Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
DR.. Emil Reich. author and 1ectur-

to substitute immersion for sprink
ling.
Andrew Carnegie has given $10,00O,-
600 to hasten the abolition OF inter
national war"
Postmaster General Hitchcock tells
of the decrease of the deficit in his
annual report.
The Brazilian troops have quelled
the second mutiny in the. govern
ment's naval forces.
Not single net gain for either
side was the result of the first week
OF balloting in Great Britain.
The liberals majority in the house
of commons will be practically what
it was before the dissolution.
Charles J. Bellamy, founder and
publisher of the Springfield, Mass,
Daily News, died, aged SO years.
A modification of the service pen
sion bill, SO as to provide for mini
mum pension of SIS, is proposed in a
bill introduced by Senator Dick OF
Ohio.
A farm hand desperate in South
Dakota shot his employer, took pos,
session of the house and defied the
sheriff, but was later wounded and
captured.
A national memorial to Abraham
Lincoln, to be erected in washington
at a cost of 100000, is proposed in
a bill introduced by Senator Cullom
of Illinois.
Salvatore TolliZZano, mortally
wounded by three revolver bullets on
Nov. 80 last, told the Hoboken police
he had been shot for refusing to pay
tribute to the black hand.
At Fargo, n. D., More Brothers gar
age and warehouse collapsed, killing
R. A. More and his bookkeeper, and
injuring two other employees. The up
per floors were overweighted with
corn.
Attorney General Byers, in a brief
filed with the Iowa railroad commits
sion, advocated government owner
ship of express companies as the So
luton of rates, which he says are ex-
cessive.
At Springfield, Mo-, Alonzo Bryant,
GO years old, was instantly killed at
his home when a folding bed in
which he and his wife were sleeping,
suddenly closed up. His neck was
| broken.
Referring to the disastrous forest
fires of the past summer, Secretary
Wilson has asked the house for de-
iciency appropriation of $915,000 to
supplement the regular fund for
fighting forest fires.
The tWenty-eighth child has arrived
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jason
Bonner at Newcastle, Ind. Twenty
one of the children are living. Mr..
Bonner is 40 years old and his wife is
four years his Junior.
Melville De Lancy Landon, better
known as eli Perkins," the humorist,
is critically ill with locomotor ataxia
at his home in Yonkers, N. Y. He is
II years old and has been in failing
health for several years.
By doing it's own sealing in Alaska
the United States government has
profted this year more than three
times the amount it ever did in any
single year when the sealing privil-
eyes were rented to commercial
company.
The location of the Panama canal
exposition in 1915 will be settled so
| far as congress can settle it shortly
after the holidays recess. The com
mittee on rules decided to bring it to
a vote by the middle of January, at
the latest.
II could not save anything out OF a
salary of $4,000 a year, and I have a
! family" says Librarian of Congress
| Hubert Putnam, in arguing before
the house committee on apprOpria-
lions for an increase of his salary
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Orders were issued at the war de-
partment for the transfer of Brigadier
General Frederick Funston to the
Philippines, where he becomes COM
mander of the department of Luzon.
He is to be succeeded at Leaven-
worth by Brigadier General Potts.
Representative Macon of Arkansas
threatens trouble for Captain Robert
E. Peary, the arctic explorer, when
the question of honoring him comes
upon the floor of the house.
DR.. Clarke Gapen, an original Ne
braska Bryan man. died while asleep
! in a chair at Madison, Wis. He had
been ailing for some weeks. DR.. Ga
pen was 60 years old and was widely
known throughout the state and mid
die west as an alienist and expert
medical legal counsel.
The Standard Oil company of New
York will have to pay it's fine of $751;
600 for accepting rebates on oil ship
ments from clean, N. Y, to New Eng
land points, as result of the action
of the supreme court of the United
States in refusing to review the de-
cision of the lower courts.
Cooperation between the govern
ment and the farmers of the country
in breeding and raising horses suit
able for the cavalry and artillery
branches of the military service was
asked for by Quartermaster General