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THE LADYSMITH NEWS
Published Every Saturday by the
Ladysmith Publishing Company.
Incorporated.
LADYSMITH, - WTSCO NSTn.
BIG CROP Of WINTER WHEAT
JONES-INGLIS REPORT BRUSHES
AWAY ALL LATE TALK OF
DAMAGE.
I^——
Minneapolis, July 1. —H. V. Jones
the Minneapolis crop estimator, who,
in company with John Inglis, has been
covering the winter wheat fields of
the United States, issued his annual
report yesterday. Mr. Jones finds
that the country has raised 420,000,-
000 bushels of winter wheat, the larg
est crop ever produced.
In view of the dry periods earlier in
the season, when Kansas and Nebras
ka stood in need of rains, which after
wards came, there was much talk of
drouth, and the railroads and financial
world stood at one time in fear of a
possible crop calamity and lessened
business activity in the fall.
The Jones figures would indicate
greater opportunity this year than
ever for large Southwest railroad
earnings and general expansion.
Southwestern markets at St. Louis
and Kansas City received the report,
w'hich was sent out from Minneapolis
about noon, with satisfaction.
The grain trade in general waited
for it, but Wall street evinced as
great an interest in view of recent ap
prehension that important damage
might have resulted in the Southwest
grain states. New York waited for
the figures, and a summary of the re
port was cabled to London and Liver
pool.
The crop of 420,000,00 bushels of
winter wheat is made, and loss of
yield can only result now from a wet
harvest. The winter wheat crop last
year was about 380,000,000 bushels.
MANY ATTEND SCIENCE SCHOOL.
Summer Enrollment at Wahpeton is
Large.
The summer school or summer ses
sion of the state science school opened
at Wahpeton with a large attendance.
About eighty students have enrolled
up to to-night and this number prob
ably will be increased to one hundred
before the week is out. Following are
the instructors: Theo. Lindquist,
science school, mathematics; N. C.
MacDonald, Lidgerwood, pedagogy and
history; F. E. Smith, superintendent
Wahpeton public schools, orthography
and grammar; Katrina B. MacDonald,
Lidgerwood, geography and reading;
Inez Champine, Fargo, primary meth
ods and drawing; R. M. Black, county
superintendent, civics and course of
study; Lillian Shields, penmanship;
Mrs. Mabel Moll, Wahpeton, music.
FLOODS BIG BUILDINGS.
Duluth Structure Is Damaged by 15,-
000 Gallons of Water.
Duluth, June 30. —The huge water
tank on the top of the five-story
wholesale building at 223-227 South
Fifth avenue, gave way yesterday aft
ernoon ar.d fell to the dock in the rear,
letting loose 15,000 gallons of water
that flooded the building from roof to
basement.
The building was occupied by H.
Heilstein, manufacturer of men’s fur
nishings, and the fifty employes, most
ly girls, were thrown into a panic by
the accident.
Two men narrowly escaped death by
being buried under the mass of falling
wood and iron. The damage to th
Heilstein stock was extensive.
FIRE STARTS IN MATCHES.
Big General Store at Pennock Suffers
a Heavy Loss.
Willmar, Minn., July 1. —The mer
chandise establishment of Erickson &
Finstrom, at Pennock, was partially
destroyed by a fire which originated
in a stock of matches in a warehouse
in the rear of the building yesterday.
The grocery department was destroy
ed and the dry goods damaged by
smoke. The fire was confined to the
Interior of the building. The Willmar
fire department was called upon for
assistance. The loss is covered by in
surance of $6,000.
ACID BURNS CHILD’S FACE.
Unusual Accident May Cause the
Death of Fergus Falls Girl.
Fergus Falls, Minn., July 1. —A pe
culiar accident occurred at the farm
home of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Nelson,
their little daughter upsetting a large
can of battery fluid, used in connec
tion with a gasoline engine, over her
body and face. A physician was sum
moned, but before he could reach her
the acids of which the fluid is com
posed had eaten into her flesh in a
horrible manner, causing excruciating
pain. She will be disfigured in case
she recovers.
ACCIDENT NEAR LAKE BENTON.
Way Freight Cars Left the Track—
Nobody Hurt.
Lake Benton, Minn., July 1. —Way
freight No. 15 on the Chicago &
North-Western was wrecked one and
a half miles east of this station yes
terday. Seven cars left the track and
three w r ere ditched. The track was
badly torn up. The passenger traffic
was continued by transfer ,and mail,
baggage and express were transferred
by team from this station. No one was
hurt.
