Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-01-09
Domestic

Domestic
Letters received at Richmond. Va,
from Madrid by friends Of Ambassa-
dor Willard report the engagement OF
the ambassadors daughter, Miss Belle
Willard, to Kermit Roosevelt, son of
Theodore Roosevelt
Efforts to end the strike Of copper
miners in Michigan by Cancellation
Jailed. John b. DensmOre of the de-
Vartment of labor so announced after
q final effort to bring the warning in
terests together. He blames his fail
ure upon the uncompromising attitude
OF the mine owners, who refused to
recognize the Western Federation of
Miners as a party to arbitration pro-
coedings or other peace projects
Governor Ferris, Labor Commission
&C Cunningham and Secretary Nesbit
arrived in the copper country. The
governor will prosecute "a vigorous
Investigation OF the strike in the
hopes Of bringing about a settlement.
The number Of automobiles regis
tered In the United States, 1,128,000,
has more than doubled since 1911.
New York leads with 1876, 900, and Ne
vada brings up the rear with LAO.
Martial law was declared at Cop
perfield. Ore, by Col b. X Lawson,
superintendent OF the state peniten-
ttary. following the refusal of de-
uand made by Miss Fern Hobbs, pri-
yate secretary to Governor West, for
the designations of city officials who
arc accused of violating an anti-saloon
ordinance. Colonel Lawson, backed
by five members Of the coast artillery
1aidcd the saloons.
Several thousand noted educators
and churchmen, from 46 states and 20
foreign countries, met in Kansas City
for the Student Volunteer Movement
convention.
GOiter probably is caused by i'm
proper nutrition according to an an
lOunCement in the current number of
The journal OF Experimental Medicine
The official organ Of the Rockefeller
institute for Medical Research.
Blueridge Springs, Va has been
thrown into excitement as the result
IF the unearthing of what is declared
10 be the skeleton of huge mastodon.
The skeleton measured so feet, with a
jaw four feet in width. ribs six inches
wide, teeth five inches wide and tusks
dy2 feet long.
Eight persons were burned to death
mad three were probably fatally hurt
ia an incendiary fire which swept
through n five-story brick tenement at
New York.
Within q distance of q miles four
gandslides, caused by melting snow
and rain, have blocked the Western
Pacific railroad in the Feather river
canyon of California
70 obliterate the loan shark and
enable American Wage earners to Dor
row money easily and cheaply is the
underlying purpose Of a great bank
ing enterprise shortly to be launched
Under the auspices Of Julius ROsen
wald OF Chicago 1t is understood
that Andrew Carnegie and Vincent
Aston are associated with him in the
enterprise
Hopes of finding Ralph Lopez. who
killed six men in the Utah-ApeX mine
at Bingham, Utah, were abandoned
and the mine left unmatched for the
first time since November q. His pur-
suers c0ncede he had made good his
boast Of escaping
LILLIAN Shaw, a singer, calmed @
theater audience in New York when
tho Odor OF smoke caused many to
leave by remarking: There's not a
thing the matter. If there was
would be the first one out"
Many lives were lost in the hurri-
cane that swept the coast from Port
Land, Me, to Norfolk, Va. One mil
lion dollars damage has been done
80 men persisted when tank steam