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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
General.

Major w. nj. Logan, custodian Oh
the Glacier National park in Mon
tana, is seriously i'll.
Bruno Tzschuk, d pioneer resident
of Nebraska and one time secretary OF
state, died at Omaha.
The national oratorical contest OF
the intercollegiate prohibition associa-
ton will be held in Atlantic City
July 8.
Governor Aldrich of Nebraska is
sued a statement favoring Theodore
Roosevelt for the republican presi-
Dental nomination.
Five hundred acres of the Ciene-
CARA ranch, part of the holdings OF
the Lucky Baldwin estate, has been
sold for $1,250,0O0.
Louis D. Brandeis, in an address
before the city club of st. Louis
branded as a farce the recent dissolu-
ton of the Standard oil and tobacco
trusts.
The Asiatic population of Hawaii is
increasing at an alarming rate.
Governor Clark of Alaska was be-
fore the territories committee and OPP
posed the Alaska elective legislature
and urged development OF railroads
and fuel resources.
Little Goldie Williams, the missing
Grand Island (Neb) girl, was found
brutally murdered in an empty house.
The total number of convicts in the
Missouri penitentiary is 2,37S, an in
crease of fifteen over last week when
the record was broken.
Charles Powell, a negro, who as
saulted and robbed young white
woman at Macon, Ga, was taken from
officers and lynched by mob.
State Senator Thomas F. Grady,
long identified with Tammany Hall
and known as the silver-tongued ora
tor of that organization, is dying at
his home in New York.
The illness of Representative George
r. Malthy of New York, who now is
convalescent, has delayed the final re-
port of the house committee which
investigated the sugar trust.
For the time being, at least, Next
can troops will not be allowed on
American territory.
Viscount Stemim Chinda, the newly
appointed ambassador from Japan to
the United States, arrived in Homo.
lulu.
Work on the great fortress on Fla
menco island which will guard the
Pacific entrance to the Panama canal
is to begin at once.
Bair & Crawford, one OF the Oldest
retail iewelry firms in Philadelphia,
filed voluntary petition in bankrupt
cy, placing their liabilities at S134,990
and assets at $47,419.
A house bill extending to the en-
ployes of the bureau of mines the
right to receive compensation from
the government for injuries received
while on duty was passed by the SEN
ate. The bill now goes to the presi
dent
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
OLDEST CIVIL WAR VETERAN
Edward Munroe, 1903 Years Old, Living
In London, Tells of His Service
Under Farragut.

London.-In a little basement room,
down an alleyway, off Holloway road,
Islington, lives Mr.. Edward Munroe,
centenarian sailor, who, born in Nova
Scotia on September 3, 1909, believes
he is the oldest veteran of the Ameri-
can Civil war.
Mr.. Munroe is wonderfully well pre-
served, and although riches have pass
ed him by he lives now on the little
pension granted by the United States
government, he is as cheerful as a
care free boy. He delights to talk of
~ battles of the Civil war and speaks
proudly Of the admirals under whom
he served, but he cherishes above all
the memory of Admiral F'arragut, and
faded photograph of the great sailor
Is his dearest possession.
II was born of English parents, in
Truro, Nova Scotia, but spent my
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
HAUNTED FOR YEARS
Flight of DefauIter Who Never
Was Pursued.
Guilty Land Man Turned Tramp-Sur-
rendering After Eighteen Years,
He Found Indictment Had
Been Quashed.

