Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-12-12
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William Drewes of Mapleton, near
Oconomowoc, was seriously If not ia
tally injured while hunting near the
city
William Rathke of Chippewa Falls
met with violent death by being run
over by wagon heavily loaded with
brick
Barron county has paid 1904 bounty
on wild animals the last week as COM
pared with $501 for the same period
last year
The Yellow River Lumber Company
of Chippewa Falls is operating two
camps and will cut about 100000 feet
of lumber.
The Stevens Point high school has
been presented with a bronze tablet
set in marble and containing Abraham
Lincolns Gettysburg address.
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Felix Kiderouski and John Kostuck
were seriously injured by premature
blast of dynamite while blasting stone
on the farm of Kostuck at Fancher.
Efforts are being made at Superior to
have Edward Nelson, who is showing
traits of insanity, deported to Sweden,
from where he emigrated three years
ago.
Complaint is being made at Racine
that the owners of small tugs and fish
ing boats fail to display lights when ,
plotting on the river at night or when
tied up at their moorings.
Irwin, the 13-year-old son of B. o.
Andrew of South Superior, while hunt
ing rabbits had two fingers shot off
and his right hand mutilated when a
companions gun accidentally eXplod-
ed.
The morning trains between Spoon
er and Eau Claire have been taken off
For twenty-five years night operator
land office, but the night office will
now be closed.
Though handicapped by the loss of
both hands Alex H. Hardie, student
in the high school at Watertown is
showing wonderful ability in drawing.
He does all his work by holding his
pencil, pen or brush in his mouth.
Jacob Kase, employed by the Stand
ard Stone and Lime company in its
quarry at Knowles, had his leg crush
ed from a point about halfway be-
tween the knee and ankle joints to
the foot by piece of falling rock.
Calling to see a sick friend, Henry
Hoganson, a stone mason, committed
suicide in the home of Gustav Ger
mundson, an invalid near Houston.
Hoganson went into an adjoining room
and slashed his throat with razor.
No reason is assigned for the deed.
G. A. Oswald, a Wausau merchant,
was severely injured by being thrown
out of his automobile short distance
from Merrill. His party met herd of
cattle on the road and in turning out
to pass it the machine lurched, throw
ing Mr.. Oswald out 1t required nine
stitches to bind up the injury to his
head.
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The Dane County Agricultural socie-
ty has presented Rudolph Hokanson,
son, formerly of Portage, with beau
tiful loving cup. Hokanson drove the
Buick model in a three-mile race,
which won the speed contest at the
Madison fair last fall, the time being
4:O3. The cup is Of silver, stands ten
inches high and is hand engraved.
For the first time in the history Of
Ashland the power generated from
water going to waste in a river near
the city is being utilized in the city af-
ter being transformed into electrical
current and transmitted to the city.
The White River Power company has
turned on it's current through it's trans
mission line from White river to the
city, and after being sent through the
transformers of the Ashland Lighting
company, it was sent throughout the
city on the regular incandescent light
ing circuit.
Because the wife of an Appleton
druggist has a small foot, a woman
thief was caught, after stealing the
shoes from the pharmacists wife. The
woman purchased the shoes at store
and took them with her to another
store to do shopping. When she put
the box on a counter, another woman
grabbed them and was lost in the
crowd. The druggists wife notified
the shoe dealer and in a short time
woman entered the store and asked to
exchange a pair of shoes. They were
the stolen ones. The clerk asked the
woman to try them on, to be sure
whether they had to be changed or
not, but the woman couldn't even get
her toes into the little shoes. Then
she broke down and confessed.
Two hunters returning from deer
shooting relate that they pursued a
buck they had seriously wounded for
fourteen hours before being able to dis
patch him. The track was easily fol-
lowed because blood flowed copiously
from the wounds.
Work is going on rapidly on the re-
erection of the chute of the White Riv-