Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-06

w. l.. Houser's large barn on the
farm, near Mondovi, burn
ed to the ground. Loss is estimated
at $4,000.
1t is believed that Joe Hall, who con-
Quoted boarding house at Two Riv-
ers, persisted in fire which destroyed
the building.
Tiney French, fifteen years old, &C
shot himself while out hunt
ing near Ashland He died on his way
to the hospital.
J. N. Graham's sawmill east of In
gram burned. The loss was $4,000,
with no insurance. The owners will
rebuild the mill
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DR.. J. X. Jamison of Chicago COM
mitted suicide by shooting at the grave
of his wife at the Catholic cemetery in
the town of Genessee.
Fire at Fond du Lac damaged the
warehouse of the David Bradley COM
pany and contents valued at $4,000,
the insurance being $4,000.
Fred Marks, aged sixty-three years,
proprietor of the finest saloon on Main
street when La Crosse was a mere vii
lage, is dead of stomach trouble.
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A man giving his name as ]. Wal
lace, arrested at Superior on a charge
of forgery, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to a year in the reformatory.
Mrs. Robert Cramer of Waunakee
was burned to death by the explosion
of a gasoline stove at her summer cot
tage on the shore of Lake Mendoza.
DR.. George Fl. Ripley of Kenosha was
elected president of the Wisconsin
State Homeopathic Medical society at
the annual meeting at Madison. DR..
Ripley has served as vice president OF
the society for the last year.
Jack Sanderson, hermit who lived
alone and apart from any nelghbors,
near Linwood, was found dead in his
bed. He had lived in the neighborhood
of Linwood for upward of twenty
years and was always considered a re-
cluSe.
Rev. John Webster of the Methodist
mission on the Oneida Indian reserva-
ton, while passing the residence OF
Jonas Metoxen. was fired upon from
ambush and wounded in the right leg.
Another bullet passed close to his
head.
Dean f. E. Turneaure of the college
of engineering of the University or
Wisconsin has perfected an instru-
ment designed to determine and regis
ter geographically the strain on vari-
GUS parts of railroad bridges as rapid
ly moving trains are passing over
them.
The will of Cynthia E. Mcdonald,
disposing of an estate valued at $25,-
600 to a daughter, Flora Mcdonald
Thompson, a writer for magazine,
was broken in the circuit court at
Prairie du Chen and the court ordered
that $4,000 be paid to Fred A. Melon
aid, the only other heir, who was cut
off with $50.
GOtlieb Koplein, a farmer residing
south of Waupaca, while coming to the
CITY with a load of milk, was thrown
from his wagon and seriously hurt by
his horses becoming frightened at an
automobile. The auto did not stop,
but continued on its way. Warrants
have been issued.
The state agricultural experiment
station has rented thirty acres OF land
of S. S. Chandler a farmer near Wau-
paca. and will raise various new
species of potatoes, especially the Ger
man alcohol potato, out OF which dena'
tured alcohol is made. The farmmeslr.
will do the work under the Instructions
of Prof. Sandsten of Madison.
The fight against all forms of gam
Hing in Kenosha assumed a new phase
when District attorney Baker sent out
letters to all dealers in clothing In the
CITY handling the so-called suit clubs
directing them to Immediately stop the
practice. More than 1000 people in
Kenosha are members of suit clubs.
District Attorney Baker declares that
he is convinced that the suit club is
lottery.
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The large dredge of c. FL. Sternberg
& Son of Chicago lies sunk in eleven
feet of water in the Yorkville and
REYNOLDS canal, three miles west OF
Franksville, and cofferdam will have
to be built around the craft In order to
raise it. The dredge was at work
digging out earth when an anchor
chain broke, and the weight of the dip
per careened the boat, and before 1t
could be righted the hull filled with
water, and it went to the bottom.
While at work at the dock of fuel
company in Washburn, Matt Charron
was knocked off the boom and fell
distance of thirty feet to the boat be-
meath. The mans head was badly in
iured and there is little chance of his
recovery.
The program has been issued for
the annual convention of the Epworth
, -.-l.... 4l,n NIilrnnlran district of