Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-05-06
Badger Briefs
Wisconsin News From All
Parts of the State.
Observation-Disclosures

Sheboygan is to have an annual
school field day.
La Crosse milkmen will raise the
price to cents.
The 500 road expects to run trains
into Superior in July
Felix Martin, a Green Bay pioneer,
died Friday, aged sixty.
The Milwaukee road is making ex-
tensive improvements at La Crosse.
John Till, the plaster-on-the-back
specialist of Barron, has gone to Aus
tria.
John D. Waller, pioneer hotel man
at Menomonie, is dead, aged seventy
three.
The cooperative plan of operating
stores in Polk county will be aban-
doned.
Alfred COSTA, aged seven, was ia
tally shot at Appleton while playing
with a revolver.
James Corso of Racine has secured
a $10S,000 contract from the govern
ment at North Chicago.
The school board of Milton will aid
high school students in installing a
wireless telegraphy station.
William B. Ardick, lightkeeper at
Green Bay, is missing and is believed
to have been drowned during a storm.
An advance from 10 to Is cents in
interurban rates is announced by the
Manitowoc-NOrthern Traction COM
pany.
Mrs. Anna Kohlhors, aged thirty-six,
kissed her babies good-by and then
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
Walter c. Ross, Milwaukee, will be
business manager of the 1910 Badger
at the university, and Carroll Bickel-
haupt general chairman.
The Elks, Commercial club and
trades and labor assembly at Superior
may join in building to replace the
Grand theater, recently burned.
The woman suffrage bill, which
passed the Wisconsin senate some
time ago, was killed in the assembly
after long debate by vote of So
to 81.
Albert Peters and Charles Brokaw,
farmers residing near Pepin, dug eight
young wolves out of den and were
awarded $32 bounty. Henry Reed
also captured nine.
Manley Lindsey, convicted of va
grancy the fourth time, was sentenced
by Judge Charles M. Webb of Grand
Rapids to fifteen months in the peni.
Tertiary at Waupun.
Mayor o. J. Sorensen of La Crosse
has reappointed John E. Langdon a
member of the board of police and
fire commissioners for term of five
years, to succeed himself.
After robbing the cash drawer of
$25 and making an effort to blow
open the safe at the Office of the Pa.
cific Electric company at La Crosse,
burglars made good their escape, and
the police are now at work on the
case
Six months in the state prison is
the penalty George Bidwell, gentle,
man burglar, retail grocer, must pay
for stealing goods that he sold in his
store at GAINESVILLE. William Hitler,
his confederate, was given nine
months. 4
Richard Schoultz, known as Schultz,
was arrested in Milwaukee for the
Philadelphia authorities, who charge
that he fed from that city seven years
ago with $4,000 of the funds of the
Penn Erection company, of which he
was president.
Fire caused by an explosion at the
Winnebago Furniture company plant
at Fond du Lac destroyed the ware
house and finishing department. Loss,
$4,000. Every window in the court
house, one block away, was shattered
by the conclusion.
John Wiskham of Eau Claire, for
his services as special assistant coun-
sci for the city in the two and a half
years litigation to get possession of
the water works plant, which litiga-
ton came out successfully for the
city, has rendered bill of $4,000.
Henry D. Smith, former president of
the Wisconsin Bankers association
and treasurer of the Wisconsin Trac-
ton Heat, Light and Power COM
pany, president of the Riverside FL
Der and Paper company, died at his
home in Appleton at the age of six
ty-seven years, after a lingering i'll
ness. .
The assembly passed the Ledvina
bill prohibiting stenographers from
revealing the confidential matters of
their employers. The bill is particu-
larly directed against female stenogra-
pliers in some cities of the state who
have been giving away" business Sc
crets of their employers. The penalty
is fine of from 500 to $500, or i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for six
months.
Frank Maybee and son were fired
at five times as they were entering
their home at Wausau Monday night.
Maybee alleges continued persecution
from unknown sources.
William Pritchard, employed in the
general Offices of the Pittsburg Coal
company at Superior, has been mott
fed that his fathers estate which has
been in chancery in England for sew
eral years, has been cleared up, and
that he will receive as his share Gil
900. Samuel Casson Pritchard, the
father, was comparatively wealthy
and lived in the south of MZnIoc