Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12

| While attending the chautauqua at
lMarshalltown, Iowa, Governor Shall
Ilenberger of Nebraska was touched
and is minus $13O as result The
governor is in doubt just how he lost
the money, but thinks he left it on the
writing desk of the hotel. He is not
sure of this, however.
The adjutant general of Kentucky
attacked a Louisville editor with a
heavy cane.
The mayor of Omaha says that drug
stores must quiet selling liquor at s
p. M, the same as the saloons.
Don Jamie, the Spanish pretender,
says he will not stir up strife during
the present trouble.
Mcdonald, a farmer living near
Chicasha, Okl., during a fit of tenn
porary insanity shot and killed his
wife's brother, ]. A Thompson, and
Mrs. Thompson, and then shot him
SELF He attempted to shoot his own
wife, but she escaped.
w. H. bennett, of Salt Lake City
has been elected chairman of the laws
committee of the International Typo
graphical union, which will begin it's
convention in ST. Joseph, Mo-, this
week.
Twelve persons were killed and
nearly fifty were injured in a head-on
collision of two electric cars on the
Spokane & Inland railway.
Prospects now seem bright for a
settlement of the strike of the $500
employees of the Pressed Steel Car
company at Schoenville, Pa.
Congress will probably finish the
tariff in a few days and members go
to their homes.
Hon. w. J. Bryan dnies the report
that he is permanently to leave Ne
braska.
Secretary Wilson, it is believed, will
leave the cabinet about the first Of the
year.
President Taft will not leave Wash
ington until the tariff bill becomes a
law. After signing the bill the presi-
dent will leave for Beverly.
The fiftieth anniversary of the drill
ling of the first oil well in the world
will be celebrated in Titusville, Pa,
the latter part of this month.
Improved conditions in railway traf-
fic and in the movements of coke and
iron ore are characteristics Of the June
internal commerce report of the bureau
of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor.
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit were
guests of honor at banquet rendered
by men of Nairobi.
The recent earthquakes in the valley
of Mexico, and along the Pacific coast
were the worst experienced in many
years The towns of Acapulco and
Chilpancingo have been practically
destroyed.
The fire-swept city of Osaka, Japan,
presents a delporable appearance.
Explosion of gasoline, followed by
a fire in a four-story building on West
Third street st. Paul is known to have
caused the death of six persons.
Five West Point cadets, four of
whom are said to have been concerned
in the recent hazing of Cadet Sutton
d UlOLHSl VI IuS IaIS AACuIOAeehC ou'
ton, whose death at Annapolis is be-
ing investigated by court of inquiry
will be sent to their homes, there to
await final action by the president
and secretary of war on the recon-
mendation of the superintendent of
the academy that they be dismissed.
The house adopted the conference
report on the tariff bill by a vote of
1875 to 1873. The republicans showed
delight over the final outcome, and
Chairman Payne was the central
figure of an admiring and cOngratula'
tory crowd of colleagues