Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-18
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Because of the increased amount of
mail the postoffice department has
added two regular letter carriers, and
new substation is to be opened at
Racine.
Mrs. Dan Kelly, eighty years of age,
of La Crosse, who lived alone, fell
down a flight of stairs with lighted
lamp in her hands and was burned
to death.
Miss Florence Adams, 1910, of Muk-
wonago, and Monte A. Appel, 1910, of
Huron, S D., tied for first place in the.
junior open-to-all oratorical contest at
the university.
A fourth church building is being
erected at Cameron by Lutherans, the
members of the organization putting
in their spare time in hauling material
and doing construction work.
Charles Shafer, aged forty-two, COM
mitted suicide by stabbing himself
when in a lumber camp at Weston.
No motive for the deed is known. A
widow and children survive him.
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State Banking Commissioner Bergh
issued a charter to the First State
Bank of Campbellsport, which is a re-
organization of the First National
bank of that place. The new bank is
capitalized at $4,000.
The mystery surrounding the series
Of robberies committed at Fond du
Lac last month has been cleared up
by confession made to Police Chief
Nolan and Detective Stevenson by
John Kronin at Jefferson.
For the first time the city of Mani
towoc has forced fifteen out of town
insurance agents who carry risks to
pay the per cent tax which the state
law gives the city annually, and has
received over $500 from these agents.
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The Chippewa Falls city council
passed a resolution asking Chippewa
county's representatives in the legis-
lature to use their influence and vote
against the proposed dam across the
Chippewa river at Badger Mills, near
Chippewa Falls.
John Treloar's throat was cut so
that it required fourteen stitches to
close the wound in fight at Linden.
F. Fault has been arrested charged
with assault with intent to kill. The
fight arose over the dispute of the pay
ment of 1 per cent.
William Belkey, who killed George
Schultz as he was about to enter the
Belkey home at Gillette, was examined
by Justice Stuelke and District Attor-
ne yChase, who after hearing the evi-
dance exonerated him, finding that he
had acted in self defense.
With the exception of few small
railroads, all the lines in the state
have paid their taxes, and State Treas
urer A. H. Dahl reports nearly all of
the $1,500,0O0 due from this source is
now in. The largest fee came from
the Northwestern, $343,77.S3.
Lewis Carpenter, janitOr at the city
hall at Whitewater, committed suicide
in the basement of the building by
shooting himself Carpenter was six
ty-eight years old, and was a veteran
of the Civil war. He is survived by
a wife and three grown children.
Judge Alexander H. Reid of Wau-
sau, presiding Judge of the Sixteenth
circuit, filed his nomination papers in
the office of the secretary of state,
and will have his name certified to the
different counties of the circuit as a
nonpartisan candidate to succeed him
self.
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The agricultural society of the state
university elected officers as follows:
Louis Nelson. '09, Eau Claire, presi-
dent; Emil Troug, '09, Arcadia, vice
president; III. l.. Ullsperger, II, AL
gonna, secretary; G. Richards, IL,
Madison, treasurer; w. A. Thompson,
'09, Somers, sergeant-at-arms.
According to statistics obtained at
the Office of Registrar w. D. Hiestand
of the state university in the matter
of annual income, excluding the funds
appropriated for building purposes,
Wisconsin stands third among the five
leading state universities of the mid
die west.
The Northwestern Fuel company has
let a contract for the construction of
a $50 feet loading and unloading
bridge at it's dock No. in Superior.
The MyelPetterson company of Pitts
burg were the successful bidders, and
will start work on the bridge as soon
as the steel arrives.
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Burying a passenger locomotive and
scattering bricks in every direction, a
portion of the south side section of
the Milwaukee road roundhouse at La
Crosse collapsed. Fortunately no
workmen were near, and no one was
injured. The damage was slight.
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