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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
ShoeIess Horses.

While experiments are being made
to produce horseshoe suited to mod
ern roads. writes a correspondent, |
wonder whether anybody remembers
the book written by the Rev. j. O..
Wood, the famous naturalist. in which
the argument was put forward that
horses should not be shod at all. He
declared that the hoof could adapt it
self to any kind of land surface. that
although it would become soft when
the horse was out on grass land it
hardened when the pasture was stony
or pebb1y. and that the practice of
mailing on shoes and pairing away the
frog" or sole of the hoof was clum-
sy and useless expedient. He gave as
proof photographs of the boots of
horse driven shoeless by doctor who
had a city practice.-Mancheste Guard
ian
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
Our Oldest RELIGIOUS Magazine.

Oldest of all religious magazines in
America is the Sailors Magazine >
published by the American Seamen's
Friend society. New York. Started III
1923. it has appeared without inter
ruption ever since. It's monthly issue
has been printed by the same family
from father to son for seventy-tive or
eighty years. For sixty years its cover
was unaltered. In this magazine APP
peared for the first time the world IA
nous hymn. Jesus, Saviour, Pilot
Me" It was written by E. Hopper.
then pastor of the little old Church of
the Sea and Land, it's edifice still stand
ing. but almost unknown to this gen
GRAFTON of New Workers. Colonel
Roosevelt's first speech. made when
he was boy, is also recorded here.
Romances are traceable through its
pages-true stories Of adventure, hero
ism and tragedy that make up the life
of the sea.-New York Post.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
FRED A. BUSSE PASSES AWAY
He Was Formerly Chicago Mayor and
Illinois Treasurer.

CHICAGO - Fred A. Busse, for
mer mayor of Chicago, former post
master of Chicago and former state
senator and state treasurer of Illinois,
is dead at his home at 1852 Sheridan
road. The cause of his death was val
vular disease of the heart from which
he had suffered four and One-half
months.
Politicians declare he had the larg-
est personal following of any man in
local Republican politics. He went
to the mayors Office from the post
mastership, to which post Theodore
Roosevelt appointed him. He had pre-
viousiy held the position of state treas
urer. He was a power in political cir
Giles and his friends fondly referred to
him as "the burgOmaster." Men asso-
ciated with him in his administration
from 1907 to 1911 declare he was the
best mayor Chicago ever had.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
THREE BATHERS LOSE LIVES
Two Girls Drown at Eau Claire and
Lad Sinks at Madison.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS. = Rose Nc
Ginnis, twenty-four years old, and Jes-
Sc Erlandson, twenty-five years old, Of
Eau Claire were drowned while bath
ing in the Eau Claire river. A COM
panion, Helen Bartlett, fifteen years
old, East st. Louis. H., was saved.
None OF the girls were able to swim.
Only ono body was recovered. They
were caught by the swift current and
carried beyond their depth. The cries
Of the girls attracted two men, who
saved Miss Bartell, but before further
assistance arrived the other two were
drowned.
Madison, Wis, July 14.-While swim
ming at the Birmingham bath house
Victor Cancelosi, nineteen years old,
drowned in twenty feet of water The
body was recovered.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
H. H. LURTON dead
Supreme Court Justice Passes
Away at Atlantic City.
IN COURT IN CLOSING DAYS

Interment Will Be at Nashville, Tenn.
Most of Court Away From Wash
inuotn-Was Named by Taft-Had
Been Promised Place by Roosevelt,
Who AfterWard Recanted.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
BLAZE CAUSES S35, 900 LOSS
Flames Ruin Offices and Lodge Rooms
in Milwaukee Building.

