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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-20
Criminal.

Henry Steinbach, aged sixty, a pio-
neer resident of Baraga county, Mich,
committed suicide by hanging in the
tower of the school house at Lanse.
Alleged stolen jewelry valued at
thousands of dollars was recovered by
the New York police and two walters,
Costas Meras- and Emmanuel Sar-
bikes, were arrested as suspects.
While pursuing two Montana horse
thieves Sheriff Guy and a posse from
Johnson county, Wyo., shot and killed
one of the robbers who held up a
Northern Pacific train at Welch's spur
recently.
AS a result of a quarrel originating
in a love affair Antonio Lolita stabbed
Giovanni Faorano to death in the
Northern Pacific yards at Tacoma,
Wash, where both were employed as
section laborers.
Taking umbrage at being called a
niger" James Hicks, eighteen
years old, colored, threw a rock at
passing street car at Indianapolis,
striking two girls, and came near be
ing mobbed for his act.
Because his mother had spanked
him Calf Mccoy, aged fourteen years,
shot and instantly killed her at their
farm, nine miles north of Bassett,
Neb. Fearing she was not dead, he
fired a second bullet into her body.
A. J. Wilson, a victim of the NOR
phine habit and who has been a ia
miliar figure in police circles at Bill
ings, Mont, for some time, committed
suicide by casting himself from a
Burlington train on which he had
taken passage for Cody, Wyo.
Charged with having shot and kill
ed Lee Reynolds, a white man. Lee
Fox, a negro, was lynched by a mob
of about fifty men near Indianola,
Miss Reynolds was shot as he was
leaving a hall where Fox had lost con-
siderable money at a gaming table.
Rev J. Primrose and Rev. A. F.
Berkstresser, temperance crusaders,
who were released from Jail at Fran
tenac, Kan, after they had been ar
rested on a charge of selling liquor,
were attacked by twenty saloon SYM
pathizers as they were boarding an
electric car to leave town and severe
ly beaten.
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NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington.

The vacancy in the isthmian canal
commission caused by the early retire
ment of Purchasing Agent Ross will
not be filled. Gen. Mckenzie, chief of
engineers, will probably be assigned
to the work.
The report on the operations of the
rural mail delivery service to June L
last shows that since May 1 there has
been an increase of III in the num-
Der of routes, there being 1874 routes
now in operation, which are served by
1866 carriers. All these routes are
served daily except 643, on which serv-
ice is rendered tri-weekly.
The Twenty-ffth infantry, one of
whose battalions figured in the
Brownsville incident, was ordered to
sail for the Philippines from San
Francisco on the transport BufOrd
July %. Their going will remove
practically all the negro troops from
the United States, only few cavalry
men being left at West Point.
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Doctor Changes His Testimony.

Flandreau, S. D., June 16. The
cross-examination of DR.. S. Olney, wit.
ness for the defense in the trial OF
Mrs. Emma Kaufman for murder,
was concluded Immediately before an
adjournment was taken for the noon
recess.
The production by George B. Egan,
who is prosecuting the case against
Mrs. Kaufman, of the transcript of
testimony offered by DR.. Olney at the
preliminary hearing of Mrs. Kauf-
mann, held at Sioux Falls on June 13
of last year, was one of the sensations
of the day
Shows Discrepancies.
The record, most of which was Of
fered in evidence in the trial of this
case, showed many discrepancies be-
tween the testimony of DR.. Olney a
year ago and the testimony given by
him yesterday, particularly with re-
gard to the causes of the death of
Agnes Polreis. A year ago, when DR..
Olney was asked by Mrs. Kaufmanns
attorney if the wound found upon the
head, body and limbs of the girl as
the result of the post-mortem showed
could have been self-inficted, he re-
piled:
Il can't catch onto the idea how they
(the wounds) could be self-inf1icted."
He stated in his testimony at the
present trial that the wounds might
have been self-inf1icted
DR.. Olney held to the theory of the
defense that the death of the girl re-
suited from diabetes.
Expert for Defense.
When the court reconvened at 1880
Dr. F. A. Spafford of Flandreau,
member of the state board of regents
of education, was called to the stand
by the defense to give expert medical
testimony.
DR.. Spafford supported the claim of
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KAUFMAN CASE
NEARING END
SUMMING UP ARGUMENTS OF
COUNSEL ARE EXHAUSTIVE
AND BITTER.
CALL ERICKSON COMMON LIAR
THE DEFENDANTS COUNSEL AR.
RAIGNS STAR WITNESS FOR
THE STATE.

