Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-11-11

regarding the Alaska coal lands.
The main building of the Ontario
Wheel company works, with all its
contents, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
| $4,000
Mr. Bryan has been making some
speeches in Speaker Cannon's Illinois
district.
Fourteen deaths due to smallpox
having occurred at Saginaw, Mich,
within month.
Fire at Alexandria, Egypt, de-
stroyed several large cotton sheds
and 5000 bales of cotton. The loss
was $1,O0O,OO0.
Carl Rohr, a defaulting bank clerk
of the National Union bank of Water
town, N. Y, whose alleged shortage
is $4,000, was arrested at Seattle.
John J. Smythe was sentenced to
death in Norfolk, Va, for the murder
of his wife. Bullets intended for
Mrs. Smythe also killed 12-year-old
daughter.
The financial panic in China con-
tinues to spread, according to adVlces
brought by the steamship Seattle
Maru Twenty-seven Of ShanghaIs
foremost Chinese banks have closed.
Following an investigation begun
in ST. Louis the interstate commerce
commission suspended until March 1
next the date of putting in effect the
advance in the rates of transporta-
ton.
B. P. Conger of Detroit, son of the
head of the United States weather
bureau station there, was placed I'M
forgery and working a confidence
game.
The National City Evangelical
union of the Methodist Episcopal
church, holding it's eighteenth annu-
al convention in Pittsburg, elected
president.
Charles Webb Murphy, the presi-
dent of the Chicago National League
Baseball club, says he stands ready
to give John T. Brush 100000 for
Christy Mathewson, the star pitcher
of the Giants.
After an illness of less than four
days, George A. Rasmussen, an in
structor in the Sioux City high
school, died of infantile paralysis. He
was the third adult to die in Iowa
of that disease.
Asbury Spicer, who has figured con-
spicuously in the Breathitt county
(Ky) feuds for many years, was Civ
en- a life sentence in the state peni-
tertiary for the murder of Nephew
Asbury Fugate.
1t is feared that Solomon, a settle
ment of a dozen houses on the beach
of Norton sound, twenty-three miles
east Of Nome, was wiped out by the
unusual tidal disturbance which sent
a flood in from the Bering sea.
The hearing by the London crimi-
nal court of appeals of the appeal of
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen, under SEN
tence of death for the murder of his
actress wife, Belle Gilmore, was post
poned to November 5.
Assistant postmasters who hope to
be transferred into the permanent
service of the government under the
civil service recently issued by Presi-
dent Taft must first stand rigid
examination as to their efficiency.
Asbury Spicer, who has figured
conspicuously in the Breathitt county,
Kentucky feuds for many years, was
given a life-sentence in the state
penitentiary for the murder of
Nephew Asbury Fugate last spring.
formal request from Washington
for the detention of Harry Ham, o.
GARRISON and Dan Archer, in custody
at Acapulco and first believed to be
the Los Angeles dynamiters was
transmitted to the Mexican foreign
office.
Vital questions concerning the is
sues of stocks and bonds by the rail
roads engaged in interstate COM
merce will be investigated by the
Railroads Securities C 0 m m S S o n,
which will begin public hearings prob
ably on November %.
The negotiations by syndicate to
secure the controlling stock of the
Cramp Shipbuilding company have
been declared Off
The Northern Central railWa y
stockholders have approved of lease
of their road to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for 500 years.
Americans who land cars in Eng
land for a four months tour or less
will no longer be subject to the pay
ment of license fee, and those from
whom fees may have been exacted
since May 1 last are likely to have
these amounts refunded
Application was made to the super
ior court in Seattle by State Food
Commissioner Davies for an order to
destroy ton of turkeys and five tons
of smelts, salmon, crab and Holsters,
received last May from a California
firm to be placed in cold storage for
the fall trade.