MILWAUKEE,, WIS. - Fire which
started in the Lipp building, 321-25
Third street, on the northwest corner
Of Prairie street, the scene of many
biazes during the last twenty years,
practically destroyed the two upper
floors of the four story structure, con-
tanning lodge halls and physicians Of
fees and caused considerable damage
t. the clothing store of Isaac Miller
en- the ground floor, making a total
of $4,000.
The origin of the blaze has not been
determined. The flames started on the
fourth floor and were not discovered
until they shot through the roof. No
one was injured.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17

: SHORT CUTS TO THE NEWS :

A Mexican matador, Miguel Frey
was MORALLY gored by a bull in Ma
drid, Spain.
A meteor weighing twenty pounds
struck an auto near Petersburg, Ind.
No one was injured.
Suffrage for women failed of favor
able report in the Georgia house of
representatives by one vote.
In the central fashionable quarter of
Paris several street cave-ins occurred
after a heavy thunderstorm.
The French submarine Calypso was
sunk by the destroyer Mosqueton dur
i maneuvers. The crew was saved.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
American Packing and Provision COM
pany at Kankakee, Ill. Loss 5000, 900.
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed
the plant of the Havers Automobile
company in Port Huron, Mich. Loss
is 100000.
William Rufus, wealthy ST. Paul
lumberman, will have to pay SLAP
to Miss Ada M. Cox, who sued him for
breach of promise.
Colonel Frank L. Denny, retired of
the marine corps, was instantly killed
when he fell over a balustrade in his
home in Washington.
Jan KubeIik announced the birth of
a sixth child and first son. Kubelik
said his heir revealed distinct traces
of talent for the VIOLIN
A Pekin dispatch to the Daily TeIe-
graph says that China is about to ap-
ply to the bankers of the five powers
fer another loan of $1OO,OOO,OOO.
Charles Armstrong and D. 3. Long
baugh, oil we'll shot-frers, were in
stantly kill by an explosion at Findlay,
o., of several hundred quarts of nitro
glycerin.
The sale of the battIeships Missis-
sippi and Idaho for use in the Greek
navy was closed with the delivery of
a check for $12 ,595, 1856 to Secretary
Daniels
Delay in the payment of ransom
OF 100000 has resulted in the execu-
tion Of Juan Velasco, a French cotton
magnate of Atlixcon, Puebla, by Ia
patistas.
worlds altitude record for an aero.
plane carrying only one aviator was
made at Johannesthal, Germany by
Otto Linnekogel who attained height
of approximately 1854 feet.
Rosa Carson, a nearess, was taken
from jail at Elleree, near Orangeburg.
S. c., and lynched by a mob. She is
said to have confessed the murder of
the twelve-year-ol daughter of d. F.
Hall for revenge.
While in jealous rage, Melvin John
son, at Ottumwa, Ia, shot and killed
his wife, seriously injured his mother
in-law, Mrs. Seeley, and shot himself.
dying instantly. Mrs. Seeley is not
expected to recover.
Six cinnamon were arrested in Saui-
haw, Mich, charged with being in this
country unlawfully and the police be-
lieve they have uncovered one of the
main distributing stations of power
full syndicate which has been smuggl-
ing hundreds of Chinese into the
United States.
Sir William Osler, regius professor
Of medicine of Oxford university.
startled the large audience attending
the conference of the Association for
Prevention of Consumption, at Leeds.
Prevention of Consumption at Leeds.
England, by saying that almost all the
persons in it were tuberculous.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
APPOINTED TO STATE BOARD
Governor Makes G. NJ. MihiIIs Member
of Agricultural Council.

MADISON, WIS. = Governor Nc
Govern appointed G. N. Mihills of
Fond du Lac as a member of the state
board of agriculture from the Sixth
congressional district, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation Of
Charles N. Hill of Rosendale, who re-
signed several months ago in order to
show his dairy at the coming state fair.
The appointment is for a term end
ing Jan. 1, 1916.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
TOT IS VICTIM OF SLAYER
lured From Home by Stranger and
Later Found Dying.

CHICAGO = Hazel Weinstein, four
years of age, 1884 West Madison
street, who was lured from in front
of her home by strange man and a
short time later was found dying at
the rear of 1858 Warren avenue as
the result of an assault made on her
The police arrested Boswell c. F.
Smith, who confessed he committed
the crime.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
WOMAN CONFESSES
BURNING Her Klj..llIE:
Mrs. Jos. StOItz of Park Fails
Arrested by Fire Marshal.

ASHLAND, WIS. = Deputy State
Fire Marshal Charles Coed Of this
city has just returned from Fern
Falls, where he arrested i woman by
the name of Mrs. Josefn Stoltz, who
was charged with arson
Mr.. Good secured confession from
The woman to the effect rnat last week
while her husband IVES away she set
fire to her home IN four different places
and succeeded in burning the building
20 the ground.
She admitted that she did this to Sc,
cure the insurance which amounted to
a large sum. The case has been post
Eoned for a week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
At Outs With Wehster.