Flandreau, S. d., June 19.-The sum-
ming up arguments in the Kaufman
murder case had not been concluded
last evening when court took an ad-
journment until 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning. George Rice of counsel for
the defense, who followed States At
torney Orr of Minnehaha county and
States Attorney Blewitt of Moody
county, had not concluded when court
adjourned for the day, and will com
plete his remarks this morning. 1t
is understood he will be followed by
Judge Frank r. Aikens for the defense
and that George B. Egan will then
make the closing argument for the
state.
There is a possibility that the case
may reach the jury at or 4 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
Common Everyday Liar"
Throughout yesterday afternoons
session hundreds of people crowded
their way into the court room to listen
to the arguments. The attorneys are
going over the testimony very thor
testimony of the principal witnesses,
especially the star witnesses on each
side, Peter Erickson for the state and
Dr. w. A. German for the defense.
George Rice for the defense, in his
argument infinitely pointed out the in
consistencies in the testimony of
Erickson as offered at the prelimina-
~ examination of Mrs. Kaufman a
year ago and as given by him at the
trial of the case, and did not hesitate
to denounce Erickson as common
everyday liar
Extraordinary precautions are being
taken with the jury. Under the in
structions of Judge Smith, they are
not permitted to even discuss the case
among themselves pending the turning
over of the case to them for final adj
iuStment.
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General.

"The green bug of Kansas is at
work in Ohio, and already many fields
of oats have been destroyed.
Cromwell Dickson, fifteen years old
made a successful fight at Columbus
Ohio, with an airship of his own con
struction at the Columbus Driving
Park.
An epidemic of smallpox is raging
at the Washington state insane asy
lum. Strict quarantine is being en-
forced and 1928 patients have been
vaccinated.
The sixty-sixth annual session OF
the Evangelical Lutheran synod at
Roland, Iowa, chose Red Wing, Mimi
as the next meeting place and elect
ed Rev. C. J. Eastwood of Jewell, Iowa
president.
Will J. Davis, manager of the I'LL
nois theater in Chicago, and Miss Ell
len O'Hagen, his private secretary
were married at Elkhart, Ind. Only q
few theatrical friends were present al
the ceremony.
A verdict of % cents, the price OF
his ticket, was returned by jury al
Newport by direction of Justice
Sweetland in the case of Chief Yeo
man Fred J. Buenzie of the United
States naval training station, who was
excluded from a dancing pavilion last
summer because he wore the uniform
of the United States navy.
Chicago's -four hundred" was given
q surprise when the announcement
came from Paris that Miss Italia Blair
one of the richest and most beautiful
members of the younger set, had cap
tured a social lion in the person OF
Spanish nObleman.
]. Edward Addicks, 'the gasman,
who was reported to have lost all his
millions and to be broken in fortune
and who disappeared from his hauntS
some weeks ago, is in st. Petersburg
Russia, where he is in fair way tC
recoup his fortunes 1t is understood
that Addicks has an immense CONTRACT
for double-tracking the Siberian rail-
way. which will take $50,000,000.
Herman Won Weller Rosendahl o.
Estland, in the Russian Baltic prov
inces, has renowned allegiance to the
car and is to become a citizen of the
United States. He has married Miss
M. Louise Hurlbutt of Stamford, Conn
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Casualty.

John Boland was boiled to death at
the plant of the Barber Asphalt COM
panv at Brooklyn while he was mixing
asphalt. Boland's body was found in
a boiling vat of tar, where it was evil
dent he had fallen.
A trolley car crashed into an eX-
press wagon on the Brooklyn bridge,
New York, hurting a heavy trunk over
the high railing and sending it to the
street, one hundred feet below, where
it crushed out the life of FilamanOa
Bruno, eleven years old.
Two passengers, man and woman,
were killed and upward of fifteen 9th
ers were injured at Los Angeles when
a city-bound trolley car of the Los
Angeles railway jumped the track
while rounding a sharp curve at Colo
RADIO and Center streets and turned
completely over. The car was going
at high rate of speed.
While painting his target board at
Enid, Okla, A. o. Harris, proprietor OF
a shooting gallery, was accidentally
shot and killed by a young woman
The woman asked Harris to paint the
targets before she shot While he
was at the targets she was examining
one of the rifles and it was dis
charged.
The Princess Anne hotel at Virginia
Beach, Va, was destroyed by fire
originating in the kitchen. More than
fifty guests had narrow escapes. Two
negro chambermaids are reported
missing. The loss is 100000.
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Foreign.

