Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24

| The A. j. Cheney warehouse at Ed
gar was destroyed by fire, entailing
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| Thirty-two head of cattle have been
| condemned in Oshkosh county because
of tubercular affection.
The Empire theater at WATERFOWL
has been leased by C. E. Cheever and
| A. P. He'll of Milwaukee.
For trying to pass off bad check
| John Kohlman of Superior was given
a two years sentence in state prison.
| The Mackey Lumber company has
sold 700 acres in northern Wisconsin
to Minneapolis capitalists for $10,352.
H. Berman's dry goods store at
| Wausaukee was entered by burglars,
and the contents of the moneyAdrawer
were carried away.
Anton Benson, arrested on charge
of having assaulted an eleven-year-old
! girl, pleaded not guilty at Eau Claire.
Bail was fixed at $4,000.
Jacob Steussy, aged sixty-f1ve years,
wealthy dairyman residing on a 400
| acre farm in the town of Verona, ten
miles west of Madison, killed himself
with shotgun.
| o. H. Ingram, president of the state
capitol commission, says that the
west wing of the new capitol building
will be completed by the time the leg
| islature meets in January.
There is talk at Milton of an effort
to have Gov. Davidson pardon Bill
Fiddler, who was sent to the peniten-
tiary for attempting to wreck train.
! Fiddler has a wife and child here, who
| need support.
Luella Hyam twelve-year-old girl,
| ing episodes at Sturgeon Bay. Nine
| teen pieces of drawn work which she
had sold at ridiculously low prices
have been recovered.
John D. Jones of Racine has been
| appointed editor-in-chief of the Spec
| tator, the new monthly magazine pub
| lished by students of the university
| John Meiners of Milwaukee will han
die the athletic department.
The Eau Claire Commercial associa-
| ton directors have chosen the follow
| ing officers for the ensuing year:
year: President, Kim Rosholz; vice
| president, G.. W. Lockwood. The mat
ter of choosing a secretary has been
| left open.
| Word has been received by Mrs.
| Sarah S. Bradshaw of Superior that
her son, Lieut.. James Bradshaw of the
United States army, has met with an
| accident while on duty in the Philip
pines, and that he has lost a hand as
| the result.
The Dells Paper and Pulp company
will be the heaviest taxpayer in Eau
Claire this year, the total sum of the
| company's taxes amounting to nearly
| $4,000. 0. H. Ingram is the heaviest
| individual taxpayer, with a sum ap-
| proXimating $1,000.
| A fire which resulted in thousands
| Of dollars worth of damage resulted
| in the destruction of one of the Omaha
roundhouses at Ashland. Two loco
| motives were so badly damaged that
| it will take thousands of dollars worth
| of repairs to put them in condition
again.
An almost unnoticed accomplishment
Of the Wisconsin railroad rate COM
| mission which has been carried on to
| a successful termination is an investi-
cation which has been made of the
| correct weighing of all freight and the
testing of all scales used by railroad
companies.
The first payment to the state treas
urer by tie Wisconsin Grain and
Warehouse company has been made
AS the result of the good business in
the weighing department the commits
sion was enabled to pay all it's indebt-
Cd ol,o
$4,000 to the state
Deeds of transfer were filed with
the secretary of state whereby the
Great Northern Railway company of
St. Paul and the Allouez Bay Dock
company Of Superior, a subsidiary cor
poration of the Great Northern, pur-
chases all the property of the Duluth,
Superior and Western Railroad COM
pany for $2,829,256.S9
:
William Holman, the negro charged
with assault with intent to kill, was
found guilty at Superior and sentenced
to term of three years in state pris-
on at Waupun. Holman was charged
with having bit Emil Peterson over
the head with an iron spike The trou-
BILE was over a negro woman with
whom Peterson was living at the time.
Admission Only by Ticket.
Mandy was a young colored girl
fresh from the cotton fields of the
south. One afternoon she came to