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The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08
WEIGH SCHOOL BAZAAR.

This afternoon from two to four and
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08
NO DIFFICULTY GETTING LOAN.

Ncc6fding to controller Rowe yester-
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08
WMAN1M
BRIEF MENTION.

High water today at 4;os a, m.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08

Cosmopolitan Magazine for Febru arary at the Pease Lewis company
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
NIGHT RIDER ON THE STAND.
Member of Band Testifies for State,
Gives Details of Ranken Murder.

Union City, Tenn, Dec. %. - The
state practically completed its case
yesterday against the eight alleged
night riders on trial for the murder Of
Capt. Ranken, when it drew from
Frank Febringer, a member of the
band, a detailed statement, not only
of the murder itself and those who
committed it, but of a score or more of
other outrages. Mrs. Emma Thurman
Johnson, one of the two women known
to have been whipped by the band also
told her story.
Mrs Johnson had married Joe John
son, a man thirty years older than
she was. She lived with him four
years and a child was born. Last Au-
gust she sued him for divorce, charg-
ing cruelty and asking maintenance.
Early in September the riders visited
her fathers home and left word that
she must withdraw the suit. She fail
ed to do so and on a second visit her
father was whipped. On both occa-
sions she was at her sisters home.
On the night of Sept. 80 they went
to the sisters house, took Mrs. John
son out of bed and whipped her until
she consented to withdraw the case.
She pressed her case later however,
and won her suit.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
MRS. ANNls TELLS HER STORY
Climax of Dmarmatic Intensity Reach
ed in Hams Trial.

Flushing, n Y, Dec. 23.-The trial
of Thornton J. Hams reached a climax
of dramatic intensity yesterday when
Mrs. Helene E. Annis, widow of Will
liam E. Annis, in deliberate recital
lasting for nearly three hours pic
tured the killing of her husband as
he sat at the tiller of his boat by
Capt Peter c. Hams, Jr. Mrs. Annis
nearly tainted a few minutes before
her examination was concluded.
Several new points of evidence add
ed dramatic interest to the trial.
When Annis' boat came alongside the
float, the widow testified, Thornton
Hams beckoned to his brother and
led the way down the runway. The
shooting followed within a few mo-
ments.
Il ran down the runway and Thorn
ton Hams pointed his revolver at me.
| turned TO go back and he pressed
the weapon against my back, saying
You get out of here or you will get
the same | ran up the runway, and,
looking back, saw my husband fall
into the water. So said Mrs. Annis
in relating her story and this new evil
dence the lawyers for Hams struggled
vainly to discredit
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
CITY FATHERS ARE
ACCUSED OF GRAFT
Seven Members of Pittsburg
Councils Arrested on Charges
of Bribery.
SENSATION IS STIRRED UP
Second Only to San Francisco Graft
Warrants for Other
Arrests Issued.

Pittsburg, Dec. 23.-Seven members
of the council were arrested last night
at the instance of the Voters sleague,
a civic reform organization, charged
with conspiracy, corrupt practices and
bribery in connection with municipal
legislation during the past two years.
Alleged acts in connection with the
establishment of repositories for the
funds of the city are enumerated in
the complaints against the council
men, and it is said a number Of per-
sons occupying official positions in To-
cal banks will shortly be arrested.
Second Only to Frisco.
Bribery and corruption is also charg-
ed in connection with the passage of
various ordinances in councils.
Following a series of yelled charges
and innuendo, references to council
manic acts, the Voters league several
months ago employed detectives, and
the arrests are based on the reports
made by the detectives.
with the exception of the San
Francisco graft cases." said a member
of the league last night, there has
never been in this country such a
sweeping and such an important pro-
ceeding against municipal officers as
is involved in this case"
Other Arrests to Be Made.
Attorney A. Leo We'll, president of
the Voters league, said last night:
"Informations were also made
against other parties, whose names at
this time l do not feel at liberty to
give. They were not members of
councils, but are charged with giving
brides, and warrants have been issued
for their arrest"
The councllmen involved were ar
rested last night and gave bond for
preliminary hearings Wednesday
morning, when Voters league officials
promise to present sensational evil
dence.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
DETECTIVES WATCH SUSPECTS
More Arrests Expected in Graft Cases;
DecOy promoter" Used to
Catch City Father.

