Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-06-23
Senator Lorimer is preparing to
make vigorous fight to retain his

seat
London is being gorgeously deco
rated for the coronation exercises,
soon to take place.
Porto Rico is making strides in ag"
ricultural development.
st. Louis had a second fire, with a
loss estimated at 100000.
The mayor of Philadelphia will try
for the place of Senator Penrose.
The line of battle has been drawn
in the senate on the reciprocity bill.
A reduction in the price Of sugar
is likely to come said the head Of the
trust
Concessions to foreigners will not
be extended under the new order of
things in Mexican states.
These are reconstruction days in
Mexico and the country is rapidly re-
turning to peace basis.
President Taft nominated Robert
w. Kemp as receiver of public mon
eys at Missoula, Mont
Manuel Bonilla took the oath of Of
flee as Mexican minister of communi-
cation and public works.
America must take the lead for
worldwide peace declared DR.. Benz.
Kroheit of Leland Stanford univer-
Sity.
Directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway passed the dividend
on the preferred stock of the COM
pany.
Philip Bracken Fleming of Nebras-
ka, was the honor man of the gradu~
ating class at the West Point mill
tary school.
A committee said to represent the
Gould interests have purchased the
International & Great Northern rail
road at receivership sale.
The case of the government against
the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company, the alleged bathtub trust,
was called for argument at Richmond,
Va.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has
succeeded to the command of the At
lantic fleet, taking the place of Ad-
miral Schroeder
James Proctor Knott, former gov
ernor Of Kentucky, and prominent for
many years in congress, died at Leba.
non, Ky.
Subscriptions to the British portion
of the $30,000,0O0 Hukwang railway
loan to China were opened and I'M
mediately closed, having been over.
subscribed
The Iowa federation of labor is in.
volved in a lengthy dispute as to
| whether officers shall be elected by
the convention or by a referendum
vote.
The death of Syed Ali Belgrami at
HardOr, Oudh, from heart disease,
aged 81, removes one of the most YER
satile and eminent Indian scholars.
He spoke a dozen tongues, and could
read, write and think in twenty.
Apparently uneasy over the grow
ing habit of mineral water drinking
by senators and their Office staffsa
Senator Lodge introduced and had
adopted a resolution which is expected
to check the practice.
In protesting against the occupation
of Fee by Spanish forces, Malai Haiffd.
the sultan, declares he will appeal to
the signatOries Of the AIgeciras treaty
against this violation of the compact
and that, meanwhile, he will refuse,
so long as the occupation lasts, to
fulfill any of the clauses of the Span
ish-Moroccan agreement, signed at
Madrid in 1910.
The battleship Florida, now nearing
completion at the New York navy
yard, was ordered placed in commits.
sion on September Is. Her sister ship.
the Utah. is expected to be completed
on August 1.
1t was held by the interstate COM
merce commission that a privilege
savoring of a gratuity can not be Or
dered continued by the commission
unless the original granting Of the
privilege rested on some legal obi
cation.
A bill providing that every news
paper must print in a conspicuous
place the name of the owner or own
ers, publisher and managing editor
was introduced by Representative
Barnhart Of Indiana.
The sinking of an overcroWded fer
ry boat on the Volga, near Uglitch, is
reported. Thirty persons were
drowned.
The reports emanating from Vienna
of fatalities resulting from the recent
hurricane were greatly exaggerated.
So far as known, not more than TWEEN
ty-five lives were lost.
Mrs. Edith Culbertson, republican
candidate for superintendent OF the
Denver county schools at the last
election, shot and killed herself at
her home in Denver. Mrs. Culbert-
son left a note in which she evident
ly wished to make it clear the wound
was self-inf1icted. Her husband, Sgd
ney M. Culbertson, told the police
that he and his wife had quarred.
Mrs. Culbertson was thirty-six years
old, and a graduate of Vassar.
President Taft is considering an
invitation to speak at the national
conservation nonpracC which will