Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-04-25
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

F0Cef 0uKuS, macnlnlSC, Tell Cn00r
the wheel of an interurban car at Ra-
cine and died one hour later.
Frank Albright, a farm laborer,
hanged himself near WATERFOWL. He
was thirty years old and single.
The Goodrich Martineau department
store at Oconto lost $4,000 in stock
when the building and contents were
destroyed by fire
Almost all the log drivers in North
ern Wisconsin are idle on account OF
the cold weather, which is forming
new ice on the streams.
William Wiley of Minneapolis, de-
spondent over the death of his wife,
drank four ounces of chloroform at
GAINESVILLE. He will probably die.
At meeting of the River Falls
school board j. w. T. Ames was re-
elected head of the city schools for an
other year. He has held the place for
nine years.
The residence of Eugene Shaw, pres
ident of the Daniel Shaw Lumber COM
pany, located at Shawtown, was de-
stroyed by fire. The residence was
the finest in Eau Claire.
The beet sugar companies have
proved to the farmers organization
that they can not pay Sc ton for
sugar beets as requested and price
of S. has been agreed upon.
Henry Caller, a stage driver between
Bridgeport and Bloomington, was
killed accidentally. At bad place in
the road the heavy vehicle was over
turned and crushed him to death.
In a collision between a street car
and an automobile at Milwaukee, in
which Trey were riding, Frederick
Pabst and Mrs. Leonard Barnicle were
seriously injured. Both were render
ed unconscious.
An electric plant is to be installed
midway between the towns of Bristol
and Salem, which not only is to fur
nish electric lights and power to the
two towns but to all the farmers i'll
the neighborhOod.
Joseph ellis was found guilty at
Chippewa Falls of selling tainted meat
to Charles Cooper, a logging foreman,
which caused his crew to become Ill.
He was assessed fine and costs
amounting to $50.
George Schumacher, a painter was
shot on the street at Janesyille by
Florence Dugan, who claims to be his
wife, while he was walking with Meta
Smith of Rome, Wis. Schumacher IS
not expected to live.
James Jones, who forged a check
with his employers name, George
Mead of Chippewa Falls, was sem
fenced to one year in the penitentiary
by Judge Vinje. Jones says the SEN
tence will do him good.
Vincent Maschalski fell between the
cars at Athens and both his feet were
cut off. He had uncoupled the ca
boose from a string of fats, and think
ing the cars were still in place stepped
from the caboose platform and was run
over
A. J. Turner has been arrested at
Sheboygan on charge of swlndllng
citizens in Dorchester 1t is alleged
that he deposited SIS in bank at Med
ford and then went to Dorchester and
wrote out a number Of checks against
the amount.
Another of a long series of attempt
ed murders among Italians occurred
in an Italian saloon at Kenosha when
Joe Biolitos was stabbed. The assall-
ant ESCAPED. The officials claim that
the attempted murder was due to the
feud existing.
Fifty strikebreakers at the shipyards
at Superior quit work after drawing
their pay. Dissatisfaction with wages
is the cause assigned. The strikers
hail this as a victory and say more
men will go out. They expect TO
cripple the yards through this disaf-
lection.
The Eau Claire city authorities at
tempted to make eleven tramps work
on the street improvements, but the
tramps refused to work, claiming 1t
was illegal to make them work outside
of an inclosure. Persuasion failed,
and the tramps are now resting com
fortably in jail.
A negro giving the name OF T. }.
Montgomery and claiming to be
representative of an industrial orph'
ans home in Macon, Ga, is in jail at
Eau Claire on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. He is
said to have collected various sums or
from S. to SIS for the Macon home.
An attempt was made to put on
motion picture show at Superior which
included a so-called court room scene
from the Thaw trial. AS soon as the
first picture of this reel, showing an
artist hiring a model, was put on the
chief of police stepped to the stage
and forced the proprietor to stop the
exhibition of this reel. The action was
taken as result of protest made by
the ladies of the local w. G. T. U.
Because Walter J. Butler of Oregon
shot at mice in the house with rlne,
marring his wife's piano and the wood
work. Mrs. Maude E. Butler has been
granted a divorce by Judge Stevens.
William handkerchief, the adopted
SON of a former superintendent OF the
county insane asylum at Fond du Lac
was arrested on a charge of arson.
Chief of police Nolan claims that the
boy has confessed that he set hre 10
a number of frame buildings on Mon
dav night and then turned in an alarm
He said he wanted to see the depart
ment run.