The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-06-09
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

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No clue has been found of the rob-
bers who looted the Bank of Luck of
$500, besides valuable papers.
Henry Burton was found dead in
bed at Almene. He was an old soldier
having enlisted in the Fourth Wiscon-
sin infantry.
The Marine National bank of Mil
waukee has been approved as a re-
serve agent for the First National bank
of Marshfield.
State Veterinarian E. D. Roberts of
GAINESVILLE has ordered slaughtered
four horses in the vicinity of New
Richmond, afflicted with CHAMBERS.
Hugh Potter of Pepin was hit by
piece of wood above the eye about
three weeks ago. 1t was at first
not thought to be serious, but he died
from it's effects.
William Campbell was instantly kill
ed in the stone quarry of Pat Deneen
at Cranstown while blasting. He was
hit by a piece of rock when the charge
exploded. He was about so.
J. w Stone, deputy game warden,
arrested John Ludwig Of Chetek, for
chasing with boat and worrying
deer that was swimming across Lake
Chetek. He was fined $3.50.
Bernard Brow of Rice Lake, who left
his wife and four small children last
July, was brought back by the sheriff
and upon conviction of abandonment
was sentenced to sixty days in the
county Jail.
At a special meeting of the Wash
burn council it was voted to call spe-
cial election for the purpose of elect
ing a mayor to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Nels Nelson. June
IL has been set as the date.
Albert Arndt, a high school boy of
Beaver Dam, aged 18 years, was
drowned in Beaver Dam lake by the
capsizing of his boat. Armin Kiss
mann. who was with him, narrowly es
capped drowning, but was rescued.
The directors of the Dunn County
Agricultural society have revised the
premium list of the annual fair, and
nearly doubled the premiums in all
departments The date of the fair has
been fixed for Sept. II, IL, Sand IA.
The saloon crusade being carried on
at Appleton by Rev. A. H. Zichiel
caused five saloon men to be summon
ed to appear at the next meeting of the
city council and show cause why their
licenses should not be revoked for SELL
ing liquor to minors.
Percy Fink, fifteen years old, was
blowing on his fathers farm, three
miles south of Corliss, Racine county,
when a 22-caliber revolver, carried on
the plow, accidentally exploded, and
the ball passed through the arm of the
boy.
The trustees of Lawrence university
have purchased the Adkins homestead,
Morrison and Lawrence streets, Apple
ton, and will turn the building into
hall for the musical department. The
next buildings the college will con-
struct will be a chapel and boys dormi-
tory.
For the purpose Of opening up north
ern Wisconsin cutOver lands to farm
ers a Milwaukee land company has
purchased the Minneapolis, st. Paul &
Ashland railway and will turn it into
a passenger and freight line between
Ashland, Fort Wing, Bayfield, and Cor
nucOpia.
Linds Tesch, the 16-year-old daught-
er of Mr.. and Mrs julius Tesch of Osh-
kosh, was probably fatally burned at
the English Kitchen, where she was
employed. Her clothing caught fire
when she was standing near a pantry
range and she ran out into the street
When finally caught and wrapped in
rug she was so badly burned that she
will probably die
While engaged in adjusting a pulley
on a revolving shaft at the Horlick
Lime and Stone company plant at Ives,
Racine county, Charles Krosnock, en-
gineer, fifty-five years old, was caught,
whirled around, and violently thrown
to the floor His right leg was broken
so badly that the bones protruded
through the flesh and the limb had to
amputated; his ribs were broken, and
he sustained internal injuries.
While digging for we'll three veins
of natural gas were tapped in the
Fourth ward at Appleton. Rising out
of a four-inch pipe the gas carried a
hat twenty feet in the air, and later,
when lighted took a fame that high.
The we'll had been sunk seventy feet
when the gas was encountered 1t has
been flowing freely for two days, and