Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-11-17

The country is not committed to
any party for next year. Next years
victory is yet to be earned.
The president has returned to
Washington, and will now get busy IN
writing his annual message.
1t was testified at Washington that
man over forty need not apply for
job with the railroads.
Ben Craven, released from the MIS-
souri, penitentiary, is charged Win
two murders in Oklahoma
The funeral of Norman ]. Coleman,
first United States secretary OF agrl-
culture, was held at st. Louis.
Congressman-elect Stephens OF the
Third Nebraska district will leave Tor
Washington December goth.
Untitled orders on the books of the
United States Steel corporation on
October 81 were 81 ,694,32S tons.
Tahan, an educated Kiowa Indian,
finds much to condemn in the national
administration of Indian affairs.
Directors of the American Cotton
Oil company passed the seml-annual
dividend of 2h per cent on the com
mon stock.
The American chamber Of com
merce gave a reception in honor OF
the American ambassador, w. w.
Rockhill at Constantinople.
New York's streets have become so
Uttered with piles of garbage as the
result of the street cleaners strike,
that Street Cleaning Commissioner
Edwards will begin the use Of disln-
fectants.
Minister of Labor Crothers of Can
ada instructed Judge Laurentian OF
Montreal to resume the inquiry into
the charge that the American SHOE
Machinery company is a combination
in restraint of trade.
A pension for the $4,000 employees
| of Armour & Co., based on gift or
100000 from j. Ogden Armour,
president of the packing company was
announced. The pension system be-
comes operative November /.
In the twenty-three legal business
days which have elapsed since the
registration of women was begun IN
preparation for the city election at
Los Angeles, Cal, December 5, 66,527
women have qualified as voters.
At Grafton, N. D., Rev. J. E. Offste-
dahl, prominently identified with the
northwestern bodies of the United
Lutheran Church of America, commit
ted suicide by jumping into an aban-
! doned we'll Dependency because OF
i'll health was the cause
Maine retains constitutional proh1
bition. Governor Plaisted and his
council decided to accept the correc-
tons in the vote Of four towns, cast
in the special election in September,
! thus reversing the result as Indicated
on the face of the first official re-
| turns
The method of choosing directors
and the preponderance of banking
representation in the proposed Aldrich
currency plan were criticised by Prof.
E. w. Kemmerer of Cornell university
in opening a session on currency and
baking reform of the Western Eco
nomic society.
All records for shipments to the
United States assay office at Dead
wood from the mines Of the Black
Hills district for July, August, Sep
TENDER and October have been broken,
six and a quarter tons of gold bullion
having been sent to the mint at Den.
yer. The total valuation was a little
more than S2.750,0O0.
immigration through the port OF
New York has shown falling off. In
the annual report of Commissioner
of immigration William Mills, for the
wear ending June 80, 1911, it is stat.
ed that during the period 149, 642
aliens came into the country as com
pared with 786,094 the previous year.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the
weather bureau, thinks an aviator
might cross the Atlantic if he could
take his airship up six miles and re.
main at that level at least two days.
At that height there is said to be a
placid ether level, free from the con.
ficting storms and currents which
swirl below.
William Barnes, jr., chairman OF
the New York state republican com,
mittee, must produce the books OF
the Journal company of Albany, OF
which he is president, before the sen,
ate committee which is investigating
Albany city and county affairs and
answer certain questions concerning
his acquisition of stock in the J. B.
Lyon company, within eight days, &C.
cording to a decision by Supreme
Court Justice Jos. A. Kellogg, OF
Glenns Falls.
In order to free the postal rates
of a stringent feature in regard to
second class mail matter, Postmaster
General Hitchcock has issued an
order granting q full year as the
period in which publications, entitled
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