Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-13

King EDWARD VII Q1eu at BucklnS-
ham Palace, London, after an illness
of about one week, with pneumonia or
complicated throat trouble. All Eng
land mourns for the beloved ruler,
and from all over the British empire
and other countries condolences
poured in. Edward is succeeded by
his second oldest son, the Prince OF
Wales.
The department of justice at Wash
ington has begun its crusade against
the bucketshops of the country.
1t would be criminal to sacrifice
the individuality OF the independent
party with close alliance with either
democrats or republicans. in the
opinion of w. r. Hearst.
Max Berbohm, the writer and critic,
and Miss Florence Kahn, an Ameri-
can actress, whose home is in Mem
phis, Tenn, were married in London.
The sundry civil appropriation bin
will contain an item of $4,000 to en-
able the department of justice to con-
tinue the investigation and prosecu-
ton of sugar customs frauds.
The kings bench in London con-
firmed the lower courts order for ex-
tradition of Frank Matusio, wanted
for alleged forgery in st Louis.
approximately 5000 trainmen and
conductors employed on the lines OF
the New York Central east of Boston
will receive wage increases averaging
80 per cent
The demand of the administration
for two new battleships will be grant
ed, the senate committee on naval
affairs having practically decided to
accept the provision of the house bill
on this subject.
The federal government will con
struct a wireless station at Omaha.
The house passed bill providing
that Indian lands near Falls City in
Richardson county, Neb., be included
in the Nemaha river drainage i'm
provement now being made.
After twelve years the Inflated bat
tleship Maine is to be removed from
Havana harbor. and the bodies which
went down with the vessel and will
be inferred in the national cemetery
at Arlington.
The Minnesota democratic state
convention will be held in Mime
apolis July %.
The National Conservation congress
will not be held in st. Louis in
August J. B. White, chairman of the
executive committee of the congress,
has announced that Theodore Roose-
welt will address the congress.
At a meeting of the trustees OF the
National Society of the Sons OF the
American Revolution, it was decided
to hold the next convention in Louis
Vile, KY. The session closed with a.
banquet.
The funeral of the late Bjornstjeren
Bjornson, the Norwegian writer, VINO
died recently in Paris was held at
Christina with imposing ceremonies.
1t was attended by the king and
queen.
So badly slashed is the senate rail
road bill that its final passage by both
houses is a matter Of doubt.
A Nicaragua citizen has written
the American consul that cruelties
are being practiced in Nicaragua.
Mayor Mccarthy is trying to show
that San Francisco is the proper place
for a Panama exposition.
There is a disposition OF the house
committee to hold back the postal saw
ings bank bill.
The tomb of Edward VII will be be-
meath the memorial chapel at Wind
sor
Nearly thousand bodies have been
taken from the earthquake ruins at
Carriage, Costa Rica.
Fifteen people were killed and fifty
injured by an explosion near the town
of Hull, Quebec.
The senate judiciary committee has
reported favorably a bill to aid the
states bordering on Lake Michigan to
break up gambling on specially chart
cred boats. along the coast.
Six indictments were handed down
by the special grand jury of which
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., is the fore
man, which has been investigating
the white slave" traffic.