Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-11
BADGER BRIEFS.
wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


4,430.
Jules Rossey, proprietor of the
Manawa livery at Manawa, ended his
life by taking dose of carbolic acid
and whisky.
Philip B. Whitehead of GAINESVILLE
won second Mersick speaking prize at
the graduating exercises at the Yale
Divinity school,
Lightning at New London set a bed
on fire containing Mrs. Louis Rohloff
and four children. The house was con-
siderably damaged
Toy pistols, paper caps or cannon
crackers exceeding two inches in
length and explosives containing dyna-
mite can not be sold in Fond du Lac.
While fishing in Lake Koshkonong,
near Milton, B. H. Wells, president of
the Bank of Milton, caught pickerel
weighing sixteen pounds, and measur-
ing LHlrIy-ulHe lnCnoS.
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G. G.. Bennett, state superintendent
of public property awarded contract,
to c. F. Cooley of Madison for 1900
tons of No. 2 nut coal at $500 a ton,
delivered at the capitol.
State Banking Commissioner Bergh
has issued a charter to the Wisconsin
State Bank of Iron River, capital $10,-
900. r. E. Steckbauer is president
and Byron Ripley cashier.
Town officials have been notified by
the postal department that unless the
roads are put in repair the rural mail
service will be withdrawn. Three
routes out of Eau Claire are affected
by this order.
w. J. H. Strong has been acquitted
in a Kankakee court of the charge of
misrepresenting the condition of a
plant $4,000 worth of stock of which
he had sold to Michigan man. Strong
formerly lived in Beloit.
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For number of evenings pedes-
TRANS on the main streets of Chippe-
wa Falls have been annoyed at night
by being despatched with rotten eggs.
The police placed under arrest five
boys, said to be ringleaders.
The three Hanson brothers were
saved from watery grave at Lake
Halle, near Eau Claire, by the two
Musum brothers when their boat cap
sized. The Musum boys jumped in
and pulled the three ashore.
The closing order was enforced at
La Crosse by raid upon Mudhen
Joe's saloon and rooming house, the
proprietor being subsequently fined
5000 for keeping a disorderly house.
while inmates were fined $40 each.
The local and interurban cars of the
Chippewa Valley Railway, Light and
Power company, which have been OPP
Grating under the power from Chippe-
wa Falls, are now operating from the
company's new power station at Me-
nomonie.
At sale. of property of the Security
Savings Bank of Ashland, the Prentice
Springs property was bought by A. e.
Appleyard, engaged in electric light
ing, who will use it as a park. The
Scandinavian Workingmen's associa-
ton bought lot as a location for
Finnish hall.
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Several GAINESVILLE lawyers were
buncoed a few days ago by a stranger
who secured sums ranging from S. to
$25 from each on the representation
that he needed the money to go to
Marshfield and bring back a nephew
who desired to bring a large damage
suit against a railroad.
Frank Freeman, employed on the
Stephens farm, near Jewett, while
dynamiting ,stumps fixed the fuse into
the dynamite cap. The cap exploded
and blew two fingers off the left hand.
Near him were about fifty pounds of
dynamite. Fortunately the cap was
not attached to the dynamite.
Elizabeth Smith, aged sixty-three
years, and Philip Ray, aged fifty-six
years, have secured a license to marry
at La Crosse. Mrs. Smith was the
foster mother of George E. Taylor,
who once ran for president of the Uni
ted States on the negro ticket, and she
was the wife of the late Nathan Smith,
the bodyguard of the late Gov. Wash
burn.
An inspection of the Steffens pro-
cess Of making beet sugar was made
at Menominee Falls by 2. E. Bryssel-
bout, superintendent of the United
States Sugar and Land company and
R. G. Wagner and John Lawson Of the
Wisconsin Sugar company. Mr.. Brys-
selbout came from France and was in
strumental in starting the first beet
sugar plant at Grand Island, Neb
Leo G.. Mueller OF La Crosse has
passed all examinations and required
tests and has received his appoint
ment as a cadet in the United States
training school at South Baltimore,
where men are trained for officers in
the revenue cutter service.
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Pleading guilty to charge of being
an inmate of a disorderly house, S. Fl.
Cushman was fined 800 and costs by
Judge Belden of Racine. The defend