23 AMERICANS
KILLED IN WRECK
ENGLISH TRAIN CARRYING AMER
ICAN PASSENGERS TO LON
DON IS WRECKED.
[RAVELS AT A MAD PACE
ENGINE JUMPS THE TRACK AND
COACHES ARE DEMOLISHED—
MANY INJURED.
Salisbury, England, July 3. —Travel-
ng at a mad pace over the London &
Southwestern railway, the American
line express, carrying forty-three of
the steamer New York’s passengers
!rom Plymouth to London, plunged
from the track just after passing the
station here at 1:57 o’clock yesterday
morning and mangled to death in its
wreckage twenty-three passengers
who sailed from New York June 23
and four of the trainmen. Besides
those to whom death came speedily, a
Jozen persons were injured, some se
riously.
Prominent Americans Dead.
Among the dead were Walter Ber
wick, prominent lawyer of Toronto,
Ont.; Louis Cassier, Trumbull, Conn.,
editor of the Electrical Review and
The Engineer; F. H. Cossitt, New
York; Frank W. Koch, a wealthy man
of Allentown, Pa.; Charles E. Sentill,
wife and two daughters of New York.
The late hour of the New York’s ar
rival at Plymouth saved many lives.
She carried more than sixty travelers
lor London, but many of them elected
Df Allentown, Pa.; Charles E. Sentell,
impton in preference to the late land
ing at Plymouth and the long night
ride across the country.
A Mile a Minute.
The ill fated train consisted of a
power express engine, three first
class corridor carriages and one com
bination guard’s van and buffet. The
passengers were entrained and at
11:30 the express pulled out. It was
given a clear track on the run of 230
miles to London, on which the express
generally maintains an average speed
Df a mile a minute.
The train ran on safely and without
incident until it entered the long rail
way yard of Salisbury, when the pas
sengers noted that the coaches began
swaying from side to side. Suddenly,
it the end of the long platform, where
the track begins to curve toward the
bridge spanning Fisherton street, the
main avenue of the city, the engine
seemed fairly to
Lean From the Track.
It swung across the adjoining track
with terrific force and destroyed the
guard’s van of a milk train that was
slowly steaming in the opposite direc
tion. killing a guard. Lurching for
ward, the locomotive plunged against
the standards and girders of the
bridge. The bridge stood the impact,
and, rebounding, the engine crashed
Into another engine that was stand
ing on a siding and overturned. The
wreckage of the two engines interlock
ed in a great broken mass of twisted
steel and iron. Throughout the wild
plunging of the engine Driver Robbins,
whether alive or dead, remained in
bis cab. Hours afterward his charred
body was found grilled over the fire
box.
All Killed or Maimed.
The first coach shot over the engine
ind careened onward until it w T as
hurled against the parapet of the
bridge and smashed into fragments,
killing or maiming almost every oc
cupant. One man was shot througn
the window, cleared the parapet and
!ell to his death in the street below.
The second coach lurched forw’ard
ind rolled towards a stationary train
md practically destroyed itself before
Its wild flight was ended.
The third coach dashed forward
with the rest, left the rails and en
countered some obstruction, overturn
td and collapsed.
Guard Saves Van.
The guard’s van and buffet, the rear
most car of the train, was saved by
the courage and quickness of Guard
Richardson. With the first shock
Richardson jumped forward and set
the brakes and saved himself and his
comrades.
The surviving passengers and train
men describe the shock of the w’reck
as like the discharge of heavy guns of
raried caliber, and when the crashing
Df the wreck w r as passed, then came
cries of the injured, some shrieking
with pain and fear and others moaning
as if bewildered by the shock.
The darkness and incredible de
struction made the work of rescue ex
ceedingly difficult. Several of the
Head and injured w’ere imprisoned in
compartments and it w’as necessary to
saw aw r ay the partitions in order to
effect their release. Others were
caught under heavy wreckage. Sev
eral of tlwe bodies w-ere badly mangled
and one woman w’as decapitated.
Militia Ordered Out.
El Paso, Tex., July 3. —Orders have
been issued at Phoenix, Ari., to hold
three companies of national guards in
readiness to proceed to Morenci and
Clifton, Ari., where a strike is threat
ened in the mines.
Two Drowned.
Washington, July 3. —Two deaths
from drowaning occurred here to-day.
i Herbert J. Callender met death while
bathing in the Potomac river, and Ce
' cil B. Fuller was drowmed by the cap
sizing of his boat.
