Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-06
FOR THE BUSY MAN
NEWS EPlToME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign intelligence Con-
densed into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
General.

at figures.
Weston, the pedestrian, arrived in
New York ahead of time in his ocean
to ocean walk.
John Quincy Adams Ward, one OF
Americas greatest sculptors, died at
his home in New York.
A Nicaragua citizen has written
the American consul that cruelties
are being practiced in Nicaragua.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of IL per
cent.
The Chicago Freight Handlers I'M
ion, with a membership of 1000, has
sent an ultimatum to eighteen rail-
roads entering the city.
B. P. Waggener has been made gen.
eral solicitor of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad company for Kansas, Ne
braska and Colorado, with headquar-
tiers at Atchison, Kan.
William H Burret, one of the big
gest and heaviest men in the world,
died at Locust Valley, N. Y. He
weighed SOS pounds.
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.
Non-residents can maintain suits for
divorce in the state of Kansas il the
person against whom the action is
brought can be served in the state.
Mr.. Bryan says his poll of legisla-
tors shows the initiative and referen-
dunn would pass the Nebraska house
without difficulty.
The national party prohibition con-
vention may be held in Des Moines in
1912.
The election Contests involving the
seats of Representatives Joseph F.
O'Connell of Massachusetts and AL
bert Estopinal of Louisiana. both
democrats, were concluded by house
committees.
Snator Chamberlain introduced
resolution calling upon the attorney
general to exercise dispatch in prose
cutting suits to recover lands in
Oregon granted to railroads and dis
posed of or offered for sale, in viola
ton of the grant.
In protest to congress the Iowa
railroad commission asks that the
provision of the Taft railroad bill,
which exempts from operation of the
bill state. rates applying between
points wholly within the state, be re-
tanned
Harry X. Thaw, who killed Stan
ford White, must remain in the Mat
teawan insane asylum. The appellate
division of the supreme court in
Brooklyn handed down a decision to
the effect that Matteawan is the
proper place for Thaw-
Freight tariffs showing considerable
increases over the present rates from
western territory to the Atlantic sea-
board will be filed with the Interstate
commerce commission to become eff
fective on June l.
The supreme court of Missouri de-
MED a motion for a rehearing of r.
J. House of the Kansas City Board
of Trade, who was arrested on
charge of violating the law requiring
grain to be sold by actual weight.
John w. Kern was endorsed for the
senate by the Indiana state demo-
cratic convention.
Much of the 100000 left by the late
Thomas F. Walsh to be distributed by
his wife will go to the relatives and
oId-time friends in Colorado.
A Japanese spy, who was caught
Hongkong harbor, was sentenced to
imprisonment.
No amendments of any character
were placed on the postoffice appro-
priation bill by the senate committee
which ordered the bills reported.
Thomas Bailey, said by the police
to be one of the three safe blowers
who robbed the National Bank of
Chatworth, ILL.,, of $4,000 on February
Is. was arrested in Chicago.
Within three hours after the SUBJ
scriptfon books had been opened in
San Francisco at the local stock ex-
change. $4,0S9,000 of the stock of the
Panama-Pacific international exposi-
ton to be held in San Francisco in
1915 was subscribed.
steel, Miller & Co., spot cotton
firm with headquarters at Corinth,
Miss. and branches at Columbus and
other towns throughout East Missis-
sippi. went into bankruptcy.
Unqualified endorsement was &C
corded the Taft administration by the
republican state central committee of
Maryland
Mr.. Byran, it is stated, will help in
the Missouri prohibition campaign
when it is fully on.
San Antonio secret service agents
have in their possession a number Of
counterfeit United States S. gold
,,ieces believed to have been made
in Mexico.
Dr Elihu b. Thomas, SO years old
fo+ber of Augustus Thomas, the play
wright. died at his home at st. Louis
Monday.
Generosity is the flower of justice.
Hawthorne.