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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

No. 0O.-Eight room house,
centrally located, city water,
sewer, electric lights, bath,
furnace. Price $1,000, half
cash.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

worthy of the name would be run;
and in such a campaign, so-called,
no recruits would be won and our
own people would be discouraged.
One of these two policies will be
adopted by the next Republican State
Convention. If the first policy is
adopted, I will give as much of my
time and effort to help elect the
ticket and deliver the electoral vote
for Taft as any one else in the State,
and victory will then be within our
grasp. Shall we seize the opportun-
ity or shall we throw it away?
Yours very sincerely,
MARION BUTLER.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
Balloon Explodes, Killing Two and
Wounding Others.

London, August 1.-THE huge
balloon with which Capt. Thomas T.
Lovelace, the New York aeronaut,
once connected with the signal corps
of the United States army, has been
giving exhibitions at the France
British exposition, exploded while
being inflated here today and killed
two spectators, frightfully burned a
dozen others and caused the injury
of scores in a fearful panic.
Captain Lovelace himself was dan
gerously hurt.
Miss Hill, eighteen years old, Sec
retary to Captain Lovelace, was one
of the persons killed. She was burn
ed to crisp.
The shock of the explosion was
terrific. The exposition grounds
were shaken as if there had been a
small earthquake, windows in many
of the beautiful exposition grounds
were shattered.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
UNCLE SAM PURCHASES AIRsHIP
Will be Used by the Signal Corps Of
the United States Army-The
Ship Breaks All Records of Aerial
Navigation in This Country.

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 15.-The
Baldwin airship landed at Fort Myer
tonight after making a fight which
broke all records for aerial naviga-
ton in this country. For two hours
and five minutes the big military d.
rigible, built for the United States
Army, flew back and forth over a
course nearly five miles In length In
the official endurance trial.
The airship is now the property OF
the signal corps of the United States
Army, a few formalities only remain
ing to be gone through with before
Captain Baldwin turns his aerial
craft over to General Allen, chief
signal officer. The members of the
board of signal officers, who have
conducted the tests. were elated over
to-day's showing. The airship has
withstood every test required of 1t by
the terms of the contract between
the Government and Captain Thomas
S. Baldwin.
The rate attained I'm the speed
trial yesterday was surpassed on the
third trip over the course to-day
when an average of nearly twenty
one miles an hour was attained. On
the outward half of this trip the ship
sailed across the sky at a rate OF
nearly forty-five miles an hour. This
probably was due to the aeronaut's
striking swift current Of air. The
total distance covered In to-day's
trial was between twenty-eight and
thirty miles.
In to-day's test ii was required
that Captain Baldwin remain In con-
tinuous fight for two hours, at an
average speed equaling 20 per cen,
Of that attained in the speed trial
yesterday, 1916 miles an hour. This
would be 1894 miles an hour. 1t IL
estimated that the average maintain.
ed in to-day's flight was about seven.
teen miles an hour.
Another condition imposed wal
that sufficient fuel be carried to rur
the motor for two hours, and that
excessive heating of the engine
should not occur. Both OF these con
ditions were easily fulfilled, there be
ing two gallons Of gasoline of ths
five taken on the trip.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
High Point Negro i'm Jail Charged
With Serious Crime.

High Point, N. c., August Is
Jim Pool, a plumber, charged with
assault on the person of Mrs. VIII
Smith mill operative, was. tried
before Magistrate w. e. Johns, Sr.,
last night and sent to Jail without
bond to await court, which convenes
in Greensboro September 81.
The woman says the assault was
committed yesterday afternoon while
her husband was away. and that she
struggled to prevent the foul deed.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

A great many of the Democratic
papers of the South are amazed that
the contributions to the Democratic
national campaign fund should come
in so slowly. When it was announc-
ed that the farmers all over the
country would be permitted to con-
tribute $1.O0, the leaders doubtless
thought that the farmers would fall
over each other trying to see which
could be the first to contribute to
the cause-but they haven't, and
there's a reason.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
Democratic Deputy Sheriff in Jail for
Drunkenness and Assault,

