Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-26
Cholera in Italy is greatly on the

Alarming reports of plot to over
throw the Portuguese government are
printed in Lisbon.
The Estrada government in Mica
ragua is lettering to fall.
Ex-President Roosevelt is now on
his 5000 mile journey. He will be in
Omaha September 2.
Many lives were lost and much
property destroyed in the forest fires
of Idaho and Montana.
Great Britain's new battleship, the
Lion, is to be the biggest and fastest
naval fighter in the world.
Washington officials are convinced
that incendiaries are responsible for
the northwest forest fires.
Fire in the warehouse district OF
Jersey City, New York, caused dam
age estimated at $1,000,000.
Fire in the warehouse district of
Jersey City, New York, caused dam
age estimated at $1,000,000.
Colonel Roosevelt is expected to
give voice to some burning thoughts
on his trip through the west.
Should the democrats control the
next house they will have a taste of
insurgency in their own ranks.
The speech of Speaker Cannon at
Cissta Park, ILL.,, contained little of
his oIdtime vigorous statements.
Eight Americans, names unknown,
were arrested on the Isla of Pines on
the charge of homicide and arson.
According to a statement F. Angus
tus Heinze, the copper man, and Miss
Bernice Henderson, an actress, will
be married in New York this week.
Moissant, the American aviator,
made daring flight across the Eng
lish channel, carrying a passenger.
David Rankin, jr., who recently
gave away his fortune estimated at
more than 100000 died at Atlantic
City.
Colonel Joseph B. Hughes, former
head of the Continental Tobacco Co.,
was declared insane by a sheriff's
jury.
The population of Canada on March
81, last, was 7,4S9,781, according to
the estimate of the census depart
ment.
The democratic primary vote for
governor in Nebraska is so close that
the official count will be required to
determine.
On his own admission, Governor
Campbell will not stand by the plat
form demands of the Galveston dem
ocratic state convention.
The independent democratic state
committee of Tennessee has called
convention of the party to be held in
Nashville on September IA.
The postmaster general has accept
ed the proposal of Mrs. Lima F. Saw
yer to lease present quarters of sta
ton C of Lincoln postoffice for ten
years.
The governmental naval bill to- be
laid before the Reichstag this autumn
will ask for an appropriation to build
three battleships and one battleship
cruiser.
Four hundred Punjabis and Hindus
have sailed from Calcutta for San
Francisco. according to advices which
reached the department Of commerce
and labor.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Heiseke Of
Granite City, H., shot and killed
Samuel Morgan, man whom he had
arrested by mistake in an attempt to
quell a disturbance.
The population of Pittsburg, Pa, is
533,905, an increase of 82,393, or 1872
per cent, as compared with the com
bined population of Pittsburg and AL
legheny of 451,512 in 1900.
The coal lands in North and South
Dakota, amounting to about million
acres, which were recently with
drawn from the public domain by
President Taft, have been opened to
homestead settlement.
One of the principal reasons for the
slump in the sale of automobiles in
the rural districts is that the farm
ers begin to realize that the upkeep
of machines is many times more than
what was represented by statesmen
and dealers, and only recently rubber
tires have advanced 20 per cent. and
the promise of still another advance,
in fact, there is no limit scarcely ex-
cept a prohibitive one to what tires
can be advanced under the Rubber
Trust One agent says, II venture to
say we will not again sell to the farm
ers to any extent until prices of ma
chimes and supplies, in the manner
of upkeep, tires, etc, are greatly re-
duced."
Ali the indictments returned last
year against Jafet Lindberg, the
Alaska and California mining mil
lionaire in connection with an alleged
false affidavit made by one of his
miners, have been dismissed.
For nearly three hours President
Taft and Vice President Sherman
talked over the defeat of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt by the New York
state republican committee and the
selection of Mr.. Sherman as tenn
porary chairman of the Saratoga con-
vention.
Personal.
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