Omaha. Neb.-Elmer E. Johnson
was a fugitive from justice for eigh-
teen years. In that time he wandered
through every state in the Union but
one, and visited every country in the
world in an effort to evade the fed
eraI inspectors and secret service
men. The other day he walked into
the Office OF the United States mar
shall at Omaha and surrendered He
then learned that the case against
him was Quashed fifteen years ago;
that he had fled when none pursued
and that the army of federal officers
who had been chasing him over the
globe were only creations of his own
guilty conscience.
Johnson sat down and cried when
told by the marshal that he was a
free man; that the government did
not want him and that for the last
fifteen years he might have settled
down and lived an honest man in
stead of wandering as a hobo over
the world
I'm too old to make new start
now" said Johnson after he had
braced up. IF had only known this
years and years ago | might have
amounted to something. If I had
stood trial and taken my medicine |
would have been out OF prison fifteen
years ago. My punishment would
have lasted two or three years. AS a
fact, it continued eighteen years and
its effect will continue throughout my
life"
Cant you lend me quarter to get
something to eat WITH" And with
the 25-cent piece in his hand he shut
fed off toward restaurant.
Johnson was an official in the pub
lie land office in Del Norte, Cal. In
1893 he was found short $780, He
was indicted on charge of embez-
element, forfeited his bail and es-
capped. For three years the govern
ment inspectors kept a lookout for
him. Then the case was dismissed
and thereafter no further efforts were
made to capture him.
ION cattle ship l worked my way
to Liverpool" said Johnson. Il was
absent from the states about five
years, during which time visited
practically every country In Europe,
and many In Asia and Africa l was
simply hobo but watched keenly
for government detectives who my
conscience told me were always after
me.
For eight years I have been wan
dering over the country from the At
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
HARD TO HOLD MAN IN JAIL
Prisoner Small Enough to Squeeze
Out Between Bars in Oregon
Lookup, but Fighter.

Portland, Orc. F. Wilson, foul
and a half feet tall, five inches
through, and weighing ninety pounds.
in addition to thrashing 1S0-pound
logger and punching one of the larg-
est policemen on the force in the eye,
capped the climax of his performances
by squeezing out between the bars OF
his cell in the city hall. Jailer Web
his diminutive prisoner until he dis
covered an old cell with the bars less
than five inches apart. Wilson is now
inhabiting this CELL
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
EIFFEL TOWER STOPS STORMS
Famous Structure Has Been Turned
Into a Huge instrument for
Protecting the Country.

Paris.-The famous Eiffel tower,
long celebrated as the highest struc-
ture in the world, has been turned into
a huge instrument for protecting the
country from hailstorms.
French scientists hold the theory
that hailstorms are due to electrical
disturbances in the atmosphere, and
they have fitted the great tower with
an apparatus which will carry off the
atmospheric electricity. This ap.
paratus consists of two great bands of
copper % inches wide The ends are
furnished with projecting points and
reach from the summit of the tower
without shores and fastenings along
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Russian Minister to China Elopes
With French Girl and Father
Pursues Them.

Peking.-Count Korostivier, Russian
and grandfather, has caused scan
dial by clipping with Miss Peary, an
unusually pretty French girl OF H.,
whose parents are we'll known in So
ciety here.
Mr.. Peary gave chase and found his
daughter, disguised as Chinese boy,
pigtail and ALL Diplomatic interven-
ton is expected, as Peary has high
position in the postoffice and Is uni
versally respected. He declares he
will cause the count to leave the diplo-
matte service for good, but the Rus
sian diplomats here think otherwise.
though they do not expect their chief
back in Picking.
Revolver in hand, Peary secured the
town, but not finding them, demanded
search of the Russian consulate.
This meant some delay. When he got
inside at last he found a Chinese boy,
whom the consul said the minister en-
gagged as servant, but Peary pulled the
pigtail and it came off in his hands.
His daughter refused to go home
with him, and consented only when
she heard that the minister, fearful of
Peary's revolver, had disguised him
self as a sailor and escaped on a ma
tive junk. Thence, when Peary was
ome-bound, he took goods train to
Hardin, where he caught the Siberian
express to ST. Petersburg.
Mr.. Peary has applied to the French
minister to lay the whole story before
the Gear personally. Count Korosto-
vier is going out in st. Petersburg IN
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
FOR THE BUSY MAN
NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign intelligence Con
denscd Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
Congress-,

