Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-18
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

SdSOllHe ldHh On al duLOIHODlIS.
Burglars entered the home of State
Treasurer Dahl at Madison and car
ried away articles valued at $40.
Balsam lake, near Osceola, claimed
a second victim when boy named
Bradley was drowned. The body was
found
One hundred and twenty delegates
attended the meeting of the Wiscon.
sin State Sunday School association at
GAINESVILLE.
While showing a companion how
well he could swim Harold Schwartz,
ten years old, was drowned in the East
river at Green Bay.
The new Main street bridge at Ra,
cine, which has been in course of con.
struction for nearly year and half,
has been opened for traffic.
Chris Anderson, aged seventy
years, was run over and instantly kill
ed by a 500 switch engine in the com.
pany's yards at Rhinelander.
Peter Burke, ten years old, is dead
at Green Bay from tetanus. While
celebrating the Fourth he accidentally
shot himself with toy pistol.
William Tosch was arrested at
Green Bay on charge of robbing the
mails. Valuables to the amount OF
$500 were found in his room.
Blackleg, the most fatal of all dis.
eases among CATTLE has reappeared at
East Holland and many farmers have
lost almost their entire herds.
Mrs. J. c. Sanborn, an aged woman
of Milton, fell when going down the
cellar steps, striking her head against
the stone wall and fracturing her
skull.
While fishing in the Thornapple
river near Ladysmith Leon Crye, a fiji.
teen-year-old lad saw yearling bear
and killed it with shotgun loaded
with buckshot.
A man giving the name Of Wood has
been arrested at Beloit on suspicion OF
being one of the men wanted for rob-
bling the Farmers Savings bank al
Masonville, Iowa, last March.
John S. Blakey has been elected
president of the Racine Old Settlers
Association. At the annual meeting
held in Union Grove all of the debts
of the organization were paid.
At the annual meeting of the state
board of medical examiners DR.. w. t.
Sarles of Sparta was reelected presf
dent and DR.. J. B. Stevens of Jefferson
as secretary for the ensuing year.
Gov. Davidson has reappointed Alon
20 G. Kellogg of Portage as member
of the advisory board of the Wisconsin
State tuberculosis sanitarium. The
appointment is for term of five
years.
The large horse barns of the Willow
River Lumber company at Camp No
s, on the Superior &, Southeastern,
near Grandview, were destroyed by
fire, with nine horses. The loss ex
ceeds $4,000.
The fourteen-months-Old child OF
| Antoine Denessen of Green Bay was
shot through the head by a stray
bullet while in the arms of its mother,
The baby may recover if blood poison
ing does not set in.
Another bad fire occurred at the
plant of the Eastern Dynamite com
pany at Washburn, when the soda bag
refinery house was totally destroyed
by fire. The loss will probably be sew
eral thousand dollars.
George Mofit of Beloit became en-.
tangled in the lines while leading two
wild bronchos to water They became
frightened and ran through the streets,
dragging the man to his death in sight
of hundreds of people.
Walter Beckman, aged thirty, tele.
phone lineman, was instantly killed at
Eau Claire by falling forty feet from
a pole. His head came in contact
with a live wire and the shock made
him let go of the pole.
Four children of Mr.. and Mrs. Jason
Field, who live at Rogersville, were
burned to death by the explosion of a
gasoline stove. One child was saved.
The children ranged in age from three
months to four years of age.
Andrew Fisher was struck by 500
passenger west-bound train and
knocked off a bridge into the WiscOn.
sin river at Rhinelander. The body
was taken out a short distance below
the bridge. His neck was broken.
Jack Shoblasky, manager of com.
pany playing at the Lakeside Park
theater at Marinette, was attacked by
four men Wednesday evening while
going to his office with the nights re-
ceipts He gave the alarm and two
men ran to his help.
The green bug has made it's ap-
pearance in the oat fields of Fond du
Lac county, and from reports received
it is everywhere throughout a large
section. Towns west and south of the
city all bring the same tidings. The
impression prevails among farmers
that the oat crop is in great danger of
destruction.
The largest pearl found in the up
per Mississippi this season was taken
from a clam near Harpers Ferry by
Richard Ishmael, a fisherman. 1t
weighs forty-four and one-half grains,
is globe-shape, blush white in color
and of superior quality. 1t is valued
at $4,000 and was purchased by John
Peacock, local buyer
Displeased because the child which
had been born to his wife two weeks
ago was girl instead of a boy, Felix
Wauters, fifty-nine years old, commit
ted suicide by hanging in the barn at