Wilmington, N. c., Aug. ia.
G. James, who says that he is dep
uty sheriff and his home at Penn
broke, is in the city prison here
awaiting hearing before the mayor
tomorrow on the charge of assault
with a deadly weapon upon Dennis
Murphy, colored. on whom he is al
legged to have drawn a pistol. The
prisoner came here this morning ON
the colored excursion run from Ham
let and Immediately became intoxi-
Gated.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

If North Carolina can not be car
ried Republican this year, then it
can never be carried. All that is
needed is a good ticket and ordinary
horse sense and honest management
from State headquarters. The eau
casian will do it's part. Send a club
of five subscribers and We will send
them the paper from now until the
election for only one dollar-twenty
cents apiece.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
TAFT POPULAR
IN THE SOUTH
Or. Ray a Well.Known Divine
Says Mr.. Taft Will Poll
Heavy Vote Hereabouts.
DUTIES CARRY HIM
ALL THROUGH SOUTH
DIR. Gray, a Democrat, is Recording
Secretary Of the Home Mission
Board of Southern Baptist Church,
and Has Felt Southern Pulse.

and Has Felt Southern Pulse.
Baltimore, Md, Aug. 15.-Pre-
dieting that William II. Taft will
receive the largest vote in the South
ever polled by a Republican candi-
date for President, the Rev. DIR. d.
b. Gray, OF Atlanta, Ga, correspond
ing secretary of the Southern Baptist
Church, arrived in Baltimore recent
ly after an extended trip through
many of the Southern States. DR..
Gray registered at the Rennert, and
will remain in the city for several
days.
Politically, the Southern divine is
a Democrat, but he is one of those
Democrats who do not believe that
Mr.. Bryan has any chance of success
at the polls in November. Sitting in
his room at the Rennert DIR. Gray did
not hesitate to say to reporters that
Taft would win an easy victory and
that more votes would be cast for
him by the people south of Mason
and Dixon's line than have ever gone
to the support of Republican candi-
date in the South since the party
was organized.
The Republican candidate, DR..
Gray went on to explain, was consid-
cred a far safer man than Mr.. Bryan.
He stated that the conservative ele-
ment much preferred to trust the
large business affairs of the country
to the sound judgment of Mr.. Taft.
He declared that the big men, that
is, the men who are behind the large
industries of the Southland, will not
support the nominee of the Demo-
cratic party, and that it is among
this large class of men who are
creating the wealth of the South that
Mr.. Taft will be found particularly
strong.
SOuherners Like Taft.
q have always been a Democrat"
asserted DR.. Gray, "but l must say
that l do not believe Bryan has any
chance whatsoever of being elected.
Everywhere Judge Taft is looked
upon as big man, equipped in every
way to govern he affairs of this coun-
try in a safe and sane way. In the
South he is especially well liked, and
you may say for me that he will poll
surprisingly large vote. My duties
carry me all through the South, and
1 know pretty well the feelings and
tendencies of the people. Among the
men behind the large industries,
which are doing so much to de-
velop the resources of the Southland,
Judge Taft has surprising strength,
and his vote down our way will be
large, exceedingly large"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
Carried Minnie Ball in Thigh Forty.
four Years.

Wilson, N. c., August 15.-Our
townsman, Mr.. J. A. Privett, who
was shot in the thigh during the
Civil War, near the old shot tower
near Petersburg, Va, yesterday had
minnie ball removed that he has
carried for forty-three years, eleven
months and twenty-three days.
He was a member of Company K.
from Franklin County, this State
Ransom's Brigade.
The ball weighs. half an ounce
His son, Mr.. j. J. Privett, who is a
jeweler, will mount this old wal
relic and present it. to his father
for a watch charm.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

If the Democratic National Com
mittee would offer to give green
trading stamps to every contributor
to the campaign fund 1t might help
some.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
Another Earthquake i'm California.

Eureka, Cal, Aug. 1S.-Three
knocked down more than a hundred
chimneys, shattered about forty
plate-glass windows In the business
portion of Eureka. broke much
eroekery in the houses and sent
many people scurrying from their
beds into the streets occurred here
early to-day.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
Death of Judge Fred Moore.

