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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Accidental Happenings.

Two firemen were injured and $780,
900 worth of property was destroyed
by fire in the dry goods district OF
Jersey City.
Fire in the lumber yard of A. G.
Chew at Tannersville, Ont, destroyed
100000 feet of lumber, 100000
laths, 1000 railway ties, $4,000 broom
handles, Is Grand Trunk cars and IL
tram cars.
Charles Cleveland, nineteen years
old, pianist of considerable ability,
who had planned to make his living
as a musician, lost both hands at
Ridgewood, N j., by the explosion OF
a giant firecracker
The tracks of the Joplin & Pitts
burg railway at Chicopee switch, near
Pittsburg, Kan, were blown out by
dynamiters. The trouble is the out
come of feeling against the railway
company because of a raise of fares.
While Bonnie Fisher, Anna Taylor,
j. Parker and Ruby Redman were
boating on Sugar lake at Armour
Junction, Mo, the boat capsized and
Fisher and Miss Taylor were
drowned, Miss Redman chung to the
boat until rescued. Parker swan
ashore.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
PURDY is APPOINTED JUDGE.
Assistant Attorney General Gets Loeb
ren's Job.

Assistant Attorney General Gets Loeb
ren's Job.
Washington, July 8. - The resigna-
ton of Judge Lochren from the United
States court in Minnesota has been
accepted and Milton D. Purdy of Min
neapolis, assistant to the attorney
general of the United States, was yes
terday notified by President Roose-
welt of his appointment to fill the va
cancy.
This is a recess nomination on &C.
count of the failure of the senate at
it's last session to confirm the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Purdy. Mr.. Purdy yester-
day accepted the appointment. He
will leave for Minnesota Thursday to
enter upon the duties of his new Of
fee.
Judge Lochren sent resignation to
the department of justice last winter,
to be effective on March 81. He was
later advised by the attorney general
to make the resignation effective upon
the appointment and confirmation of
his successor. This was done, but the
senate failing to confirm the nomina-
ton of his appointed successor, Judge
Lochren now has sent his resignation
TO take effect Immediately. 1t is nee
essary therefore for Mr.. Purdy to pro-
coed at once to Minneapolis to attend
to the business of the federal court.
If the senate withholds confirmation
Mr.. Purdy will be out of Office and un-
able to obtain compensation for his
services as federal judge.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOME
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Personal.

Thomas Lord, eighty-four years Old
a retired druggist of Chicago, died at
the home of his daughter in Louisville.
George H. Daniels, general passen-
ger agent of the New York Central,
died at his home at Lake Placid, N.
Y
Robert Muir, well known Manitoba
grain merchant and former president
of the Winnipeg Grain exchange, is
dead in Winnipeg.
Lieut.. Gov. George H. Prouty of
Newport, VT, was nominated for gov
ernor of Vermont by the Republican
convention.
Mrs. Jane Engis Smith, a real
Daughter of the Revolution" who
lived in Iowa, is dead at Lincoln,
Neb. She was ninety-two years old.
Lieut.. Col. Ammon A. Augur, U. S.
A. who for the past two months has
been stationed at Fort Thomas, KY,
is dead at Cincinnati of Bright's dis
ease.
Booth Harrington, the Indiana nov
elist and playwright, and Harry l..
Wilson, who collaborated with him in
"The Man From Home" have COM
pleted their joint plays, Countess
Nancy" for Eleanor Robson, and
Cameo Kirby" for Nat Goodwin.
They are also engaged in writing
play for May Robson and one for an
other American star.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
From Other Shores.

