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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19
Casualty.

Fire in the York building, in South
Cove, near Boston, caused a loss Of
100000.
Morris Mcknight, formerly a leading
jockey on Western tracks, died at
Kansas City of consumption.
J. S. CIeeIand, physician and oil op-
orator of Pittsburg, was killed by a.
freight train at Steubenville, Ohio.
A slight earthquake shock which
ratified the windows in the down town
section was felt at St Louis last week.
The Central hotel, an extensive
three-story building at Colon, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The wooden mill of John S. Wheeler
& Sons of North Salem, n. H, was
burned with its contents Loss, $780,
900.
The Farmers Union, warehouse at
Taylor, Tex, together with about 1000
bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $125,OO0.
A large barn on the Robert o DON
nell place, near Charles City, Iowa.
caught fire during the night and was
burned Twenty head of cattle and
five horses were lost
The wood alcohol distillery of the
chemical plant of the Cummer-Diggins
company at Cadillac, Mich, was en-
tire1y destroyed by fire. The loss is
100000.
Fire destroyed a seven-story factory
building in New York occupied by sew
en- manufacturing firms. An adjoining
building was partly burned Loss,
100000
The House of Providence, an orphan
asylum for boys at Syracuse, N. Y,
was burned to the ground, involving a
property loss of $125,000 The 1852 in
mates escaped without injury.
Four Italians were killed on the
rock cut Of the Canadian Northern
Ontario railroad line near Key Har-
Dor, Ont. Eighteen men were at work
when piece Of rock in rolling down
exploded some dynamite, killing three
instantly and fatally wounding an
other.
Miss Frances Lansing, a pretty
twenty-one-year-ol society girl of
Carroll, Iowa, saturated paper with
kerosene to start fire. The flames
caught her dress sleeve, and the
agonized gil ran into the yard, rolling
in the grass to quench the fire, but
died a short time later.
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Five men, all foreigners, are dead
three others are badly burned anG
two more slightly, as the result of ar
explosion of hot gas in gas fiue a
one of the gas producers at the Min
nequa at Pueblo, Colo.
News reached Billings, Mont, from
Hardin, one of the new towns on the
Grow reservation, that Big Crazy, one
of the best known members of the
Grow tribe, had been drowned in Big
Horn river near that place.
TIL engine of a passenger train or
the Burke & Wallace branch blew UT
near Missoula, killing Fireman Bulls
Brakeman Hodges and an engine
wiper, name unknown, and fatally in
juring Engineer Copenhaven.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19
SCARE FOR PEOPLE
OF GOLDFIElD
ELECTRIC WIRES ARE CUT, SHUT
TING OUT ALL LIGHT AND
POWER.
ASK FUNSTON TO TAME HOLD
MANY RUMORS AFLOAT-9REAk
IN WIRES is CHARGED TO
VANDALS.

Goldfield, New, Dec. 1S.-The power
wires of the Nevada-C California Power
company went down at o'clock yes
terday afternoon and Goldfield was
without electric light or power last
night. Many rumors are afoat, the
most reliable being that the wires
have been cut at Palmetto, twenty-five
miles distant Many people are alarm
ed and an effort is now being made
to have Gen. Funston take charge of
the camp and patrol it with troops.
Three Mines Operated.
Three mines were operated yester-
day with the men brought in from
otEer points and those who have sign
ed the agreement of the Goldfield
Mine Owners association. The mill
of the Consolidated company and the
Nevada-G oldfield Reduction works
also were in operation all day.
The commission sent by President
Roosevelt to investigate labor condi
lions here has been busy all day with
statements from the Mine Owners
association, and is receiving visitors
who have information bearing on the
situation. The commissioners would
make no statement last night.
Funston May Stay.
Gen. Funston was to leave for San
Francisco to-day, and Gov. Sparks al
so had intended leaving GOldtield to-
day for his ranch near Reno.
1t is hardly probable, however that
either will leave the camp to-day if
the break in the power wires proves
to be an act OF vandalism.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19
ORCHARD is coRRoBoRATED.
Documentary Evidence Presented by |
State in Pettibone Trial.

