Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-09-30

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The members of the American wa
terways committee arrived in Paris
from Brussels and are planning to
spend five of the nine days they will
remain in France in examining the
river Seine and other typical French
waterways from the standpoint of
navigation.
General.
Two passenger Mitchell runabout
with top Fine condition. For sale
cheap. Ed. Estill, 1918 Farnam street,
Omaha, Neb.
A general election in Great Britain
Is among the early probabilities.
Commander Robert E. Peary re-
fused absolutely to allow any of the
records or instruments of DR.. Frede-
rick A. Cook to be brought aboard
the steamer Roosevelt and was thus
instrumental in causing these records
to remain in a cache at Etah, Green
land, according to Harry Whitney.
Diamonds valued at $4,000 were
stolen from the residence of w. G..
section of Des Moines, while the
family was absent Mr. Hunter is
chief dispatcher for the Great West
ern railway.
According to the report of the gen.
eral land office upon the receipts from
the sales of public lands in the coun-
try during the year which ended June
80, last, the aggregate amount from
sales in Kansas was S179,492 in Mis-
souri,, $37 1854; in Oklahoma, 1857, 191.
The question of reciprocal demur-
rage, upheld by the supreme court of
Georgia in an opinion handed down,
In which the State Railroad commits
sion was sustained, will be taken to
the supreme court of the United States
by the roads.
The st. Louis Centennial began Sum-
day by the ringing of 444 church bells.
The Netherlands financial depart
ment has submitted to the state coun-
Gil a bill providing for an increase of
30 per cent on all import duties.
The comptroller of the currency ap-
proved the conversion of the Fort
Pierre bank of Fort Pierre, s. D., into
the Fort Pierre National bank, with
$4,000 capital.
Millions of dollars worth of valu-
able paintings are being bought
abroad by American millionaires for
free entry under the new tariff law.
Treasury department advices show
that one Philadelphia millionaire alone
recently imported 100000 of these
works of art.
With the death of Governor John
A. Johnson the government of Min
nesota passed into the hands of the
republicans. Lieutenant Governor AL
bert O. Eberhart, who was elected as
republican, became Mr.. Johnson's
successor at the time of his death.
George Caldwell, an official of the
Canadian marine department, who
started three years ago to make a
trip from Chesterfield Inlet to the
Arctic circle, has been given up for
lost
Figures given out at the pension
office show that Iowa pensions for the
fiscal year ending June 80 last ran
about the same as the year preceding
On June 80 last there were 33,56S
pensioners in Iowa.
Fifty persons were injured, one
fatally, in a street car accident near
the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
grounds when a street car got beyond
control
The National Women's Christion
Temperance Union meets in Omaha
October 1927. 1t is expected that
500 delegates will attend
Joseph Leslie, who was one of the
Alhino family which the late show
man P T. Barnum imported from Bel
gium, to his museum in New York
City, over fifty years ago, Is dying Of
dropsy at the general hospital in
Kansas City.
President Taft made an address O.
forty minutes in the great Mormon
tabernacle at Salt Lake, Utah.
A l.. Mohler, general manager o
the Union Pacific, now has under hi'
supervision the construction of 60t
miles of railroad which that line il
now building in Nebraska, Kansas
and Colorado.
Twenty-one states have contracted
for space at the National Corn Shov
to be held in Omaha.
Peary and DIR. Cook, the explorers
will both submit reports in due time
leaving the public to decide as Il
their respective claims.