Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-13
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

/ Prudomme Cabanna fell from lad
der at the Park mills at Marinette and
fractured his skull. He will probably
die.
| Chris Sorenson, a wagonmaker of
Racine, has gone to Denmark to settle
up an estate of relative, from which
it is believed he will get close to $780,
| 900.
Reports having been circulated at
Marinette that gamblers would be al
| lowed to reopen with immunity Mayor
| Davis has issued an order to the chief
of police ordering gambling to be pro-
hibited.
The Bassett straw board and roof
ing felt mill in Beloit has been trans
ferred to the Beloit Boxboard COM
pany. The Bassett company sold the
mill because of their large interests at
Peoria, Ill.
w. A. Fisher of Minneapolis, a
brakeman of the 500 road, was seri-
ously injured at Barron, being caught
between a damaged car and the re-
mafnder of the train and crushed into
a space only six inches wide.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank opened it's doors for business at
Evansville. This bank is recently or
ganized, with a capital of $4,000.
James Gillus is president; G. F. Miller,
vice president, and Robert ID. Hartley,
cashier.
The commencement of Racine col
lege will be held ON June 10. The
alumni reception and warden's recep-
ton will be held the same day, and
the baccalaureate sermon will be given
by Bishop Francis of Indianapolis on
June 16.
Word was received at Eau Claire
that the postoff1ce would be raised to-
the first rank after July /. The re-
ceipts of the office have increased rap
idly the last few years and last year
reached the limit set for postofices of
the first class.
Andrew Czolskf, who, with his fam
lily, recent ymoved from Chicago to
Knowlton, where he had purchased a
farm, met with a strange accident
which ended his life. He fell from a
wagon, striking and breaking his neck
on the wagon wheel.
Hot lime in a box car was the cause
of a destructive fire at the ShebOygan
lime works at Sheboygan. The burn
ing freight car, which was standing
near the company's warehouse, caused
the building to ignite. The damage
will not exceed $4,000.
Fred w Rose, employed at the
Green Bay planning mill, was killed by
being hit by a flying piece of lumber,
which caught in a saw he was ope-
rating. A similar accepted resulted
in the death of August Rentz few
days ago at the same plant.
J. H. Denison, a resident of Sheboy-
gan county since 1916, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday by saving a sixteen
inch maple log in two in the presence
of over 100 friends who had been 1n-
vited to celebrate the anniversary. He
was presented with large birthday
cake containing 100 candles.
The annual commencement of the
preparatory department of Kemper
Hall at Kenosha was held Tuesday af-
ternoon, more than a score of young
! people taking part in the exercises.
The Farewell to the Forms" the high
est honor of the year, was given by
Miss Margaret Allen of Kenosha.
De Loss Smith, who has charge of
the music at the revivals being held
at GAINESVILLE, has received violin
: which he purchased in pawn shop in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for SIS six weeks
ago. Experts pronounce the instru-
ment a genuine Giuseppe Guarneri of
the make of 1928, and worth $4,000.
Steps are being taken to start zoo
at GAINESVILLE and popular subscrip-
ton paper is being circulated to pur-
| chase two baby bears as nucleus for
the park A portion of the court house
park is to be made into dens for the
animals and the matter will be
brought to the council for considera-
ton Monday evening.
The official program for the first
session of the Manitowoc county Chau-
tauoua has been arranged by Harry
Holbrook, who is in charge of this
work, and the dates are Aug. 9 to IL,
inclusive. Meetings will be held in
the forenoons and afternoons and also
in the evening. Among the famous
speakers to be there are "Pitchfork
Ben Tillman, Father Vaughan and DR..
A. A. Willotts.
For the first time in his capacity of
county judge for nine years, J. M.
Becker allowed couple to be married
in Green county on Monday without a
license. The principals in the 'un-
licenses" marriage were Mayor H. c.
Putnam and Mrs. Clara ClaycOmb,
both of Brodhead. Under the statutes
Judge Becker granted the couple per-
mission to be married without IL
! cense being granted to them from the
office of the county clerk.
The capitol commission has awarded
the contract for furnishing the ma
terial and doing the steel structural
and masonry work on the west wing of
the new capitol to T. c. Mccarthy of
Madison. The contract carries $685.
764. If the'Warden & Allen company
of Milwaukee and the Macarthur Broth
ers company of Chicago had been able
to furnish satisfactory guarantees that
they would complete the work within
a certain length of time they would
have been awarded the contract, as
their combined bids were little lower