1t is reported that the pretender to
the throne of Morocco has again been
victorious over the sultan's army.
There is no improvement at LODI,
Russia in the reign of terror and vio-
Ience which has prevailed since
June 2.
In motor car accident at Edgehull,
near Banbury, in Oxford, Eng, Mr..
Johnson of California was killed and a
Mr.. Blake of Philadelphia was badly
injured.
Twenty eight passengers, including
twelve women and children, were
drowned by the sinking of the French
schooner La Jalouse. The schooner
sank off Barbados.
The government of Trinidad has
taken energetic measures to stamp out
/ the bubonic plague and has cabled to
New York for large supplies of
prophylactic serum.
A destructive tornado swept over
Karrachi India. Several steamers
were driven ashore and hardly a build
ing remains unwrecked. The casual
ties have not been reported.
A premature explosion of dynamite
took place at Pedro Miguel, on the
| line of the Panama canal, and resulted
| in the instant death of seven men and
the wounding of several others.
M. Jaures. the Socialist leader, will
shortly propose in the French cham
Der of deputies in the name of the So
cialist party that state monopoly
of alcohol and sugar be established
from July 1.
A stray torpedo struck and badly
damaged the German coasting steam
er August White as she was passing
the practice range at Kiel, Germany.
The vessel, which was leaking badly,
was locked for repairs.
According to a special dispatch re-
ceived by the Mexican Herald from its
Washington bureau, Secretary OF
State Elihu Root will visit Mexico in
the near future. He will go to Mexico
City and will confer with President
Diaz.
A steamer whose identity has not
been conclusively established went
ashore in the Strait of Bertheaume.
The boiler blew up and it is feared
that all hands were lost. The steam
err is believed to be the Yews, fruit
boat from Plymouth for Brest.
While King Peter was out riding at
Belgrade, Servia, his horse became
frightened and the king was thrown
from the saddle. He was badly shak-
en-, suffered from pains in the thigh
and returned to the palace in an cleo
trio car. His injuries are not serious.
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Defense Rests in Kaufman Case.

Defense Rests in Kaufman Case.
Flandreau, S. D., June 19.-Without
placing the defendant on the stand,
the defense rested yesterday in the
tria of Mrs. Emma Kaufman of
Sioux Falls On the charge or murder
ing Agnes FuIreis, her young house
servant.
testimony in rebuttal was intro
duced by the state yesterday after
noon, but the defense baked the at
tempts of the prosecution to place be-
fore the jury much evidence that was
expected to reinforce the case as pre-
scented in the direct testimony. At one
stage Attorney Egan, for the state, re-
quested permission to reopen the case,
but the court declined to permit it.
When court adjourned Peter Erick-
son, the states star witness, was on
the stand, and the court had taken I'M
der advisement the question as to
whether certain evidence to be offered
through him was admissible.
Witness and Lawyer Spar.
Joe Kirby, an attorney of Sioux
Falls was the first witness called to
the stand by the defense when the
trial was resumed yesterday morning.
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Mr. Kaufman on the Stand.


