Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-04-29
Badger Briefs
Wisconsin News From ALI
Parts of the State.
Parts OF the State.

rial day address at Gettysburg.
The home of Mrs. E. T. Bentley of
Plainfeld was entirely destroyed by
fire Saturday night, entailing loss of
$2,600 insured for 1880.
August Wick, an aged German farm
| er, committed suicide with carbolic
acid at GAINESVILLE after attempting to
murder his wife She will live.
Plans have been announced for the
new business block to be erected at
Manitowoc by M. H. Dempsey on the
site of the block burned in February.
Rev. w. M. Clark of Grace Presby-
terian church in Milwaukee was elect
ed by unanimous vote as moderator
of the Milwaukee Presbyterian con-
vention held at Manitowoc.
Lille Aune, representing the Bar.
ron high school, and Floyd Jorstad,
Rice Lake high school, were winners
in the Declamatory and Oratorical
league contest held at Barron.
Rev. Joseph G. H. Barry, dean OF
the seminary at Nashotah, has under
| consideration a call for the rector
ship of the Episcopal church of ST.
Mary, the Virgin, New Yorks highest
ritualistic church.
o. E. Wells, principal of the Mar,
thon county training school for teach
ers, has been appointed by Mayor
Lamont to represent Wausau at the
international peace conference to be
held in Chicago May 2, and 4.
Misander Gulliksrud, aged twenty
seven years, a farmer, shot himself
dead at Eleva when, in going to a pas.
ture to see what was disturbing his
sheep, he dragged a gun through a
fence and accidentally discharged it.
Upon the recommendation of j. J.
Clemens, president of the La Crosse
Humane society, Gov. Davidson has
appointed Asa Darling agent of the
society at Bangor to succeed Elias
Jones, who has removed from the
state.
Many Italian laborers have been
brought to La Crosse by the st. Paul
in hn To
take the places of the section men,
who recently went on strike because
one hour in time was added to the
days work without any increase in
pay.
Division Engineer A. BirdselI of the
Wisconsin Central road is at Superior
to make arrangements for sending out
construction trains on the new line.
There is considerable grading and bal
! lasting to be done before the line will
be in shape for full passenger and
| freight service.
Pointing a loaded rife at Eddie Kel-
Ter, aged seven years, the ten-year-
old son of Edward Ellefson at Brown
town remarked "I'll shoot you" The
bullet took effect in the Keller boys
abdomen. The rife was a 1920, and
contained sixteen cartridges. The
boys bowels were pierced in nine
places.
With a large number of visiting
members present from out of the city
the Carroll court of the Catholic Or
der of Foresters held an all-day meet
ing at La Crosse, the principal fea-
lures of the gathering being the mi
tiation of a large class of candidates
in the afternoon and a big banquet in
the evening,
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Sheriff G.. q. Jones searched the
premises of Dan Gillis and John Muir
ply, located over the saloon conduct
ed by James Steber at Amigo and
the report of the search warrant, as
fled shows that three men were
found gambling, and that 400 poker
bling contrivances.
Philomathia Literary society at the
state university elected the following
men to represent the society in the
annual joint debate next December:
Monte F. Appel, 10, of Huron, S. D.;
Frank ]. Shannon, 10, Of Oconomo-
woo, and Francis r. Duffey, 10, Of
Fond du Lac; Samuel L. Barber, II,
of Springfield, KY, was elected junior
orator.
Aid. Cyrus Snyder of La Crosse,
president of the Wisconsin Liquor
Dealers association, has become vio-
lently insane and was taken to the
state hospital at Mendoza Mr.. Sny-
der was one of the most efficient
members of the common council. His
by worry over the advance made by
prohibition in the state.
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Operating an engine of a portable
sawmill outfit without a water gauge
cost the life of George Yields, who
lives several miles north of Eau
Claire. Yields was the engineer of
the outfit, which he was moving when
the explosion occurred.
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John Burger, aged seventy-nine
years, of Beloit for the past two
weeks has been practically starving
himself to death by refusing all food,
declaring he wanted to die He passed