Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-12-27


the forty seventh. which settled the
fight
Then followed the Progressive con-
vention in Chicago in August which
nominated Colonel Roosevelt for pres
ident and Governor Hiram W. Johnson
of California for vice president.
Shooting of Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt began strenuous
campaign, and on Oct. IA third term
crank named John SchranlS, who had
been following him with evil designs,
shot him while the Progressive nom1-
nee was addressing an audience at
Milwaukee, Colonel Roosevelt after
saving his assailant from the venge-
ance of the crowd insisted upon con-
tinuing his speech, believing for the
time that the bullet had not penetrated
his body When it was found that he
was mistaken he was removed to
Mercy hospital, Chicago, where he. re-
manned until Oct 81, when he started
for his home at Oyster Bay, N. Y. The
bullet was not removed, but the colonel
improved so steadily from the effects
of the wound that Oct. 81, seventeen
days after the attempt upon his life,
he made a speech in Madison Square
Garden, New York city, where he was
cheered for forty-one minutes. He
made several other speeches before the
campaign closed.
Uncle Sam made over his national
flag in 1912, flying forty-eight star
emblem by reason of the admission as
The Becker Case.
The biggest police sensation in New
York city, the shooting of Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler. reached its eli
max Oct. 80, when Charles Becker,
in command of the strong arm" squad,
was sentenced by Justice Golf to die IN
the electric chair Dec. 8. Becker had
been found guilty bya jury Of having
caused Rosenthal's murder. Becker aft
er sentence was Immediately lodged in
the death house at Sing Sing and be-
gan battle for new trial. Four gun
men were convicted Nov. 10 for the
actual killing of Rosenthal
On the Years Death Roll.
Among the prominent persons who
died during 1912 were the following:
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, q. S.
n, retired, in Washington. aged sixty
five, Jan 3; General James B. Weaver,
at Des Moines, Ia. aged seventy-eight,
Feb. 6: Rear Admiral George w. Mel
vile, q. S. ~, i'll Philadelphia, aged
seventy-One, March II; General Henry
III. Bingham. father of the house, in
Philadelphia. aged seventy-one, March
%: John Arbuckle, sugar merchant, in
Brooklyn, aged seventy-two. March
y; United States Senator Robert Love
Taylor of Tennessee, in Washington,
aged sixty-one. March 81; Major Gen
eral Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A., in
New York city, aged siXty-two, and
Clara Barton, who founded the Amer
lean Red Cross society, at Glen Echo,
Md, aged ninety, April -; Colonel
John Jacob Astor and Mr.. and Mrs.
Isidor Straus of New York city, w L.
Stead, English journalist; Captain
Archibald w. Butt. aid to President
Taft; Francis D. NIillet, artist, and
Jacques Futrelle. novelist, all of whom
persisted in the Titanic disaster, April
10; Justin Mccarthy, historian and ex-
member of the English parliament at
Folkestone, England, aged eighty
two, April "a: DR.. D. X. Pearsons.
philanthropist, in Chicago, aged nine
ty-two. April 81; Frederick VIII, king
of Denmark. at Hamburg. Germany
aged siXty-nine, May IA; Wilbur
Wright, aviator and aeroplane in
ventor, at Dayton, O., aged forty-fve;
Andrew Lang, English novelist, poet
and critic, at BanchOry, Scotland, aged
sixty eight. July 20; Mutsuhito, emper-
or of Japan, at Tokyo, aged sixty. July
30; William Booth. founder of the Sal
walton Army. in London, aged eighty
three, Aug. 10: Lieutenant General Ar
thur Macarthur. U. S. A., retired, at
Milwaukee, aged siXtyseven. Sept. $;
United States Senator Weldon B. Hey
burn of Idaho, in Washington, aged
sixty, Oct. II: James Schoolcraft Sher
man, vice president of the United
States. at Utica. N. Y, aged fifty
Oct. 80.
Conquest Of the Antarctic.
Announcement was made by Captain
Nrrs,