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-A, *4*. 7 .,1)'. «!-A-«5L '. DETAILS ARE ALL ARRANGED Progra for the Big Woodmen Picnic in Jun is Now Complete. Baloon Ascensions, Competitive Drills and Military Parades Slated Among the Attractions, Congressman Hammon to be the Orator on the Second Day of the Festiyal. The executive committee having in charge the work of affording enter tainment for the thousands who will visit this city during the big Wood men picnic in June have completed their labors, as far as arranging the program of exercises is concerned, and it must be admitted that tbey have done their work well. While the published program by no means covers all that is to be seen by the visitors throughout the three days, standing alone by itself it offers more than enough. In short there is an abundance and variety galore, and then some. On June 2nd, the first day of the big gathering, the program will be as follows: 1:30 p. m.—Grand Sand Concert by the 2nd Regt. Band of New Ulm. 3:30 p. m.—Baloon ascension and parachute leap at North German Park. 8:00 p. m.—Summer Festival and Band Concert at Turner Hall Park. Wednesday, the second day, will be given over largely to parades and competitive drills, but by no means the least important of the many fea tures offered will be the address in the forenoon by Congressman Winfield Scott Hammond. The official schedule for the day includes: 10:30 a. m.—Grand Woodmen Par ade, participated in by Woodmen Camps and Uniformed Teams from Southern Minnesota. 11:30p. m.—Address at German Park by Hon. W. S. Hammond, Member of Congress from Second Congressional District. 2:00 p. m.—Fancy Drill by ladies of Wild Rose Camp No. S56 R. N. A., of Lake Crystal, Minn. 2:30 p. m.--Woodmen Competitive Drills, participated in by Woodmen Teams from Gamps of Southern Min nesota. First prize, $50 second prize, $25. 3:30 p. m.—Woodmen Tug-of-war. Prize, $10. 4:00 p.m.—Baloon Ascension and Parachute leap at North German Park. 7:00 p. m.—Grand Automobile Par ade. Prize for best decorated machine, $25 second prize, $10. Sunset—Military Dress Parade. 8 p. m.—Band concert by numerous bands including Second Regiment Band. For Thursday, the third and closing day of the festival, the committee has arranged for one of the biggest events ever pulled off in this neck5 of the woods— a grand military parade to be participated in by military companies from New Ulm, St. Peter, Mankato and Redwood Falls. Here is the line up for the day as it appears in the official announcements: 8:00 a. m.—Military Guard Mount. 10:00 a. m.—Band Concerts. 2:00 p. m.—Grand Military Parade, reviewed by Gen. Jos. Bobleter and staff, participated in by the companies from Mankato, St. Peter, Redwood Falls, and New Ulm, Burg's Battery and other military organizations. 4:00 p. m.—Balloon ascension and parachute leap at North German Park 8:00 p. m.—Band concerts. Confetti night. A conference of the governors of all the states, cabinet officers, justices of the supreme court and leading mem bers of congress will be held at the White House week after next to con sider the all important question of the conservation of the country's natural resources. Special guests of the pre sident on this occasion will be James J. Hill, Grover Cleveland, John Mit chell, Andrew Carnegie and William J. Bryan. Chas. Spalding, the Lamberton citi zen who returned only a few days ago from a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan, and whose illness for months had occasioned anxiety among his friends and relatives, died Friday noon, the funeral being held from his Lamberton home yesterday forenoon. Mr. Spalding was a son-in-law of Mr. and xMrs. Gott. Retzlaff of this city and through his connections with this well-known family he enjoyed an ac-the quaintance with the people of New 1 kit a W a S iv a intimate. \Jr Moreover he was esteemed by all who knew him. r^ "i /. ii )l iSG.M*'ST. '«&•* SOW*. Every time a federal judge is to be appointed, men representing large corporations pounce down upon the White House, like a flock of buzzards feasting on carrion. They want at torneys of their own training placed on the bench. The president should turn a deaf ear to these corporationists and name men for judicial honors that are not allied with interests that are inimical to those of the people.—Man kato Free Press. At the Johnson headquarters in Chi cago it was announced yesterday that uninstructed delegations were certain to be chosen this week in Connecticut and North Carolina. "Out of eight counties in Connecticut," said Mr. Lynch, "Johnson will get seven, and in North Carolina we have returns of fourteen counties and thirteen of them are for Johnson. We have every con fidence that Johnson will be the nomi nee at Denver." John Wiltscheck, a respected citizen of New Ulm for nearly thirty years, was called to his final rest Saturday evening, the cause of his death being an apoplectic stroke sustained about noon of the same day. Mr. Wiltscheck was born in Bohemia on the 15th of October, 1848. In 1867 he came to this country and from the start his home was in and about New Ulm. In 1873 he married Margaretta Dietz and shortly thereafter he became the owner of a farm in Sigel. This farm he per sonally conducted for eight or ten years, but at the expiration of that time he returned to the city and took up the work of a teamster. Sixteen years ago he opened a soloon on North Broadway and continued in this line of business until his death. Al ways a quiet and law-abiding citizen he enjoyed the respect and confidence of those who knew him best, and among his neighbors he