bushels of corn I'M
der the special rate He had bought
more than 100000 bushels before 9th
er dealers learned that the reduced
rate would be made.
Again. this summer, he said he hap
pened to be waiting around the office.
of the vice president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway when
the roads agreed on cut of IL cents
q hundred pounds on wheat. He went
out and sold several hundred thousand
bushels for delivery under the rate
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
WOULD RAISE PAY OF $1,000.
Postal Department Has Recommended
tIon to Make to Next Congress.


tIon to Make to Next Congress.
| Washington, Oct. 25.-If recOmmen-
dation that will be submitted to con-
gress at it's coming session by the
present administration is enacted into
law, thousands of clerks and carriers
ir postoffices in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
the Dalotas, Iowa, Illinois and other
states of the West will be granted in
creased salaries in the fiscal year be
ginning July l, 1907. The retirement
of hundreds of clerks from the postal
service, directly traceable to made
uuate salaries. induced the authorities
to incorporate in the estimates lust
submitted to the treasury an item OF
$25, 100000 for the compensation OF
clerks. an increase of 100000 over
the present amount available for the
purpose.
There are at present 28.500 clerks in
first and second class postoffices
throughout the country. AS the esti-
mates provide for nearly 1900 promo
tons it will be possible. in the event
that congress makes the appropriation
desired. to raise the salaries of more
than half of the clerks now employed.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS.
Great Damage by Storm in Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

Great Damage by Storm in Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.
Denver, Oct. ga general storm
prevailed along the eastern slope Of
the Rocky mountains from Wyoming
to New Mexico yesterday. Snow has
been falling in Colorado almost inces-
sanity for the last twenty-four hours
and still continues.
In Colorado the storm extended to
the West slope in the valley around
Buena Vista. The snow lies two feet
deep on the level and in the noun
tains throughout the state the snow
varies from two to five feet in depth.
Twenty-Five inches of snow had fallen
at Florence by nightfall. Apple or
chards in that section will suffer con-
siderably
Much Property Devastated.
| Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 23.-For the
| last twenty-four hours this city and vi
cinity has been swept by windstorm
of unparalleled severity. In addition
to three serious accidents to persons,
property over a wide area has been
|
has obliterated the new plant of the
Utah Packing company, causing loss
of about $250.00O.
Heavy Loss of Live Stock.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, Oct. 23.-Tffe
worst blizzard since the great storm OF
1882 is general throughout New Next
co. A high wind is bringing a general
fall of snow and sleet through the
Grand valley, and reports indicate that
the losses to sheep growers will be
very heavy. Telegraph and telephone
service is almost completely shut of
and railroad traffic is delayed.
| Steamer Is Total Loss.
Norfalk, Va, Oct 23-Te steamer
George Farwell, timber laden, from
Jacksonville, Fla, for New Haven,
Conn, is ashore off Cape Henry and
will probably be a total loss, but all
| on board were saved. Capt J. D.
Chisholm and his crew of fifteen men
were landed from the wrecked steamer
yesterday by the lifesaving crews from
| the Cape Henry and Virginia Beach
stations.
Snow in Minnesota.
Duluth, Mum, Oct. ~23.-From five to
six inches of snow has fallen the last
| twenty-fOur hours over Northern Min.
nesota and the Vermillion range west
to Fosston and possibly farther west
The southern line of the storm was
Grand Rapids, in Itasca county, and
half way between Duluth and the iron
ranges.
Six inches of snow fell in Bemidji,
Virginia and Ely.
Ogden, Utah, Oct. 23.-One man was
killed and 100000 in property was de
stroyed by heavy wind storm thai
swept over this sectior-
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
APPALLING DESTRUCTION AND
LOSS OF LIFE ALONG COAST
OF FLORIDA.
WHOLE TOWNS SWEPT AWAY
AWFUL DISASTER I'm SALVADOR
FIERCE BLIZZARD IN SOUTH
WEST.

Miami, Fla, Oct. 23.-The death list
as a result of Thursdays hurricane
will exceed 1000 Some estimates
go beyond 1900. Millions of dollars
worth of property was destroyed.
Every hamlet along the coast and on
the higher keys that escaped some OF
the fury of the storm has been turned
into place of refuge.
Searching parties have started along
the coast to look for dead and injured.
Workmen on the extension of the
Florida East Coast railroad from Mi
ami to Key West suffered mast. Ten
barges, each bearing $50 men, were
torn from their moorings and carried
out to sea. Of these barges Nos. 6
and were blown across Biscayne bay
and went aground, with the loss OF
only a few lives.
1850 May Be Lost.
Another barge, No. 4, was broken
up by the heavy sea. Forty-nine Of
the men were picked up by the Aus
trian steamer Jennie, which took the
refugees to Key West.
The other barges, with their 1,050
workmen, have not been heard from,
and it is feared that they have been
destroyed.
Fears are entertained for the entire
fishing and fruit fleet, as no word has
Neen received from any of the vessels.
Manager Adams of the Florida Fish
and Produce company seut out boats
to look for the missing vessels of that
fleet.
Great damage has been done to the
government lighthouses along the
coast.
Whole Towns Swept Away.
San Salvador, Oct. photographic
communication with interior points
has been restored and news of the dis
aster wrought by the terrific storm
which has swept over the coutry is
being received. Over 100 persons have
been drowned in Coatepeque. A vast
quantity of sulphur water was thrown
out of the Chulo volcano and inundat-
ed the town of Panchinalco killing
most Of the inhabitants. From other
points also reports Of terrible devasta-
ton are coming in. Pimiento and
other towns are reported to have been
swept away by the foods.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
MEXICAN REBELS EXECUTED.
notwithstanding Deniais, 1t Is Said
Rebels Were Put to Death.

Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 25.-A special to
the Republican from Tucson says that
well known citizen of place, whose
name is withheld, has returned from
Nogales, where he was authoritatively
II formed that Salcide and all the 9TH
er reyolutionists recently deported
from Arizona were taken to Hermosli-
10 and summarily executed, notwith-
standing official statements to the con-
trary.