Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-16
General.


Presenting total membership OF
100000 in all parts of the world, the
national board of the Ancient Order
Of HibernianS has unanimously en-
dorsed the home-going to Ireland in
1910 originated by Francis J. Kilkenny
of Washington and members of the
order are urged to avail themselves
of the opportunity afforded them to
visit the Emerald isle
Halley's comet, for which astrono
mers have been eagerly watching, has
been seen after an absence of seventy
years, according to a dispatch re
ceived at the Harvard observatory
sight was obtained September IL
5642 in right ascension, six hours
eighteen minutes, twelve seconds
declinatiCn seventeen degrees, eleven
minutes north. 1t could be made out
only in a large telescope
Right on the heels of DR.. Cooks dis
Lieutenant Peary that he, too, had
located the north pole
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, adj
dressed a meeting of wOrkmen at
WolwOrth. He will leave for the con
tinent in a day or two en- route for
America.
Canada claims all land directly
north of the American continent as
far as the pole upon which it would
be possible to nail a flag.
Passenger train No. SO on the
Burlington crashed into a freight at
Burnham killing two and injuring a
dozen others.
Since 1858 seven hundred and fifty
five lives have been lost in hunting
the north pole.
United States War veterans, in en-
campment at Tacoma, Wash, tabled a
resolution authorizing camps to enroll
g. A R. and Confederate Veterans as
honorary members.
Dr. d. K Pearsons announced a
gift of 100000 to the Berea, KY,
college providing the trustees of that
institution raise 100000 more
Postmaster General Hitchcock is
preparing to institute an inquiry to
determine whether the approximately
$50,000,000, which the government
annually pays the railroads for carry
ing the mails, is too much or too lit
tie for the service performed.
New York gossip indicates that
John F. Stevens was brought from
the canal zone to organize the Hill
system of railroads according to the
Hartman system.
General James Shackelford, a hero
of the Mexican war and prominent
in the south, died at his summer cot
tage in Port Huron, Mich.
DR.. Cook received the news of Pea
rvs discovery of the pole, and said
he was glad to hear it.
Hartman, the great railroad
builder ard financier, died at his
home at Arden on the 9th after a
long illness.
$50 far as | am concerned, let the
war go on This was the laughing
reply of Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger when pressed for an ex
y preston of opinion as to how long
he thought the controversy in Wash
ington regarding the conservation
policy of the interior department
would continue.
The interstate commerce commits
sion is to take an early appeal from
the ruling in the Missouri rate case
There is political unrest in the
northwest over the new tariff law.
Governmental expenditures are still
running higher than receipts.
Mrs. Merriam Colbert Harris, wife
OF Bishop Harris of the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at her home
in Toxic.
The statement is credited to &
Santa Fe official that his road viii
build no more lines in Oklahoma un
ii, the state laws are revised SO as
to make it possible.