Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-23
General.

In running battle with John Schei
ger at Des Moines City Detective
Frank Delmege, one of the best known
detectives in the west, was shot and
killed.
Packy Mcfarland and Ray Bronson
fought twenty rounds to draw at the
West Side Athletic club in McDo
noughville, just across the river from
New Orleans.
Revenues for the year ending June
80 last are greater than the railroads
earned in the preceding year.
That former Governor Folk of Mis-
souri, will be induced to stay out OF
the senatorial fight next year, under
promise that he will be given the
support of the Missouri delegation
for the Democratic nomination fo1
president in 1911, is the latest ''tip'
from the Inner circles of the Demo
cratic state committee.
1t is announced that the president
will appoint George R. Cotton of the
District of Columbia as governor ii
Porto Rico.
J. P. Morgan was elected director
of the City National STANDARD OLD
bank of New York.
The fee for the registration of mail
will be increased from 8 to 10 cents
after November 1, 1909 according to
an order signed By Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock.
The residence of Charles I. Gibson
general manager of the st. Ruthers
plant of the American Sheet and Tin.
plate company, was dynamited at
Youngstown, Ohio.
Bankers at Chicago before adjourn
ing denounced both postal savings
and guaranty of deposits.
In starting on his western trip it is
said that President Taft is in reality
opening his campaign for another
term.
John w. Titcumb, for a number OF
years connected with the United
States fish commission as assistant
in charge of the division of fish cul
ture, has resigned to engage in pri
vate business.
Professor Swezey says that Halley's
comet recently re-discovered will prob
ably later be visible to the naked eye
David E. Thompson, United States
ambassador to Mexico, has secured
control of the Pan-American railway
a line extending from San Geronimo
On the Tehauntepec National railway
to Mariscal a town on the Mexican.
Guatemalan frontier.
The T. H. Bunch company, one OF
the largest grain concerns in the Unit
ed States, filed petition in bankrupt
cy at Little Rock, Ark. 1t is re
ported that local banking institutions
are involved to the extent of 100000
Business of the country continues
to expand, passing the mark of last
year, and approaching that of 1907.
Postmaster General Hitchcock is
preparing to institute an inquiry to
determine whether the approximately
S50,000,000, which the government
annually pays the railroads for carry
ing the mails, is too much or too lit
tie for the service performed.
The Imperial Russian Geographical
Society has sent a telegram to Com
mander Peary congratulating him
upon his discovery of the North Pole
The society has expressed no opinion
regarding the Peary-Cook controversy
DIR. Cook sent message to the
American people telling them to be
patient and he would prove his claim
Russia is taking an active although
belated interest in aviation The new
budget contains an appropriation fol
the opening of courses in aeronautics
Opposition to postal savings anC
guaranty Of deposits was declared By
bankers at Chicago.
The Presbyterian mission at Poin
Barrow, Alaska, in the Arctic ocean
the most northerly church in tn,
world, and which was built in 189,
by Mrs. Eliot F. Shepard of New
York, was burned on April Il.
Commander Peary repeates what ht
has heretofore said, that he was thu
6rst white man to discover the pole.