Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-03-17
State militia officers are invited to


lionaire, was found guilty of using
the mails to defraud.
A bill providing for adopting the
Oregon plan has passed both houses
of the Kansas legislature.
President Taft treasured MeXicans
that there was nothing serious in the
troop movement to the south.
The instruction in Mexico it is
generally admitted, is a leading
cause for sending troops to the Dor
der.
John Barrett urges the south to be
forded with the Panama canal open
ing.
Secretary of State Knox, who is en-
joying a vacation in the south, will
visit Cuba before returning to Wash
ington.
According to official Washington
the troop movement southwark is
to maneuVer and watch Mexican in
surrectos.
Four convicts made their escape
from the Nebraska penitentiary
through an opening where bars were
sawed Off
AS the result of a special investiga-
ton, the entire force of customs in
spectors at San Francisco will be
reorganized.
Cows eating from a straw stack
near Walnut, H., uncovered an iron
pail containing quantity of gold and
silver coins.
The levy of l per cent on all state
banks in Oklahoma is being made to
provide the guaranty fund under the
guaranty law.
The Kansas legislature passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 to found a
state tuberculosis hospital. No loca-
ton is named.
The foot and mouth disease has
again appeared in England. Move
ment of stock in a wide area has
been prohibited.
Justice Hughes of the supreme
court has been appointed head Of
the commission to investigate maya
zine postage rates.
There has been eight deaths from
the bubonic plague and eight from
smallpox reported in Annoy, China
within the last two weeks.
Sir Thomas E. Shaughnessy, presi-
dent of the Canadian Pacific, an
nounces that road will spend $34 ,000,-
900 for improvements in the coming
year.
The comptroller of the treasury is
sued call for statement OF the
condition of national banks at the
close Of business on Tuesday, March
the 18th.
The American battleship Delaware
arrived at Valparaiso, Chile, with the
body of Anibal Cruise, who died at
Washington while serving as Chilean
minister to the United States.
Mrs. n. A. Floyd was stabbed to
death with q penknife by her hus-
band, Dr. n. A. Floyd, at Waco, Tex,
Floyd then slashed himself eight
times with the same knife and prob
ably will die.
President Taft has appointed for
mer Senator Cockrell Of Missouri as
commissioner on the part of the Unit
ed States to re-trace and definitely
determine the boundary lines between
Texas and New Mexico
The first venire was exhausted
without a jury being secured in Chi
cago to try Charles Erbstein and Ar
1l,a <F
spiracy to defame the character of
States Attorney Wayman.
LEVIN Hart, the supposed Ameri-
can, who charges that he was fieeced
by three Italians out of $4,000, with
whom he visited gambling resorts in
Paris, turns out to be German
whose home is in Frankfort.
Governor Wilson and a committee
representing the democratic majority
of the legislature are formulating a
bill for election reforms which they
will submit to the New Jersey legis-
lature. 1t provides direct primaries
for all offices.
The fire that threatened to destroy
the town of Douglas, Alaska, was ex-
tinguished after it had destroyed
property valued at 100000.
Professedly because Of the recent
rate decision, the New York, New
Haven & Hartford will order extens-
i've reductions upon its system.
| At Moscow, Nine. Verestichagin,
widow of the famous artist, who lost
his life when the battleship Petro-
pavlousk was blown up by mine at
Port Arthur during the Russian-Jap-
anese war, committed suicide by
shooting. She was a sufferer from
cancer
The navy's participation in the
joint maneuvers in progress along
the Mexican border and contiguous
waters contemplated a sort Of patrol
of the eastern coast of Mexico. The
scout cruiser Chester and the gun
boat Tacoma are to sail along the
coast, stopping at two or three ports.
Congressman Champ Clark was ten
dered an informal banquet by Phila-
delphia democrats who have been &C.
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