Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-25
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

! The work of tearing down the old
capitol preparatory to rebuilding was
begun last week.
| Charlie Matson. farm hand, who is
charged with horse stealing at Bur
lington, is in jail at Racine.
| Henry Davis of Connorsville was
seriously injured by falling from lad
der upon the handle of pitchfork
The annual convention of the
Northeast Wisconsin, School Teachers
association will be held in Appleton on
October and 6.
| Leopold Eitonia, saloonkeeper,
was stabbed to death by an unknown
Croatian in front of his place of bust
ness in Milwaukee.
| A barn on the Green Lake roller mill
property at hartford burned with it's
contents. The fire was set by a small
boy playing with matches.
A Chicago & North-W Western passen-
ger train was wrecked one mile south
of Racine Junction. The wreck was
caused by spreading rails. So far as
is known no one was injured.
| Ernest Bauer, a former resident of
Kenosha, has committed suicide at
Calgary, Canada, by cutting his throat
with razor. Officers had been seek
ing for him for wife deseTtdon.
On account of freight wreck on
| the southwestern division of the Mil
waukee road, at Racine, traffic on the
branch was tied up. and also street
railway traffic west of the wreck.
Chief OF Police Pfister of Racine ar
rested W. Lainge. representative of
| the compiling department of the Scien-
| tific American at local f0tel, on
| charge of forgery. He will be taken
back 20 Chicago to face the charge.
John X Palmer, az engineer on the
| Northwestern road, was killed while
at work in the yards at Sheboygan by
the explosion of steam pipe on his
engine Palmer was fifty years old.
| He leaves a wife and family in Kau.
kauna.
| William Bull, one of the best known
| business men Of Racine, son of W. 7.
Bull and grandson of Stephen Bull,
has been named as agent of the Chi
cago and Milwaukee Steamboat COM
pany, to succeed Richard Trist. re-
signed.
Prof Clarence E. Shepard of Osh-
int of
the piano department in the Teorgan-
| lied Lawrence university school OF
music at Appleton, which during the
coming year will be under the super
| vision of Prof. T. Dilwyn Thomas Of
New York.
ManitoWoc and adjoining counties
will face a butter famine if the pres
ent conditions in the dairy market do
not change. At the prevailing prices
of cheese, which now are from Is to
IA cents, the farmers are finding it
more profitable to sell their milk to
the cheese factories than to convert
the cream into butter.
Mrs. Mary Karpowich, wife of
we'll known Polish resident of Keno
sha. is wanted on a charge of grand
larceny. She fed from the city with
her sixteen-mCnths old baby and near
Nv $1,000 of money which had belonged
to her husband and to men who had
boarded at her house. The husband
thinks that she has fled to New York
to join a former lover.
A. T. Glaze, a veteran editor of Fond
du Lac, has become totally blind. He
is suffering from cataracts which have
affected both eyes He is now prepar-
ing for an operation which, it is be-
lieved. will restore his eyeslght Mr..
Glaze is the Oldest newspaper man in
Fond du Lac. He was employed as
pressman when hand presses were
used to print the local papers.
Mike Deshem, Hungarian, is in jail
at Racine on charge of shooting Joe
Zetler through the arm. Deshem en-
tered the premises of Zetler and with
out word began firing revolver at
Zetler. Three bullets hit his arm, the
other two making flesh wounds. The
men had been friends, but Deshem had
been denied the home of Zetler. After
the shooting the assailant ran, but was
captured.
Efforts, are being made to find some
trace of Mrs. Mary Carpewich, who
disappeared from Kenosha recently,
taking with her baby sixteen months
old and money said to belong to peo'
pie who boarded at her house, to the
amount of over $500. 1t is alleged
that the woman is on her way to New
York and plans to return to Poland.
Warrants for her arrest charging
grand larceny have been issued.
Western Wisconsin is to have a
state trout hatchery. The state fish
commission will visit Sparta with a
view of looking over the various sites
in the vicinity which will be suitable
for the establishment Of state trout
hatchery At the last session of the
legislature an appropriation of $4,000