FATAL SMASH IN MINE PIT
RUNAWAY CARS DASH .DOWN
TRACK AND FOUR PERSONS
ARE KILLED.
•
Eveleth, Minn., July 3.—At least
four men were killed in a wreck in
Fayal No. 3 extension pit at 10; 20 last
night, and other bodies may be found.
Five steel cars, loaded with over fifty
tons of iron ore each, dashed down
the grade into the pit and struck
a Drake & Stratton shovel in the strip
ping and buried the crew in ore and
debris.
The five cars were the first pulled
out of the pit that night and they were
left on the track running into the pit.
Then they started to run back. The
pit is over seventy-five feet deep and
the heavy cars were soon running at
a speed wrhich must have been to
wards 100 miles an hour.
At the end of the track they jumped
a bank of ore ten feet high and smash
ed into the back end of the Drake &
Stratton shovel in the strippings.
LAND FRAUD CASES FAIL.
Five Oshkosh Capitalists Discharged
by Court Commissioner McDonald.
Oshkosh, Wis., July 3. — United
States Court Commissioner D. E. Mc-
Donald, discharged Leander Choate,
Benjamin Doughty, James Doughty,
James M. Bray and Thomas Daly, all
capitalists of Oshkosh, who were in
dicted for alleged land frauds in the
state of Oregon.
In rendering his? decision the com
missioner said:
“In my opinion there has not been
adduced a scintilla of evidence on
either side, either in cross-examina
tion or otherwise, that would tend
to show that the defendants had en
tered into any agreement or combina
tion to defraud the government.”
SUSPENDER SAVES LIFE.
Bullet. Fired by Jealous Woman
Strikes Buckle.
Des Moines, lowa, July 3. —A sus
pender buckle saved the life of August
Wessels, by protecting his heart from
a bullet fired by the hand of a jealous
woman. He, with several companions
in a boat, were rowing up the river at
(Clinton. As they passed the home of
a woman who, it is said, bears Wessels
a grudge and is jealous of him, she
fired a revolver. Her aim fell short,
but the bullet, striking the water,
glanced and struck Wessels. His sus
pender buckle proved armor, and the
bullet fell harmless into the bottom
of the boat.
BLOW STORE SAFE.
Burglars* Evidently Experts, Get S9OO
for Job.
Plains, Mont., July 3. —Using nitro
glycerin for the purpose, veggmen
blew the safe in the store of Krueger
& Peterson and carried off S9OO in cur
rency, besides a large sum in checks
and other negotiable papers. The
latter, however, have been recovered,
being found in the stock yards, where
the burglars had thrown them away
after examining them.
MAN IS KILLED AT DULUTH.
Fatal Accident Occurs at Carbolic
Company’s Plant.
Duluth, July 3—Robert Robinson,
aged twenty-seven years and unmar
ried, was almost instantly killed by
falling timbers at the new plant of the
American Carbolic company at West
Duluth. He was foreman of construc
tion. A rope supporting a block and
tackle system gave way while Robin
son was under the load.
HANGS SELF ON STEAMER.
Body of J. C. Gilchrist’s Uncle Found
in Stateroom.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 3. —David T.
Clough, aged seventy years, of Cleve
land, Ohio, an uncle of J. C. Gilchrist
of the Gilchrist Transportation com
pany, committed suicide by hanging
on the Gilchrist steamer Ireland some
time last night. The body was found
in a stateroom on the steamer s ar
rival. The cause of the suicide is not
known.
DROWNS IN A JAR OF WATER.
Six-year-old Child Loses Life While
Playing.
Pipestone, Minn., July 3. —The six
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Martinson of Lime Lake town
ship, Murray county, is just reported
to have drowned in a twenty-gallon
jar of water, while playing about the
house. She is supposed to have fallen
in, and was dead when found.
BLOWS HIMSELF TO PIECES,
Deadw'ood, S. D., July 3. —After
lighting a fuse twenty feet long, Ebert
Olson of Roubaix lay down on the
ground, placed five sticks of giant pow
der on his chest, attached the other
end of the fuse to the powder and
waited for the end. He had driven all
the members of his son’s family, with
whom he lived, from the house before
attempting suicide. His body was
found horribly mangled. He was six
ty-six years old and was recovering
from a protracted spree.
All Stolen but the House.
