Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-11-25
General.

jury in the Henry county (lliln-
ois) circuit court set aside the will OF
John LOoney, who left $4,000 to
Charles and Harry Looney of VAL
paraiso, Ind, and James LOOney of
Kansas City.
The court at Wash ngtOn denied
stay to Gompers, Mitchell and Morr1-
son in the contempt cases.
There was an exchange of angry
words at the meeting in Washington
of railroad commissioners.
Discovery of tarantula in the mail
caused brief panic in the dead letter
Office at Washington.
The body of f1ve-year-o Frank De
Rosa. who, it was supposed, had been
kidnapped ten days ago, and for whom
wide search had been made, was
found jammed in the top of chimney
at his aunt's house on East SiXty-thlrd
street, where he had been visiting
with his mother when he suddenly dis
appeared II was the cOrOners
opinion that the boy had been stran-
gled and pushed down the chimney
Demands of railway switchmen for
an increase in wages are to be con-
sidered within the next two weeks
by railroads operating west of Chica-
go and will supersede the claims of
the firemen.
a woman teacher in the Denver
public schools, whose name is with
held by the police, became insane
when teaching her class and began
to disrobe in the presence of her pu-
pills.
American federation of labor lead
ers declared themselves against the
saloon.
Theodore Roosevelt, as a candidate
for governor of New York in 1910, is
the prediction of Congressman w. W.
Cocks Of the Oyster Bay, N. Y, dis
trict.
Aid for families of miners lost at
Cherry Vale, H., is being solicited.
Football claimed a total of thirty
lives and ZIG injuries during the pres
ent season, according to figures com
piled by the Chicago Record-Herald.
This is the largest number Of deaths
recorded in nine years.
A South Dakota claim-holder was
held up in a freight car and robbed of
three thousand dollars.
Danger of a car shortage, imminent
a few weeks ago, has entirely passed.
according to railroad officials. Nearly
all the roads centering in Omaha have
adopted means to allay the apprehen-
sion which shippers felt with respect
to the situation.
The secretary of the Des Moines
Commercial club received word from
Congressman Hull that the secretary
of war has ordered that the military
tournament for next year shall be
held in Des Moines.
Ex-Sheriff Shipp and five others of
Chattanooga, Tenn, were sent to pri-
son for contempt of court.
Secretary Ballinger has ordered
more land withdrawn from settlement.
1t is rumored that Clifford Pinchot,
government forester, has written to
President Taft expressing a desire to
have his status in the administration
more clearly defined.
Giuseppe Aaiello, member of the
black hand" society which operated
in Cincinnati, died in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kas.
The Nebraska Womans Suffrage as
ISOLATION decided to find out from ev
cry candidate for the Legislature
whether he will favor permitting the
women to vote.
Over it's entire system the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific railway haf
adopted a pension system for its en-
ployes which effects every one in tht
service, from the men behind roll-tol
desks In the general Offices to tht
brakemen riding atop freight car.