Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-25
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Ole I. Tweed, well known resident
of La Crosse, died after two months
illness of heart disease.
Peter Gehl is planning to erect q
theater at Hartford in connection will;
his new concrete building.
George Olson of the town of Brock
way was instantly killed by train on
the cutoff of the Omaha road about
two miles from Black River Falls.
Police Chief O'Brien of Eau Claire
has ordered all slot machines giving
away merchandise taken out of cigar
shops, supplementing his recent order
on slot machines in saloons.
Frank Urban, teamster employed
ON a farm several miles from Milwau-
kee, is accused of killing Mrs. Cecilia
Neimer, the housekeeper for the
farm employer, with potato masEer.
Former Gov. William R. Taylor died
at Madison. He was eighty-nine years
old. He was elected governor of Wis
consin in 1873, riding into the Office
on the crest of the Granger move
ment.
Mayor W. A. Anderson's plan to
abolish the board of public works at
La Crosse and substitute commits
sion to hire trained engineers has
failed. The council voted the plan
down
Jacob REeingan dropped dead in the
German Lutheran church at Eagle
Point Sunday. The deceased was born
in Germany about seventy years ago
and had resided in this country forty
years.
The common council of Manitowoc
has exonerated Contractor Pellet of
charges of defrauding the city pre-
ferred by Social Democrats, after
making a complete investigation of
the affair.
:
Earl futile and Harry Altman, Wis
consin Central brakemen, arrested at
Fond du Lac for holding up two men
in a box car and taking money and
iewelry away from them, were ar
raigned in court at Neenah. Both
pleaded guilty, and were fined SIS and
costs each.
:
Upon the complaint of Robert Orig
non of St. Cloud, Mimi. son OF Alexan-
der Grignon, the latter was arraigned
in the municipal court at Appleton on
the charge of assault with intent to
kill his son, Jones Grignon. The
father was placed under $4,000 bonds
and the hearing adjourned until next
Monday.
La Crosse will entertain the 1911
convention of the Wood
men of the World. Delegate Louis
Omerberg has returned from Port HUI
ron. Mich. where the biennial conven-
ton, attended by $50 delegates, just
closed. after voting to come to La
Crosse over the applications of eight.
cen other cities.
:
Gov. Davidson suspended District
Attorney A. E. Schwittay of Mari
nette county. He is charged at Mari
nette with perjury, criminal libel and
forgery. and the governor will grant
him hearing April 7. Schwittay was
elected last November on anti-graft
issue, and claims that the prosecution
is persecution because he ran on that
platform.
Ida Little Soldier has been missing
from the Tomah Indian school since
the middle of February. 1t is now be-
lieved that in attempting to get home
she lost her way and persisted in the
snow. 1t was at first thought by the
school authorities that her friends
were concealing her, but a thorough
search has caused that idea to have
been abandoned.
The winter at Couderay has been
ideal for logging operations. With
verv little snow and just cold enough
for good ice roads the conditions have
been prime, and more logs have been
shipped out of this section the last
two months than ever before The
average nearly 100000 feet
a day, all going to the mills at Eau
Claire and Rice Lake.
Thirteen-year-o Frank Turelle, the
boy murderer of Hurley, pleaded
guilty at Ashland to the charge of
killing his father, and was sentenced
to the state industrial school until he
is of age Young Turelle deliberately
shot his father last December as the
latter lay on sofa in his house. The
boy was hidden in garnet all day
Christmas, armed wit a rife and
watching his chance. He asserted
that his father had ill-treated him and
made him steal.
Guy J. Talley, for the past ten years
employed as an express messenger
and baggageman on runs between La
Crosse and Sioux Falls, S. D., on the