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Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20

Ed Chambers. sixty-five years old,
bachelor farmer worth 100000, was
arrested at Guthrie Center, Iowa,
charged with numbering Ed Neal on
a farm near Bagley. Neal was found
dead in field with bullet in his
head. Deceased was Chambers ten
ant, and it is reported they had quar-
relied.
Bessie Gerady, aged twelve years, a
ing poison in the presence OF four or
her little schoolmates at the pump
her little schoolmatees at the pump
house of the country school in Venice
township near Owosso, Mich. That
the child should conceive and carry
out plan of suicide is attributed to
the reading of sensational novels.
James J. Raymond was arrested by
officers at Billings, Mont, on the
charge of robbing John Ryan of $40.
A sneak thief entered Ryan's room
while he was asleep and stole his
money. Ryan awoke about the time
the thief had completed his nefarious
work, seized the robber, gave him
beating and then held him until the
officers arrived
Aid. Thomas e. Burgles of Chelsea
has been indicted by the Suffolk
county (Mass.) grand jury on a
charge of receiving a bonus in con-
nection with the awarding Of con-
tract for city work. Benjamin T.
Nicholas, secretary of the Republican
ward and city committee of Chelsea,
also was indicted, the charge being
that he offered a bribe in connectioI
with the contract.
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WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
Farmer Shot and Wife and TWO Chill
dren Ciubbed TO Death.

Farmer Shot and Wife and TWO Chill
dren Clubbed 20 Death.
Houston, Mo-, Oct. 15.-Barney Par
sons, a farmer, his wife and three chill
dren were murdered Friday near Lick
ing, Mo. A farmer named Hamilton
has been arrested charged with the
murder, and is said to have confessed.
Parsons had sold his farm and crops to
Hamilton, and it is alleged that the
men quarreled over the terms of the
sale. Parsons and family set out from
their former home in a covered wagon,
bound for Northern Missouri. The
body Of Parsons was found shot to
death, and the mother and three chill
dren had been dubbed to death.
Murderer Confesses.
Joda Hamilton, the alleged murder
er, is in the Houston Jail, strongly
guarded to prevent lynching. He is
said to have made complete confes-
sion.
The body of one of the children has
not yet been found. A party Of fisher
men from Houston discovered the bod
les of two of the children Saturday
about noon. A further search brought
TO light the bodies of both parents,
and word was sent to Houston.
Shortly after the news had been re-
ceived there Hamilton rode into town
on mule that was recognized as one
that belonged to Parsons. He was ar
rested.
Parsons, who came to Texas county
two years ago from the northern part
of Missouri, was a quiet, industrious
farmer and never had trouble Of any
sort. Hamilton has also been favora-
bly, known over the entire county.
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Foreign.

Fresh outbreaks of Boxers are re-
ported in North China in districts
west of Pekin, according to mail adj
vices received here.
The Warsaw police in the suburb
of Praga discovered an arsenal from
which Cossacks had been selling gov
eminent arrs to revolutionists.
According to a dispatch from Con-
stantinople, the sultan purposes to
reorganize the Turkish gendarmerie
in the provinces of Smyrna, Beirut
and Adrianople under the Belgian ar
my officers who have hitherto been
employed in Macedonia.
An armed band, numbering forty
men, held up mail train near the
bridge over the Bjela river at Ufa,
Russia. After killing a soldier and
wounding three others who were in
charge of the mail tn erobbers de-
camped with s125,O00.
The front wall of the Gilmore hotel
at Ottawa, Ont, which was recently
destroyed by fire, fell on passing
street car and completely demolished
it. Three passengers were badly in
jured. Alexander Potvin of the fire
department is believed to be fatally
hurt.
The Dublin Evening Telegram de-
clares that Richard Croker is bring
ing an action for libel and claiming
heavy damages against the prOprie-
tors of the London Magazine in con-
nection with an article dealing with
Mr.. Cookers relations to Tammany
Hall.
Count Zeppelin's new dirigible air
ship assembled from Friedrichshaven
Wuremburg, and sailed towards the
Swiss frontier After executing va
rious maneuvers the balloon disap-
peared from view. A number of Ger
man officers and experts were present
at the experiments, which were meas
urably successful.
Kuhne Beverage (Mrs. Branson)
the American sculptor, has completed
at Brussels the cast of the statue OF
Grief" ordered by the city of San
Francisco to commemorate the vic
tins of the earthquake. She will
shortly begin work on a second statue
to represent the resurrection of the
city of San Francisco.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
LOST IN THE WOODS.
Man Wanders From Lumber Camp
and Is Lost for Three Days.

