Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-18

citation will meet at Ashland March
rs and 27.
A district convention of the Chris
tian Endeavoreres will be held at
Galesville March 26 to 20.
The general mercantile store of Per-
cy Barnes burned at North Freedom.
The loss = $4,000, partly insured.
Sparta has advertised for bids to
erect new storage tanks or a water
tower of a capacity of 425,000 gallons.
The Modern Woodmen will erect a
hall and lodge building for the accom-
mediation of the several camps at SUI
perior.
Over 400 girls, members of the Y.
w. G.. A. at Ashland are circulating
dime albums to clear the debt of ST.
900 on the gymnasium.
Petitions are being circulated at
Ashland to have the question of no
license submitted to the people at the
next municipal election.
Peter ellis pleaded guilty to a
charge of stealing timber in the town
of Edison, and was sentenced to nine
ty days in the county Jail.
An attempt will be made by the
Business Mems association of New
Londo1. to raise funds to purchase the
fair grounds and racetrack.
Mrs. P. H. Kusach of Goodman ar
rived at Marinette with two wildcat
scalps which she secured while trap
ping and hunting in the northern por-
ton of the county.
Alfred Ginder died as result of in
iuries received in pulp mill at Chlp-
pewa Falls. Flying pieces of broken
pulley struck him in the side, forcing
his ribs into his lungs.
Stock for a new bank, to be known
as the State Bank of Rice Lake, has
been fully subscribed, and it is proba-
BILE that new business block will be
erected for it's accommodations.
Mrs. Andrew Juneau, descendant
of Solomon Juneau. first mayor of
Milwaukee, died at the Soldiers Home
hospital, Waupaca, aged sixty-nine
years. Death was due to paralysis.
Mrs. Christine Ferris, who, with
John Schmidt, was charged with
stock on their farm in Far
mington township, near La Crosse,
was pronounced insane and will be
sent to Mendoza.
Edward Harten, young desperate
who nearly killed Sheriff Ball at Mon
roe and escaped while waiting trial
for attacking and robbing Charles Da-
Wis of Brodhead, was captured in the
railway yards at Madison.
r Merakle. farmer living eight
miles east of Marshfield, was found by
a neighbor near his home with bull
let hole in his head and an empty rifle
by his side. He had been hunting rab-
bits. and it is presumed his gun was
accidentally discharged while getting
over a log.
Citizens of Chippewa Falls present
ed to Mrs. Samuel Brown and family
a residence in memory of the late Rev.
Brown, pastor of the Presbyterian
church. Those who contributed to the
fund for the purchase of the memorial
are among members of all churches
and classes.
The supreme court has granted the
petition of Robert M. Bashford, for
mer justice of the supreme court, CIV
ing him a mandamus to compel the
secretary of state to issue warrant
paying him $500 salary due him. JUS
tees Siebecker and Marshall took no
part in the opinion. The opinion was
over twenty pages in length.
Charged with assault with intent to
kill. George Fish of Readstown, Yer
non county, was arrested upon his ar
rival in La Crosse. Fish and a life
long friend engaged in quarrel, and
Fish struck his companion with a
piece of iron infiicting serious wounds.
The prisoner had $4,000 in his pockets
when searched at the police station.
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The most arrested saloon man in
period of one month is John Vein
berger, who conducts temperance
saloon in Augusta. Weinberger has
been arrested twice for not removing
screens and curtains from the win
1ows of his saloon, and the cases are
now pending in the circuit court, and
the recent arrest makes the third for
selling liquor without a license.
Jonathan S. Ellis, convicted on two
counts Oh al lnulCllhehC cHdi SihS hlhu
with receiving deposits in an Ashland
county bank after he knew it to be in
solvent, will get new trial. He was
on two counts in the Eau
Claire county circuit court and acquit-
ed on the third. He took his case to
he supreme court on a writ of error
IN the plea that the indictment did
nnt state an offense. and the decision