Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-11-25
WISCONSIN BRIEFS
Epitomlzed History of the Week
In the State.

Eau Claire. Eau Claire county will
build $4,000 poor farm building
near the county asylum building the
coming year.
Milton Junction.-Chris C. Wagner,
a farmer residing at Clear Lake, was
fined $25 for delivering milk in un-
sanitary cans.
Appleton.-The first town meeting
of the town of Oneida, to be organ;
lied as the Oneida reservation, will
be held April next.
Madison.-Mrs. Knute Johnson, aged
"a years, died as result of an explol
sion caused by lighting fire with
kerosene two weeks ago. Her hus-
band is real estate dealer.
Sheboygan.-A committee has been
appointed by the county board to in
vestigate the condition of the county
roads. 1t will recommend improve
ments necessary to the highways.
Grand Rapids.-The members of the
Methodist church are preparing for a
jubilee from Nov. % to Dec. /, in
elusive, it being fifty years since the
first board of trustees was elected.
Manitowoc.-Two new mutual fire
insurance companies have been or
ganized in Manitowoc county, the
Mutual Farmers Company of Newton
and the Farmers Mutual Fire Insur4
ance Company of Rapids. I.
New Richmond.-Peter Cottor drop
ped dead at the home of his brother,
Mitchell Cottor, with whom he resid
ed, near Pine Lake. The decedent
was eighty-one years old, a single
man, and one of the pioneers of Polk
county.
Manitowoc.-Dan B. Starkey, of Mil
waukee, spoke here at the annual din
ner of the Manitowoc Fish and Game
Protective Association. John J. Han
nan, Senator La Follette's private Sec
rotary, was here at the same time con-
ferring with local politicians.
Fond du Lac.-The county board
unanimously Endorsed DR.. Adm Sher-
man for the position of superinten-
dent of the Northern State Hospital
Tor the Insane to succeed the late
Dr. w. A. Gordon. A state wide
movement along this line has been
Iinaugurated. :
Appleton.-What are believed to
be the two highest valued carloads
Of hogs ever shipped out of Wiscon-
sin left for Chicago. The shipment
was made by Assemblyman Fred
Peterson, one of the heaviest cattle
buyers in Wisconsin, and each car
was valued at $3.50.
Superior work of extending
The Belknap street viaduct eastward
over the Northern Pacific, South
Shore and Terminal tracks will be
started shortly. Mayor Crumpton
has been notified by officials of the
Great Northern that arrangements
had been made for the extension Of
the viaduct.
Beaver Dam. - George Henninger
was arrested here charged with as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm, preferred by Theodore Stafford,
who says he was badly beaten by
Henninger, who accused him of pay
ing attentions to his wife. Henninger
was bound over on $500 bond.
Cumberland. The Cumberland
Fruit Package Company, with a CAPT
tai stock of $4,000, has been formed
here by Julius Ewald, of Minneapolis,
H. G. Monstad and DR.. w. l.. Hocum,
Of this city. The company will manu-
facture berry boxes, apple crates and
grape baskets, and will also operate
veneer mill for the purpose of manu-.
featuring veneer for their boxes.
Madison.-The state board of con.
troll has issued the first of the monthly
census of inmates of state institutions
and county aSylums on Nov. 1. Total
number of inmates in county asylums
for the state, 1854. The total mum
Der of insane in the state is estimated
at 6,528; estimated number of blind in
the state, 500; estimated number OF
feeble minded in the state, 1000.
Eau Claire.-The Eau Claire coun
ty board increased the salaries OF
several county officers, some of the
former fee Offices being made straight
salaried posts. County Judge Blum
was raised to a straight salary of
$1,000 a year in place of $1,000 and
fees; the county clerk got a 5000 adj
vance to $1,400 a year and similar
increase raised the district attorneys
salary to $1,000.
Madison. - Seven refunds were or
dered by the railroad rate commission
as follows: To the Wausau Box and
Lumber Company against the Milwau
kee road $151.11, and against the
Northwestern $4,000; to C. P. Think
ham against the Northwestern anG
Wisconsin Central road $10.56; to the
Oshkosh Bottle Wrapper Company
against the Milwaukee road $4690; tc
H. D. Ever against the Omaha $29.62;
to the Wisconsin Box Company, Wau
sau, against the Milwaukee road
$94.27, and against the Northwestern
road, $227.94. All the refunds wers
for excess charges on lumber, etc.
La Crosse.-By agreeing to give UP
their assessment of one mill, voted to
create a permanent fund for park i'm
provements, the park commissioners
hope to enable the city to keep its tan
rate at 20 mills. The schools have
also agreed to reduction of $4,000 o,
the appropriation allotted them.
Sheboygan.-J. A. Shadboldt, son OF