Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-13

lision at Cheney, Wash.
Both houses of congress adjourned
as mark of respect for Senator Ell
kins.
Action was begun at New York to
annul the so-called steamer compact.
The house voted to abolish the OF
fee of second deputy commissioner
Of pensions
Secretary MacVeaSh favors issuing
gold certificates againts bullion IN
lieu of the actual coinage.
The plan of refunding the Honour
an debt is regarded as amounting to
United States protectorate.
Trinity college, Durham, N. c., was
visited by fire which destroyed the
Washington Duke dormitory.
Convicted members of the naval
stores company have asked the SUI
preme court to review their case.
Members of the Missouri valley
conference stood pat on the question
of eliminating Thanksgiving day foot
ball.
Assets of the Observation-Disclosures
bank, now in the hands of a receiver,
are S1,1OO,0OO and it's liabilities are
100000.
A reduction in the freight rate on
cOttonseed from points in Missouri,
Arkansas and Louisiana to Memphis.
Tenn, is made.
At Augusta, Me-, Charles F. Johnson
of Waterville was nominated for the
United States senate to succeed Sena-
tor Eugene Hale.
Senator Lafayette Young declared
himself in favor of the enactment Of
the Oregon primary law by the COM
ing Iowa legislature.
Everything was smooth and tran
quill in organization Of the Nebraska
legislature. John Kuhl was made
speaker Of the lower house.
The grand jury in the Los Angeles
Times explosion case returned %
indictments. All of the indictments
charge murder in connection with
that crime.
Refusal of the Interstate Commerce
commission to assume jurisdiction of
the railways of Alaska was sustained
by the supreme court of the District
of Columbia.
One fatality out of 32,50OO0O pas
sengers carried by steam vessels Of
all classes plying to and from Phila-
delphia was the remarkable record
made in 1910.
In fit of rage because she had
gone to live with her mother, Walter
Osgood, OF Omaha, shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded a man
who came to her assistance.
Declaring the merit system recent
ly inaugurated by the postal depart
ment gives room for grave injustice
on the part of officials, deputation
of clerks left for Washington to enter
a protest.
How to meet the inroads of west
ern apples in markets until now held
by eastern orchardists is the main
concern of the New York State Fruit
Growers association, which is hold
ing it's tenth annual meeting.
The appointment of a board of Off
GERS to make special study of auto
mobiles and to design machine
adapted to army purposes, has been
recommended to the war department
by Lieutenant Colonel I. w. Littell,
chief quartermaster of the Depart
ment Of the East
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby Sc
verely criticised the Illinois senate,
when he found that not enough SEN
ators to make quorum had re-
manned in Springfield, and that, as
result no action was possible on the
election canvass.
Bills to put most of the necessities
of life on the free list were offered
in the house by Representative Mann
of Illinois. There were Is of these
measures, covering leather, cotton
goods, lumber. cereals, vegetables,
meat products and the like.
The Aetna Indemnity OF Hartford,
Conn, and the Farmers and Mercan-
tile Insurance company of Lincoln,
Neb., have been barred from writing
new business in Ohio on orders from
superintendent G. G. Lamert, of the
insurance department, under penalty
of revocation Of their license.
If Senator Lorimer retains his seat
it will be only after several senators
have expressed themselves freely.
The question as to how the United
States shall be re-apportioned into
congressional districts in accordance
with the 1910 census was discussed
with the president by Representative
Crumpacker of Indiana, chairman of
the house committee on census. Mr..
Crumpacker thinks the membership
of the house should be increased.
Jere +. Lillis, whom John P. Cud-
ahy cut with knife March 5, last,
retired as president of the Western
Exchange bank at Kansas City.