Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-09-19
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

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will build big merchandise dock
there.
B. F. Bergman, field secretary of
the GAINESVILLE Y. NJ c. A, has been
called to the general secretaryship of
the De Kalb, H., Y M. G. A.
The Kenosha council has been ask
ed to provide fund for the pension
of police officers who have served that
city for more than twenty years.
The Kenosha board of education
has placed a ban on secret societies in
the school and the one sorority now
existing will be forced to disband.
Martin Oak, who shot Edna Caroba
through the head at Racine, has been
sentenced to nine years in prison. Oak
said he was glad he had shot the wo-
man,
George G. Bowen, employed as a
timekeeper by the Omaha road, was
killed while he was crossing the track
to his sleeping shanty near Fall
| Creek
Walter n. Britain, president of a
bank at Beloit, was probably fatally
! injured and his wife and Mrs. Fred
M. Strong were seriously injured when
their touring car fell over a twenty
five-foot embankment.
Fred Karges was reelected after
serving a sentence of thirty days in
the Dodge county Jail for assault upon
his wife. The charge is a statutory
offense, his fifteen-year-Old daughter
being the complainant.
The will of John Pamperin, the late
pioneer cigar manufacturer and lobac-
co man, was filed at La Crosse, and
the estate is valued at $4,000. The
estate is divided between the sons and
daughters and the widow of the de-
ceased.
Twelve hundred acres of string
beans, averaging three tons to the
acre, will rot in the fields south of
Racine unless help can be secured to
string them During school vacation
! 300 children were employed in the
fields, but when school opened it took
every child away from the farms.
The United States Express COM
pany has been fined $25 and costs at
La Crosse on the charge of improperly
labelling packages of fish received for
shipment. The game WardenS have
decided to watch tire express Offices
hereafter and to prosecute the compa-
MES whenever violations of the law
occur.
Gov Davidson has pardoned Wilhel-
nina Baehr, who was sentenced to the
ttate penitentiary at Waupun sixteen
years ago for the alleged murder of
| Michael Sell, father-in-law of her hus-
band by his first marriage. The be-
lief is that she did not commit the
crime and that she pleaded guilty be-
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/ Burglars broke into the general
store of Samuel Rupel at Medina. a
place fifteen miles from Appleton. and
| dvnamited the safe While the eX-
plosion was violent enough not only to
shatter the safe but also to break
nearly all. of the glass in the store, no
one in the village heard the explosion.
| The thieves made off with $3.50.
| Midshipman Walter l.. Helberg of
the Annapolis naval academy, who is
at his home in La Crosse on a vaca-
ton, has heceived telegram from
President Roosevelt congratulating
him on his splendid work at the ma
| tional rifle tournament at Camp Perry,
Ohio Helberg was a member of the
naval team which finished sixth and
also won medal for individual work.
James and Joseph Taylor, brothers,
sixteen and fourteen years old, almost
escaped from the county Jail at Chip
pewa Falls by digging large hole
through by means of a small fork and
broomstick. The boys were about to
escape when discovered. A few days
before they set fire to their bed
clothes in the hope Of escaping in the
confusion following. The boys are in
Jail awaiting trial on a charge of
breaking into a store at New Auburn.
A gentleman who declares himself
to be the handsomest and best barber
in the city of Duluth, Mimi, has writ
ten to the mayor of Racine saying
that he would like to acquire one of
the handsome widows or old maids of
that city for wife. He says that he
has heard of the beauty of the wild
ows and old maids of Racine and is
anxious to secure one. He admits
that he has no bad habits, although he
has several children, but if the bride
objects these will all go except one.
The lady must be not over thirty-tive
years of age and blonde weight 125
pounds
The postoff1ce safe at Flambeau was
blown open by nitroglycerin and so
in cash secured. Fifty dollars in
stamps were in the safe, but were not
taken. The entire front of the build
ing was demolished by the explosion.
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William Welton, for several years
chairman of the town of Brighton, in
Kanosha county and well known as a
politician in that section of the state,