Documentary Evidence Presented by
State in Pettibone Trial.
Boise, Idaho, Dec. 18.-DOcumentary
evidence in confederation of Harry
Orchards testimony was introduced
at the Pettibone trial yesterday by the
prosecution. Clarence DarroW chief
counsel for the defense, was taken
sick Sunday night and was not pres
ent in court during the day, Edgar
Wilson taking his place. On account
of Darrow's absence Orchard was not
asked impeaching questions, and the
state postponed it's redirect eXamina-
ton.
Judge Luther NJ. Goddard was the
most important witness for the state,
being on the witness stand most of
the afternoon session. He told OF the
finding of the bomb which Orchard
testified had been planted near his
gate for the purpose of killing him.
The testimony of Former Sheriff
Nichols Of Caldwell proved disastrous
to the state. After he had told Of re-
ceiving a letter addressed to Thomas
Hogan, copying it and giving the origi-
nal to Orchard, he testified on cross
examination that the letter was not
in the handwriting Of George A. Petit
bone, the defendant He said he be-
came familiar with Petitioners writ
ing while he was in Jail in Caldwell.
Orchard had testified that this letter
was written by Pettibone.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19
SIXTY LIVES LOST IN MINE
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION OCCURS
IN A MINE AT YOLANDE,
ALABAMA.

Yolande, Ala. Dec. 1S.-Not since
the disastrous Virginia City mine ex-
plosion, eight miles north of here, two
years ago, has there occurred another
such as took place in No. ! of the
Yolande Coal and Coke company at
1925 yesterday morning. 1t is impos-
sible to tell at this hour how many are
dead as a result of the explosion, the
estimates varying all the way from
forty to sixty. The work of rescue
has been extremely slow because of
the debris in the mines and the large
crowd of women. children and sight
seers at the opening. The explosion is
now known to have occurred in either
the fifth or sixth right entrance.
Horribly MutiIated.
All of the bodies have been recov-
cred from these entries and some of
them were SO horribly mutilated that
Identification is almost impossible.
Nineteen of the bodies have been
identified.
According to Supt T. c. Huckabee,
the explosion was undoubtedly due to
WINDY Shots
" Mr. Huckabee had just made a tour
of inspection and congratulated some
of the men On the condition of their
rooms. A few minutes after reaching
the top he saddled his horse and was
about to go for days hunt when the
explosion occurred
ReScuers at Work
Parties of miners from Aberate,
Searles, Davis Creek and Brookwood
are here ready to help in the recovery
of those who are still entombed. 1t
will be several hours before all of
the dead are. recovered.
Under the supervision of Chief
Mine Inspector, j. NJ Gray and his
assistant, James Hillhouse, forces are
at work in the slope clearing away
the wreckage and recovering the dead
from the lower cross entrance. The
inspectors have made no statement of
the cause of the disaster.
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TALKS ON INLAND WATERWAYS
SENATOR NEWLANDS OF NEVADA
ADDRESSES SENATE ON THE
SUBJECT.

Washington, Dec. Is. - Aside from
the appointment of committees which
took place at the beginning of yester-
days session of the senate, the need
of improvement of the inland water
ways of the United States was the
chief subject before that body. Sena-
tor Newlands of Nevada spoke for two
hours on his bill providing for the APP
pointment of an inland waterways
commission and for the Improvement
and development of the inland water
ways of the country.
The senate adopted the resolution
of Senator Dick of Ohio extending the
time allowed the militia of the several
states, territories and the District of
Columbia to conform to the provisions
of the act of June q, 1903, which was
necessary in order that the militia Of
several states might take advantage
of appropriations that have been
made
At 2:55 the senate adjourned.
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SERIOUS CRISIS
EXISTS IN PERSIA
ARMED PARTiSANS ERECT BARR
CADES AND HOLD PUBLIC
PLACES.
SITUATION is THRfATfN|NG
ARLlAMENT ISSUES A NANTES.
TO APPEALING FOR ASSET
ANCE.

Teheran, Persia, Dec. 18.-The sit
uation here has become more threat
ening. The reactionGries have taken
possession of and are now holding the
gun square and open places il the vi
cinity of the palace, while the Constl-
tutionalists to the number OF about
10000 have erected barricades extend
ing for miles around the parliament
buildings. The latter are acting sole
ly on the defensive and in an orderly
manner. The rough elements are aid
ing the reactionaries, and several muir
ders and some looting have occurred.
On behalf of the nation, the Persian
parliament has issued a manifesto to
the world, explaining the present con-
stitutional crisis and appealing for as
Sistance
The negotiations between the shah
and parliament Lave up to the present
time been without result. The post
office and all shops in Teheran are
closed and no newspapers have been
published to-day.
Decide on Joint Action.
The British and Russian foreign Of
fees already have decided upon joint
action to settle the differences be-
tween the shah and parliament and
to prevent the trouble which is threat
ening to break out throughout the
country
Germany claims that her interests
are purely commercial Russia might
be called upon to move troops across
the frontier, but only in extreme ne
cessity, such as for the protection of
foreigners or their property. Within
her sphere of influence Great Britain
would land troops, relying upon the
presence of her warships in the Per-
sian gulf to OVeraWe any body.
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NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
WSshinQton.

