Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-04
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

Alilll VI NldtC INOW dlu, CctuOAhE3
a loss of $4,000, with no insurance.
Charles Bliss, known a generation
ago as the human fly, died at Madison.
He was eighty years old. Bliss orig
mated the trick of walking the ceiling.
Bishop Simmer of the recently Gre
ated diocese of Superior, officiated at
his first confirmation service in New
Richmond at the Church of the I'M
maculate Conception.
Walter O'Brien and Charles Alling-
er, the Chicago boy bandits who held
up and shot George Howard of Blue
River, were sentenced to six years
each in the state reformatory.
Many saloons were closed at SUI
perior for the first time Sunday in
years Fear that the civic league
would be securing evidence caused
some keepers to take this action.
With the heel of his heavy shoe Al
bert Rierson, twenty-eight years old,
patient at the Racine county insane
asylum, beat out the life of John
Idracn, aged sixty-eight years, Another
patient
Engineer Wood of Northwestern
passenger train No. 4, by quick use OF
his emergency brakes at crossing
west of Eau Claire, stopped his train
in time to allow O. H. Migrants big
automobile to clear the pilot by few
inches.
st. James Dalbeck, for some years
postmaster at Burberry, Douglas
county, has been arrested on the
charge of embezzlement. He was
| held to the United States court at
Madison The shortage is not supposed
to be large.
Fred Stockwell was shot in the
chest with charge of buckshot, fired,
it is alleged, by Sylvester Ostrowski,
in the town of Dewey, while partici-
pating in a charavari on Ostrowski.
Stockwell is now in the hospital and
may not recover.
The city Of Cumberland has pur-
chased and commenced the installa-
ton of a new electric light plant. New
wires and transformer are being sub
stituted for the old ones and the plant
| is being overhauled and will be put IN
frst-class condition.
A wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul road at Waukon Junction,
between a double-header fast freight
and the way freight tied up traIiice on
the river division. No one was fatally
hurt, but the engines and a number OF
cars are total wrecks.
NJ H. Dudgeon, an attorney OF Mad
ison, who was formerly member or
the assembly announced his candl-
dacy for congress on the Republican
ticket to succeed the late H. c. Ad-
ans. John M. Nelson of Madison is
Mr.. Dudgeon's opponent for the nom
inatiOn.
A terrific electric storm passed over
Dunn county recently, doing great
damage to crops. Wind and hail
lodged thousands of acres of nearly
ripe grain. Lightning struck barn
on the county asylum farm and two
buildings were burned, entail1ng loss
of $4,000; covered by insurance.
D. H. Meyer, aged thirty-five years,
was buried in a we'll which he was
digging at Bruce and was dead when
he was taken out. He was working
about sixteen feet down when the
sides gave way, crushing him to death.
His body was recovered after three
hours of digging by party of rescu-
ers.
f. R. Potts of Sandy Creek, Oswego
county. N. Y, shot himself through
the body at Ashland The bullet
nassed through the kidneys. He also
swallowed an ounce of laudanum He
left pathetic letter to his mother.
Dependency and no work caused the
act. The wounds probably will be
fatal.
Inst before ball game between the
Manitowoc team and a Plymouth
(Wis.) nine a fierce electrical storm
swept over Manitowoc and bolt OF
lightning hit the grand stand, where
the spectators and players had sought
shelter. Five persons were killed out
right and a score or two injured by
the shock
Joshua Bennett, aged seventy years,
an insurance agent of South MilWau-
kee. died from what is supposed to
have been a blow on the top OF the
head inflicted by blunt instrument.
Bennett was heard to call for help at
a late hour last night, and neighbora
came to his assistance. He became
unconscious shortly after being struck
and died few hours later. The po-
lice are making an investigation.
Near Fairchild, Linda Harmon, a
girl seven years old, was struck in the
forehead by bullet from revolver
in the hands Of Robert Follett, and
the girl died few hours later. Three
men-Follett, Emil Carlson and Fred
Harmon-who were engaged In
quarrel in Follett's house at the time
of the shooting, were arrested. When
shot the little girl was under the table,
having crept there in fright at the
mems quarrel.
r., Allison of the Volunteers