Asheville, n. c.. August IL
Judge Fred E. Moore, of the Supe-
rior Court bench, died here this
evening shortly after eight o'clock
from typhoid fever. Judge Moore
came to Asheville ten days ago from
Barkersville, a very sick man. An
operation was performed late this
afternoon in the hope of saving his
life, but without effect.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

A dispatch announces that the
wireless telephone is now a reality.
If some one would now invent a plan
for wireless politics he would be the
greatest benefactor of the age.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

The first of the fall elections this
year will be held in Vermont. The
election for Congressman, Governor,
and other State officers will take
place on the first day of September,
and the politicians in both parties
will look forward to the result with
a great deal of interest, as the pro-
portion of the Republican majority
will be taken as something OF an
index to the sentiment throughout
the country.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
Homicide Near Roper Sunday.

Roper, n. c., Aug. 17.-As a re-
suit of an all-day free fight yester-
day at WoodIey's Store and vicinity
in Skinnersville Township, Buck
Whit, farmer and a man Of family,
fifty years old, is dead. and John
Ha1sey, his slayer, Is In jail. Wood
ley, the keeper OF the store. and
George Gray, a farmer, are badly
bruised and will be arrested.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

the Democratic party is a white
mans party. You may be right, but
the evidence is against you. If the
Democratic party wins this year it
will only by aid of the negro vote in
the North.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

Mr.. Josephus Daniel has gone to
Lincoln to tell the Bryan forces how
to conduct the campaign, and Incl
dentally to get that 5000 back which
to the national campaign fund.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

There are only forty-five Demo-
cratic candidates for Office in Union
County. The Democratic politicians
are very willing to serve their county
when there is good pay attached to
the job.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

Those who haven't a choice for
President are very fastidious. There
are six candidates in the f1eld-and
one in the penitentiary.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

Some one has asked as to the
whereabouts Of the old Simmons
machine. The last we heard about
the thing it was laying out in the
back yard of a second hand junk
shop.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
CONCORD HAS HALF-MILLION
DOLLAR FIRE.

Mill No. 4 of Odell Manufacturing
Company Entirely Destroyed.
Concord, N. c., Aug. 15.-Mill No.
4, the largest of the group of five
owned by the Odell Manufacturing
Company here, was destroyed by fire
tonight, entailing loss of half a
million dollars.
The fire originated in the basement
through a hot-box and the flames
were communicated to the floors
above the betting.
: The burned mill contained $4,000
spindles and 1900 looms.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

After voting some of their men
two or three times Saturday, then
the Democrats in Wake County fail
ed to poll more than half their vote.
1t is easy to predict how the others
will vote this fall.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

Dispatches state that visitors at
the Bryan home, near Lincoln, Mon
day saw snakes run across the yard.
We thought Lincoln was a dry"
town.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

If you want to help along the
cause for which we are fighting, get
up a club of five campaign subscrib-
ers at twenty cents each and send us
at once, and We will send them The
Caucasian from now until November
18th.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20


Ei.hiaz Trip and WI Tts~a Go 10
CaacinnAti for R~saainarv OF C&zn-
naign.
Hos Springs. Va. Aag. is.-~-Ar-
rAnEements are Nearing compi~sIoa
for the one political @vens in whieA
Mr.. Taft IL TO participate eefors i~as-
lng here. the rally Of Virginia Re-
rublieAns next Friday. JoAn A.
Soon@n and II. T. VOORHEES,. st
ssaunton. Va. In charge OF the AZ
rangemeass. have Informed Mr.. Tafs
that the railroad excursion. alone
wili bring 5000 virgtRlans To the
mountains 10 hear Mr.. Taft speak.
The famous stonewan brigade
band. organized In 1857. wtii come
from Staanton. Two of the charter
members. Charles 4. Haines and
Robert A. Hamilton. are s,ill with
the band. aud viii be here Friday.
The speech of Mr.. Taft viii be the
feature OF the program. lie viii be
introduced by Col. s. Brown Alien.
and a short speech may be made by
Representative Slemp.
Candidate Taft and party will
leave Virginia Hot Springs Friday.
August 2sth. for a weeks nshing in
Lake Erie. at the end of which he
will go TO Cincinnati September 5th
or 9Th TO remain until election day
Mr.. and Mrs. Taft will be guests of
the Middle Bass Club. the headquar-
ters of which are on middle Bass
Island. a short distance out In Lake
Erie from Putin Bay. The club
claims distinction for having had as
members Presidents Hayes. Garfield.
and Mckinley, and being the host
on a number of occasions of Presi-
dent Cleveland. Mr.. Taft Is fond of
fishing, and has been induced 60
believe that the change for a week
from the mountains to the lake will
put Just the proper edge on his con
dition of fitness for the front porch
work he Is TO do In his native city.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

