Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08


wills.
A bolt of lightning struck George
Ladd's barn on his farm west OF Cum
berland burning the building and feed
and hay.
d. M Maxcy of Washburn has been
appointed receiver for the John A. Ja-
cobs Lumber company pending bank
r-sptcy proceedings.
The voters of Sparta will decide at
the primary election whether they
will pay the mayer and aldermen an
annual salary or not.
Mrs. Jennette Gage, a resident OF
Racine over fifty years, and sister
of Stephen Bull and Mrs. ]. |. Case, is
dead, aged eighty-nine years.
The hardware store of H. c. Guide
bach at Hudson was looted OF small
sum of cash. The cash register was
carried off by the robbers. No clue
cream factory Of the Superior Cream
cry company was destroyed by fire at
New Richmond. Total loss exceeds
$4,000.
A three-yearold son of Mr.. and Mrs.
M H. Connell of Maple Grove was
drowned in a rain barrel. AS the water
was only nine inches in depth the child
is supposed to have fallen in head
first.
State Commissioner of Banking M.
C. Bergh has issued a charter to the
State bank Of Hazel Green. The
capital stock is $4,000. John Birkett
| is president and r M Orchard cashier
of the new institution.
Mrs. George Cooper aged s1xty-nve'
while picking berries in the WOODS
near her home at Bell Center, was
shot thrcueh the head by neighbor
who was hunting, and, seeing only her
hair above the bushes, took her for a
/ squirrel.
High water has resulted in a perfect
! harvest CT carp being reaped by farm
ers living on Lake Koshkonong ana
Roca river near GAINESVILLE. The carp
hare wandered into low places and up
small streams usually inaccessible to
| them in search OF food. ~
After a steady run of five years.
during which time over 50,OOO,OOO feet
of lumber have been cut, the LeaVltt
Lumber company closed it's new saw
mill at Frederic. It will take the COM
pany nearly two years to ship out the
immense pile of lumber now on hama.
Ferena McGrath, residing several
miles north of Grand Rapids with ne:
son, Thomas McGrath, committed sui
eide by drowning in the Wisconsin
river. Inability to get relief from
rheumatism. from which she had been
suffering for many years, is assigned
| as the cause.
The Frederic electric light plant mas
inst been purchased by Grimm Broth
ers. Electricity will in the future be
generated at the large water power
in Trade lake, eight miles west or
Frederic. and transmitted from there.
The large flour mills there will be run
by electric power in the future.
The shoe store Of M. d. Michalson at
Hudson was closed for want OF sum
cient funds to continue the business.
The biggest part of the stock belonged
TO a st. Paul house, which sold the
Michalson goods to Birkmose, Wlberg
& Co. of Hudson, who will move IL
into their big department store on Sec
ond street.
Walter Sipple, nineteen years old,
is dead of injuries received by being
crushed between a traction engine
and a threshing machine at Menomo-
ME. The engine in going up hill
hacked a trifio and caught Sipple be-
tween it and the heavy thresner,
crushing him about the abdomen. An
other boy who was riding on the ma
chine escaped serious injury
A Fond du Lac resort, formerly
known as the Red Front, and at one
! time conducted by John Radke OF MIL
weukee, who was featured in recent
police case, was raided by Detective
Fischer and officer Flanders, and two
men, giving their names as Fl. Moody
! and Edward Canno, and two young
women, Helen Gibson and Martha
May, were arrested.
|
The Hudson Produce company has
been reorganized under the name OF
| the Hudson Cold Storage company,
with a paid-up capital of $4,000, with
w. r. Tanning of Superior as presl-
dent and treasurer, and B. W. Utman
/ of Hudson as vice president and sec
retary. The company is overhauling
! the old cold storage building with
1arro foroo of men and is dotorm1nCu