Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-25


Frank Boachart, a stranger, aged
about thirty, made desperate effort
to hang himself in the county jail at
Marinette, using bed clothes as
rope
Robert Wolf, superintendent of the
Racine quarries of the Universal
Crushed Stone company. was arrested,
the company charging embezzlement
of $500.
Michael Smith, homesteader in
the Kirby hills, twenty miles north
west of Crivitz, believes he has dis
covered valuable beds of iron and cop
per ore.
Slot machines have met their doom
in Fort Atkinson, and the chief of po-
| lice has received orders to stop their
running and confiscated all found after
Saturday.
Plans were perfected through the
agency of S. A. Cook whereby the
city of Neenah will have big round
up or farmers institute to last three
days next spring.
There will be no primary election
| in Marshfield this year. The expense
| incident to such an election will be
kept in the treasury to make public
improvements.
The Fort Atkinson city fathers"
have passed an ordinance forbidding
| barking" on the street by men con.
nected with electric theaters or other
places of amusement
William Powers was sentenced to
one years Imprisonment in the coun
ty jail at Waunaukee for appropriate
| ing moneys entrusted to him by pat
rons on the rural route he served as a
carrier.
The New London waterworks com
mission has decided on drilling deep
err for water 1t has sunk $1,000 into
two holes about 273 feet deep, with.
out striking water, but hope for ulti.
mate success.
T. B. Wilson of Washington, d. c.,
| the new agent OF the MenOmonie res
ervation with headquarters at Sha,
| wano, has arrived. He takes the place
of Mr.. Allen, the special agent for the
| last few months
At the annual meeting of the Farm,
ers Mutual Trading company at Fair
child, n. C. Foster was elected presi-
dent Since its reorganization nine
on its capital stock.
Mrs. Frank C. Stuckle of Racine
was dangerously burned about the
head, face and hands, caused by the
explosion of gas stove which
knocked her across the room. Her
condition is considered serious.
|
coming the first week in July. All
| clubs, societies and secret organiza.
tons have accepted invitations from
Mayor Horlck to attend a meeting
| next Monday evening, when definite
| plans will be decided on.
| John I. Beggs was guest of honor
| at the dinner given by the Waukesha
| Business Mems club at the Spring Val
ley hotel at Waukesha. One hundred
and thirty men were present. Mr..
| Beggs said that the fare of so cents
| between Milwaukee and Waukesha
was extremely reasonable.
| Evan r. Jones' Fl. III. l.. Child and
w. N. Wells of Sparta have been ap-
| pointed appraisers by Judge SanbOrn
to fix the compensation to be paid
| by the government for the tract Of
| 1900 acres of land east of Sparta,
| against which the war department has
instituted condemnation proceedings
| to acquire as a target range.
One Of the largest hardwood timber
deals transacted in the Northwest in
| the last few years was closed when
| the Robbins Lumber company of
| Rhinelander sold tract of 5000 acres
in Iron county Michigan to Fuller &
| Rice Of Grand Rapids, Mich. The
| ;1 ciu hI1f &c
to run we'll up in the thousands.
Department Commander Edwin D.
Coe sent to press General Orders No.
| 6, in which he returns thanks, in the
name CT the department, to all socie-
ties and individuals, including the
teachers of public and private schools
and the 500 pastors of churches, in
Guiding all denominations, for their
compliance with his request to aid in
| Lincoln memorial ceremonies.
DR.. John l.. Cleary, one of the best
known practicing physicians of Ken
osha, a former member of the board
| of control and for many years a lead
er in the Democratic party in Wis
consin, died here, aged sixty-two
years, from cancer of the face.
The next session of the Sevtnth-
day Baptist general conference will
be held in Milton the latter part of
August Dr. l.. A. Platts, F. C. Dunn
and Prof. A. e. Whitford were APP