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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-05-09

The Maryland republican state con-
vention Endorsed President Roosevelt
and his administration and instructed
delegates for Secretary of War Taft
for the nomination for the presidency.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-05-09

The man who has the public inter-
ests at heart, rather than he who
will work only for little clique OF
political vire-workers, is the man who
deserves and should have the votes of
the people.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-05-09
SNAP SHOTS.

Lilac in full bloom.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-05-09

Whereas. The attention of this
board has been called to circulars
dated April 20. 1908, issued to the
Cumberland Valley Volunteer Fire
mems association. and signed by w.
F. Slaughter. H. T. Gaver, M. Quinn,
F. Anderson and John Poisal, mem
bers of Ryneal Co, No. 1. Said circu-
ar Offering 800 in prizes for the va
rious contests during the convention
OF said association and promising in
connection celebration to be given
on May 20. 81, %, and
Whereas. No official responsibility
seems to be attached to said offer but
implying that it is issued by the Mar
tnsburg Fire department, and
Whereas, Companies Nos. 2, 3, 4 and
are unwilling to hold any celebra-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
At the Capital.

The internal revenue department
has planned to begin in a. short time
a series of prosecutions for alleged in
fractions of the federal revenue laws.
The president has reappointed the
members of the inland waterways
commission, thereby continuing by
executive action what congress failed
to do during the session.
The gunboat Yorktown has been
ordered to leave Puget sound for a
cruise to the Bering sea, where she
is to patrol the seal fisheries and to
prevent pelagic sealing.
Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, Jr, military
aid to President Roosevelt, has been
designated by the war department to
attend the course at the French
School of Equitation at Saumar
France, this summer. Capt. Archi
bald w. Butt, depot quartermaster at
Havana, will be ordered to duty at
the White House as military aid.
Approximately 100000 acres of land
which were withdrawn in connection
with the Lower Yellowstone irriga.
tion project in Eastern Montana
have been restored to the public do
main and will become subject to set
tlement and entry on such dates and
after such notices by publication as
the secretary of the interior may pre-
scribe
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
MANY MILLIONS ARE TIED UP
United States Courts Adjourn With
$4,000 Tariff Cases Awaiting
Decision.

New York, June II. With the
closing of the federal courts for the
summer, so far as tariff litigation is
concerned, nearly $4,000 appeals by
importers are now pending on the sus-
pended files of the board of United
States general appraisers. No more
customs cases will be heard by the
courts until October.
Most of the issues now pending are
those arising under the present or
Dingley tariff, although few ques.
lions under the tariffs of 1890 and
1894 are before the courts for final de-
termination.
The explanation of present condi-
tions is said to be in the fact that the
federal courts are in no position to
devote their entire time, or even a
small part of it, to the adequate hear
ing of questions wholly irrelevant to
the tariff, such as bankruptcy, admi-
rally, civil and general miscellaneous
issues.
While official figures are not obtain
able, it is believed that several mil
lions of dollars are tied up pending
final tariff decisions by the court,
while much American capital which
might be used profitably is held back
until it is determined whether the
rates on certain lines of imports will
warrant home manufacture of the for
eign product.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
People Talked About.

Isaac B. Rich, one of the Oldest the
atrical managers in the country, died
of diabetes in Boston. He was born
in 1927.
w. S. Forman of East st. Louis, ILL.,,
who was for three terms a representa-
tive in congress from the old Twenty
first Illinois district, is dead.
Hudson D. Brussie of San Francis
co. who was released on $4,000, fol-
lowing his arrest on a charge of en-
bezzlement, is dead of heart failure
Col. John F. Finnerty, we'll known
as an Irish patriot, lecturer and
newspaper man, died at his home in
Chicago of an affection of the liver.
Rev. John D. Pickles, pastor of st.
Paul's church at Lynn, Mass, and
one of the best known Methodist
clergymen in Massachusetts, is dead.
William A. Morgan, once editor of
the Burlington Gazette and former
speaker of the Iowa house Of repre-
sentatives, died at his home in Lake
Forest, III.
William Davis Ely, the Oldest alum
nus of Yale university and member
of the class of 1886, died at his home
in Providence, r. |. Death resulted
from heart failure. Mr. Ely was
ninety-three years old.
George F. Payne of the George F.
Payne company, builders of the new
state capitol at Harrisburg, Pa, and a
defendant in the capitol conspiracy
case, died at his home in Philadelphia
Death was caused by complication of
diseases.
Leonard Vernon Howe, 1909, of Min
neapolis, has been elected captain of
the Yale track team for next year. He
won the 110-meter hurdle race in the
Olympian try-outs last week and was
awarded a place on the American
Olympian team.
The enlightenment is announced at
Hamilton, Bermuda, of Hon. Henry
CoWper Gollan, chief justice of Ber-
muda, to Mary Louise, the only
daughter of James Nelson Morris OF
St. Louis, Mo. The wedding will oc-
cur in London or Paris, probably in
August.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
TAFT FORCES IN CONTROL.
Contests Before Credentials Commit
Go to Secretary.