Escanaba, Mich, Oct. 1G.-Almost
demented from his experience in be-
ing lost in the big woods, and after
wandering for three days and two
nights through the forests of Delta
and Marquette counties without food,
and while a snow storm was raging,
John Fray, employed by the L. Ste
phenson company, has been found
near Negaunee.
When picked up by homesteader,
Fray was clinging to tree, jabbering
like a maniac and almost dead from
exhaustion. He was taken to the
home of the man who found him,
where he was cared for until yester-
day, when he was removed to the hos
pital at Negaunee. Little hope of his
recovery is entertained.
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MACON IS NOW GOVERNOR
TAKES UP REINS OF GOVERN.
MENT IN CUBA LAID DOWN
BY TAFT.

Havana, Oct. 16.-Charles E. Ma
goon's first day as governor OF Cuba
passed busily but quietly. The palace
was singularly still compared with the
eyentful days of the past regime.
Gov. Magoon said to the Associated
Press that he was looking forward
with confidence to a peaceful admins
tration. He expressed the warmest
appreciation of the work accomplish
ed by Messrs. Taft and Bacon, both
in the pacification of the island ana
laying the foundation for a smooth
and successful system Of provisional
government. The governor sees no
reason to anticipate further sudden
changes in the situation or any espe-
cially sensational incident; he is ra-
tner of the opinion that now govern
mental matters will be of the common
place order compared to the exciting
and rapid succession of developments
of the past two months.
Gov. Magoon has announced his de-
cision to postpone the appointment OF
cabinet officers indefinitely.
Secretary of War Taft and Assist
ant Secretary of State Bacon, Presl-
dent Roosevelt's peace commissioners,
completed their labors here Saturday
and in the afternoon departed for the
United States on board the battleship
Louisiana.
They were followed to the sea front
and acclaimed by many Liberal and
exrevolutionary leaders, but the for
mer government officials showed no
disposition to Join in the farewell.
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Peonle Talked About.

The Marchesa del Grillo, better
known as Adelaide Ristori, the cele'
brated Italian actress, died in Rome.
She had been suffering from pneu-
monia for some time.
w. K. Ryan, son of Thomas F. Ryan
of New York, died suddenly at Oak
ridge, Va, thirty-three years old. He
had been suffering for some years
with tuberculosis, but his death was
unexpected at this time.
Congressman lockwood Hoar is
seriously i'll at his home in Worcester,
Mass, and not even members of his
family are allowed to see him. He Is
suffering from neuralgia of the head
and is in charge of two physicians.
Rev. w. w. McNair, eighty-one
years old, a retired Presbyterian cler-
gyman, is dead at Germantown, Pa.
He was the first Protestant mission
airy in a large region between the
Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers, and
established the first church in Eau
Claire in 1856.
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MIDDIES ARE AGAIN HAZING.
Third Class Man Is Called Upon to
Make Answer to Charge.

Make Answer TO Cnar9e.
Annapolis, Md, Oct. 16.-Notwith.
standing the severe lessons taught the
midshipmen by the courts-martial and
dismissals of last spring, hazing has
again appeared at the naval academy.
So far the recurrence of the practice
seems to be an isolated case.
Third Classman E. P. Cutler, Jr.,
whose home is in Calais, Ohio, has
been called upon by Supt. Sands to
answer the charge of assuming I'M
warranted and unauthorized authority
over a lower classman, in such a way
as to humiliate and embarrass Fourth
Classman Godfrey de G. Chevalier OF
Medford, Mass.
The incident was brought out by
the Investigations of the board of Off
GERS attached to the academy and who
are assigned this extra duty by Admi-
raj Sands. This board meets at stated
intervals, when fourth classmen are
called before it and questioned broad
ly as to whether they have been
hazed or know of any Of their class
mates who have suffered a like indig-
nifty. AS soon as Midshipman Cheva-
lier's case was unearthed a report was
made to Admiral Sands, who ordered
an Investigation and served notice on
Cutler that he must file an answer in
writing. This answer will be placed
in the admirals hands this morning.
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Otherwise.

