Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

sane and was committed to the asylum
at Mendoza
The convention of the state fedora
ton of labor will be held at Fond du
Lac July 1918.
/ A burglar entered the store of Matt
Ames at Barronett and took number
of razors and shoes.
Charles Bredburg, convicted at Ash
land of conducting a disorderly house,
was fined $50 and costs.
The Rev. C. NJ Holseth of La Crosse
was acquitted of the charge of SLAM
dering Albert j. Smeberg.
Superintendent of Schools S. A.
| Oscar of Washburn has been engaged
| by the school board for another term.
| The plans for the government build
| ing at Kenosha have been completed.
The building and site will cost $751;
| 900.
The Liederkranz of Menomonie will
entertain the German societies of
Fall Creek and Eau Claire on June 20
and Fl.
Two months ago J. H. Rodinius,
farmer living between Whitewater
and De!avan, caught several wild
geese. He is tanning them.
Right Rev Bishop Fox's country res
idence in the town of Allouez, two
miles south of Green Bay, was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
The body of an unknown man was
taken from the power canal of the
Rhinelander Paper company. There
was nothing on the body to identify
the remains.
| The Lemonweir river has been
swelled by recent rains until it has
| burst it's banks to the east and west
of Mansion and is flooding the farms
on both sides.
Pope Plus has decorated A. B. Nc
Donald of Chippewa Falls with the
Order of St. Gregory the Great. The
honor will be formally conferred May
20 by Bishop Schwebach.
| John Barker, a prominent business
man of North Freedom, was acct
dentally shot and killed by the dis
charge Of a rife which he was pulling
through barb wire fence.
The coroners jury at Appleton re-
turned verdict that Mrs. Carrie
Shaw of HortonvilIe, Wis, whose
body was found in mill pond a week
ago, met her death by suicide.
The cheese factory belonging to
William F. Koch at Cedar Lake was
totally destroyed by fire. The loss is
5000; partly covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Louis Sorenson, aged fifty-one years,
was found dead on the river bank at
Waukesha From the fact that there
were six wounds on the head, made
with q rock, the authorities believe he
was murdered.
Louis A. Void was taken to Wau-
pun by Undersheriff Johnson of Wash
burn, having been convicted upon
charge of desertion. Void was
brought back from Washington, where
he mad DSGn lOE LWO years.
Anton Gilbertson was drowned
while fishing near the Little Mill in
Hudson. He had brought his boat in
the wake of the fume of the dam,
when the force of the water upset it
and precipitated him into the lake.
Mrs. Reuel Weston, one of the pio-
neer of Wisconsin and resident of
La Crosse for fOrty-two years, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma
Weston in La Crosse, of old age. She
had passed her ninety-eighth birthday.
F. W. Lehman was severely burn
ed by the explosion of a barrel of roof
paint which exploded and started
fire in the lumber yards of Lehman
& Schroeder at Watertown. The
blaze was extinguished with slight
loss.
A deluge of rain, which continued
through the greater part of the day,
caused rapid rise of all rivers and
creeks in the vicinity of La Crosse,
and floods resulted which did wide
spread damage to crops and washed
out roads and bridges in many places.
Carl Fritz. a drug clerk for the
Johnson & Hill company at Grand
Rapids, was killed by an electric
shock while he was turning on an
electric light in the basement OF the
store. 1t is thought that the trans
~ NV oh
previous night, short-circuiting and
grounding the direct current and
making the metallic end OF the lamp
cord a live wire. Death was instan-
taneous.
William Baldwin of Oshkosh, car
penter about forty years OF age, was
drowned while fishing. He fell Off the
naddlewheel of steamer tied up at
a dock on the Fox river, while trying
tn reach a pike which he had caught.
He was in the water only ten min
utes and is believed to have been
taken with a cramp. He is survived
Inv a wife. When the body was re-
covered it was found that Baldwin
had the fish clutched in one hand.
Albert Parker of Hancock, aged
twenty years, dropped dead from
heart disease during game OF base
hall at Armenia. The young man was
afiicted with organic heart trouble,
and in spite of repeated warnings
against over-exertion Joined the Ar
menia nine in a game of baseball. He
was making a home run when his
heart failed and he fell dead without