Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-15
BADGER BRIEFS.
J Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


Beloit BARRIERS have combined to
charge Is cents for shave and SO
cents for honing razor
At a special election at Milton a
bond issue was voted to build an en-
CINE house and village hall.
Clarence Searles and Kenneth An
Dire, each ten years old, were drowned
in Rock river at Beloit by falling from
an embankment.
While playing on a raft at brick
ward pond near South Superior, Sybl
Cowing, five years old, fell from the
raft and was drowned.
Charles Reynolds was drowned at
Rhinelander while endeavoring to save
his younger brother, who was pushed
toward shore and was saved after an
hours work.
Fred Heinske, Butternut saloon
keeper, shot and killed himself after
having made an unsuccessful attempt
to kill his wife. The couple have had
trouble for some time.
Pleading guilty to the charge of hold
ing up James OHara on public
thoroughfare in La Crosse in broad
daylight, John Mcclure, a stranger,
was sentenced to eighteen months in
Waupun.
Mrs. Ellen Morse, aged 81 years,
mother Of H. E. Morse, a Beloit
grocer. took her own life by drinking
carbolic acid. She had been an IN
valid for years, but her rash act was
unexpected.
Peter Penkelski, bricklayer, was
drowned in Lake Winnebago at Osh-
kosh. His identity was established by
the finding in his pocket OF a love let
ter written to him by young woman
in Milwaukee.
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Two men were killed, one was
slightly injured and two others mar
rowlv ESCAPED death or injury in the
collapse of a storage shed at the plant
of the International Harvester COM
pany in Milwaukee.
Postof1ce Inspector McSwaln OF APP
pleton, investigating an alleged burg
larry at Silver Lake, found that the
postoffice had not been robbed, but the
general store in which the postottlce
is located had been burglarized.
The jubilee and picnic of the North
Wisconsin Picnic association Of the
Modern Woodmen at Eau Claire was a
grand success. Seventeen counties
we're represented. Elsie Stroebel OF
Eau Claire was crowned queen of the
jubilee.
Fred Yohm, farmer living between
Eau Claire and Mondovi, was stricken
with paralysis while in the field hoe
ing corn. The man lay in helpless
condition for two days and two nights
before he was found. The exposure
to the weather and lack Of food had so
weakened him that he lived only
short time after being found
Charley st. Jacque, a button cutter
operating a blank machine in the 1ro-
quois pearl button plant at Prairie du
Chen, got his pants leg caught on
set-screw of a rapidly revolving shaft
which whirIed him around, breaking
one arm and bruising and decorating
his head and body before the machin-
cry could be stopped.
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The Stout Training School Of Me-
nomonle has outgrown it's accOmmoda-
lions, and increased school room and
equipment are now being prepared to
meet the demands which will be made
upon it when school opens in Septem-
Der. Pupils from twenty states have
registered already, and the attendance
this year promises to be double that
of any former year.
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The fifth annual institute of the BIZ
BILE Teachers Association of Northern
Wisconsin closed ten days session
at Elk Mound. The institute just
closed was much the largest of the
series. 1t comprises two schools-a
normal school calculated for teachers
and those in preparation for teaching,
and a Junior school adapted to all chill
dren under fifteen years of age and
presenting a model curriculum.
The Main street bridge muddle at
Racine has been settled by the city
council The structure cost about $685.
600. There were defects, and the city
held back $4,000, but the Milwaukee
Bridge company claimed the plans
were defective. The bridge company
has now agreed to throw off all extras
and remedy other defects, while the
city pays the balance of the contract
price and waves the collection of the
penalties of $25 day for the overtime
in completion of the structure.
Edward Flannery of Argyle died at
Brownton from injuries received In be-
ing pitched down a high embankment
while riding on the platform of Mil
waukee road passenger train. Farmers
who heard him calling for help found
him two hours later. Both legs were
broken, and his head, back and hip
were badly injured.
Carl Herschle was found dead in his
cell at the police station in Madison.
Dnnth mas dIn to heart failnra canSed