A dispatch received from Teheran
says that twelve members of the ma
tional council condemned by court
martial have been hanged.
John w. Riddle of ct. Paul, the
American ambassador to Russia, who
has been threatened with an attack
of pneumonia, is continuing to gain
strength, although slowly.
The christening of the infant son
of King Alfonso under the name of
jaime took place last week in the
chapel house at La Cranja, Spain,
with all the pomp and ceremony OF
the Spanish court.
The liberation of Nunzio Nisi, for
mer minister of public instruction,
who has just ended a term of impris-
Onment at Trapani, Sicily, for embez-
element from the state treasury, is
hailed with great enthusiasm.
The last spike Of the Mexican sec
ton of the Pan-American railroad
was driven at Suchiate, on the Guate-
malan border. President Cabrera an
nounces that the Guatemalan section
of this line will soon be commenced.
Mile Sherstenova, who was con-
fined in the political prison at Kiev,
was shot and killed by sentinel, who
discovered her signaling with mir
ror to other prisoners. She was
standing at a window at the time,
and the sentinel's first shot killed her.
Two hundred soldiers belonging to
the French colonial infantry at Sal
son, Cochin China, were seized with a
sudden nausea in their barracks. This
unexpected illness cannot be account
ed for and it is believed the men are
the victims of an attempt at whole
sale poisoning.
The Russian authorities have
closed all the Polish schools in the
province of Pitrokow, including those
at LODI, Czenstochowa, and Sosnow
ice. because, contrary to the regula-
tions. the Polish language was used
for instruction in the classes Of his
tory and geography.
A meeting between emperor Mich
elias of Russia and the emperor of
Germany on the Baltic, an intimation
of which appeared in the Rech, is
considered at ST. Petersburg quite
possible, although no information con-
corning such an arrangement is yet
available in official quarters, either
Russian or German.
The returns received from forty
eight districts in the municipal cleo
tions held in Panama show that the
Obaldia ticket won in Twenty-Five of
them, the Arias ticket in eighteen and
the fusion ticket in one. Based on
these returns Senior Obaldia would
have 140 presidential electors in the
corresponding districts, while Senior
Arias would have IS.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Crimes and Criminals.

John Marshall, aged thirty-fve
years, shot and killed his wife at
Reading, Pa, and then himself. The
tragedy was the climax to a series
of domestic quarrels.
Camelia Sansome, the wife of Mi
rinO Sansone, an Italian fruit dealer,
committed suicide by pouring gasoline
over herself and igniting her clothing.
She had been in poor health.
Disheartened, it is thought, over
his failure to locate his mother and
brothers in Des Moines, George Whee-
Ter of Kansas City, Kan, committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
Ralph Aldrich of Des Moines was
arrested at Springfield, ILL.,, charged
with forging bank notes to the amount
of $4,000 on the Farmers Bank of
Huxley, Iowa, while cashier. He con-
fessed.
Two burglars on their way to blow
open safe in Pittsburg met Police
men Cummings and Valentine. The
policemen attempted to arrest the
burglars as suspicious persons, and
the latter threw two bottles of nitro
glycerin at them. The explosive
failed to act, however. One of the
men escaped.
The law against manslaughter has
been invoked at Salt Lake City to
punish Charles P. Titus, a divine
healer who, it is alleged, permitted
two of his small children to die of
diphtheria without medical attention.
A third is very i'll from the disease.
A warrant for Titus arrest was is
sued yesterday.
Charges of misconduct as public of
fcials were filed in the district court
at Des Moines against County Attor-
ney Lawrence D. Graft, the board of
county supervisors and F. Vanliew,
an East side justice of the peace, re-
vealing an alleged plot to protect a
county official who should have been
prosecuted for ENLIGHTENMENT. accord
ing to the statements in the petition.
In attempting to act as peacemaker
in a pistol fight between Harry Clay.
ton and Al Scheeler, Mel Powers, a
former steamboat man, race horse
owner and gambler, was shot through
the heart and instantly killed at Sioux
City, Iowa. Clayton is a bartender
He is under arrest
Robert Chemoise, Jr., cashier of the
Marine Trust company of Atlantic
City. N. j., was arrested charged with
a defalcation of $4,000 He made a
confession in which he says that he
played the stock market. He is under
$11 900 bail.
Eleven horses and four mules were
missing from the camp of w. J. Cal
lahan, contractor DOING grading for
the Milwaukee road in Miles City,
Mont. A man was seen driving a
bunch on the Fort Keogh reservation,
about eight miles from town, believed
to be the same animals.
John Waslielesky was hanged at
the state prison at Wethersfeld,
Conn, for the murder of John Lukes-
wicz at Westville, a suburb OF New
Haven, on the night of Dec. 8, 1903.
The murder was the result of quar-
rel over Lukeswicz's wife.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Live Stock Centers.
st. Paul, July g. - Wheat - No. 1
hard, $1.151-2; No 1 Northern,
SIP IL; No. Northern, $1.10 IL.
Corn = No. yellow 70 12@70 SAC.
Oats-No. white, 44@48c.
Minneapolis, July 8. - Wheat-No.
/ hard, SLAP; No. 1 Northern,
Slip IL; No. Northern. $1.10 IL,
Corn = No. yellow, 70 1-2@70 3-4c.
Oats-No white, 44@48c.
Duluth, July g. - Wheat = No.
hard, $1.127-8; No. 1 Northern,
Sill 3-S; No. Northern, $1.OS 3-S.
Flax-$1.22 IL Oats-49 1-2c.
Chicago, July s. - Wheat - No. 2
red, SO 5-S@91 1-2c; No. 2 hard winter,
911-2@92 lie; No. spring, 98c@
$10S. Oats--No. white, sic.
Milwaukee, July 8. = Wheat - No
Northern, $1.15@116; No. 2 North
ern, $112@1.14. Barley-No. 2, 69c.
Chicago, July 8. - Cattle-Beeves,
$4.85@8.40; stockers and feeders, $3.50
@5.4O; COWS and heifers, $4@6.25.
Hogs-Bulk, $60665. Sheep - Ma
tives, $2.85@5.1O; lambs, $4@65O.
Sioux City, Iowa, July 8. = Cattle
-Beeves, $5.400765; stockers and
feeders, $4,000; calves and year.
lings, S25003.25. Hogs-Range, $685.
@6.10.
South st. Paul, July 8. - Cattle -
Granted steers, $606.75; cows and
heifers, $4.50@5.50; veal calves, 1915
@5; good to choice stock steers,
$3.25@3.75. Hogs-Bulk, $6.15@620.
Sheep - Yearlings, $404.50; spring
lambs, $5.25@625.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
lNSpfCTS CAPT. PfARY'S SHIP
my, My, What Fine Ship" Says the
President, When He Sees the
aas>s. Roosevelt"

