Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-04-18
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


spected Company E of La Crosse.
Ed Doyle, living near Boyd, had
three ribs broken in an accident re-
Gently.
E. F. Keller, a we'll known contract
or of Baraboo, dropped dead on the
street while walking to his shop.
Great Northern surveyors are lay
ing out new yards and tracks and
docks on the Superior bay front.
An investigation into the death OF
Edward Weber of Corliss showed that
he took rough on rats with suicidal in
tent
Herman Erb has presented the APP
pleton high school with a bronze tab
let containing Lincoln's Gettysburg
address.
The case against Chris Camel,
charged with selling liquor to minors
at Boyd, has been dropped for lack OF
evidence.
: Gov. Davidson has reappointed
James J. Hogan Of La Crosse as
member of the state commission on
fisheries.
Ralph Tippett, aged sixteen years,
son of a Methodist minister at James
vile. was shot in the leg by revolver
not thought to be loaded.
The Beloit common council appro-
priated $4,000 for new police station.
A new school is also to be built in the
northeast end of the town.
Wilfred Loiselle, while working i'll
a sawmill at Holcombe, got his hand
caught in the machinery. 1t was nee
essary to amputate the arm.
Former State Senator William f.
Conger of Prairie du Sac drank dose
Of wood alcohol by mistake for grip
medicine and within an hour became
totally blind.
Carl Kraemer, aged seventy, one of
the Oldest wagonmakers in La Crosse,
committed suicide by taking carbohc
acid in whisky. Poor health is given
as the cause.
Samuel ellis of Boyd has been ar
rested on the charge Of selling tainted
meat, the charge being preferred by
State Food Inspector F. NJ. Bezzel OF
Chippewa Falls.
Gustav Schoneck wealthy farmer
residing in Bloomfield, blew off the
top of his head with a shotgun.
Schoneck was sixty years of age and
a Civil war pensioner.
The Northwestern road is about to
close a contract with the GAINESVILLE
Water company for 100000 gallons OF
water each day at the new asserting
yards south of the city
Russell Truesdel, the eight-year-old
son of Henry Truesdel, a constable IN
the town of Somers, was shot III the
leg by his brother while the boys were
playing with d revolver.
While attempting to catch a ride on
freight train near Trempealeau,
Harry Comerford missed his footing
and fell beneath the wheels. His head
was severed from his body.
The jury in the case Of Edward
Collier, charged with manslaughter IN
the fourth degree for running down
and killing William Dryer while driv-
ing an automobile at Kenosha,
brought in a verdict of guilty.
Citizens of Eau Claire are subscrib-
ing capital for large new building to
be put up for the Gotzian Shoe com
pany. which will move to this city III
the near future The city already has
appropriated a large enough sum to
guarantee their coming to the city.
After a tramp OF over seventy miles
in four days time, during two OF the
severest storms of the early spring,
Frank O. Baskey, an aged resident OF
Kaukauna, was picked up at St Naz-
ianz, a hamlet sixteen miles west or
Manitowoc, and returned to Appleton.
He has been declared insane.
The Calumet County Dairy com
pany is having great deal Of trouble
with it's cold storage plant which is
being erected at Slayton. The site
seems to be on qutcksand and during
the excavation for basement several
springs were struck, and last week
fountain throwing four-inch stream
was uncovered.
The state civil service commission
will hold a special examination on
Saturday, April 20, at 8 o'clock a. n.'
at the Milwaukee normal school, TO
procure an eligible list from which to
select state deputy treasury agent for
M:
is in the form of fees and has ranged
from $500 to 81 900 per annum.
A startling story was brought to the
notice OF the police at Kenosha IN
connection of a society said to exist
among certain Italians. 1t is alleged
that the society is organized as
school of crime, and that it consists
of twenty-five members. 1t is alleged
that the members meet five nights IN
the week and are instructed IN the
use of fire arms and knives.
In the circuit court at Kenosha
Mrs. Marguerite Tyler was granted
divorce from her husband, Waiter
TYLER The husband disappeared from
Kenosha more than a year ago ana
has not been heard from since. 1t was
thought that the man met with foul
play.
The lid has been put on tight on
Eau Claire gambling houses by Mayor
Frowley. A rich Duluth business man
dropped $1,000 in game Tuesday
night and complained to the police,
who raided the place and recovered
the money.
Although the strike of the section