Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-10-14

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before recognizing the new rulers in
Portugal.
Fire destroyed Pier &C" of the
Southern Pacific terminal company in
the western portion of Galveston
Loss, estimated at 100000.
The president withdrew 400 acres
of land from the public domain in
Montana.
Fire totally destroyed the Adeline
Sugar company's plant at Franklin,
Pa. Loss, 100000.
The Standard Oh company an
nounces a reduction of fifty points in
refined petroleum.
Governor Albert w. Gilchrist OF
Florida has announced that he will
not be a candidate for United States
senator.
Thomas J. O'Brien, the American
ambassador to Japan, will sail for the
United States October IS on a sixty
days leave of absence.
Walter Brookins, the hero OF the
hicago-to-Springfield will attempt q
fight continuously from Springfield to
st. Louis, a distance of eighty-five
miles.
1t is officially stated that the British
war office is considering the possibili-
ty of securing a regular supply OF
horses for the mounted troops in
jamaica
The will Of Horace B. Silliman OF
Noboac ~ v q fCrnoor toytilo mann.
facturer, bequeathes the estate of
more than 100000 to philanthropic
purposes.
r. P. Nelson of Seattle, was elected
grand president of the Danish Broth
erhood, defeating H. H. Vogt of Dav-
twelve years.
Joe and Ed Chandler, negro high
waymen, were killed and Ed Black, a
third member of the gang, was mort
ally mounded in Huntsville, Ala, by
Sheriff Mitchell and squad of depu
ties.
BY an order issued ny the postoffice
department land grant railroads here
after will receive only $3.50 for
each 1000 pounds of mail carried in
excess of $4,000 pounds. The old rate
was $17.10.
Social Washington was deeply in
terested in the recent cabinet meet
ings at the White House, at least in
that part of them which had to do
with the filling Of the vacancies on
the supreme court bench
Adolph Rothbarth, the hop mer-
defrauded various banks in New
York out of 100000, was sentenced
to serve not less than three and not
more than seven years in Sing Sing
prison.
There was substantial increase,
amounting to about 10 per cent, in the
number of wooden cross-ties pur-
chased for consumption by the steam
and electric railroads in the United
States in the calendar year 1909, as
compared with the number purchased
in 1908.
Sir William Reloar, the English
philanthropist and former lord mayor
of London, who has been in the Unit
ed States and Canada a month, sailed
on Sunday on the Celtic of the White
Star line, after pronouncing the Am
erican women the "smartest dressed
women in the world"
The Standard Oil company through
it's official publicity representative, J..
I. G. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated a cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL" and is lower
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
of August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels 1 cents a gallon from 9% to
80 cents at the refinery, and refined
oil in tanks from 61a to 51a cents a
gallon In part the statement reads:
1.-THE Standard Oil company has in
augurated a campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil
The level of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower
than at any time during recent years,
and as a direct result of these prices
the consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
The worlds record for the long dis
lance throwing of a baseball, that had
stood for thirty-six years, was broken
at the field day meet between the Gin
cinnati and Pittsburg National league
teams when Sheldon Lejuene of the
Evansville club of the Central league
threw the ball 426 feet IA inches, rs
feet II IA inches over the record
An alleged scheme for the assassin
alton of President Taft was unfolded
to Miss Della c. Torrey, aunt of the
president, by stranger who called at
her home in Millsbury, Mass. The
man, who refused to give her his
name, claimed to have overheard the
plotters while in Boston. AS he de-
parted he threatened to return and
kill Miss Torrey if the matter got in
to the newspapers.
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