Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-11-21
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All Parts of
the State.

Frank Bogart of Waupaca was SEN
| fenced to six months in the state pris-
on for embezziement.
Owing to the reckless driving by
chauffeurs at Eau Claire, the police
have started a crusade.
The A. Kleinheinz Land agency at
Marshfield sold 1880 acres of wild
land near Rib lake for $4,000 to an
| Illinois farmer.
Commissioner of Banking M. G.
Bergh has approved the incorporation
of the Citizens State Bank of Blanch-
ardville. The capital stock is $4,000.
A. D. Grouse of Viola was shot
through both legs while hunting eight
miles north of Ladysmith. This is the
first accident of the season reported
there.
The Kenosha Trades and Labor
council is going into politics in Keno
sha, and to this end a committee has
been named to sound all candidates
for Office.
Bozie Gordon, arrested at Lady
smith on charge of forgery, went be.
| fore Judge Parish and pleaded guilty,
receiving a sentence of twenty months
in the penitentiary at Waupun.
In order to protect it's creditors from
further loss the Partridge Cigar Com
! pany of La Crosse has made volun-
| tary assignment. The liabilities
amount to $1,000 and assets about 49,
! 900.
Two Beloit college fraternities will
| build a new chapter house next year,
each to cost $4,000 Both are now
renting. The Phi Psi now owns its
house; the Sigma Chi and Beta Theta
Pi will build
John Schuecker, farmer, drew his
entire savings, $1,000, from the bank
at Clinton and just as he entered his
| house two masked men with revolvers
demanded that he deliver over the
| money. He acceded.
An uncommonly stubborn fire, which
| lasted one week, has just been ex.
tinguished on the Clarkson coal docks
at Ashland. After between 700 and
| 500 tons had been removed the seat OF
the trouble was reached
The Citizens State Bank OF Blanch.
ardville, Lafayette county, has filed
articles of incorporation in the office
of the state commissioner of banking.
The capital stock is SIS, 1000, and it's in.
MaH ILL ,se1k
Kring, Oscar Oelson and several 9th.
erS.
The Catholic priests of Marinette
are taking a census of the Catholic
population by parishes The work is
being done at the request of Archbish
op Glennon of st. Louis, who has been
asked by the government to look after
the work of gathering the Catholic
census of the United States.
The Pittsburgh Coal company has
started suit in the circuit court at SUI
perior to have taken off the assess
ment rolls $4,000 worth of railroad
coal. The company maintains that, al
though the coal is on it's docks, it is
sold to the railroads and is not taxable
to either it or the railroads
For the first time in the history OF
the circuit court of Chippewa county
no criminal cases will be tried at this
term of court There was one larceny
and two assault cases on the calendar,
but the defendant in the former case
decided to plead guilty and the defend
ants in the two latter cases decided
to abide by the verdicts of the lower
court.
William Judge has sold the Brule
farm, three miles north of Florence,
to Ralph N. Washburn of that city
The property, which is one Of the best
farms in that part of the country, lies
on the Michigan side of the Brule
river-the boundary line of Wisconsin
and Michigan-and consists of PA
acres, the greater part Of which is I'M
der cultivation.
E. H Cook, father of Prof w. w.
Cook of the University of Wisconsin
law school, committed suicide at Mad.
ison by cutting his throat. Worry
over the financial situation and de.
spOndency because of i'll health are
the reasons given by relatives for the
act Mr.. Cook was sixty-two years old.
He was president of the Wisconsin as.
ISOLATION which deals in loans, stocks,
bonds and real estate.
In order to correspond with a raise
of $232,000 in the assessed valuation
in the city of La Crosse during the
past year the assessments on moneys
in all country districts will be increas-
ed proportionately, according to the
committee on assessments The com.
mittee ascertained that large sums of
money owned by farmers were depos.
tied in the city each year, and while it
is difficult to ascertain who has this
money, the assessment will be raised
in all the country districts.
Jealous because his master played
with another dog, Rex, white bull
dog of Joe Kanauch of GAINESVILLE
sprang at his owner and fastened his
teeth in Mr. Kanauch's left cheek.
before the brute could be induced to
let go his hold, Mr.. Kanauch's face
was terribly mangled.
Arthur Johnson, twelve years old,
was hit in the eye by stray bullet in
the woods near Menomonie. 1t is i'm
possible to remove the bullet, which
is imhedded in the surface of the
brain 1t is not believed the boy will
live.
lanes A. Frear. secretary of state |