Senator Dick has introduced a bill
establishing a naval militia and plac-
ing it upon practically the same foot
ing with the government as the ma
tional guard.
Representative Perkins of New
York has introduced his inheritance
tax bill so amended that under its
provisions one-half of the tax derived
will go to the state and one-half to
the federal government.
Representative Gou1den of New
York has introduced bill making
Oct. 70 a national holiday in celebra-
ton of the discovery of American by
Columbus Oct. ~, 1892. The new hol-
iday is called discovery day"
A resolution calling upon the secre-
tary of the treasury for data concern
ing the gold coin and bullion owned
by the United States and the present
gold currency redemption resources
of the country has been presented in
the house by Mr.. De Almond of Mis-
souri,.
The acting secretary of war has ap'
proved an opinion rendered by Col.
Porter, acting judge advocate of the
army, that the provisions of the eight
hour law do not apply to employees OF
the United States military prison at
Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan, who super
wise the work Of prisoners, such as
foremen, etc.
A bill by Representative Humphrey
of Washington, designed to "equalize
ranks in the army" has been intro
duced. It authorizes the retirement
with rank of brigadier general of any
officer below the rank of colonel who
served in the War of the Rebellion
and who by inequalities of promotion
and through no fault of his own Incl
dent to bad conduct, has failed to OBJ
tain the rank Of colonel.
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PeonIe Talked About.

N. P. Boyer, publisher of the Ameri-
can Stock Journal, died at Coatesville,
Pa, from typhoid fever aged seventy
four years.
Morris Mihalovitch, president OF the
Mihalovitch Fletcher Distilling COM
pany of Cincinnati, is dead of kidney
trouble. He was sixty-three years old.
John Busha, aged ia years, died at
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Busha took part
in the Black Hawk war in 1882. He
has been blind and practically helpless
for fifteen years.
The Oldest Indian of the once power
full Chippewa tribe of Wisconsin, old
Whisky Jim, or Ay-onje-ge-zik, is
dead. Whisky Jim is credited with
being more than 100 years old.
Capt. Louis D. Pell, aged sixty-two
years, a noted river man and a mem
Der of the famous Pell family of pi-
lots and commanders, died suddenly
of heart disease at Paducah, Ky.
w. H. S. Wood, president of the
Bowery Savings bank of New York, an
institution with more than 100000
900 in deposits, died at his residence
in New York from a complication of
diseases.
Rev. Michael Antonius Horrigan of
the Benedictine order is dead at the
home of his mother at Orange, N. j.
Father Horrigan has been head of the
81 n
stroke of paralysis there month ago.
Mai. Thomas W. Park, for many
years prominent in Democratic poll
tics in Missouri, newspaper man and
Confederate veteran, is dead at his
home in Platt City, aged sixty-five.
He was chief of the press bureau of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19
Domestic.

The Y. NJ. c.. A. Of Rockford, H., for
merly one of the most important in
the state has voted to disband on Jan.
l. Lack of financial support is given
as the cause.
The first state hospital in Vermont
for the treatment of tuberculosis ex-
clusively has been formally opened at
Pittsford. The building was erected
by gift from Senator Redfeld Proc
tor.
The national executive committee of
the Grand Army of the Republic has
set the date for the next encampment
for Aug. 81 until Sept. T. The en-.
campment will be held at Toledo,
Ohio.
Three thousand dollars in $40 gold
pieces have been found by T. J. Jones
on his farm near Milford Conn, while
he was digging a trench. The gold
had the appearance of being in the
ground for several years.
While Mrs. F. C. LEM of Appleton,
Wis, was upbraiding her husband for
remaining out late at night she was
bereft of the power of speech and has
not regained it. Physicians say the
tongue became paralyzed. Mrs. LEM
does not believe that her loss of
speech was in any way connected with
her reproof of her husband.
The Michigan state grange, at its
annual meeting at Saginaw, adopted
a resolution calling upon the constitu-
tional convention now in session at
lansing to insert a clause in the new
constitution prohibiting all traffic in
liouor. The Michigan grange has a
membership of $1,000.
The much discussed theory that
oysters are responsible for many of
the deaths in New York from typhoid
fever has received a setback in acre
mort of DR.. w. H. Park of the board
of health. DR.. Park said that no more
than / per cent of the typhoid cases
in New York can be traced to oysters.
AS a proposed addition to the Osce-
ola national forest in Nevada there
has been temporarily withdrawn from
all forms of disposition, except under
the mineral land laws, about 1862
acres in that state, subject to the adj
verse claims within that area. The
withdrawn area lies in White Pine
county, near Ely
Fifteen bushels an hour, or sixty
bushels in four hours, is the record
for picking and husking corn in the
field established by George Stowell,
aged fifteen years, son of farmer
near Marshalltown, Iowa, The record
is the best for a boy of that age.
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Crimes and Criminals.

