Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-27
Senator Elkins left an estate valued

debt on West Virginia.
Governor Colquitt of Texas says
the question of prohibition should be
submitted to the people.
There is movement among mouse
democrats to frame a new code OF
rules for the next congress.
Paul Morton, president of the
| Equitable Life Assurance society,
died suddenly at New York.
At democratic house caucus
Champ Clark was made the nominee
for speaker by reclamation.
Senator Fletcher in an address de-
clared Secretary Ballinger an unit
man to remain in the cabinet.
Andrew Carnegie is giving ten mil
lions more as an endowment to the
Carnegie institution at washington.
The Michigan house and senate,
voting separately, chose Charles E.
Townsend to succeed Senator Bur-
rows.
Senator Hitchcock, in a speech be-
fore the Nebraska legislature, was
optimistic with regard to the pro-
gressive work of lawmakers past and
future.
At Aberdeen, S. D., the division
headquarters, local freight houses
and passenger station of the MilWau-
kee railroad, were burned. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
At Danville, H., J. S. Mead, an am
bulance driver, and Robert Shut,
veteran of the soldiers home, were
shot and instantly killed by Howard
! Tucker, another veteran.
At Los Angeles, Howard Wilcox,
| driving a National, broke the Ameri-
can five-mile competition speedway
record at the motordome. His time
was 8 minutes q seconds.
With a greater number of delegates
in attendance than ever before, the
United States Civil Service Retire
ment association convened in wash
ington in annual convention.
Oscar Johnson, farmer living near
the Pierce county (Nebr.) line, at
tackled his wife with butcher knife,
and after killing her he committed
suicide with the same weapon.
The Panama national assembly,
called in extraordinary session to
deal with the financial situation,
voted 100000 in gold in aid of the
| projected Panama worlds fair in 1915.
| What is declared to be the most
nearly perfect counterfeit bill that
has been made in Is years came to
I iOf Hi in fhn nryyin
| from Wichita. Kans. It is a $40 bill
The naval affairs committee of the
| house which is to vote on the mat
! ter soon, will probably provide for
| the two battleships and two GOLFERS
| and all of the program of Secretary
| Meyer.
During last year forty-nine men
were sent to the penitentiary and
| 566 to Jail for selling liquor to In
dams The facts are stated in a re-
port by Special officer William E.
Johnson.
Millions of spindles in cotton mills
will be idle one-quarter of the time
| from now on until markets improve
! i f a recommendation made by the
! Arkwright club in Boston is general
ly accepted.
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich's long
awaited plan for the revision Of the
national banking legislation" as he
| calls it, was submitted to the ma
tional monetary commission at d
meeting called for the purpose.
The petition for a rehearing of the
| Judgment and order sentencing Abra-
ham Ruef to San Quentin for fourteen
years on q charge of bribery of the
Ruef-Schmidt board of supervisors
was granted by the California SUI
preme court.
| Caution in the extension of federal
control over the issuance of securi-
| ties by railroads was urged by Mar
vim Hughitt, chairman of the board
of directors of the Chicago & North
western railroad in the hearing of the
securities commission.
| Nearly half the members of the SEN
ate judiciary committee are said to
have taken positions against the con-
| firmation of Judge William H. Hunt,
| now serving as member of the court
of customs appeals, and promoted to
circuit judgeship.
| Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, who
| have been interesting guests in New
| York, are now at Colorado Beach,
| Cal, where they are enjoying the
balmy breezes of the Pacific and play
| ing polo. Later they expect to visit
Texas and see the cowboys on the
| great ranches.
The first death in Picking since the
outbreak of the present epidemic of
bubonic plague, occurred in mis-
sionary hospital. There have been
earlier reports that the disease had
entered the capital, but not until the
present had fatality been directly
due to the plague.