With more than 800 delegates in at
tendance, the thirty-second annual
convention of the National Wholesale
Druggists association was held in
Washington last week.
The second of the tubes of the
der the Hudson river at New
York was opened last week when the
two ends were brought together un-
der the middle of the river. The first
tube was opened several weeks ago.
The tubes will not be ready for use
for a year yet.
At a banquet rendered him in Chi
cago by the Chicago Athletic club, Sir
Thomas Upton declared positively
that he would not make any attempt
to lift the Americas cup as long as
,Hereschoff, the designer, and Barr, the
skipper, are living. ut is useless for
me to try to win the cup" he said, ''as
long as Hereshoff and Barr are alive"
Receiver John G. Fetzer of the Mil
waukee Avenue State bank of Chicago
has received a. restitution check for
1926 which interested him. 1t came
from the Rev. G. K. Preus, president
of Luther college, DEBORAH, Iowa, who,
Through his secretary, said that year
ago Paul o. Stens1and had contributed
$25 to the college library. The pres
'ident declared that he believed it
would be wrong to keep the money
and returned it with the request that
lit be used for the benefit of the cred
itors.
The national conference of the Uni
ted Evangelical church has decided to
hold centennial jubilee services
throughout the country next year in
commemoration of 6he first conference
of the church at Kleinfeltersville Pa,
in 1907.
The annual convention of the ma
tional purity conference was held in
Chicago last week. Addresses were
made by Rev. Sidney c. Kendall OF
Long Beach, Cal; Mrs. G. E. Sibley OF
Arizona, Miss M. e. Hughes of st.
Louis and Rev. w. J. Philips of Los
angeles.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
WEEPs ON THE WITNESS STAND
Ruined Man Cries While Telling of
Grain Trusts Deeds.


Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE investigation
OF the conditions surrounding the
grain market, begun here yesterday by
the interstate commerce commission,
promises to reveal startling informa-
ton before it's completion. Witnesses
told of the struggle between the farm
er and the organized commission men
iE Iowa and Illinois and how the farm
er and independent dealer was dis
eliminated against by the railroad. A.
II. Aygarn of Pontiac, H., wept while
or the witness stand Aygarn declar-
ed he had been ruined because he had
dealt with the farmer and had quit the
Illinois association.
Cars Were Refused.
He asserted that the discrimination
against him was doubled by the re-
fusal of the railroads to give him cars.
Practically the same story was old by
all the witnesses during the forenoon
session.
In the afternoon session J. Rosen-
baum of the J, Rosenbaum Grain
company of Chicago declared that the
farmers themselves had formed a COM
bination and would not sell their grain
to any but their own elevators.
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BURTON MUST GO TO JAIL.

Supreme Court Denies Rehearing OF
the Kansas ex-Senator's Case.
Washington Oct. 1.-THE supreme
court of the United States yesterday
denied the petition of Former United
States Senator Burton Of Kansas for
a rehearing in the case in which he is
under sentence Of Imprisonment and
fine on the charge of accepting an at
torney's fee in a case in which the
government was interested while he
was serving as a senator. The effect
of the decision will be the immediate
imprisonment of Burton, unless his at
torneys devise some other means OF
postponing the execution of the SEN
tence
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
WEEKS HISTORY IN EPITOME
ALL THE NEWS THAT is WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
At the Capital.

James S. Sherman of New YORK,
chairman of the Republican congress
sional committee, and Senator ZEN
rose of Pennsylvania had a long con-
ference with the president on the po-
Iitical situation.
During the last fiscal year, accord
ing to the annual report OF Gen.
George B. Davis, judge advocate gen
eral of the army, 1896 trials by gen.
eral courtmartial were hald. Fifty OF
these trials were of commissioned Of
ficers, AZ of whom were convicted and
eight acquitted. Fourteen officers
were dismissed by sentence.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
WHITE SOX WIN
CHAMP IONSHIP
AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAM WINS
FOUR OUT OF SIX GAMES IN
WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP.
ALL CHICAGO GOES CRAZY
UNPRECEDENTED DEMONSTRA-
TON FOLLOWS DECISIVE VIC
TORY-FAlRLY EARNED.

