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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
CIVIL WAR BREAKS
OUT IN VENEZUELA
Adherents of Castro Resist Off
Gals of New Regime-Gov=
ernment Loses Fight.
TWENTY KILLED; FIFTY HURT
Friends of Gomez Volunteer to Help
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Will
Be Resumed.

Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec 30. -
There has been fighting at Macuro, on
the Venezuelan coast, between adher-
ents of Former President Castro and
the crew of a gunboat working in the
interests of the new president, Juan
Vicente Gomez About twenty men
We're killed and some fifty wounded.
The Gomez party was obliged to with
draw temporarily, but later returned
to resume the engagement.
This news was brought in here by
the Miranda, the gunboat in question.
Gomez Adherents Beaten.
The Miranda left La Guaira for Ma
euro with men on board, who were to
take the places of the officials there
who had been serving under Castro.
The Miranda arrived off Macuro yes
terday morning. Gen. Torres mean
while had gotten together about 500
men and was prepared to resist a
landing. The Miranda cleared and
went into action. Under cover of her
battery the men on board tried I'M
successfully to effect landing. The
fighting lasted about four hours.
When the captain of the Miranda
saw the situation was impossible he
withdrew and came to Port of Spain,
arriving late yesterday afternoon. A
dispatch was at once sent to Presi-
dent Gomez via Curacao, informing
him of the situation. The Miranda
then took on coal.
Men C!amor of Fight.
AS soon as this news became known
in Port Of Spain a large contingent of
the Venezuelan colony volunteered to
help the government and the Office of
the Venezuelan consul was besieged
by men anxious to return to Macuro.
A number of the volunteers were &C
cepted and went On board the gun
boat, which at once started back for
Macuro, where the engagement will
be continued.
Buchanan Reports.
Washington, Dec. 80. - Dispatches
from w. |. Buchanan, the special COM
missioner to Venezuela, received at
the state department yesterday, indi-
cate that he has taken steps to get in
direct communication with the Off
Gals of that government with the
view to taking up the work with
which he is intrusted. He is expected
to discuss freely with the new govern
ment established there various mat
tiers of Importance between the two
countries and on the character of his
report the future attitude of the state
department in dealing with Venezuela
will be based.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
TWELVE ARE KILLED IN mime
Explosion in West Virginia Coal Mine
Snuffs Out Lives of Many
Miners.

Bluefeld, w. Va, Dec. 30.-Twelve
eral more were entombed as the
result of an explosion which oc-
Cured in the Lick branch colliery,
owned by the Pocahontas CONSOLIDATE
ed Coal company, yesterday afternoon
about o'clock. 1t is not known ex-
actly how many men were in the
mine at the time. The men leave the
mine after what is known as the
run and many of the fifty-two at
work yesterday were not in the mine
when the explosion occurred.
At II o'clock last night eighteen Of
the entombed men had been taken out
of the colliery alive. They had been
stifed by the smoke and were not in
jured seriously enough to make their
removal to a hospital necessary.
Wild With Excitement.
State mine inspectors have, taken
charge of the work of exploring the
mine The management of this prop
erty, it is claimed, had provided every
device known to mining experience
and science to insure safety, and it is
though that the trouble, originated in
an abandoned but connected working
in the western division of the mine
The little town Of Switchback, in
which all of the miners who work in
the colliery live, was wild with ex-
element when the news spread that
an explosion had taken place, and
from all of the nelghboring coilieries
men hurried to the scene to aid in the
work of rescue.
A special train bearing the officials
of the company was sent from Poca-
hontas to the scene.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
Eoretun.

A slight earthquake was felt at
Coutances, France. No damage ex-
cept the breaking of crockery was
done.
King Edward last week put an end
to the present session of the British
parliament. Only a few members at
tended the brief propagation ceremo-
MES.
At a meeting held at Cettinje, Mon
tenegro, nearly all the influential Mon
tenegrin merchants adopted resolu-
ton to institute a boycott against Aus
tro-Hungarian products.
Both houses of the Japanese diet
were formally opened last week. SUI
mitka Basiba, a prominent leader of
the Constitutional party, was elected
speaker Of the lower house.
Eleven deaths have occurred and
thirteen men are seriously i'll at Keith
ley camp, Minanao island, Philippines,
as result of the men of the Eight
zenith infantry drinking columbia acid,
a vegetable compound extracted from
the columbia root.
Certain chiefs of the native tribes
in German Samoa are threatening
trouble They are preparing to hoist
an independent Samoan flag when the
parliament of the islands reassembles
and contemplate appealing to the
United States and Great Britain to de-
eide whether this action is justified.
King Otto of Bavaria lies in a pad
ded room in the palace, bound in a
strait jacket and raving in the widest
form of violent insanity. The passive
idiocy, which for SO many years has
made the monarch the most pitiable
figure in modern history, developed
into a destructive mania. 1t is thought
that the death of the monarch is near
at hand.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
Sins and Sinners.

