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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
FIRE HITS NEW YORK HARD.
TWenty-Four Hours Record Is Eigh-
teen Deaths and 100000 Loss.

TWenty-Four Hours Record Is Eigh-
teen Deaths and 100000 Loss.
New York, July 31-Shocking loss
of human life and destruction of prop
erty estimated at more than $1,000,000
were caused by fires in New York and
it's vicinity in the twentyfOur hours
ending at o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
Eighteen persons are dead and at
least fifteen are seriously injured as
the result of a fire early yesterday in
a tenement in a house on Christie
street. All of the occupants of the
house were Italians. There is no clue
to the origin of the blaze. 1t was at
first reported that the fire was proba-
bly, the result of bomb exploded in a
grocery store in the basement of the
buildings, but the police after care
full investigation said that there was
no evidence to sustain this theory or
to show that the fire was of incendiary
origin.
The fire wave first struck Coney
Island, and before it subsidized Steeple-
chase Park. a score of hotels and
many amusement attractions were in
ruins and many persons we're home
less. The next fire was the steamship
fire. Then came the Christie street
tenement disaster, and next the Long
Branch hotel was destroyed The 500
guests were all in their beds when the
flames were discovered, but all left the
building in safety. The hotel burned
like tE1der and within short time
was a smoldering mass of ruins. 1t
was three stories high and nearly 600
feet in length, and when filled to it's
capacity housed LOO persons. The
loss is about 100000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
INSURGENTS WIPED OUT.

Small Band of Greeks Fight Valiant
Battle With Turkish Troops.
Athens, July 31.-There has been
pitched battle between Turkish troops
supported by Bashi-bazouks and
small band of Greek insurgents who
had intrenched themselves in a house.
in the outskirts of Sores, European
Turkey (ifty miles northeast of Sa-
lonikD. The band was completely
wiped out, but thirty men were killed
before the soldiers, aided by the artil-
lery, succeeded in capturing the minia-
ture fortress. During the fighting the
BashiDazouks pillaged over a hundred
houses anG burned number of Greek
buildings in Sores.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Foreign.


1t is reported that King Victor EN-
manuel intends to visit England, ac-
companied by an Italian fleet
Fifty workmeu are reported to have
been suffocated as the result of a fire
in a sulphur mine in Girgenti, Sicily
The governor general of Moscow
has fined eight Liberal newspapers
$500 each. The Liberal press in the
province is almost extinct.
There was fatal explosion in a
colliery at Toyooka, in Bunge prov.
ince, Japan. 1t is reported that nearly
all of the 40 miners in the pit at the
time were killed.
Yaqui Indians raided the camp OF
the Richfield Copper Mining company
just north of Querobabi, Mex, and
stripped it clean of everything OF
value, but the Indians refrained from
murder.
A military dirigible balloon made a
most successful flight over Berlin. The
trip lasted for three hours, and this
length of time in the air has been at.
tanned only once, by the Lebaudys in
France.
The water has been entirely pump
ed out of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
H., that listed Saturday at Bremen
haven. The steamer sustained no in
juries and will be ready for service in
five days.
Advices from the Congo state that
an officer and nine native militiamen
have been killed by the natives. and
that in French Congo a missionary
had been slain in the interior, where
the native soldiers are rising against
the whites.
A dispatch to the London Globe
from Brussels brings a report that ne
gotiations are in progress between
the Netherlands and Japan looking tc
the purchase by the latter of an island
in the Dutch East Indies for a coaline
station. The island is said to be close
to the Philippines.
The kaiser is reported to be build
ing a twenty-three-mile automobile
track on his estate at Schorfheide. II
will be for private use and he himself
is bearing the cost, which will be
great
Fifteen men, including several off
GERS, were wounded on board the It&l
ian battleship Sardegna during a fgh
between sailors of the north and south
following quarrel over the Mas
case.
The king of Denmark has gone tt
Iceland to settle the constitutional diff
ficulty arising from the demand il
that island for home rule.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Casualty.