Professor X, one of the old school
always objected to the pronunciation
of wound" as though it were spelled
"woond." One day he stopped stu
dent in the middle of reading with
How do you pronounce that word
sir?"
"WOOnd." replied the student.
The professor gave him a sharp look
and said. II have never foond any
groond for giving it that soond. SIR
Boston Transcript.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
LUMBER BUSINESS is SOLD
c. RI. Werden Takes Over White River
Company Holdings.

SUPERIOR, WIS. - The White
River Lumber company, in business at
Mason, this state, since 1882, has pass
Ell out of existence. Formed by Wis
consin numbering pioneers such as J.
A. Humbird, F. Weyerhouse, John T.
Joyce, La Fayette Lamb and others,
it was bought by the Edward T. Hines
Lumber company in 1905 and operated
under the old names.
Now c. H. Werden, the manager, has
taken over the entire property, and
given it his name. Mr.. Werden also
becomes president of the Mason Mer-
camille company and the Bank OF
Mason.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
BRYAN OFFERS S3,OOO.OOO
Costa Rica's Opposition to Nicaraeuan
Treaty Leads Him to Plan Payment.

WASHINGTON - Opposition by
Costa RIGA to the proposed Nicaraguan
treaty. it became known, has been met
by Secretary Bryan with an offer to
pay $3,O0O,0O0 for any rights it may
have in an interoceanic canal route
by way of Lake Nicaragua.
The Costa Rican opposition is based
on a claim to jurisdiction over a small
portion of the proposed route AS the
treaty provides for an allowance of
So, 900, 900 to Nicaragua, the state de-
partment, without according full recog-
milton of any claim, decided that Costa
RIGA should be placed on the same
asis as Nicaragua.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
CAR PLUNGES OFF VIADUCT
More Than Score of Superior Workers
Are Near Death.

SUPERIOR, WIS. More than
a score of passengers on a Billings
park street car had a miraculous es-
cape from death when it plunged off
the Twenty-frst street viaduct while
running at high speed down the east
ern approach, clearing the structure
before topping fifteen feet.
The car landed on it's trucks, and all
but two of those on board, mostly
workingmen, escaped with minor in
juries and a bad shaking up. Two were
taken to the hospital with broken legs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17

Ingotn-WaS Ndmeo NY
Been Promised Place by Roosevelt,
Who Afterward Recanted.
WASHINGTON = News of the
death Of Justice Horace H. Lurton at
Atlantic City came as a shock 10
official Washington The justice has
been in poor health for several months
but sat in the court in the closing days
and read opinions The last opinion
he read from the bench was that dis
2 issing the petition of the state OF
Louisiana asking permission to file the
suit enjOining Secretary McAdoO from
putting into effect the raw sugar du-
ties under the Underwood-Simms tar
if act
Justice Lurton's body will be
brought to Washington this evening.
The funeral party will leave here by
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at
11:1O o'clock and go to Louisville, KY,
and then take the Louisville & Nash
vile to Nashville, Tenn. The inter
lnent will take place at Gainesville,
Tenn, the home of Justice Lurton
where he began the practice of law.
Ali of Justice Lurton's associates in
the supreme court have been notified.
Chief Justice White has advised the
marshall of the supreme court, from
White Sulphur Springs, that he will
join the funeral train at that point and
proceed to Tennessee. Justices La
mar and Vandervanter are the only
members of the court now in Wash
iEgton. Justices Day and Pitney are
near enough to Washington to make it
possible for them to attend. The mar
shall of the court, j. M. Wright, will
accompany the body to Tennessee.
Justice Lurton had seen but little
more than four years service on the
supreme court bench.
Appointed by Taft.
Although a Democrat, he was ap-
pointed by President Taft, who had
been associated with him in the cir
cult court of appeals for the sixth cir
cult and had high opinion of his Ju-
d;cial ability and integrity.
Pre- sident Taft departed from a rule
he laid down governing the appoint
ment of judges when he named Justice
Lurton, who was sixty-six years of age
at the time of his appointment. In
doing so President Taft felt that he
was righting a wrong that had been
done his friend, Justice Lurton, when
President Roosevelt had practically
agreed to appoint Mr.. Lurton to the
supreme bench and then changed his
mind on the ground that he had been
unfriendly to labor in his decisions
and had accepted favors from railroad
companies.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-07-17
DR.. EDWIN FARR is DEAD
Former Mayor, Prominent in Masonis
Order, Passes away in Eau Claire.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS. - DR.. Ed
win Farr, former mayor of this city
and prominent il the state Masonic
order and Droninent12345* i66i6**6i
order is dead.
DR.. Farr was grand master Of the
Seventh State and grand high priest.
He was eighty-two years old.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
BUYING UP THE MERcENARY PRESS

