Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-04-28
Cholera situation is again causing

A weevil has been discovered that
works havoc in alfalfa fields.
The farmers free list" finds favor
with the Nebraska delegation in the
lower house of congress.
Senator Brown holds that the in
come tax amendment is on the verge
Of adoption.
Senate regulars declined to recog-
nize the progressive republicans as
separate organization.
CongreSsman Kinkaid introduced
81 bills providing for increases of
pensions for Nebraskans.
Wool will not go on the free list in
the democratic revision of the wool
schedule of the tariff, at this session
of congress.
The insurrectos who defended Aqua
Prieta all day Monday, quietly stole
away during the night
A Nebraska man was among those
killed with the Mexican insurrectos in
battle near Chihuahua.
State biologists from almost every
state met in Washington with the Of
fcials of the geological survey.
The house, by a vote of 296 to 16,
adopted the resolution for direct cleo
ton of United States senators.
George Gould was able to dictate
the selection of Benjamin F. Bush as
president Of the Missouri Pacific.
With the Mexican situation on his
hands the president has reason to be
thankful that congress is in session.
The James bill, providing for wo-
man suffrage in Wisconsin, has been
bottled by the assembly elections
committee.
President Taft has gone as far as
he cares to on his own initiative, and
if there is to be intervention congress
must declare it.
Investigation Of alleged extravag-
ance in the government departments
was endorsed by the house committee
on rules.
The Michigan senate killed the bills
for a popular vote on constitutional
amendment providing for the initia-
tive and referendum.
Rage Adams, a wealthy planter liv-
ing near Holt, Fla, was assassinated
from ambush. 1t is believed the kill
ing is the result of an old feud.
George S. Terry, assistant United
States treasurer at New York, died at
Aiken, S. c. He had been suffering
for a week from an attack of dia-
betes.
John r. Montgomery, 81 years old,
and for fifty years New York tea
merchant, stepped into a summer
house at his home and ended his life
by shooting.
But IS years of age and married for
the fourth time is the record of Geor
giana Pierce of South Omaha, who was
last week united in marriage to Alfred
E. Lowe, aged "a years.
Henry Brown, aged 92, roommate
of Abraha am Lincoln when the latter
was practicing law, died on his farm
near Bloomington, Ill. He had many
letters written to him by Lincoln.
Delivery of parcels post matter
from many European countries will be
expedited in the middle western
states by an arrangement made by
the postoffice and treasury depart
ments.
James Speyer of the banking firm
OF Speyer and company, and H. |.
Miller, receiver of the Buffalo & Sus-
quehanna railway, have been elected
directors of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way.
The Episcopal cathedral of st. John
the Divine tilc largest ecclesiastical
structure in the country and the
fourth largest in Christendom, was
solemnly consecrated in New York
city.
Telegraphic orders from Washing
ton, received at the Mare Island navy
yard, started 100 marines for San
Diego and the Mexican border under
the command of Captain Fred A.
Ramsey.
Scullers' row on the Hudson river
was swept by fire. Four boats were
burned, with their contents, including
nearly 200 racing shells, and two other
club structures were damaged. The
loss is 100000.
A gOvernmentOperated mine to pc
run, not for profit, but to obtain scien-
tific data, will begin operations about
May /, when the new experimental
coal mining plant at Bruceton, Pa,
near Pittsburg, is opened.
Senator Norris Brown, of Nebras-
ka, believes that before any tariff
legislation shall have passed congress
the income tax amendment will have
been adopted. IF this proves the
case" said Senator Brown, ''the whole
tariff situation will be completely
revolutionized. The argument that
duties cannot be reduced or wiped
out because we need the revenue, will
no longer be valid.
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