Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-23
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Fire in the State Bank of Knapp did
damage amounting to 500. 1t was
extinguished by the efforts of citi-
Zens.
William Bruckman switchman for
the Omaha railway, was instantly
killed at Spooner Joy falling between
cars.
John Lee, an old settler of Wheeler,
was instantly killed by being thrown
under the wheels of his wagon in a
runaway.
Schools and churches have been or
dered closed and all public gatherings
prohibited at Stanley as result OF
scarlet fever epidemic.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained in
the destruction by fire of number or
buildings at Marystown, thirteen miles
southeast of Fond du Lac.
Michael Kelley, a switchman on the
Great Northern, was instantly killed
in the yards at Superior by being
crushed between two cars.
Robbers entered the store of the J.
A. Anderberg company at Knapp, and
blew the small safe, securing 5000 in
cash and a number of checks.
The body of newly born male chlld
was found in the gravel pit at West
Bend. Part of the head had been
gnawed away, apparently by cats.
While gathering flowers in Riverside
Park al Neenah, Helen Ulrich, eight
years old, wa struck by stray bullet
and seriously if not fatally wounded.
Prof. C. J. Brewer of New Richmond
has been chosen superintendent OF
schools at Chippewa Falls as the re-
suit of the resignation of Prof. E. ID.
Martin.
Rev. Matthias ~Himebaugh, for fifty
three years a Circuit rider, pastor
and presiding elder in the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at Oshkosh or
sarcOma.
Margaret Droese, daughter of
farmer, committed suicide at Wauwa-
tosa. The girl had had aquarrel with
the young man to whom she was en-
gagged to be married.
John Lien, a farmer and old settler
of Otter Creek, Dunn county, was
found dead in the road. His skull was
crushed, but his body was warm when
found Foul play is suspected.
Emigration Agent Dean of Superior
decided that Johann Carlso, who has
been in the county Jail some time,
was a dependent and should be sent
back to his home in Sweden.
During a childrens party given on
the lawn of her parents home at
Kenosha, Mabel Lajen, two ears old,
was burned to death. Her clothes
caught fire from burning grass.
The home of M. J. Bell, former
treasurer of Dauglas county, at Bell
wood, a few miles from Superior, was
struck by lightning in a storm, and
the house and all it's contents were
| burned.
Frank Geiger, an employe at the
Omaha railway shops at Hudson, was
badly injured while operating an en-
cry wheel The wheel broke and
pieces struck him in the chest and
arm. infiicting serious wounds.
| In keeping with the Improvements
promised by the Northwestern Rail-
wav company at it's Kaukauna shops
early in the spring, considerable new
machinery is no warriving and is pc
ing placed in position as rapidly as
| possible. tI H.
While chasing illegal fishermen at
Trempealeau in a gasoline launch,
Deputy State Game Warden Elmer
Tmmell was seriously injured by the
backfire of the engine while cranklng
| the f1ywheel. The crank hit 1mmell
on the arm, fracturing it. The law
breakers escaped.
Because it is alleged he attempted
to promote the domestic felicity OF his
sister and her husband by knocking
down tn elatter with a stick of wood
| because his brOther-in-law was beat
ing the sister, Jim Swallows, a Dells
dam Indian, is spending sixty days IN
jai lat Chippewa Falls, where he was
sent by Judge O'Neill.
While returning from school Willie
Stephania, seven-year-old boy, dis
covered tn edead body of woman
half buried in the sand on the lake
shore at Manitowoc. He notified the
authorities, and an investigation re-
suited in the body being Identified as
that of Lillian Berger, who disap-
peared early Sunday morning, March
"a
Joseph Toupalik, laborer who re-
Gently removed his family to Marsh
field from Cashton, was examined Dy
physicians and committed by County
Judge Conway to the state asylum Tor
the insane at Oshkosh. He several
times has threatened the lives OF his
wife and children. He is fifty-eight
wears old and the father OF ten chill
dren living.
The sudden breaking of an air hose
IN q freight train at La Crosse nearly
cost Oscar Johnson his life. The
breaking of the hose brought the train
to a sudden stop with the force OF
collision. Johnson was hurled the
length of a caboose and was seriously
injured.
Gottfried Burkhalter of Monroe,
while blowing, was accidentally shot
and killed A rife which he carried
on the pillow beam was discharged by
the Earring of the pillow. The bullet