Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-27
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The twenty-third annual meeting of
the Southern Wisconsin Old Settlers
association was held at Palmyra.
Mrs. John Anderson of Billings Park
was run over by a street car at Su.
perior and probably fatally injured.
Carl Moller was drowned in the
Chippewa river at Bruce. He was In
bathing with some others and was
taken with cramps.
Triplets, all girls, were born to Mr.,
and Mrs. Henry Daanen of the town
of Holland, Brown county. All the
babies are we'll and strong.
Edward Johnson, thirty years old,
was found on one of the main streets
at Chippewa Falls with a cracked skull
and will not live. Indications point to
foul play.
The general store and butcher shop
of Krampeter e Sund at Gilmanton
burned. Some of the goods were
saved. The fire started from a gaso-
line stove.
While trolling at Devils lake George
Filhauer and Roy Turton of Baraboo
succeeded i'll landing a thirty-pound
pickerel, the largest fish ever taken
out of the lake.
The Kenosha Electric Railway COM
panN has begun extensions of lines
within the city of Kenosha, and during
the next four months three miles OF
track will be laid.
Anton Schalinski, while fishing from
a boat in the Rock river at Mayville,
fell in and was drowned. He was
forty years of age and leaves widow
and five children.
The annual picnic of the MASONIC
Picnic association, comprising the
lodges of Neillsville, Marshfieldr
| Greenwood, Humbird and Mcmillan,
was held at Mcmillan.
Filing Slotta of Bristow cut his
throat from ear to ear, then walked
all about his home before falling on
his bed and expiring. His friends can
assign no reason for his deed.
Mrs. Marie S. Jonas, aged rs, died at
Madison from injuries sustained by be-
ing run down by a street car on June
6. At the time of the accident she was
on her way home from church.
A hot box on the main shaft started
a fire which resulted in the total de-
strustion of the plant of the Wausau
Box and Lumber company at Wausau
The loss is $4,000, with $4,000 insur
ance.
While attempting to show his son
how kindling wood ought to be split
Emmett D. MCGOWAN, one of the best
known attorneys of GAINESVILLE
chopped off two toes of his left foot
with an ak.
While sitting near the window oil
her home in Washburn Mrs. May
Green wood was shot in the back OF
the head and seriously injured by
stray bullet, fired by some one hunt
! ing IN the woods.
Olof Aalen, the man who is alleged
to have shot Dan Nesbit, one of the
striking shipyard riveters at Superior
some time ago, was examined In the
municipal court and bound over to the
superior court. Bail was fixed at So
! 600. which was furnished.
A defalcation to the extent of $40,
| 600, caused by the allurements or the
| Chicago wheat pit, is responsible LOT
the arrest of Thomas G. Coghill, cash
Ter of the First National bank OF Sey'
mour. who was taken into custody by
\ federal officer and removed to Mil
waukee. Coghill has made full
breast of his misrepresentation.
A band of thirty-five gypsies caused
much excitement in the town OF La
| favette. and the result was that farm
ers called upon the sheriff and town
authorities for protection, and the OF
ficers stood guard over the horde dur
ing the night The gypsies raided
number of farms and destroyed
quantity of property of farmers.
After robbing a hardware store at
Black Creek, M. j. Lovejoy was over
come by the heat and taken to a phy'
sician's office. After receiving treat
ment he offered to pay the physician
with a portion of his plumber. he
had made away with S25 worth OF
razors. and offered one of these to the
nhvsician. He was arrested and
brought to Appleton.
III with measles in the upper rooms
of their home at La Crosse, Laura
aged six, and Florentine, aged two and
. half wears, children of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Schroeder, were saved from belng
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroved their home by their mother.
The woman, attracted by cries OF the
children. rushed through the flames 10
their apartments and carried them TO
the street
August Arndt, a farmer living at
Rrodge Creek, was found lying oead
beside the roadway near Augusta
Arndt had been to town and 1t is pc
lieved that while he was on the nome
ward Journey his team became trlght-
ened and ran away. From the Iact
that the body was much dlstgured IL
is believed that the unfortunate man
became entangled in the lines ana was
dragged to his death.
Because her parents insisted that
she attend school, Hilda Garthan'
aged fen Years, of Sheboygan, became
angry, and, packing suit case Win
her belongings, ran away from nome
Her parents are making an effort 10
find their child.
Marimus L. Vanderkloot, vice pres
ident of the South Halsted Street Iron
works in Chicago and manufacturer