Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-06-16

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It is expected that the senate Will
vote on reciprocity about July 10.
A skating rink for the blind has
recently been opened in Berlin city.
The bill to revise the wool tariff
was formally introduced in the house.
A Washington state congressman
said millions were going to waste in
tobacco taxes.
The senate subcommittee which
will pass on Lorimer has been made
up.
President Taft reiterated his Oppo-
sition to any amendment to the re-
ciprocity bill.
President Taft is quite confident
reciprocity will pass the senate if
amendments can be excluded.
In a referendum vote members OF
Iowa suffrage association ruled to
hold the state suffrage convention in
Perry.
With an air Of great mystery, Will
liam J. Burns, the detective in the
Los Angeles dynamite case, sailed for
Europe on the American liner Phil
adelphia.
Mabel Mosier, an Atchison, Kan,
woman, was convicted of engaging in
the white slave" traffic by criminal
court jury and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
Mary Mannering, charming and
beautiful, who has ended all specu-
lation as to her matrimonial inten-
by wedding Frederick E. WadsWorth,
a Michigan millionaire.
Announcement was made that Miss
Ellen Fitz Pendleton, dean and acting
president of Wellesley college, had
been chosen president of the col
lege.
Three thousand, two hundred and
buried in cemeteries in different parts
of Texas are to be movd to Pineville,
La, for reburial in the national GENE
terry at that place.
An invitation was received by Pres
ident Taft from the anti-horse their
to visit Arkansas City, Kas., to adj
dress it's convention July 10.
The Cunard line steamer SaXonia,
arrived at Trieste, Austria, from New
York, in the hands of the health au-
thOrities as the result of the discov-
cry of a case of suspected cholera on
board
Under the terms of the will of Mrs.
Caroline E. Thompson Of Bridgeport,
Conn, and New York, daughter Of
the late P. T. Barnum, an estate
valued at over 100000 is disposed Of.
To her husband is given an annuity
Of $4,000 and a life interest in the
New York residence.
The action of the war department
in not reporting to congress awards
of contracts for materials used in the
construction of the Panama canal,
amounting already to many millions
Of dollars, was a subject Of inquiry
by the house committee on eXpendi-
lures in that department.
Following four hours discussion of
the Canadian reciprocity bill by the
senate finance committee in executive
session, Chairman Penrose expressed
the opinion that many amendments
which might be adopted by the COM
mittee would be killed on the floor of
the senate.
The suit of the Ware-Kramer To-
bacco company against the American
Tobacco company for $1,200,000 dam
ages under the Sherman antitrust
act was begun at Raleigh, n. c., be-
fore Judge O'Connor in the federal
court. Matters argued were concern
ing production Of books, records and
papers and exceptions to dispositions
by both parties.
The great naval review by King
George at Spithead, June "a, two days
from the coronation, will see gath
cred together in full commission the
largest number of vessels of the
dreadnaught class ever assembled.
Most Of them naturally will be units
of the British navy, but the United
States will be represented by the
most powerful up-to-date battleship
in the review, the Delaware.
Drinking of champaign in public by
members was one of the closing fea
lures of the Ohio legislature.
The formal making of plans to cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of Kan
sas as a state was commenced by the
Topeka Commercial club. The cele-
bration will be held this fall during
the Topeka state fair week.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said
with reference to published story
that he would support President Taft
in the next campaign: There is no
truth in the report that l have agreed
to support any man for president in
1912. | have neither made any such
statement nor even discussed the mat
ter"
Because he was unfamiliar with the
rule requiring applicants to register
when they begin their study for law,
Robert Alphonso Taft, son of Presi-
dent Taft, was denied the privilege of
taking the Ohio state bar examina-
ton. Two months ago he wrote to the
clerk of the supreme court, asking to
be registered for examination. He
was advised that because he had not