Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-02-24

congress were held up an entire day
| by flibuster by Representative
! Mann.
Periodical publishers made a reply
| to the statement of Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock
Former Secretary of State Olney
declares the United States should not
| fortify the Panama canal.
The contract of a loan of $4,000
600 to Honduras by American bank
ers was signed in New York.
The directors of the Standard Oil
| company of New Jersey declared
dividend of SIS for the quarter.
| The New Haven chamber of COM
merce passed resolutions unanimous
ly approving reciprocity with Canada.
The directors of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad company decided
to increase the capital stock by $685.
100000
President Taft and Champ Clark
declared til emselves in accord IN
| speeches at the Pan-Amercan con-
ference.
martial law by President Estrada as
a result of the magazine explosion at
Managua.
Fifty republicans from over Ne
braska organized progressive re-
publican league in Lincoln and de-
clared their principles.
The Colorado senate adopted res
olutlon requesting President Taft to
call an extra session to correct the
known inequalities" of the tariff law.
Rumors of the bubonic plague
spreading into the coast cities OF
Russia caused wheat prices in the
Chicago market to go a half cent
higher.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to es-
tablish a hero fund Of 100000 in
Denmark. The foreign Office already
has expressed it's gratitude for the
proposed gift.
The King Lumber company, of
Charlottesville, Va, has been award
ed the contract for the construction
of the public building at Holdrege,
Neb., at s68,325.
The Mark Twain library, built as
memorial to Jean L. Clemens, daugh-
ter of the humorist, who was drown
ed at Stormfield, Dec. "a, 1909, was
formally dedicated.
Under the terms of the treaty pro-
viding for the arbitration of the
Chamizai zone case, the United
States and Mexico exchanged pre-
sensations Of their respective cases
The Tennessee house of represen-
tatives adopted a resolution urging
President Taft to call an extra ses-
sion of congress March +, 1911, to
make an immediate downward revi
sion of the tariff on the necessaries
of life"
Declaring that he does not wish ''to
give fictitious value to Cham Clark's
annexation talk" Premier Asquith
announced in the house of commons
that he would not instruct Ambassa-
dor Bryce to make any representa-
lions to the American government in
the matter.
At Sutton, w. ", seven persons
were killed Sunday when the home
of j. D. Harding was burned to the
capped Six of the dead were members
of Harding's family. The seventh
was a little girl, who was making her
home with them.
nc hn+ To- 1- Shn
elist, had been arrested and thrown
into Jail on the Mexican border, while
trying to Join the Mexican insurgents,
were ridiculed by London. He de-
clares that the man arrested at Cal
exico, Cal. is a person who for
months has been impersonating him.
That railroads under the Elkins and
Hepburn railway rate acts cannot le-
gally exchange free transportation for
advertising space in newspapers and
magazines, was the decision of the
supreme court of the United States in
the test case brought against the Chi.
cage, indianapolis & Louisville rail-
way company by the government.
The French government is not
much interested in the plan for re-
ciproca trade relations maturing be-
tween the two great governments of
North America, while French export
ers are plainly apprehensive.
Two hundred and forty-eight rail
way mail clerks at Syracuse, n. Y,
took a revolutionary step for govern
ment employees by affiliating with the
American Federation of Labor, re-
ceiving charter and electing and
installing officers.
Six valuable thoroughbred horses
to form the nucleus for breeding high
grade mounts for the United States
cavalry were rendered to Secretary
of War Dickinson by their New York
owners August Belmont offered
three and like number were ten
dered by Edward B. Cassatt
A dispute between a shipper and
railroads concerning the freight tar
if weight of a gallon of crude petro-
leum and fuel oil was submitted to
the interstate commerce commission
by the Sun company, petroleum ship