Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

JOnn DOOley, living east or Month
cello, was run down while driving
across the railroad tracks, and was
instantly killed, and his wagon de-
molished.
William Alderman of GAINESVILLE was
gashed across the entire side OF the
face to the bone by crank of an au-
tomobile slipping as he was starting
the engine.
Hans Hanson was arrested near the
Kenosha county line on a charge of
having stolen a check for $500 from
Roy Freeman and getting it cashed at
a saloon.
Racine Junction is to have new
bank with a capital of $4,000. H. N.
Bacon of Oshkosh will probably be
cashier and W. II. Cuttings of Racine
president.
The townsville creamery, eight
miles south of Menomonie, now claims
the largest output of any single cream
cry in Wisconsin, it's weekly record
being 2S,500 pounds of butter.
The Dunn county union of the Amer
lean Society of Equity is preparing to
handle many of the crops grown in
the county and also purchase some
lines of supplies used on the farm.
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The Osceola Farmers Mutual Tele-
phone company has made a five-year
contract to connect with the Amery
and st. Croix Falls companies and not
to encroach upon each others terri
tory.
r. A. Cleveland, a student at Ripon
college, whose home is near Grand
Rapids, has started on a pedestrian
tour of the world. Mr.. Cleveland ex-
poets to complete his journey inside Of
two years.
Henry Myers of Burlington, eighteen
years old, was taken to Racine from
Burlington and lodged in Jail on
charge of committing an assault upon
Esther Ward. five years old. Myers
admits the crime.
Professor T. Dillwyn Thomas, head
of the University of Lawrence con-
servatory of music, has resigned and
will in all probability be succeeded by
Clarence Shepard of Oshkosh, in
structOr of piano and organ.
Honey bees which had swarmed in.
side a cable box of the GAINESVILLE COM
pany attacked linemen at work and
severely stung many people in the
neighborhood when disturbed. Sever
al quarts of honey was removed.
Dan Poulos, a Greek laborer who
jumped on a freight train to ride from
the Moore & Galloway sawmill few
blocks to his home at Fond du Lac,
slipped and fell under the wheels while
getting down and one foot was crush
ed.
The school census CT Menomonie
shows a total of 1852 children be-
tween the ages of four and twenty
years. The number between the ages
of seven and fourteen vars has in
erased from $40 to 1902 during the
year.
The worst flood in the vicinity of
Ellsworth in fifteen years occurred
last week. All streams are very high
and at Trimble, Beldenville and Mar
tell considerable damage has been
done. Many bridges have been wash
ed away.
The program for the Camp Cleghorn
assembly, which opens at Waupaca on
Aug. 4. contains the names Of Bishop
Samuel Fallows, Capt. Jack Crawford,
Mrs. Florence d. Richards, Miss Lii
ian M Phelps, Rev. w. D. Cole, J. f.
Caveny, Professor Balm and others.
The body of a man was discovered
in the woods three miles west Of
Franksville. 1t was badly decomposed
and looks as if it had lain where it
was discovered for months. 1t may
be the body of farmland who disap-
peared from Corliss seven months ago.
The city of Kenosha has taken up
the search for the remains of John
Gillette, who disappeared from Ken
osha early in February and special
council committee will push the
search with energy. 1t is thought pos
sible that the remains of Gillett are in
a gas tank and this will be pumped
out.
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A new $4,000 corporation has been
organized at Grand Rapids and char
ter applied for. The incorporators are
Peter Mitchell and James Hickey Of
Rhinelander and d. d. Conway and
r. A. Taylor of Grand Rapids, and the
purpose of the new company is to
deal in all grades of fine lumber They
purpose buying a site at Grand Rapids
and will erect a large dry kiln in
which to prepare lumber for the manu-
facture of small furniture.
Arthur Sauter, aged seventeen
years, whose home is in Appleton,
shot and probably fatally wounded
Daniel Kelly, aged twenty, at the home
of Kelly's mother in Milwaukee, where
the boys boarded. The police believe
the case to be an attempted murder
and suicide, the result of a quarrel.
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