Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-09-16
There were 100 Rockefellers


Of Athns, Ga.
From eight to ten thousand people
listened to the speech of Ex-President
Roosevelt in Omaha.
A demented man jumped from a
train near Missouri Valley, meeting
almost instant death.
The financial showing of the govern
meDt for the second month of the fis-
cal year is satisfactory.
Mayor Seidel of Milwaukee is bitter
towards Roosevelt, because of the
colonel's views on socialism.
Governor Shallenberger of Nebras-
ka, denies that there is any truth in
the report that he will call extra ses-
sion of the legislature.
Solicitor General Lloyd w. Bowers
died at Boston.
Alaska gold to the amount of $751;
500 was stolen from a steamer strong
box while en- route to Seattle.
At Terre Haute, Ind, John Mitchell,
the labor leader in a Labor day ad-
dress, spoke in favor of better laws
for the protection of workingmen.
Thirty lives were lost when Pere
Marquette car ferry No. IS, bound
from Ludington to Milwaukee, went
to the bottom of Lake Michigan half
way across the lake.
Capt. T. D. Bloom, head of a cod
fish company. was found in the park
in Tacoma with his throat cut. 1t is
believed a robber attacked him.
The state department officials are
not quite sure that they fully compre-
bend the decision of the Hague
tribunal in the fisheries case.
President Taft may take a personal
part in the campaign in order to in
sure the return of republican house.
Whether or not the former earn
ings of the railroad companies were
excessive is now pertinent question
in the controversy on the fixing of
rates.
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen, Jointly &C.
cused with Ethel Clare Leneve of the
murder of his wife, has suffered a
nervous collapse and was removed to
the hospital ward of Brixton jail.
Conard Vandelsen, a centenarian,
for many years a vessel owner and
captain on the great lakes, died at
his home near Joliet, Ill.
Locked out of ST. Andrews Protest
ant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, of
which he had been rector for sixteen
hn hc1y
conducted the regular services from
the front steps.
Davis Elkins arrived in Paris from
Carlsbad en- route to Vichy, where he
will join his mother and his sister,
Miss Katherine Elkins. 1t is under
stood that the three will sail for the
United States about October l.
Virtual martial law prevails in Bar
letta, the center of the Italian chol-
era zone, as the result of a clash be-
tween several thousand starving and
unemployed people and the military.
The plant of the Rubber and Cellu-
loid Harness Trimming company at
New York, with which is also as
pany, was swept by fire with loss
estimated at $250,000
Great progress generally is being
shown by the American Indian to-
ward gaining footing with the
whites in the matter of civilization,
Abbott of the bureau of Indian af-
fairs.
Captain T. D. Bloom, prominent in
shipping circles and head of a Goldfish
company, was found in park in Seat
tie in the heart of the city with his
attacked him.
Congressman G. w. Norris of Ne
braska, returned from Wisconsin
pleased with insurgent victory
Mrs. r. B. Mccoy, wife of Judge r.
B. Mccoy of Sparta, Wis, was killed
and DR.. Carl Beebe, ST., of Sparta,
was dangerously injured when the
| touring automobile in which they
were riding plunged into the river.
Paris has just seen it's first auto
mobile funeral. Not only the hearse,
but all the carriages following it to
| the cemetery were gasoline-driven,
and many have been the comments,
some half-mournful, many wholly
cynical at the innovation.
| Franklin B. Coleman, who described
himself when arrested as a mining
promoter of Kansas City, now living
at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York,
was held for trial in $1,000 bond
| charged with passing a worthless
| check.
In order to increase interest in the
breeding of thoroughbreds in Ger
many and thus better provide the
best possible mounts for his cavalry
the kaiser has overcome his opposi-
ton to horse racing, and is consider
ing the question of owning few
ace horses himself.