Buying the editorial columns of the purchasable
local papers throughout the country by agents of the
transcontnenta railroads out for Panama
tolls repeal or withhold criticism of congressman who
voted for repeal is one of suppressing popular
criticism and protecting the reereant congressman
sudden and otherwise ineXplicabe interest on the
administration and railroad side, by number of the
least important papers is observed in exchanges
while in others offered for the votes of
representatives of the districts to which they beohg
The debauchery of the metropolitan press by spe-
cal interests is byword and has robbed of all in
huence over the popular thought. In New England
the New Haven railroad combine controlled the news
papers through subsidies. fayors intimidation. In
New Jersey for many years most of the newspapers
and all of the country press under this vassaage
and it by this that railroad interests were
practically subsidized to millions in State
taxation.
Every influence the railroads could employ to
control newspapers and misead the judgment of the
nation was employed before the House voted the
tolls question. If the railroads can buy up or silence
papers in the Congress districts popular pressure
on the senator's may be relieved and unfathul
gressmen may escape punishment. The vast impor-
lance to the railroad interests of repeal of Panama
free tolls may be judged by the elaborate and costly
campaign waged by the railroads in the United States
and England Millions have been spent and millions
more are to be spent to attain the desired object.
For if the repeal bill becomes law the railroads will
be as supreme waterway transportation between
Atlantic and Pacific ports they canal
transportation in New Jersey
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
APRIL
Olivia Serres Princess Maud Alexandra
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

took courage and made her claim
stronger. This time sh went so far as
TO claim that she had ben legiti-
mate daughter of the prince, and that
through some very complicated pro
ceedings she had been changed at
her birth and in. that way explained
the fact that she had been brouSht
ND in the carpenters family.
To support these claims Mrs. Series
produced forged documents and some
how she managed to make a great
many people believe her. She man
aged to keep a carriage on which she
had blazoned the royal arms. Her
servants she had dressed in the royal
livery and she insisted on being called
Princess Olivia. of Cumberland,
When. a little later she was arrested
for debt she put forward the startling
claim that she was exempt, as mem
Der of the royal household, from civil
proceedings. To strengthen the faith
of her followers she produced VIII
of George III in which he appeared
TO have left her sum of fifteen
thousand pounds For several yef $
she enjoyed quite a following and
many highly respected persons in
England took up the cudgels in her
behalf, but eventually she lost out
and she died probably wishing that
she had been content with her first
honor-that of landscape painter to
the prince of Wales.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
Rogues' Gallery of Success

Not this year or next, perhaps not
In the time of the present admins
tration at Washington, will the full
defects and dangers of
the income tax law be realized. But
its sinister possibilities viii be dlscov-
cred sooner or later, and 1t is as well
to look them in the face while there is
yet time, says the Wall Street jour
nal.
That tax has within II, and of its
very nature, possibilities of oppression
and improper influence such as it's
makers never conceived. The tax
payer does not realize yet that each
successive income tax return in future
years can be compared with his pre-
ceding returns.- The tax law is so
loosely drawn that his returns will be
honest, indeed, If some discrepancy
cannot be found however technical,
upon which to base charges.
Here is a striking instance of how,
in the past few years. thanks largely
to hysterical magazine writers and
others. we have come to confuse
popular government with freedom.
Within three years we shall have es-
tablished police "dossier." more Of
fenslve than the French one, for every
citizen guilty of the crime of receiving
an income Of SO 900 or more. No one
need pretend to believe that the facts
of these returns can really be kept
secret. They pass through too many
hands. Any enterprising news editor
would be prepared TO bet that he could
secure the facts of any return, If his
paper wanted ii.
Short OF ''mugging" and finger
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
A House Built in a Day

