Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-01-06
NEWSNOTES.
CONDENSED
A Boiling Down Of the More I'M
pOrtant Events Here and There
EoreiQn.

Foreign.
A telephone message from Kabula
Miro states that the American expe-
dition camped on Monday night at
Katwe, eight miles beyond Kabula
Miro Colonel Roosevelt and the
others of the party are well. The
hunters have covered fifty-fOur miles
since leaving Kampla Unganda De-
cember 90 The immediate objective
point is Kisingo, fifteen miles from
Katwe.
The Chinese government formally
complained to Japan against the viola
ton of the Manchurian telegraph con-
VentiOn of 1908. The complaint con-
sisted of two counts, which purported
to show that the Japanese were
guilty of extending telegraph and tel
egraph lines and traffic in Manchuria.
The special committee of COpenha-
sen university which investigated DR..
Frederick A Cooks polar records is
now considering whether or not it will
publish a second report, giving further
details of it's work. If the committee
should decide to do so, it will issue
the report about the middle OF
January.
Colonel Won Ketten, chief of the Sc
cret police of Moscow, has been ap-
pointed to succeed Colonel Karpoff,
chief of the secret police of st. Peters
burg, who was assassinated December
%.
minister, has left Brussels, the lega-
ton now being in charge of U. Grant
Smith, the secretary, pending the ar
rival of the new minister, Charles
Page Bryan, who formerly was min
lister to Portugal
The national defense committee of
the Russian duma has rejected by
large majority the credit for new bat
tleships.
The body of Miss Harriet Smith OF
Boston, who was killed in an autOmo-
bile accident in Honolulu two weeks
ago reached San Francisco on the
liner Korea.
General.
Representative HlnshaW OF NebraS-
ka announced that unless the state
department brings about a speedy ad-
justmeIt of the case of James A.
Cook, the American conductor, who is
imprisoned at Guadalajara, Mexico, he
will bring the whole matter to the at
tention of congress.
The total internal revenue receipts
for November were $24,310,717; for
the first five months of the fiscal year,
$113,35S,162, and for the correspond
ing period of 1908, $40 ,682.
Total public benefactions in the
United States during the last twelve
months was $141,250,000, an amount
just $40,0OO,O0O greater than any
previous year in the history of the
country.
The old war museum in Danville,
H.. where President Lincoln had his
Office when he was riding the circuit
as an attorney, burned. The museum
contained many valuable relics.
Scores of New York shirt waist
strikers played the part of newsies
recently CARRIED in their best, the
girls invaded the residence and bust
ness districts, selling copies of
newspaper printed under their editor
ship, and setting forth their side Of
the strike.
Consul Oivares was appointed to
take charge of consulate at Managua.
Champ Clark says that high prices
of produce are here to stay.
Gambling in futures is to form the
subject of a conference soon to be
held at the white house President
TAFT proposes to arrive at a means, if
possible, of preventing an unnecessary
amount of stock market trading in flu
ture deliveries of wheat, corn, cotton
and other products.
Reports from the east say MIR Will
lard has been offered the presidency
of the B. G, O. railroad
Senator LOrimer fears he is being
ignored in the matter of patronage
in Illinois.
Statehood legislation at the present
session of congress will not go be-
yond giving authority to the people of
New Mexico and Arizona to hold con-
stitutiOnal conventions and provide
the means for such convention.
Notwithstanding his unpopulartty,
there seems to be much mourning
over the death of the king.
The next regular meeting of the
South Dakota Board of Pharmacy for
the examination of candidates for
registration and general business will
he held at Redfield January 10.
President Madriz has been notified
that he will be held accountable for
the safety of Americans in Nicaragua.
Harry Orme, the inventor Of an
aeroplane which experts have declared
to be long step forward in the sci
ence of aviation, came to grief at
Washington in private trial and his
flying machine was badly damaged.
A census bulletin says the cost of
maintaining Lincoln's police force is
lowest of any city in the country.
At Reading, Pa, five men were in
stantly killed by the explosion of a
boiler at the new plant of the Metro
politan Electric company.
At Topeka, Kan, Judge John C.
Pollock in the United States district
court declared the Kansas bank guar.
anty law to be invalid
While driving home in a covered
wagon loaded with Chrictmac oifts