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La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02

his son. He had just entered when
the form OF Aaron Treadwell, erect,
with II face benming with happiness,
came into the room. He went up to the
captain.
The old soldier seemed to expOstu-
late gently. but Aaron Treadwell In
sisted. He drew forth an old wallet.
and, shufiiing among some of his boys
letters, brought forth the bill for the
watch.
There's the number, captain. / al
ways knew it: now l want the rest to
know it,
Captain Lang went to the CURATOR.
and they quietly unlocked the case.
Wen let him think SO any way he
said. Hes had it In his mind so
many years that it's affected his head,
l Think
The watch was pierced through with
bullet. The label read, Picked up
from the field ut Gettysburg August.
1896"
They opened the corroded case after
working some time with their knives.
But the number OF the watch was the
same as the one on the bill. The evil
dence of the innocence of Harry
Treadwcll was convincing TO all.
Not many weeks after Aaron Tread
well died. happy that he had lived to
know that his faith in his son was cs-
tablished. His wife soon followed him.
1t WAS source of regret to their
friends in Trescott that they had not
lived long enough to rerd the letter re-
ccIved by the postmaster OF the town.
shortly after the pathetic incident had
been published in. the papers. 1t was
from one of the seven deserters and
was in part as follows:
/ saw the account of the finding of Har-
ry Treadwell's watch I'm newspaper.
I've never been happy since we all went
In the teeth of his earnest pleading. y
am writing. I have lived since that
day, under different name from that
bore on the day We left the field at Get.
tysburg You will never know who am
or where live. But when ] read the &C
count of his fathers Joy ! thought no,
ought to know that Harry Treadwell was
one of the seven; that he followed ms
from camp. pleading and begging that We
should come back and not stain the good
record of our years in the army with dis
honor.
When the congressman Of the dis
trict of which Trcscott is part told.
this tale to a congressional committees
he moved the earnest Legislators to
tears. The record was Immediately
changed, with the expressed regret Of
the government at the years Of obioquyi
that had been unjustly hanging over
the name of Harry TreadweIl, closing
with the words:
Buried among the unknown and
honored dead-after Gettysburg" :.
La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02

dcrly and carried him into one OF the
rooms OF the Loyal Legion. Mary
T'readwell bathcd his head. trying to
keep back the tears. and with restora-
tives he was soon revived.
As soon as he opened his eyes he
raised himself and stood erect.
strange light cleaning In his eyes. his
hands trembling with an eager excite
ment Taking his wife's arm tcnderiy,
he said. Il want to he alone with my
wife in there just Il minute, If may"
There were only few In the room,
and the curator gently asked them 10
come away for short time.
As soon as the door closed Aaron
Treadwell drew his wife across the
room and pointed to one OF the cases
There it Is, Mary. Look! Harry's
watch."
She brought her old eyes close to the
glass before the case.
ut looks like ii, Aaron, but
at is. Mary! 1t is! l always had
the number. II they would let us look
inside of it, But walt moment"'
He drew his wife into his arms, and
for few minutes their tears fell to-
gether.
II knew 1t would come some day.
Maryw
In the meantime Captain Lang had
been telling of the old mans faith In
La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02

of the hill, and the blue peaks of New
Hampshire's majestic mountains look
down upon their devotion.
one of these brave boys was Harry
Treadwell. the only child and main
stay OF his father and mother on the
Blue Hill farm When Captain Lang
| organized regiment of the New
Hampshire farmers from Grafton coun-
ty he had returned flushed with ex-
element and the ardent patriotism OF
his nineteen years.
Il must go, father. l hate to leave
you and mother, and so much to do
but 1t wouldn't be right. One OF us
must go. and it were better 1t was l."
Mary Treadwelrs face banched.
"Oh, Harry" she exclaimed, I'VE can
not spare you! 1t would kill me. Our
only child, my boy, to go and be shot
down.
Aaron Treadwell looked at her ten
derry. MARY. I'll 60 Harry is right.
one of us must 60"
No, no! 1t were better I went. ia
ther l am young and full Of life-yes.
both love-"
And 80 1t was decided. During the
following six weeks Harry drilled with
the others on the village green. His
enthusiasm often dried the tears on
his mothers cheeks and made his ia
ther's heart bound with pride.
There are worse troubles than this.
mother" he would say, land one OF
them would be to stay up here in Tres
colt while the others went to do the
fighting"
When the day came for departure,
after the first battle Of Bull Run. his
mother gave him Testament aud
little memorandum book. Aaron Tread
well had been down to the Trescott
National bank and, drawing out por-
ton Of the money saved from the prof
Its Of the Blue Hill farm, gave him a
gold watch.
II was goin' to give It to you when
you was twenty-One, Harry. 1t may
save your life some time. Such things
happen"
Harry TreadwelI was one Of the
faithful units in the ranks that did the
real work Of preserving the Integrity
Of the United States. He was In seven
teen battles. was wounded at Antietam
and taken q prisoner at Vicksburg.
Once during his long service he had
come home for a brief furlougb.
II am still q common soldier. father.
always do as I am told. There are
plenty Of others who can have the pro
motions. am perfectly content to be
one Of Captain Lang's Red Hot Boys
A. they call us."
And we are Just ~ proud of you o.
II yop wers colonel bis father an
swersd.
And then came Gettysburg. Nothiss
La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02
Not What He Asked.