The postoffice at Decatur City, Iowa
was robbed of $500 in cash and $500
in stamps. The robbers escaped.
After shooting his wife in the head
Harry Weber of Lisbon, Ohio, sent a
bullet into his own brain and died in
stantly. The woman may recover
Jealousy was the cause.
Thieves entered the Jamestown,
Ohio postoffice by using a skeleton
key. They looted the office, securing
a large quantity of stamps, registered
mail and small amount of cash.
Two alleged night riders, Will Gray
and Ed Cook, died at Mayfield KY,
as the result of wounds received dur
ing the visit of the 500 night riders to
Hopkinsville early Saturday morning.
Max Brody, seventy years old, and
his wife, ten years his junior, were
found dead from asphyxiation in their
home at Newark, n ]. The police
believe Mrs. Brody turned on the gas
with the intention of killing her hue
band and herself.
Isaac G. Wilcox, a telephone line
man of Hannibal, Mo-, shot and killed
Mrs. Wilkinson and her brother, Got
tom Hanson, and then blew out his
brains with a revolver. Mrs. Wilkin-
son was a widow and Wilcox was once
a sutton for her hand.
Frank Nelson, employed as book
keeper by packing company in Chi
cago. shot his wife and his mother-in-
law at their home. The former was
killed instantly and the latter serious
ly injured The shooting is said to be
the result of series of family quar-
rels.
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The Boarders.

The new boarder started nervously
What is that sobbing, bowling
shrieking and cursing that I hear?" ne
asked
Heavens" muttered the old board
err, turning pale, ''the other boarders
have gotten down ahead of us"
But hist, that dreadful noise, what
is it's meaning?"
1T means" groaned the old boarder
"near-turkey hash again
So saying hardened veteran though
he was) the old boarder attempted TO
drown himself in the wash bowl.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-19
SAY UNION is ILLEGAL.
Not a Labor Organization, but Com,
bine in Restraint of Trade.

Not LABOR organization, but Com
bine in Restraint of Trade
Goldfield, New, Dec. 18.-The Gold
field Mine Owners association yester-
day submitted statement to the COM
mission which President Roosevelt
has sent to Goldfield, which declares
that the Western Federation of Miners
is not labor organization, but COM
bination in restraint of trade; that it
is in fact a reasonable organization,
and in the statement are quotations
from the preamble, constitution and
bylaws of the Western Federation of
Miners in support of the contention.
This statement has been officially re-
ceived by the commission and the con-
sideration of it will be begun at 9
O'Clock to-day. Yesterday was spent
information obtained by Gen. Funston
and Gov. Sparks.
Gen. Funston and Gov. Sparks will
leave Goldfield on Wednesday morn
ing.
Last night President McKinnon of
the Goldfield miners union was called
before the commission and asked to
give his version of the trouble. No
intimation of what passed during the
session is given out, but after the
meeting it was learned that President
McKinnon stated to the members of
the commission that the members of
the Western Federation of Miners
have been peaceably inclined at all
times and was emphatic in his decla-
ration that no necessity has existed
for the presence of federal troops. He
has promised to prepare a comprehen-
sive statement of the Western Fedora
ton side of the controversy to be pre-
scented later
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From Other Shores.

