The log cabin Democrat., 1907-08-01

Thiel was one of the best known thief catchers in the country and was secretary of the United States secret service during the civil war.
 Wisconsin bankers plan to put check ond "shaky" borrowers by reg rlarly auditing affairs of firms.
 Charles Warner, insane man, kills 8 woman clerk in a New York store, fataly injures friend and is fatally hurt before he is subdued.
 Gov. Glenn of North Carolina, in appealing to the United States su- preme court, declares he will keep on enforcing the state law for lower railroad fares, notwithstanding in- junction of federal court.
 Fay Magill, bride of Fred Magill, suspected in connection with the death of his former wife at Clinton, H., may be held by the grand jury charged with having written the let ters ascribed to the dead woman.
 Flogging with a blacksnake and then backs rubbed with salt and pep per is advocated by Judge Nellen of Milwaukee as a cure for mashers.
 Woman who steals to help her in- valid mother planes social conditions for forcing her to become thief.
 Vespian Warner, commissioner of pensions, alleges that his stepmother is of negro blood, and that his father was deceived in marrying her, in the will contest at Clinton, H., over the Warner estate of nearly $2,O00,OOO.
 Many politicians attend the Love joy celebration at Greenfield, H., but the weather is too hot for polit- ical work.
 Secretary of War Taft plans trip of Pacific states in the interest of his candidacy for the republican nomination for president.
 H. s. Tavshanjian, the rug i'm. porter, who was assassinated in New York, was killed because he advised friends to refuse demands of black mail gang.
 The San Francisco Bulletin says that Third Officer Hawse of the wrecked steamer Columbia, whose sworn report of the disaster filed with the inspectors charged Capt. Hansen of the San Pedro with refus- ing to aid in the rescue of the strlck- en passengers, is now charged by survivors who coupled the same boat with him with conduct more cruel than specified by him in his formal report.
 The father of Prof. Karl Hau, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife's mother, Frau Moliter, suffered stroke of apoplexy and lies in a critical con- dition.
 Henry A Hutchins of Illinois was appointed a special agent of the h. dian bureau to aid in the suppress sion of the liquor traffic among the Indians.
 Helena, Ida and Lida Conley, sis- tcrs, and Wyandotte Indians, began an armed guard over the graves of their ancestors in Huron cemetery in Kansas City, Kas., recently or dcred sold by the government, and threaten to shoot the first person who may attempt to remove the bodies.
 Congressional elections of 1908 are expected to make even more marked changes in the Wisconsin delegation than those of 1906.
 Lincoln, Neb., plans to increase cost of licenses to saloon men at the rate of $500 a year and to limit number of drinking places arbitra- rily.
 William D. Haywood, secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, was made a free man. The jury in his case returned yer dict of not guilty.
 For four hours and a half Mon- day F. F. Richardson pleaded with the jury for the life of William D. Haywood. Under order of the court the hours for the days sessions were changed and in place of sitting in the afternoon, the court met at 6 o'clock Monday evening. Judge Wood was informed by the jury that the extreme heat of the court room was too trying on some of the jury men and complied with the request for a late evening session. Mr- Richardson's speech emphasized the contention that the state had failed to corroborate Harry Orchards tes- timony. The attorney declared thai