John Zet. who killed his wife anc
f1ve-year-old granddaughter, Viola
Klotzer, at their home i'll Rockville on
Aug. 4 last. was hanged at the state
prison at Wethersfeld. Conn.
A man suspected of being one OF
the three robbers who held up the
Oregon Railway & Navigation west,
bound passenger train a few miles
from Portland, Or, was arrested by q
deputy sheriff and detective.
A bomb, believed to have been
thrown from an elevated train, wreck.
ed the front Of a restaurant in New
York, stunning but not seriously in
juring Mrs. Henry Hart and causing
a panic among the six families occu.
plying the building. The cause Of the
bomb throwing can only be conhc.
tured.
The petition of Mrs. Cordelia Bod.
the murder of James P. Jennings by
sending poisoned candy through the
mails, for a rehearing of her previous
petition for appeal, was denied by the
supreme court of California.
After W. B. Kimball, merchant OF
Tama, Iowa, cashed a check for a
young man he supposed was Walter
Ayers of Marshalltown. he discovered
that the check had been raised from
81 cents to $27. The sheriffs of Mar
shall and Tama counties are looking
for the stranger.
To save his brother, who, in his of
fetal position of county assessor, was
attempting to collect disputed over
assessment of IS cents, Edward Sex
ton of Muskogee, Okla, killed James
Smith, farmer, with a blacksmith S
hammer.
Philip Greenbaum, one of the clev-
crest diamond "switchers" in Ameri-
ca, who came from Chicago and
was caught in the act of stealing dia-
monds in a Winnipeg store, replacing
them with phony diamonds, was SEN
fenced to eight years in the peniten-
tiary.
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Otherwise,

The remarkably mild winter wealth
er enabled many farmers in Southern
Alberta to do considerable blowing
last week.
President w H. Newman of the
New York Central lines rendered his
resignation at a meeting of the board
of directors.
Thomas Ryan, representing Nebras-
ka capitalists, purchased 4S0 acres of
coal land in the Bear Creek district,
near Red Lodge, Mont, for $4,000.
The Council of Jewish Women has
issued an appeal to newspapers for
the elimination of indecent details in
the published evidence of murder and
divorce trials.
Much cheaper rates for cablegrams
across the Atlantic are near at hand,
according to the assertion of Rodolpb
Lemieux, the postmaster general in
the Canadian cabinet.
Korgo Takahira, Japanese ambas-
sador to the United States, in an adj
dress before the Lotus club in New
York, discredited all rumors of I'M
friendly feeling between America
and the Flowery Kingdom. Inciden-
tally he hung few flowers upon the
character of the Japanese diplomatic
policy, declaring that it was not
founded upon craft, but honesty and
straigbtforwardnesS.
The entire milling industry of Ne
braska will oppose the recent order of
the secretary Of agriculture prohibit
ing the transportation and sale of
bleached -four in interstate commerce
The millers believe it will be a death
blow to the industry in that state.
Harry K. Thaw lost his second cam
paign for freedom from the insane
asylum at Matteawan, N. Y, when the
circuit court handed down a decision
that the slayer of Stanford White
cannot be taken to Pittsburg to tes-
tify in the bankruptcy proceedings
pending there against him.
The trial of the sensational Wins
low will case at Newton, Iowa, result
ed in a preliminary victory for the
plaintiff children, the jury setting
aside the will after being out three
hours. The sum of 100000 is involved.
The three cruisers Salem, Chester
and Birmingham, which are being put
through various tests to determine
the relative efficiency of the turbine
and reciprocating types of engines,
will be given some long sea runs
about the first of next February. The
runs will be for the purpose of test
ing coal endurance.
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powerful in Italy and is evidently not
working.
Excites Superstition.
The catastrophe has excited the
superstitions of the entire populace,
who are running about the country
calling upon all the saints and i'm
ploring the mercy of heaven. Their
superstition has been increased by
the rumor that in the general destruc-
ton of Messina the statue of st. Rose
remained uninjured.
The work of rescue at Messina, ac-
cording to the meager details received
here, presented narrowing scenes.
Hundreds of people were pinned un-
der walls and rafters alive but terri
bly, injured for thirty hours.
Rescuers Meet Death.
In some cases heroic rescuers met
death in the falling debris. Six Grim
inals were killed while attempting to
loot the Bank of Sicily, where cash
amounting to half million dollars lay
in plain view.
Refugees from Reggie who reached
Catanzaro yesterday afternoon said
they could see huge columns of smoke
rising from the ruins of Messina
They affirmed that Reggie, Cannitello
and Lazzaro were destroyed. A tidal
wave demolished the railroad between
Lazzaro and Reggie, and small army
of men are working desperately to re-
establish communication with the lat
ter place, for which train with
troops and telegraphers has started.
American Consul Killed.
Washington, Dec. &c. - That Ar
thur S. Cheney, American consul at
Messina, Sicily and his wife lost their
lives in the earthquake disaster which
devastated that city Monday is indi
Gated by an official dispatch received
last night by the state department
from Stuart Lupton, American vice
consul at Messina.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
SUGAR KING PASSES AWAY.
Claus SpreckeIs Passes Away at San
Francisco.