In a head-on collision between two
traction cars at Elyria, Ohio, three
persons were seriously injured.
Muriel Hall of Coggon, Iowa, was
killed in an explosion of an acetylene
gas plant. Her sister was frightfully
burned trying to save her.
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, OF
Brooklyn, plunged into Lake Hopat1'
long at Morristown, N. J., and brought
two drowning young women ashore.
The Observation-Disclosures circus train
was ditched near Twin Lakes, Mich,
by a broken fange. No one was in
| jured. but ten horses and one camel
were killed.
Mrs. Herbert Stranahan is dead and
her mother-in-law, Mrs. Charles
Stranahan is fatally injured by jump
ing from the carriage when the horses
ran away at Romeo, Mich.
A brick building, one Of row of
six-story structures that are being
torn down in New York, collapsed,
burying twenty workmen. Two men
were seriously injured.
Eugene Howe, aged twenty-eight, of
New York announced to his wife that
he was going to fly out in the night
air like a bird. Clad in his night
shirt, he leaped from third-story
window and was killed.
AS the result of an insignificant in
jury to a finger, Miss Evelyn Bengry,
one of the most popular young women
of Marquette, Mich, is dead at her
home Blood poisoning caused her de-
mise at the age of twenty years.
A burning cigarette stump tossed
out of a window on the second story
and accidentally lighting on the hat Of
Miss Grace Endon of Fort Dodge, re-
suited in injuries to her from burns
which may prove fatal.
A bullet from a gun in the hands of
Private Gillette, a soldier, intended
for a deserter who was escaping at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. instantly
killed Miss Elizabeth Cadenhead of
Ferguson, Ont. Officials are investi-
eating.
Eric Peterson, young man, was
drowned in Portage lake, near the
ship canal at Houghton, Mich. He,
with three companions, was in small
boat which capsized, Peterson losing
his life. The other three were rescued.
The party was all intoxicated at the
time.
While prospecting near Clear creek,
in Montana, John Ducie fell and rolled
down the mountain side, sustaining
serious injuries Ducie broke one arm
and dislocated his shoulder blade.
Ducie managed to crawl home, four
miles away, the painful journey occu-
plying six hours. He is in a critical
condition, but it is hoped that he will
survive.
Allen Wilson, twenty-five years of
age, widely known as ''Tug" Wilson in
football circles, was crushed to death
under an electric car at Oberlin, Ohio.
He was famous as a quarterback.
Wilson played for two years on the
Oberlin college team. He had been a
student at Williams college for year
and would have been eligible to the
team this fall.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Killed by Policeman.

Chicago, July 31.-William Wood,
negro ex-convict, was instantly killed
yesterday by Police Sergeant Hertz
after a fierce revolver fight, in which
Wood and several othe officers besides
Hertz participated. During the fight
Henry A. Noyes, bystander, was
shot in the abdomen by Wood and was
taken to the hospital in critical con-
ditiOn,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
People Talked About.

Mai. Gen. George W. Minded, who
earned the rank of colonel OF New
Jersey regiments during the Civil war,
died of heart disease at his home in
New York.
After a brief illness, due to excess
sive heat, Capt. Bart e. Linehan of
Dubuque, Iowa, died at Memphis. Mr..
Linehan was president of the Dubuque
Light and Gas company.
James F. English, pair clerk of the
Democratic caucus of the house of rep
resentatives, died in Washington of
liver complications. He has been con-
nected with the house for twenty-five
years.
Mrs. Emma Marius, aged sixty
three, of Winsted, Conn, and Corne-
Illus Andrius, aged thirty-six, employed
as a hired man by Mrs. Marius, have
surprised their friends by getting
married.
Francis Patrick Clements, brother
of the earl of Letrim, who recently
crossed the ocean serving as a stoker,
is on his way to Denver to become a
real cowboy. He writes that he wants
no tomfoolery, but expects to begin at
the bottom and learn the business.
While the majority of the world has
been snarling, scratching and getting
things tangled in the divorce courts,
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel H. Pick of Den
yer have been living in beautiful
peace. For sixty years not a word of
contention has passed between them.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
SENATOR PETTUS DEAD.
Oldest Man in Public Life at Wash
ington Passes Away.


