Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-04-22

hartford july III ana aug. L.
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While on her way to Eau Claire to
undergo treatment for heart disease
Mrs. K. Patterson of Bear Creek, Wis,
died on the train of heart failure.
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While on the way from La Crosse
to Savanna a stock car loaded with
nineteen head of cattle caught fire and
the animals were all roasted to death.
Pleading guilty to the charge of bur-
glarizing the store of A. H. Engelhard
at La Crosse, Henry Franz, aged fiji
teen years, has been committed to the
reform school.
r. M. Haskell, a civil engineer of
Wausau, has started on the permanent
survey for the suburban street rail-
way, which is to run between Grand
Rapids and Nekoosa.
New London is assured of big fair.
A big meeting was held at the city
hall, including all the prominent bust
ness men of the city. Officers were
elected and plans made.
Supt Sanders of the public schools
bloomington, Ind, has rendered his
resignation to come to La Crosse to
take a position in the new normal
school as one Of the professors.
An institute, under the supervision
of Mr. Semelroth of the State Sunday
School association of the Protestant
Sunday school of this county is to be
held in Grand Rapids May and 8.
The Central Lumber company's saw
mill at Hudson began the seasons run
last week, with bright prospects of a
big cut this year. A large supply Of
logs was hauled in by rail last winter.
That GAINESVILLE business men are
anxious for the proposed survey of the
Rock river with a view of deepening
the channel and making the stream
navigable is evidenced by the interest
taken in the proposed booster meet
ing of the Rock River Improvement
association.
While her mother was preparing din
ner the three-year-old child of Wal
ter d. Stannard of La Crosse turned
on the gas in the stove, with the re-
suit that an explosion followed that
partially wrecked the kitchen. Mother
and child were not near the stove and
escaped injury.
The official majority of James Wick
ham of Eau Claire, who defeated L. J..
Rusk of Chippewa Falls for the judge
ship of the new Nineteenth judicial
circuit at the recent election, was
2,24S. He carried Eau Claire, Chip
pewa and Sawyer counties, while Rusk
carried Rusk county by a very small
majority
Hearing that Martin Hobbus, his
employee, whom he had arrested for
the offense, had stolen some brass
goods to make bathtub for an ex-
pected baby, not having the money
to buy such a utensil, George Jaegers
of Racine, manager of the company,
paid the fine and also reimbursed Hob
bus for time lost in attending on
court.
Dr. M. p. Ravenel director of the
hygienic laboratory at the University
of Wisconsin, reports that an increas-
ingly large number of cases of hydro
phobia seem to be developing in the
state. Specimens have been sent in
from various districts, but as they
were not in many cases packed in ice
the doctors were unable to make prop
er Investigations.
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Henry Walters, alias J. E. Wilson,
alias Henry Simpson, one of three
pickpockets arrested in La Crosse last
July has been convicted and SEN
fenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary at Houston, Tex. Walters was
arraigned at La Crosse last summer
and bound over to trial under $500
bail. The men put up the bail and
disappeared, FORGETTING it.
Depositing money late at night in
the bank of which he is teller is all
that saved A. O. Hecht, treasurer of
the United Spanish War veterans at
Appleton from being robbed Hecht
was returning from a dance with the
funds in his possession and stopped at
the bank and left the money. On re-
Stunning his walk home, men who had
been following him held him up.
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The Grand opera house at Superior
having seating capacity of 1900 and
owned by the Land and River Com
pany of Superior, and leased by G.. A.
Marshall, manager of the Lyceum
theater in Duluth, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000:
partially covered by insurance. The
fire started in the wings of the stage,
presumably from imperfect insulation.
Because the state reformatory is so
crowded that it cannot accommodate
more prisoners, Donald E. Bennett, a
boy burglar, escaped at La Crosse
with a Jail sentence. He gives his
age as fifteen years.
A movement that is becoming gen
eral among the farmers in the vicin-
ity of New Richmond has resulted in
the organization of eight mutual and
cooperative telephone companies COW