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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04

Harry Russell, ten-year-o1d boy,
confessed to the robbery of railroad
depot at Elk, Wash, on the night of
May 13, when $500 was stolen.
The receipt of an express package
containing a crate of oranges and a
quart bottle of whisky at the home of
Mrs. Samuel Fredwood at Charleroi,
Pa, resulted in two cases of supposed
poisoning, which are being Investigate
ed
J. G. White, fifty-six years old, of
New York city. was released from the
state penitentiary of Pennsylvania af-
ter having served a year and a half
of a five-year sentence for forgery
committed by another man, his
double.
J. r. Collins has been bound over
to the grand jury at Hampton, Iowa,
under bonds of $1,000 on charge of
enticing a girl under fifteen years of
age, who at present is his wife. Col
Inns eloped three weeks ago with Sar-
ah Huntzatch, the fourteen-year-old
daughter of farmer near Geneva.
While Frank Blanchard, residing
near Benton, ILL.,, was absent from
home two unknown men entered the
house, bound Mrs. Blanchard and
gagged her and after sprinkling coal
Oil over the floor set fire to the place.
Blanchard returned in time to rescue
his wife, who was badly burned, and
to save the house from destruction.
Two previous attempts had been
made to burn the house. Blanchard
is unable to ascribe a reason for the
attempts at arson.
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Otherwise.

The senate has appropriated $780,
building at Estherville. Iowa.
The first broad gauge train of
American cars on the South Manchu-
rian railroad has made a successful
trip.
A company of national guard of Ha,
wall is about to be organized by the
Chinese-American young men in Hon.
olulu.
Fire, which for a time threatened
to destroy the town of Hillsboro,
Ohio, was brought under control after
O. loss of $4,000.
A house bill regulating the trans
portation of explosives and other dan
gerous articles has been passed by
the the senate.
The senate has passed a bill incor-
porating the Congressional club, com
posed of the wives and daughters of
senators and representative in con-
gress.
w. c. Smith, thirty-five years of
age, former president of the National
Exchange bank of Lexington, KY
committed suicide while Respondent
He was wealthy.
CHI. Hicks, young farmer living
near Marshalltown, Iowa, has broken
all previous records for corn planting.
He planted thirty-three acres with
corn in fourteen hours, one days
work
Heart failure, caused by long
throw from deep left field to the home
plate in a game at st. Louis between
two local baseball teams. resulted in
TIE death Of John R. Peary, an anna
Or player.
Al contract for structural steel
work to cost more than $1,000,000 in
connection with the large bridge to
be built across the Ohio river at Bea-
yer, Pa, by the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie road has been awarded to a
firm in Pittsburg.
Lord Mount Stephen, former presi
dent of the Canadian Pacific railroad,
who had previously donated $4,000
600 to the King Edward hospital fund.-
has now further donated 5000 shares
of the Great Northern Railroad COM
pany of the United States to the same
fund.
The municipal council of Moscow
has decided to celebrate the eightieth
anniversary of the birth of Count Leo
Tolstoy by opening on Sept. 10 pub
lie library in that city and by giving
the counts name to the school he at
tended in his youth.
The Japanese consul at Honolulu
has been advised by his government
that the emigration from Japan to Ha-
wall is now limited to Japanese and
their wives and children formerly
resident in the islands, and the wives
and children of those who now reside
there.
Secretary w. F. Saunders Of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deepwater Water
way association, which has its head
quarters in st. Louis, has issued a call
for the third annual convention of the
association to, be held in Chicago Oct.
6. Z and s.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
TWENTY HAVE NARROW ESCAPE
Firemen Effect Many Brave Rescues-
Rescuer Swings on Rope
High in Air.