In these days Of individualism in
thought and action the balance Of deci-
sion tips more and more toward the
personal. Even in the matter OF SPELL
ing the ego asserts itself in the face
of tradition and history. Bobby In
Tft-Bits Is not the only person who
constitutes himself the nnal court OF
appeal In the realm Of photography.
$50 you go to school, do you, Bob
byY' asked the minister. I
ayes; sir.e answered Bobby.
, Let mssheaf how you spell bread"
"B-r-e-d-e.vsey.
:. The dictionary spells It with an 's.,s
Bobby" !!
s.4ss. III, but you didn't ask me ~
he dlct5odart Sbeilsit:' 1os aaksl -
BOW spell It."
La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02

"K WISH you didn't take it so much
TO heart, Aaron. Let 1t be
enough for you and me that we
know our boy died fighting for
his country"
''lt Is enough, surely-enoush for us,
Mary. But not for Harry. | mean to
show FOLKS that I believe he lies among
the nations honored dead at Gettys-
burg and was not descrter, even II
the records at Washington say he was.
knew my boy--our only child. We
gave him TO the Union. That record Is
a dreadful mistake
And SO 1t was every Memorial day
and at the annual encampments OF the
Grand Army Aaron Treadwell never
failed 10 give public testimony of his
faith in his sons innocence. Mrs.
Treadwell always pleaded with him to
be content with his own firm convic-
ton of his sons soldierly qualities.
and mother appeared together.
NO. Mary" he continued. IL shall
never he too old to do this for Harry.
God forbid It. Harry never turned his
back on his duty, not even with the
threatened slaughter at Gettysburg"
Trescott sent many strong men to
the front in 1861. Some of them are
alive today. and each Memorial day
they walk to the cemetery Oh the brow
La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02

who went with the other Trescott vet
erans, came around one morning to
Aaron ,rrendwell's room.
There isn't much going on this
morning. Come with me TO the Cadets
armory. where the Loyal Legion has It's
headquarters. They have the most In
teresting collection Of relics of the civil
war have ever seen.' 30 =
Aaron TreadweH and his wife were
delighted. Everythipg1 connected with
the civil war had come TO possess. q
vital interest to them. $50
Suddenly the old man felft6 tie hdDr
In . faInt They picked him mp tes.
La Junta tribune., 1907-11-02
After
Gettysburg.
A Memorial Day Story
By STANLEY JOHNSON.

ropyrish,, 1906, by stanley johnson.

WISH you didn't take it so much
To heart, Aaron. Let II be
enough for you and me that we
know our hoy died fighting for
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
TWO ARE LYNCH[D..
FOUR ARE KILLED
NET RESULT OF ATTEMPTED
CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON WHITE
WOMAN.
REAL BRUTE MAKES ESCAPE
EFFORTS OF POSSE TO CAPTURE
HIM RESULTS IN BLOOD
SHED.