The remarkable feat of building a
house in a day was recently accom-
plished at Hamilton, Ontario. The
first sod was turned at ; o'clock p.
m, and the building when seen FIVE
hours later was already up to with
in a few feet of the second story. and
the brickwork could be seen to grow
steadily under the efforts of a small
army of bricklayers. The house con-
tains nine rooms and is of two stories
and every detail Of steamfitting, i'm
ishing, plumbing and furnishing was
ready within exactly twenty four
hours after the turning of the first
sod. 1t was possible for a family TO
have walked in and lived there with
ont anything further being required,
except getting in provisions. AS the
workmen We're at work all night
powerful arc lights were strung on
poles around the building. There
We're between 800 and 400 men at
work at midnight. the carpentering
going on Simultaneously with the
brieklaying. The foundations are of
/ concrete blocks and the brickwork
! is exceptionally heavy. The house
was given away TO the person guess
ing the number of beans in bottle
on the grounds where the house was
/ built.-The Strand.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03

hesitation: THE great problem in the
commercial utilization of electricity
for power purposes of all kinds will,
l think, he answered satisfactorily
after this Niagara Falls plant is COM
pleted.
ut will then be demonstrated that
electricity can be carried to CONNER
cial advantage certainly from twenty
FIVE to thirty miles. | believe that
when this work is completed the
energy which is in the Niagara
waterpower after it has been con-
verified into electric energy will be
carried to Buffalo, and it will furn-
lsh all the power needed in that city
for its Industries and for lighting and
for operating its enrlre system OF
street car traffic"
He paused q moment as though
wondering whether he ought to say
something which he had in mind. APP
parently he decided to do so for he
continued: IF the current can be car
ried with commercial practicability, as
/ believe it will be, to Buffalo | see
no reason why perfected apparatus
should not be able to deliver It per-
haps as far away as Rochester or
even farther. II look, too, for the es-
adjustment of industrial plants here
which require very high electric
energy, and will thereby give the
world something of very great in
dus+rial value"
All that Mr. WESTINGHOUSE predict
ed was afterward justified by the
facts. and five wears later so great
had been the development at Niagara
that Lord Kelvin came from Eng
land to make inspection of the Won
de ful electrical industrial plants es-
tablished there. and also the methods
bv which electric energy has been so
utilized at Niagara as to furnish the
Great city Of Buffalo with power for
all commercial purposes He came
as the guest of Mr.. WESTINGHOUSE.
with whom he had long maintained
intimate friendship.
Copyright. 1914, by E. J Edwards.
All rights reserved.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
What the Tolls Debate Demonstrate.

What the Tolls Debate Demonstrates.
From the New York Evening Mail
The vote ON the canal tolls repeal
in the House went the Presidents
way, but the debate mas served the
purpose of demonstrating tlaI the re-
peal. If the Senate shall consummate
1t. will not be voted for the sake of
keeping our solemn Iailh with
Britain" or anything else Of that
sort, but to support the President in
the dedicate international situation
which he says exists.
Speaker Clark himself made it clear
enough that the repeal ought 10 be
voted, When he solemnly declared mis-
belief that The President, in making
his extraordinary demand, was "actu-
ated by the highest patriotic motives. $
II that Is the case, there is nothing
more to say-eXcept that in the end
the nature of the Presidents motives
must fully appear; and that when his
reasons do appear, it must be clearly
seen that they are adequate. If It is
not SO seen beyond a doubt, the Pres
ident will find that he has a dis
astrous account to settle with the
American people.
For the people do not believe-and
Il is not true-that they are in honor
and duty bound TO relinquish the
right to pass their domestic traffic
free through their own Panama canal
So it devolves upon the President
If the Senate gives him his tolls re-
peal, to prove that the surrender is
wise and necessary for the mysterious
reasons Of state that he has limited
at not declared.
Failing to produce this proof, the
-
half-hour in the woodshed--a painful
half-hour with the American people
land a leather strap and buckle al
the end of il.