Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-09-26
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

causing loss of $4,000.
The Mussex box factory and sawmill
at Ladysmith was entirely destroyed
by fire There was no insurance.
Charles Buelow, a farmer living
near Eau Claire, died at his home as
the result of being kicked by horse.
The fine new residence of J. w.
Hogan of Turtle Lake was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; partially insur.
ed.
The BURBERRY season is in full blast
and reports from the large thickets
few miles from Marshfield show that
the crop is phenomenal this year.
Thieves broke into the store of the
Ester Oyster company at Madison and
robbed the safe of $42.S5. The door of
the safe was closed but not locked.
John McGovern, sixty-five years old,
Of Jackson county, was sentenced by
Judge O'Neill to three years in state
prison on a plea of guilty of felonious
assault.
The will of the late Col. Wing of
Bayfield, was opened at Washburn.
He leaves an estate of nearly $1,000.
coo. The bulk of the estate goes to
bis sister.
During the storm at Shell Lake
lightning struck the general store Of
G. N. Burg and nearly totally de-
stroyed the building and contents.
Loss, $4,000
Mr. D. Bedell, a resident of Mansion.
who was in Tomah as a sewer laborer.
was struck by Fast Mail Train No. z
on the ST Paul road at the depot cross
ing and instantly killed.
AS the result of quarrel over a
game of cards at La Crosse Stephen
| Guidos is charged with stabbing Jo-
| seph Smith, a laborer, three times
while in boarding house.
Roy Morris, aged eight years, fell
into the Mississippi river at La
| Crosse and drowned in the presence
of his twelve-year-old brother. The
| boys were playing on an improvised
raft.
Lawrence university football stock
| took a Jump when Klaus, the star
tackle of last years team, who had
| been denied entrance to the college
this year by his father, enrolled for
the year
| G. r. Down, a switchman in the
Omaha yards at Altoona, caught his
| foot in a frog while cutting out cars.
He was run over. Both legs and one
arm were crushed. He died in a nos
pital in Eau Claire.
The Arpin Brothers of Atlanta have
been awarded a contract by the Min
nesota State drainage commission for
the excavating of 100000 yards of
ditching in Northern Minnesota. The
consideration is $4,000.
Joseph Biehle, living near Wayside,
committed suicide by shooting. He
went to Wayside paid up his debts,
bought a gun, went home, and nearly
blew his head off. Marital troubles
are the cause, it is alleged.
Ben Alex, representative of a La
Crosse tailoring firm and a travelling
salesman who was well known all over
the Northwest, dropped dead in his
room while dressing. He was af-
ficted with heart trouble.
Slippery rails caused a collision be-
| tween a freight train and a passenger
train on the North Western road near
Racine, resulting in the injury of sew
eral passengers and the demolition Of
passenger coach and diner.
Commissioner of Labor and Industri.
al Statistics ]. d. Beck has appointed
Miss Rose Purdue of Madison state
| factory inspector, to take the place Of
| Miss Odessa Kunz, who resigned to
get married The salary is $1,000.
The Park Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal Church of Kenosha has unanimous
ly asked for the return of Rev. w. w.
| Stevens as pastor of the church for an
other year. Mr.. Stevens has been
pastor of the church for six years.
Two men giving their names as
| Douglass and Davis, while being es-
corted from Grand Rapids by Chief Of
Police Garihee attacked the officer
with razor. The chief succeeded in
pounding both men into insensibility
before help arrived. They have been
charged with assault with intent to
| kill
Harriet Smith, aged seventeen
years; Hazel Smith, aged fifteen years,
and Florence Miller, aged fifteen, were
| found in an abandoned shack in
thicket near GAINESVILLE at daybreak,
when the police raided the place. 1t is
probable that the mothers of boys of
similar age will demand that the girls
be sent to the state industrial school
for girls.
The steamer City of Glasgow sprung
aleak while loading ore at the Great
Northern dock at Superior. She was
towed to a slip, but the water came in
so fast it was found necessary to
ground the ship to save her. A steam
pump has been installed and an exam
nation is being made to determine
whether the boat can carry her cargo
down without first being repaired.
The trial of George R. Sykes, the
well-known Milwaukee railway man,
arrested on a charge of grand larceny
in connection with the fobbing of the
Northwestern company at Kenosha,
promises to be one of the hardest
fought cases ever tried in Kenosha
county.
The Beloit city school board has ac-
copied the bid of the First National
Bank of Chicago for an issue of $780,
900 of bonds to provide money for a
pow hiCb school Tho hauLy OPforad