Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-06
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


from Horizon to Chicago
The milwaukee National bank has
been approved as reserve agent for
the American National bank of Marsh
field.
An engine and dynamo are being
installed and poles set at Owen pre-
paratory to lighting the village with
electricity
The Sank county fair exceeded in
magnitude and interest any exhibition
that has ever been held on the asso-
cations grounds.
A trestle on the Wisconsin & North
ern railway near Crandon gave way
and threw four men to the ground.
Two were injured.
John Rentmeester brought to the
county clerks Office at Green Bay the
carcass of a large lynx which he had
killed near his farm.
Benjamin Franklin Colt, a pioneer
of Dodge county and a prominent citi-
zen for sixty years in the town of
Trenton, is dead.
Several cases of typhoid fever have
been found in one of the most crowd
ed tenement districts of GAINESVILLE.
andan epidemic is feared.
Ole Reisem is dead at Eau Claire as
the result Of an accident received
while at work on the new building Of
the Union National bank.
Jerome Travis, a liveryman living
at Balsam Lake, fifteen miles north
of Amery, was accidentally shot in
the shoulder while hunting.
James Robinson, aged fifty, was in
stantly killed by being struck by a
Northwestern train at the Forest
Junction station near Green Bay.
G. A. Kruger & Son of Princeton
pleaded guilty to charge of selling
sausage containing salt of sulphur
Gus acid, and paid fine Of $25 and
costs.
E. S. Horne of GAINESVILLE was terri
bly, burned about the hands and body
by the explosion of a bottle of alcohol
with which he was bathing wounded
hand
Clarence Seburg of New York, who
has been visiting his parents at Amery
for some time, had his foot badly
crushed ia the gearing of a gasoline
launch.
The granary, Toulouse and all the
farm machinery of Louis Crisinger, a
farmer near Black River Falls, were
burned by lightning. Loss, $4,000,
about $500 insurance.
The Madison board of education sent
a circular letter to all parents in Mad1-
son asking them to cooperate with
the board in crushing out fraternities
and other secret societies in the high
schools.
At Pulaski, on the new line Of the
Northwestern road, work train ran
into a workman's sleeping car. killing
Ed Ware and George Madden of Pitts
burg, and injuring fourteen other Ia
borers
William Woodland, a well known
young business man of Pardeeville, is
dead Of lockjaw. His hand was cut
while he was assisting in placing a
pane of plate glass in the front Of a
store building.
August Smith was arrested, charged
with stabbing Lee S. Demers in the
Omaha's railway camp, south OF Cum
berland. Smith was bound over to
the circuit court under $500 bail in
default of which he was committed to
the county Jail.
Lightning struck the Mather street
school at Green Bay, and panic was
narrowly averted among the children
all under seven years of age The
brick chimney toppled over and pic
lures and plastering were torn from
the wall. No one was hurt.
Pickpockets, supposed to be from
the Twin Cities, operating on trolley
cars between Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Falls during the Northern Wis
consin fair at Chippewa Falls, robbed
passengers of about $500, according to
reports made by their victims.
Unprecedented activity marks the
present season at st. Croix Falls. The
foundation stones for a greater st.
Croix Falls are being laid. Plans and
developments are being pushed IN all
lines. The new electric generating
plant now in course of construction
will have power on tap by fall.
Because of unrequited love John
Young. a dock laborer at Superior,
shot and killed Rose Kaner, the
eighteen-year-old daughter OF Sam Ka-
ner, and then went home and sulclded
in his own apartments, next door
The girl was alone in the house when
Young evidently attacked her in the
kitchen. She was shot in the breast
after a struggle, and then ran out to
the front door, where she dropped
dead
FL. A. Taylor, former assistant sec
rotary of the treasury, is a guest or
his daughter, Mrs. R. S. Reid, IN
La Crosse. Mr. Taylor Will soon
leave for a tour of the world, and
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