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

To enable postmasters of the thir,
and fourth classes to attend the con
vention of the National League o
Postmasters of the United States, Il
be held at Syracuse, N. Y, October
Z, and 8, Postmaster General Hitch
cock has granted them leaves of ali
sence for as many days as may b.
necessary, provided the amount doe:
not exceed fifteen.
The bureau of the census announces
that approximately three tnousan
temporary clerks would be appointed
in connection with the work of takin,
the thirteenth decennial census. TIL,
first examination will be held through
out the United States on October 8
next Blank application forms and f;
circular of instructions, the bureau
announces, may be obtained after Sep
TENDER 10 by addressing the civil ser
vice commission, Washington, ID. c
A lot of old French junk that has
been accommodating along the line O.
the Panama canal is about to be sol(
by the Isthmian canal commission
The amount has been variously estim
ated at from $4,000 to 10000 tons.
Authorities at Washington refuse t.,
await test before continuing seizure
of bleached flour.
The postal deficiency for Angus
amounted to 100000 as compared
with half that amount for July. The
~, CT mn 0l
during the last month, while tht
maintenance of the navy called 70
a little more than $10,000,000.
The public debt, less the cash bal
ance in the treasury at the beginning
of business September /, wa
$1,047,211, 900. This does not includ,
$1,343,211, 1863 in certificates and treas
ury notes, which is offset by an equa
amount of cash in the treasury Th
recapitulation of the debt shows
$913,317, AGO in interest bearing debt
2,814,475 in debt ON which interes
has ceased since maturity and $3.50,
417,144 in debt bearing no interest.
The federal circuit court at CHI
cago made ruling in what is knows
as the Missouri river rate cases.
favors the railroads.
Senator Cummins' bill to give the in
terstate commerce commission in
creased authority. so as to enable
to fix a general schedule of rates fol-
the whole country. promises to attrac
much notice next winter.
Five weeks of drouth in Kansas wa,
broken by a two-inch precipitation.
Personal.
That rheumatism and nothing els,
is the malady from which Associate
Justice William H. Moody of tn,
United States supreme court is suffer
ing was the statement made a few
days ago.
Samuel Gompers, president of thu
American Federation of Labor, is il
Paris.
Lidj; Jeassu, the crown prince
Abyssinia, has invited Theodore Roose
welt to great elephant hunt, promis
ing to beat up a white elephant TO
him to kill.
Miss Mary McClain, Philadelphia
celebrated har 101st birthday by TAX
ing an automobile ride.
Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickin
son appeared in the court at Nashville
Tenn, in behalf of his chauffeur. VIII,
was charged with exceeding the speed
limit
Mrs. Agnes Myers, now serving |;
life sentence in the Missouri peniten
tiary for the brutal murder of her hus
band, Clarence Myers, who was fount
dead in bed in his home in Kansas
City in May, 1904, is seeking a pardon
Hartman, at his mountain home, il
said to be improving daily.
Having reached the age of So, Reai.
Admiral c. S. Sperry was placed OIL
the retired list of the navy The ad
miral is now engaged with the New
port conference at the war college,
there and will continue in that dut,
until he has completed a certain lint
Of work which he has mapped out