Claus spreckeIs Passes Away at San
Francisco.
San Francisco, Dec. %. - Claus
Spreckels, widely known as the 'sug-
ar king" of the Pacific coast. died Sat
urday at his home in this city in his
eightieth year. The immediate cause
of death was an attack Of pneumonia,
which developed with alarming symp~
toms during the last few days.
His condition Friady night warned
his physicians that his end was near
and relatives remained at his bedside
until the hour of his death.
Despite his advanced age, Mr..
Spreckels had devoted a large share
of time to the various enterprises in
which he was interested, and it Is not.
more than month since he appeared
before the ways and means commit
tee of the house in Washington as an
authority on the subject of sugar du-
ties. Two years ago he was attacked
by a severe illness, but his vigorous
constitution enabled him to Withstand
his sickness and he was, after time
restored to his usual health.
Apart from the Importance which
attached to Claus Spreckels as the
pioneer sugar refner Of the Pacific
coast and as investor of millions in
California and the Hawaiian islands,
the Spreckels family has for many
years been one of the most prominent
In the state.
The value Of the estate is variously
estimated at from $4O,O00,O0O to $780,
100000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
RIVALS
BLOODY sunday
Five Prisoners Believed to Be
Sole Survivors of the Rus
sian Raid.
BATTLE RACES TWENTY HOURS
Artillery Brought Into Play After Police
and Infantry Had Twice Been
Driven Back.

Moscow, Dec. 20. - Officers of the
Moscow garrison and the crown po-
lice are planning punishment for the
revolutionaries who Saturday for
hours repulsed the joint attack of po-
lice and cavalry upon a suburban
town with terrible carnage. The as
sault upon the terrorists' stronghold
in the midst of the plotters' meeting
marks the bloodiest combat between
revolutionaries and the military arm
of the czar since the historic bloody
Sunday"
During the twenty hours OF fighting
Baron Cote, chief of the cars secret
police, and Col. Muraki of the Cos
sack cavalry and an unknown number
of their host were killed, while many
of the terrorists were bayoneted and
dubbed to death.
Five wounded revolutionists were
taken prisoners. Upon these prison
ers will fall the weight Of the govern
ment's wrath unless the secret serv-
ice is successful in running down es-
capped participants, and this is not
considered likely.
Terrorists Open Fire.
A meeting of the leaders of the rev.
olutionists was considered the oppor-
tune moment for dealing telling
blow against the circulation of sedi-
tious propaganda. AS the police ap-
preached the villa, the barricaded ter
rorists opened fire, moving down the
uniformed attackers.
The unexpected resistance discon-
certed the police who withdrew to
await the arrival of military reinforce
ments. For twenty hours the firing
continued and the combined forces OF
the besiegers was compelled to retire
once more. The third advance was
made behind requisitiOned artillery,
which destroyed the building.
The lack of information leads to the
belief that the sole survivors Of the
massacre in the ruined charnel house
are five manacled prisoners in the
dungeon at Kremlin awaiting the yer
dict of a court-martial.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
Australia's First Theater.

