Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-16
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
OF the State.


bank with a capital stock of $4,000.
Quarantine on account of the diph-
| liberia cases at Almens has been raised
and no new cases have been reported.
G. D. Kreps, a wealthy farmer of
HillsborO, has been arrested charged
with selling the flesh of diseased an
imaI.
Lakeside, a suburb of Racine, hav-
ing factories valued at 100000, has
been invited to consolidate with Ra-
cine
The new iron bridge across the
mouth of the Trempealeau river has
been completed and thrown open to
traffic
The postofice at Shellsburg was en-
tered by burglars. The safe was
blown and $500 in stamps and 500 ia
money were taken.
The Milwaukee Electric Railway &
Light company has abandoned the
contemplated erection of large pow
er house in Racine.
The Cranberry creek marsh, COM
prising about 10000 acres in Wood
and Juneau counties, is to be drained
and rendered tillable.
Steps have been taken at Marshfeld
for the formation of permanent ad-
vancement association of citizens for
the welfare of the city.
Catherine Marie Quinn, aged fifteen
years. and Catherine Margaret Quinn,
sixteen years old, cousins, were killed
| by a switch engine at Madison.
c. E. Preston of Chippewa Falls,
formerly clerk of the circuit court for
Chippewa county, has been appointed
district lumber inspector by Gov. Dav-
| idsOn.
John Waddick fell from high
bridge at Saunders, just outside the
city limits of Superior, and died I'M
mediately after as result of his in
juries.
Exhausted after struggling with
| four attendants in a hospital at La
| Crosse, Jacob Havel, an insane cigar
maker, has been taken to the Mendoza
asylum.
4 derailed freight car after jumping
the track at Marshf1eld struck the de-
pot and demolished the front part of
the building. The operator received
serious injuries.
Suit has been commenced at Racine
by Bernhard J. Stellberg, guardian Tor
Edward Stellberg, minor, against the
American Seating company for $1,000
for the loss of hand.
Surrounded by a posse OF citizens,
armed with shotguns and reviewers,
two burglars were captured at Knowl-
ton while attempting to rob the store
of Mark A Guenther.
Just after reading letter contain
ing the news of the serious illness or
sister Mrs. William Stahl, an Old
resident of Fairchild, fell to the floor
unconscious and soon expired.
John Shirley had narrow escape
from death and was seriously injured
bv the caving in of some sawdust
which he was removing from an ice
house where he was employed.
Verona Roeder, aged fourteen years,
all but lost her life in brave but I'M
awaiting attempt to save the life of her
nine-year-old brother in a millpond at
La Crosse. The body of the boy was
recovered several hours later.
Jacob Haas. who lives at South
Range, has brought III one OF the larg-
est and handsomest timber wolf skins
that ever has been seen at Superior.
His son killed it with club about
eighteen miles from Superior.
Quarantine on account of the diph-
liberia cases at Alment has been raised
and no new cases have appeared. lt
is hoped the town will escape the cpl |
demic which has prevailed every |
spring for the last three years.
An ice gorge on Root river near La
Crosse has backed water for two miles
over adjacent territory; is seriously
hampering the operations of factories
at Rushford, and is doing untold dam |
age to property in the vicinity.
Arrested twenty-nine times in sew
enteen years, and each succeeding
time securing leniency from the court,
Frank Birmingham was arraigned ut
La Crosse. charged with larceny and
sentenced to two years in Waupun
Jacob Gerbovitz, arrested on a
charge of attempting to murder MS
wife and awaiting trial in the county
iail at Kenosha, became violently in |
sane. The officials fear the man is
shamming and he will be subjected to
the most severe tests.
Loggers are trying hard to make
I'D for the small cut of the first part
of the winter, which was caused by
the heavy snowfalls in the woods and
the scarcity of labor. They estimate
that the total cut will fall Off more
than so per cent from last season. The
winter has been one of the worst log
gers have experienced in years.
While playing with her little broth
ar the four-year old daughter of Henry
Straleau Of Grover, gouged her eyeball
completely out with pair of scissors.
Prompt treatment resulted in the re-