Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-02


In the loyalty OF Postmaster General
Hitchcock.
The supreme court declared rail-
roads must carry beer when rendered
for shipment regardless of dry" ter
ritory.
Minnesota beat Nebraska at basket
ball by a score of 40 to Is.
France is badly stirred over recent
seizures of ships by Italy.
Three million votes in 1912 is the
shibboleth of the prohibition party.
Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg, Pa,
was nominated by President Taft as
minister to Portugal
DR.. Sun Vat Sen says a republic in
China is the only logical relief from
present into!erable conditions.
Parliament for the conservation of
the moral resources of the United
States opened at Los Angeles.
Herbert Knox Smith, in a report to
the president, says the profits of the
steel corporation are excessive.
William R. Hearst has accepted an
invitation to address the general as
sembly of Kentucky on February IA.
President Farrell, of the steel cor
poration, says it has nothing in COM
mon with the harvester company.
S. S. Semmes, eldest son of the late
Admiral Raphael Semmes, OF the con-
federate navy, died at Osceola Ark.
The Standard Oil company Of New
York announced an advance OF TWEEN
ty-five points in the price of refined
petroleum.
President and Mrs Taft gave the
second reception of the winter at the
White house The judiciary were their
special guests.
The Indiana Republican Editorial
association at it's business session IN
dorsed. President Taft and his ad-
ministration.
Mrs. w. E. Bailey of Chicago, wife
of the general auditor of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, died at
Castle Hot Springs, Ariz.
The Worlds Christian Endeavor un-
: ion has been proposed by Congress-
man w. L. Mccall of Massachusetts
for the Nobel peace prize.
Governor Foss sent special mes
sage to the legislature urging an I'M
mediate investigation of the strike IN
the textile mills in Lawrence, Mass.
Rev. Alphonsus S. Donlon has been
appointed president Of Georgetown
university to succeed Rev. Joseph }.
Hummel, who retires on account OF Ill
health q
Previous good character of George
Wilson, San Francisco counterfeit
er, was responsible for his receiving
a sentence of only one day in jail and
a fine of $3.50.
The Ogden division of the Union Pa
cific railroad has been abolished, and
the 500 miles of railroad from Chey-
enne to Ogden is to be known as the
Wyoming division.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma intro
duced a joint resolution for a joint
congressional investigation of the
presidential campaign funds of 1904
and 1908.
Fourteen cars of a Minneapolis 4
St. Louis railway northbound freight
plunged through a bridge one mile
north of Ackley, Ia, $50 feet to the
bottom of a ravine.
Six American built biplanes are
carried by the revolutionary army ad-
vancing on Peking, according to a
cablegram received by the Chlnese
press at San Francisco.
State Forester Cox of Minnesota has
called meeting of railroad officials
and forest rangers to be held at Brain
erd, February 10, to outline plan for
prevention and protection against for
est fires.
Colonel Charles Norton, member of
the staff of General Sherman through
out the civil war, former member
of the Minnesota state senate and
pioneer of North Dakota, died at
Fargo.
President Dearborn of the Ameri-
can-Haawiian Steamship company, be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion, opposed government ownership
of the proposed steamship line through
the Panama canal.
The partly devoured remains of all
unknown hunter and his two dogs
were found near Eagle Grove, Mich.
There were evidences of terrific
struggle, as nearby We're the bodies
of four wolves.
Governor Woodrow Wilson said he
would send to the New Jersey lesis-
lature special message recon-
mending the ratification of the pro-
posed income tax amendment to the
federal constitution.
Congressman Kinkaid introduced
bill prohibiting the use of telephone,
telegraph and cable lines for the
transmission of orders involving FLU
lures" in cotton and grain where
actual delivery is not contemplated.
No basis for negotiations for
peace between Italy and Turkey
which are likely to have any prob
ability of success has been found, al
though the work of the European
diplomatic chancellories has been
carried on actively both at Constan
tinople and Rome.