Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28
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A man believed to be Ole Meland
was killed at Dedham by rolling logs.
The Sank County Agricultural So
ciety will rebuild it's grandstand in
the fair grounds.
Capt. Charles Wood, owner of the
Forest Home Farm at Unity, was
killed by train.
J.K. Beth of Two Rivers was elect
ed president of the Catholic societies
of Manitowoc county
Twelve hundred visitors are ex
pected at Marinette during the Odd
Fellows convention, June pa.
Eau Claire people are said to be
contemplating the establishment of
steamboat line for service on the
river.
Ten tons of sugar were sold on the
second monthly sales day of the Bust
ness Mems association at New Rich
mond.
Prof. L. D. Harvey of Menomonie
will deliver the commencement adj
dress to the graduates of the normal
school at Superior.
While fishing near the Menasha
dam, James Durvin caught monster
sturgeon. 1t was 73 inches long and
weighed 200 pounds.
P. H. Hough, formerly trainmaster
of the La Crosse division of the Bur
lington, has been made chief train
dispatcher for the division,
Mrs. w. H. Phillips, an inmate of
the Eau Claire county asylum, upon
being examined before Judge Blum
was declared as being again of sound
mind.
A three-days-old female infant was
found on the lawn of Mrs. A. Mueller
at Wausau. The child is thought to
have been brought to the place in an
automobile.
Ernest Tewksbury, a farmer resid-
ing just south of Osceola, was kicked
by his horse and his left leg was broll-
en- in two places above the knee and
the knee dislocated.
Charles Gillotti, whose conviction
for robbery the supreme court recent
ly reversed with orders for a new
trial, was admitted to bail in the sum
of $4,000 by Judge Belden at Kenosha.
Notices are out for the twenty-first
reunion Of the Society of the Four
teenth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer
infantry to be held at Chiffon June 10,
II and II. Great preparations are be-
ing made by the citizens of Chiffon
for the event, as one of the companies
of the Fourteenth was organized at
Chiffon
Patrolman Lans Parks of Mellen
was stabbed in the abdomen by two
Austrians while Parks was trying to
arrest one of them who was disturb
ing the peace Parks shot the Aus
trian through the leg. The men are
in custody. Parks is in critical con-
dition.
Conscience stricken, Paul Dryer,
the farm hand who a week ago stole
diamond ring and $50 from Miss
Lillian Veerhausen in Westport, re-
turned to the Veerhausen home and
returned the ring, and then went to
Madison and gave himself up to Chief
Shaughnessy.
The Ashland, Odanah and Marengo
railroad company sent check to the
state treasurer for $50678. Mr.. Dahl
could not find that the railroad had
been assessed, and after referring the
matter to the attorney general and
the state tax commissioner, it was
discovered that the road had paid it's
taxes locally and believed it also had
to pay taxes to the state. The check
has been returned to the company.
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On the completion of the new three
span bridge over the Red Cedar river
at MenomOnie the water level of Lake
Menomin will be raised three feet.
This will leave the former bed Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road
under water. The company is there
fore raising the tracks about four
feet above the former level, and ex-
tending them along the west side of
the depot, instead of the east, as at
present.
The Cosmopolitan Annual, the Of
fetal organ of the Association of Cos
mopolitan clubs, just published for
the association by the Cornell Cosmo-
politan club, is dedicated to Louis P.
Lochner, Wisconsin '09, Milwaukee,
the first president of the association,
through whose efforts the general as
ISOLATION of international clubs of
students in the various institutions of
the country was recently established.
Van Nelson of Waupaca caught a
rainbow trout which weighed five
pounds. The fish measured twenty
two inches around the body and was
two feet and one inch from head to
tail. Nelson was unable to land the
trout alone. This is the largest catch
there in several years.
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State Banking Commissioner M. G.