Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-04
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

Moore near Beloit burned, causing a
loss of $4,000.
Nels Anderson, who lived four miles
northwest of Bruce, was struck and
instantly killed by lightning.
Disgraced by her lover, who refused
to wed her, Sarah Matteson of Bertha,
Mimi, suicided at Milwaukee.
H. S. Nelson, living near Stanford,
was seriously, if not fatally, hurt by
premature explosion of dynamite.
The annual convention of the West
Wisconsin district of the Evangelical
association was held at Elk Mound.
Lake View theater and two adjacent
buildings were destroyed by fire at
Sheboygan, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Despondent over continued i'll
health, Mrs D. M. Cole, wife of a
manufacturer of Cumberland, drowned
herself.
The explosion of a gasoline tank
aboard launch on Couderay lake,
near Chippewa Falls, yesterday caused
two deaths.
Knud Hansen, eighteen years old,
who recently came rom Denmark,
was drowned in the river at Racine
while bathing.
Miss Nettie Scovell, aged thirty
years. was found dead hanging from
a gas pipe in the cellar at Poynette.
She had been in poor health for two
months.
Stephen Turner, about ninety-five
years old, died at Portage. 1t has been
claimed that he was the first negro
to cast his vote under the fifteenth
amendment.
The road and bridge committee or
the county board voted to provide SIX
teen new bridges for Wood county,
and let contracts accordingly, costing
nearly $4,000.
E. J. Fuller, one of the best known
farmers in Wood county, received
kick from one of his horses, producing
internal injuries which caused ms
death shortly after.
has purchased 4,930 acres of cutoYer
land along the Flambeau river, near
Chippewa Falls, and will convert 1t
into a sheep and cattle ranch.
The new creamery to be operated
il. connection with the Dunn County
School of Agriculture was opened at
Menomonie last week, with Mr..
Slaughter of st. Paul in charge.
Because an enraged lover could not
hiring about reconciliation between
himself and his sweetheart he shot
and killed the girl and her father
and then himself at Milwaukee.
George L. Williams, brother of
Judge o. T. Williams of Milwaukee,
and former partner of L. Bohmrlch OF
Milwaukee has decided to locate III
Grand Rapids for practice of law
Anton Buchta, Jr., threw himself
in front Of an engine on the tracks or
the st. Paul road at Milwaukee. he
was cut in two. Sickness is believed
to have been the motive for the act.
While making a transfer of his troll
lev at Oconomowoc William McCul'
Tough, motorman on the Milwaukee
Waukesha -Oconomowoc electric line,
was instantly killed by coming into
contact with a live wire.
The Gedney Picking company OF
st. Paul has broken ground at Memo
monte for large picking plant TO
he erected at once. The work will be
pushed rapidly and 100000 will be
paid yearly for vegetables by this In
stitution.
Fourteen persons were injured, none
of them seriously, in a head-on col
lision at Lomira between passenger
and freight train on the Wisconsin
Central road yesterday. A misunder
standing of orders is said to have
been the cause Of the smashup.
Edward Hook of Miladore, a small
town a few miles from Marshfeld,
was drowned while fishing. Hook I'M
dertook to cross the stream on log.
When half way across he fell in and
was drowned in ten feet of water,
within sight of his companions.
The corner stone of the county nor
NAL training school, now in course OF
construction at Grand Rapids, was laid
last week. The principal address was
delivered by B. R. Goggins OF this
city. The building is to cost about
$4,000.
Peter Elsen of Kenosha had re-
markable escape from death while in
a somnambulistic state. He plunged
ont of a second-story window and fell
head foremost to the sidewalk. He
was somewhat bruised, but otherwise
was not injured.
At the state convention of Volunteer
Firemen of Wisconsin, in session az
Horizon, Wis, Rice Lake won first
place in the hook and ladder race
first place in chiefs race and second
in the street parade. Chief George
A. Raynar of this city was elected
president of the state association.
Laboring under the delusion thai
DR.. E. L. Tompach, a leading physt
clan of Racine, had been instrumental
in sending him to the Northern Insane
asylum eighteen months ago, Frank
Dolezal, fifty years of age, made
vicious assault upon the physician,
and attempted to kill him with rocks
John Miller of Chippewa Falls was
almost killed by 3OO-pound cake OF
ice which struck him in the head
falling from a height of thirteen feet
The ice, after making several bad
wounds on the head and face, injured
him in the shoulders and leg.
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