Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-24
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of visitors to the Milwaukee normal
school.
Cornelius Cochran, a farmer living
near Bancroft and about fifty years of
age, attempted suicide by shooting
himself in the mouth.
At the Pierce county school board
convention L. w. Wood was unani-
mously Endorsed as a candidate for
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
Mrs. William H. George, daughter
of United States Senator Isaac Ste
phenson, died at Marinette of paraly-
sis, after a weeks illness, aged forty
four years.
The German-English Evangelical Lu-
theran st. Johns congregation has
been organized at Ashland with the
Rev. John Wolf of Phillips as tempo
rary pastor.
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Nicholas Moser was gored by a mad
bull on the farm of Christ Hochter-
man, FIVE miles from Monroe, the horn
entering the left side, making cash
of about four inches.
John M. Bolstad, aged seventy-nine
years, was found hanging from strap
in the woodshed at his home in Burke.
He committed the deed while in tenn
porary fit of insanity.
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James Harris, aged fifty-fve years,
postmaster at Prairie du Chen "a
prominent Mason and one Of the best
known citizens of Crawford county,
died of cancerous tumor.
Marshal William Fuller of Couderay
shot lynx about two miles from town
that measured five feet ten inches
from tip to tip, and is the largest lynx
ever killed in this section.
Miss Zoa Laschapelle of Wausaukee,
aged twenty-five, attempted suicide by
swallowing quantity of bichloride of
mercury. Dependency on account of
i'll health is said to bethe cause.
One shipment of stuffed geese rep
resenting twenty-eight fowls which
was shipped out from Watertown aver
aged twenty-five pounds to the bird
This is considered a record making
shipment.
Cornelius Cochran, about fifty years
old, attempted suicide at Grand Rap
ids by shooting himself in the head.
He is in a critical condition. 1t is be-
lieved he was insane at the time he
committed the act.
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Jacob L. Stuessy, a wealthy retired
farmer of Verona, near Madison, was
fatally shot while out hunting He was
alone, and it is not known whether
death was due to accident or suicide.
He was fifty-six year sold.
Flocks of Labrador cross beaks have
arrived at Chippewa Falls and are
feeding on boxelder seeds. The birds
have visited the city only six times in
twenty-five years, and each time they
have been here it has been a cold win
ter.
Woodsmen have come across the
dead body of Samuel Kowalski lying
near a trail leading from Gilman to
one of the John S. Owen company
camps. 1t is believed that Kowalski
in walking from Gilman last Sunday
lost his way and was frozen to death.
1t is known that he was intoxicated
before he left Gilman.
Pleading guilty to the charge of ad-
ministering drugs and using instru-
ments in violation of the law, DR.. D.
F. O'Brien Of La Crosse was fined $500
and costs by Judge James O'Neil. DR..
O'Brien was arrested in La Crosse
about a year ago as the result of an
investigation following the death of
Anna Olson, a Viroqua servant girl.
An AK which he carried saved the
life of Louis Wilt of La Crosse. While
crossing the Mississippi he broke
the ice in midstream. Hold
ing onto the edge of the ice with one
hand he used his AK with the other to
chop hole in it's length away, into
which he inserted the blade of the ak
and pulled himself out onto the firm
ice.
Grating a mans severed ear upon
his head was novel surgical feat per-
formed at the Menomonie River hos
pital at Marinette. About to board the
elevator of paper mill, Frederick
head became damned be-
tween the car and the shaft, and his
left ear was torn away. 1t has now
been sewed back into place, and there
is hope it will be performing it's nor
NAL functions shortly.
The Fellowship club has taken the
first step toward securing a modern
opera house for Baraboo. 1t is pro
posed to buy lot on which to erect
the building by private capital the lot
being given as bonus to the enter
prise.