Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-03

The senate failed to ratify the new
Japanese trade and commerce treaty.
Senate and house conferees reached
an agreement on the rivers and har-
bors BILL
The Kansas senate voted to estab-
lish a state school for mines at Weir,
Cherokee county
Two new battleships and some
smaller craft are provided for in the
naval appropriation bill.
Arizona's constitution was affirmed
by 1912 of the total vote, accord
ing to the official canvass.
Damage to strawberry and other
crops in the vicinity of Amity City,
La, is estimated at 100000.
The British army estimates for
1911-12 issued by War Secretary Hal
dane show a total of $138, 100000.
st. Louis was selected as the next
meeting place of the National Edu-
cation association, department OF SUI
perintendents.
The Montana senate voted unani-
hously to pass G bill providing the
commission form of government for
municipalities.
Judge Advocate Crowder has de-
cided the war department is at lib
erty to accept the breeding horses
given by August Belmont.
The Kansas house has passed a
resolution that names of candidates
for TTni+ad Cta+oc copatOr shall NOT
be placed on the ballot at primary
elections.
Pleny Stokes, the 20-year-old Texas
box convicted of the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff Wood, was sentenced to
be hanged at the Florence (Arizona)
prison on April rs.
Thomas B. Smith has been con-
firmed as postmaster at Philadelphia
to succeed Richard L. Ashurst, who
mysteriously disappeared while visit
ing in Jersey City
The supreme court of the United
States granted to Arkansas the priv
| ilege of filing a suit against Tennes-
see to determine the exact boundary
between those two states.
| After a lively debate, the Iowa
house, by a vote of So to 33, vote to
postpone the attempt to pass the Ore
gon primary plan bill over the gov
errors veto until March 8.
Secretary of Commerce Nagel will
investigate the charge that figures OF
the department of statistics have
+0 hOI oil how hoy h q
true state of exports and imports.
The Missouri senate has passed a
bill requiring mail order houses to
take out a license to do business in
the state for which the fee shall be
to per cent Of the aggregate
sales.
The committee having charge of
raising the share of Washington, D.
c., toward the $2,500000 memorial
convention hall to George Washing
ton reports $524,95O already sub
scribed.
| A joint resolution authorizing the
| secretary of war to receive for in
struction at the West Point military
academy, two Chinese to be desig-
mated by that government, was passed
| by the house.
Ambassador O'Brien and Count Ko-
mura, the Japanese foreign secretary,
have exchanged congratulations on
the ratification of the treaty between
| the United States and Japan. The
press and public are highly pleased
over the attitude of the United States
Marconi's patent covering the tun-
| ing of both transmitters and receiv-
ers used in wireless telegraphy was
sustained by the British courts in a
I suit brought by the Marconi Wireless
! Telegraph company of London against
the British Radio-Telegraph and Tele-
| phone company.
An attempt to obtain consideration
for the bill to make Robert E. Peary
a rear admiral, failed. The house
was considering private bills when
Representative Butler of Pennsyl
vania, proposed that the Peary bill
be taken up. Representative Mann
| blocked the attempt by a parliament
airy motion.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in the
last of his formal speeches in Chica
go before the Union League club
banquet, warmly advocated the pro
posed reciprocity trade agreement
with Canada and scored congressman
who, he said, were responsible fo1
hindering the confirmation of the
agreement by means of an "annexa
ton scare"
BY means of poisoned wax balls
wild animals and beasts of prey in
the Black Hills national forest are
being rapidly eXterminated. Recent
ly orders from Washington were is
sued to the heads of all the nationa
forests directing that every effort be
made to kill off the animals that have
been the source of so much ANNOY
ance and expense to stockmen anc
| ranchers.
Personal.
Poor Jews of Tripoli are pictured
as in desperate plight.