Chicago. Oct. 16-The Chicago club
of the American baseball league is the
champion of the world. BY winning
yesterdays game, to 3, against the
local club of the National, the Amerl-
cans earned the right to float the
worlds championship pennant as well
as the pennant of the American
league. Yesterdays game was the
sixth of the series and the fourth vic
tory for the Americans.
When the last National batsman
had gone out and the stunning fact
that new champions had been created
burned it's impression through thou
sands of excited minds, the crowd
went wild with excitement.
Cheers for Everybody.
Cheer after cheer went up for the
winning team, the individual players,
the players collectively and said play
ers were thumped on the backs with
such enthusiasm that every one OF
them had to fight way out to the
waiting carriages.
lacking. They had lost the greatest
distinction which baseball offers to it's
votaries, but are still a great team.
and the crowd which followed their
carriages through crowded blocks did
not spare their threats in saying so.
Victory Fairly Earned.
That the victory was a fairly earn
ed one is shown not only by the fact
that the Americans won four out of
siv games, incidentally making it I'M
necessary to play the seventh, but by
the hits and runs. The Americans,
all told, made % runs, compared with
Is by the Nationals. They made 80
base hits as against 81 for the Ma
tionals. The Nationals made but 5
errors compared with IA by the Amer
leans. The latter also made the great
est number of extra base hits.
Cubs Are Slaughtered.
A total Of fourteen hits, two Of them
doubles tells the story of how yester-
days game was won. Eight hits were
made of Brown, the Cubs great pitcE
er, in one and two-thirds innings,
when he was replaced by Overall.
Doc White, Comiskey's invincible
south paw, was complete enigma to
the Cubs throughout the game. The
score:
Americans .34O 5000 / ks IA s
Nationals ...1 0 @ 0 1-3 0
Batteries-White and Sullivan; Brown,
Overall and King.
Sox by a score of to 6. The score:
RHE.
AmfolGdas . :.5 Q 90
Batteries-W Walsh, White and Sullivan;
Reulbach, Pfeister. Overall and Killing.
Each player on White Sox team re
ceives as his share of the receipts
$1,54233. The Cub players receive
$568.43 each.
Chicago Goes Crazy.
The victory of the American league
team was celebrated with wild enthu
siasm on the South side, where the
White Sox grounds are situated.
Crowds of men and boys, armed with
tin horns and cowbells and bearing
immense canvas socks filled with
straw. marched in the streets, their
numbers constantly growing as others
caught the spirit and joined the ranks.
Bontires were kindled in the streets
and vociferous followers of the sue
cessful team joined hands and danced
in unrestrained JOY about them. Never
before was there such widespread
and noisy demonstration in Chicago
over the outcome of q series of games.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
MYSTERIOUS Death.

Detroit, Mich, Oct. William
Danglo, an Italian aged twenty, was
found murdered yesterday in a stone
yard. He had been shot through the
heart. The police have no clue to the
murderer's identity and have been I'M
able to develop any motive for the
crime
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
Criminal.

The peonage case recently tried at
Cane Girardeau, Mo-, which resulted
in Charles M. Smith and his son and
five others being fined and sentenced
to the Leavenworth penitentiary, will
he reheard in ST. Louis. The seven
defendants have been admitted to bail.
tits all up; I'll plead guilty" With
these words George w. Cornwall,
charged with the theft from Mrs. Jo-
hanna Lumpkins Of bonds and jewels
amounting to $1,000, caused dra-
matte ending of his trial for larceny
at Bridgeport.
Nathaniel r. Hart, a prominent
lawyer, was found dead in his office
at Stamford, Conn. having shot him.
self some time during the night. Mr..
Hart formerly was assistant United
States district attorney and was
about f1fty-five years old.
Mayor G. w. McCaskyrn of Rock
Island. recently elected president of
the Mayors association Of Illinois,
has been indicted by a grand jury on
four counts for melting others to de-
stroy railroad property.
The court of appeals at Albany, N.
Y, in a decision has decided that At
torney Abraham E. Hummel, under
conviction for conspiracy in the
Morse-Dodge case, was not entitled
to be out on bail pending the deter
mination by the court of an applica-
ton for a certificate of reasonable
dnuht
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
Troops to Chase utes.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct lit was re-
ported here that troops will be called
out Immediately to drive the Ute In
dams back to their reservation. Gov.
Brooks has been in the vicinity Of the
Indian camp near Newcastle for sew
eral days and has communicated with
the authorities at Washington.
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Casualty.

