Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-29
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

The business men of Fort Atkinson
will give their first annual fall festival
on Sept. 8 to Is.
Albert Peterson of the town of Rock
has been sentenced to fifty days in
jail for fishing with set lines on his
own farm.
Casper Heitz, forty-eight years old,
because of i'll health, committed sui
eide at his home in Racine by taking
carbolic acid.
J. Westcott, a prosperous farmer
near GAINESVILLE, hung himself in the
barn with hitching strap. He was
dead when" found by one of his chill
dren.
Fire last week nearly destroyed the
bridge on the Western division of the
North Western road near GAINESVILLE,
which would have cut off all traffic in
that direction.
George Engalls, a wealthy farmer.
while shooting chickens near Sank
Center, with a revolver accidentally
shot himself in the leg, causing a
serious wound.
In a head-on collision between
coach filled with longshoremen and
a string of freight cars at Superior
fourteen 'longshOremen were injured,
some seriously.
John C. Lund, secretary of the
Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry association, has issued call
for the annual reunion at Genoa juno
ton on Sept. 2.
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Judge George Clementson of the
Fifth judicial district has certified to
the secretary of state that he has APP
pointed Charles Orion of Lancaster as
official photographic reporter.
Rev. E. S. McChesney, presiding
elder of the GAINESVILLE district of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is to be
given years vacation, and will make
his home in Milwaukee for the coming
year.
Gov. Davidson and all other state
officials have been invited to attend
the Northern Wisconsin fair on Chip
pewa Falls day on Sept II, and Gov.
Davidson is asked to deliver an ad-
dress.
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The lumber mills and yards of
Christ Wunderlich have been practical
ly destroyed by fire They were locat-
ed at the village of Maxim, about nine
miles south of Amigo. The loss will
aggregate $4,000.
Clyde Bright was drowned in the
Mississippi riveraat LynXville. A gas
oline launch in which he and two COM
panions were riding caught fire and
all three jumped overheard. Bright
could not swim and went down.
About 100 drivers have been laid off
by the Chippewa Lumber and Boom
: company because of lack Of water in
the river. The company has been
keeping the men at their posts for
about five weeks hoping for rain.
Charley G. Bennett, state superin-
tendent of public property, has told his
subordinates that if any of them drank
: Intoxicating liquor while on duty they
would be discharged Only few of
the present members of the force
drink.
One of the worst storms that ever
visited that section literally devastat-
ed farms in the vicinity of Brookield
; Junction and Eagle, Waukesha county,
in addition to causing considerable
havoc in Milwaukee and the surround
!, ing country:
E Martin Scholesky, or Martin Oak,
who shot Eda Carobe at Racine, has
admitted to the police that he intended
. to kill himself after shooting the wo-
man, but that the revolver refused to
work, and then he threw it away and
gave himself up.
EuHlunu hdyIuOuu, fourteen years
old, was dragged to death by horses at
Chippewa Falls. The boy was driving
the team when they became unman-
ageable, and, being thrown from the
rig, became tangled in the reins and
/" was dragged half mile.
: Miss Celia A. Harrison, who was this
: spring elected to the position of do
nestle science teacher at the Superior
normal school to succeed Miss Flor
ence Pettingill, has resigned to be
married Miss Harrison will be sue
+ ceeded by Miss Florence Daggett of
Madison.
8 William Close, arrested at Shawano
for alleged murderous assault upon
d Bert Martindale, was arraigned before
l Justice of the Peace L. G. Bold. On
}. the strength of the evidence and testi-
q mony he was bound over to the circuit
I court to be tried in the December
term.
A Green Bay Traction company in.
terurban car rounded curve at Kau-
kauna at such a high rate of speed
!. that the body of the car left the trucks
and smashed into the ditch, the trucks
remaining on the track. The side of
J. the car was crushed and splintered
: and five of the seven passengers were
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