The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-22
WISCONSIN
Drunk WHEN LAST SEEN
Hans vlladsen Probably Drowned or
t Booths Dock at bayfield,.

rams sVlildo6en PROBABLY Drowned OH
Booths Dock at Bayfield,.
BAYFIELD, WIs..---No one knows what
has become Of Hans j. A. villadsen, who
arrived from Sweden a few months ago to
work sin the timber. He made his head
quarters around. Albert Nelson's store
where he was associated with his country
men, This winter he took job at III. j..
tWachsmith s lumber camp on Bass island
Of the Apostle group two miles from here
"a week ago Saturday he came over from.
the island to spend Sunday. Late In the
afternoon he became intoxicated and was
seen around Booths dock Sunday morn
ing. At that time he was lying on the.
platform near the waters edge. His COM
panion knows nothing about him and he
has not been seen since.
81 A few days before his disappearance he
took out life insurance policy For 81, 900
and the agent has been looking for him
believing him to be drowned. The men
with Vtlladsen vas asleep in a fish barn
near the docks when found. The missing
man was 20 Years old. He boarded at
Sever Johnson's and his trunks and cloth
ing there are unclaimed and wages due
him have not been collected. A party Of
his countrymen dragged the lake near the
docks yesterday in about sixty feet Of
MILWAUKEE, WIS.-Judge Tarrant
dissolved the Injunction secured by Ed
wards, Wood & Co.. against the Mil
waukee chamber of commerce prohibiting
the chamber from proceeding against the
firm. The court holds that the chamber
has the right to discipline its members
and incidental thereto held that the as
sgnment Of a membership in the chamber
or commerce does not pass title to the
assignee freed from the restrictions i'm
posed by the rules and regulations of the
chamber.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis.-The
Black River Improvement company will do
much work along the river before the
spring drive OF logs begins Work will be
necessary on the Dells flooding dam in
order to make it of benefit another season.
All the dams below there have been blown
out as they had become useless.-Sidney
Clark and wife have reached their fifty
ninth wedding anniversary. They are the
Oldest married couple in this, part Of the
state. 49,
MADISON, Wis.-The olund & Jing
employment office at West Superior was
licensed by the secretary Of state to-day
The new state land commissioners will
meet this evening to settle the appoint
ments Of chief clerk of the land office
and for other positions. There appears
to be a strong probability of the appoint
ment of A. H. Long as chief clerk
Ia CROSSE, WlS.-Chief .Byrne re-
turned with kid Rollins, the alleged
Park store burglar, after having secured
Irequisition papers. Rollins is a light col
ored negro and the police believe him to
be professional burglar.-Martin Ender-
son, a farmer, was gored by bull and
lies in a serious condition.
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WEST SUPERIOR; WIs.-Assemblym
Lenroct is. the administration candidate
T for speaker of the lower house Of the
|legislature.-A meeting Of the striking en-
ployes of the Superior ship building yards
was held at the Arthur hotel when it
was decided to continue the lockout.
SPARTA, WIS.-Professor F. e. Doty
| principal of the high school, has resigned
1 to accept position in the state superin-
ttendent's department.
CUMBERLAND. Wls.-Anl {: unknown
man, aged IS, supposed to have been a
1 minister, was killed by a freight trai1
near Clayton. s..s 80 s. az .sss
JANEsVILEE,, WlS.-Mrs Ida Davies
Green, widow of the late Lieutenant Fran
1 els Green, u. S. N, died Of blood poison
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