Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-31


chase Of lands.
Finance Minister Limantour con-
fessed conditions in Mexico were
worse than he supposed.
Oklahoma Kansas bandits held up
and robbed an Iron Mountain train of
an amount said to be $4,000.
China has decided to unreservedly
acluiesce to the demands of Russia
concerning the treaty of 1881.
The New York legislature will make
strenuous efforts to get a senator be-
fore the extra congress convenes.
Annual reports shows the gross
revenue collected by the Bell tele-
phone system in 1910 was $165, 000,
600.
New Workers held a mass meeting
in the interest of more adequate pro-
lection of so-called fre-proof build
ings.
Selection of a president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific to succeed George J.
Gould will not be made for several
weeks.
The New York senate judiciary
committee voted, to 3, against re-
porting two woman suffrage resolu-
tons.
The Iowa senate, at the close of an
exciting debate, defeated the resolu
ton for woman suffrage by a vote of
q to 81.
The International American Purity
federation has decided to hold its
next congress in Columbus, O., Octo-
Der 1927.
The Red Cross will collect funds
for relief of families who lost rela-
tives in the New York skirt factory
cOntlagration.
Mrs. Austin NJ. Knight, wife of Cap
tain Knight of the United States navy,
died following an operation for inter
nal complications.
Thousands visited the morgue in
New York to identify the remains of
relatives who were killed in the big
fire late Saturday afternoon.
The executors of the estate of Ce-
Gil Grace, the aviator who lost his
life while attempting an across chan
mel flight, were granted leave to pre-
sumo his death. His body has never
been found.
Counsel for the indicted Chicago
meat packers appeared before Judge
George A. Carpenter in the United
States district court and were given
one week to file demurrer to the
governments action.
One hundred and fifty lives, mostly
women and girls, were lost in fire
at a skirt factory in New York City.
Operatives were entrapped and most
of them lost their lives by jumping
from great height. Property loss
on the building is less than 100000.
H. B. Cohn, prominent Omaha
business man, was assassinated as he
was on his way home late at night in
Omaha. Two men were concealed in
an alley and shot down the victim
as he was crossing the same. Two
arrests under suspicion have been
made.
AS a result of settlement agreed
upon at conference between officials
of the brotherhood of locomotive en-
gineers and officials of the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad, $50 engineers of
that system will receive an Increase
of per cent in wages, better working
rules and a contract for a year
At Los Angeles, after swallowing
poison and cutting his throat Wesley
Churchill, forty years old, leaped from
the top of the eleven story building.
He landed in an alley and was man
gled into a shapeless mass. Churchill
had lost his position because OF poor
health. He had a large family.
DR.. Kelly, young physician, grad
uate of an Omaha medical college,
killed two men in Des Moines, one
of them a deputy sheriff of Pottawat-
tamie county, while on his way to the
inebriate hospital at Knoxville, to
which he had been sentenced. The
deputy sheriff. a lifelong friend OF
the murderer, had him in charge. The
other man killed was saloon Keeper
of Des Moines who had refused to
sell a drink to the frenzied doctor.
The great Importance to human
health and the great economic import
ance of control of tuberculosis i'll cat
tie and hogs, and especially in cattle,
is emphasized in a bulletin on the sub
ject which has just been put out by
Secretary Wilson and prepared under
the direction of DR.. A. D. Melvin, chief
of the bureau of animal industry. The
bulletin embodes the report of an in
ternationai commission of the Amer
lean veterinary medical association on
the control of tuberculosis in cattle
or bovine tuberculosis.
Personal.
Thirteen Young men were graduated