Contests Before Credentials Commit
Go to Secretary.
Chicago, June 17-At midnight the
committee on credentials was still in
session, with every intention of finish
ing it's work before adjournment. Six
states, involving sixty-two delegates,
had been called up to that time, and in
every instance the decision of the
committee had been in favor of the
Taft factions and sustained the action
taken last week by the national COM
mittee.
The contests heard were those in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky and Mississippi. The bitter
fight in the State of Louisiana was
settled without coming before the Gre
dentials committee. The lilly whites"
and the "black and tans" held an ex-
tended conference late in the day
and agreed to accept the verdict rem
dered by the national committee,
which seated both delegations with a
half vote each.
The Taft members of the committee
early showed that they possessed a
strong working majority.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18

lvered his fervid apotheosis to the
American Judiciary as the great con-
sentative bulwark of the country.
Star Actors in Scene.
The formal proceedings of the con-
vention gave the spectators an oppor-
tunity to see three of the conspicu-
Gus actors on the scene-Sereno E.
Payne, who moved that the rules of the
last convention prevail until new
rules be presented; Senator Long of
Kansas, who presented the customary
resolution for the appointment OF
committees on resolutions, creden-
tials, permanent organization and
rules and order Of business, and Sen
ator Lodge, who cut short the monoto-
nous droning of names of committees
by having the lists turned in to the
secretary without reading. 1t was 2
o'clock when the last formality was
.accomp. ished and the strains of a
stirring national anthem brok" forth
as the convention adjourned.
Committees Get Busy.
Last night the work of the commit
tees was proceeding, while hotel cor
ridors were the scenes of heated dis
cussion over the vice presidency and
platform. The permanent organiza-
ton of the convention has been fully
outlined by the committee in charge
of the work, with Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts as the permanent
chairman. The work of the commit
tee on credentials and on resolutions
has been marked by greater difficulty
and the reports which come from
their deliberations indicate sharp con-
tention before the final details of ere
dentials and platform aye effected.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
|PANAMANS ARE
GREATLY AROUSED
Publication of Taft's Letter Re-
garding Election Frauds
Causes Sensation.
WILL FORCE SQUARE DEAL
American Commissioners Backed by
Force viii Supervise Counting
of Votes.