Sisseton, S. D., July 3. —John Iron
of Big Coolie has been arrested by
Sheriff Minder on a charge of breaking
into the house of John Bear and steal
ing everything that was not riveted to
the spot. He will have his hearing
Mondav.
CONGRESS ENDS
BUSY SESSION
LEGISLATORS ADJOURN WITH A
GREAT RECORD OF CON
STRUCTIVE WORK.
LAWS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE
PRESIDENT IS PLEASED WITH
RESULTS—HILARITY MARKS
THE END.
■0
Washington, July 3. —Promptly at 10
o’clock Saturday night Vice President
Fairbanks in the senate and Speaker
Cannon in the house declared the final
adjournment of the first session of the
Fifty-ninth congress.
For the first time in the history of
the government, congress adjourned
on the day which closed the fiscal
year.
Other sessions had adjourned before
and some after June 30, but the Fifty
ninth congress ended its first session
on the day when the government
strikes its balances and closes its
books.
Both Houses Lack Quorum.
There were some interesting fea
tures to mark the end, which finally
came when there was less than a quo
rum in either house, as many senators
and representatives, relying on the be
lief that adjournment would come
early in the day, made their arrange
ments to leave in the afternoon, and
they did not remain for the closing
scenes.
An error in the enrollment of the
sundry civil bill caused quite a flurry
about the capitol.
It was found by Secretary Root in
looking over the bill after it had been
signed by the president that it con
tained an appropriation of $3,000,000
for a site for a public building in
Washington, a provision which had
been eliminated from two different
bills. After some perplexity the error
was corrected by a joint resolution.
Important Legislation.
Important legislation which the
president has succeeded in obtaining
from congress includes:
A railroad rate bill with provision
for review by the courts of the find
ings of the interstate commerce com
mission.
Thorough federal inspection of the
packing houses, as a result of the ex
posure of unsanitary conditions.
Provisions for the construction of a
lock type of canal through the isthmus
of Panama.
Non-immunity bill for trusts and
corporations alleged to be illegal.
Twenty-five thousand dollars a year
to pay his traveling expenses while on
tours through the country.
Confirmation of the appointment of
B. F. Barnes, formerly assistant secre
tary to the president, as postmaster at
Washington.
A pure food enactment, prohibiting
adulteration of food.
A uniformly strict method of natu
ralizing aliens.
The consular service given a com
plete legal status, w r hich will permit of
an entire reorganization.
A bill removing the internal revenue
tax on denatured alcohol.
The annual appropriation for the
state militia was doubled, and $2,000,-
000 will be spent from the federal
treasury for the purpose of keeping
the state military organizations in
touch with the regular army.
Speedy appropriations for the San
Francisco earthquake sufferers, which
resulted from requests by the presi
dent; $2,500,000 appropriated and re
lief supplies were sent immediately.
Legislation That Failed.
Legislation which Mr. Ropsevelt de
sired and has failed to obtain from
congress includes:
The Philippine tariff measure, which
he w r as anxious to have passed.
The Santo Domingo treaty, which, it
is now believed, will be defeated.
Specific law’s for the purpose of pre
venting corruption at elections.
Modification of the present laws ex
cluding Chinese from emigrating to
America.
Immediate construction of a 20,000-
ton battleship.
Direct federal control of and super
vision over life insurance companies.
President Is Pleased.
President Roosevelt is gratified at
the w’ork of congress and he is espe
cially pleased with the meat inspec
tion bill and the railroad rate legisla
tion.
The closing scenes in the senate
were formal and without interest. In
the house there w r ere the usual hilari
ous performances, consisting of amus
ing speeches and songs, which occu
pied the time during the long waits,
and members made the best of the hot
test day of the season with merriment.
No business but pending legislation
was transacted in either house.
VETERAN YACHTSMAN DIES.
Capt. Hank Haff Passes Away on Long
Island.
Islip, L. 1., July 3. —Capt. Hank Haff,
the veteran yachtmaster, died at his
home here. He suffered from a com
plication of diseases and had been fail
ing ever since the death of his wife
about a year ago. Capt. Haff sailed
the Volunteer and Defender in the in
ternational races for the America’s
cup and was master of the Vigilant
w’hen she went to the other side.
$880,183,301 ARE THE FIGURES
MR. TAWNEY MAKES STATEMENT
CONCERNING CONGRESSIONAL
APPROPRIATIONS.