New York, June 3.-Fire, starting
in the basement of Mrs. Mary Moon
ey's boarding house, in West Thir-
teenth street, early yesterday, COM
pletely cut off the escape of Mrs.
MONEYS twenty boarders, and when
the firemen came young woman had
thrown herself to the pavement and
was dead Several others were Sc
verely burned and the upper windows,
front and rear, were crowded with
men and women begging to be saved
The dead woman is Miss Marie Belle
traine, who occupied hall room on
the top floor.
Is Badly Burned.
Mrs Mary Haggerty, who was burn
ed about the hands, face and body
and overcome by smoke, is in criti-
cal condition The fire started in a
coal bin in the cellar.
AS the first company galloped up
Miss Beltraine, in her night clothing,
appeared on the roof and plunged over
the coping. One of her feet caught in
the half-open shutters and for an in
slant the woman's body dangled in
space Then she fell on her head in
the street and was killed.
AS there were no fire escapes and
the blaze cut off exit by the Railways,
firemen were sent up through an adj
joining building, whence they crossed
to the roof of the burning house.
Mrs. George Mieklo was confused
by the smoke and was unable to reach
the roof.
Woman Rescued.
Fire Truck Captain Sweeney saw
her at a window on the top floor and
tying a rope to the chimney lowered
himself to the window, when the 9th
err firemen drew them to the roof.
Lieut.. Reilly tied a wet cloth over
his face and entered the burning
house through a scuttle from the roof.
Feeling his way through the heavy
smoke from room to room he Stun
bled upon Mrs. Haggerty, in the third
floor front. She had tainted. Lieu
tenant Reilly carried her to the roof
and thence to the street. The fire
was quickly extinguished, with $1,000
damage.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
BRUTAL DOUBLE MURDER.
Noted French Painter and His Moth
er-n-aw Victims of Fends.

Noted French Painter and His Moth
er-in-Iaw Victims of Fiends.
Paris, June 2. A double murder
was committed here during the early
hours of the morning that for abso-
lutte brutality would be hard to paral-
lei in the annals of the crimes of Pa
ris Adolphe Steinheil, noted paint
er, son of Louis Charles Auguste
Steinheil, one of the most celebrated
Of French artists, and grand
nephew Of Meissonier, and his wife's
mother, Nine, Japin, were strangled
to death in the artists home in the
Rue de Vaughirard, his wife was gag
ged and bound to bed and heard her
mothers dying struggles as she
fought for life with the murderers.
The whole house was ransacked,
and it was impossible to say how
fierce the death struggle had been.
The police seem totally at loss to
account for the atrocity of the muir
der, whipcords drawn tight around
the neckqs of the man and woman
showing the manner of their taking
off
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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOkf
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
From Washington.

A house bill increasing the compen-
sation of inspectors in the customs
service to Sc per diem and fixing the
salary of the treasurer of the United
States at $4,000 per annum has been
passed by the senate.
The senate has passed the house
bill amending the naturalization and
immigration laws in respect to fees
and compensation of court employees.
The total amount of the naturaliza-
ton fee is increased from SIS to $40.
A concurrent resolution was passed
by the house providing for the print
ing of 100000 copies of the proceed
ings of the recent conference of gov
ernors at the White House to consid-
er measures for the conservation of
the national resources.
It is proposed by the National Coun-
Gil of Commerce to establish in Wash
ington a permanent agency of the
council for the dissemination of in
formation respecting domestic and
foreign commerce, which, it is esti-
mated. would cost the merchants and
manufacturers of the country about
$4,000 a year.
A special itinerary has been map
ped out at the navy department for
the battleships Maine and Alabama,
which have been detached from the
Atlantic battleship fleet and are to
pTecede it by about month from San
Francisco on the way home by way
of the Pacific ocean and the Suez ca
nal. These two vessels will leave San
Francisco June s.
Approximately 100000 is the es-
timated cost of the coal consumed by
the Atlantic battleshfp fleet when it
will have finished it's cruise around
the world The estimate of the cost
of coal necessary to move the fleet
from San Francisco to Hampton
Roads, by way of Honolulu, Manila
and the Suez canal, has been reported
by the chief of the bureau of equip
ment as amounting to $2,039,000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
BALLOON LANDS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Mammoth Chicago" Sails From
Quincy, ILL.,, to Clear Lake,
S. D., in Eleven Hours.
HEAVY RAINS STOPS FLIGHT
Balloon Had Covered CircuitOus Route
at Rate of Seventy-five Miles
an Hour.