Panama, June 1.-THE publication
of the letter which the American sec
rotary of war, w. H. Taft, delivered
to President Amador at the time of
his visit to the isthmus, and in which
the intention of the United States
government to intervene in case of
fraud or violence is plainly set forth,
has caused a very considerable SEN
sation here, particularly among the
supporters Of Senior Arias, the secre-
tary of state, one of the candidates
for the presidency, concerning whom
Secretary Taft's letter makes special
reference.
Was Carefully Guarded.
The American secretary's communi-
cation had been carefully guarded by
President Amador since the date of it's
receipt by him, it being stated that
not even all the members Of his cabi-
net were cognizant of its contents,
and the plain statements made in the
letter, now published, have made a
deep impression.
The active participation Of the
United States in the coming elections
is the chief subject of discussion
among the Panamans, as it is an
nounced that American commission
ers, backed by sufficient force, will
be present at the polls to supervise
the counting of the votes, SO that the
legal voters may have an opportunity
to elect a president without danger
from fraudulent methods.
Excitement Prevails.
Representative of the United
States also will keep watch in the
principal cities during the municipal
elections, which take place on Sunday,
June 28. Intense nervous excitement
prevails in official circles at the pres
ent time.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Live SLOCk SSHlCiSs
St Paul, June II. - Wheat - No.
hard, Sill; No. Northern, $1.09;
No 2 Northern, $1.07. Corn-No. 8
yellow, Go 3-4070 3-4c. Oats-No. 8
white, AZ 3-8@47 7-8c.
Minneapolis, June 17.-Wheat-No
/ hard, Sill; No. l Northern, $1.09;
No. 2 Northern, $1.07. Corn-No. 8
yellow, GO 3-407O SAC. Oats-No. 8
white, AZ 3-8047T-8c,
Duluth, June II. - Wheat - No. l
hard, ITO IL; No. 1 Northern,
s1.08 1-2; No. Northern, $1.03 IL
Flax-$124. Oats-50c.
Chicago, June II. - Wheat-No. 2
red, 92@93c; No. Northern, 81; No
8 spring, 95c@s1. Corn-No. 2 vel
low, Go 1000 1-2c. Oats - No. q
So 1-2054c.
Milwaukee, June II. - Wheat-No
/ Northern, s1.10@1.11 IL; No. 2
Northern, s1.O7@1.09. Barley-No. @
Coo.
Chicago, June II. - Cattle-Beeves
S508.20; stockers and feeders, $4,000
$50; COWS and heifers, $250@6.50
Hogs-Ruik, $5.6005.S0. Sheep-Na
tive, $3.4005.5O; lambs, $4.25@6.50.
Sioux City, Iowa, June II. - Cattle
-Beeves, S5.20@G.7O; stockers and
feeders, $3.4O@4.35; calves and year
lings, $2.s5@4.2O. Hogs-Range, $685.
@555.
South st. Paul, June II. - Cattle
Granted steers, $60675; cows and
heifers, $3.5O04.50; veal calves, $3.75
@5: good to choice stock steers
s3.2503.75. Hogs-Bulk, $5.55@5.60
Sheep-Yearlings, $4.7505.25; spring
lambs, $6@6.50.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18

The badness of London milk is not
"a recent growth, says the Pail Mall
Gazette. Sir Ralph Verney used to
have frequent coughs, which he sought
to cure by drinking asses milk. But
in the year 1856, that of Monmouth's
Srebellion, he complains that he can
not drink asses milk at all in town,
'efor the doctors (and particularly DR..
:Jower) tell their patients that it's soc
foul with suit, smoke and dust that it
hath very little Vertue in it." DR.. Den
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
SNATCH TOTS AND !,
WOMEN FROM FIRE :
-
Lives of $50 Children and Help
less Old Women Threatened
by Fire in Home"
MANY MIRACULOUS ESCAPES
Teachers and Attendants Display Rare
HerOism in Rescuing the
Inmates.

Minneapolis, June II. - Scores of
raculous escapes made at fire which
threatened to destroy the Home for
Children and Aged Women yesterday
afternoon. The children had just fin
ished dinner and were filing out OF the
building when fire was discovered by
Miss Elizabeth Taylor, resident teach
er. She turned in an alarm at once
and with the aid of other teachers
and maids hurried to the assistance
of the old ladies, many of whom were
in their rooms. Several of the most
aged women had to be carried from
the building. On the second floor is
located the nursery, and here were
twenty small children, ranging in age
from three months to six years.
Display Rare Heroism.
The teachers displayed rare heroism
in the rescue of the old people and
the children. The fire broke out in the
third floor, which is occupied by the
older boys and the help. A defective
AuC, WHICH 1ShlCOu q SUD" NiNAA' ~
held responsible for the fire. In a
short time the entire floor was blaze
and in spite of the able work of the
department the upper part of the
building was destroyed. The home
sheltered hundred children and
thirty aged women. Had the fire
started at any time when the children
were all in the building there would
have been heavy loss of life, owing to
the helplessness of the inmates, The
loss is estimated at $4,000, most Of
which was caused by fire.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
Brides Older Than Bridegrooms.

The vital statistics prepared by City
Clerk Entwisle of Salem shows that
during 1907 there were 479 marriage
licenses issued and 396 solemnized in
the city, which is eighteen fewer than
the previous year.
The Oldest bridegroom was sixty
eight and the Oldest bride fifty, while
the youngest bridegroom was sixteen
and the youngest bride fifteen. Sew
anty-one brides were older than the
bridegrooms.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
Crimes and Criminals.