Reidsville, Ca, May %. - Two ne
groes 1ynched and four other persons
dead and six injured is the net result
of an attempted criminal assault made
last night on Mrs. Laura Moore,
white, widow, six miles from here, by
Elem Padgett, negro. Two members
of the Padgett family are the ones
lynched and the death or injury of the
others followed the efforts of posse
to capture Padgett.
News of the attempted assault
aroused the citizens, who Immediately
went to the home of the negro's ia
Their. He assured the crowd that his
son was not in the house and invited
the posse to search for themselves.
Four Are Killed.
AS they approached the house Elem
Padgett fired on the crowd, killing a
white man named Hare and wounding
four others. The crowd fired volley
into the house, killing the old negro
Padgett and two of his daughters and
wounding two of his sons, one of
whom was Elem Padget, the man
wanted.
After the cooler heads had left the
scene of the killing, the hot-headed
element employed a young man to
take Padgett's wife and one of the
Padgett boys, who was shot through
the lungs, to the Reidsville Jail, but
later the party followed, took the pris-
oners from the young man and riddled
81, or
Mob Would Force Jail.
1t is stated that a crowd of about
800 started for Reidsville to force the
jail and lynch the other Padgett boy,
who had been taken there by the dep
uty sheriff.
1t is not believed that this will be
accomplished, as Reidsville has sub
stantial jail and the citizens will not
permit such an act Those involved
in the affair are influential citizens.
Further trouble is feared.
Elem Padgett, who attempted the
assault, and for whom the posse went
in pursuit, escaped. He was slightly
wounded. One of his brothers was
brought here and placed in Jail.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
Accidental Happenings.

Fire at Webster City, Iowa, destroy
ed the plant of the Webster City Steel
Radiator company. Loss, 100000.
The large flour mills at Chihuahua
Mex, owned by Ambassador Cree1
were destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000
The Union Abattoir company's plant
at Montreal, the largest abattoir in
the city, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
Six persons were injured, a num-
Der of frame buildings were unroofed
and many windows were broken by a
storm in Kansas City, Kan.
A four-story building in Chicago
occupied by the Chicago Feather
Buster company was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of 100000.
AS H. A. Scott stepped from pas
senger train at Mason City, Iowa, he
was struck by switch engine Both
legs were severed and he died three
hours later.
Erwin Graham, sixteen years of
age, was run down by a hose cart 60
ing to a fire at Fairfield, Iowa, and
his skull was crushed. He died soon
afterward.
The schooner Sycamore, with a car
go of coal aboard for Boston, was
sunk in collision with an unknown
Norwegian steamer near Bedford,
Mass. The latter is also supposed to
have gone down with all her crew.
It's kerosene bathed wings afame
from coming in contact with a burning
cigar dropped to the floor by its sleep
ing owner, pet canary bird flew into
the kitchen at the home of Patrick
Ccoley at Cleveland and caused an ex-
plosion that wrecked the interior of
the structure.
William Kenney, an employee Of a
distillery at VAUDEVILLE, Ont, was
drowned in a vat or whisky mash. In
some unknown manner Kennedy fell
into the fermenting vat and his body
was discovered there at midnight. He
had entered the employ of the dis
tillery only last Friday.
Running fifty miles an hour, pas
senger train collided with a string of
twelve runaway freight cars and was
wrecked near Ell Paso, Tex. Engineer
Neal B. McGinnis was caught under
the tender and crushed to death. Fire
man Pat Sullivan is still living, but
is SO badly scalded that he cannot sur.
Viye
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
RfPUDIATf THE IRISH BILL
HOME RULE OR NOTHING SENTI-
@MENT OF CONVENTION AT
DUBLIN.

Dublin, May 22.-The largest, most
representative and most harmonious
convention which ever assembled in
Ireland yesterday repudiated the plan
for a limited Irish council, which was
all the Liberal government had to Of
fer in fulfillment of its campaign
promises. This action killed the hope
of any home rule legislation by the
present parliament, created a serious
split in the governments forces and
may have far-reaching results.
The temper OF the convention was
plain from the beginning. No one had
a word to offer in behalf of the bill.
Home rule or nothing was the unani-
nous sentiment, and the resolution re-
jecting the measure proposed by John
E. Redmond commanded every vote.
The Irish parliamentarians had
been deluged with resolutions from
town councils and all sorts of official
and unofficial bodies since they ar
rived in Dublin. all denouncing the
bill. The country spoke in an unmis-
taxable voice, and the Irish members
of parliament cheerfully acquiesced in
its will
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
Domestic.

