Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-03
Badger Briefs
Wisconsin News From All
Parts of the State.


weeks ago.
All the suspects held by the Supe
rior police in connection with the muir
der of Rudolph Nelson at Itasca have
been relea sed.
Samuel Swinehart, aged eighty-fve
pioneer lumberman and farmer, a
resident of Iowa county for over fifty
years, is dead.
Frank o. Nagler's meat market at
Osceola was broken into and between
81 and SO taken from the cash regis
ter. There are no clues.
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Rev. r. c. Denison of GAINESVILLE
Congregational church has accepted a
call to the United Congregational
church, New Haven, Conn.
The master horseshoers of Wiscon
sin have chosen Eau Claire as place
of annual meeting, which will take
place on Labor day Sept. 6.
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A tornado struck the Linnell val
ley near Black River Falls last week
Wrecking one barn, unrooffing several
others and doing great damage to
crops.
William Kay, charged with burglar
izing a 500 line caboose in New Rich
mond, pleaded guilty in Hudson anC
was sentenced to two years at Wau
pun prison.
A large brick addition to the Walter
Bros. brewery at Neenah has been
completed for the bottling depart
ment. The construction of an addi
ton to the Wentz brewery is under
way.
Delegates from cities of the Fol
River valley met at Neenah and or
ganized a society to try to carry the
valley for the "drys" next spring. An
other meeting will be held soon fol
the laying of plans.
The government survey of the Rocl
river and it's tributaries will be com
menced by Capt. Wheeler of thu
United States engineering corps start
ing at Stoughton and proceeding W
the Yahara to Madison.
In the declamatory and spelling
contest held at Scandinavia under the
direction of the Waupaca County In
terscEool league Donzella Fletcher OF
Rova]ton won first in defamation and
Hilda Stewart of Northport first in
spelling.
The contract for the grading, lay
ing Of the ties and track and the gen
eral construction of the new inter
urban street railway from Nekoose
to Grand Rapids has been let to a con
struction company of Chicago. 1t is
expected that work will be com
menced Immediately.
Frank 7. Wagner, the Milwaukee
private detective, who testified be-
fore the senate investigating commit
tee that he saw packages of money
handed to three assemblymen in a
room in the Plankinton house in
Milwaukee, has been held for trial
at Madison on June IS.
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Thieves who entered the saloon OF
Lopis Olson in the down town district
of Manitowoc stopped long enough in
their operations to set themselves a
lunch, the plates and glasses being
found on the table Plumber consist
ing Of cigars, wet goods and money
amounting to $50 was secured.
A verdict for damages of 5,00(
was allowed to the plaintiff in the
case of Simon Marcott VS. the Soc
road Marcott, who is a Depere man
claimed damages of $4,000. He
claimed that his health had been in
iured to that extent by cold con
tracted while in a 500 sleeper. The
case will be carried up.
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Rev. and Mrs J. N. Jerslid cele
brated their twenty fifth wedding an
niversary at the Danish Lutheran
church at Neenah with 500 present
including about fifty Wisconsin pas
tors. Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Cooke Of
Copenhagen, Denmark who attended
the couple when married, were pres
ent, coming from Neenah especially
for the event
The Ashland police arrested Johr
Thomas, alias Ryan, on charge oil
attempting to kidnap Gordon Clayton
the ten-year-old son of Northern Pa
cifc railroad engineer. Ryan picked
I'D the boy on the street as the latter
was waiting for his father. The lad
was locked in a box car all night, and
escaped just as his captor was pre-
pairing to disguise him.
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Four students at the Northwestern
university at Watertown were badly
injured, one perhaps fatally, by an ex-
plosion of gunpowder while they were
loading shells in preparation for q
sham battle by the military company.
County Treasurer Anderson of Hud-
son has just completed the annual
sale of delinquent lands, there being
4O2 descriptions. For the first time in
the history of the county every de-
scription has been bid in and the
county not required to hold over