Clear Lake, s. D., June 3.-Early
of Clear Lake were astounded when
at a. m. yesterday monster bal
loon dropped from the clouds appar-
emily, and landed in the field at
point about six miles distant from
town. In en- hours time the country
roads were thronged with people on
their way to the sceene.
The balloon proved to be the Chi
cago. said to be the biggest in the
world, and now making a trial trip.
1t left Quincy, H., Monday night at
o'clock and was provisioned and bal
lasted with the expectation of making
three days journey. 1t was eleven
hours in the air and made an average
of seventy-five miles an hour. 1t
crossed the Mississippi at 6:15 Mon
day night and was then going due
west at an altitude of about 1000 feet.
Rain Causes Trouble.
The balloon carried three passen-
gers-Charles A. Coey of Chicago, it's
owner: Capt. G. H. Bumbach, it's
DulldGf ana plIOl, anu CHdllSS H.
Leichlter, representing the Record
Herald of Chicago.
Before reaching here the big air
craft was last spoken at Krksville,
Mo. A heavy rain yesterday morn
ing drove it to earth, and the last
1900 feet of its progress downward
was made in one minute. Only half
bag of sand, carried as ballast, was
remaining. The balloon was not par
ticularIy damaged and no one in the
party had any complaint to make of
injury or sickness. In fact all said
they were in splendid condition and
their only regret was that the jour
ney could not be carried out as origi-
nally planned
The Chicago" had set out to break
the Lanm cup and Bennett cup en-
durance and long-distance records,
and the aeronauts feel certain they
would have done so had they not run
into the rain clouds hanging over the
plains. The balloon will be disman-
tied and shipped to Chicago.
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Judqeship Left in Air.

Washington, June 2. - Adjourn
ment of congress found the nomina-
ton of M D. Purdy for district judge
in Minnesota still unreported from
the senate committee on judiciary.
The president probably will decide
within the next ten days whether he
will give Mr.. Purdy a recess appoint
ment or select some one else for the
position.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
MYSTERY IN SURVEY.

Engineer Mott, Who is in Roseau
County, Joined by other Surveyors.
Crookston, Mimi, June 3.-Richard
Laioie of New York city and Harold
Emerson of Boston, civil engineers,
departed from Crookston yesterday
morning for Roseau county, and will
join Engineer Mott of Chicago, who
has been operating on mysterious
mission through the forests and ridges
Of that part of the state since March
/. The two engineers have been
working on electric railways near Ell
Gin, ILL., They have nothing to say re-
garding their purpose in the north
woods.
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From Abroad.

More than 10000 deaths have re-
suited from the severe famine prevail
ing in the Usoga province Of Uganda.
The government is feeding $4,000 of
the natives Crops are failures.
President Penna of Brazil has sent
to congress a message demanding it's
sanction of the treaty recently adj
justed with the United States which
protects the right of naturalized citi-
zens who return to the country of
their birth.
Muiai Hafid, the usurping sultan of
Morocco, is quoted by the correspond
ent of the Paris Matin as saying that
he would if necessary, have several
German subjects killed in order to Sc
cure the Intervention of Frances rival
in Morocco.
The Brussels Metro-ole states that
the Belgian consular agent at Rabat
has been maltreated by natives and
that the Sultan Abd-el-Aziz himself
entered the consul's home and eject
ed him. The Metropole demands en-
ergetic action in this matter by the
Belgian government.
Prince Napoleon Murat, a descend
ant of Bonaparte's famous field mar
shall and whose grandmother was an
American woman, Caroline Frazer of
Bordentown, n. j., fought two broth
ers named PIen in duels at st. Peters
burg, wounding both of his opponents,
one seriously, but himself being I'M
harmed.
An Austrian princess, whose elope-
ment a few days ago caused a great
sensation in Vienna, is said to be
Princess Amelie Louise, sister of
Prince Emile Egon Won Furstenberg,
head of the Koenigshof branch of the
Furstenberg family. 1t is declared
that she ran away with a man named
Kozian, the local agent of an automo'
bile company The police are actively
at work trying to locate the fugitives.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Neoro Is Lynched.

Dixon, KY, June 2.-The race riot
which occurrmed March IA at Provi-
dence, a village near here, had a Sc
quel early yesterday morning in the
lynching of Jake Mcdowell, a negro,
who had confessed to being one of a
party of negroes who killed one trav.
cling man and wounded another.
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Has Earthquake Scare.

