Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-17

the crop VIII run way SHOTC OF eApeCId-
lions because Of ravages of rot.
John Brown, hunter from Milwau-
kee, was fined $25 and costs at Fox
Lake for shooting in open water.
Mrs Frank Miller, wife of farmer
| living near Menomonie, fell from
wagon and broke her spine. Her con-
| dition is serious.
| Forty-fve girls in the Bergstrom
Paper company mill at Neenah struck
| because the concern refused to raise
| their wages from rs cents to 81 day.
Bids were opened at Kenosha for
public improvements aggregating $780,
900. L. Rasmussen & Sons of Osh-
kosh were the low bidders for the
work
Chief of Police Blank of Neenah
seized and rescued Mrs. Ed Seymour
after she had thrown herself in front
of freight train with alleged suicidal
| intent.
Fritz Raundenberg of La Crosse has
captured alive an eagle measuring six
feet between wing tips. The bird will
be purchased by the local order of
Eagles.
The new member of the visiting
board of the state normal at Stevens
| Point is Prof. E. M. Beeman of Au-
gusta, who is superintendent of the
Neenah schools.
Albert Eisenach, former city treas
urer, alderman and street commission
err of Neenah, is dead, aged seventy
six years. He was a resident of Mil
waukee in 1853.
Burglars entered the Schmitz &
Lauer clothing store at Kenosha and
stole clothing valued at nearly $500.
| The building is within stones throw
of the police Office.
Clarence Seymour, thirteen months
old, died at Shawano in terrible agony
| as the result of eating quantity OF
strychnine pills. The child's mother
had forgotten to put the pills away.
Hermann Vergens, employed in
Shawano butcher shop lost $500 while
hunting in the woods Sunday He
says his pocketbook must have fallen
out unperceived when he jumped
over a fence.
The state free employment bureau
at La Crosse is besieged with appli-
cations from large firms and contract
ors for laborers.f AS high as So per
day is being offered for coal beavers,
but it is impossible to get men.
Patsy Kapoli, an italian, was ar
rested at Kenosha on a charge of max
ing a murderous assault on Gus Stank.
The Italian is alleged to have driven
dagger into Stank's shoulder, and
the latter is in a serious condition.
Farmers in the town of Raymond
are excited over the possible damage
to stock that has been caused by mad
dogs. Every cat and dog about the
town has been killed for fear that
some of them have been bitten, and
that hydrophobta may spread.
Company E. Second regiment, Wis
consin National guard, returned TO
Fond du Lac from ten days trip TO
the jamestown exposition. The com
PAW came in for many compliments
upon it's soldierly appearance by the
regular army officers as we'll as civil
ians.
The police of Kenosha raided ne
gro sporting house in Kenosha, ana
among the people captured in the raid
was Essie Stewart, negress formerly
notorious in the tenderloin of Chicago.
The women in the place were all ne
groes. but the men arrested were
white.
Charles Wilson, aged fifteen years,
and Henry Metz, aged eleven years,
are in the county Jail at Marinette,
self-confessed burglars and incendiar-
les. They robbed the grocery store OF
John Lude, carrying off cigars, money
and candy, and they set fire to the
barn of w. S. Baker, causing $1,000
| loss.
Albert Neuntfeldt, who killed his
brother-in-law with a cuspidor in sa'
loon at Grand Rapids last February,
pleaded guilty to charge OF man.
slaughter in the fourth degree. me
nudge announced that he would make
the sentence a nominal fine. A form
err trial resulted in a disagreement OF
the jury.
Joseph Vogel was instantly killed at
Wittenberg by falling from a third
story window of the Rand house. His
neck was broken and his skull crush
ed. The body was not discovered UNI
fill daylight. Vogers home was in
Oshkosh, but he bad worked in Wit
tenberg at divers times during the last
three years.
The postofice safe at Brentwood
was blown open by robbers and about
S4OO in stamps taken. Twenty-Five
dollars was also taken from the Loohis
store till in the same building. This
is the second time robbers have Wis
tied this postoffice in a few months.
The last time they were scared away
in the midst of the job.
The Milwaukee Light, Heat and
Traction company made application 10
+he Racine common council for a fran
chise to lay it's tracks and maintain
its cars on Second street, from Main
street to the lake. The reason of the
request is that during the last several
years it has been necessary to deposit
freight and allow cars to stand on low
err Main street.
With the pockets of his clothes rifed
and a wound in the back of his head
which may have caused death, the
hodv of q stranger was fished out of