Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-21
General.


In New Mexico Indians greeted
President Taft and brought him many
presents.
David H. Jones, identified with lum-
Der interests in Chicago. New York,
st. Louis and California for many
years, died suddenly in Chicago.
The national capital is planning a
great pageant of international scope
for the next fourth of July. At a
meeting of officials and business men
of the District of Columbia, held in
the Office of Commissioner Mcfarland,
it was decided to invite, through their
diplomatic representatives each Of the
twenty-one Central and South Ameri-
can republics to join in great inter
national parade, in which the marines
of the various governments will par
ticipate.
A recommendation that the navy
yards be divided into four depart
ments, each in charge of general
manager is said to be the most i'm
portant result of the investigation by
a special board of naval officers, head
ed by Rear Admiral Swift, whose re-
port reached Washington.
In an address before 500 doctors,
members Of the Mississippi Valley
Medical Association, DIR. w. c. Stiles,
of the federal marine hospital service,
at Washington. says that 100000 per-
sons in southern states are afflicted
with "hookworm." the lazy mans dis
ease.
Governor Hughes was the central
figure in the Hudson. N. Y, celebra-
tion.
A West Indian hurricane swept up
the Florida coast and in the interior,
doing heavy damage.
The f1fteen-year prison sentence of
Charles w. Morse was sustained by
the court of appeals.
Wilbur Wright received $12,500
from the Hudson-F'ulton commission
for the spectacular flights he made
over New York hay and up the Hud-
son during the celebration. Wright
put in his bill for that amount and it
was paid by the commission.
"Conochot," the home of Former
Governor William Sprague, one of the
most beautiful estates in Rhode Is
land. was destroyed by fire. with all
sts contents The loss is estimated
at about $1,000,000, on which there
is no insurance. Mr.. and Mrs
Sprague escaped without injury.
Dr. Ira Remsen, president of Johns
Hopkins university national academy
of sciences. will appoint committee
to examine the Arctic records of Com
mander Peary and DR.. Cook if the
council of the scientific body decides
it will be proper for him to accept the
invitation to do so.
Federal Judge Anderson ruled for
the r~dianapolis editors in the Pana
ma Il case.
Whether he intends to be candi
date for the republican nomination
for congress in the Third Nebraska
district next year is subject or
which ex-Congressman Boyd is non
committal at this time.
Candidate Barnard believes he has
a chance to win the New York mayor
atty.
At midnight June rs the 15,0Ot
electric light of the Alaska Yukon-Pa
cific exposition were put out. closing
the Worlds fair of 1909.
The Harvard university corporation
has received from Mrs. Edith F. Per
kins of Burlington, a., widow o
Charles Elliott Perkins, for man!
years president of the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad, a gift o
$4,000, to be held in trust for thu
establishment of scholarships at thu
institution in memory of her husband
The Mathis correspondent at Oran
Algeria, telegraphs that Muiai Hafid
the sultan of Morocco. has sold thu
Riff mines. which were the cause o
the trouble between Spain and tn,
Moors on the Riffian coast, TO Ger
nau camDaay.