Nine persons we're arrested at
Galesburg, H., charged with violating
the local option law. Some of the ac-
cused are of prominence.
Miss Anna Erickson of Tacoma, an
artist who won more than local re-
nown for her work, committed suicide
by hanging herself to her bedpost.
Thirteen persons charged with po-
litical offenses were executed in vari-
GUS cities in Russia, of which five
were in Ufa, four in Lodz and four in
Odessa
Convicted of stealing an old straw
hat and a screwdriver from the sex
ton of a church at Easton, Pa, Ed
ward Whalen was sentenced to serve
ten years in the Eastern penitentiary.
Anthony Colligan, formerly a mem
Der of the police of Evanston, a sub
urb of Chicago, while crazed by drink
shot and killed his wife and then fired
a bullet into his own body, dying a
few hours later
Frank Irvine a defendant in the
capitol conspiracy case now on trial
at Harrisburg, Pa, has been removed
to the state hospital for the insane
The case of the other five defendants
will go to the jury probably Friday.
At Elcenter, Cal, a number of
young men overturned a wagon load
ed with Japanese laborers and a party
OG ctr I'D N+ f1a ,.ns1
road station. Several arrests have
Eeen made. The trouble appears to
be due to the surplus of laborers.
Charles P. Corlett, head of the Cor,
lett Engineering company, killed his
wife and then ended his own life in
a hotel in Willoughby, a Cleveland
suburb. The double tragedy is said
to be the result of jealousy. Mr. and
Mrs. Corlett were we'll known in
Cleveland society.
Two prominent citizens were killed
a woman barely escaped with her life
as the result of the temperance al
Wilburton of R. M. Johnson, a negro
who last September shot and killed
Oliver Swami, deputy city marshal.
w. F. Burns of Jackson county, N
c., while on bridal trip across the
Panther mountain, in Greenville coun
ty, says he was robbed of his pretty
young wife by gang of six men, af
ter he had been bound, beaten ant
robbed. He says he has not seen he
since. The authorities are investi
eating his story.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
Otherwise.

H. J. Mccormick, a we'll known at
torney at Watertown, N Y, has been
arrested on charge of forgery.
J. w. Pilkington committed suicide
at Mobile, Ala, by shooting. Worry
over financial matters, it is said, was
the cause.
After a campaign of extraordinary
bitterness the voters of Sedalia, Mo-,
rolled up a majority of S48 against
local option.
The American Piano company
with an authorized capital of $12,-
100000 has been incorporated at
Trenton, N. ],
District Attorney John B. Moran of
Boston has been informed by his
physicians that he is suffering from
tuberculosis and that he must imme-
diately seek a different climate. He
will do as they order.
The famous French novelist, Paul
Bourget advocates the return to the
old Mosaic law as a punishment for
murder Murderers should pay the
penalty for their crime with their
own lives, according to Bourget.
A posse of farmers and constables
who had searched the woods near
Newton for Edward Schiriman, the
man charged with the shooting of
Ida Potter to death on Main street at
Danbury, Conn. has returned, having
failed to find their man.
R. A. Gromley, thirty-five years old
of Detroit, Mich, committed suicide
in his room at the Auditorium Annex
in Chicago. No cause could be as
signed by the hotel employees for the
act.
A fine of $4,000, the maximum
penalty, was paid in the United
States district court at Portland, Me.
by George F. TORY, the Waterville
mail order house proprietor. The
sentence was imposed recently by
Judge Hale for conspiracy to defraud
the government of postage on second
class matter.
At Jessieville, on the Gogebic iron
range, the fve-year-old son of Her
man Krikko slipped into mine open
ing, but landed in chute. In this he
slid until he had gone down the in
| cline for $50 feet. The child was MOI
injured in the least.
Archbishop Keane will not return
to his diocese until Sept. 1, when he
hopes to have recovered his health
| The metropolitan of the archdiocese
] of Dubuque is to spend the summer
| months on an island in the Atlantic
ocean near Boston, where he will en-
deavor to regain his lost strength.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
From Abroad.