Buncombe County has built a new
Jail and a new scaffold for hangings,
as may in the future occur in that
city, and has advertised the old scat
fold for SALE This is a fine chance
for some of the political Judases in
this State to spend their thirty pieces
of silver to good advantage.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

The Caucasian in clubs OF five
only twenty cents each.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

The Democratic National Commit
tee are Offering premiums to every
contributor to the campaign fund.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

Mr. Bryan must be worth a great
deal financially, IL he can guarantee
bank deposits.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20
BRIEFS
We are witnessing again this year
the battle of brandy-wine.

Probably Mr.. Craig thought little
judgeship was not worthy of con-
sideratiOn.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

President Of the NAtioaaa Associaflon
Of Manufacturers Goes for the
Peerless One--Decl&res BryAn's
Platform In False-Charnctrrsxe
the Guarantee Fund Banking
Plank a. Vicious.
st. Louis, August ls.-James w.
Van Cleave. President OF the Nation
al Association Of Manufacturers to-
day Issued an answer TO n recent
reply by William j. Bryan To an ar
ttcle By Mr.. Van Cleaye, a few weeks
ago which pointed out certain es-
pecial reasons why, according to
Mr.. VanCleave. business men should
vote against Mr.. Bryan. Speaking
today also. he says for business men,
Mr.. Van Cleave says that the injune-
ton. tariff and banking planks of
the Denver platform assail the in
terests OF every man In the country
who is engaged In any sort of trade.
The falsity of the insinuation In
the Denver platform that labor
unions are outlawed." Mr.. Van
Cleaxe says, lis shown by the fact
that their members continue In their
regular employments on every work
Ing day In the year in every town In
the United States. Every member of
the Lincoln Typographical Union, at
whose banquet he was a guest on
the evening before his formal notifi-
cation OF nomination could have told
Mr.. Bryan that there was not a ves-
tige of truth in the pretense that
any act of Congress or any ruling of
any Federal Court ever forbade any
labor union to organize. to ask such
wages from employers as the union
saw fit to ask, or to make any terms
to employers which would be agree
able to both parties"
His Platform False.
He then asks: Does not Mr.. Bryan
as lawyer and public man, know
that his platform is false?"
He tells Mr.. Bryan that the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
like the courts, has always recogniz-
ed the rights of the unions to get any
terms from employers which in ami
cable agreement, could be gained,
but that the association always op-
posed the intimidation and violence
which he says, have sometimes been
practiced by some of the unions.
Does he personally favor the le-
galization of the boycott" Mr.. Van
Cleave asks, and he adds that the
plain direct answer from Mr. Bryan
on this point and in getting it just
as quickly as he can give 1t.
A Vicious Proposition.
Speaking of the guarantee fund
the payment of depositors of insol-
vent national or State banks, Mr..
Van Cleave asks: docs not Mr..
Bryan know that this vicious pro-
vision would penalize the honest and
careful banker for the benefit of
reckless? Can he not see that this
scheme would remove all the safe
guards which our present laws have
raised up against such plungers and
grafters as have worked their way
into the control of many of our
banks, that it would Immediately and
immensely increase the number of
such bankers and that it would pre-
cipitate an era Of extravaganza, wild
speculation and corruption which
would wreck our whole financial sys-
tenn? Is not Mr.. Bryan aware that
his wildcat banking scheme of 1908
would bring chaos and ruin to the
country even quicker and in larger
measure than his silver debasement
of the currency of 1896 and 1900
would have brought it?"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-08-21
SPECIAL OFFICER
BARNHILL STABBED
Waugh's Assistant Wounded en-
Train West Of This City May
Prove Serious.

