Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-07
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.
The saloon Of Edward Weinkauf a
Wausau was robbed of $37 in cash.

shotgun.
Fifteen miles of poles of the La
Crosse Water Power company have
already been placed between Winona
and La Crosse.
Despondent because of i'll health,
William Behind, laborer of Madison,
committed suicide by hanging himself
with a clothes line.
The Onalaska Pickle and Canning
company has contracted for $50 acres
of peas in the vicinity of La Crosse,
to be used during the summer.
A. E. Winter of Green Bay was
elected president of the Northern
Whist league at the business meeting
following the congress at Fond du
Lac.
The state civil service commission
is finding it difficult to fill stenograph-
er vacancies in the state service on
account of the small number of avail
able candidates.
At a meeting of the council of the
United Commercial Travellers plans
for the state convention to be held at
Fond du Lac in June were discussed
and a new uniform was adopted.
EFNI1I1- JUa " in front of q
swiftly moving street car, nine-year-
old Rudolph Lenske of La Crosse was
thrown under the fender of the car
and three toes were cut from the right
foot.
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Good evidence that the farming
country around Spooner is coming to
the front is the fact that f. E. Allen
has shipped $1,000 worth Of native
grown seeds from Spooner to Min
neapolis seed house.
Leone DOugherty, a Seventeen-year-
old Minneapolis girl, was picked up by
the Superior police and shipped back
to her home at the request Of the Min
neapolis police after her parents had
been communicated with.
Frank Chiodo Of Cumberland, TWEEN
ty-one years old and married, was, on
his plea of guilty fined $50 and costs
for stealing $25 worth OF school
books and other articles from a school
house near Cumberland.
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c. N. O'Hare, administrator for the
estate of William E. Hall, who was
Superior about year ago, has COM
menced suit for damages against the
Great Northern for $500.
Edgar sanderson and Gustave
Brado have brought suit against the
La Crosse Can company for injuries
to their fingers while operating alleg
ed defective machines The suits are
for $4,000 and 1000, respectively.
The state hygienic laboratory has
made an examination of the water in
the mains of the water company at
Kenosha and has found that it con-
tains a large percentage Of gas pro-
ducing germs. A new intake will be
built.
Climbing to the top of telephone
pole at La Crosse, Gearge Egge, aged
thirteen years, and John Johnson,
aged Is years, tore the brass and lead
trimmings from a skylight in the
new Colman office. They were SEN
fenced to the industrial school.
Commissioner Phil H. Pergins of
the Wisconsin commission, in charge
of the arrangements for the establish
ment of an interstate park at the
Dalles of the St. CroiX, reports that
practically all of the land to be secur-
ed on the Wisconsin side Of the river
has now been obtained by the com
mission.
Surveys have been ordered for an
extension of the La Crosse & South
eastern railway from the present ter
minus at Viroqua, Wis, to West
Prairie, a village twelve miles south
west Of Viroqua. The new territory is
rich in tobacco culture and up to the
present has been untouched by rail
road. 1t is also stated that the road
may be extended further into Craw-
ford county.
Following decisions by courts on
the question of the taxation
in store the city officials Of Superior
and Duluth held conference recently
on the subject. Further conferences
will be held with a view to reaching
some agreement as to the amount of
grain to be placed on the assessment
grain men will not be able to cry out
that they were Disseminated against
by either city.
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Interurban cars between Sheboygan
and Plymouth will no longer stop at
farm houses along the route, because
this practice makes it impossible for
the cars to run on schedule time Here
after the big cars will only stop at
certain crossroads.
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The pure food law will be tested.
Luther l.. Rowe, a grocer of Madison,
had trial in the municipal court on
tho oharoa of Sp11ino food hollow tho
legaA standard. He entered no de-
tense and the court fined him $25. He
gave notice OF appeal.