Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-10

broken into and robbed.
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The elevator at Jersey, owned by
Peter Westerdahl, burned Loss, 3d.
900; insurance, $1,000
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The GAINESVILLE Rifles, Company A,
has been organized with Jerry Bros
nan as president and William Heating
as secretary.
The court has confirmed the sale
of the gas company's plant at Mon
roe, in bankruptcy, to C. e. Gray of
Whitewater for $4,000.
1t is estimated that fully 100000
tons of coal will be stored on the SUI
perior docks and in late boat arrivals.
at this port this winter
Harold three-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. w. Reinicke of Wausau,
was burned to death by a fall into a
pail of boiling hot water.
A new $4,000 storage reservoir of
100000 gallons capacity has been
completed at Manitowoc by the Mani
towoc Water Works company.
Grant Poole, who is charged with
the murder of Mrs. Jennie Orvis Of
Oakfield, was taken to the northern
hospital for the insane at Oshkosh.
Gov. Davidson has issued an order
barring Michigan, New York. Penn
sylvania and Maryland cattle from
Wisconsin because of the foot and
mouth disease.
To test the bill board law giving
the city power to order the removal
of bill boards close to the sidewalks,
Thomas Simons, an officer of Supe-
rior Posting company, has been ar
rested.
Chicken thieves are operating eX.
tensively in Racine. 1t is estimated
100 fowls were carried away. Word
comes from Kenosha county that over
1000 chickens have been stolen in
that county.
Wolves are becoming numerous in
the vicinity of Merrill. Several resi-
dents have encountered them and Pc
ter Hessel declares that he saw a
pack of fifteen of them crossing his
farm.
Alvin Mueli, forty-two years old
was perhaps fatally injured at Chip
pewa Falls by being kicked by a
horse. Four ribs over the heart
and sternum were broken, the bones
almost piercing that organ.
Phillip J. Gentner, formerly instruct
or in English in the University of
Wisconsin, has been appointed direct
or of the Worcester Mass, art mu-
scum. Since leaving Madison Mr..
Gentner has been abroad studying
art in Italy and elsewhere.
w. G. De Witt, for twenty-five years
prominently connected with the retail
dry goods interests in the Fox river
valley, has severed his connection
with the Hill Bros.-De Witt company
of Fond du Lac, which concern will
now be conducted by Hill Bros Co.
Secretary Hotter of the National
Ski association has given out the fol-
lowing ski tournament schedule:
Chippewa Falls, Jan. "a st. Paul,
Jan. 81 Colfax, Feb. 4; Eau Claire,
Feb. 81; saltwater, Feb. g. Duluth,
Feb. 10; Superior, Feb. IA; Ishpem-
ing, Feb. %.
A movement is on foot to establish
large knitting plant in Fort Atkin-
son. and from the interest taken in
the project at special meeting OF
the Business Mems association there
is excellent prospect that it will go
through The plant will be moved
from neighboring city, and will en-
ploy at least $50 people.
BY vote of the trustees Lawrence
university has been robbed of two dis
tinctive features that have been with
the institution for fifty-six years.
Lawrence hereafter will be known as
a college, the name university having
been dropped, and it also has been
decided to discontinue the academic
department, which is now fifty-nine
years old.
Because annual conventions of 9th
er agricultural and live stock asso.
Citations are held early in February,
and also because long course agricul-
ture students are then busy with the
semester examinations, the Wisconsin
Horticultural society will hold it's
convention in Madison on Jan. II to
Ia. For the last twenty-five years the
meeting has been held in February.
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Gov Davidson has pardoned Charles
Lindenberg, a young man who was
sentenced to serve six months in jail
at Ashland for assault and battery.
The young man has already served
over three months, which is more
than sufficient to satisfy the fine of
500 imposed upon him. And besides
he is suffering from consumption and
would probably die in Jail before the
expiration of his sentence if not par.
doned.
T.. - hooux mind tho RAILROAD