Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-10
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

| Wisconsin News from All Parts
IL Of the State.
Bruce Miller of Owen was wounded
in the foot by stray bullet while
he was hunting north of Owen.
The controversy between the vii
| lage of Kilbourn and Southern Wis
| consin Power company is nearing
| settlement.
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| John Lauher, an aged farmer, liv-
| ing between Eau Claire and Menomo-
ME, fell off his barn roof and was in
stantly killed.
| Henry A. Goddard, wanted at Aus
TN, Mimi, for an alleged series OF
| forgeries, was arrested al La Crosse
and will be extradited
| : /:
James and John Wyman, two
strangers, are held at Chippewa Falls
ON suspicion of having robbed the
| State Bank of Holcombe.
Portage has been mad dog" scared,
| for dog supposed to be afflicted
| with rabies has been running at large.
Half a dozen armed men have been
on his trail.
|
A company Is being organized at
Bayfield, to erect a box factory.
| site has been chosen, and it is expect
ed to expend about $4,000 as an mi
| tial investment.
The Green Bay Cleaning company
has organized at Green Bay to do a
cleaning and laundry business. Quar-
ters have been engaged, and ma
chinery. is being placed.
William Morgan, peddler who dis
| appeared from Fond du Lac seven
years ago, has been declared legally
| dead, and his estate ordered distrib-
uted among his relatives.
| John Harlan, ST., and Mick Lynch
are two victims of careless shooting
| They were near the outskirts of
| Neillsville when wounded, the former
in the wrist and the latter in the arm.
The Columbia Silica company of
Portage is contemplating equipping
| it's plant for the manufacture of sand
lime brick. 1t is planned to have a
| pIant of about 10000 brick daily ca
pacity.
The Wisconsin normal school re-
| gents made up budget, including a
| demand for an increase of the annual
| appropriation from $230,000 to $3.50,
| Geo. Superior asks S68,0O0 for dor
mitory.
| The Ashland county board has de-
cided to pay the sheriff a salary of
| 800 a. month, out of which he is also
to pay his deputy. In addition he will
receive certain fees. Prisoners in
| the Jail will be boarded at cost
| The Almena farmers store went in
| to the hands Of a receiver, with liza
bilities of $4,000 and assets Of $4,000.
T. w. Shelver was appointed receiver.
The stockholders, principally farmers.
lost $500 they put into capital stock.
Harry James Packard of Beloit was
| sent to Waupun for six months for
| the theft of an overcoat. Packard
had been married but two dogs when
| arrested for the crime, having stolen
| the overcoat to wear at his wedding.
|
| Peter Hutch has purchased the
building formerly occupied as grist
mill at Crivitz Pulp and Paper com
| pany, and after moving it to another
| location will install modern grist
! kinds of grain.
| At the annual meeting of the North
| ern Wisconsin State Fair association
at Chippewa Falls the following Off
| GERS were chosen: President, A. G.
| Cox. Osseo: vice president, John HOr-
! rigan, Eau Claire; secretary, Robert
B. Clark, Chippewa Falls The report
| Of the secretary showed an actual
deficit of 1922 in the treasury, but
| this will be wiped out before the next
fair
G. Loves Dickinson of Kings col
| lege. Cambridge, an eminent English
| writer, has been secured by the Uni
versitv of Wisconsin for three lee,
| lures. Mr.. Dickinson is best known
| in this country by his Letters From
a Chinese Official" which William J.
| Bryan regarded as actually emanat-
ing from a Chinese source, and to
whose charges against Western civi.
| lization he undertook to reply.
| Chief of Police Burns of La Crosse
| was in Madison and got requisition
| from Gov Davidson on the governor
| of Iowa for f. Roach, alias Harry
| Rogers, and wife. who are under ar
rest at Waterloo, Iowa, and wanted
| at La Crosse for stealing $500 worth
| of silk from stores in La Crosse. A
| daughter of the couple, Miss Nellie
| Roach. is also wanted at La Crosse
in connection with the same theft.
| Half dozen drunken Indians as
| saulted Conductor Hofell of the Bay
| field Transfer line, near Red Cliff, and
| but for the interference of Engineer
Lambert would have seriously injured