Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
Wisconsin
News From
All Parts of
the State.
Badger
/ Briefs.


The national fraternity of Phi Gam
ma Delta held its district convention
at Madison.
Within a few days papers for the
incorporation of Corliss, seven miles
west of Racine, as a village will be
filed.
Helen Smith, six years old, was
probably fatally burned by her cloth
ing catching fire from bonfire at Eau
Claire.
Simon Fret, a retired farmer, com
mitted suicide at Wonewoc with
strychnine in dependency over ill
health.
Helen KozlowslIi, two years old, died
in Milwaukee from the effects of
burns received by the explosion Of
coffee pot.
John Amends, proprietor of the Ra-
cine Feet Knitting works, took his en-
tire force of 100 young women to
comic opera performance one night
last week.
Ruth Walstad, the seven-year-old
daughter of Theodore Walstad. prob
ably was fatally burned at Superior
while attempting to start a fire with
kerosene.
The state BARRIERS examining board
when in session in Eau Claire allowed
many grizzled lumberjacks to have
their hirsute adornments removed
free of charge.
Alva C. Austin, Lawrence universe
ty, of the class of 1906, has just been
appointed to a fellowship at Boston
Tech. He is a graduate of the James
vile high school.
Members of the Modern Woodmen
of America at Franksyille have bought
the old Congregational church proper
ty at that place and will rebuild and
make it modern hall.
John Reith Milwaukee boy, is in
Jail at Racine on a charge of having
stolen a horse from Thomas Cunning
ham OF Burlington, and making an at
tempt to sell the animal.
Winter grain and clover have been
largely killed in Dunn county by the
late cold weather.. Alternate freezing
and thawing without the protection OF
snow has caused the trouble.
Dunwirk Gejel the man who fell
from the team and was run over at
the stone quarry at Spring Valley,
died at the Mondovi house. He was
Russian and stranger there.
Antoine Gordon, a half-breed Chip
pewa Indian, and Douglas county's
Oldest inhabitant, died at his home in
Gordon He was over 100 years old,
but he himself did not know his exact
age.
In exhausting a boiler at the Kurth
brewery at Columbus, by the bursting
of a boiler, Herman Kurbis, fireman,
aged twenty-five years, was severely
| scalded, dying within a few hours af-
| terward.
Five generations in one family were
| present at the McBain household at
| GAINESVILLE at the arrival of a baby
daughter The mother is 16 years old,
the grandmother "a, the great grand
mother Sc and her father 81.
Mary Ludwig, twenty-five years old,
a helper in the Disman house laundry
at Prairie du Chen, accidentally had
her right hand crushed to the wrist in
power wringer, and but for timely
assistance would have lost her arm.
One thousand people witnessed the
marriage of Frederick James and Tsa-
belle Fulton in lions cage in thea
ter at Racine. James is a lion tanner
and neither he nor his bride exhibited
any signs of uneasiness.
The American Society of Equity Of
Dunn county, including about 700
farmers, has voted not to contract to
raise sugar beets for less than SIS per
ton. The price of sweet corn, wool
and other articles are under consider
alton.
Because farmers in Chippewa and
Eau Claire counties persist in demand
ing Sc per to for sweet corn, the can
neries have decided to quit canning
corn this season. The companies
claim that at the price of S. to $3.50
paid last year they were not making
money.
The dead body of Robert Riedel Of
Granton was picked up by the Merri-
Ian passenger train near Marshfield.
1t is supposed that he was struck by
one of the night trains while return
ing to his home. The deceased was
an aged man and a recluse of marked
peculiarities.
n. P. Peterson, blacksmith, while
putting up an awning in front Of
store at Waupaca, let sharp knife
slip and strike his left wrist, cutting
an artery A physician happened near
and the flow of blood was quickly
stopped, though he will lose the use
of the arm for some time.
Detectives of the Northwestern
railway are looking for young man
who placed some small crystals, hav7
ing the property Of evaporating and
throwing off strange odor, in a pas
senger coach at Eland Junction. ASo
sickening did the atmosphere Of the
coach become that the passengers
were compelled to leave.
Jacob Schneider, twelve years old,
went to Sunday school at Eau Claire
Sunday morning last and disappeared.
His parents and the police are search
ing for him. The case is mysterious.
The mother fears the boy has been
kidnapped or drowned.
]. G. McLeish of Chicago, expert &C
countant sent to Racine by Mayor