Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-09
General.

General
Five more men were added last
week to the bankers colony at Ft.
LeayenWorth penitentiary.
J. P. Morgan has secured control
Of the Equitable Life society.
The British house of commons
adopted a resolution of censure of
lords.
Mexico will maintain a neutral atti-
tude in the Nicaraguan rumpus.
The Richard Gleason bid for the
Jeffries-Johnson fight, to be in Cali
fornia, was accepted.
President Taft has taken steps to
put the Red Cross society on perma-
uent business footing.
Congressman HinshaW says Cannon
cannot be elected speaker at the ses-
sion of the next congress.
Following a charge Of murder at st.
Louis against Mrs. Doxey Of Column
bus, Neb.. a reQuisition was issued.
The president will exert all his in
fiuence looking to changes in the in
terstate commerce act.
Duke Karl Theodore of Bavaria died
from kidney trouble.
D. L. Winchell, president of the
Rock Island, has beef elected Presi.
dent Of the st. Louis & San Francisco
road.
The Kansas state treasury will re-
ceive $4,000 cash, as an inheritance
tax, from the estate of James Clarke,
a farmer in Marshall county. This
is the largest tax yet assessed against
a Kansas estate under the new law.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege 2-year-old Angus steer, King
Ellsworth, won the grand champion
ship as the best steer in America at
the International Stock show in Chi
cagO.
more men are killed as the result
of playing football in one year than
are killed in labor troubles" says
John Mitchell.
President Taft soon is to receive a
call from the legislative committee OF
the Grand Army Of the Republic, for a
conference upon matters pertaining to
pension legislation this winter.
John Harvard, a negro preacher, who
had committed murder, was burned
at the stake near Cochran, Georgia.
According to an official dispatch
from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, several
small villages in that vicinity have
been destroyed by an earthquake.
Secretary of War Dickinson advo
Gates changes in army affairs in an
nual report.
A strike of switchmen involving
over two thousand men was inauguar
ated at st. Paul, Mimi.
Senator Brown says the insurgent'
will be in evidence at the coming SEES
sion of congress.
A Greenville (Ohio) man killed hi
mother and a deputy sheriff, wounded
two others and committed suicide.
Senator Aldrich says the panic o
1907 cost the country $2,000,vvO,0 600.
Sec Meyer has proposed sweeping
changes in the navy.
Attorney General Wickersham, Ser
ators Elkins and Cummins conferre'
on changes in the interstate commerc
act
The United States and Chile at las
have reached final agreement as t.
the terms of protocol referring t
King Edward for a definite settlement
of the celebrated Alsop claim.
Twenty Japanese were killed an
fifteen injured, several of them fata
~, in the wreck of work train o.
the Great Northern railway betwee
Vancouver and New Westminster.
In fire at Kansas City 140 horse
were burned to death.
The cruiser Des Moines has bee
dispatched to Nicaragua to look afte
American interests in that country.
1t is said that beginning with tn
opening OF the session of congress
changes in the personnel or the go1
ernn.ent are going to take place raj
idly and some of them in unexpecte
places.
After a general falling off in th
balance of trade the United State
is beginning it's upward climb agai
and placing the credit on the rigf
side of the ledger.
Affairs in Cuba are reported to /
I'm deplorable state.