Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-05-13
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Judge Hastings of Green Bay has
sworn in the grand jury, and deliber-
atoms have started on charges against
Principal S. A. Lynch, Blaine high
school at Superior, has accepted the
position of head of the English de-
partment of the Iowa State Teachers
college, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Twelve patients from the Marathon
county insane asylum were taken to
the Douglas county asylum, which has
just recently been opened. The pa
tients belonged to Ashland and Bay
field counties.
The estates of Robert and Clara
Barlow of Racine, valued at about
$4,000, will go to the state. The
woman died Feb. 8, 1908, and no rela-
tives have been found by the public
administrator.
The Dufur block at Ashland was
burned, causing a loss of $4,000.
Bergs grocery, Johnson's clothing
store and the law Offices of Dillon,
Risjord, Colignon & Garvin lost their
entire contents.
The striking of fire bells and station
gongs at Beloit led to an investiga-
ton, and proved that the alarm was
caused by the operation of the wire
less telegraph system between the col
lege and downtown Office.
T. w. Hogan of Amigo, one of the
unsuccessful candidates for judge of
the circuit court in the Tenth district,
filed a statement in the Office of the
secretary of state declaring he spent
S697.S5 for campaign purposes.
Frank Thornton and Theodore Bur
meister, aged fifteen and seventeen
years, are in the county Jail at Spar
ia. charged with incendiarism upon
complaint of the authorities of the
state school for dependent children.
John Reichel, resident here since
1880. is dead at the age of sc years.
His wife and ten children survive. He
was the father of fourteen children.
The ten children are all married and
are the parents of sixty-two children.
State Veterinarian Clark of Madison
made a public demonstration OF bo-
vine tuberculosis in slaughtered mich
cows at Ashland with tests of about
half the mich COWS in the vicinity.
Thirty-one were found to have tuber-
culosis.
Prof. w C. Hewitt of the Oshkosh
normal, who was candidate for state
superintendent of schools at the last
election, filed statement in the Of
fee of the secretary of state declaring
that he spent $994.14 for campaign
purposes.
Ernest A. Munger of Beloit was
found dead hanging by his coat collar
from the tail light bracket of an auto
mobile he had been repairing down
town. Munger apparently had tainted
while at his work, and no inquest was
thought necessary.
The remonstrance against the
granting of saloon licenses within
what was termed the residence dis
trict of Sparta was abandoned when
it was found that there were still
thirty-nine signatures lacking of the
required number to carry the PROPOSE
ton.
Charles Johnson, who for the last
few years has been manager and
treasurer of the J. G. Johnson Fuel
company at Manitowoc, has resigned
to accept a position in the Chicago or
fees of the American Seating com
panv. His successor has not been
named.
The Wood County National Bank of
Grand Rapids has let contracts for the
construction of it's new banking house
to the Weinberg Construction com
nanv of Grand Rapids. The new
building will be constructed OF Bed
ford cut stone, and it's estimate cost
is about 100000.
The Improvement association and
alumni of Winslow school at Racine
perpetuate the memory of A. G. Au-
gustine, late principal, by placing a
life-sized bas relief of the principal in
the auditorium of the school. He had
charge of the school for more than
twenty five years.
Suit will be started against patent
medicine company OF Jackson, Mich,
by Sheboygan county to recover dam
ages for the death of Martin Hilger,
aged twenty-four years of Adell, al
legged to have been caused by the TAX
ing of a medicine advertised by the
Michigan concern.
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1t is rumored at Wausau that
group of Wausau capitalists have
about concluded the purchase of the
Amigo Electric company, which owns
The electric lighting and power sys-
t. n of that city. The sale price is
stated to be 100000.
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"Grandma' Clark, as she is gener-
II oo11od of Cascade observed her