Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-04

Duffey La France and Peter Emo
were burned to death in fire which
| destroyed the Hotel Finan at Tower,
a two story frame building.
Otto Sternhagen Of Florence, who
was mistaken for a deer and shot by
Henry B. Hall November last, died
from the effects of his injury.
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| The Tomah Civic Improvement
league has secured the services of
Mrs. McCrea, professional landscape
| gardener, to assist in identifying the
city.
| Arthur Donley was the victim of an
attempted holdup in the center of
Kenosha. Two men presented a re-
volver to his head. Donley struck one
of the men and escaped.
James Butler, serving a life SEN
tence at Waupun, for the murder of
his aged wife in the town of Lisbon,
July 5, 1907, is seeking his release
from the penitentiary
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Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kent, the for
mer manager of a saloon at Kenosha,
were both stabbed in a restaurant
above the saloon in a free for all. No
, arrests have been made in the case
Jerome Fosters dwelling, three
miles west of Thorpe, was burned TO
the ground last week. Mrs. Foster,
an invalid perishing in the flames,
while Mr. Foster, aged eighty, mar
rowly escaped. A lamp explosion
caused the fire.
Miss Adele Dornfeld, seventeen
years old and a member of one of the
best families in Kenosha, was drag
ged into an alley in the outskirts of
the city and assaulted. 1t is alleged
that the assault was committed by
Charles Liescher, and he is under ar
rest.
Lottie Bolieu, formerly an inmate
of the state industrial school for girls,
Was arrested at Rhinelander and
taken to West Bend by Sheriff Schoen-
beck of that city. She was charged
with the theft of dress by a lady
in a boarding house where she was
employed.
Less than 40 cents on the dollar
will probably be the payment to cred
itors of N. c. Torens, the Mishicott
merchant and politician, who filed a
petition in bankruptcy two weeks ago.
The report Of the appraisers fixes the
value of the property at $15,395, with
exemptions at $4,100. Claims Of $685.
900 have been filed.
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The following dates have been set.
for fairs in the Western Wisconsin
Fair circuit; Reedsburg, Aug. 10 to
| 10; Hillsboro Aug. II to 20 Tomah,
Aug. "a to 81; Sparta, Aug. 81 to
Sept. g. Mansion, Sept. to 10; West
Salem, Sept. IA to II; Viroqua, Sept
81 to "a; Watertown, Sept 81 to "a;
Viola, Sept. % to Oct. /; Elroy, Oct.
to 8; Gays Mills. Oct to 8.
The officers of the town of Mason
| in Bayfield, county, against whom an
action was started by the chairman
of the town to have them removed
from office On account of alleged
| illegal acts, have won out. The case
was based principally on the action
of the board of review in adjourning
when important testimony was to
have been heard in regard to the as
sessment of the company property.
AT the trial it was brought out that
the property Of the town had all been
| assessed at below actual value, and
that all property was included in the
list.
II the constitutional point raised by
Senator j. E. Lehr of Appleton in the
supreme court is sustained every pri-
mary election law in the United
States that contains a provision for
nominating United States senators by
direct vote of the people may be de-
clared unconstitutional.
Senator Lehr contended that the
Wisconsin primary law is coercion
OF members of the legislature to vote
for man whom they may not wish
to, thereby violating the spirit of the
federal constitution. Lehr will carry
the case to the United States supreme
court if he loses in the Wisconsin
court.
The action which was started by
Chairman J. Yderstad of the town of
Mason, in Bayfield, county, for the pur-
pose of ousting from office the other
officers of his town for alleged illegal
acts, has resulted in a victory for the
officers and they will continue to
serve in Office. 1t was alleged that
the officers had Disseminated in their
assessment of the different properties
of the town, Chairman Yderstads &C
ton being based principally on the &C
ton of the members of the board of
review in adjourning their meetings
when the officers of the lumber COM
pany of the town had been request
ed to appear to give testimony. At
the trial of the case it developed that
the property of the town had been as.
sessed at below the actual value and
the lumber company was no exception
to the general rule.