Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-02
General.

taken from Town Marshal Broadway
More harmony of action is expected
as a result of the meeting at Wash
ington of railroad commissioners.
James Freeman Curtis of Boston,
now United States district attorney
and once intercollegiate golf champion
of the United States, has been chosen
assistant secretary of the U. S.
treasury.
Five miles of the Panama canal
have been opened to navigation. This
includes the channel from point in
the Bay of Panama. Steamships ply
ing between San francisco and Pa
mama and the west coast ports of
South America md Panama are using
this part of the canal daily.
The Topeka Commercial club has
received word from the governors of
Arkansas, West Virginia and Ken
lucky that they will be in Topeka to
attend the good roads congress on
December 14-15. The club expects
nearly all of the governors west of
the Alleghenies to be present.
dent in the interest of western irriga-
ton PROTECTS.
After hearing Samuel Gompers
speak at Cooper union 200 members
Of the Ladies' Waist makers union de-
cided to go on strike for shorter hours
and higher wages.
George Croker, youngest son Of the
Ioto 70 T11iIIionairo Charles n
Crocker, is slowly dying at his home
in New York from a malady said to
be a cancer.
J. S. Clarkson will not be reappOint-
ed as the surveyor of the port of New
York
Bloodhounds proved so far unsuc-
cessful in running down the assail-
ant of seventeen-year-old Myra Smith
at Lima, Ohio, who was attacked in
the streets, that there came near be-
ing a lynching of the wrong man.
The gunboat Princeton was ordered
by the navy department to sail for
CorintO, Nicaragua, to join the gun
boat Vicksburg, already at that port.
Speaker Cannon, in a speech at
Kansas City, defended the rules Of
the house.
Mrs. T. L. Norval of Seward, Neb,,
lost jewels worth $1,000 on the streets
of Kansas City.
The Great plains reconnaissance
party of the United States bureau of
soils, is assembling at Victoria, Tex.
During the winter work will be done
along the Gulf coast north of Corpus
Christi.
Low fares have been secured for
the National Corn Exposition that
opens in Omaha December 9Th.
Congress will turn the light on the
water power problem.
Nicaraguan insurgents are preparing
for a final struggle.
Congressman De Almond of Miss
souri,, who lost his life in a fire at
his home, had served nineteen years
in congress.
Twenty Japanese were killed and
fifteen injured, several of them fatal
ly, in the wreck of a work train on
the Great Northern railway between
Vancouver and New Westminster.
In fire at Kansas City 140 horses
were burned to death.
The United States and Chile at last
have reached final agreement as to
the terms of a protocol referring tc
King Edward for a definite settlement
of the celebrated Alsop claim.
Congress is to be assaiIed by re
form organizations within a day or sc
after it convenes.
Governor Deneen of Illinois, it was
made known recently, will postpone
converting the general assembly in
special session pending the outcome
of the investigation of the Cherry
mine disaster.
After general falling off in the
balance Of trade the United State
is beginning it's upward climb agai1
and placing the credit on the RICH
side of the ledger.
Affairs in Cuba are reported to b.
in deplorable state.