Flandreau, S. D., June 18.-The fea-
ture Of the Kaufman trial Saturday
was the appearance upon the witness
stand of Moses Kaufman, husband OF
the accused woman, who told dra'
matte story of the amicable relations
existing between Mrs. Kaufman and
Agnes Polreis and of the incidents i'm
mediately preceding the removal OF
the girl to the hospital, where she
died
Mr.. Kaufman was subjected to a
gruelling cross examination, but he
withstood the strain in manner
pleasing to the attorneys for the de"
tense, and did not contradict himself
upon any material or important mat
ter.
The first witness called after the
noon recess was John Krust of Sioux
Falls, who testified in behalf OF the
defense. Previous to July 16 of last
year he had been employed by the
Sioux Falls Brewing and Mating com
pany with which Mr.. Kaufman has
been connected during the last twenty
years as an officer and stakeholder.
On the date stated Krust left the en-
ploy of the company
The most important -,rt OF his tes-
timony related to Peter Erickson, the
star witness for the prosecution ana
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Fannie Mogus, two years old, is
dead at Anaconda, Mont, from the
effects of drinking carbolic acid.
Six Slav miners were frightfully
burned, three fatally, as the result of
an explosion in boarding house at
Johnstown, Pa.
Two men were killed and one fatal
ly injured by an explosion in the fur
mace of the Fore River Shipbuilding
company at Quincy Point, Mass.
Mrs. William Nome, while resting
her head on a wire clothes line at her
home south OF Shoals, Ind, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
The Dempsey Timber company's
mill at Tacoma, Wash, just completed
at cost OF $250,0O0 and in operation
about three weeks, caught fire and is
a total loss.
A large touring automobile was
struck by a passenger train at a cross
ing near Camden, N. j., and the four
occupants of the car were thrown out
and injured.
Paul Kies, William StOlseben and
Nicholas Forret we're drowned in the
Mississippi at Dubuque by the capslz-
ing of a skiff Two other occupants
were rescued.
The mining town of Dooley, Wise
county, Va, was visited by disas-
trous fire. A number of residences
and business houses were burned, en-
failing a loss of $4,000.
During a severe thunder storm Jo-
seph Baughy, who lives just east of
Nora Springs, Iowa, on Judge Burr's
farm, met with very heavy loss by the
killing of cattle by lightning.
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What Would Be Missed.

The dishonest gardner newly in
vested with the Order of the Sack
eyed his late master gloomily, and
shook his head at him.
you will miss me, sir" he said,
with sad relish. "You will miss me
before l be gone 'alf an our"
That" replied his master, hastily,
"I shall bear with fortitude, so long as
l do not miss anything else"
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NORTHERN WOODS ATTIRE.

Three Said to Rave Died in Upper
Michigan.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, June ~
Although light rain fell last night, Tor
est fires ARE still raging in parts OF the
upper peninsula and in Northern On
tario. The damage is large and re-
ports yesterday are more pessimlstlc
than Monday. The blaze at Strons is
under control. A fire engine was sent
from this city.
It is reported that at Wildwood
three people were burned to death, but
this is not confirmed. The country
along the Algona Central for miles is
said to have been swept by flames.s
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BODIES ARE FOUND.
Graphing Party Locates Launch and
Dead Sailors.

Norfolk, Va, June 16.-After many
hours of weary dragging of the waters
of Hampton Roads in a systematic
search by the navy for the bodies of
the eleven victims of the sinking of
the battleship Minnesota's launch on
Monday night, a graphing party last
night located the launch and bodies
of the men in eight fathoms of water
off the rip-raps.
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former hired man of the lufmanns
Erickson, he said, went to him at the
brewery one day and asked him to
see Mr.. Kaufman and induce him to
give him (Erickson) $500 if he would
by his testimony aid the cause of the
defense in the case against Mrs Kauf-
mann.
Asked about what Mr.. Kaufman
said when informed by him of the al
legged proposition of Erickson, witness
replied:
Mr.. Kaufman said to tell him he
wouldn't give him a cent; for him to
tell everything he knew
On cross-examination the witness
stuck to his story.
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IMPROVE ARMY POSTS.
Small Expenditures Provided for With
Larger Plans Pending.

Washington, June 10. = Secretary
Taft has made allotments of funds for
a small amount of improvement work
at some of the military posts, to be
paid for out of the appropriations for
next year. These allotments include
construction of quarters for civilian
employees and transfers and erecting
a stable o. Fort Lincoln, N. D. Larger
allotments are to be made later.
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MOTHER SAVES CHILDREN.

Woman Rushes Through Flames to
Save Little Measles Patients.
La Crosse, Wis, June 16.-Ill with
measles in the upper rooms OF their
home, Laura, aged six and Florentine,
aged two and one-half years, children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Shredder, were saved
from being burned to death in fire
which destroyed their home by their
mother. The woman, attracted by
cries of the children, rushed through
the flames to their apartments and
carried them to the street.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-20
STATE LAND BRINGS $7.75.
Officials Sell $500 Acres at Bemidii
and $500 at BagIey.