The senate foreign relations com.
mittee shelved the Honduras loan
treaty.
Representative Henry introduced
compromise resolution for money
trust investigation.
In the senate agreement was
reached to vote on the pending arbi
tration treaties March S.
An appropriation for the Savannah
emancipation celebr alton will be ia
vorably reported in he senate.
The senate finance committee gave
notice only oral evidence would be
considered in steel traffic hearings.
A bill passed the house requiring
governments estimate of cotton acre
age be taken July 1, instead Of June J.
The bill to give midshipmen upon
graduation commissions as ensigns
was favorably reported in the senate
The treaty with foreign nations to
ture was favorably reported in the
senate.
President Taft transmitted a letter
of Secretary Knox giving sugar prices
abroad for use of the sugar trust in
vestigating committee.
Steel products manufacturers told
the senate finance committee the pro-
posed new steel tariff would seriously
affect their business.
The house foreign affairs committee
members will introduce legislation to
give the president added power to pro-
tect Americans along the Mexican
border.
Investigation of the Department OF
Agriculture's drainage bureau was
decided upon as the result OF hear
ing on Florida Everglades drainage
proposition charges.
Representative Martin of South Da-
kota introduced bill for federal
corporation commission OF five mem
bers to regulate the affairs OF inter
state corporations.
Expositions committee of the SEN
ate ordered an adverse report on the
resolution asking Latin-American ma
tons to participate in the San Diego
exposition.
In army appropriation bill debate in
the house Representative Mann advo-
Gated increased appropriations for
aeroplanes. An effort to increase the
aeroplane appropriation from $75,0oO
to 1925, 900 was defeated.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Personal.

President Taft feels certain Of his
denomination and reelection.
President Madero will use the iron
hand in suppressing insurrection in
Mexico.
Hon. J. B. Weaver, who recently
died in Iowa, was 70 years old.
General Canea, the italian com
mander, has left Tripoli for Italy.
DIR. Edward Wilmot Blyden, the fam.
GUS negro author and lecturer, is dead
Jas. j. Hill was summoned to testify
before the steel trust Investigating
committee.
Representative Pujo has given as
surance that the money trust investi-
cation will be undertaken.
Representative Mckinley Qll.) has
been reelected chairman of the re-
publican congressional campaign com.
Elittee.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

Copper Bands Which Will Carry Or
Atmospheric Electricity and Pre-
vent HaiIstorms.
two columns which go into the ground,
in contact with the enormous conduit
of water that works the elevators. By
this means communication is estab-
lished between the gigantic structure
and the earth.
The tower thus finds itself trans
formed into an electric Niagara, the
bands of copper serving to make a
connection between the earth and the
clouds charged with electricity.
A hailstOrm is usually characterized
by the formation Of very high Gu
mulus clouds, strong surface winds,
considerable lightning and thunder
and heavy rains. 1t appears probable
that it is formed either in the front
of an advancing cool wave or in con-
nection with local thunderstorm or
tornado.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Stone Kills Prize Cockerei.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." a prize
winning Golden Wyandotte cockerel,
is dead from eating a diamond. A
brilliant stone in ring on it's own
er's hand attracting attention, it peck
ed off the stone and swallowed it be-
fore Hunt could snatch his hand
away. An operation and effects of
chloroform caused the birds death
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
KINDNESS WINS HER $4,000
ents of New York May Is Made
Heiress by Will.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Helen Townsend
Engle, aged 16, of West Lehigh ave-
nue., received notice that she was an
heiress to $4,000 left to her by John
Hermer of New York city, because
she had been kind to his old parents,
who live near Miss Engers home. Mr..
Hermer died recently in New York
at the age of 26. Miss Engle was too
modest to discuss her good fortune.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
CALLS ELMIRA MAN MORMON

gist party. Man short and with whisk-
ers.''
The hotel man fastened to find Col.
Reynolds and showed the telegram to
him. He was dumb with astonish-
ment, but eventually succeeded in es-
tablishing his identity to the salts
faction Of all concerned
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
She Wears Mems Clothing

Spartansboro, N. CATER she had
been masquerading as a man for
eight months, the identity of Mrs
Mary Owens has ben discovered anf
she has been forced to leave the FAC
tory town of Saxon Mills. The yo,In
woman had become engaged to a i
year-old girl who is broken-heartt
over the revelation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
The Difference.

