Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-01-14
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from Ali Parts
of the State.

bdIIOH County Will VOI6 III Iho
spring on building county asylum.
The annual meeting of Wisconsin
cranberry growers will be held in
Grand Rapids Jan. II.
Jacob Gensman, a lumberman, was
struck by sliding logs at Wausau and
killed. He was thirty and leaves a
wife.
Wisconsin tobacco growers are pool
ing in a number of sections their en-
tire seasons grow, holding for better
prices.
There is great activity in the woods
of Northern Wisconsin. It is esti-
mated the winters cut will far exceed
that of last season.
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Albert L. Wagner, prominent bus
mess man of Menomonie and for
mer alderman died of typhoid pneumo-
mia. He was thirty-five years Old
Miss Marie Marquardt, daughter of
Assemblyman August Marquardt of
the First assembly district of Mara
thon county, married Otto Hunger of
Wausau.
The Wisconsin Funeral Directors
association, it is understood, will pros
ecute a Northern Wisconsin furniture
dealer on a charge of doing embalm-
ing without license.
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The Chippewa Valley Tobacco
Growers association has been organ
lied. The members have about AGO.
600 pounds of tobacco pledged, which
will be packed this winter.
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The members of the board of health
of the town of Arland were arrested
and fined $25 and costs, amounting to
$36, for failing properly to disinfect
and fumigate the home of A. Fred
Hanson after raising the quarantine
temperance of the disease in the
family.
The Office and stock building of the
Handmade Shoe company at Chippe-
wa Falls was destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of about $4,000, covered
by insurance. Herbert Brynelson was
at work in the basement tapping a
barrel of shoe cement when it sudden
ly caught fire, presumably from lam
tern, and an explosion followed.
After serving one day as superin-
tendent of the workhouse at Fond du
Lac, Michael Geibel sent his resigna-
ton to the county board. He said he
could not board and clothe the county
prisoners on $500 year, because the
board of control does not permit q
bread and water diet. He consented
to remain until a successor is chosen.
The city of La Crosse has decided
to spend $500 to bring an expert to
that city to decide upon the feasibil-
ity of operating municipal light
plant in connection with the water
works. It would cost $4,000 to in
stall such a plant. The council has
also authorized an $4,000 bond issue
for sewer extensions next summer.
Following an inspection of the Six
teenth district school No. /, Milwau-
kee, where the first vacuum cleaning
system in the state was installed, the
Madison school authorities have de-
cided to fit out one of the Madison
public school buildings with dupli-
cate of the system and has awarded
the contract to the American Air
Cleaning company of Milwaukee.
Fassett A. Cotton, eX-suD aNintendeGt
Of public instruction of Indiana, has
been selected as head of the New La
Crosse normal school from list of
eighty applicants for the place. Prof.
Fassett is regarded as an eminent ed
ucator. He was defeated by Demo
crat for reelection in the recent cam
paign in Indiana. Official announce
ment of his selection will probably be
made by the board of normal regents
in a few days.
After three months consideration
of the co-employe law, as raised in
the case of Michael Kiley VS.. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad,
the supreme court handed down a de-
cision sustaining the law and recog-
nizing the power of the legislature by
statute to prescribe a rule of compare
tive negligence. Heretofore if the
complainant was himself at all negli-
gent. under the contributory negli-
gence act, the case was dismissed.
The next state convention of the
Wisconsin Photographers association
will be held at Appleton, the probable
dates being July 8, 10 and II, this be-
ing decided upon at a meeting of the
executive committee of the associa-
ton held at Appleton.
Bankruptcy proceedings are being
invoked by M. S. Newton of Water
town in settling the heavy court costs
growing out of his divorce from Rose
Newton. Among other judgments he
thus wishes to escape are costs of