A prize of $4,000 has been offered
by Marmengaude of Paris for the
first aeroplanist who remains in the
air for thirty minutes.
The Victorian cabinet has adopted a
program for the states reception of
the American fleet. The Americans
will have free transportation on all
the railroads during the visit.
Lloyd c. Griscom, American ambas-
sador to Rome, has notified the state
department that .Ae municipality of
San Marino has ratified an extradi-
ton treaty with the United States.
The international miners congress
at Paris adopted resolutions in favor
of the naturalization of mines, but
upon the condition that miners be
secured in their right to preserve
their union organizations.
The Portuguese chamber of depu-
ties adopted the reply to the address
of King Manuel on the opening of the
cortes, and a vote of confidence in
the governments ability to carry out
the program announced IN the King S
address.
The expiration of the ultimatum is
sued by Gen. Snarski, demanding in
demnity for damages suffered by Rus
sian subjects at the hands Of Persian
bandits, finds the Russian foreign Of
fee without definite information as
to the outcome of the negotiations.
The heirs of Antoine Siger, the
mayor of Fort de France, Martinique,
who was assassinated April 20, dur
ing a political encounter, have enter
ed a civil suit for damages in Paris
against the governor of Martinique
This action has been taken at Paris
because the governor cannot be sued
in the colonial courts.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
Sins and Sinners.

The body of Thomas Martin was
found in a lot at Brunswick, N. j. It
is believed he was robbed and MUIR
dered.
Louis M. Koch, well known club
man of Toledo, shot and killed him
self at his home. The motive is not
known.
The Bank of Jalisco, in the city of
Guadalajara, Mexico was swindled
out of S51, 900 by one of the cleverest
swindles. ever worked in that coun-
try.
The dead body of Anna Luchinski,
nine years old, of Standard, Pa, was
found in a box car. Her throat indi-
Gated that she was choked to death
after having been outraged. Charles
Williams, a young negro who found
the dead girl, is being detained.
Word reached the City of Mexico
that bandits attacked a pay train on
the way to the Las GFandes mines,
near Balsas, in the State of Guerrero.
Of the escort of four men three were
killed and one wounded. Four thou
sand dollars were stolen. Rurales
are in pursuit of the highwaymen.
After lying in wait for nearly nine
hours, Sarah Konet, young Russian
trained nurse, shot and killed DR..
William Auspitz, a physician, in the
vestibule of an apartment house in
New York. The woman declared she
had shot the physician because he
had wronged her.
Twenty years in prison were melted
out to Patrick Mullen at Fernie, con-
victed at Winnipeg on charge of
manslaughter. Mullen was arrested
at Great Falls, Mont, about month
ago. He got into a scuff1e at dance
with Angelo Orlando, and during the
fracas Orlando was killed. Mullen
fed to the States, but was traced by
the police and brought back.
In a fight between fifteen Checotah
persons and citizens of Eufaula, Okla,
on the streets of Eufaula, F. M.
Woods, deputy constable of Eufaula,
and Joseph Parmenter of Chekota
were shot. Woods probably will die.
Parmenter's wound is not dangerous.
The trouble started when Woods at
tempted to disarm Parmenter About
fifteen shots were fired in all.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18

st. Louis, Mo, June 17.-William
T. Eiwen, who claims to be a gradu-
ate of the University of Vienna and
the son of millionaire, went into the
police station yesterday and asked to
be sent to the workhouse SO he could
get something to eat. Eiwen had just
stood in a long line Of applicants for
O. lob as dishwasher in a restaurant
and had failed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
MlNNEsoTAN OUT OF JAIL.

Arrested on Robbery Charge Because
He Looks Like Man Wanted.
San Francisco, June 17.-George E.
Farewell of Lauderdale, Mimi, and
Lena Winchell, who came here with
him from the East, have been liber-
ated by the police after being held for
several days, suspected of completely
in diamond robberies in Memphis.
The holding of Farewell was due to
mistaken identity, he being taken for
a man named Bernstein, an acquaint-
ance of Lena Winchell, and for whom
a reward was offered by the National
Jewelers. association.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-18
FIRST CHAIRMAN is DEAD.

Leader of Original Republican Mass
Meeting Dies in Michigan.
Jackson, Mich, June II. - Eugene
Pringle, the Oldest member and presi-
dent of the Jackson county bar and
for more than half a century promi-
nent in Michigan politics, died at his
home in this city last night of apo
plexy.
Mr.. Pringle was the man who con-
Quoted the mass meeting at which
the Republican party was formed in
the west part of this city under the
oak" in 1854 Twenty years after
ward he deserted that party and be-
came a Democrat,