Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-10-07

president of the University of North
Dakota.
Aviator Wynmalen, in a biplane at
Bovey, France, rose to height OF
1856 feet.
China is believed to be on the
verge of an upheavel similar to that
of the boxers.
Rear Admiral Charles R. Rocker,
retired, died in Washington, aged
sixty-nine years.
The American mining congress
went on record as opposed to the
Roosevelt-Pinchot politics.
No mercy to strike disturbers was
the order given out by the head of
the Berlin police department.
French aviation cracks are tuning
up in an effort to recapture the inter
national trophy won by Curtiss.
Virginia Harmed Sothern filed suit
for divorce against Edward I. Soth-
ern in the district court at Reno,
Nevada
The German ministry of war an
nounced it would give $4,000 as a
price for an overland aviation COM
petition.
Edwin, three-year-old son of G. A.
Johnson, republican candidate for
governor of North Dakota, was
burned to death
An involuntary petition in bankrupt
cy was filed against the brokerage
firm of B. H. Scheftels & Co., whose
offices were raided at New York.
Walter Brookins, the hero of the
Chicag o-to-Springfeld will attempt a
flight continuously from Springfield to
st. Louis, a distance OF eighty-five
miles.
A $10,0O0,00O merger of all the
powder companies in Canada with the
exception of the Giant Powder COM
pany, branch factory at Telegraph
Bay, has just been effected.
Because of the cholera scare in
Europe, two incoming transatlantic
liners the Lapland from Antwerp and
the Perussia from Naples, were de
tanned at quarantine for inspection.
The grand prize race for automO-
biles will be held over the Vanderbilt
cup course on Long Island, October
Is. The course is to be thoroughly
policed that accidents may be
avoided
w, T. Vernon, the negro register
of the treasury, has sent his resigna-
ton to President Taft. It has been
the custom for many years to give
this position to a negro and the ap-
pointment will go to j. G. Nahier of
Nashville, Tenn.
Resolutions were adopted and a
national committee for 1911 was
named at the closing session of the
third annual meeting of the good
roads convention in st. Louis. The
commission is again headed by
George c. Diehl Of Buffalo, n. Y.
The commission named by Presi.
dent Taft to determine how the gov
eminent may best supervise the IS.
suance of railway securities will hold
it's first session in Washington No,
vember 28 Quarters will be opened
there at once and a force of clerks
hired.
The state of Missouri has a popula-
ton of 3,293,335, according to the en-
umeration made during the thirteenth
census, statistics of which were an
nounced by the census bureau. This
is an increase of 1S6,570, or 6 per
cent over the population in 1900 OF
3,1O6,6O5
The British government is arrang-
ing for the reception of the German
crown prince, and a definite pro-
gram will shortly be drawn up. The
arrangements will include a shooting
campaign and military maneuvers.
The cost will, it is understood, be
borne by the Indian treasury.
The representative committee of
the united brotherhood of carpenters
and joiners of America in biennial
convention at Des Moines reported
in favor of national home for
tuberculosis cases and aged carp
enters. The convention will decide
upon the report at the next biennial
convention at Washington, D. G.
The Los Angeles Times building
was wrecked by dynamite and subse-
quently destroyed by fire. Twenty or
more lives were lost and great
printing plant utterly destroyed. The
outrage is attributed to labor
troubles. the Times having for q
long time been an open office. So
far there is no clue to the guilty
parties.
AS a tragic sequel to the death of
Edmond Poillt, the French aviator,
his fiancee, who had shown almost
uncontrollable grief went to his grave
Sunday and fired a bullet into her
heart. Poillot was killed on Sep
TENDER 25 while making flight with
passenger While at a height of
ninety feet a wing collapsed and the
machine fell backward.
The executive committee of the
brotherhood of machinists, through
Secretary Robert M. Lackey, sent to
the interstate commerce commission
a protest against the recent petition
presented to the commission by Of