Washington, July 4. Represnta
tive Tawney, chairman of the house
committee on appropriations, has pre
pared a detailed statement concerning
the appropriations for the next fiscal
year, beginning July, 1906, made by
congress during the session just
closed, in which he claims that the
per capita cost of government in the
United States, including federal and
state, is less than that of any Euro
pean country.
Mr. Tawney enters into an analysis
to show the various channels into
which the total appropriation of SBBO,-
183,301. will be diverted. He begins by
deducting $138,456,415 provided for
the sinking fund of the Panama canal,
etc., showing that the real appropria
tion for the conduct of the govern
ment for the fiscal year is $740,726,886.
To meet this demand he estimates
that the total revenues (customs, in
ternal and postal) will be $781,573,364.
Where the Money Gose.
The appropriations, as made in the
various supply bills, are as follows:
Agriculture, $9,932,940; army. $71.-
817,165; diplomatic and consular,
$3,091,094; District, of Columbia, $lO.-
138,692; fortifications, $5,053,993; In
dian, $9,260,400; legislative, etc., $29.-
741,019; military academy, $1,664,708;
navy, $102,071,650; pensions, $140,-
245,500; postoffice. $191,695,999; sun
dry civil, $98,274,574; total, $672,987.-
734
Isthmian canal deficiency, $11,000,-
000; urgent deficiency, 1906 and prior
years, $16,270,332; urgent deficiency,
additional, 1906 and prior vears. sll.-
573,989.
Total annual regular appropriations,
$740,106,981; permanent annual appro
priations. $140,076,320; grand total,
regular and permanent appropriations.
$880,183,301.
The aggregate appropriation is $60.-
000,000 in excess of that for last, yeai.
CLOUDBURST IN NEBRASKA.
Property Losses Reach Thousands of
Dollars.
Lincoln, Neb., July 4. —The cloud
burst which flooded this vicinity last
night was the heaviest ever know’n
here and caused property losses of
many thousands of dollars in Lincoln
alone. In the business streets the
w’ater was more than two feet deep,
and the sewers being unable to carry
off such a quantity the water ran into
the basements of all the stores, caus
ing losses that range from a few hun
dred dollars to several thousand.
The department stores, with dis
plays in their basements, are the heav
iest losers. The city pumping stations
were flooded and the water supply was
almost cut off. The damage in resi
dence portions of the city wras heavy.
All of the streams in Southeastern
Nebraska are out of their hanks and
damage to crops is considerable.
WANT MEAT INSPECTORS.
Civil Service Examinations Will Be
Held July 31.
Washington, July 4. —To carry into
effect the meat inspection law’ recently
enacted by congress, the civil service
commission yesterday announced an
examination of inspectors to be held
on the 21st inst. The regulations un
der which the examinations are to be
held do not require that the inspectors
be veterinarians, but they must from
experience be qualified to determine
w’hether or not meat is sound, whole
some and fit for human food, and must
be competent to supervise the prepara
tion of various meat products. The
entrance salary is SI,OOO per annum.
PONTIFF IN GOOD HEALTH.
Pope Pius Receives Several Ameri
cans in Special Audience.
Rome, July 4. —Notwithstanding the
intense heat, the pope, washing to give
proof of his special benevolence to
wards Americans, has been receiving
a number of them within the past few r
days. They have been presented by
Dr. Kennedy, rector of the American
college in Rome, and included Dr.
Hanna of Rochester, Judge Jones of
the United States court of Ohio and
Mrs. Jones. All have remarked how
vigorous the pontiff is looking, the
heat having affected him but little.
THREE NEAR DEATH.
Team Runs Away With Children and
Dashes Into Stream.
Red Wing, Minn., July 4. —Three
children of Henry Hoist, residing in
Goodhue —Ellen, aged seventeen; Em
ma, aged fifteen, and Raymond, aged
five —had a miraculous escape from
death yesterday while driving. Their
team ran away and while crossing a
bridge dashed into the stream below’,
the children being finally rescued and
resuscitated, though the younger girl
with much difficulty. It so happened
that a physician was among the res
cuers and directed the efforts to save
the children.
INSPECTION SOON TO BEGIN.
Secretary of Agriculture Will Organize
Work Before Taking Vacation.
Washington, July 4. —Secretary Wil
son of the department of agriculture
has decided not to enter on his annual
vacation until he has put into opera
tion the new meat inspection law’. He
will give practically his entire time
to this work for the next two months.
The new’ pure food law also will re
quire attention, but the secretary in
tends to leave this almost wholly to
Dr. W. H. Wiley.