Hot Springs, N. c., July Ex-senator
Edmund w. Pettus of Alabama died
here last night at 10 o'clock. He was
elghty-six years old July 6.
Senator Pettus was not only the old
est member of the senate, but also the
oldest man in public life in the United
States.
The senator, without apparently be-
ing seriously, succumbed to old
age. He lapsed into Inconsistencies
while at breakfast yesterday morning.
Senator Morgan, three years Pettus'
Junior, but his senior in service in the
senate, died two months ago.
Birmingham, Ala, July 29.-The sue
cessor to Senator E. w. Pettus will be
Former Governor Joseph F. Johnson
Of Birmingham.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
SHOOTS KIN AT BED
OF DYING FATHER
TRAGEDY AT HOME OF HUNTING
TON FAMILY AT VERSAILLES,
FRANCE.
ATTEMPTS TO KILL Sell
FATHER DIES, IGNORANT OF TIE
TRAGEDY - BROTHER AND
SISTER MAY DIE.

| Versailles, July 31.-The death of
the aged American soldier himself and
| an attempt at self-destruction on the
! part of his son Henry, who shot his
sisters and brothers Sunday, in the
last hours of his dying father, impart-
ed additional sadness to the shocking
tragedy in the home of Maj Henry A.
Huntington, which has caused a sensa-
ton in the American colony and in di-
plomatic circles in France.
Father Spared Anguish.
Mai. Huntington died last evening
shortly after the news was given out
of his son Henry's unsuccessful at
tempt at suicide, but the father was
spared the anguish of knowing OF this
incident and of the terrible crime
which shattered his household, as he
was unconscious to the end.
According to the police, Henry at
tempted suicide in his cell with a silk
handkerchief, which he tied around his
neck and fastened to the bars, seeking
to strangle himself slowly by means of
a tourniquet.
Henry irresponsible.
= Though plunged in grief at the
death of the head of the household,
the mother and children have had time
to interpret Henry's effort at self-de-
struction as additional evidence of the
mental responsibility, which they say
he has long manifested in certain d.
rections.
His wife, however, declares that it
was the natural result of remorse at
the dreadful acts which he committed
in a sudden outburst of uncomfortable
fury at the interference of his brothers
when he hurried to the bedside Of his
dying father to beg forgiveness.
Brother May Die.
The condition of Alonzo, who was
shot in the head, and Elizabeth, who
was shot in the region of the heart,
was serious yesterday. Alonzo, it is
believed, will die.
Huntington's wife has made public
an account of the things she says her
husband told her before he was locked
up, in which he declared he had lost
his head during words with his
brothers and fired wildly and reckless
ly. Young Mrs. Huntington asserts
that there was a complete rupture be-
tween Henry and his family on ac
count of the treatment of her by his
sisters. and that Henry smarted under
the refusal of his family to receive her
in their home.
SquabbIe Over Will.
It is stated by certain acquaintances
of Maj. Huntington that after his quar-
rel with Henry, some months ago, he
had drawn up a will leaving all his
property to his wife and the four 9TH
err children, but that in view of his re-
Cancellation with Henry on Sunday he
tore up this will and made q new one,
in which Henry was given an equal
share with the others.
1t was the protests of the family
against this which led Henry, accord
ing to the statement, to use his re-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
LIES NEAR COLLEAGUE.

Late Senator Pettus Is Buried With
Exceptional Honors.
Selma, Ala, July 31.-The funeral of
the late United States Senator Ed
mund W. Pettus, who died Saturday at
Hot Springs, N. c.. took place here
yesterday afternoon at his late resi-
dence. Interment was in Live Oak
cemetery, where less than two months
ago his late colleague, Senator John
T. Morgan, was laid to rest
Senator Pettus' funeral was attend
eddy the greatest honors ever paid an
Alabama citizen.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Mot Fatal. hut Serious.

Thingumbob-See here! l saw Hen
peck in the street to-day.
McJigber-Well?
Thingumbob-Wel you told me yes
terday that he was victim of mortal
combat
McJigger-Not at all. l said mari
tai combat"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Kills Deputy Sheriff.

Albuquerque, N M, July 81. - Joe
Maloy of Silver City shot and killed
Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith last
night as Smith was attempting to ar
rest him. After Maloy had been cap
tured he had to be guarded all night
to prevent a 1ynching. Smith was a
popular citizen.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
BONE PiERCES SHOE.

