Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-12-17
Washington

The war department at Washington
has legun its investigation of the mys-
terious death of Lieutenant Colonel
BrOmwel at Honolulu with view of
determining whether he was a victim
of Japanese spy. A report was re-
ceived by the department saying that
Bromwell had committed suicide.
A vigorous protest is being prepared
by the state department at Washing
ton against the removal by the French
cruiser Descartes Of Germans and
Austrians from the American steam.
ships Carolina, Coamo and San Juan
on the high seas.
1t rests with Austria to say whether
there will be a break with the United
States within the next few days. The
state department at Washington made
public the text Of it's note to Austria
OH the sinking of the Italian steamship
Ancona in the Mediterranean on No.
vember Z, with the loss of several
American lives. The note gives plain
notice that unless the demands of the
United States are met promptly
friendly relations between the two
governments will be broken off.
American railways have grown tC
such an extent that the interstate com
merce commission is unable to cope
with the problems presented in con
nection with it's duties of regulating
common carriers and sees as the best
remedy for this situation an enlarge
ment of the membership of the body
according to the annual report of the
commission to congress at Washing
| ton
Increased facilities for keeping the
! United States from being drawn into
| the maelstrOm of the European wal
and more specific authority for the
punishment of persons who jeopardize
! American neutrality are the principal
needs of the arm of the government to
| be met by the present congress, &C
| cordirg to the recommendations con
! tanned in the annual report of AttOr
ney General Thomas W. Gregory
which was laid before congress at
| Washington.
Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat, de
manded that congress at Washington
! investigate Great Britain's interior
ence with neutral trade, and Senator
Lodge, Republican, replied with de
mand that any investigation include
the loss of American lives. Both res
olutions were referred to the foreign
relations committee.
Great Britain gave In to the United
States in the cases of the American
steamers Hooking and Genesee. Am
| bassador Page at London cabled the
state department at Washington that
the British foreign office had notified
him that the orders requisitioning the
two vessels would be Cancelled pending
prize court proceedings.
President Wilson's expressed wish
that presents be omitted on the coca.
sion of his marriage to Mrs. Norman
Gait on February Is has been without
effect. There is a constant flow OF
wedding gifts.
| Representations have been made
by the United States to Great Britain
in regard to the action of the British
auxiliary cruiser Baralong in attacking
German submarine and killing prao
tically the entire crew of the under
water craft.
Austria is charged with responsible
ity for the ubmarine attack on the
Standard Oil tanker Petrolite, fyine
the American flag, in the first officia
report on that incident, which was re
ceived at Washington from AmericaE
| CooSul Mason Of AI0iarS.