after all, there isn't much differ
nee between the editor and the office
10Y"
You're joking"
mot at ALL The editor fills the
waste baskets, and the Office boy emp
les them. Life.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

lantic to the Pacific, from Winnipeg
to the gulf. l have worked few
days in actually hundreds OF printing
offices. But | made it an absolute
rule never to work In place for
more than a week. Then would move
to the next stop, thus throwing the
detectives off of my trail.
THE morning l struck Omaha l
walked up the street and by the post
Office. And the thought struck me
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

that had I stood trial, took my medi-
cine and served my time | would
have been a free man many years ago.
But you would have been an ex-con-
vict,' I told myself. That's no worse
than a tramp answered myself
well, why not 60 in and surren-
der?' l asked myself. And before
had an opportunity of saying no,
there I was in the United States mar
shals Office
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

Thinking has often made me very
unhappy, acting never has. Do some
hing; do good if you can, but do some
hing!-Mrs. Gaskell.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Six of His Pupils Were Hanged.

Pittsburg.-Isaac Jones, retired
whaler and Sunday school teacher,
boasts that only six of his Sunday
school pupils have been hanged in
twenty years-his class being that in
the county Jail.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
COUNT INVOLVED in SCANDAL

the best of spirits and declares that
Miss Peary is the most delightful
woman he ever met, and that he will
marry her when he gets divorce
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

Let us then be what we are, and
hus keep, ourselves loyal to truth
j. w. Longfellow.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

Constipation causes many serious dis
ases. 1t is thoroughly cured by Doctor
eierce's Pleasant Pellets. One laxative,
hree for cathartic.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

Anyway, a spinster can pretend that
he would rather be her own boss.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

drs. wfnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
eething, softens the gums, reduces inhnmina'
son, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c a bottle.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

PILES CURED IN TO Ia DAYS
ubNr fails to cure any case OF ltchlng, bNnu,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles In q 10 IA days. buc.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-03-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Jud Robinson, q
caller at that home narrowly es-
capped serious injury and humila-
tion. The time was about 1880 on
u dark evening and the sidewalks
were few and far between and the
approach to the porch necessitates
somewhat higher step than a
person with normal stride is wont
to take. So in trying to mount
the porch the caller alighted in a
less than gentle manner which
caused Mrs. Dick Robinson who
was keeping house at the time,
some serious alarm. When the
caller finally arose and politely
raped for admission Mrs. Dick
was returning from the telephone
where she had summoned Mar
shall Gillen thinking porch climb
ers were busy. When the mar
shall arrived however the case was
explained as a false alarm.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-03-07
KILLED IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
Mrs. Guy Morrison Severely In
jured and her Infant Baby
Crushed to Death

While returning home from a
neighhor's with her baby in her
arms, and in company with her
husband, Mrs. Guy Morrison
jumped from the rig when the
team started to run and received
injuries from which it is feared
she will not recover. Upon near
ing their home a few miles north
west of Elbon, Mr.. Morrison
alighted to open the gate, handing
the reins to his wife, who drove
through safely, but just as he was
about to take the lines and step
back into the vehicle the team
started to run. Mrs. Morrison
not having a hold on the reins.
threw the baby and then leaped
from the rig. The rear wheels
passed over the baby inHicting in
iuries from which it died soon af-
ter being picked up. Mrs. Morri-
son was unconscious when taken
home, and up to the present time
her condition remains the same,
she having regained consciousness
only to ask of the baby and then
relapsed into insensibility again.
1t is feared she has received in
juries which will prove fatal.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-03-07
Let's Celebrate

