Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-16
General.

General.
Francis J. Heney confirmed the re-
port that he has filed suit in New
York against William H. Crocker OF
San Francisco for $250,000 for alleged
libel.
George Crocker's gift to Columbia
university to be used for the investiga-
ton of cancer, of which he died in
New York, will amount to at least
$1,50O0OO, according to the will.
The American Ice company of New
York was found guilty of creating
monopoly.
With the end of the year near, bust
ness for the country as a whole con-
tinues remarkably good.
Imports of hides and skins for the
calendar year will aggregate nearly
hundred million dollars.
Three women were slain by an I'M
known person at Savannah, Ga.
The president sent to the senate
the names of William J. Mills and
William H. Pope, both of New Mexico,
to be governor I'D chief justice, re-
spectively, of that territory.
General James Clarkson, the sur
veyor of the port of New York, will
continue in the office until April IS,
next. when the term for which he was
appointed expires.
Some choice heavies sold at To
ledo, Ohio, at $50, the highest price
reached in the local hog market since
1898. The market advanced a strong
ten cents, the top price of the bulk
of sales being $500
Many million acres of coal land will
be opened to use for agricultural pur
poses if congress should pass a 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.
Governor Hughes of New York has
taken up the consideration of pros
pective legislation for the control of
airship flights He believes, it is an
nounced that such legislation will
soon become necessary in many
states.
The recent snow storm in Kansas
is said to have been a great help to
wheat
Congress is to be assai4cd by re-
form organizations within q day or so
after it cOnvenes.
Congress will be asked to grant a
new national charter to the proposed
pan-American bank.
A change in the date of the inaugu-
ration of the President of the United
States from March 4 to the last Thurs
day in April is strongly urged in the
annual report of the commissioners of
the District of Columbia presented to
congress.
Alvin K Hiskins of Alton, H., was
notified by the United States govern
ment that it had purchased his patent
range finder and distance appraiser
for 100000.
George r. Callot of Nebraska has
been nominated for governor of Porto
Rico by President Taft. The salary
is $500 year.
In a street duel with knives at AL
lea, Ark, Miss Nora Owens was fat
ally injured by Miss Stella Belk and
died within few minutes.
The president will exert all his in
f1uence looking to changes in the in
terstate commerce act.
Mr. Edward Hartman has taken up
the active management of the Harr1
man estate and will hereafter observe
regular office hours on three or four
days of each week with her work.
There were 8,878,277 running bales
of cotton ginned from the growth OF
1909 to December 1 as compared with
11,O08,661 for 1908.
According to an official dispatch
from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, several
small villages in that vicinity have
been destroyed by an earthquake.
1t is likely that the president will
send a special message to congress
on the Nicaraguan situation.