The stock yards at Columbia, Tenn.
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $57,OO0;
insured.
Five men were killed on head-on
freight collision on the Union Pacific
railroad at Ridge, near Laramie, Wyo.
In an explosion in the mine of the
Springfield Galleries company, north
of Springfield, H., two shot firers were
killed.
Two men are dead and five others
injured as the result OF an explosion
of a blast furnace in the plant of the
Illinois Steel company in South Chi
cago.
Chauncey Brooks Mccormick of Chi
cago. a wealthy senior at Yale, was at
tackled by a buck at New Haven,
Conn, and so severely injured that he
narrowly escaped death from loss OF
blood.
A little daughter of w. B. Sands, an
attorney living at Chinook, Mont,
was drowned in an irrigation ditch.
The child fell into the water while
playing on the banks near Sands
home.
The Iron Mountain fast mail train,
which was late in leaving the union
station, jumped the track while max
ing up lost time at the city limits in.
st. Louis, killing one and injuring ten
other persons.
The barges Abram Smith and Com
stock were wrecked on Bass island, in
the Georgian bay region, during the
recent storm. The boats were in tow
of the steamer Langel Boys, and it
is understood were driven on the
rocks, the steamer rescuing the crews.
In a baseball game at Rolla, Mo-,
two Young men named Clark and Nc
Kee, belonging to the same team, col
lided with terrific force, while trying
TO catch ball, Mckee being killed al
most instantly and Clark being rem
dered unconscious. Clark was the
taller of the two, and it is reported
that his upper teeth struck Mckee IN
the forehead and were imbedded In
the young mans skull and broken on.
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TO MANAGE SAGE ESTATE.
Mai. SIocum Will Resign From Army
to Take Up Work.

Leavenworth, Kan, Oct. 17.-MaJ.
Herbert J. Slocum of the Second cav
airy, nephew of the widow of the
late Russell Sage, will soon tender his
resignation from the army to take up
the active management of the Sage
estate, of which the father of Maj.
Slocum is executor. Mrs. Sage wants
to place young man in charge of her
affairs, and the elder Slocum appoint
ed his son at her suggestion.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
SAM JONES DEAD.
Evangelist Died Suddenly on Train in
Arkansas.

Evangelist DIED Suddenly on Train in
Arkansas.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. IL. Sam
Jones, the evangelist, died yesterday
On a Rock Island train near Perry
Ark.
Heart disease was the cause of his
death His family was with him.
The remains will be brought to. Lit
tie Rock.
Once drunkard, Jones became a
temperance lecturer, and once or
twice appeared upon the platform in
toxicated.
He was born in Alabama in 1S47
and was admitted to the Georgia bar
in 1869. Drink ruined his legal ca
reer. In 1872 he became clergyman
in the Methodist church end was a
pastor eight years.
Hhe wrote several books.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
READY FOR REBATE TRIAL.
Jury Secured in New York to Try New
York Central.


New York, Oct. IA jury was Sc
cured yesterday in the criminal
branch of the United States district
court for the trial of the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad COM
pany anG Frederick L. Pomeroy, traf-
fic manager of the road, jointly indict-
ed for violating the Elkins law, which
prohibits the granting of rebates.
1t is charged that discrimination in
favor of the American Sugar Refining
company and others were made by the
defendants. Judge Holt, who presided
denied motion argued by counsel for
the defense to quash the indictment
on the ground that a joint indictment
against a corporation and it's agents
is Illegal.
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Storm Causes Heavy DAMAGE.

New Orleans, La, Oct. ia wire
less message from Bluefelds, Nicara-
qua to the Times-Democrat says that
a severe hurricane in Port Limon,
Costa RIGA, has done a quarter of a
million dollars damage to rubber and
banana crops, besides other property
damage.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
browns in Irritation Ditch

Helena, Mont, Oct. PA little
daughter of w. B. Sands, an attorney
living at Chinook, was drowned in
an irrigation ditch The child fell
into the water while playing on the
banks near Sands home.