Tulsa Okla, Aug 20.---Speoial Enforce
ment Ofieer Barnhi1 Of Sapulpa, one ef
B. J. Nsueh's assistants, was stabbed and
il is believed seriously injured on a Frisco
passenger train between Vinita and this
city, eany last evening. Barnhill was
placed in charge Of physician and taken
TO Sapulpa. while his assailant. whose
name could net be learned, was arrested
By the train crew and handed over TO the
officers Of Chelsea.
Barnhill was en- route 10 his home when
the stabbine occurred. The assailant
boarded the train at vinita and il is said
picked quarrel with the official Words
we're followed with blows. when the un-
known whipped out a knife and attempted
to drive II through BarnhiIL The latter
lodged and the knife sank into his thigh,
inaictine a serious wound. The combat
ants we're separated and when the train
stopped st Chelsea the assailant was
handed over 10 the police Bagnhili's
wounds were dressed and he was taken 10
his home in Sapulpa
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-08-21

construction of sanitary sewer in the
south part Of the city.
An ordinance 10 pave eleven or twelve
blocks on Foreman, Seraper and Wilson
streets was passed This ordinance pro-
videS for the same sort of pavement as
that on Canadian avenue Of granitod
curb and macadam roadway. On the sug-
eestion Of Paul f. Mackey the driveway
on Foreman street was reduced from
forty feet 10 thirty feet giving a park way
of twenty five feet on each side
An ordinance providing for paving Vann
street from Illinois avenue TO Canadian
avenue was also passed, This block Of
pavement will ereateiy add to the CON
venience Of freight haulers as all OF the
freight from the Katy has got to pass over
that street.
Sidewalk ordinances for various sections
of the city were passed.
A resolution PASSED dividing the city
printing between the Leader and the
Cheftain.
The matter Of the removal OF the wire
fence around South park was discussed
and a maiorty favored leaving the fence
in place fm the present.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-08-21
BRYAN TALKS ABOUT
REPUBLICAN FAILURE.

Lincel4, Neb., Aug 9.-,lDiseussing she
subject Of the guaranty of bank deposits
yesterday. Williem j. Bryan accused the
Republican leaders Of congress with having
enacted into law currency bin in the
interest Of the stock market and yet
although they had 'Gmple opportunity 20
do SO, they failed to authorize the national
banks Of Oklahoma te take advantage Of
the state law relating 20 the guaranty Of
bank deposits Il was with IA little salts
faction chat Bryan noted 10 the m0rnng
dispatches the fact that the Enid Okla
homa, National bank had surrendered It's
charter and had come within the pro
visions af the state guaranty deposit law
Il do not doubt that other national
banks will surrender their charters. said
Bryan. sFiftv-four national banks in
Oklahoma took advantage Of the euaranty
system and they have found Il very profit
able for they have increased their deposits
while unsecured national banks have lost
in deposits.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-08-21
HOW THE CHIEFTAIN
IS REGARDED ABROAD

The resunected Vinita Chieftain under
the magnificent editorial policy Of Dave
Mars is like voice from the past And
II is better voice than we were wont to
hear in journalistic circles these days,
too Mars never wore the collar Of any
man. He is democrat, but he is no
machinist or corruptionist just now.
though again in the harness hardly long
enough to be bridle-wise, he is making
suggestions to the political machine that
Il would do we'll 20 heed He recognizes
that the affairs Of this state are being
outrageously manhauled by set Of po-
litical pirates, and, while he does not use
that language, his meaning is clear The
world predicts that the ereviviiied Chieftain
will speedily make itself felt in the polid-
cal affairs Of 0klahoma.-Tulsa World.