Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-07
BADGER BRIEFS.
wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

only osteopath on the Wisconsin state
medical board, has decided to resign.
George E. Leonard, aged thirty
years, son of a farmer living near
Stevens Point, died at local hospi-
tai of hemorrhage of the gums.
The thirty-fourth annual state con-
vention of the Wisconsin Young Mems
Christian association will be held in
Wausau Jan. IA to II, inclusive.
More than $4,000 of the $4,000 re-
quired has been subscribed at Gilman
ton for the purpose of building a rail
road from Gilmanton to Mondovi.
Ben Koehler about fOrty-five years
old, was run down by Northwest
ern freight train at Green Bay and
received serious injuries about the
head and shoulders.
Members of the Kenosha police pre-
scented Chief Owen O'Hare with an
Elks badge set with four diamonds.
He is the youngest member of the
Kenosha lodge of Ellzs.
The death Of Mrs. Mary Belanger,
a pioneer settler of Green Bay, result
ed from a stroke of apoplexy. Two
sons, Louis of this city and Adolph
of NinneapOIis. survive.
Charles E. Lester died at his home
at Grand Rapids from pneumonia
John Bath died at his home here
from blood poisoning. He leaves a
wife and several children.
Miss Winnie Podawiltz, who was ar
rested last fall on the charge of hav-
ing set fire to her sisters barn in
Grand Rapids, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to one year in states
prison.
Robert Englemann, who stabbed
August Johnson without provocation,
decided to plead guilty to the charge
and appeared before Judge Webb at
Grand Rapids, and was sentenced to
three years in the states prison.
:
Fire in the Burns Boiler cOmpany's
shop at Green Bay caused $4,000 dam
age to motors, machinery and build
ing. The company placed an order
Immediately for new motors and ma
chimes, and will have the shop in op-
Grafton in a month.
District Attorney-elect SchWittay
has announced that at the coming SEES
sion of the circuit court he will ask
for an order for a grand jury, the first
in the history of Marinette county.
He will ask for a grand jury particu-
larIy to investigate the building and
equipment of the Marinette county
asylum for the insane.
The year Of 1908 has been prosper
GUS for the cheesemaking industry in
Wisconsin, The quantity and the
quality have been fully up to those of
former years, and prices have been
high. At the Seymour dairy board OF
trade during the season between April
IA and Dec. / 22.116 boxes, amount
ing to 100000 pounds, were sold.
At the request of Mayor Roe and
common council Of Stanley, the rail-
road commission has ordered the
Northwestern Lumber company to be-
gin furnishing light to that place by
meter. The meters will be furnished
to the consumers free of charge. The
rate to users of electricity will be 10
cents a kilowatt up to so kilowatts.
Court Commissioner Gibson OF
Galesville has granted an injunction
on behalf of the relatives of Leroy
Bell, an aged farmer, restraining Miss
Grace Londen of Winona, now living
at La Crosse, from having any COM
munication with, advising or influ-
encing Bell and preventing her from
disposing of property decided to her
by Bell, and worth $4,000.
Saloon men Of Racine have identl-
fed the body found floating in the
lake off Wind point as that OF for
mer porter, Edward Goodman. Good
man informed employees that he had
brothers and sisters living at White
water and Waukesha, but the rela-
tives at Waukesha when reached by
telephone deny that it is Goodman's
bodv, as they claim he visited them
a few days ago.
David Congo, a patient at the sana-
forum at Hudson, attempted suicide
bv jumping from a third-story Win
dow. He was brought over from Min
neapolis Monday night for treatment,
and on Wednesday morning succeed
ed in escaping the nurse, opened a
window and jumped out, striking on
the roof of the porch, breaking the
fall enough so that no bones were
fractured. He will probably be taken
to the Minnesota asylum.
Lester Perry fell under train at
Eland Junction, dying four hours later
at Amigo, where he was taken on
special train. Perry's train was pull
ing out, and he tried to jump on the
front platform, but fell on the rails
and his legs were cut off.
The farm house of George Curtiss,