Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20

| service pension bill.
| Lawyers have pronounced the will
Of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy to be void.
| Railroads in western trunk terri
tory pleaded for a right to raise
rates.
! The president sent 2 message TO
congress asking for money to tortlty
the canal.
Judson G.. Clements was made
Chairman of the interstate commerce
commission.
The house voted to abolish the Oh
flee of second deputy commissioner
of pensions.
The census taken in December
shows that the population in vienna
numbers 2,OO4,291.
Bids for canal supplies submitted
by United States manufacturers are
regarded too high.
| Senator Burrows refused to deslg-
nate a day for vote on the question
of unseating Lorimer.
| The supreme court finds it difficult
| to draw the line between legal ana
1ll6Sdl restraint Vi lIduS.
A fire in the pension Office at Wash
ington burned records, but caused
only minor financial loss.
The plan of refunding the Hondur-
an debt is regarded as amounting to
q United States protectorate.
Captain Peary told a house commit
tee that the man who discovers the
pole must make his own roadway.
Governor Hadley submitted to the
legislature a resolution to congress
asking for the ratification of the in
come tax law.
The Iowa house of representatives
endorsed New Orleans as the loca-
ton for the 1915 Panama exposition
over San Francisco.
The grand jury returned an indict-
ment charging perjury against Will
liam L. Brewer, former vice president
of the Northern bank of New York.
The grand jury has returned an IN
dictment charging perjury against
William L. Brewer, former vice presl'
dent of the Northern bank of New
York.
1t is now IS years since the opening
gun was fired of the campaign for
popular election of senators which IS
now clearly approaching a successful
issue.
The 100000 appropriation made by
congress at the last session for re-
moving the wreck of the battleshlp
= will no in
sufficient
A measure providing for limited
parcels post on rural free delivery
routes was reported favorably to the
senate from the committee on post
offices and postroads.
The reign of martial law which was
instituted in the disturbed sections of
Rio JaneriO after the recent revolt in
the navy had been crushed, was end
ed by the government decree.
There is concern almost approach
ing panic in the ranks of New York's
four hundred, due to an epidemic OF
scarlet fever, which has claimed as
it's victims some of the leading So
COlorado's cities having a popula-
ton in excess of 5000 increased 1876
per cent in the last ten years and
contributed AZ per cent increase of
the states total population of 259,324.
Montana cities having population
in excess of 5000 increased 39.1 per
cent during the last ten years and
contributed 42.3 per cent of the
states total increase in population of
132,724.
The old battleship Texas which was
the forerunner of her class in the
United States navy, has outlived her
usefulness as a fighting machine and
will be converted into a target for ma
val practice.
The state department has finally
given it's consent to the Haitian loan
and bank contracts and has so cabled
Minister Furniss. These involve the
creation of the National Bank of Hal
ii instead Of the existing French
bank
A stamp tax on sale for future de-
livery of stocks, grain, provisions or
other commodities may be imposed
by a state without violating the fed
eral constitution, according to a de-
cision Of the supreme court Of the
United States.
Alleged inhuman treatment by the
authorities of Zacatecas Of J. A. Far
rell. an American mining engineer, is
being Investigated by the American
embassy at Mexico City, following a
protest signed by eight foreign resi-
dents of Ell Rio.
The house committee on judiciary
| reported favorably a bill providing
that there shall be no retrials grant
| ed in civil or criminal cases on tech
nicalities, unless they are such as, in
the opinion of the trial judge, would
change the verdict
Governor Simon w. Baldwin, the
new executive of Connecticut, is the
| first governor in an eastern state to
| give official recognition to the idea
Of Women's vote, by recommending to
the legislature the adoption of an
| amendment to the constitution en-