PlttSburg, Pa, Dec a. - A fash
light photograph of member of
the council in the act of accepting
money from decoy promoter" it is
said, will be one of the strongest fea-
lures of the evidence to be presented
to-day when seven members of the
council and two former bank officials
are to be given preliminary hearing
on charges of bribery, corrupt solici-
tation and other illegal acts brought
by the Voters league. This picture,
it is said, was taken in a private room
in downtown hotel last night imme-
diately before the councilman was ar.
rested.
Suspects Are Watched.
No additional arrests were made
yesterday, and it is said that none are
likely to be made until after the hear
ing to-day. All whom the detectives
think may possible be wanted later
are being kept under surveillance, Off
GERS being on guard at all city and
suburban stations.
Besides the councilman the fash
light photograph is said to show an
agent of the Hufing Detective agency
of Scranton, Pa, which worked up the
cases. This man is reported to have
posed as a member of firm anxious
to sell wooden paving blocks to the
city and have become very intimate
with the councilman.
EI3rh Ic off
With other detectives concealed
within hearing distance, the council
man is alleged to have been induced
to tell of the negotiations to secure
the passage of the legislation, to
name the other members who were to
share in the bribe and to say that
the members were tired of promises
and wanted to see some real money.
1t was while money was being shown
that the flash was ignited. The coun-
Gilman, it is said broke down and
Wept, and when he accused his COM
panion of trapping him there was no
denial Then an officer appeared and
made the arrest.
In some quarters it is believed that
Mayor Guthrie was back of the probe,
he having been an attorney for the
Voters league some years ago.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
WITNESS ASKS PROTECTION.
Gives Damaging Evidence Against
Niuht Riders.

Union City, Tenn, Dec. 24-When
Mrs Emma Jackson, one of the state
witnesses, yesterday afternoon in the
night riders trial, was excused from
the stand, she turned to Judge Jones
and said:
Il will not leave the court room
without armed protection. l know
these men,"
Mrs. Jackson told VIVID story of
several visits of the riders, corrobo-
rated Fred Fehringer's testimony in
many details, as did other witnesses,
and identified by name at least TWEEN
ty-seven members of the band. She
was followed on the stand by her
daughter, Dora Jackson, who corrobo-
rated her mother
The last witness of the day was
Will Russell, another alleged night
rider, who has turned states evidence.
He was trembling with fear and could
scarcely raise his voice above a whis-
per. Russell is under constant guard,
but believes that he will be killed in
spite of these precautions. Russells
story was practically the same as that
told by Fehringer, and corroborated
it in every essential detail.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
FIRE IN CROWDED
NEW YORK ThFATER
Breaks Out Just Before Close
of Show, but Goodness of En-
ployes Prevents Panic.
ACTORS DRIVEN TO STREET
Chorus Girls i'm Scant Attire Hustle for
Shelter-EIectriC Sign
Starts Blaze.

New York. Dec. 24.-Fire broke out
in the Herald Square theater last
night ten minutes before the close of
the performance of "The Three
Twins and before it was brought I'M
der control had done considerable
damage to the building, had driven
the actors and chorus into the streets
in their scant costumes and had
caused great commotion among the
theater crowds on Broadway. There
was no panic and no one was injured,
the audience remaining in ignorance
Of the fire until most of them had
passed into the streets. The fire
caught from a large electric sign on
the front of the theater building and
spread to the executive Offices, which
are opposite the second gallery of the
auditorium.
Orders Play Cut Short.
1t was just ten minutes before the
time for the performance to end
when two women came down from the
second gallery and reported to the
theater attaches that there was
smoke in the upper part of the build
ing. Treasurer Lyon quickly went
behind the curtain and explained the
situation to the actors and told them
to cut the play short. This was done,
and the curtain was lowered without
any announcement to the audience.
The big crowd shuffled slowly out,
not knowing that a fire was being
fought in the upper gallery,
Actors Step Lively.
Most of them soon reached the
streets, but some remained behind,
waiting for the wraps to be taken from
the coat rooms. AS the flames began
to gain Roadway the theater employees
urged the tardy ones to hurry out and
told them there was fire in the the
ater.
Alarm spread among the actors and
chorus and many of the young wom-
en- left the building by the stage en-
trance in scant and unconventional
attire. An alarm quickly brought the
fire engines and water was turned
Upon the flames, but not until proba-
bly, 100000 damage had been done.
Goodness Prevents Panic.
Only the GOODNESS of the theater at
taches prevented anything in the way
Of a panic. Several of the actors said
after the fire was out that they had
seen the smoke for some time be-
fore Treasurer Lyon ordered the per-
Torrance cut short, but that they
went bravely on with the songs and
dances, in order not to alarm the au-
dience and thereby possibly precipi-
tate a panic.
Some time after the fire was practi~
cally out the theater gallery fell and
a moment later thirty-five feet Of the
roof on the Broadway end of the build
ing came down.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
Accidental Happenings,

