Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-22
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

Eau Nldll0 WullS UdIuluS.
The Monroe county fair opened with
larger exhibits than ever before. Sew
enty fast horses are entered.
Oliver Oliverson, the young man
who had both legs taken off by an
Omaha passenger train at Elk Mound
is dead.
William bangle lost two fine steers
at Bruce. They ate the paper wrap
pers of sticks of dynamite and died in
a fe whours.
While Station Agent Henry Becker
was watching a ball game burglars
entered the depot at Reeseville and
stole 800 in currency and a months
pay check amounting to $50.
William Kleinsmith, Onalaska, Wis,
fourteen years old, was killed in a run
away at La Crosse. His neck was
broken, but his body was uninjured.
So weakened from the effects of
bath that he could not stand, Nicholas
Dohr of Appleton fell as he was about
to leave the tug and fractured three
ribs.
Charles Bray of Oshkosh and his
chauffeur were injured when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
skidded and struck tree at Lake
Geneva.
Rev. J. F. Franklin and family of
Bruce were poisoned from eating
cheese bought at a local grocery.
Prompt medical attention is all that
saved their lives.
Peter MARITIME fell into a tank of hot
acid in the United States Leather COM
pany's tannery in Wausau and lives to
tell the tale. His entire body and face
were burned to blisters. Physicians
say he will recover.
A large barn on the A. G. Ruem-
melle farm, seven miles south of Hud-
son, was destroyed by fire. Seven
head of horses and fifty tons of hay
and some farm machinery were de-
stroyed. Partly insured.
A. R. Horn, former division superin.
tendent of the Wisconsin Central, re-
tired by the new management, has
leased the Palmer house at Fond du
Lac His son-inlaw, George Luce of
Minneapolis, will be associated with
him.
Six persons narrowly escaped death
from an automobile accident on White
fish bay road, near Milwaukee, when
an automobile overturned carriage
and stopped at the brink of a 900-foot
1N1 In
chine.
Alfred Cornelius, an Oneida Indian,
was found dead by the roadside at
Green Bay. The mans neck was
broken and there was deep cash
extending from his chin down his
neck 1t is believed that he was muir
dered
All the sawmills at Eau Claire but
one have been compelled to shut down
owing to low water in the Chippewa
river. The shutdown probably will
last for a considerable time, as the
only relief will be rise in the river
from copious rains.
Ten thousand dollars in certificates
of deposit on the local banks of Ra.
cine and $55 was stolen from John
Wensing, a prominent farmer of Cen.
trail Park. Wensing attended circus
and discovered the loss of his money
upon arriving home.
The mangled body identified as that
of Ernest Teel of Reedsburg, Wis, was
found on the Omaha railway tracks in
the Altoona City yards. He had evil
IDENTIFY been run over by train while
trying to escape from officers seeking
his arrest for fighting.
Leone Russell, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Russell of Eau
Claire, suffered painful burns while
toying with a lighted candle. The
candle set her dress on fire and her
right side was burned seriously, but it
is thought she will recover.
William Ladd of Minneapolis had
his left leg badly crushed at the knee
by being caught by the crane on a
steam shovel that is being operated
on the 500 just below Osceola. 1t is
not known whether it will be neces-
sar to amputate the limb or not.
George Mattern of the village of
Wilmot met with an awful accident in
an icehouse, where his left eye was
gouged out by being struck by the ice
tong. The man was working in the
ice house when one of the other work
men dropped the ice tongs with which
he was working, ant one of the prongs
went into Matterr's eye. He was
taken at once to Chicago hospital
for treatment.
Alleging that her husband accuses
her of rifing her pockets and taking
his loose change, Mrs. Anna Reynolds
of Kaukauna has filed papers for di-
vorce, the action being scheduled for
the next term of circuit court. Mrs.
REYNOLDS resents being called thief
by her husband, and this, together
with a charge of cruel and inhuman
treatment, will be the foundation OF
the divorce proceedings.
Just as she finished figuring out how
much interest she had coming on some
land. Mrs. Creszentzia Weiss, aged
seventy-seven years, of Appleton,
dropped dead as a result of a blood
vessel breaking in her head.
A body of a man was seen floating
down the Chippewa river at Chippewa
Falls, but efforts to recover it proved
fruitIess. Shortly after that, Albert
Foss arrived in the city and reported
that his brother, John Foss, had dis