Allentown, Pa, June 2.-Allentown
was thrown into a state of excitement
yesterday by what is believed to have
been an earthquake shock. The shock
was severe enough to rock buildings,
rattle windows, clatter crockery, tum-
BILE down two or three shaky chin
neys and upset small children.
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ANGLERS TO GET INTO NET.

Game Wardens Will Do Some SEEMING
for VioIators of the Law.
Sioux Falls, S. D., June 3-Fish aud
game wardens in a number of the
counties of South Dakota are prepar
ing to make an example of number
of persons who are daily violating the
state laws by fishing for bass and 9th
er protected fish and either selling
them or shipping them out Of the
state
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Carry Out Death Pact.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 8. - Sebas-
tan Guyla, a clerk in a wholesale
liquor house in this city, and Mrs.
husband had deserted her, entered
into a death pact yesterday. Both
were found dead in a room in the
home of the woman at Kingston, near
here
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
CHOLERA TAKES 20 IN A DAY.

No Let-up in the Epidemic in Philip
REPRESENTATIVES Scott Germ Theory.
Manila, June 2. - The cholera at
Dagupan, 120 miles from Manila, is
worse. Twenty-Five deaths are re-
ported in one day.
The people are 10th to clean up
their surroundings, despite strenuous
efforts on the part of the bureau of
health.
The natives do not believe the germ
theory and think it is dispensation
of Cod
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Bow Is Drowned,

Mortified, Mimi, May 30. - Bern
Livingston, a second-year student in
the local high school, was drowned,
and Alison Blodgett, companion, al
most met a similar fate when their
gasoline launch went over the dam
here yesterday afternoon.
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Widely Different Varieties.

as it a good idea to make speech
whenever you get chance?" said the
Young man who is learning the states
manship business.
cit depends" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, "on whether your speech is the
kind that shows your constituents how
much you do know or how much you
on't."-Washington Star.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
YOUNG GOULD JUMPS BAIL.

Fails to Appear to Answer Charge of
Auto Speeding.
New York, June 3.-Judgment on a
forfeited bail bond of 500 was enter
ed yesterday against Kingdom Gould,
who was not in court yesterday when
the charge against him of automobile
speeding was brought up for trial. A
bench warrant was issued for Mr..
Goulds arrest, but the police learned
that he had sailed a week ago for a
six weeks vacation in Europe.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Three Cars Dynamited.

Center, Pa, June 3.-The disorder
that has marked the strike of the
Chester Traction company employees
for several weeks was renewed last
night when three of the company's
trolley cars were blown up by dyna-
mite. No one was injured.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
SCORES DRIVEN OUT BY FLOOD.

Mississippi Continues to Make Rapid
Invasion of Flats.
ST. Paul, June 3.-The Mississippi
river is now higher than it has ever
been in twenty years, with the excep-
ton Of the big food of 1897. At mid
night the river had reached fifteen
feet and six inches and was rising
rapidly.
Many houses on the West side are
surrounded by water and about fifty
families have been obliged to abandon
their homes.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
600 CHILDREN IN PANIC.

Dynamite Scare Almost Causes Dis
aster in Chicago School.
Chicago, May 30.-Rumors that an
italian secret society had formed a
plot to dynamite the Dante school at
Ewing and Desplaines streets caused
a panic yesterday afternoon among
the 1,70O pupils in the school. About
600 of the children became panic
stricken and fed from the building.
Many Of them were knocked down
and slightly bruised. but none of them
was seriously injured.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
EventfuI Niqht on Farm.

GAINESVILLE, Mimi, May 8. - A
farmer of Kragnes says that recently
the following arrived on his farm dur
ing the night: Thirty-three pigs, two
colts, two calves, six kittens and one
son. He says he was kept busy all
night
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Cuban Officers Inspect Army.

Chicago, June 2.-Long strides to-
wards the Americanization of the Gu
ban army were completed when a
party of islanders departed for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. They came to ia
miliarize themselves with American
military institutions SO they may imi'
tate them in their own country.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Aim Admits TAKING Funds.

