Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-17
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

postmaster at WATERFOWL.
Harry Larson of Eau Claire was IA
tally injured Tuesday by being struck
on the head by the crane of pile
driver
The question of bonding the city Of
Waterloo for the purchase of the local
electric light plant was carried by a
vote of 144 to 48.
Numerous designations of police of
ficers have occurred at Eau Claire on
account of the new order sent out a
short time ago that all officers must
wear regulation overcoat.
Believing that play is as important
as study for Young America, the
Third district school board purchased
fourteen lots at Appleton which will
be converted into playground.
The residence of Former Mayor
Seinert of Portage was burglarized
and $50 stolen while the occupants
were asleep in the house. The entire
lower floor of the house was ransack-
ed.
Work has been started on the cree
ton of new church at Askeaton by
st. Patrick's congregation to replace
the old one. It will be built of stone
and brick, and will be 48x105, with a
135-foot tower.
The Dunn county asylum farm has
been enlarged by the purchase of an
adjoining forty-acre tract, for which
$4,000 was paid. This gives the
asylum property total of $40 acres
of land and an estate valued at $685.
900.
There was a meeting of the trustees
of the Rochester, Racine county, acad-
envy held at Racine and the efforts to
endow the academy with $4,000 re-
ceived some attention. 1t was stated
that $4,000 of the $4,000 wanted had
been pledged.
Richard Beyreis, the Marathon
county farmer who shot and killed an
unknown man whom he found in his
home and was trying to drive to jail,
was freed of the charge OF murder,
the coroner's jury verdict being that
he shot in self-defense.
Orville Rath, the twelve-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto j. Rath, lost
both legs just below the knee by
crawling beneath Wisconsin Central
freight train at Oshkosh. His COM
panion got through safely, but Rath
was caught when the train started.
Directors of the new Racine City
bank held a meeting and elected Will
lam G. Cuttings, president, and H. N.
Bacon of Oshkosh cashier. The
bank is stocked for $4,000, of which
it is said that $4,000 is owned by
Oshkosh capitalists. Efforts will be
made to open the bank on Dec. 1 at
Z Racine Junction.
Barney O'Meara, farmer living near
Olivet, lost one of his cattle from the
pasture Stock and sheep have been
missing in that locality every year
for the past three or four years. In.
vestigation was made by few of the
farmers, resulting in the arrest OF
George Meyers, his son and Louis
Beardsley. 1t is claimed that young
Meyers has stated they were all impli-
Gated
Norris Buckley, a we'll known lum-
herman, was killed by being run over
by a logging train near Hannibal. He
and Hugh Miley of Eau Claire were re-
turning to camp on a railway veloci-
pede when the accident occurred
Buckley was struck by the rear end
of the train and almost instantly
killed. His companion was thrown
ten feet from the track and only
stunned
By direction of the state board OF
health the Eau Claire board of health
investigated the state Women's Chris.
tan Temperance Union home for
women in Eau Claire and found fifteen
women and twenty-five babies, nearly
all of whom had the itch. Conditions
are unsanitary and the place over.
crowded, and the local board has pro-
hibited the home from receiving any
more inmates.
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ty and Ernest Dowse of Chicago are
contesting the will Of their father, the
late John G. Dowse, which was filed
for probate in the county court at
Kenosha. By the terms of the will
the greater part of the estate, which
consists of valuable land in the town
: of Pleasant Prairie, and personal
property, was left to Byron c. Dowse,
brother of the contestants.
Company M of the Third regiment,
w. N. G., for years the crack shooting
company of the Wisconsin National
guard, is without home and may be
dfsbanded unless steps are taken by
the city of La Crosse to provide it
with quarters At the municipal cleo
ton the people by an overwhelming
majority voted $65,O00 with which to
build combined armory and auditori-
UNI, but the city council has now re-
fused to build the auditorium and the
company is thus left in the street.
Henry Roe of Milwaukee, an engi.
neer of the Wisconsin Central rail
road, held at Elkhorn on the charge
Of manslaughter, was found guilty
the jury returning verdict after be-
, ing out many hours.
Canadian steamers are coming to
the head of the lakes elevators for
: grain cargoes as the result of peculiar
conditions at Port Arthur and Fort
: William. The Canadian crop is SO
backward that elevators at those ter
: minals are shipping high grade grain