The state council of Switzerland has
approved a plan for the immediate
construction of a second Simplon tun
mel through the Alps. The first tun
mel cost about $14,000,000.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer
has arrived in Rome and is being
closely watched, it being feared that
this will be made the center for Rus
sian conspirators. Gorky intends to
spend the winter at Capri
Valdemar Poulsen of Copenhagen
says Denmark and England will soon
be talking with one another by wire
less telephone, and he hints it will
not be long before he will be sending
messages across the Atlantic.
The federal assembly at Berne
elected Dr.. Ernest Bremen, Radical
to be president of the Swiss republic
for 1908. DR.. Bremen is vice presi-
dent of the federal council. The pres
ent chief executive of Switzerland is
Edouard Muller.
Cardinal Cretonia, project of the
Congregation of Sacre Rites and Sa-
cred Relics, has issued a decree order
ing everybody in possession of manu-
scripts of Pope Plus TX. to deliver
them to the congregation. This is the
first step toward the Qualification of
Plus TX.
The court of appeals at Brussels
Of
court granting a postponement of the
sale of jewels and personal effects
that belonged to the late Queen Hen
rietta. Princess Louise, a daughter of
the queen, is seeking to prevent the
sale of the jewels, which came to her
from her mother and which have been
seized for debts contracted by her.
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Terrorists Are CAUGHT.

ST. Petersburg, Dec 18.-An impor-
tant series of arrests which the po-
lice of Finland have been carrying out
at the request of the Russian authori-
ties eliminated yesterday in the cap
ture of a number of terrorists while
attempting secretly to cross the Fin
nish frontier into Russia. Documents
seized with the prisoners showed that
they had been connected previously
with an unsuccessful conspiracy
against the minister of justice, and it
is thought they were now plotting
against Premier Stolypia.
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THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.
St. Paul. Dec. 10. - Wheat - No.
Northern, $108; No. Northern,
s1.O5@1.O6. Corn - No. 2 yellow,
SO lac. Oats-No. white, 40 3-4c
Minneapolis, Dec. 1S-Wheat - No.
1 hard, $11O; No. 1 Northern, $1.0S;
No 2 Northern, $1.O5 1-2@1.O6; du-
rum, S21-4. Corn-No. 2 yellow,
SO lac. Oats-No. 2 white, 40 SAC.
Duluth, Dec. 10. = Wheat - No.
hard, $1O8 3-S; No l Northern,
81 .O6 rs; No. Northern, $1.04 3-S.
Oats-No. 2 white, 4Sc.
Chicago, Dec 49, - Wheat - No. 2
red, 81 $4,000; No. 2 hard,$101.03;
No. spring, $102@1.09. Oats -
No. 2 white, so 1-2c. Corn-No. 2,
$4,000.
Milwaukee, Dec. 1S.-Wheat-No. !
Northern, $1.O901.10; No. 2 North
ern, $1.O7@1O8. Rye - No. 1, 100
soc.
Chicago, Dec 49, - Cattle-Beeves,
$3.3O@6.35; stockers and feeders,
s2.25@4.25; calves, $5@7. Hogs
Mixed and butchers, $4.20@4.55; bulk,
$4.35@4.45. Sheep-$2@4S5; lambs,
$3.75@6.25.
Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 18.-Cattle-
Beeves, $3.5O@5.6O; COWS and heifers,
s204; stockers and feeders, $2.75@
$50; calves and yearlings, $2.25@
$40. Hogs-$4.20@4.30.
South st. Paul, Dec. Is. - Cattle
Good to choice steers, $506; good
to choice COWS and heifers, $4,000
4.5O. Hogs - Price range, $4@4.15;
bulk, $4@4.35. Sheep-Wethers, SAG
40; good to choice ewes, $3.50
4; good to choice lambs, $5@5.25.
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ROUGH HOUSE IN COURT.
District Attorney HurIs Inkstand {,
Spectator NAV Die

San jose Cal, Dec. IS. - District
Attorney James S. Sex and Attorney
A. H. German Of defense called each
other liar and threw books and ink
stands at each others heads yester-
day during a bribery trial. A missile
hurled by Sex missed it's mark and
struck an aged spectator, Zacharius
Tucker, On the head. Tucker fell in
sensible and it is announced by his
physician that his skull is fractured
and he may not recover from the
wound. The combatants were arrest
ed and ordered into the custody of the
sheriff
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Wanted for Biuamy.

Escanaba, Mich, Dec. 18.-Awaiting
trial on a serious criminal charge at
Charleyoix, Mich, and wanted at
Omaha, Neb, on a charge of bigamy,
is the fate of Guy B. Faul, who desert
ed his bride of two months in Escana-
ba early in October, taking with him
$4,000 of his wife's funds in addition
to diamonds valued at $500