Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-25

provision, PRESIDENT ,IdIC FGIOeu tHe
Arizona-New Mexico statehood reso-
luton
President Taft has been invited to
visit the convention of the Interna-
tional Association of State Labor Of
ficials at Lincoln, Neb., on Septem-
Der 81.
Congressman J. P. Latta of Nebras-
ka and his son Ed accompanied by his
physician, DR.. Luken, has gone to
Rochester, Mimi, where he will prob
ably undergo an operation.
The house adopted the conference
report on the farmers free list bill by
100 to 1902, after eliminating the
house lemons amendment and con-
curing with all the senate amend
ments
Jose Maria, managing editor of the
paper Cuba at Havana, and his
nephew, Manuel Villeverde, an editori-
al writer on the Cuba, were seized at
the residence of the former and
placed on a steamer and deported to
Spain.
Fire originating in the car building
and repair shops of the Cudahy Pack
ing cOmpany's plant at South Omaha
caused loss of $150,000 to the Cuda-
by property and less than $4,000 to
the Union stock yards. The loss is
fully covered by insurance.
President Taft was the guest of
honor at a luncheon at the Country
club in Washington. Vice President
Sherman and a score of republican
leaders in the senate and house Of
representatives were also present.
Senator Root of New York was host.
Statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona on a basis acceptable to
President Taft was approved by the
senate through the passage of the
Flood-Smith resolution presented by
Senator William Alden Smith, chair
man of the committee on territories,
A reward of 81 per head is offered by
the health authorities of Decatur
county, Indiana, for mosquitoes. They
dsire only the Misunderstanding va
riety, but in order to stimulate inter
est, have issued a bulletin giving G
full description of the species they
wish to eXterminate.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
recommended to the house that rail
roads be paid only enough to give
them a profit of per cent above cost
for carrying the mails. He favors hay
ing the roads themselves report an
service.
Martin w. Littleton, congressman
from Nassau county, n. Y, will be
chairman of the proposed congress
sional committee which will be au-
thorized to investigate the industrial
conditions of the United States. This
committee will, it is reported, be the
most important one appointed by con
gress in recent years.
John w. Deaton, one of the oldest
employees at the Springfield, Mo,
postoffice, was arrested by postoffice
inspectors charged with OBTAINING
letters that contained registered mat
ter. He furnished $4,000 bail, pending
trial at the October term of the fed
eral court.
The bishop of Padua has issued a
pastoral letter addressed to all the
clergy under his jurisdiction, warm
ly exhorting them to use their in
fluence to the end that women and
especially fashionable women, should
adopt more decent and decorous
modes of dressing on these hot sum-
mer days.
More than 100000 worth of Sc
curities were found when the safety
deposit vault of John A. Humbird,
lumberman, was opened at ct Paul
by his son, Thomas J. Humbird of
Spokane. A representative Of the
county treasurer's office was on hand
to list the property for the inherit
ance tax.
Four men were killed, four were
fatally injured, while nine others suf-
fered fractured arms and legs in an
explosion which wreckd the molding
building of the Illinois Steel COM
pany's plant at Joliet, ILL.,
Workmen of Lincoln will celebrate
labor day with picnic at which Gov
Aldrich will make and address.
Order will be re-established in the
state of Morelos before the federal
troops are withdrawn. They have
been ordered to occupy the various
towns now held by the Zapatistas
General Ambrosio FfguerOa has been
instructed to march his men north
ward from the Guerrero state line,
and rurales now in the state of Vera
Cruz will be brought into the disaf-
fected region.
The president probably will leave
Beverly September II, returning east
about November /. He will go west
through Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado and Nevada to the coast.
Most of the big cities in those states
including Des Moines, Kansas City,
Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake City
will be visited, but the plans for the
trip contemplates stops at scores Of
smaller places as well.