Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-13

BY a majority of 212 Mineral Point
voted to bond the city for S4o,OoO for
a new municipal building.
Mrs. G. d. Emery. wife OF Postmas-
ter Emery of ST. Croix Falls, died of
| injuries received in runaway accl-
| dent
Fire originating in livery stable at
| Stockholm destroyed the stable, no.
tel, hardware store and the wood
man hall The town was without wa
ter to fight the fire.
Mayor Sherburne Becker or Mil
waukee has decided to decline the Of
fer of $1,000 per week to go on the
stage. He will continue his duties as
mayor Of Milwaukee until the end of
his term, he says.
Losses aggregating nearly $4,000
were caused by water and fire In the
store buildings at Oshkosh occupied by
the Bill Baggage company, Tobias
Luck's photograph gallery and the L..
StruebIing Clothing company.
Henry Isermann, chief of the Ke-
nosha fire department, was kicked by
a horse. His nose was broken and his
head and face terribly bruised, and his
arms and legs bruised. The horse had
been frightened by an engine.
Mayor w. J. Davis of Marinette has
issued written order to the chief Of
police ordering him to enforce the
state statute regarding the speed limit
of autos, calling attention to constant
attractions of the law in that city.
Frank Blair, the sixteen-year-oId of
August Blair, was instantly killed on
his fathers farm at Merrill. The boy
was engaged with his father pulling
stumps with team or horses, when
the chain broke, striking the young
man on the head.
Laura Frederickson, aged fourteen
years. was badly burned while lighting
a gasoline stove at Waupaca. Some
clothes were hanging about the stove,
and blaze shot up, setting them afire,
and in an attempt to put the fire out
her sleeve caught fire.
beau, who has been confined in the
county jail at Eagle River since last
November charged with murder, COM
mitted suicide by stabbing himself in
the neck with jackknffe which he
had borrowed from the sheriff.
Principal F. A. Harricon of the Brod-
head high school was unanimously re-
elected at a meeting of the school
board. The balance of the faculty has
| also been retained. Some, however,
will not return, as they have been of
fered better positions elsewhere.
1t is stated that the Rockford Edison
Electric Light company, which fur
nished power for the Rockford City
railway, has purchased the great pow
er plant of the Rockford Interurban
railway, and will sell power to the In
terurban and Beloit City railway lines.
Judgment was filed in the circuit
court at Kenosha awarding damages
in the sum of $4,000 to Alvina Rupecht
against Joseph Pacini, wealthy fruit
dealer who formerly lived in Kenosha.
The fruit merchant had promised to
marry her years ago, and on the
strength of the promise she had borne
him three children.
Louis Reinken of Manitowoc, SON of
Bernard Reinken, together with two
companions, J. t. Sandersen and M. 5.
Herring of Colorado Springs, Colo,
are destined to become rich by find
of rich vein of gold forty miles north
of Wonder, Colo. The boys employed
/ a prospector, and his efforts were sue
cessful in finding a rich ledge Of gold.
There is an epidemic of bicycle
| thefts in Chippewa Falls. Already the
police have made three arrests. MI
| chael Roth. James Taylor and Paul
King have been taken into custody.
| The thefts were made in broad day
| light. 1t is probable that an example
will be made of those arrested If they
are found guilty in order to stop the
nuisance.
August Radloff, an employe OF a
coal company, fell from a fifty-foot
| trestle at Sheboygan, striking against
the dock and rolling into the river.
Workmen who witnessed the accident
rushed to the waters edge in the hope
| Of catching him as he arose, but the
man did not appear. 1t is believed
that he was killed or stunned by strik-
| ing the dock.
T0L, ar.
| rested at Kenosha on charge of cru
| ely assaulting his son. boy nine
| years of age He was given heavy
fine and the boy will be sent to the
| state school at Sparta. There are more
| than thirty great gashes on the boys
| body and from some of the gashes
blood was still oozing, though the boy
had been whipped week before.
There is a hitch between Chief of
Police Fred Pfister and the members
of the fire and police commission at
Racine over the appointment OF two
new men on the department, as or
dered by the city council. 1t appears
| that Jacob Waltz and Morris Jensen
were recommended by the chief, but
| they do not come in rotation from the
names appearing on the eligible list,
and the commissioners refused to sign
for Morris Jensen, but will sign for
! Waltz Mayor Horlick approved of
| the action of the chief.
Dennis Keegan fell from wagon
load of green edgings and was run
over by the front wheels at Chippewa
| Falls. His shoulder bone and num-
| Der of ribs were broken. He was