Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-09-26


The Rice Lake Lumber Co. is now
saving the last OF its pine and is res-
tuing 'dead-heads" from the bottom
of the lake. The mill will close
about Nov. 1st.
The storm of last Thursday night
played havoc on the fair grounds at
| Chippewa Falls, the large tents being
torn down. No harm came to the
dancers or the animals.
G. B. Downes, aged A, a switch
| man in the Omaha yards at Altoona,
caught his foot in a switch frog Sun
day, the 18th and both legs were cut
off. He died Sunday evening.
During the STERN Sunday evening,
the 18th. a hay barn containing
twenty tons of hay on the farm OF
Tom knutson near Cumberland was
struck by lightning and burned.
O. Griesser's hardware store at
Medford was burglariZed Wednesday
night, the 18th, and 5000 to $500
worth ofvaluable booty was secured.
The safe was opened but no money
found.
A. NJ. and d, II. McElmurry will
| build n new saw-mill at Huron this
winter. Aside from saving lumber,
the new mill will turn out consider
able stock for the Wisconsin Chair
Co. at Boyd.
An interurban car returning to
Eau Claire from Chippewa Falls near
midnight of the 18th was struck by
| lightning. No serions damage re-
suited, hut a number OF passengers
were shocked.
George White q labOrer on the
| Omaha railroad near Fall Creek, was
arrested last week Wednesday on q
charge of having stabbed fellow
employee in a drunken brawl We'd
nesday evening.
The barn on the Herbert farm near
New Richmond, together with a
years supply of hay and grain and
one driving horse, were burned last
Friday afternoon. The fire caught
from threshlhg machine.
| The fine residence Of John w. HO-
gan Of Turtle Lake, with practically
| all it's contents, was burned at an
early hour last Friday morning.
The origin of the fire is q mystery.
The loss is estimated at $1,000.
Freight trains Nos. 80 and "A on
the Wisconsin Central had head-on
collision near Downing last Thursday
night. Engineer Fred Miller was
killed and the fireman fatally injured
Other trainmen received serious in
iuries.1 The W. * Was caused by the
failure of the night operator
During the heavy electric storm
Wednesday evening the sheep sheds
At the canning factory at Barron
were struck by lightning and burned
to the ground. Twenty tons of hay
and a large amount of machinery
which was stored in the sheds were
destroyed. The loss is a heavy one
The wind storm Wednesday night
of last week did considerable dam
age at Owen. The 110-fOOt smoke
stack of the John Owen Lumber Co. s
sawmill was blown down, striking
the filing room and crushing in the
roof and wrecking some saws and
machinery. The damage at the mill
will require week to repair it.
Sunday morning, shortly after the
night crew left, fire broke out at the
Excelsior factory at Rice Lake.
Quick work of the fire department
made the loss not SO heavy. Be
tween 81, 200 and 81 800 damage was
done to the building and machinery.
The afactory will be in operation
again as soon as repairs are made.
Five men narrowly escaped injury
by the explosion of dynamite while
threshing at Peter Peterson's farm
in the town of Edison, Chippewa
county, last week. The men were
hurled some distance and the thresh-
ing machine was totally wrecked
An examination showed that several
other bundles of grain We're loaded
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