Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-12-22

Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad
were acquitted of the shooting OF MIL
lionaire w. E. D. Stokes.
Veterans of Cuba feel themselves
able to dictate to the president, ana
seemingly have succeeded.
The report of the investigating
board on the wreck Of the Maine was
sent by the president to congress.
Legislation for direct election OF
United States senators apparently IS
hopelessly hung up in conference.
The foreign affairs committee
agreed to favorably report the Sulzer
resolution for abrogation of Russian
treaty.
More than 100000 animals were
inspeced during the last fiscal year by
the United States bureau of animal IN
dustry.
A report crrent in London is that
Prince Arthur of Connaught will sue
coed General Baron Hardinge as VIC
eroy of India.
An eignty-million dollar highway
improvement appropriation bill mas
been introduced by Representative
Prouty of Iowa.
State Representative Hull OF Illinois
testified before the Lorimer election
inquiry that whisky" lobby had ex-
istd at Springfield.
The -four output of Minneapolis is
appropriated at 100000 barrels
and will turn the high water marx,
according to the millers.
Louis D. Brandeis OF Boston, dis
cussing trust regulation before the
interstate commerce committee, urged
the competitive system.
The $4,000 women suit makers and
5000 tailors who have been on strike
in Berlin since November 70 nave
abandoned the struggle.
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of China, which went ashore on July
27, forty miles from Yokohama during
a fog, was relocated.
Reports have been received in Lon
don that the health OF Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria is again
causing great uneasiness.
Governor Marion E. Hay of Wash
ington has declined to call special
session of the legislature for the en-
actment of a presidential preference
primary bill.
The committee of the German Aero
club has decided that the interna-
tional balloon race for the James Cor
don Bennett trophy is to be held at
Stuttgart next year.
The general tariff situation, and
particularly President Taft's forth
coming message to congress on the
wool tariff schedules, were discussed
at length by the cabinet.
An investigation to determine why
the price of sugar was increased sew
eral cents a pound last summer was
begun by the house committee ap-
pointed to investigate sugar conul-
tons.
Mrs. Agnes Taylor Schwartz, sister
to the late President John Taylor OF
the Mormon church, and mother-ln-
law of President Joseph F. Smith,
died at Salt Lake City. She was nine
| ty years old.
On or before July 1, 1912 is the
time fixed for the payment to China
of the 100000 pesos, as indemnity
| for subjects of that country massacred
| in Torreon by Mexicans during the
recent revolution.
A personal campaign to secure SEN
atorial support for the British and
French arbitration treaties was be-
! gun by President Taft.
Enough ammunition to supply the
! United States army, navy and state
militia for three and a half years Will
be in the arsenals and strong boxes
of the United States at the end OF
the present year.
Chairman Fitzgerald of the apprO-
priations committee charged that the
government estimates had been cut
below actual needs; that a treasury
deficit is in prospect and that investi
eating committees are costing heavi
ly.
The application of Charles w
Morse, the convicted New York bank
er, for a communication of his fifteen
year sentence on account of the seri
Gus condition of his health, probably
will be disposed Of by President Taft
before Christmas.
With one national political conven
ton coming to Chicago in 1912, citi
zens there have pledged themselves
to pay all expenses of the scond if i
should be voted there at the meeting
of it's national committee in Washing
ton on January 8.
The Omaha railway announced the
installation of a 1912 per cent milling
in transit rate per hOundred pound:
on wheat from Kansas City to Chi
cago via Minneapolis.
Personal.
The Lorimer investigation seem!
destined to drag until spring.
Attorney General Wickersham fav
ors the creation of bureau to super
wise corporations.
Senator Works of California ha:
; asked investigation of soldiers homes