Bemidji, Mimi, June 19.-The state
land sale here yesterday was a big
success. The officials sold $500 acres
at an average of $7.75 per acre. One
eighty sold at $24 per acre. At Bag
ley, Clearwater county, $500 acres
sold at an average of $40 and one
tract sold for $2650 per acre. Parties
from the Southern counties in Mime
sofa and neighboring states are in at
tendance and are buyers of small
tracts.
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KILLED BY RUNAWAY.
Driver Is Thrown From Seat and Is
Kicked by Horse.

Manchester, Iowa, June 15.-While
driving down a steep hill the animals
which Edward Powers was driving be-
came unmanageable because of the
breaking of the tugs on the harness.
They started down the steep grade at
a terrific clip and I overs was thrown
from the seat and kicked by one of
the horses. He lived only a short
time
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KILLED by Fly Wheel.

Sioux City, Iowa, June 16.-Caught
in the monster fly wheel at the Cud-
ahy packing plant in this city, Emil
Lunde, an oiler, was whirled about
until his body was broken and twisted
so badly that death ensued two hours
later.
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Comma and Going.

what kick have you against mar
ried life?"
well, if I don't keep my wife
dressed in the height of fashion !
have trouble with her, and if do keep
her dressed in the height of fashion ]
have trouble with her dressmaker."
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TOT KILLS HUGE SNAKE.
Rather Over Six Feet Long Is Fought
by Boy With Hoe.

Brentford, S. D.. June 10. - Bud"
Frazier, nine years old, has killed a
bullsnake, which is believed to be the
largest of the species ever killed in
this state. It measures more than six
feet long and is twelve inches in cir
conference. The boy was in the pas
ture sharing gophers when he encoun-
tered the snake. He had no weapon,
but, returning to the house, secured a
hoe. With this offensive weapon he
returned to the pasture, where the
snake was waiting for him. A fierce
battle ensued, but eventually the boy
with the hoe was the victor.
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the defense that the death of the girl
resulted from diabetes mellitus to the
extent of saying that it might have
caused her death.
The cross examination of DR.. Spaf-
ford was quite extended.
At the conclusion of DR.. Spafford's
cross examination an adjournment
was taken until this morning.
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Arson CHARGE Fails.

Madison, Mimi, June 10. - H. G..
Spanton, on trial here charged with
the burning of an elevator at Belling-
ham, Mimi, on the night of April 13,
was yesterday declared not guilty by
the jury.
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Siuhtseers Are Hurt.

Canyon City, Colo, June 19.-SiX
persons were injured, three of them
seriously, while on sightseeing trip
in Royal George Park, being thrown
from a vehicle after the driver had
lost control of the machine.
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Hard to Suit.

when your mother-in-law fell into
the water why didn't you help to get
her out!"
my dear madam, you must know
that nothing I've ever done has pleas
ed her"
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Swimmer Gets Cramps.

Ottumwa, iowa, June 10. - While
swimming in the Des Moines river
here last evening Patrick Mcdonald
YVES seized with cramps and before his
companions could rescue him the swift
current had carried him down to his
death.
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Found With Skull Crushed.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, June led
ward Johnson, thirty years old, was
found on one of the main streets with
a crushed skull and will not live. Indi-
cations point to foul play.
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DENIES WIFE SHOT HIM.
AIIeued Abuser of Helnmeet Declares
He Wounded Himself.

Butte, Mont, June 19. - Believing
that her life was in danger from her
husband, whom she says abused her'
Mrs. William Clarity, it is alleged, last
evening shot and probably fatally
wounded him. She then ran across the
street and gave herself up to a police
man. She tells a pitiful story OF con-
slant abuse to herself and children by
the wounded man. Clarity recovered
consciousness at the hospital At hrsC
he said that his wife did the shootlng'
but later he denies this and said that
he had shot himself
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Lid on Winona-

Winona, Mimi, June 49, For the
first time Jig a number of years Winona
experienced dry Sunday yesterday,
the saloonkeepers having been warned
that it would be best for them to obey
the Sunday closing law after the re.
cent supreme court decision.