had few if any ene mies. In his death his wife loses a good husband and his children a faith ful and considerate ifather. ATTORNEY HART IS DISBARRED Minneapolis Critic of the Supreme Court Deprived of the Right to Practice. The special court appointed by Gov ernor Johnson to try the case of Fran ces B. Hart, the Minneapolis attorney who was accused of making improper criticism of the state supreme court, rendered its decision Saturday. According to the terms of this deci sion Capt. Hart is disbarred from practicing for six months, a sentence which is regarded by many lawyers as being equivalent to an acquittal. The court in its syllabus says: Every citizen has the right to com ment upon and criticize without any restriction the rulings of a judicial of ficer in an action which has been fully determined and is not to be answerable therefor otherwise than in an action triable by a jury. An attorney has such rights and can only be disbarred for such comment or criticism, if at all, when it is so base and vile as to establish clearly his bad character and his unfitness to remain a member of an honorable pro fession. An attorney may not, however, in sult the judicial officer by words, writ ten or spoken, addressed to such officer personally because of the latter's offi cial act, though in a matter fully end ed, and if he does so, it may consti tute a sufficient cause for his disbar ment. The accused herein having written a personal letter to the chief justice of this court impugning both the intelli gence and the integrity of said chief justice and his associates in the dici sions of certain appeals in which he had been an attorney for the defeated litigants, it is held that he is hereby guilty-of professional misconduct, for which he is suspended from practice for the period of six months. "My husband is particularly liable to seasickness, captain," remarked a lady passenger. "Could you tell him what to do in case of an attack?'' -M 'Taint necessary, mum," replied the captain. 'He'll do it.''—Mariners' Advocate. -. A young couple from the suburbs went to Dublin the other day to see the pantomime. Being early they visited a tea-room, and had the place all to themselves. The attending waitress had omitted, in serving them, to supply the necessary implement to effectually assist in the proper and palatable admixture of the tea, cream, and sugar/ $ "\t,r,'\^,r" ,'°\*"C")*• "Can we have a spoon?" inquired swain. 5 ^f "Certainly," replied theJ obVerv'anfc attendant I am just tidying up and you can have the whole room to your selves in a minute or two." VOLUME XXX. XEW ULM, BROWN COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, t*& DEATH DUE TO A CRIMINAL ACT Coroner's Jury so Decides in Case of Mary Jensen. Coroner Fritsche went to Sleepy Eye Wednesday and held an inquest over the remains of Mary Jensen, aged se venteen years, who mysteriously died at Minneapolis on the Saturday pre vious. A jury was impaneled, a post morten examination was held and the verdict rendered was that the girl came to her death as the result of a criminal operation performed by par ties unknown. The dead girl was the daughter of Julius Jensen, a prominent Sleepy Eye citizen, and her mysterious taking-off has caused a sensation in our neigh boring city. She left home oh the 6th of April, presumably to go to Springfield to visit her sister, but up to Saturday when her parents received a telephone message notifying them of her death in Minneopolis, her whereabouts were really not known^ The person who sent the telephone message would not disclose his identity. County Erickson has the matter in charge and will probe it to the bottom. The guilty party will not escape if there is any possibility of bringing him to justice. PROGRESS AT PANAMA. Another record was established last month by the engineers in charge of the Panama canal, the excavation for March reaching a total of 3,480,270 cubic yards. The best previous month's work was reported in February, when the removal of 2,945,880 cubic yards was considered phenomenal. Since last August the monthly records have been successfully broken, and even the ehronic faultfinders in congress have been silenced for the time being by the success of Col. Goethals' administra tion. The prediction that the canal enterprise is to be the "most colossal 3M A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. 'Run tor the doctor! Fido ate some moth balls!" —Chicago Inter Ocean. "WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE BOSS?" failure in history," which was some times overworked in the past, has been aired, we believe, only once during the present sessien, and upon that occa sion by an Ohio member who was at the time suggesting the abandonment of the canal enterprise and the diver sion of the funds alloted to its con struction for the payment of a dollar a day to every Civil war pensioner. Col. Goethals has succeeded in bring ing order out of the comparative chaos which existed during the earlier ad ministrations. There seems to be lit tle or no friction, and every depart ment of the work is making steady im provement. Thorough and systematic sanitation has so reduced the death rate among the employes that it com pares very well with that of American communities. The work is proceeding not only at top speed, but with a thor oughness and precision that have re stored the American engineering pres tige.