The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-15
WISCONSIN BRIEFS
Epitomixed History Of the Week
In the State. -hTal0

SouAts oSDOOl oupSl
intendent B. F. Gilman has called the
annual teachers institute I o meet
here on July 10. .
Eau Claire.-Frank S. Bouchard.
aged 40, cashier Of the Eau Claire
Savings bank, died suddenly. He
leaves a wife and daughter.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Davidson has
appointed State Senator Hudnall, Of
Superior, a member of the state fish
commission. The term expires April
/, 1911.
La Crosse.-Professor Albert H.
Sanford, for fifteen years a teacher
of history in the normal school at
Stevens Point, Wis, has been en-
gagged as one Of the instructors of
the new La Crosse normal school.
Appleton.-Following the resigna-
ton of Miss Alice Boland, teacher of
German at Appleton high school,
came the announcement of her en-
gagement to Sam j. Ryan, Jr., editor
of the Daily Crescent. Miss Boland's
home is in Rogers Park, III.
Beloit.-Over $4,000 in hydrant
rentals for the first six months of this
year has been held up by the com
mon council on the opinion of City
Attorney H. w. Adams that the n.y.
! drants have not been giving adequate
fire pressure.
La Crosse.-Mrs. Catherine B. Bolin,
of Eau Claire, Wis, died on a North
western passenger train, while on her
way home from a hospital at Roches-
ter, Mimi, where she had been oper-
ated upon. The body was taken off
here, prepared for burial.
La Crosse.-Formal dedication of
the La Crosse normal school has been
provided for by the board of normal
| regents, and Senator Thomas Morris
and President F. o. Cotton were ap
rointed a committee to make the ar
rangements. The date has not been
decided upon.
Washburn.-Work at the Sprague
mill in this city has been pushed rap
idly during the past week and the
new saw mill will be started up for
the season on July 6. The new plant,
which will run for about twenty years,
is a single band mill with a capacity
of over forty thousand fee a day. The
mill will employ about sixty men.
Madison.-Carl s. Brown was ar.
| rested at Fort Madison, Iowa, and
| brought to Madison. He is charged
with representing himself to be a
deputy revenue officer and extorting
money from saloonkeepers at La
Crosse under threats of prosecuting
them for alleged violation Of the rev
enue law.
Marinette.-On petition of Attor-
neys E. G. Eastman, l. B. kirkland
and M. J. Feeney, acting a. a com
mittee of the Marinette County Bar
Association, Judge S. d. Hastings, OF
the circuit court has issued an order
on A. E. Schwittay, district attorney
of Marinette county, to show cause
! why he should not be disbarred.
Beloit.-J. w. Gregg, representing
the Northwestern Cereal Company,
has taken an option on twelve lots
! here and says his concern will build
a breakfast food plant costing $780,.
900 within the next ten months. The
factory will employ 125 men, he says,
and sixty persons, Adventists, will bt
! brought from Battle Creek, Mich.
Observation-Disclosures was selected
as the next place of meeting for the
Photographers Association of Wis
! consin and at the closing session to,
day these officers were elected:
President, A. A. Bish, Chippewa Falls;
first vice-president, w. H. Hillman,
Richland Center; second vice-presi-
dent, r. H. Barlow, Janesville; treas
urer, J. M. Bandtel, Milwaukee; Sec
rotary, Edward Harwood. Appleton.
Madison.-Chief Clerks c. e. Schaf-
fer of the assembly, and F. E. An
drews of the senate, have issued the
official bulletin of the legislature for
the session ending June Is. 1t shows
that 16S senate bills were enacted
into law and that 81 bills originating
In the assembly were placed on the
statute books, a total of 479. The
bulletin gives the history Of each
bill. A record Of bills introduced by
each member also is given.
La Crosse.-The La Crosse City
Railway Company, now owned entire
ly by local capital, is likely to pass
into a new ownership. An option COW
ering all of the capital stock of the
street railway company has been
given to one member Of the corpora
ton, who, in turn, has evidently made
an agreement to turn it over to other
parties, whose identity is not known.
Madison.--Carl s. Brown was ar.
rested at Fort Madison, Iowa, by fed
eral authorities and brought to Madi.
son. He is charged with having rep
resented himself to be deputy revenue
officer and extorted money from sa-
l~oonkeepers at La Crosse and vicinity