Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-01-05

holidays. will get to work on the wool
measure.
| More than million gallons of mo-
! lasses were destroyed in fire among
the wharves and buildings of the Bos-
ton Molasses company.
Colonel Roosevelt has declined
second time to attend the New York
peace dinner
The Hamburg line has Or
dered a third $4,000 ton liner for the
transatlantic service.
Congress will have surfeit OF bills
providing for downward revision OF
the wooden tariff.
DR.. Sen, Chinese republic promoter,
has arrived at Shanghai and is in con-
| ference with WI Ting Fang.
Republican members of the ways
and means committee have begun
work on the republican wool bill.
The visible supply of wheat in Can
ada December % was 11,S60,000 BUSH
els, an increase of 238,00O bushels.
Kansas City religious workers have
undertaken to find respectable homes
for women of the red light district.
Henry N. Van Dyke formerly regis
trar at Princeton university, died OF
heart disease on a Broadway car in
New York
Henry j. Horn, former assistant
general manager of the Burlington
lines west was made vice-president OF
the New Haven road.
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Spaulding, Ohio. Two men, with 800
worth of stamps and some registered
mail were arrested at Hickville.
Edward Sawyer, secretary and as
sistant treasurer of the Great North
ern and one of the pioneer railroad
officials of the northwest, will retire
January /.
Diamonds valued at between $4,000
and $1,000, enclosed in jewelers. wal
let, were stolen from the diamond
room of jewelry firm in Minneapolis.
The thief escaped.
The California estate of the late
Michael Cudahy, the Chicago meat
packer, who died at Los Angeles, has
yielded $4,000 to the state in the
form of inheritance taxes.
The funeral of Wright LOrimer, the
actor, who committed suicide in New
York last week was held in the Dana,
Mass, town hall, the building where
he first attended school.
e. G. Lewis of St. Louis, publisher
and promoter of realty and banking
enterprises, was reindicted by the
federal grand jury on the charge OF
using the mails to defraud
Mrs Elroy NJ. Avery, aged 81, edi'
tor of the official paper of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution and
prominent in club and educational
work. died in Cleveland, Ohio.
The will of John R. Walsh, the Tor
mer Chicago banker who died early
in November following his release
from the Leavenworth penitentiary,
was admitted to probate.
The Jewish Chronicle says that the
leading Jewish institutions in London
have decided to urge the abrogatlon OF
the Anglo Russian treaty, which diff
ferentiates against the English Jews.
William Rockefeller gave to his en-
ployes as a Christmas present SIS for
every year each had worked on his es-
tate at Tarrytown. Several men have
been in his employ for upwards Of
twenty years.
Edward H. Sinister, cousin OF
Morgan Shuster, treasurer general of
Persia, is in New York, en- route to
Teheran from the Panama canal zone.
He is going to help the treasurer gen
eral in his trouble with Russia.
The Chicago grand jury returned
indictments charging Frederick G.
Boneham and William r. Channel
with the murder of Mrs. Hattie Kauf-
man, who was killed by four automo-
bile bandits December 2.
The exports of the United States
during the eleven months Of the cur
rent year ending with November ex'
ceeded the imports by somewhat more
than $475, 100000. The value Of the
exports was $1,S67, $40, while the
imports were worth 1892, 550,22S, &C
cording to statistics issued today by
the Department of Commerce and La.
Dor.
A dispatch to the London Mail
from Sydney, N. S. W., says that
Great Britain and France have enter.
ed into negotiations for the division
of the New Hebrides, the joint gov
eminent having been failure. The
New Hebrids group in the Pacific
ocean is administered by a mixed
commission of French and British
naval officers.
President Taft has settled the
vexed question of allowing the prac-
| tice of Christian Science or other no
medical methods of healing the sick
on the Panama canal zone. The exc
cutive order, made several months
ago, which members of the Christian
Science church feared would prohibit
their method of healing, was modified.
so that there can be no doubt as to