Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-03
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

Lawrence university students have
voted to adopt the honorary examina-
ton system.
Tag day at Eau Claire was a great
success, the Associated Charities TAX
ing in $917.56.
John Brit, seven years old, while
skating on Fellow river in the town
of Sigel broke through the ice, and
was drowned.
Alleging that they sold liquor to
minors, the city attorney of BeIoit has
begun action to revoke the licenses of
three saloonkeepers.
The clubhouse being erected at
Niagara by the Kimberly-C Clark company
it is expected will be ready for oc-
cupancy before the holidays.
Thomas Prosser of Chicago pleaded
guilty at Chippewa Falls to forging a
check for SIS, and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
Judge Goodland will appoint a ref
cree to investigate into the merits of
the petition of residents seeking the
incorporation of the village of kim
berly.
under the direction of the Ashland
board of education a public museum
is being organized to contain relics
particularly of interest in studying the
history of this country.
The Bradley company's mill at
Tomahawk has resumed operations
and the John Oelhafen mill is expected
to start up within two weeks or as
soon as logs can be had.
Mrs. Nellie Phillip, an insane wom-
an of La Crosse, was taken into Gus
tody just in time to save her life She
was found seated in pool of kerosene
and rags and striking a match to start
a fire.
A bill for $1,121.5O has been filed
against the city of Ashland for board
ing plain drunks and other violators
OF the city ordinances. The county
has heretofore boarded these prison.
ers free
The Boreal Manufacturing company
will resume operations at Marinette
early next month with force of abou;
$50 hands. The plant has been shut
down since last May because of the
business depression.
The Michigan Hoop company whose
plant was recently moved to Marinette
began operations last week. Ma.
several carloads of elm lumber are on
track waiting to be cut up.
The Lake Superior Towing Com.
pany Of Bayfield, has completed III.
rangements for the construction there
this winter Of a new tug to take the
place of the tug Emmett, which this
company used during the past season,
The Catholic church and parish
residence east OF the village Of ely.
man were destroyed by fire. This
years, the congregation having built
a church in the village, The loss is
$4,000.
Heavy rail shipments of logs are
being received by Marinette saw mills
and within a few weeks it is expected
that special trains will be run on the
Milwaukee and the Wisconsin and
Michigan roads to accommodate the
traffic.
The body of an unidentified nan
supposedly a suicide, was found in a
remote spot in the woods near SuDe
rior by party of hunters The mans
lips were terribly burned by carbolit
acid, and beside the body was founC
a razor
Attempting to catch a ride on al
freight train in order to speedily
transact some business at Sparta, E
Geyer of ROckland fell under the
wheels of the car, and was so badly
injured that death resulted a few
hours later.
Two daughters of Charles La Eel
had a miraculous escape from being
killed by an Omaha freight train a.
New Auburn. Becoming frightened
they rushed on the track in front Of
the train. Leslie Cartwright and H
G. Goddard succeeded in pulling them
from the track when the engine was
less than twenty feet from them.
!:
The American Industrial Journal.
published at the Wisconsin school for
the deaf, and the only monthly maya.
zine of it's kind in the world, takes a
strong stand in its last issue against
the plan that the superintendent OF
schools for the deaf should institute
a kind of sorting process among the
pupils to learn the trade for which he
is best adapted
Sitting in a chair with throat cut
from ear to ear, the dead body Of An
drew Pittach, postmaster Of Burr Oak,
in the northern part of La Crosse
county, was found by his wife. A RAJ
zor tightly clinched in one hand told
the story.