Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-12-15

ration, Sdlu MS COlupduy WIS dhAlou0
! to obey the law.
| Assistant Indian Commissioner Alb
| bot exhibits with pride corn raised by
members of the Winnebago tribe.
Frank B. Morrison said Clarence
DarroW drew a fee OF fifty thousand
dollars for defending the McNamaras.
The battleship Maine was destroyed
by an explosion from the outside, &C
cording to the report of a naval
board.
At Los Angeles sentence was pro-
nounced on the McNamaras, James
B. to life imprisonment, John ]. for
fifteen years.
Less enthusiasm marked the open
ing of the first regular session Of the
second congress than characterized
years.
The state of the late Otto Ringing
of Baraboo, Wis, one Of the five
circus kings, who died March 81,
1911 has been appraised at $497,-
1922.
The American Society of Equity, a
farmers organization, closed it's SEES
sion in Chicago by adopting resOlu-
lions asking President Taft to remove
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
Dispatches from Teheran say Persia
is ready to enter into friendly nego
tiations with Russia with regard to
the matters contained in Russia S re-
cent ultimatum.
Wire and nail product prices have
been advanced one dollar ton
by the American Steel Wire com
pany, subsidiary Of the steel cor
poration.
A number of witnesses were examin
ed at Huntsville, Ala, in the case OF
John w. Knight, on trial on five
counts charging fraudulent use of the
United States mails and involving So,
For the first time since 1883 the an
nual financial statement Of the Post
office department shows a surplus III
stead of a deficit This is the bur
den of the annual report Of Postmas
ter General Hitchcock
On account Of two vacancies in the
supreme court of the United States
movement has been started to
have the group of state railroad rate
cases assigned for argument on Jan
8, 1912, postponed for a full bench.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
suspended until January 1 the postal
regulation forbidding the transmits
sion through the mails of matter bear
ing upon the address, side Red Gross
Christmas seals or other charity
stamps.
The farmers of Jerome, Ida, are
making money out of their worst
pests When they were informed that
eastern commission merchants were
willing to pay cents in real money
for every jack rabbit shipped to them
5000 went forward last week.
Complete information of the oper
alton of the parcels post in twenty-one
foreign lands has been compiled fol
the use of the senate committee on
postoffices and post roads, to be used
in considering proposed legislation tc
establish parcels post in the United
States.
After a running battle Of thirty
miles with g. company of state militia
and a posse of armed citizens, John
| Weidemeir, who shot and killed
| Sheriff Moody of Wahpeton, was sur
rounded near White Rock, S. D., and
killed after he had wounded three OF
his pursuers.
Members of the socialist party OF
Lima, O., have demanded the resig,
nation of Mayor-elect Corbin D
| Shock, who headed the socialist ticket
| this fall. Shock will not resign.
| Physical valuation of all railroad
property in the United States is pro,
posed in a bill presented in the house
Abrogation of the treaty with Rus,
! STA was advocated at mass meeting
| held at New York.
George NJ Ward, general manager
of the Commercial Cable company
/ announced that the Commercial com
! pany would adopt a rate OF cents
word for deferred transatlantic news
paper dispatches.
Already Twenty-Five states have &C
| cepted invitations and indicated thei1
intention of participating in the fiji
teenth international congress OF hygl
enc and demography to be held In
Washington September 1928, 1912.
The C0nstantinople papers an
nounce that the Turkish government
has decided to expel most of the ltali'
ans from the Gallipolt peninsula, the
territory around the Dardanelles and
Smyrna. 1t is understood that the eX
pulsion will become operative first II
all fortified places.
The first redemption Of postal saw
ings bank bonds at par was made
when Postmaster General Hitchcock
paid 5000 in cash for two 500 bonds
| sent from New York.
Personal.
Ortie MECHANICAL went before the
federal grand jury at Los Angeles.