Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-09-08

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| Winner, S. d.
| Alabama republicans have endorsed
| the administration of President Taft.
Robert Chasteen, city marshal OF
identified persons.
Every demand of the American as
ISOLATION was rejected by the ma
tional baseball commission.
campaign which has for it's pur-
pose reduction of the high prices
| of food has started in Paris.
1t is reported that the government
is about to take action against the
steel trust, the biggest trade COM
| binatiOn in the United States.
Monument makers all over the
country are in Cincinnati for the
sixth annual convention of the Ma
tional Retail Monument Dealers.
Augustus w. Weissmann, superin-
tendent of the Hahneman hospital, is
most polite man, and this brought
the hospital an unexpected legacy OF
| $1,146,826.
A total production of 12,91S,20O
bales of cotton as the final yield this
year is indicated by the department of
agriculture's official report on August
25.
September LIST marked the beginn-
| ing of the operation of the workmen's
compensation law in Wisconsin by
! til,
of compulsory industrial insurance.
A Chicago street car conductor
took an 1853 half-dollar as fare, and
turned it in at the barn. The cashier
replaced it with another, sold it for
| $500, and it's present owner values it
! at $4,000.
The emperor of Japan presented H.
| w. Denison the American adviser to
the Japanese foreign office, with a
silver bowl as an expression Of graft
| tude for Mr.. Denisons service in con-
nection with the treaty revision.
Lady Cook, formerly Miss Tennes-
see Claflin, famous Anglo-American
| suffragist, has decided to abandon
her campaign for ''votes for women
and begin a crusade for uplift of
young men and women of Chicago.
In denouncing at the session of the
national independent political league,
the lynching Of negroes, Bishop Alex
ander Walters declared that President
Taft was lone of the weakest presi-
dents the country had ever had, in
view of the fact that he had remained
silent in the face of many lynchings
about the country"
Having a distinct recollection of ev-
| cry president in the United States eX-
cept the first five, and remembering
when the first railway train was run
in the United States, Alvin Austin, or
| Chicago, registered for home in the
| Fort Berthold Indian reservation at
the age of ninety-four years. Mr.. Aus
! tin who was born at Sterlin, Conn,
in 1917, is as spry as a man forty
! years younger.
Gen. Benjamin H. Crierson, aged
| seventy-five years, is dead at his sum
mer home at Omena, Mich. His death
leaves but two of the major generals
of the civil war. In 1868, he was com
missioned brigadier general by
resident Lincoln for gallant and dis
tinguished service in Ceierson raid
through Missori.
At Kansas City, John Perron, TWEEN
ty-seyen years old, a railroad clerk,
shot and killed Mrs Margaret Cos
sard, aged twenty-five, wife of a rail
road conductor, and then inflicted
probably fatal wounds to himself He
recently left note saying he and
Mrs. Gossard alone knew the cause
for the tragedy.
sensation was caused at the
joint session of the coast and noun
tain sawmiil men of British Column
bia, when it was alleged that Amer
lean competitors have taken advan.
tage of the absence of duty on rough
lumber to sell thousands of dressed
lumber in the prairie markets with,
out paying duty as required by Ca
madam customs tariff.
Melvin Maniman's balloon, with
which he and five others will attempt
to fly across the Atlantic ocean Octo-
Der %, has been shipped from Akron
Ohio, to Atlantic City.
Two New Jersey communities in
special elections rejected the commits
sion form of municipal government
The city of Patterson cast 4,917 votes
in favor of the proposed law and 1884
against.
William Loeb, jr, collector of the
port of New York announced that an
American art connoiseur now in Eur
ope is under surveillance by the for
eign agents of the United States gov
ernment-co-operatin with the French
government in the search for the pic
ture Mona Lisa" Leonardo De
Winci's masterpiece, which disappear
ed from the Louvere some time ago.
President Taft sent the following
cablegram of congratulation to Queer
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands upoI
the thirty-first anniversary of hel
birth. con this anniversary of your
majesty's birth, l extend the assur