Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-01-26

schedule to amend the Payne-Aldrich
law will be placed before the house
full ways and means committee.
Shortages aggregating $4,000 have
been found in the accounts of Ward
Speil1man, teller Of the Merchants
National bank of Topeka, Kas., who
was arrested.
Ambassadors and ministers of the
foreign countries represented in
Washington were entertained at a din
ner at the White House by President
and Mrs. Taft.
Congressman Norris (Neb) propos-
es to amend his bill for placing the
postal department under civil service
by adding the postmaster general to
those affected.
The republican city committee OF
St. Louis adopted a highly laudatory
resolution indorsing Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for candidacy for the pres
ident in 1912.
The Equitable Life Assurance COM
pany has purchased the $2,518 mort
gage on the home of the late battalion
Chief William J. Walsh and presented
it to his widow
The will of Nine. Caroline Leroy
Bonaparte, widow of Jerome Napole-
on Bonaparte, grand nephew of EN-
peror Napoleon, disposes of an estate
valued at 100000.
The Henry bill for changing the
date of Inauguration and assembling
of congress was favorably reported by
the house judiciary committee, with
prospect of early debate.
Fire destroyed the four-story build
ing occupied by the st. Louis Bag and
Burlap company, st. Louis, causing
loss of $4,000. Adjoining buildings
were damaged by water.
Armour and company's annual state
ment gives the net earnings for the
year ending November 4, 1911, as
s2,51O,053, or about 25s per cent on the
net capital investment which is listed
as $94,493,366.
Secretary Meyer before the Inter
state Commerce commission adVocat-
ed government construction of twenty
two supply vessels for the Panama
canal, through which the fleet will be
sent regularly as part of the drill
exercises.
Contracts for the construction OF
two $4,000 ton superdreaduaghts,
authorized at the last session Of con-
gress, will be awarded to the New
York Ship Building company of Cam
den, n. j., and the Fore River Ship
Building company of Quincy, Mass.
The movement for fitting celebra-
ton in 1913 of the fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg took de-
finite form when the Pennsylvania
commission having the matter in
charge appeared before the joint con-
gressional committee and made pub
lie it's plans.
The kaiser's third son, Prince Adel-
bert, is to visit the United States
some time this year. He was born
July IA, 1884, and is unmarried. The
prince probably will follow in the
footsteps of his uncle, Prince Henry
of Prussia, as commander-in-chief OF
the imperial fleet.
Whether Senator Albert J. Cummins
of Iowa will be candidate for the
republican nomination for the presi-
dency will be discussed and probably
determined at a meeting of the Iowa
delnsation in congress which will be
called Immediately upon the return of
Senator Kenyon from Chicago.
An order was issued by the secre-
tary of war detaching Brigadier Gen
eral William w. Witherspoon from
duty in Washington as president of
the war college and assigning him to
duty as commander in chief of the de-
partment of the gulf at Atlanta.
The late Associate Justice John
Marshall Harlan of the supreme court
of the United States left an estate OF
$4,000, of which $1,000 was in life
insurance. Letters of administration
were granted to his son, Interstate
Commerce Commissioner James Har-
Ian.
An issue of s20,000,000 5 per cent
gold debenture bonds has been sold to
New York banking house, it was an
nounced by the Chicago Rock Island
Railroad company. The proceeds will
be used for terminal additions and
betterments to the system and for re-
funding purposes.
Cheridah Simpson, the musical COM
edy singer, filed suit in the superior
court at Seattle, Wash, against Frank
NJ. Stetson, a wealthy machinery
dealer of Seattle, asking $4,000 dam
ages for breach of promise. The com
plant alleges that Stetson, in 1909,
promised to wed the plaintiff, but in
July, 1911, married Miss Bessie Frank