Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-09-22

an acute attack of kidney trouble Tor
several days, is much improved.
Trade reports show conditions to be
only fairly active.
Admiral Togo returned home from
his tour around the world
Admission is made in Peking that
the Chinese revolt is serious.
The death was announced at Brus-
sells of Imbart de la Tour, Belgian
tenor.
At this writing over 100000 men
are engaged in army maneuvering IN
Germany.
Five burglars looted O. bank of New
Westminster, B. c.. of over a quarter
million dollars.
outfought in his ten-round battle with
Jim Flynn at New York.
John d. Rockefeller's protest that
the appraisal on his Forest Hill es-
tate is too high was ignored.
In an extended review of the case,
President Taft exonerates DR.. Wiley
and finds no cause for his resignation.
SWindler S. A. Potter is believed to
have had plan to catch London men
for half million by ''salted" mine.
Directors of the Rubber Goods Man
ufacturing company declared a quar-
terly dividend of per cent on the
common stock.
w. S. Overton of Sarpy county,
Nebr., is believed to have been MUIR
dered and robbed of $4,000 about
month ago near Omaha.
Paul f. Bradley of Illinois, a law
clerk of the interstate commerce COM
mission, was appointed assistant at
torney general of Porto Rico.
At Sydney, N. S. D., Jack Lester of
Cleelum, Wash, defeated Bill Land,
the Australian heavy weight, for the
championship of Australia.
Colonel John Jacob Astor and
Madeline Talmage Force, both of New
York, were married at Breachwood,
the Bridegroom's New port house.
Five thousand Spanish troops have
received orders from the ministry OF
war to reinforce the Spanish garrison
at Melilia, on the Riff coast of Mo
rocco.
Armed with an umbrella filled with
long pins, Miss Grace Bassett of Ere
mont, Nebr., avenged a slight on her
reputation by beating M. T. Sankey
Of Lincoln, a city employe.
The United States Steel corporation
announced that the untitled tonnage
on the books on August 81 was $685.
9S5 tons against 3,5S4,05S tons on
July 81.
The will of Ole C1oven, bachelor
farmer of Iowa, just made public,
leaves $4,000 for the erection of a
home for aged poor in the center OF
his large farm. Only $1,000 is left to
relatives.
The death of Congressman Latta
means that at the coming November
election his successor must be chos-
en-. Had the Tekamah mans death
occurred within thirty days of the No
vember election the place could have
been filled by appointment by Cover
nor Aldrich.
According to the orders of the
Iowa commission of health, Iowa live
stock will be protected from disease
in the future by the most stringent
set of rules in force in the u. S.
The appointment of George Bakh-
metieff Russian ambassador to the
United States to succeed Baron
Rosen, was officially announced at.
Petersburg He was formerly ambas-
sador to Japan and was at one time
secretary of the Russian legation.
Ending automatically courtship
of several months, Mrs. L. J. Sperry,
a widow aged 65, filed suit in the dis
trict court at Lawrence, Kansas,
against James D. Faxon, SO years old,
alleging breach of promise and ask
ing $4,000 damages.
The captain and fifteen of the crew
of the German bark Thekia which was
wrecked last July on the rocks of
Staten island, near Terra Del Fuego,
arrived at Punta Arenas Chile, on
board transport. They had spent
nearly two months on desert island.
Senator Thomas P. Gore of Okla
homa, requested the Associated press
to say the story that he has been in
vited by Premier Laurier of Canada
to assist in the campaign for reciproc-
ity is entirely without fundation.
The minister of education, M.
Hazba, carrying out the new govern
ments policy of interior development,
announced that two new imperial uni
versities accommodating a total of
1000 students would be opened in
Japan.
The wooden steamship Ramona Of
the Pacific Coast Steamship company,
bound for Skagway from Seattle, with
passengers and freight, went ashore
on one of the Spanish islands, oppo-
site Cape Decision, Alaska, a total
loss.
Rallo B. Jackson of Newton Ia,
filed a complaint with the Interstate
Commerce commissionagainst the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
company, complaining against charges
exacted on a carload of poultry from
Newton to Chicago
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