Mrs. Archie Campbell of Waterloo
Iowa, gave birth to child which
weighed just one pound and eight
ounces. The child was perfectly form
ed and well developed.
Sixty thousand dollars is the sum
collected by the woman's board of for.
eign missions of the Reformed Church
of America, as announced at the thir
ty-third annual meeting in New York
For over two weeks Andrew Fl
Simpson has been in a cataleptic state
at Worcester, Mass, and doctors fear
he will die without regaining con
seriousness. For years Simpson has
been an ardent student of hypnotism
He hypnotized himself and all efforts
to bring him to consciousness have
failed.
Mrs. S. S. Miles of Des Moines has
received from Visby, Sweden, $10(
which was taken from her by pick
pockets in Bridgeport, Conn, two
years ago. Who the thief was she has
no idea.
The identity of a woman of twenty
nine years, who has been in the city
hospital at st. Louis for severa
weeks registered as pauper, has
been established, and it is found that
she is Mrs. Rose Sheridan of Mont
real, Can, and instead Of being desti
tute is heir to an estate of 100000
in England.
That a needy girl may be encour
aged to marry, checks for $25 have
been received by several town treas
urers in Massachusetts from Abraham
Gordon, a wealthy manufacturer o.
dress goods in New York. The money
will be given to the poorer class o.
girls.
The committee of the Christian En-
deavor societies of Seattle having ii
charge the preparations for the ia
tional Christian Endeavor convention
in July have voted that colored dele
gates to the convention should not be
housed in the same hotels with
whites.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23

! Grant Mcleod and Walter Getchell,
convicted on the charge of stealing
cattle, were given stiff sentences by
Judge Stewart at Helena, the former
drawing ten years and the latter two
years.
| Anisia Louise de Massey, popularity
known as the Baroness de Massey"
recently convicted Of having killed
Gustav Simon in New York, was SEN
| fenced to seven years and five months
in prison.
Following a quarrel, Christian Mil
Ter, butcher of st. Louis, shot at his
wife and missed her. AS a policeman
entered the room Miller committed
suicide. apparently having believed
that he had killed her.
Because he whipped his twelve-year-
old son for playing baseball on Sunday
J. H. Arnold, a travelling revivalist,
was sentenced to six months on the
rockpile at Athens, Ga. Physicians
testified that the boy might not re-
cover.
1a1OA MCSduud CCAuLuIIICu 0uASAuC 0I
Ishpeming, Mich, by taking strych-
nine in whisky. McCanna, was blown
up by dynamite while assisting in
breaking a log jam a few years ago
and his mind had been affected ever
since.
His mind unbalanced, the result OF
brooding over the loss Of hand
crushed in machinery year ago,
Charles Larson, pumpman in the en-
ploy of the Newport Mining company
at Marquette, Mich, put an end to his
life by shooting himself in the temple.
In strike riot at the railroad yards
In Gibson, Ind, twenty-five laborers,
mostly Hungarians, were injured.
Some of the injured are not expected
to live. Hammond police were called
and succeeded in arresting three of
the ringleaders. Bricks, clubs and
knives were used in the riot.
Thomas Brady, miner Of Butte, is
suffering from fractured skull, which
may cause his death. Brady, it is al
legged, while under the influence of
liquor abused his wife. He then taunt-
ed his fifteen-year-old stepson for not
protecting his mother. The boy there
upon struck the man on the head with
an ak, fracturing his skull. The boy
was arrested.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
Criminal,

Galsumino Yacovini, an Italian, shot
and killed himself accidentally while
hunting in the country north of Glen
dive, Mont.
After being wheeled into a hair
dresser's to get his hair combed,
Charles Murray, paralytic of Sioux
City, drew revolver and sent a bull
let crashing through his brain.
William G. Robinson was arrested
in New York charged with passing a
worthless check for $55. Robinson is
credited with having spent $4,000 in
brief career.
Because he stole $3.50 from his
landlady to go to his mothers funeral
at Iron Mountain, Mich, James Cum
dy was bound over to the grand jury
at Rock Island, Ill.
John G. Sterling, convicted of house
breaking on twenty-one charges, at
Winnipeg, was sentenced to twenty
four years in the Stony Mountain pen
itentiary.
Details of a confession made by
William o. Douglass, former loan
clerk of the Trust Company of Ameri-
ca, made public in New York, are to
the effect that, acting on the advice of
lawyer, he planned to steal $1,000
900 of securities in order to compel
the trust company to overlook his
minor thefts. Douglas has already
pleaded guilty to larceny and is await
ing sentence.
The grand jury at Lima, Ohio, re
turned thirty-nine indictments against
individuals and corporations alleged
to be parties to the so-calIed bridge
trust. They are charged with con
spiracy in restraint of trade and in
violation of the Valentine antitrust
law.
Word was received at Helena that
the United States circuit court of ap
peals had affirmed the conviction and
sentence of J. T. Carroll, the wealthy
Butte merchant who was indicted or
a charge Of violating the public do
main law at Woodville, between Hell
ena and Butte.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
SEEK TO KEEP UP PROSPERITY
OFFICIALS TRYING TO PREVENT
RECURRENCE OF PANIC IN
WALL STREET.

