Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-30
Wisconsin
News From
All Parts of
the State.
Badger
| Briefs.

| to deliver the Fourth OF July address
at Frederick.
The Chicago & Milwaukee Railway
company has been given more grants
in Kenosha for the extension of its
lines.
| The C. F. Stout Lumber company's
sawmill at Westboro was destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000. with no in
surance.
4:
The Neunfeldt murder case at Grand
Rapids resulted in a disagreement Of
the jury after forty-eight hours Of de-
liberation.
Cornelius N. Carpenter, a pioneer
lawyer and banker of Southern Wis
consin, died at his home in Brodhead,
aged eighty-one.
Leaving her husband asleep in bed,
Mrs Fred Luchterhand, living near
Sheboygan, left the house and drown
ed herself in Elkhart lake.
The Doreal Manufacturing company
will start glove factory at Marinette
early in June and will employ at the
start from 80 to 100 hands.
Pat Hanley, a Civil war veteran.
while planting corn on vacant lot
at Waupaca, was stricken with cpl.
leptic paralysis and died suddenly.
Lightning destroyed $4,000 worth
of property on the Mcdonald farm,
near GAINESVILLE, including for blooded
horses, forty sheep. barns and farm
implements.
George S. Parker and W. E. Palmer
have purchased twenty acres Of land
inside the city limits of Evansville,
where they will erect large fountain
pen factory.
Anton Roellick, a wealthy farmer re-
siding near La Crosse, hung himself
with a strap in his barn. He had Of
ten threatened to take his life, seem
ingly being tired of living.
The Wisconsin Central depot at
l3oyceville, seven miles east of Glen
wood, together with quite a large
amount of freight. burned to the
ground.
Joseph Simons and Arthur and Fred
Hahn, farmers, were arrested at FL
roy on the charge of illegal fishing.
and the prisoneds were each fined $25
and costs.
A severe electrical and wind storm,
accompanied by torrents Of rain,
caused loss Of $4,000 at Westby,
where a church, a barn and tobacco
stripping shed were destroyed by
lightning.
High water carried out the mill dam
Of the North Wisconsin Lumber COM
pany at Hayward, also the trestle of
the railway spur Three million feet
Of logs were carried out and scattered
along the river.
Nekoosa was recently the scene of
the hottest and fiercest fire that ever
occurred in that village. The entire
livery stable of Henry McGlynn was
consumed before the flames could be
got under control.
Anton Roellich wealthy retired
resident of the town of Shelby, La
Crosse county, committed suicide by
hanging. Restlessness, due to his re-
tirement from business, leaving him
with no active occupation for his mind
is supposed to have been the cause of
the tragedy.
Walter O'Neill, the eleven-year-old
son of Thomas O'Neill, one of the
prominent residents of Superior, was
found dead in Northern Pacific box
car near the coke ovens at Superior.
One side of his head was smashed and
the police say it is a case Of murder,
although they have no clew to tho per-
petrator.
Isaac ]. Soubert, second engineer
on the steamer Cowle, was badly
burned about the fact at Superior and
will be laid up for some time. He and
the wheelsman were cleaning out their
room with cleaner which was large
Is gasoline One of the men was
smoking a pipe and an explosion fol-
lowed Souberts entire face is badly
burned.
Brokaw will be a green town here
after. The Wausau Paper Mills com.
pany has awarded contract to Will
lam Laatsch of that city to give each
house in the village of Brokaw new
covering of paint-green, with white
trimmings. The only buildings Of a
different color will be the club house,
the new church and the paper mills.
The will of Francis C. Newall was
read to members Of the family at
Kenosha, and the estate, which is vari-
ously estimated at $1,000, 900 to $780,
900, is left to members Of the family
and friends. The private requests
are about 100000.
The 1900 employees of the N. r.
Aliens Sons tannery at Kenosha have
returned to their former places. The
men will receive the scale of wages
paid in the Milwaukee tanneries. The
settlement of the trouble was effected
L1r ETayo,. Toponc COrrnoy