The first recorded production of
play in Australia took place in June
of the year 1889. 1t was called "The
Recruiting officer" The proceeds of
the first pay night (some &20) went
to the family Of man who had been
drowned. In January, 1896, rough
and ready playhouse was opened and
the public had to pay one shilling
head for admission. The payments
were made in kind, wheat, -four or
rum taking the place of the usual
currency.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
NEWS OF THE Wftk IN tPITOME
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Personal.

Wilbur F. Stevenson, a chief car
penter in the navy, died in the naval
hospital at Canacao, Cavite, Philip
pines.
Harry F. Wolcott, veteran news
paper man of Chicago and Detroit,
died at the county hospital in Chicago
of pneumonia and Bright's disease.
Charles A. Sherman, builder of the
Boone county, Iowa, railroad, former
banker and oil magnate of Casper,
Wyo., dropped dead at Boone, Iowa, OF
heart disease.
Thomas G.. Connolly, general agent
for the Gould lines in Los Angeles
and one of the best konwn railroad
men on the coast, is dead as the result
of a stroke of paralysis.
Mai. Joseph w. Wahm, United
States army, retired, for many years
paymaster of the army, dropped dead
on the street in Washington, follow
ing a severe cerebral hemorrhage.
H. A. Gudger of North Carolina will
be appointed by President Roosevelt
to be chief justice Of the supreme
court of the Panama canal zone, to
succeed DR.. F. Nuts Duran, whose
term expires on Jan. l.
William B. McNutt, who was the
first fire chief at st. Joseph, Mo-, died
at the age of seventy-one years. In
the early days McNutt was at the
head of the volunteer firemen. He is
credited with having saved many
lives during his term of service.
Francis Philip Fleming, governor
of Florida from 1889 to 1898, died at
his home in Jacksonville. He was a
native Floridan and served in the
Confederate army through the Civil
war with distinction. After the war
he was admitted to the bar and soon
become one of Florida's ablest law
yers and politicians.
Another victim of the anarchist
Newmarket riots in Chicago in 1886
has just died. He was Policeman
Louis Johnson, sixty-four years old.
He was shot in the leg while trying to
disperse the mob, and after the riot
ing was over he was picked up in the
street and carried home by fellow po-
licemen. His widow declares that
since that time he never was we'll.
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Casualties.

In a fire which caused a panic
among a hundred occupants of lodg-
ing house at Chicago, Paul Heiligen-
dorf, seventy years old, was suffocat-
ed.
A terrific explosion in the plant of
the Senior Powder company, one mile
north of Morrow, Ohio, instantly kill
ed two men. The glazing mill was
wrecked.
James Carron, eighteen years old.
was killed in a boxing bout with Ben
iamin Barnet, seventeen years Of age,
at the Broadway Athletic club at Phil.
adelphia.
While attempting to get off a NOV
ing Northwestern freight train near
Traer, Iowa, c. Emerson, farmer
fell under the wheels and was crushed
to death.
Twelve people were poisoned as
the result of drinking poisoned water
at Campbellsville, Ky. At late hour
physicians extend slight chances for
the recovery of all. How the water
became poisoned is not known.
Celebration of his recovery from
gangrene caused the death of George
Martyatt, a wealthy stock grower OF
Denver. At a dinner given to mark
his recovery, Martyatt ate some pto
maine fish and died in great agony
Two little children were cremated
when the home of Edward Toner was
burned at Interlochen, Mich Mrs
Toner was awakened by the fire
There was just time for herself and
her sick husband to escape with g
baby, leaving two children who were
in another room.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
NYE ASKED TO PROSECUTE.
Parkston IS. D. Men Want Him for
Second Trial of Mrs. Kaufman.