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Mayor Bobleter ordered a special meeting of the council for last even ing, but owing to the absence from the city of three of the members it was im possible to secure the quorum neces sary for the transaction of any busi ness. In spite of the wishes of Senators Nelson and Clapp the president has sent to the senate the name of Milton D. Purdy to be United States district judge to succeed Judge Lochren. Nel son's favorite was Attorney W. E. Hale of Minneapolis. A New Yorker who paid a visit last summer to a Kentucky planter had his slumbers disturbed by mosquitos. When he mentioned this to his host the latter declared that they never an noyed him. The next day he commented upon this fact to the Colonel's negro valet, who accounted for the phenomenon in this way: "De fust part ob de night de Kun nel am so drunk dat he don't feel de skeeters, an' de las' part ob de night de skeeters am so drunk dat dey don't bodder de Kunnel."—T/tppincott's. —Donahey Cleveland Plain Dealer. APRIL 25), l908.Kl^M^vt SPRINGFIELD'S BI LOSS !fc.Kav-M Fire Early Yesterday Morning De Its Public School, 4»i ii a- :.? Blaze Supposed to Have Started in y%'%W~' Defective Furnace.?*' Ai*&f a Loss Figured at $40,000 With Only $25,000 of Insurance. •""'"A telephone message from Spring field early yesterday morning brought the startling information that the prin cipal public school building of the village had been completely destroyed by fire. ~V The fire was discovered about six o'clock, but by that time the flames had made such headway that, even with the most strenuous work on the part of the fire department, it was im possible to prevent a total loss. Building, furniture, labaratory appa ratus and school records, therefore, are all amass of charred ruins. The school was a two-story brick structure, containing about a dozen rooms, with accomodations for three to four hundred pupils. Part of it was erected in 1890 and the rest in 1897. While not entirely modern in its appointments it was nevertheless a good, substantial building to replace which today would cost the village be tween $40,000 and $50,000. Secretary Frederickson of the school board was in New Ulm when the news of the disaster reached the city and stated that for the remainder of the school year it left the village in a de plorable condition. Hardly a build ing of any kind is to be had in which to assemble the classes and it is doubt ful even if arrangements can be made to continue the work of the graduat ing class of the high school. The insurance carried on the de stroyed building amounted to $25,000 and this will at once be utilized in the erection of anew and better structure. B. Stockman gave a Dutch lunch to about twenty of his friends at the Tur ner Hall last evening in celebration of the marriage in London of his younger brother, Stewart. DEAR SIR:— We want your trade, and we can show you that we deserve it. Give us a trial and it won't take you long to learn that 3rou get one hundred cents of value for every dollar you spend—and the best value too, for we handle only the best grade goods. We handle, for instance, a full line of Douglas Custom made shoes, undoubtedly the best appearing, best looking and wearing shoes you could possible buy. Max Pfaender was a Saulpaugh guest in Mankato Monday. Prof. Critchett, Attorney Somsen and Dr. Strickler left for Minneapolis this morning to attend the Grand Com mandery meeting of the Knights Temp lar. ,' ." They are about the only shoes in the country made with the good, honest, PULL VAMP which provides each shoe with double leather tip. Only the highest quality of material is used, only I. the most skilled workmen are employed to make them. They are good shoes, and they are made in a good many different styles—dress shoes, work shoes, school shoes and •'all-around" shoes which are dressy enough for average wear, yet sturdy enough to stand hard service. We decided to sell Douglas Shoes only after we were sure that they were the best we could get for our trade. &» Everything we handle is of the same high grade as these Douglas shoes. That's what we meant by best Rvalues."' We wish you wohld let us prove it You can, by calling and looking things over, by givinous atrial. %Mm Dr. Samuel G. Smith, the famous St. Paul preacher, in speaking of Governor Johnson and his presiden tial candidacy, says: I feel that it would be a disgrace, not alone to the Democratic party, but to the whole state if a single voice were raised against him in the convention in hia own state." -vV^'cy:^- During the stoppage of the traffic in a busy thorofare a bus-driver, ever ©n the look-out for a chance of dis-. playing his wit, espied a group of Italians employed in laying the asphalt roadway. Calling the attention of one of the Italians the bus-driver yelled^ "Hi! where's your monkey?" Short and sharp came back the re ply 'Driving a bus.'' During the dinner hour on board a steamer the other day a passenger was. much disturbed by the vulgar way in which the man who sat next to him at his meal. _•'••. At last, after watching him pick a bone in a very primitive fashion, he could control his feelings no longer^ and, turning to the offending party, he said: "Don't you think you would be more comfortable if you took that out on the mat?" ALDERMANIC COMMITTEES. President Graff at the last meeting of the council announced the appoints ment of the following standing com mittees: Light and Water—Councilors Pfaen der, Wicherski and Nagel. Streets and Sewers Councilors Buenger, Nagel and Meyer. Finance—Councilors Pfaender, Buer ger and Meyer. Park and Cemetery Councilors Meyer and Wicherski. Fire Department—Councilors W i cherski and Pfaender,. Buildings and Grounds—Councilors Nagel and Buenger. Yours truly, ?, RONE «BROSi 3J -4.jie.ll J!-iJBJSL 'Si*' 1 5 §K mmmm riH^aoMP"