Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-05-17

/ recess during the natlOnai cOAVeH'
tons.
The senate added eight millions to
the house rivers and harbors bill.
Governor Harmon may devote a
week in Ohio to answering Bryan.
The will of Mary Eddy was sustain
ed by the New Hampshire supreme
court
The Irish home rule bill passed its
second reading in the house OF com
/ mons.
The house by a pronounced major
ity voted to abolish the court OF com
merce.
Senator Cumnins accused the pres
ident of trying to coerce in tariff leg
| islation
The Methodist Episcopal church
conference voted against q final court
of appeals.
Lax meat inspection laws was
| charged before house committee by
woman.
The house labor committee ordered
favorable report on Hughes Industrial
committee bill.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween house and senate c0nferees ON
the pension bill.
The possibilities of agriculture in
Alaska are dealt with in bulletin is
sued at Washington.
Secretary Hayward has called a
meeting of the republican national
The recall, initiative and referen-
dunn were written into Duluth's
charter by an overwhelming vote.
The Missouri supreme court sus~
tanned the constitutionality OF the
semi-monthly wage payment law.
The senate interstate commerce
committee reported favorably on Sen
ator Clapp's bill of lading measure.
Mayor Dahlman and the ticket OF
which he was the head was victor1-
Gus in the Omaha municipal election.
The senate passed the bill to permit
of the Philippines over present $5,,
100000 debt.
The bill for retirement of govern.
ment employees in classified service,
except postmasters, was favorably re-
ported in the senate.
The figures for the 1910 census
show that Iowa had only II per cent
of illiterates over 10 years old, where
as Nebraska had 1.9.
Grips filled with potatoes and bot
tied beer were left behind by a man
who cashed bogus checks aggregatlng
$500 at four Boston hotels.
At Benton, ILL.,, Night Marshal Will
liam 3. Odom shot and killed "Pot"
Smith, whom he was trying to arrest
and was probably fatally wounded by
Smith.
At Chillcothe, O., large crowd
stood in the rain to hear w. j. Bryan
renew his attack upon the presiden-
Harmon.
At Mount Vernon, N. z, William G..
Vanderboest's will provided that he
be stabbed through the heart after the
doctors pronounced him dead, to pre-
vent burial alive.
are preparing to raise fund for con-
structing a war aeroplane to be given
the Italian army for use against the
Turks in the present difficulty.
Politics is absorbing the attention
of congress- Much of the discussion
in both houses is being aimed at the
coming campaign and the congestion
Of in. fho 70 ic.
attributable to that cause.
Arthur Watts, chauffeur, of Chi
cago, had been out of Jail less than
eighteen months following the death
of woman under the wheels of his
automobile when he ran down and
killed Edward X. Rogers.
At Waukesha, Wis, crashing
through a window into the home of
Judge Agnew came a carrier pigeon
having attached to it's leg tag label
ed "San Francisco TO Milwaukee,"
The bird was revived and liberated.
The second state convention to
adopt a platform and make nomina-
tons for judges of the supreme court
and offices not filled at the primary
election will be held July 10 in Des
Moines, according to an announce
ment made by members of the state
central committee.
Work on the new 100000 Union
station in Kansas City was suspended,
when the 1000 union men employed
struck because some of the stone used
had been procured from an Indiana
company that employs stonecutters
whose organization is not affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor.
Applications from $50 admitted
aliens and other residents of the
United States seeking information rel
atiye to homes and employment were
received during the week ended April
27 last, at the New York branch of
the division of information, bureau of
immigration and naturalization de.
partment of commerce and labor.
Personal.
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