Former Register of La Crosse Breaks
Leg in Runaway.
La Crosse, Wis, July 31.-Leapfng
from a buggy which was being dashed
away by horse frightened by pass
ing automobile, Edward Larson, for
mer register Of deeds, landed upon his
ankle in a manner which caused his
leg to snap and the femur, the princi-
pal bone in the leg, to penetrate the
sole of his shoe and protrude three
inches.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Makes a Difference.

"Spenders is getting up quite a rep
utation as a humorist. I never thought
he was funny. How does he get any
body to laugh at his jokes?"
"Why, he puts up for such swell din
ners while he's telling them, you
know"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
neno4 Eira called lncendiarx.

Good Thunder, Mimi, July 31.-Fire
broke out in the depot last night and
the building was only saved from to-
tai destruction after considerable
damage had been done to the interior.
The fire is believed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
"BLACk HAND" OUTRAGE.
Man Found ShockingIy Mutilated =
Suspect Arrested.

Detroit, July 81. - Ton Leto, aged
thirty-five, was found last night lying
helpless in front of his home, shock
ingly mutilated and with stab wounds
in his abdomen, chest and thigh and
behind his ear The police arrested a
young Italian whose hands were COW
cred with blood when he was appre-
hended, and are holding him on sus-
picion Leto refuses to name his as
saiIant, and there are rumors that the
affair was a "Rlack Hand outrage.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Crimes and Criminals.

Andrew Trice, a negro, accused of
the murder of his mistress, was lynch
ed at Olive Branch, Miss, by thirty
members of his own race.
The partially decomposed body of
Charles Huskey was found in corn
crib at his home, two miles south of
West Side, Iowa. 1t is thought that he
committed suicide by taking poison.
Sitting on the edge of the bed at the
home of her parents at Burlington,
Iowa, Carrie DObbleman fired two bull
lets in her head, dying instantly. The
unfaithfulness of a lover is said to
have been the cause of the deed.
Mrs. Margaret J. King, thirty-one
years of age, we'll known Pittsburg
musician, committed suicide by cut
ting her throat after playing Tschai-
kowsky's Sixth Symphony on the
piano. Mrs. King had been despond-
ent for long time.
Accused of tearing down a United
States flag and then trampling on it,
James Grant was tried and convicted
in justice court at Birch, Mich, and
was sentenced to serve thirty days
in Jail, in addition to which he was
fined $40. He is a subject of King
Edward.
Three masked men entered noodle
parlOr located on Twenty-sixth street
south, at Billings, Mont, and at the
point of six-shooters compelled the
proprietor, Wing Wong Chung, and a
number of other Orientals in the place
to face the wall with their hands up
while they rifled the cash register and
took all the cash in sight.
Grief stricken by the receipt of a no.
LITIGATION that her services would not
be required after the end of this
month, Mrs. Nielsen, a housekeeper
for a land owner named Ulljaer of Jut-
land, Denmark, hanged three of her
employers children as we'll as three of
her own and killed herself by hanging.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
More Insanity in Wisconsin

Madison, Wis, July 81. = Insanity
cases have increased in Wisconsin the
last year from 1886 to $5,968, so per
cent women The average ratio of in
sanity is one to about every 1872 PEG
pie.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
GEN. POWELL PASSES AWAY.
Had Been Critically III During Several
Months.

ST. Paul, July 31.-Brig. Gen. Charles
Francis Powell, retired, died yester-
day morning at his home. He had
been critically i'll for some months
with an affection of the heart
Gen. Powell attained marked dis
tinction during his service of over for
ty-five years in the army as an engi-
neer of great ability. He was station
ed at various parts of the country di-
recting engineering work. Besides en-
joying an excellent reputation for
technical ability, Gen. Powell had a
war record that was particularly brill
liant. He rose from the ranks in the
Civil war, was appointed to West
Point and upon graduation was imme-
diately detailed for duty in the corps
of engineers.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
After Taking.

Magistrate-What! Do you mean
to say your husband struck you, and
he that physical wreck?
Mrs. Maloney-Yes, yer honor. but
he's only been a physical wreck since
he struck me.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Prince Hit hY Stick.