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July S.-"My,
ident Roosevelt as he approached the
arctic steamer Roosevelt, lying at an
Choir near the presidents yacht
Sylph, in Oyster Bay harbor, yester-
day afternoon Commander Robert
E. Peary, u. S. N, the arctic explorer,
who was at his side, agreed with the
president and thanked him for the
compliment.
Capt Bartlett of the Roosevelt and
Herbert l.. Bridgeman, secretary of
the Peary Arctic club, received them
on board Commander Peary escorted
the party on a tour of inspection.
The president insisted upon going
down the ladder into the engine room
and seeing everything there was to
be seen. When he came up he was
wiping rerspiration from his brow,
but he seemed to be enjoying himself,
nevertheless.
Commander Peary said his last
good-by to the president as Mr.. Roose-
welt was about to go over the side
into the launch. He shook hands With
the explorer, saying that hunting the
pole is good sport.
'Inasmuch as I cannot go along
with you myself" said the president,
"all can do is to wish that all good
luck may go with you. l feel conf
dent that you will get there this time
if it is possible to do so; if you don't,
do the best you can. Good-by."
The Roosevelt weigher anchor at
$50 p. m. and steamed out of the
harbor. She will stop at New Bed
ford Mass, and then proceed to Sgd
ney, N. S., where Commander Peary
will rejoin the ship.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
TRACE SWEDISH EXPLORER.
Inquiries Show His Departure for
Tibet

simla, July 8.-Inquries made here
regarding the whereabouts of DR..
Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer,
have brought out the information that
he left Gartok, town in Tibet on the
headwaters of the Indus, early in No
vember of last year with the intention
of spending the winter at Khotan, In
Chinese Turkestan. He planned to re-
turn to Leh, in the valley of the In
dus, early this summer
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
TAFT PLAYS BASEBALL.
Drops Politics to Engage in Contest
With Newspaper Men.

Hot Springs, Va, July 8.-Senator
Beveridge of Indiana, Representative
Mckinley of Illinois and Representa-
tive Burke of Pennsylvania arrived
here yesterday. Mr.. Taft was closet
ed with Senator Beverage for a cou-
pie of hours and they went over condi-
lions in Indiana and elsewhere with
great detail. Mr.. Beveridge told Mr..
Taft that he did not consider that the
affairs of the party in Indiana in any
condition to endanger the state next
fall. A ball game between the states
men and the newspaper correspond
ents put an end to further confer
ences for the day, Mr.. Taft taking part
in the game on the team Of statesmen
and Mrs. Taft witnessing the sport.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Hitchcock Will Get 1t.

Hot Springs, Va, July 9.-The ex-
ecutive committee of the Republican
national committee will meet here to-
day and from present indications
there will be brief session, at which
Frank H. Hitchcock will be elected
chairman and Representative McKin-
lev of Illinois will be made treasurer
of the national committee.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
STEEL FREIGHTER is SUNK.
M. A. Hanna Strikes n. p. Mcintosh
and DAMAGE is 100000.

