Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-09
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

$4,000.
Smallpox is epidemic in Green
Lake county and is getting into the
city of Berlin. Joseph Kavage is the
second victim.
Jesse Capper, West Salem store
keeper, was fined 5000 for selling i'm
pure lemon extract in violation of the
pure food law.
Charles Wilson, a farmer living
three miles from Hayward, fell from
load of hay, striking on his neck. lie
is in a critical condition.
What will be, it is believed, the
first sawmill to be operated by cleo
tricity will be opened at Iron River
shortly by Mark Hessey.
Joseph Polaski was found dead in a
room in hotel at Chippewa Falls. He
had about $4,000 in his clothes, but
there is no clue to his relatives.
State Superintendent Charles P.
Cary has given a decision that admls-
sion cannot be charged for entertain
ments to be given in school houses.
William Nelson of New Richmond
was convicted and sentenced to pay
fine of SO and costs, taxed at SAYS,
for an assault and battery upon George
Gunderson.
Charles Hammel, proprietor of
cabinet factory at Marshfield, was
dangerously injured by being caught
IN, ho1 Of win
arm was crushed.
plague of what is popularity known
as the "seven-yearitch," has descend
ed upon Chippewa Falls. The physic-
ians are trying to check it, but nave
thus far been unsuccessful.
Andrew Zeratsky is at the Marinette
hospital. On returning home from
school he threw his skates on shelf,
striking loaded revolver, which was
discharged, the bullet lodging in his
shoulder.
A sixteen-year-old lad, George Brown
Of Milwaukee, is wanted by the Apple
ton police, having disappeared after
rifing every room in the Globe hotel
and securing nearly 5000 in money and
valuables.
While hunting rabbits with two dogs
S. Bona was attacked by wildcat on
Eagle Bluff, near La Crosse. During
the fight between the dogs and the cat
Bona succeeded in sending bullet
through it's brain.
nf1,V
ing desperately to the reins OF his run
away team, William West, farmer
near La Crosse, is minus an ear, put
is otherwise unhurt. The ear was
cut off as though by knife.
Small boys discovered roll of post
age stamps amounting to upward OF
1925 under a pile of boards in stew
ems Point lumber yard. They are be-
lieved to have been stolen from some
fourth-class postoffice last October.
State Truant Officer Sharpe, in the
guise of a shrubbery agent, has been
in Chippewa Falls six days studying
the moral situation, and as a result
city officials may be summoned TO
show cause why they do not enforce
certain laws.
At q special election in Waupaca TO
determine whether or not the CITY
should bond itself for $4,000 and take
$50 shares in the Waupaca & Green
Raw Railway company, which is now
being surveyed, the plan was carried
by an overwhelming vote Of 447 to ~
against.
Frank Lincoln and Billy White
Eaele. members of an Indian band
camping on branch Of the Chippewa,
filed up on firewater and started on
the warpath. They were arrested ana
fined 81 and costs each and an enort
now is being made to find out VINO SOLO
them the whisky.
warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Daniel Burnett, one OF the
best known residents of the village OF
Bassetts Station, village IN the
western part of Kenosha county. But
nett is alleged to have refused to com,
plv with the orders of the Wisconsin
hoard of health in regard to tumlga'
ting his house after the presence OF
scarlet fever.
Six young women were held up oy
three masked men near Cadot anu
s13.O5 secured They. resisted at hrst'
hit when the bandits threatened TO
search them they hurriedly handed
over their money. They were driving
RI their homes in Boyd, when they
were confronted in a lonely spot by
the hold-ups. The women are still too
excited to give a definite description
of the bandits
Charles Altemus, arrested in the
guise of a sorter in an EdgertOn TO
bacco warehouse, and taken west on
reouisition on Gov. Davidson by GOV
Hoch to answer the charge of kldnap
ping and drugging twenty-year-old
girl, was formerly prosperous farmer
in the town of GAINESVILLE. He went tc
Kansas and with two brothers, be
came part owner in a ranch, his share
being worth about $4,000.
H. G. Slater, proprietor of the Cit
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