Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
General.

st. Paul has begun fight for lower
telephone rates.
The interstate commerce commits
sion ordered a reduction in charges
of the Omaha & Council Bluffs rail
road
Red Cloud, Sioux Indian warrior,
who died on the Pine RIDGE agency,
will be buried according to The ritual
of the paleface and not above ground
as he requested.
Senator Burkett of Nebraska and
contest for next falls military tourna-
ment
Eight persons were fatally injured
and a number of others less serious
ly hurt in the wreck on the Southern
railway near Greensboro.
The Rev. David c. Hughes, father
of Governor Hughes Of New York,
died at the executive mansion, fol-
lowing a recent stroke of apoplexy.
Testimony of the Brokaw divorce
went to show that the plaintiff made
the money of the millionaire fly.
Reports from the east say Mr.. Will
lard has been offered the presidency
of the B. & o. railroad.
Senator'S Burkett and Brown may
split on the selection of a new district
attorney for Nebraska.
President Taft has promised to
speak at the next meeting of the
farmers national congress, which
meets in Lincoln October to II, 1910.
Leslie M. Shaw declared there is no
doubt in the minds of those who have
studied the proposed central bank
that such an institution would be
owned, or at least controlled, by the
Standard Oil company.
The state occupation tax upon cor
porations was upheld by the supreme
court of Nebraska.
President Taft said at Hartford,
Conn, that the time might come when
a civil pension list will become a ne
cessity.
George A. Pickett, five years edi-
tor of the Roswell IN. NJ Daily Rec
ord, died from tuberculosis.
Many million acres of coal land will
poses if congress should pass bill
introduced by Representative Mondell
of Wyoming.
Mrs. Frank Hicks and four of her
children were burned to death when a
crude oil stove exploded setting fire
to their house at Wayne, Kansas.
Another failed bank in Oklahoma
is giving state officials much concern.
Nebraska hogs topped the market
at Denver, bringing $8.471a.
Imports of hides and skins for the
calendar year will aggregate nearly a
hundred million dollars.
General Leonard Wood, now in COM
mand of the department of the East,
will be the next chief of staff of the
army.
Iowa has candidate for the United
States supreme court when there is
another vacancy. He is Judge Horace
E. Deemer, of the supreme court of
that state.
]. P. Morgan, Jr., came back to the
United States from England. He de-
MED the report that he would take
charge of his fathers great interests.
The scent fare proposition on Oma-
ha street railway has gone glimmer-
ing.
Congress, before adjournment for
the holidays, is doing some work at
night sessions.
The proposed plan to abolish the
Isthmian canal Commission met with
vigorous opposition.
Arbuckle brothers admit failure to
pay all the money due as customs
charges and settle with government
New York hears that Daniel Willard
is to leave the Burlington.
Every depositor of the First State
bank of Keifer, Oklahoma, which
closed as a result of the failure of the
Farmers National bank of Tulsa, who
demanded his money. was paid In full