Port Huron, Mich, July 9. - The
steel freighter H. P. Mcintosh, $40
feet long, owned by the Gilchrist COM
pany of Cleveland, was sunk early
yesterday in a collision with the
freighter- M. A. Hanna in the st. Clair
river just below here. None of the
crew was killed or injured
1t is estimated that the damage to
the two boats will be over 100000
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Otherwise.


The annual convention of the Ma
tional Young Peoples Christian union
was held in Washington
The Santa Fe Railroad company
has let contracts for terminal build
ings at Canadian, Tex, in the sum of
$150,000.
Rye cutting has started in the AL
berta district. This is the earliest
known date for harvesting in the
Canadian West.
Dubuque is preparing to entertain
5000 people the last week in August.
1t is the diamond jubilee of Dubuque's
existence as a town.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Norfolk & Southern railroad on
petition of the Trust Company of
America, joined by the railroad.
Four Columbus (Ohio) men have
offered a finger each for $500 to A. G.
Balloux of Wheeling, w. Va, who lost
his digits in an ice cream freezer re-
Gently.
James J. Hill and associates have
sold the property Of the Great Falls
(Mont) Water Power and Townsite
company to John D. Ryan and others
for $1,500,000.
Frank MCGEE, a union labor agent,
was found guilty at New Haven,
Conn, of intimidation in connection
with a strike at the McLagon foundry
in that city about ten months ago.
The gross earnings of the railroads
of the United States for the fiscal
year ending June 80 were estimated
to amount to $2,447, 304,656, a de-
crease of $108,6OS,346 as compared
with last year
Federal Judge Jacob Priever at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, declared the reciprocal
demurrage act of the last Arkansas
legislature unconstitutional, being a
violation of the fourteenth amend
ment.
Secretary of State Elihu Root is at
William Muldoon's health institution
at White Plains again for a course
of medicine, ball throwing, hard
walking and riding, cold shower
baths and plain cooking.
The idea that there would be
great slump in prices for wool this
season has been dissipated. About
one-half of the product of Fergus
county, Montana, has now been con-
tracted for, and the prices run close
to Is cents, which, while about
cents under what the same clips
brought last summer, is still much
better than was generally expected
a few months ago.
Announcement that the Alaskan
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
Wash, has met the congressional re-
quirements that $1,000,000 be raised
by subscription, irrespective of state
or federal appropriation, before the
congressional appropriation of $780,
900 for the exposition can be availa-
BILE, has been received by Secretary
Cortelyou.
Justice Lambert of New York di-
rected the jury to find verdict for
Mayor Mcclellan in the election re-
count suit upholding McClellan's cleo
ton.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway will not be able to get the line
from Lombard, the present terminus
of the road to Butte, a distance of
ninety-two miles, completed early in
July, as was expected. The delay is
entirely due to the floods, which did
some damage and hindered the con,
| tractors. 1t is said on good authority
that the line will be into Butte early
| in August.
| Bert M. Fernald of Poland, Me-, was
nominated for governor by acclanna-
| ton at the Maine Republican state
convention.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
HELD UP; CASH NOT WITH HIM.
Victim of Robbery Turns in Check,
hut Leaves Money With Friend,

Victim of Robbery Turns in Check,
but Leaves Money With Friend.
Deadwood, S. D., July S.-One of the
boldest hold-ups that has occurred in
Deadwood in a long while relieved
Charles Anderson, a miner from
Strawberry gulch, near here, of the
small change he had in his pockets.
According to the story Anderson told
the police he was set upon almost in
the heart Of town late in the evening
by two men and was bound and gag
ged TO prevent an outcry. He had
just cashed a large check, but fortu-
nately had left the money with a
friend before starting home. Several
arrests have been made by the police.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
BOY is KIDNAPP ED.
Father Accuses His Wife, from Whom
He Has Been Separated.

Duluth, Mimi, July 8.-James Nc
Auliffe, Jr., the nine-year-old son of
DR.. and Mrs. James McAuliffe, was
enticed from his fathers Office yester-
day afternoon by two men, who took
him to a carriage in the street below
The carriage was driven off rapidly
and no definite trace has been obtain
ed of the hoy since. 1t is claimed by
DR.. McAuliffe that his wife, from
whom he has been separated for fif-
teen months, got the men to kidnap
her son and that she has him in hid
ing in her mothers home in this city.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Woman Found Murdered.