The engine of an extra freight on
the Southern Pacific siding at Beau
mont, Cal, blew up, killing three men
and seriously injuring one.
While hunting rabbits near State
Center, Iowa, Harry Groth, son of
Rev. U. Groth, German Lutheran min
lister, was shot by a rife in the hands
of a companion.
John Donahoe, Will Murphy and
George McMannen, shot firers, were
suffocated in the Rend mine at Mount
Vernon, H., in an explosion. The
damage amounts to $4,000.
Two members of the family of
George Van Horn of Mendenhall,
Chester county, Pa, are dead and
three others are i'll as a result of
ptomaine poisoning, caused by sau-
sage procured from a local grocery
store.
William Ganschow, a wealthy Chi
cagO manufacturer, was probably IA
tally injured and his daughter was less
OSAAO dO1y hdA WA1Sh MI. NcAoCUOW .
automobile skidded and collided with
a street car in Chicago.
Fred N. Sewall, president of a paint
and glass company, and a we'll known
club man, was fatally injured at Kan
sas City while engaged in a hunt at
the Country club. While taking a
ditch Mr.. Sewall's horse fell, throw
ing its rider. Mr.. Sewall struck on
his head and suffered conclusion of
the brain and other injuries.
David Mclean, proofreader on the
Free Press at Winnipeg, met with an
accident by falling down a flight of
stairs in the Seymour hotel, by which
he had his skull fractured and which
proved fatal.
While coasting down the steep bank
of the Red river at Winnipeg, Dorothy
Cotton, five years old, daughter of J.
Cotton, ran into a sharp hickory stick
which has been used for steering. The
stick penetrated her thigh and spine
tearing open her bowels in a terrible
manner. After lingering in great suf
fering in the hospital she died.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
Foreign.

Gen. William Booth, commandments
chief of the Salvation Army, was op-
Grated on last week in London for
cataract, and the doctors are hopeful
that he will completely recover his
sight.
La Balleta, the dancing girl, in
whose apartment in Paris Grand Duke
Alexis died suddenly, has been notl-
fed by the Russian consulate that her
royal admirer had left her 100000
francs.
The report of the state tobacco mo-
nopoly filed at Paris shows that the
French nation last year consumed
$1OO, 100000 worth of tobacco upon
which the government made a profit
of $75,OOO.OOO.
A fashionable woman, wearing a
merry widow hat three feet in dl-
ameter, tainted in the street at Mu-
mich, and was carried into a shop,
where she recovered when the hat
was removed. The doctor, who had
been summoned, said the swoon was
entirely attributable to the" enormous
weight of the hat.
Archbishop Ireland's brief visit to
Paris caused a certain stir in circles
where it is believed he is to receive
the red hat" One indiscreet inter-
viewer bluntly asked the archbishop
if he expects to be made cardinal.
Mr.. Ireland only smiled and said: Il
will tell you when I return what
think about it..
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
Otherwise.