Paris, July 31-Prince Alexis Orloff
Of Russia was badly wounded in the
face yesterday while driving in his au-
tomobile to Paris by a broomstlck
thrown by an "anti-autoist" The
prince s. assailant was arrested.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Millinery Shop Is Burned.

Willmar, Mimi, July 31.-The Lucas
millinery store was destroyed by fire
early yesterday morning. The build
ing was destroyed before the fire de-
partment could get the flames under
control. The origin of the fire is I'M
known
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
GoGGINS ON RATE BOARD.
Is Named by Gov. Davidson to Take
Barnes Place.

Madison, Wis, July 31.-Bernard B.
Goggins was yesterday afternoon APP
pointed by Gov. Davidson member of
the railroad rate commission, to sue
coed John Barnes, resigned. Mr.
Barnes was chairman Of the state rail-
way commission and resigned immedi-
ately following the passage of the
2-cent railway rate bill by the Wiscon-
sin legislature.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Mob Leaders Held for Murder

Pawhuska, Okla, July 81. Mike
White and Shorty Green, alleged lead
ers of the mob that lynched the negro
Frank Bailey at Usage, were held last
night to the federal grand jury for
murder in the first degree
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Eireh,o A. Work at Preston.

Preston, Mimi, July 31.-Wolf's feed
mill burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
This is the second fire in the mill
within a week. Both fires are laid to
incendiaries.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
DRESS ABLAzE; GIRL RUNS.
Fatal Burns Are Inflicted by Oil Pour
ed Into Stove.

Oakland Iowa, July 31.-With her
clothing ablaze and leaving trail of
fire behind her, Lily Lees ran scream
ing across lots to the house of a neigh
Dor. The neighboring woman wrapped
the girl in d blanket and extinguished
the flames, but not until the young
woman had been SO badly burned that
it is believed she cannot survive. She
had attempted to hasten the kitchen
fire by pouring kerosene upon it.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
PUTS BABY ON HOT STOVE.
Drunken Pole Burns Strange Child and
Is Arrested.

Oswego, N. Y, July 31.-A drunken
Pole, a stranger in this city, entered
the home Of Charles Leonard, took a
seven-months-old baby from a crib
where it was sleeping and placed it on
a red-hot kitchen stove. The cries of
the child brought the mother, who
had left the house for a minute. The
police were called and the man ar
rested. The baby was badly injured.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Full for Once.

Weary Walker-Say, did yer ever
lose yer appetite?
Hungry Hawkes. did onct. One
day kind lady gev me square meal
an fur ten or fifteen minutes after
didn't care fur food at all.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
The Surprise.

"My wife surprised me with box
of cigars on my birthday"
Surprised you! Why, you told me
you were expecting her to give you
cigars?"
81 know, but these were good ones"
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Fall of Slate Kills Two.

Irwin, Pa, July 31.-John H. Jones,
Pittsburg, general manager of the
United States Coal company, and Jo-
seph, fire boss. were killed last night
in Edna Mine No. 1 by fall of slate.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Sheriff Is Only Man in Jail,

Faribault, Mimi, July 31.-For the
first time in many years the Jail of
Rice county houses no prisoners.
Sheriff Geiger discharged the last
prisoner yesterday, and the building
is now empty.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
To Have Snake Hunt,

Appleton, Wis, July 31.-In an eff
fort to ride the country of the numer-
GUS reptiles which infest it, farmers in
in the vicinity of Mountain, in Oconto
county, are organizing big snake
hunting expedition.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Enough to Make Him.

Harkins-Why doesn't Walker stop
to speak? | thought he knew you.
Barkins-He used to; but I intro
duced him to the girl he married.
Neither of them recognizes me now.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-01
Bull Charges Farmer.

Atwater, Mimi, July 31.-Louis Nor
din was seriously injured by the at
tack of vicious bull. Nordin was out
in the pasture when the bull suddenly
attacked him. The man was knocked
down and five of his ribs broken.
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Useful Books,

''How to Paint Town Red"
''The Art of Handing a Lemon"
What to Do in Case of a Frost"
Fifty Receipts for a Quick Di
vorce"