Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-14

the commission. Chairman Martin A.
Knapp will remain a commissioner.
Casualties.
Fire at Cedar Rapids destroyed the
Mott piano factory and Praverman's
Island furniture store, entailing loss
of SIS, 1000, with $4,000 insurance.
Adelia Peterson, the Carney girl who
was so terribly burned two weeks ago
while starting fire with ca nof ker-
osene, is dead at the hospital at Me-
nominee, Mich.
Frank P. Clark, a marine fireman
whose home is in st. Paul, while lying
asleep on the Buffalo Creek railroad
track at Buffalo, N. Y, was crushed to
death by a switch engine.
Ray Browning, twelve years old,
died at Elkhart, Ind, from lockjaw re-
sulting from wound caused by the ex-
plosion of a blank cartridge. Frank
a giant firecracker.
Eckland, a young man employed at
lL'Anse, Mich, was drowned at Big
lake, on Burned Plains. He was out
on the lake fishing with companion,
and in attempting to change places
the boat tipped over and Eckland was
drowned
A tornado at West Station, Tex,
blew down a score of residences. Mrs.
Mary Allen was badly injured and a.
man named Adams had in arm bro
ken. The town has a thousand in
habitants, and was in total darkness
all night.
| The Silsbee mills Of the Kirby Lum-
Der Co., with the yards. containing
100000 feet of lumber, and numer-
Gus dwellings were destroyed by fire
at Beaumont, Tex The fire originated
from a hot belt in the mill. The loss
on the lumber will reach 100000,
while the loss on machinery will ex-
coed 100000.
Frank E. Curless. fifteen years of
age, saved the lives of three compan-
ions. but lost his own at Kokomo. Ind.
His brother, Merrill Curless, and Palm
er and Earl Dean were bathing when
cramps seized Merrill and the Dean
boys. By diving and using plank
Frank saved them. The boy then was
attacked with cramps himself and
drowned.
It cost the Munising paper mills at
Munising, Mich, exactly 5000 to kill
one rat. The rodent, in order to es-
cape a terrier which was chasing it,
Jumped onto blanket Of one Of the
machines in the paper mill, and was
carried between the rollers. The rats
life was effectually extinguished, but
1t Is necessary for the mill to secure
new blanket, which will cost it 5000.
Crimes.
At a ball game at Patriot, near We
vay, Ind. Marshal Jacob Smith shot
and fatally injured Charles Sutton. It
| is said that Sutton was resisting ar
rest.
An unidentified man committed sui
eide by jumping from the thirteenth
floor of the Stewart building in Chi
cago into an era way in the center OF
the building.
| Marion Hedgpeth, who was sem
fenced to twenty-five years impriscn-
ment in the Missouri penitentiary and
has served twelve years, for the rob-
train at Glendale, Mo, has been par
doned by Gov. Folk.
John N. Faithorn and Fred A. Wann,
former officials of the Chicago & Alton
railroad have been placed on trial in
the United States district court in
Chicago on the charge OF granting IL
legal rebates to the Schwarzschild &
sulzburger Packing company.
A dispatch from Manila announces
that Lieut.. Tallmadge Fl. Brerton OF
the Second infantry, committed sui,
eide there by shooting himself in the
head at the Army and Navy club. 1T
Is believed the act was committed
while he was temporarily insane.
| In an attempt to exterminate his
family Charles Brewer of Lucedale.
Miss, shot and killed his wife and his
mother-in-law, wounded his wife's
grandmother and his infant child and
then shot and killed himself.
| Swan S. Johnson Of Carver, S. D.,
was separated from $50 in cash at the
Northwestern station at Sioux City
by smooth stranger from Missouri.
The stranger had a $500 check. which
he offered to exchange for any ready
cash that Johnson had, and Johnson
accommodated him and got the $500
on paper. The banks refused to cash
it.