Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-29
General News Items.

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad haN
issued orders that all employees who
drink liquor while on duty will be dis
charged.
Delegates from nineteen employers
associations met in New York to
form a general federation of organiza-
tons of employers.
The National Harnessmakers' asso-
citation, in session at Columbus, Ohio,
adopted resolutions calling for reduc-
ton of the tariff on hides and raw ma
terial
Five torpedo boats won a fve-mile
race from the same number of torpe-
do boat destroyers off Newport, R. I.
1t was the first race of the kind ever
attempted.
The largest order for equipment
ever placed by the New Haven rail-
road has recently been distributed
among several firms, calling for $12,-
100000 worth of rolling stock.
With an attendance of about 400
delegates, the American Institute Of
Banking, formerly known as the
American Institute of Bank Clerks,
held it's fifth annual convention in De-
trOit
The affairs of the Pope Manufacture
ing company, which recently went
into the hands of friendly receiver,
of creditors representing 100000
of the firms Indebtedness.
Gov. Harris of Ohio has extended to
the chief executive of each state in
the Union an invitation to appoint
three delegates to attend a national
conference to be held at Columbus
Nov. II under the auspices of the Ma
tiOnal Tax association.
A 100000 filtering plant will be
constructed at Escanaba, Mich. For
ten years the city has been visited an
nually by serious typhoid fever cpl
denies. Health authorities have
agreed that impure water was the
cause.
Mayor Rigdon of Warsaw, Ind, has
declared his intention of ostracising
confirmed drunkards from that city.
A thirty-year-old drunk who appeared
before him was ordered banished
from the place for two years. He was
informed that if he returned he would
have to join the ball and chain gang
and work on the streets.
Gov. w F. Frear has been inaugu-
rated as chief executive of Hawaii.
He promises a settlement of the agri-
cultural land question in the interest
of the holders of small tracts. Mott
the territory, A. S. Hartwell as chief
justice of the supreme court, and
Judge Ballau as associate justice
Congressman Bennett of New York,
a member of the United States immi-
grafton commission, in an interview
in the Berlin Tageblatt regarding the
result of his investigation in the Near
East, is quoted as saying that he
found 80 per cent of the population of
Syria suffering from Egyptian eye
disease The situation of the Jews in
Rumania, he added, was simply fear
full.
Almost all the diamonds belonging
to the estate of the late Mrs. Jane L.
| Stanford. widow of Leland Stanford.
have been quietly disposed of and the
proceeds are to be devoted to Leland
Stanford, Jr, university, in compli-
ance with the terms of the will of
| their owner. 1t is said that $350.500
| has been realized.
A checker tournament to decide
who is the champion checker player
| of the world will be held in New York
| in September The tournament is be-
| ing promoted by Scully, Irwin, Muir.
ray, Bradley and Zierk, all prominent
players, and will be an open event.
Negroes have just broken into the
brokerage business. The success
which has attended realty companies,
merchandise enterprises and business
institutions run by negroes in the in
terests of their race, has resulted in
the opening of stock brokers' office
in the Wall street district of New
| York.
The report that the Island of Lay
san had disappeared was greatly ex
aggerated. The island was visited on
| Aug. Is by the United States govern
ment tug Iroquois, which was return
ing from Guam. At that time it was
doing business at the old stand.