Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-25
Domestic

Domestic
John Bergman, leading stockman OF
ST. Joseph, Mo-, and prominent Ior
some years, was shot and killed Dy
William B. Richardson, an employee.
The two men quarreled over busl-
ness deal.
w. H. Hull, president of the st. 10
h-Chicago Steamship company; u.
#. Arnold manager; H. Pedersen' cap
tain; J. M. Erickson, engineer, ana II.
Reid and C. c. Eckliff, federal lnspec-
tors, charged by the government with
responsibility for the Eastland dlsas-
ter at Chicago, do not have to go there
to stand trial. This decision was hand
ed down by Federal Judge clarence
w. Sessions at Grand Rapids, Mich.
The greatest disorder prevailed IN
the house of representatives at OKLA
homa City, Okla, when the lie was
passed between two representatives
during a debate. Legislators hurled
several inkwells across the hall and
Arthur H. Geissler, chairman or the
Republican state central committee
was knocked insensible.
The Seaboard Air Line Florida Spe-
cial No. 10 northbound, was wrecked
between Richmond Va, and Chester
Forty persons were injured.
Authorities are Investigating the
causes of the mysterious $5,OOO,OOO
fire in the Atlantic basin, Brooklyn.
Three large ocean steamships, cnar-
tered to carry munitions of war to the
allies, were partially destroyed.
A temporary injunction restraining
the Nebraska state railway commls-
sion from interfering with a proposed
increase in interstate passenger rates
by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cifc railroad was granted at Omaha
Neb., by a court in chancery consist
ing Of three federal judges.
Twenty-one dead and missing sums
I'D the extent of the fire that visited
the depths of the Pennsylvania mlne'
one of the properties Of the Anacona
Copper Mining company at Butte
Mont.
Mrs. Rose Wood, a young married
woman, was shot and instantly killed
on a crowded interurban car at Hunt
ington, w. Va, by Mrs. Leonard De-
foe, who declared Mrs. Wood hao
alienated her husbands affections.
An agreed jury of only II men re-
turned a verdict of second degree MUIR
der against Mrs. Ida Meyer, sixty. at
Winterset, Ia, who was charged Win
complicity in the murder Of her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Meyer.
The secret marriage two weeks ago,
after a three-day courtship Of Miss
Louise Lansing of Jacksonville, Fla,
niece of Secretary of State Lansing
and Louis G. Logsdon of Owensboro,
KY, was revealed at st. Louis.
Hans Schmidt, the .unfrocked priest
who murdered his sweetheart, Anna
Aumueller, was put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing prison at
Ossining, N. Y.
John E. HartenboWer of Chicago
president of the Tonica Exchange
bank, and George D. Hiltabrand, the
cashier, were found guilty at Ottawa
ILL.,, of receiving deposits after know
ing the bank was insolvent. Each was
sentenced to three years in prison.
Miss Catherine A. Bliss, daughter
of Cornelius N. Bliss Of New York
left an estate estimated in a state ta2
appraisers report at $1,674,054. She
possessed a collection of jewels worth
almost $4,000. Miss Bliss died il
| March, 1915.
The superdreadnaught Pennsylvania
| the largest battleship yet built for the
| United States navy, left the plant Of
| the Newport News Shipbuilding ane
| Dry Docks company for Rockland, Me.