Among the other important
business transacted by the Philip
Vhlunteer Fire Department at
tHsir regular meeting Wednesday
MI sbt, was the naming of May 9th
asI the Annual Fire Prevention
Day of Philip. On this day an
extra effort will be made to induce
all property owners and busin ess
men to clean up all inhamable
material in the rear of their stores,
and in the alleys and other places,
which is a menace to the city. 1t
has also been planned to get the
cooperation of the business men
in celebrating the day as the fifth
anniversary of Philip and as the
First Annual Firemen's Picnic
Day. A committee has been ap-
pointed who will formulate plans
to work on, and a list of sports,
tireman's and other races, contests,
and ball games will be arranged
to take place at the fair grounds
in the afternoon. An efforJ will
be made to have O. S. Basford,
Insurance Commissioner, of Pierre
and Fire Marshall Krans, of Lead,
with us on that day and address
our citizens at the opera house in
the evening. Everyone should
boost to make the day a big sue
cess and one that will be long re,
membered in the history of Philip
Thursday, May 9th, 1912.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-03-07
That stabs us in the dark;
God bless those noble heroes,
Woodrow Wilson and Champ Clark.
VIM. Walpole, Sr., Philip, S. d.
{. A, MORRISON IS THE NAN
That Stanley County Should
Send to the Legislature as
Senator

In the last issue of the News,
we published the announcement of
E. A. Morrison, of Hilland, for
state senator and believe him to
be the best man that the people
could choose to represent
them in the upper house. He is
not only practical farmer, but
man who keeps himself we'll in
formed on the current events of
the day, a great lover of books and
as we'll read as any man in the
county. Mr.. Morrison's interests
are linked with the farmers of the
county because he is one of them,
and his candidacy is supported by
a great majority of the people
north of Philip, men who are his
neighbors and with whom he has
rubbed shoulders and who have
the utmost confidence in his abil-
ity, integrity, honesty and square
ness and fairness to all. Search
the county from the Missouri
river on the east to the Penning.
ton county line on the west, or
from the Cheyenne river on the
north to the White river on the
south, and we do not believe you
could find better, safer or more
square tOed man than E. A. Nor
,risOn to send to the senate of the
state of South Dakota.
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-03-07
Ebbinxs from Elbon

"A new industry has sprung up
in the vicinity of Elbon. Messrs.
Leach, Ames, and Koehler are
building a boat, and it's going to
be a 'side- wheeler" propelled by
a small gasoline engine. AS far
as the writer knows a name for
the boat has already been selected,
and the gentlemen are looking
around for a young lady to do the
christening. The launching will
most likely take place at Leach's
dam where the shipbuilders are
located and later excursions will
be made on Ulrey's pond. Sum
mer resorters will find it an ideal
place as passengers and produce
can be easily transported from
shore to shore thus enabling them
to stay on the shady side of the
water. Furthermore it will afford
splendid recreation to the tillers
of the soil who are fortunate
enough to get there ''after supper.
And the neighbors will be treated
to the strains of ''The Moon j.
beaming DER the lake." Silver,
Moon'' and other suitable songs
There is nothing like an Improve
ment Societyl
During the recent absence o
The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-03-07
Promises and Pie Crusts

Our papers all seem full of fight,
AS the fourth of June draws nigh;
They each espouse their favorite sons,
And laud them to the sky.
They tell us of their sterling worth,
And at them bouquets throw; :.
And say they're the brightest pebbles
on the beach,
Are Teddy, Taft and Co.
They say "Big Bill" is just the size
To fiji the White House chair,
That he will crush the interests
And treat us farmers fair:
He'll build US powerful man-of-wars.
For which us soddies pay;
If we will vote for Billy Taft
On next election day.
But as the days keep rolling on,
We hear bold Teddy sing;
] am the guy the people want;
My hat is in the ring.
III crush the trusts with my big stick
Until make them squeal;
I'm fighting Ted from Sagmore hill,
And father of the square deal"
l fought the Reds and Spanish dons,
For which / badges wear;
/ extermlnated all the lions
And killed Teddy bear
With all these wild adventures,
love the dear farmer still;
So vote for Teddy Roosevelt,
The sage of Sycamore hill.
But as we soddies read these lines,
We take them as joke:
For them promises and pie crusts
| Are all made to be broke.
| We tried them once, we won't again,
| And nineteen twelve will show;
That we never, never more will trust
A four-fusher, Taft and Co.
We have true standard bearers now
Who will the peoples battles fight;
They'll attend to all our interests,
Both morning, noon and night.
They'll revise the robbing tari6,