Washington, May 22.-The navy de
no decrease in the prosperity of the
country or recurrence of the panicky
condition in Wall street if the admin
istration can prevent it. All branches
of the government, taking their cue
from the president, are acting energet
ically to maintain the existing salts
factory state of affairs.
Bygones Be Byaones.
The president himself, in the speech
he will deliver at Indianapolis next
week, will address himself to reassur-
ing the public as to the value of rail
road securities and will state emphat-
ically that in the matter of railroad
manipulation he processes to let by
cones be bygones and only endeavor
to secure reforms to prevent a contin-
uance of evil practices.
Departments Busy.
Secretary Cortelyou is following the
market with closest attention and is
prepared to furnish treasury support
should the exigencies require.
Secretary Wilson has sent three ex-
perts to Southern Kansas and Okla
homa to investigate the damage done
to the wheat crop and is prepared to
furnish parasitical insect to destroy
the devastating bug, but such action is
reported to be unnecessary. The Sec
rotary is giving attention also to gen.
eral conditions and whatever is posi-
BILE to facilitate the growth of crops.
Will Provide New Markets.
In the department of commerce and
labor Secretary Straus made arrange
ments for increasing, Immediately
after the beginning of the fiscal year,
investigations into the trade condi-
tons abroad, in order to provide new
markets for American products.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
Personal.

Brig. Gen. Mathew M. Blunt, U. S.
A., retired, died in sanitarium at
Brooklyn.
Lieut.. Gen. Zacharias, vice president
Of the international permanent geo.
detic commission, is dead at Copen-
hagen.
Right Rev. John Diendorer, one of
the founders and late president CT the
Evangelical Lutheran synod of Iowa
and other states, died at his home in
Waverly. Iowa.
Before a small circle of intimate
friends and relatives, Mrs. Mary Nch-
olson, widow of Admiral Nicholson,
was married in New York to Gen.
James Crane Wilson.
Stanley B. Fowler, a former well
known journalist of Chicago, Denver
and other cities, died at Los Angeles
at the age of aighty-fOur. He was ed
itor and publisher of the Denver Mir
ror for many years.
Charles Haine Haswell one of the
best civil and marine engineers in
the country, is dead at his home in
New York. He was ninety-eight years
old. He was first engineer-in-chief in
the navy from 1886 to 1851.
AS the result of a courtship cover
ing a quarter of a century, but during
which they never met in person, J. w.
Reed, aged sixty-four, of Harrodsburg,
KY, was married to Miss Helen Jen-
kins. aged sixty-three, of Quincy, III.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
JOY OVER ESCAPE OF CAR.
Lower House of Parlamen coneratu
lates the Emperor.

Lower House of Parliamen Conqratu-
Iates the Emperor.
st. Petersburg, May 22.-Previous to
the opening of the session of the lower
house of parliament yesterday a reso-
luton expressing the great joy of the
house at Emperor Nicholas escape
from death at the hands of those who
plotted his assassination, and the deep
est mitigation at the recent conspira-
cy, was unanimously adopted.
The reading of the resolution called
forth hearty applause, but the expect
ed monarchist demonstration did not
take place.
Socialists Are Absent.
The Social Democrats. Social Revo-
lutionists, part of the Group of Toll
and others were absent from the house
when the resolution was presented and
adopted.
In announcing the discovery of the
plot Premier Stolypin said that not
only was the emperors life aimed at,
but that the plotters intended to as
sassinate Grand Duke Nicholaievitch,
president of the council of national
defense, and himself.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington.

Commissioner Ballinger OF the gen.
eral land Office, has designated July i
next as the date for the opening OF
the Chippewa Indian reservation in
Minnesota. There are 229,297 acres OF
the land. The reservation will be
opened under the homestead laws.
The cruiser Baltimore, lying at the
navy yard at Brooklyn, has been taken
out of commission. 1t is said that the
Baltimore will be converted into a
mine-laying vessel. The Baltimore was
one of Dewey's feet at the battle Of
Manila.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
SWindIinq Farmers.

Winona. Mimi, May 22.-Farmers
are warned against a barb wire fence
swindle. which is being used at the
present time by agents. They agree
to furnish a good eight-wire fence Tor
cents per foot. When the bill is
presented it proves to be cents per
foot per wire, or GA cents il AL per
font