Billy Papke of Kewaunee, ILL.,, and
Hugo Kelly of Chicago fought TWEEN
ty-fve rounds to a draw at Los An
geles.
The United States fish commission
will locate the new fresh water mus
sci propagating station at Fairport
Iowa, according to advices received
from Washington.
Katherine Clemmons Gould was de-
MED in the appellate division of that
supreme court in New York a trial
by the jury in her action for divorce
from Howard Gould.
AID Wolgast of Milwaukee outfought
Abe Attell, the featherweight cham
pion, before the Pacific Athletic club
at Los Angeles. The fight went ten
rounds with no official decision per-
mitted under the law
Words of praise for the American
battleship fleet and its officers and
men were uttered by Lord Northcote,
retiring governor general of Australia
at luncheon in his honor in the law
yers' club in New York.
Employees of the Chase & Sanborn
company, coffee merchants of Chicago,
will receive munificent Christmas
| presents under the terms of the will
of Caleb Chase, senior member of the
firm, who died recently at his home
in Boston. Mr.. Chase's will provides
| for requests to his employees in Bos-
ton, Chicago and Montreal amounting
to 100000.
Mrs. William Hunter Doll, who was
Mrs. Cushman K. Davis, wife Of the
Minnesota senator, died suddenly on
! her farm near Hyattsville, Md. AS
Mrs. Davis, the deceased was promi-
nent for several years in capital So
ciety circles, aha entertained at her
| Washington home on many occasions.
Mrs. Davis former home was in St.
| Paul, where she met and married the
| senator.
| The statement of the auditor of the
state as to the condition of all Iowa
banks since his last report on Nov.
% shows deposits amounting to $685.
221,900 the heaviest deposits in the
history Of Iowa excepting just before
the panic of last fall.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany sent out orders for the immedi-
ate filling up Of two blast furnaces and
six open-hearth furnaces at the com
pany's plant at Donora, Pa. These de-
| partments have been idle for a year.
This will mean the employment of
1900 men.
G. w. Draper, prominent and well.
TODD mining man and discoverer of
the North Mocassasin mine, which is
netting John W. Gates tidy fortune
annually in dividends, has been found
wandering in the hills near Kendall
Mont. He is not expected to recover
Christmas shoppers with a leaning
toward the jewelry counters will have
to pay unusually high prices for any.
thing with diamonds set in it. Ac.
cording to the jewelers. circular
prices for diamonds in European dia.
mond centers have advanced greatly
within the past three months.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
TARIFF TRAINERS HEAR VIEWS
Cost of Production of Steel Less in
This Country Than Any Country
Producing Steel.

Washington, Dec. 23-Andrew Car
negie, famous for the millions he
made in the steel business and for his
views on economic questions, made a
most entertaining If not instructive
witness in connection with the pro-
posed revision of the tariff.
Although he was on the stand yes
terday for nearly eight hours, Mr..
Carnegie laughed and joked good ma
turedly throughout He exasperated
several of the "stand-patters' with his
epigrammatic replies, praised the
genius of Charles M. Schwab, urged
the committee to accept the testimony
of Judge E. H. Gary as conclusive, and
told several funny stories.
Needs No More Protection.
He avoided figures, however, to such
an extent that it is doubtful if the tar
if trainers are any more enlightened
on the steel question now than they
were before Mr.. Carnegie was sworn
in.
Mr.. Carnegie's principal contention
was that the steel industry needs no
more protection; that it has reached a
point in its development where the
American manufacturers can compete
with the world under free trade condi-
tions. While he claimed that the cost
of labor and production of steel are
less in this country than in the other
countries producing Steel. Mr.. Carne-
gle gave no figures to support his con-
tentions.
Take Duty Off Iron and Steel.
He said that Judge Gary told the
committee that the United States
Steel corporation can get along with
out a tariff on it's products and that
should be sufficient evidence for the
committee to take off the duty on
steel and iron.
Mr.. Carnegie's testimony was most
unique and interesting. He declared
emphatically against combinations, or
trusts" and said that he had nothing
to do with the sale of the Carnegie
Steel company to the United States
Steel corporation. He characterized
the "stock gambler" as being the
worst citizen a country could have,
and said that he never had one asso'
cited with him in business.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
Sins and Sinners.

Francis Owen Griffin, retired hard
ware merchant, formerly of Elgin, ILL.,,
committed suicide.
Charged with Incorporating
100000, two brothers, Adolph and
Fritz Eberbach, hotel company pro-
moters have been arrested in Berlin.
After an argument over $2.25 in
wages Frank Ross, an Italian laborer,
shot and killed John Clifton, an ex-
cavation contractor, the Cleveland po-
lice say. Ross escaped.
The body of a man supposed to be
Waldo A. Setback of Dillon, Mont,
was found in a 'rooming house at
Idaho Falls, Idaho. The head had
been horribly mutilated with an ak.
Attempting to hang himself by using
his suspenders for moose, d. F. Ly-
ons, a farm hand, who had been placed
in the LIE Mars 0owa) Jail for intoxi-
cation, was rescued by police officer.
Steward Hosp, found guilty at Miles
City, Mont, of manslaughter in the
killing of Norman Thetford on Aug
26, was sentenced to ten years, the
limit under the statutes, by Judge
Loud.
AS a result of an attempt to inau-
gurate a test of the so-called Locke
anti-racing law at City park race track
at New Orleans, several turfmen were
arrested and affidavits were made
against others.
Stating that while station agent at
Mcpherson, Kan, he had embezzled
about $500 from the Missouri Pacific
company, G. T. Birdsell gave himself
to the police at Oakland, Cal, because
his conscience troubled him so that
he could not rest.
H. o. Smith, general superintendent
of the Freebory Coal and Coke COM
pany, was shot and killed during a
quarrel at Delorme, w. Va, by P. A.
Corners, station agent for the Nor
folk G Western road at that point.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN [PITOMf
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
From Washington.

