Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-03-08

| up house tariff bills.
Juare9, Mexico, is still an open port
despite order of Madero.
Eight hundred thousand British
coal miners have ceased work.
President Taft is preparing for an
extended speechmaking tour.
President Madero Of Mexico says
he has no thought Of resigning.
Both houses of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
situation.
There was.a mutiny of soldiers at
Picking, and the city was given over
to pillage and burning.
The trust platform Of Senator
Cummins was embodied in bill he
introduced in the senate.
Senator Cummins offered a Oil de-
signed to strengthen the antitrust
arm of the government.
Colonel Roosevelt announces that
he will accept the republican nomlna-
ton for the presidency.
Arizona occupies the distinction Oh
having no federal official since her al
mission TO statehood.
The United States steel corpora
ito is described by an expert eNam-
liner as one of the bad trusts.
The Third Missouri district repuoli-
can convention split and elected both
Taft and Roosevelt delegates.
The department of justice is lnVes-
tigating the moving picture business
to ascertain is there is trust
Reduction of wages would result
from house steel tariff bill, labor rep
resentatives told finance committee.
Secretary Meyer says the United
States will soon sink to fourth place
as a naval power if congress IS not
more liberal.
The day of the arrival of Secretary
of State Knox in Nicaragua is TO De
declared a public holiday throughout
the country.
Secretary Meyer was before the
house committee on naval affairs and
urged that the coal fields OF Alaska
be used by the government.
Senator Dupont of Delaware Volced
a flat denial of the charges against
him in the resolution introduced by
Senator Reed Of Missouri.
Representative Of shoe manufacture
ers urged the department OF justice 10
stand by it's civil criminal SUITS
against the United Shoe Machinery
company.
Senator Poindexter advocated be-
fore the interstate commerce commit
tee his bill for abolition OF the united
States commerce court.
Government ownership OF express
properties and operation by Postothce
department is provided in a bill Sen
ator Gardner will introduce.
gathered largely in the Philippines
and Central America, and valued at
$4,000, has left q local nursery III
San Mateo Cal, for England.
Twenty years in the penltentlafy
was the sentence imposed on Richard
Palmer, in criminal court at Des
Moines, for the theft Of two chickens.
He confessed.
Governor Hiram Johnson OF Callfor-
MIA addressed Ohio's fourth constltu-
tional convention in advocacy or the
initiative, referendum and recall. He
made no political references.
One hundred and seven govern
ment officials will lose free tele-
phones when the appropriation COM
mittee of the house reports the sup
ply bill
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
protection of Valdez, Alaska, and the
adjacent region from glacial hoooS
was recommended to the senate Dy
the commerce commission.
Samuel Untermeyer told the Inter
state Commerce commission there
was open violation OF the antitrust
laws in the acquisition of smaller rail-
roads by certain large eastern sys-
TENS
The house began hearings on the
bill providing for increased federal
aDDropriations for the aid OF the state
agricultural colleges. The bill con-
templates an initial appropriation OF
$4,000
Fifteen children of strikers at Law
renee. Mass, arrived III washington
and we're met by Victor Berger Of
Wisconsin, the socialist representa-
tive. They came to testify before the
house rules committee Of the house.
A request from citizens OF ogden,
Utah. presented to President Taft by
Representative Howell, urging the
government to investigate the strike
of the machinists on the Hartman
lines was referred to the department
Of justice.
Winfred T. Denison an assistant at
torney general, during an address be
fore the third annual conference OF
the Western Economic society in
Chicago. declared that free play, so
long as it is fair play, should be given
connection and combination alike.
Eleven women were rescued by
fremen during a midnight fire which
DESTROYED an apartment building at
3449 Idiana avenue. Chicago. Eight
of the women, all of whom were in
bed when the fire was discovered,
were carried down extension ladders