Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.


piled with peaceably.
Superior. - E. d. Phelps, of Scion
Springs, former chairman of the town
board, and at present a member of the
board of Douglass county, was found
guilty of uttering and passing a forg-
| ed county order. The penalty is one
to seven years.
Wausau. - S. Lumbrecht was al
most instantly killed in a fight
here by blow from Robert Seefelt's
| fist. The men were farmers and after
selling their wagon loads of produce
retired to a saloon where they be-
came involved in a quarrel.
Medford.-John Johnson, the alleged
murderer of Mrs. Shirley, at Hannibal,
Taylor county, changed his plea from
guilty to not guilty before Judge Par
ish, at Ashland, and was brought here
today by Sheriff Winters and lodged
in Jail awaiting his trial, which will
be held in January.
| Chicago Illinois.-Charles B. With
| ington, inventor of the first automatic
(
er of grain binding industry" died
at his residence in GAINESVILLE, Wis.
He was born in Middlebury, now Ak
ron, Ohio, in 1880, and settled in
GAINESVILLE 62 year ago.
Chicago, Illinois. Anderson,
photo engraver, Of Racine, committed
suicide in his room in downtown ho-
tel by swallowing cyanide of potas-
SUM. He had registered at the hotel
under the name of Joseph Teal,
South Bend, Ind" The man had been
sufferer from consumption.
Hudson.-To stimulate the learning
of agriculture in the public schools
of this county, County Superintendent
H. A. Aune will conduct a corn-grow-
ing contest among the school boys
next season. Seed corn from the ex-
pertinent station at Madison will be
furnished free of charge, and suitable
prizes will be awarded to those max
ing the best showing next fall.
La Crosse. - The committee in
charge of selling stock in a new $780,
900 industrial corporation organized
here by the La Crosse board of trade,
reports that 100000 has been disposed
Of Holders of the stock become pro-
fit sharers in new industries which
are encouraged to come here, to the
extent of stock subscribed in them
through the promoting corporation.
La Crosse.-W. J. Ferris, president
of the La Crosse Waterpower Com
pany, announces that by building a
300-foot dam at Rock Creek, near Wa
terbury, Wis, the company will quad
ripple it's reservoir capacity and elimi-
nate the necessity of a fourth dam.
The reservoir now to be created will
have a storage capacity of 10000 acre
feet of water, twice as much as the
Hatfield and Dells dam reservoirs
combined.
Eau Claire.-Ruling on Eau Claire
countys demurrer to the st. Paul
railroads action against the county
to set aside as invalid a special tax Of
$1,400, assessed as the company's por-
ton of street improvement cost, Judge
Higbee, of La Crosse, held the tax
was legal and collectable, but per-
manently enjoined the county from
selling the company's right-of-way,
which the county had advertised for
sale to recover taxes because the rail
road was an Interstate concern.
Milwaukee.-The strangest request
ever made of the state will be a de-
mand to be filed by Henry lynda,
father of Hattie lynda, the 14-year-old
girl who was assaulted and murdered
by two Poles recently sent to prison
for life. lynda went to Waupun to
make certain that the murderers are
working hard and that they are not
living in better condition than was
ever possible when they were street
laborers. The men earn 65 cents
day each from the state and lynda
will demand that this money be paid
to him. He declares that the life pen.
atty On the men with this money for
Injuries means better living than
they ever received before the muir.
der
Of debating, has announced the ques.
ton which Ripon will debate with
Carleton college (Minnesota) and Coe
college Qowa). The question which
Ripon submitted was chosen, namely,
;Should the Cities of the United States
Adopt Commission Form of Govern.
ment." Ripon will debate Carleton at
n1I
to pre-existing contract between Coe
and Monmouth, Carleton will debate
Lawrence college at Appleton. Ac.
cording to this arrangement each
school will have two debates and by
next year the colleges will be able to
take up the new league. William G.
Bate, Harold M. Wilkie, Howard An
derson and r. H. Cameron Of the vic
torious debating team who met Garlic
ton last year, are at Ripon, but Bate
will not take part in the debate this
year.
Madison.-The Rev. A. A. Ewing,
pastor of Grace Episcopal church, for.
merly pastor of st. Stephens church
In Milwaukee, in a letter to the parish
says that If the church people do not
fulfill their church duties, SO it will
not be necessary for him to be prod
ding them to raise the church ex.
penses, they will have to get some.
one else.
Fond du Lac.-The Rev. G. l.. Grau,
err of Manitowoc has been elected to
Friendens Kirche, who has taken