CABINET’S EAIL
NOW IS CERTAIN
COMING OF RESPONSIBLE PAR
LIAMENTARY MINISTRY IS
AT HAND.
CZAR TALKS ABOUT CHANGE
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS
MAY SOON TAKE REINS OF
GOVERNMENT.
St. Petersburg, July 4. —Ivan Petrun
kevitch, the veteran leader of the Lib
eral movement, who has been prevent
ed by ill health from taking a promi
nent part in the debates in the lower
house of parliament, but who, not
withstanding, is a factor of the great
est weight in the councils of the Con
stitutional Democratic party, in an in
terview granted to the Associated
Press yesterday, expressed his con
viction that the downfall of the pres
ent cabinet had been decided, and de
clared his fullest confidence that the
coming of a responsible parliamen
tary ministry is near at hand.
May Try to Stave It Off.
Emperor Nicholas, Petrunkevitch
said, might and probably would at
tempt to stave off the inevitable in the
endeavor to form another but more
liberal bureaucratic ministry, but its
helplessness to face the situation of
the hostile attitude of parliament was
so apparent that its existence would
be brief if Finance Minister Kokosov
soff or any one elese were rash enough
to attempt its formation. M. Petrun
kevitch professed ignorance of any di
rect negotiation between the emperor
and the Constitutional Democrats, but
spoke with such positiveness that it
was evident his supposition was based
on more definite grounds than the
present situation, and it is presumed
he and his friends are fully in touch
with the developments at Peterhof and
desire to enlist Constitutiohal Demo
cratic support for the new ministry.
Democrats May Try It.
M. Grodeskul' vice president of the
lower house and a prominent Consti
tutional Democrat, was equally confi
dent that the Constitutional Demo
crats will soon be intrusted with the
reins of government and equally em
phatic in declaring that parliament
would refuse to work with a cabinet
containing Kokovosoff, Yermoloff or
Shipoff.
The result of Premier Goremykin’s
trip to Peterhof yesterday has not
transpired on account of his late re
turn , but it is understood that no def
inite decision was reached as to his
successor or the composition of the
new cabinet.
NEW PANAMA CANAL BOARD.
President Makes a New Commission,
With Chief Engineer Stevens Added
Washington. July 4. —Because of the
failure of the senate to confirm the
isthmian canal commission, President
Roosevelt has named anew commis
sion. consisting of Theodore F. Shonts,
chairman; John F. Stevens. Gov.
Charles E. Magoon, Brig. Gen. Peter
C. Haines, U. S. A. (retired); Morde
cai Endicott, civil engineer, U. S. N.,
and Benjamin M. Parrod, members.
Mr. Stevens replaces Brig. Gen. Os
wald P. Ernst, who retired from active
service in the army last w’eek and will
hereafter devote practically his entire
time to the international waterways
commission. Joseph Bucklin Bishop,
w’ho w’as secretary of the old commis
sion and a member of the commission,
will be secretary to the new’ body, but
not one of its members.
The salaries of the members w’ill
continue the same as heretofore. Mr.
Stevens will continue as chief engi
neer of the commission, but will not
receive any extra compensation for his
services as a member of the commis
sion.
STICK STUDDED WITH NAILS.
With Such a Brutal Goad Stepmother
Is Accused of Beating Child.
Youngstow’n, Ohio, July 4. —The
discovery that six-year-old Elsie An
derson had died of wounds on her
body, apparently the result of a beat
ing with a stick filled with nails, was
follow’ed by the arrest of her step
mother, Jennie Anderson, Sunday.
She was very nervous, and beyond
admitting that she had beaten the
child frequently in the last three
w’eeks, refused to talk.
Physicians who examined the body
of the child declared that she had
been beaten to death. The body pre
sents a horrible sight. From the top
of the head to the soles of the feet
there are not four squares inches of
skin not punctured with w’hat are be
lieved to be nail holes or covered with
ugly w’ounds. One arm and a shoulder
were broken.
COULDN’T WAIT FOR IT TO STOP.
Excursionist Is Almost Killed by a
Train at Dorchester.
Dorchester, Wis., July 4.—As the
excursion train from the Medford
Saengerfest was entering Dorchester
Henry Hipske of Holeton, in attempt
ing to alight from the train before it
stopped, fell under one of the coaches
and the wheels cut off one of his arms.
When rescued he was lying across the
track, and only the sudden stopping
of the train saved him from being kill
ed.