Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-02-17

ference.
An extended drouth which threat
ened the wheat crop Of western Tex
as, was broken
Canada will stand her ground for
reciprocity in the face Of the mother
country disapproval.
The United States court OF appeals
decided that Oklahomas Jim Crow
law is constitutional.
President Taft began his campaign
for Canadian reciprocity in an ad-
dress at Columbus, o.
The Iowa legislature killed the
special primary election bill to settle
the senatorial struggle.
President Taft is well satisfied
with the progress the Canadian re-
ciprocity treaty is making.
Probable failure of the tariff board
bill has caused renewed talk of the
possibility of an extra session.
The charge is made the Mexican
federal troops fired on an American
protected by the Red Cross flag.
OF nineteen deaths a day in Che Foo,
China, according to a cablegram.
There is proof that the w. Il. Scott
mausoleum at Erie, Pa, was entered
and the remains of woman taken.
The impression is growing deeper
and deeper about the capitol that an
extra session of congress is likely.
A pouch of mail originating in Colo
RADIO and en- route for the east was
stolen from a truck at Council Bluffs.
Postmaster General Hitchcock fav-
ors increasing the postage rate ON
magazines from l to cents a pound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Befkowitz and
their five children were killed by il
Illuminating gas in their home in
Philadelphia.
William Kohn, the highwayman,
who terrorized ST. Paul last Decem-
Der, was sentenced to the state pris-
on for sixty years.
Fifty republicans from over Ne
braska organized a progressive re-
publican league in Lincoln and de-
clared their principles.
Federal Judge Hough at New York
denied the motion to appoint a
guardian for Joseph G. Robin, the al"
legged bankrupt and fallen banker.
One less contestant appeared before
the book committee Of the Methodist
general conference in the race for
next years meeting, as Chicago with
drew
The daylight closing saloon bill, pro-
viding that saloons must not open
before o'clock a. m, and that they
must close by p. M, was passed by
the Texas senate.
President Taft's plan for Canadian
reciprocity is extremely likely to re-
ceive Endorsement by the Illinois
legislature, despite Speaker Cannon's
avowed opposition.
Several hundred clergymen in
Chicago started movement, further
ed by the Chicago Christian En-
deavor union, to relieve mail clerks
and carriers of Sunday work.
C. Fl. Markham of Chicago has
been elected president of the Ocean
Steamship company and the Central
Georgia railway. Mr.. Markham is
president of the Illinois Central rail-
way.
An armed uprising of Greek coaE
miners at Kenilworth, Carbon coun-
ty, Utah, was suppressed after ono
man had been killed, one fatally
wounded and several others slightly
hurt by flying bullets.
The French government is not
much interested in the plan for re-
ciprOcal trade relations maturing be-
tween the two great governments OF
North America, while French export
ers are plainly apprehensive.
The Kansas senate passed the res
olutiOn to submit an amendment to-
the constitution giving women the
right to vote in all elections by a
vote of q to 12 The resolution had
previously passed the house.
A convention of women, held in the
state house at Pierre, S. D., took first
steps towards the organization of a
"Womans party" The organizers
will seek political preferment accord
ed them under the constitution of the
state, without waiting for the full
voting privilege.
A remarkable petition was received
by Postmaster General Hitchcock
from citizens of Fairbanks, Alaska,
the establishment in that
city of a postal savings bank. The Pc
tition is twenty-four feet long and
bears the names of many hundreds OF
of Fairbanks.
The Canadian reciprocity amend
ment had it's first actual advance Sat
urday when the committee on ways
and means reported favOrably to the
house the administration bill embody-
ing the compact. President Taft can
get the agreement past congress il
he can force vote in the senate this
session.
The New York Rockefeller insti~
tute for medical research announced
that the effectiveness of the antimen~
nights serum had been generally &C
copied by medical authorities
the world and that the
new remedy had taken it's place with