Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-10-28
DR.. Crippen testified in his own be-


be elevated to chief.
Philadelphia defeated the Cubs and
won the championship pennant.
i Edgar Allen Poe has been declared
entitled to a place in the hall of fame.
Mr.. Bryan has been making some
speeches in Speaker Cannon's Illinois
district.
The Norwegian steamer Bluefelds
is believed to have been lost in the
West Indian hurricane.
The chairman of the Iowa demo
cratic committee proposes a state
wide primary on senator in November
Rhode Island republicans renomi-
mated present state officers and en-
dorsed the administration of Presi-
dent Taft.
The bodies of seven men, all vic
tins of the recent hurricane, were
washed up by the waves at Panta
Gorda, Fla.
The validity of the Carmack amend
ment to the Hepburn rate law is be-
ing tested in the United States SUI
preme court.
Luiggi Lucheni, who assassinated
the emperor of Austria in 1908, COM
mitted suicide in his cell in the prls-
on known as PEveche.
The duty on lumber imported from
Canada will be waived by the United
States in the interest of the Mime
sofa forest-fire sufferers.
Memorial services for the late Sen
ator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa
were held in Washington in the
Foundry Methodist church
Society has given up its attempt to
reconcile Colonel John acob Astor
and Mrs. Ava Willing Aston, the beau
tiful wife who divorced him.
A tentative plan has been formed
| by bank examiners to keep tab on
the large borrowers from national
banks in their respective districts.
The government has closed a con-
tract for monthly mail service by dog
sled to the Iditarod and Innoko dis
tricts in Alaska during the winter.
English bankers have agreed to ex-
tend the period of negotiating cotton
bills of lading under the present sys-
! tenn from October 81 to December 81.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany was fined from SO to $25 each
on four counts for violating the six
| teen-hour law in the federal court in
st. Louis.
Charges that lobbying has been
done in behalf of prohibition ar
ticle resulted in depriving reporters
of floor privileges in the Arizona con
stitutional convention.
John J. Smythe, charged with hav-
ing shot and killed his wife and
daughter in Norfolk, Va, September
i, last was found guilty of murder,
with electrocution as the penalty.
4 New Jersey is assured of tradi-
tional Thanksgiving celebration this
year, for reports from all parts OF
New Jersey show that the cranberry
cop will probably be the largest ever
harvested.
The charge in Theodore Roosevelt's
speech in New York that John A. Dix
the democratic nominee for governor
was a director of the wallpaper trust
was denied by Mr.. Dix's friend and
business associate.
The twenty-frst annual report OF
the Great Northern railway says that
improvement in conditions during the
fiscal year ending June 80 last result
ed Gin the largest earnings for one
year ever reported by the company.
Eighty-five per cent of the inhabit
ants of American Samoa are suffering
from the hook worm disease, accord
ing to the annual report of Captain
F. Parker, u. S. n, retired, governor
of the American islands of the SamO-
an group.
Seven thousand eight hundred men,
among them Governor Wilson of Ken
lucky, coming from seven states-In-
diana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, West
Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky,
were initiated into the Woodmen of
the World at Louisville, KY.
A cable from Rio Janeiro to the
New Dreams Picayune says: ''The
steamship Wally was wrecked near
the lighthouse at Arrosales off Para
and is total loss. Some of the pas
sangers were rescued, but it is be-
lieved that nearly fifty were drowned %
| New York's Chinatown is to be
cleaned up as it has never been
cleaned before. This is the decision
of the new police administration, it
was learned at headquarters, and be-
ginning at midnight, the police were
| inc +o1 IN o11 TO
from the district.
! One of the naval changes and pro-
motions resulting from the retirement
of Capt U. S. G. White on account of
age was the advancement of Com
mander Robert E. Peary, the Arctic
explorer, to the rank of captain. Peary
has been the only civil engineer in
the navy with a rank of commander.
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