Parkston rs. D. Men Want Him for
Second Trial of Mrs. Kaufman.
Sioux Falls, S. d., Dec. 30.-In view
of the fact that a new trial Of Mrs.
Emma Kaufman, on charge of hav
ing murdered her young domestic, Ag-
mes Polreis, is expected to take place
at Flandreau in March, the public will
be interested in information received
here from Parkston to the effect that
negotiations are in progress between
committee of Parkston business
men, which provided special counsel
for the prosecution at the first trial,
and Congressman Frank M. Nye Of
Minneapolis to have him take charge
of the prosecution at the approaching
new trial.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
GIRL AND PRIEST FOUND.

Alleged Runaways Are Taken by Win
nipeg Police.
Winnipeg, Dec. 30.-Miss Seraphin
Izponder, who, it is claimed, went
away with Rev. Father Baligrodz, has
been brought back to the city and is
now in the hands Of the Young Wom-
ans Christian association. The priest
is also here and his friends are in
teresting themselves in keeping him
out of the hands of the police.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
IN GRIP IN BLIZZARD.
Storm in United Kingdom Causes
MANY Casualties.

London, Dec. 30.-The whole of the
United Kingdom is in the grip of a
blizzard of exceptional violence, and
especially Scotland and the north of
Ireland The storm has ragged for the
past forty-eight hours, accompanied
by very low temperatures and a drtv-
ing wind that has completely disor-
gained the northern railway service
and caused suspension or delay to all
street car traffic Many towns are
isolated and numerous accidents and
deaths from exposure have been re-
ported. There also have been several
shipping casualties, but fortunately
these were not attended by serious
loss of life.
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Trusted Official a Suicide.

Winnipeg, Dec. 30.-After breaking
into the room of his apartment yester-
day, officers of J. I. Case C Co., dis
covered James Barber Kinds, for six
teen years a trusted official Of the
company, cold in death, with a revol-
yer clutched in his hand. Suicide,
plain and simple was the coroner's
verdict
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TWO Elrenen Injured.

Los Angeles, Dec. ga fire which
caused loss of 100000 occurred yes
terday in the Occidental hotel build
ing. An explosion in the basement
where a decorating company stores
paints and oils, caused the fire. Two
firemen were injured. The one hun
dred guests in the hotel escaped with
ont injury
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Thouuhts and Action.

Thought alone will not only not take
you into the kingdom of heaven, but
it will not take you even to the din
ner table. 1t is thought expressed in
action that takes you anywhere.
You may think health" till crack O.
doom, but if you act hog and breathe
little you will have sick spells and the
undertakerll get you at the last.
Which reminds me of a story of
Eleanor Kinks about man and wife
who were Scientists. The woman
tempered her high statements" with
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Mystery Surrounds Shooting

Duluth, Dec 30-Mrs. Henry Dorth,
aged forty years, was brought to the
local hospital yesterday from Wright,
a little town in Carlton county, a
short distance southwest of here, suf-
fering from gunshot wounds, but
whether these were accidentally or in
tentionaIly inflicted cannot be learn
ed. Her condition is not serious.
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Business Man Kills Self.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 80. -
George T. Exton, a prominent bust
ness man of this city, was found in the
basement of the company's building
yesterday with a bullet hole in his
head. 1t is thought he committed sui
eide on account of business troubles.
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Miss;no wonoan's Body Found.

New York, Dec. 30.-The mystery
surrounding the disappearance three
weeks ago of Matilda Propag was
partly cleared up last night when
her body was found buried in the Gel
lar of her home. The woman's hus-
band was placed under arrest pending
further investigation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-31
Floor coIIapses; Thirty-five Hurt

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 30.-The upper
floor of Easton hail. a two-story frame
building at Ellicott City, twelve miles
west of Baltimore, collapsed yesterday
during a magistrates hearing of the
case against William HAYWOOD, color
ed, charged with murderous assault
About a hundred men and boys were
carried down and thirty-fve persons
were injured.
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HIGH BRED; WEEDS CHINAMAN.

Granddaughter Of Confederate General
Marries Oriental.
Meridian, Miss. Dec. 30-Miss Ollie
Patton, granddaughter of the late w.
S. Patton, a confederate general and
past grand master of Mississippi Ma
sons, it developed yesterday married
a Chinaman here Sunday. The mar
riage violates the state law, forbidding
inter-marriages between whites and
persons of negro or Monaghan blood,
Miss Patton is young and beautiful
and an orphan.