Preston, Mimi, June SC. o.. Aim.
former city treasurer of Rushford,
pleaded guilty to the charge of emhez-
element of municipal funds and was
sentenced to three and a half years
at saltwater.
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Thousands of Acres Flooded.

st. Joseph, Mo, May 30.-Reports
from Maryville, Oregon, Tarkie and
other Northwest Missouri towns are
to the effect that thousands of acres
of lowlands have been flooded. Most
of this land had been planted to corn
and the damage is heavy.
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Gets Fine and Prison, Too

Grand Forks, N. D., June 3.-JOhn
Guilliford of Nelson county was ar
raigned yesterday on charge of sell
ing liquor illegally and entered a
plea of guilty He was sentenced to
serve ninety days in jail and pay a
fine of 5000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
Farman Renews Challenge.

Client, June 3.-Henry Farman, the
British aeronaut, has renewed his
challenge to the American aeronauts,
the Wright brothers, for match for
$4,000. He expressed surprise that his
original challenge was not accepted
long ago.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
THREW BAD EGGS.
Chippewa Falls Boys Who Annoyed
Citizens Are Sent to Jail.

Citizens Are sent 20 JAIL
Chippewa Falls, Wis, June 3.-Foc a
number of evenings past pedestrians
on the main streets have been annoy
ed at night by being despatched with
bad eggs. Girls and women have had
this class of eggs put under their
noses, and one of the saloons and the
Chinese laundry were generously
egged. The police placed five boys,
said to be ringleaders, under arrest,
and they were each sentenced to
twenty days in Jail. Their names are
Roy Judkins, Henry Michaels, Elmer
Bail, John La Vigne and Frank Doyle.
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WILL WE'D ANYWAY.
But Eloping Princess Would Like Con-
sent of Her Family.

SCHL VI TINI
Lucerne, June 2.-Princess Amelie
Louise of Furstenberg and Gustave
Kozian, an employe of an automobile
firm with whom the princess recently
eloped, accompanied by Kozian's
mother, have arrived here. Negotia-
lions are now proceeding with the
family of the princess to secure ap-
prevail of the marriage, but in the
event of failure in this, it has been
decided that the wedding will shortly
take place in this city.
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kidnapped Her Own Child.

GAINESVILLE, w is, May 80. - Edna
Wheelock is in Jail here charged with
having kidnapped her own child. It
is alleged that the prisoner, gave her
sister the child to ADOPT.
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EXPRESS AGENT FINED.
For Shipping Fish Not Properly Label
ed From Wisconsin.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, June 3. -
Game Warden S. B. Kirkoff caused
the arrest of John Derkey, express
agent at Brentwood, on the charge of
shipping fish illegally labeled. Derkey
pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and
costs. The game warden found two
boxes of fish at Brentwood, which
were consigned to parties in Chicago.
Neither of the boxes had the word
fish on the label, not the kind or
number of pounds, as required by
law
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ARE TIED UP BY WASHOUTs.
TWO Big Fills Are Carried Away in
Montana.

W OnIands
st. Paul, June 3.-According to an
announceent given out by the North
ern Pacific operating department yes
terday afternoon, west-bound traffic
will not be opened up until tomorrow
morning on account of the complete
washing out of two 100-foot fills in the
Rezeman mountains in Montana. By
that time it is expected that the crews
at work will have completed tempo
rary trestles over the fills and allow
the movement of trains. East-bound
Messenger traffic has been delayed
only about twenty-four hours on ac-
count of the storm, since a detour was
made to the Great Northern at Butte,
Mont
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Wnman MOsIerizes" Self.

Waterloo, Iowa, June 3. - Because
she thought she was in the way and
her days of usefulness were passed,
Mrs. Harmon, resident Of North
wood, Iowa, threw herself into the
river near her home and was drowned.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
USE cUsPIDORs IN FIGHT:
Passengers on Mauritania at War
Over Dice.

New York, June "a story of a
fight in the smoking room of the Maui
retania last Sunday night, in which
drinking glasses and cuspidors were
used, was told by passengers upon the
steamers arrival here yesterday. To
give color to the story three badly
battered men, who are alleged to have
had a principal part in the trouble,
were taken of the steamer in custody
of detectives and taken to police head
quarters. The trouble started when
four men who were shaking dice ac-
cused another of cheating.