A bill was passed by the house au'
thorizing the construction of bridge
across the Mississippi river at or near
st. Paul, Mimi.
The house passed bill placing an
annual tax of $500 on all dealers IN
cigarettes and cigarette papers in the
District of Columbia.
Attorney General Charles L. Bona
parte has indicated that he would not
be a. member of Mr.. Taft's cabinet
when, in response to inquiry on the
subject, he said that after March 4
next be positively would retire from
public life.
President Roosevelt has issued or
ders under which the United States
government will give Panama les
son in policing. Men from eight
cruisers will be ordered ashore on
a visit, and they will form a tenn
porary isthmian guard.
The supreme court of the United
States in the main reversed the YER
dict of the United States district
court of Colorado, discharging from
custody several persons who were ar
rested on the charge Of conspiring to
defraud the government by entering
timber and coal lands in Colorado con-
trary to law.
Aiming a blow at the alleged prac-
tice of pet appointments in the ar
my, Representative Anthony Of Kan
sas introduced a bill roviding that all
vacancies in the grade of brigadier
general in the line of the army shall
be filled by selection only from the
colonies of the line of the army, ex-
cept in time Of war.
A bill has been introduced in the
house authorizing the secretary Of
the interior to place on the pension
roll under the same terms granted by
law to officers and soldiers of other
Indian wars, the names of officers
and soldiers Of the Bannock war,
which occurred in Oregon and Wash
ington in 1878 and 1879.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
Personal.

Arthur Curtis James was elected
commodore of the New York Yacht
club. succeeding Cornelius Vanderbilt,
who has held the honor for the past
three years.
Herman Knickerbocker Viele, civil
engineer, artist and author, died at
New York of pneumonia. Mr.. Viele
was a son Of Gen. Egbert L. Viele, a
we'll known engineer.
Mrs. Nicholas Fish, whose husband
was the eldest son of the secretary
of state in President Grants cabinet,
died at her home in Washington from
a stroke Of apoplexy.
John Bruce Woodward, student at
the state university at Lexington, KY,
died as the result of the bursting of a
blood vessel in his lung while blowing
into lung testing machine.
Mayor Charles H. Gaus, state con-
troller-elect of New York, announces
that Otto Kelsey, state superintendent
of insurance, had accepted an appoint
ment as first deputy state controller.
Charlemagne Tower recent ambas-
sador to Germany, was defeated for
the office of president of the Union
League club of Philadelphia by James
F. Hope, a we'll known merchant and
f1nancier.
Bishop William S. Lewis of the
Methodist Episcopal church has ca
bled to Sioux City friends of his safe
arrival in China to take up his new
work. Foo Chow will be his perma-
nent residence.
Chief William T. Belt of the Wash.
ingtOn fire department, vice president
of the National Association Of Fire
Chiefs and one of the best known fire
fighters in the country, died suddenly
of heart disease.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
is COMMITTED BY CORONER.
Benjamin Barnett Is Charged With
Causing Currents Death.

Philadelphia, Dec. %. = Benjamin
Barnett was yesterday committed by
the coroner, charged with causing the
death of James Curren, aged eighteen
years, during a boxing bout at the
Broadway Athletic club, in the lower
section of the city, on Friday last.
The boys, who were novices, appear
ed at an amateur matinee. Curren
collapsed in the second round, after a
blow on the jaw, and died before he
could be taken to the hospital. The
coroner's physician said that Curren's
death was caused by hemorrhage of
the brain, induced by violence, and
that his head had been bruised in sew
eral places. The seconds of the fight
ers and the proprietor of the club
were discharged by the coroner.