Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-09-05
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

Wesley Thompson, forty years old,
fell into the Baraboo river at Bara-
boo and was drowned
August Bunker, well known farmer
of Caledonia, committed suicide by
taking dose of strychnine.
The Buffalo county training school
for teachers opened it's fifth year at
Alma with about forty pupils enrolled.
The village council at Hammond
has passed an ordinance prohibiting
any one from teaching children to use
blasphemous language.
The Eau Claire county Normal
school opened its third year with an
attendance of sixty. Of this number
thirty-nine are new students.
State Banking Commissioner Bergh
has called on the state and savings
banks of Wisconsin for a report on the
conditions of their business on Aug %.
Andrew Fontish, a pioneer resident
of La Crosse, committed suicide by
hanging. Dependency, due to a
stroke of paralysis two weeks ago, is
supposed to have been the cause of the
act.
William Hoffman, a laborer of about
fifty years of age, while working on the
government fleet at Alma, fell off of
a rock barge into the Mississippi river
and was drowned
The two sons of DR.. d. r. Connell-
Arthur, aged twelve, and John, aged
fOur-were stricken with appendicitis
at Beloit and were promptly operated
upon by their father. Both are doing
well.
The Central Wisconsin fair opened
in Marshfield with good weather and a
large attendance, and it is expected
that the association, which has run
behind the last three years, will get
upon it's feet again
John Hermansen of Midtown was
terribly injured while cutting grain.
A three-hOrse team attached to the
binder ran away, running the machine
into stump and throwing Mr. Her.
manson between the horses.
The last legislature omitted the
name of little Lake des Morris, near
Oshkosh, from the list of waters
where fishing with licensed set lines
is permissible. Hundreds of these
lines are in the little lake and
wholesale arrests will be made if they
are not lifted
One man was dangerously injured
and sixty-five persons badly shaken up
in an accident at a railway crossing in
North La Crosse. A street car was
hit by a train Of cars on the crossing.
a panic ensued among the passengers
and for time it was feared that many
had been killed.
Col. Isaac Wing of Bayfield, died
suddenly last week. Col. Wing was
one one of the wealthiest men in the
northern part of the state, and was
noted for his gifts to charity. He was
closer to Former Senator Spooner
his winters in Washington.
The body of Lewis Larson was
found on the tracks between Rio and
Wyocena. The body was crushed be.
yond recognition. He had been weak
minded for the last year, and was al
ways known to carry considerable
After the body was found
1871 was picked up along the tracks.
Fire in the Beaumont hotel at Green
Bay resulted in a loss of $4,000, oil
which $4,000 is on the furniture. The
engineer, an eighteen-year-old boy
called Henry" lost his life through
suffocation. The cause of the fire was
spontaneous combustion of gasoline
fumes. Ninety guests escaped with.
out accident.
In an effort to educate the farmers
how to fight tuberculosis in cattle sew.
eral head of stock will be killed at the |
Fox river valley fair at Appleton next
month. A member of the live stock
sanitary board of the college of agri- |
culture will then demonstrate the
effect of the disease. The state will
furnish the cattle.
Mrs. Paul Malin, widow of a promi-
nent La Crosse business man, is I'M
der arrest at Viroqua, on suspicion of
connection with the mysterious death |
of her brother-in-law, Carl Schmidt, a
blind man and farmer. The arrest
was made on recommendation of the |
coroner's jury. No formal charge has
vet been presented against her.
l.. B. Dresser of st. Croix Falls, a
of the state board of control, |
who has been inspecting the state
home for feeble minded, states that |
the board will meet next month to re-
ceive bids for the erection of three
large buildings for the home. In all
S150,000 will be spent for these build |
ngs and other improvements.
romah last week one of the restaurant |
keepers is minus bag of coin and
gold watch. He left the store unoccu-
Died for a short while and on his re-
urn found that the above had been
aiken. The coin amounted to $50 and
he watch was valued as an heirloom.
There is no clue to the perpetrator.
William Atkins has been arrested
It Merrimac charged with burglarizing
he hardware store of Lee Badke. &
%, at Baraboo. several nights ago.
Some of the stolen goods were found
III him. His partner was arrested at
Madison OH the same charge