Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-12
WISCONSIN BRIEFS
Epitonized History Of the Week
In the State.
IN the state.

MadiSon-JOSeph UeberSetZlg OF the
town of Berry, Dane county, has just
finished threshing fine yield OF oats.
Thirty acres yielded about 1900 bush
els to the acre.
Beloit.-Pillaid Bosche, an ltalan
laborer, was shot to death on the street
by a negro, Samuel Johnson. They
were employed on a paving CONTRACT
and quarreled. The negro was arrest
ed.
Eau Claire. John McGillis of this
city is another victim OF the deadly
corn shredder His hand was caught
in one on which he was working ana
the thumb and a portion of the hand
was torn off.
Appleton. - Following his wife and
four-months-old daughter to Appleton
4 week ago, after a period OF family
Iuarrels at their home at Chicago, }.
Wallonious, while visiting at the home
at August Heima, here shot and mort
ally wounded his daughter and with
the same weapon ended his own life.
Whitewater. - Gertrude Hulse,
graduate of the Whitewater Normal
school with the class Of 1909 has LETT
for BangaIor, India, where she VIII
leach in a mission school. Miss Hulse
IS a daughter of a retired Presbyterian
minister, who came to Whitewater TO
secure educational advantages for his
children.
Madison -Theatrical circles are
stirred by the announcement here that
The Shubert interests propose the
building of a theatre in Madison to
compete with the Fuller opera house,
controlled by the trust" Madison is
one of more than a hundred cities,
mostly in the West, that the indepen-
dents propose to invade.
Marinette.-As the result of habeas
corpus proceedings started by Charles
Brooks of Pound, Wis, to recover MS
14-year-old daughter, who had been
living for several years with her grand
mother, Mrs William c. Hart, of Mari
nette. an interesting story comes to
light, which involves a divorce, an al
legged abduction and a legal fight cen
tering about the young girl.
Sheboygan-The longest trolley line
in Wisconsin is proposed in a deal
pending between the Milwaukee North,
ern road running from Milwaukee sixty
miles to Shebogan, and the Chicago and
Milwaukee electric road, connecting
these two cities, eighty-five miles dis
tant The plan is~to arrange traffic
agreement by which cars of either com
pany will make the through trip.
Abbotsford.-The threatened remOv
al of the 500 line division headquart
ers to Stevens Point or Chippewa
Falls is arousing anxiety here, for
the railroad men furnish large part
of the business of the town. The re
moval of the shops will be bitterly
opposed by business men, who are
holding meetings in an effort to find
some way to save the headquarters.
Madison.-Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Jackson appeared before Judge
Stevens in the circuit court, asking
that the American RefractOries com
pany, an Illinois corporation, be en-
Joined from further blasting in eighty
acres of land at Devils Lake, upon
which the state already has begun con
demnation proceedings for state park
purposes. The land in controversy
presents some of the most beautiful
and picturesque scenery to be found in
Wisconsin. The company was given
until August l to show cause why it
should not be stopped.
Milwaukee.-Rev. Daniel Woodward.
pastor of the Methodist church at
Omro, who has been stumping the
central part of the state in support
of Francis e. McGOvern for governor,
practically has been asked by his con
gregation to submit his political views
to his church. He has refused fatty,
and declares that the district authori
ties of the church cannot separate him
from his ideas, either. Sunday night
the district superintendent, S. H. An
dersOn of Oshkosh, called a board
meeting of the church with view to
Woodwards possible expulsion by the
church head. The board admitted hav-
ing given Mr.. Woodward a leave of
absence, bat said that it did not in
dorse his views on county option.
Madison.-Governo Davidson named
the following delegates to the second
National Conservation Congress at
st. Paul: T. E. B. Ritingham, lum-
herman, Madison; c. r. Van Hise,
president University of Wisconsin; E.
M Griffith, state forester; J. H. Stout,
Menomonie, state senator; H. P. Bird,
Wausakee, state senator; G. A. Whit
ing, Appleton, paper magnate; Will
liam Irvine, Chippewa Falls, assembly
man: A. J. Cobban. Madison, clerk OF
secretary of state; w. M. Bray, Osh.
kosh, assemblyman; G. S. Steel, Port
Edwards, lumberman; A. j. Horlick,
Racine, mayor and manufacturer; 0.
II. Ingram, Eau Claire, assemblyman;
/. C. White, Edgerton, assemblyman !;
George Beyers, Oconto, lumberman;
George Chapman, Stanley, manufactur,
or: A l.. Osborn, Oshkosh, lumberman.
Marinette-Albert E. Schwittay, the
deposed district attorney of Marinette
county, is one of the eight candidates