Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-04-29
General.

The national party prohibition con-
ventiOn may be held in Des MOines in
1912
The south reports millions of dollars
lost by cold weather in destruction of
fruit
Gov. Hughes of New York has been
rendered and accepted appointment as
an associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States.
Former Judge S. F. Ballet, for TWEEN
ty years a resident of Des Moines, died
in Tonapah, New, at the age of 73
years
Dr. Elihu B. Thomas, SO years old,
father of Augustus Thomas, the play
wright, died at his home at st. Louis,
Monday.
NJ De Violent, Russian minister to
Mexico, has been retired because of
i'll health and will be succeeded by
Dr. A. De Stavisky, a present secre-
tary of the Russian legation at
Berne.
Official announcement was made at
Baltimore of the authorization of a
mortgage on the Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago terminal property to secure
an issue of $50,0OO,0OO of 5O-year AZ
per cent bonds.
The Kansas apple crop has been
greatly damaged by cold weather.
Colonel William H Bixby, United
States engineer corps, will be appoint
ed chief of engineers, succeeding
shall, who will be retired June H.
Four of the six convicts who es-
capped from Leavenworth have been
rcaptured. Of the two still at large,
one of them was engaged in the
Union Pacific overland hold-up.
Senator Hale denied that fear of
defeat prompted his announcement of
coming retirement from the senate.
More than 5000 men who receive
pensions for service during the civil
war live outside of the United States
There will be no strike on the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western rail
road Everything has been amicably
arranged.
Congress will adiourn before the
middle of June and possibly by June
], it is believed by President Taft and
the administration leaders. And be-
fore that time it is expected most of
the so-called administration measures
now before congress will have been
passed, or, if not, they would be in
such shape that they can be enacted
into law soon after congress meets in
December.
The Pickett conservation bill
authorizing the president to make
Withdrawals of public lands for pur-
poses of conservation, was passed by
the house.
A large increase In the number of
casualties on American railroads is
shown by the interstate commerce
commission report.
The Burlington sustained a loss
estimated at 100000 in a fire in the
Lincoln yards at Lincoln, Nebr.
Mr. Byran, it is stated, will help in
when it is fully on.
Three more bodies were taken from
the mines at Mulga, Alabama, max
ing a total of thirty-nine recovered.
1t is now believed by the inspectors
that there are no more bodies in the
mine.
In the next general election Ne
braska will vote upon an amendment
to the present voting laws.
Agents of the department of justice
and the trasury are looking into GER
tain features of the beet sugar in
dustry in the west.
William Randolph Hearst praises
President Taft's administration. He
says he is doing things that Roose-
Welt ought to have done.
Though having lost one large for.
tune, Mark Twain died worth a mil
lion dollars.
The late cold weather wrought
great damage to fruit prospects.
The remains of Mark Twain were
conveyed to the tomb at Elmira, New
York. on Sunday, the funeral service
being simple. Burial took place in a
drenching rain.
A tremendous ovation was given to
Roosevelt in Paris.