Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-05-05

The reapportionment bill in the
house provides for an increased men,
bership of 40.
John A. Hinsey, for many years
head of the Milwaukee railway, died
in Los Angeles from injuries received
by being hit by street car
The government suit against the
Anaconda Copper Mining company has
been compromised.
Committee assignments were made
in the senate, but the progresslves
are far from satisfied.
Plans were filed for the construc-
ton in New York of the highest
building in the world, $50 feet.
Mexico sent a protest to London
over the landing of British marines
at San Quentin, Lower California.
The Missouri custer suit against
the beef packers was continued by
the supreme court until the October
term.
Mrs. J. Elliott Langstaff, Of Brook
Ign. n. Y, will witness the coronation
of King George of England by special
invitation
Public utilities commission of Kan
sas has called together the represent
atives of the railroads to discuss rail-
road valuation.
In the future London policemen IN
the outlying and suburban districts
of the city are to be accompanied by
dogs. if thew so desire.
The New York assembly adopted
the resolution of Senator Roosevelt
advocating the election of United
States senators by direct vote OF the
people,
Lloyd c.. Griscom, formerly ambas-
sador to Italy and a close friend OF
former President Roosevelt, has re-
signed as president of the New YORK
county republican committee.
At Seattle, Wash, contracts were
awarded to the Moran company or
that city for the construction OF two
submarines for the United States
navy at a cost of 81 100000. The COM
pany already is building two subma-
rines which are nearly completed.
Postmasters of the country are tc
be subjected to a rigid investigation
by congress. The house committee on
expenditures in the postofiice depart
ment has decided to act in response
to a resolution to this effect.
At st. Louis Mrs. Alma James was
arrested soon after she asked the po-
lice to call at her home and aid her
husband, Leo James, who she said
was dying. The police found that
James was dead, with two bullet holes
in his head.
D. w. Dinsmore, implicated with
Former State Printer Mark Slater in
the alleged Ohio state house supply
graft case. changed his plea to guilty
when it was intimated that Slater
would turn states evidence, and was
sentenced to a year in the penlten
tiary
At Des Moines, Ia, DR.. Harry d.
Kelly of Council Bluffs pleaded not
guilty to the murder of Deputy Sher-
if Clarence WOolman OF Council
Bluffs and Edmund Sterling before
Judge Bradshaw in the criminal d1Vl-
sion of the district court
Senator W. S. Kenyon of Iowa will
introduce bill for the modification
of the Sherman antitrust law. Sena'
tor Kenyon is now engaged in draft
ing it. but has not announced the
terms of the measure. 1t is his lnten-
ton to seek to make the law more
sDecific and more stringent than at
present
''Revise the ten commandments,
urged the Rev. George A. Douglas,
| canon of the Cathedral of ST. John
the Divine, New York, in speaking at
the close of the twenty-ninth congress
of the Protestant Episcopal church on
"The Need for Prayer Book Revision
to Meet Present Day Conditions.
Plans were filed by the Broadway
Park Place company for the construc'
ton at Broadway and Park Place OF
the highest building in the world. II
will be SIS stories.
President Taft, addressing the open
| ing session of the Twenty-ninth con
gress of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States, said:
I'VE have no state church, because all
churches that are working for the
uplifting of men and the spirit are
state churches within the protection
but not within the guidance or control
of the government"
The Wisconsin legislature wants
the United States senate to invest1'
gate the election of Stephenson.
An order recently issued by the
Burlington, withdrawing the sale OF
all liquors and cigarettes on Nebraska
trains, marks the end of the test case
tried on this law passed by the legis'
lature.