Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-05
Wisconsin
News From
All Parts of
the State.
Badger
Briefs :.

small boys at JdnoSplIl0.
An unknown person entered the sa-
Don of Andrew Embretson at Stanley
by breaking a rear window and stole
about $50 in money.
Edward Bingham of Koshkonong
has shipped by express 10000 pounds
Of dressed turkeys to the Waldorf-As-
toria hotel of New York city.
Aid. Norris C. Bachelor of La Crosse
has decided to the city for park pur-
poses forty-three acres of land at the
southern extreme of the city.
Just one hour after being adjudged
insane, Peter Riley of La Crosse, aged
sixty-two years, died on train en-
route to the Mendoza state asylum.
The Polk County COOPERATIVE COM
pany's store in Amery was totally de-
stroyed by fire, together with the en-
tire stock of merchandise, mourning
loss of $4,000
While impersonating Santa Claus,
Thomas S. Morris, an officer of the
Capitol City Paper company OF Madl-
son, was badly burned about the face,
head and throat.
John Mckinley, a farmer living near
West Salem, was attacked by large
timber wolf in his farm yard while the
animal was trying to enter the stables.
Mckinley killed the wolf
Former Supervisor August Pulls, in
the municipal court at Milwaukee,
pleaded guilty to two indictments
charging bribery in connection with
county contracts and was fined $500.
Workmen excavating for water
mains in the northwest part of Beloit
unearthed bones which Dean Collie,
geologist of Beloit college, says are
those of a mastodon of prehistoric
times.
One of the largest land deals in the
history of Northern Wisconsin was
made by the American Colonization
Company of Chippewa Falls when it
purchased $4,000 acres of land in Bay
field county for 100000.
A letter from John F. Dietz Of
Thornapple dam states that every
thing is quiet at the dam, there having
been no one at his place since Dec. /.
The lumber company is not operating
the camp near the dam this winter.
L. H. Branch, a rural mail carrier,
was struck and seriously injured by
Milwaukee train at Durand. His mail
wagon was completely wrecked and
one of his horses received injuries
which may make it necessary to kill
it.
The big steamer Sheldon Parks was
launched at the shipyards at Superior
last week. She was christened by
Miss Esther Margaret Parks, the
daughter of Attorney Parks of Cleve-
land. for whom the steamer was
named.
A warrant was issued at La Crosse
for the arrest of Miss Lillian Losching
of Bangor on the charge Of murder IN
the first degree. The girl is alleged
to have given birth to a child, and to
escape detection to have strangled it
to death with a cord.
Edward Fl. Hungerford and Wilbur
Allen Of Mansion were sentenced to
eighteen months in state prison at
Waupun for stealing a hand car and
colliding with q fast mail train on the
Milwaukee road, in which brother Of
Hungerford met his death.
There is a hitch in the settlement of
the big estate Of the late Thomas
Driver Of Racine Thomas Driver was
the pioneer sash and blind manufac-
turer of Racine. There were many
sons and daughters and widow as
heirs and troubles sprang up.
The old store building at Wagon
Landing, near Osceola, erected about
forty years ago, was burned to the
ground recently. The building has not
been used for store purposes for sew
eral years. The fire is supposed to
have beer of incendiary origin.
The Business Mems Advancement
Association of Waupaca has just
printed 5000 circulars, setting forth
the advantages of Waupaca as man
ufdCCur1nS UOWU, dS d lGSluCLSO SANJ ,
and also the Chain-'o-Lakes as sum-
mer resort, and Waupaca is the largest
potato handling city in the state
Racine college trustees are anxious
to erect a new gymnasium on the
grounds in connection with other
structures F. K Bull, Richard T..
Robinson and Frederick Robinson Of
fered to give $4,000 provided the col
Iege folk would raise a similar amount.
In order to do this the college trustees
have decided to sell large part Of the
western part of the college grounds.
Paul Hecker and Charles Seymour,
well known Kenosha gamblers, plead
ed guilty to the charges against them.
Each was fined 800 and costs, the
largest punishment under the statute
under which they were arraigned.
Police and Fire Commissioner John E.
Heating and William Kupfer, who
were arrested at the same time as
Hecker and Seymour, did not appear
in court.
Papers have been filed at Racine
confirming the sale of the Horllck