Hot Springs, Ark, July 8. = The
dead body Of Mrs Ada Reichars of
Dallas, Tex, was found in her apart
ments here yesterday, she having been
murdered. The police are looking for
suspect who is believed to have
fled to st. Louis.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Child Burned to Death.

Williston, N. D., July 9.-The three
year-old son of G. G.. Howard, living
on the Missouri bottoms near Tren-
ton. was burned to death. He played
with matches in a strawstack and his
clothes were ablaze in moment. The
child lived ten hours.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
FLOOD CAUSES
DEATH AND RUIN
Lincoln, Neb., Experiences the
Worst Flood in It's History;
Hundreds Homeless.
AT LEAST SEVEN LIVES LOST
Property Loss Cannot Be Estimated;
Railroad Traffic Almost Totally
Suspended.

Lincoln, Neb., July S.-Lincoln yes
terday experienced what was proba-
bly, the worst flood in it's history, caus-
ing the known loss of five lives and
probably two others, minor injuries to
several, a property loss which cannot
yet be estimated, an almost total sus-
pension of railroad traffic to and from
the city and misery to hundreds OF
families who have been driven from
their homes and are now sheltered in
public buildings and private resi-
dences
Lost Their Lives.
The known dead are:
John Nelson, drowned while trying
to rescue stock
Three children of Henry AIMED, who
fell from a boat after being rescued
from their flooded home.
Mrs. Schuester, who died from
fright and exposure after being taken
from her flooded home
A young man named Cillard Nicolas
was caught in the flood and climbed
telephone pole, and persons say they
saw him, after clinging for hours, fall
into the water. No trace Of him has
since been found
The food followed the greatest
downpour of rain known here for
many years. The Lincoln gas and
electric light plant is flooded The
flood last night was subsiding.
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Family Life.

There is at the present time in Eng
land an ill-deined but widespread
sense of uneasiness caused by an ap-
parent disintegration of family life
Family relationships and the home
training of children sometimes seem
threatened by the tide of social and
industrial development.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
RELIEF FOR NEW YORK.

Hot Spell That Has Killed Nearly
Two Score Is Broken.
New York, July "a smart south
erly breeze that followed in the trail
of a mild summer storm yesterday
brought some relief from the tropical
spell that has killed nearly two score
of people, has Frustrated hundreds
and filled the city hospitals and held
the population helplessly in its burn
ing folds for over week. Fourteen
persons succumbed to the heat yes
terday, a total of thirty-one deaths
from that cause within the last thirty
six hours.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Mexico Oil Fields Afire.

Washington, July 8. - The United
State consul at Tampico, Mexico, has
reported that the oil fields between
Tampico, on the gulf of Mexico, and
Tuxpen are burning and that the
blaze is visible for hundred miles on
the gulf
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Ann. Gets Title: Helie Gets Cash,

London, Jluy 9.-Mme. Anna Gould
and Prince Helie de Sagan were mar
ried at registry office in Henrietta
street, off Covent Garden yesterday.
A subsequent ceremony was conduct
ed at the French Protestant church
on soho square.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Takes Carbolic Acid,

St Paul, July o. The body of
John Sundstrom was found in a COW
pasture yesterday. The coroner de-
c1ded that he had committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid. He had been
in i'll health.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Woman Found Murdered

Hot Springs, Ark, July 8. = The
dead body of Mrs. Ada Reichars of
Dallas, Tex, was found in her apart
ments here yesterday, she having been
murdered. The police are looking for
suspect who is believed to have
fed to st. Louis.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
Has Become Centenarian.

Clinton, Iowa, July 9.-Mrs. Fran
ces Work of De Witt, in this county,
has passed the Tooth anniversary of
her birth. Mrs. Work is still strong
and healthy.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-09
SNAKE INDIANS RISE.
Unciviized Tribe, 1000 Strong, in Re-
bejIion

Unciviized Tribe, 1000 Strong, in Re-
belion.
Muskogee, Okla, July 9.-The sher-
ifs of Mcintosh and Okmulgee coun-
ties went to the Old Hickory grounds,
near Henrietta, yesterday to investi-
gate the uprising of Snake Indians,
and were driven away from the camp
by thirty armed Indians and negroes.
Before sending them away Crazy
Snake delivered a message defying
the laws of the state and the United
states government, who, he declared,
have no authority over the Indians.
The authorities at once got into
communication with Guthrie, and it is
probable that state troops will be sent
to dispense the malcontents.