Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-10-10
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

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Charles Miller, forty-five-year-old
farmer of Center, fell from his wagon,
| broke his neck and died soon after
Frank Rehianz, aged So years, a
Caledonia farmer, fell from a wagon
and died from his injuries. He leaves
widow and nine children.
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! When Mrs. John Graesang of Apple
ton awoke one morning recently she
found her sixweeks-old daughter lying
dead at her side. Death was presuma-
| bly, due to heart failure.
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E. H. Hines of Altoona, railroad
man, fell asleep on the night train
from ST. Paul to Eau Claire. Some
body took $3.50 from his hip pocket
and also took his suit case. There is
no clue.
At a special meeting of the Dunn
county board of supervisors the sum
of $1,000 was appropriated for rebuild
ing bridges recently washed out by
rains in the towns of New Haven, Peru
and Eau Gale.
John Murphy, formerly of Milwau-
kee, agent of the Standard Oil COM
pany at Delavan, has been victimized
| by a sharper, who, by the aid of a
forged deed, succeeded in getting 3d.
| 900 from him.
The work of completing the grade of
the new Waupaca-Green Bay railroad
has been hampered by many of the
employees leaving to dig potatoes for
the neighboring farmers, who offered
81 a day and board. Bulgarians are
being brought from Chicago and st.
Louis.
Three of the dredging crews on the
large Buena Vista marsh near Chippe-
wa Falls, have practically finished
their work and forty-five miles of
dredging has been done. When the
work has been completed practically
the whole tract of $4,000 acres will be
available for farming purposes.
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Two pioneers of a ha1f-century resi-
dence in Outagamie county died last
week. Mrs. Frances Spau1ding, widow
of Capt G. w. Spaulding, died sudden
ly of heart trouble, aged eighty-seven
years Peter Brill of Kaukauna, who
came to the county sixty years ago,
is dead, aged eighty-two years.
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The following have been appointed
fire wardens for Chippewa county by
State Fire Marshal T. M. Burtell: E.
o. Douglas, Arson; c. E. Hutchinson,
Auborn; w. J. McElmurry, Colburn;
William Robinson, Eagle Point; Steph-
en- Scholl, La Fayette; William Gill
bert, Sigel; J. J. Peterson, SigeI
The old sidewalk in front of a
grocery store at Eau Claire was torn
| up and there uncovered over SIS in
nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies;
also a gold ring and three posket-
knives. All this dropped through the
cracks in the past twelve years, evil
IDENTIFY by customers of the store.
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The Dunn county school of agricul.
ture opened the school year last week
with Prof James A Wilson of Mime
sofa as principal; Prof. Al Slaughter,
in charge of the new dairy depart
ment; Prof E. F. Zoreb of Minnesota
university, teacher of manual training,
and Miss Angeline Wood, teacher of
domestic science and home economy.
The scope of the school has been en-
larged.
E. Ross, fireman on passenger
train, was killed; Jay A. Parkinson,
engineer of the passenger, was severe |
ly scalded, and John Zeorotsky, brake |
man of freight train, suffered
crushed leg as result of a rear-end |
collision north of Hilbert Junction, |
near Green Bay. The freight was |
standing on the track when a swiftly |
moving passenger crashed into it. A
misunderstanding of orders was the |
cause.
The state fire warden has appointed |
thirteen deputy fire wardens in Dunn |
county, as follows: Colfax, G. w. |
Higbee; Dunn, w. r. Vasey; Elk |
Mound, H. T. E. Tilleson; Lucas,
Thomas Miller; New Haven, Aaron |
Gray; Otter Creek, John H. Coon; Red |
Cedar, B. L. Lacey; Sand Creek, Her
man A. Ringer; Sherman, r. W.
LOOMS; Stanton, Samuel Tafts; Tiff
fanny, E. Nelson; Weston, George Bull
ard; Wilson, Peter Stenerson.
A man about sixty years old was
found almost dead from exposure on
the Buck Creek road, near Prairie du
Chen, where he was crawling on his
hands and one knee from field where
stood an isolated hay barn. He said
he had fallen from the hay loft sew
eral days previously and broken his
left leg, so he was unable to get away
or call for help. He gave his name as
Ed Heron and said his home was in
st. Paul. He died soon after being
found.
7. w. Miller of st. Paul was the
lowest bidder at $116,927 for the con-
struction of the public building at Eau
Claire, for which proposals at the
treasury department. The award of
contract will be made in about ten
days.
Yep Lee and Yep Lang, two China
men, left Chippewa Falls recently for