Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-04

| Crosse.
The Catholic Federation of Societies
has issued a magazine entitled Our
| Interests.
TIE Barron creamery broke its
| record by churning 500 pounds of
butter in one day.
Albert Stausser, aged sixteen, of
Monroe, while milking, was kicked
down and trampled on by cow
Ignatius Beyenka has sued the SUI
| perior Shipbuilding company for $10,-
| 600 damages because he stepped into
trench of boiling water.
A heavy wind passed over Neills-
vile recently, wrecking a number of
barns and unroofing buildings and
blowing down fruit and shade trees.
Michael Strankovitch, charged with
assault with intent to rob Stanislaf
Zdunek, a fellow workman in the BIZ
ron paper mills at Grand Rapids, was
| held for trial.
Two COWS are dead and four others
are expected to die, the result of lick
| ing paint from cans thrown into what
| is known as the Teegarden pasture
west of Racine.
J. Horace Mcfarland, president of
| the Civic association will address the
Federation of Women's clubs at Grand
Rapids on June on 'The Crusade
| Against Ugliness."
Prof. Andersen of Rock Island has
been chosen by the music committee
| of the Saengerfest association as the
baritone for the festival to be held at
| La Crosse in July.
One hundred men have gone from
Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire to the
north fork of the Flambeau river to
work on the drive for the Menasha
| Woodenware company.
X. ]. North, manager of the Column
bia Nursery Company of Fall River,
was found dead at Rice Lake. The
| coroner's jury declared death to be
| due to natural causes.
Two forgers were sentenced by
Judge Fowler of Fond du Lac. R. Grey
was given three years at the Green
Bay reformatory and William Lovely
one and a half years at Waupun.
The report of Chief Steuding shows
that the Menomonie fire department
has been called out only fourteen
times during the last year. Property
to the amount of $5,368 was destroyed.
Enemies of John F. Dietz fed
| sausage to the domestic animals of
| the Cameron dam hero. FOndy, the
| famous black dog of Dietz, was taken
| violently i'll, but was saved by poison
| antidotes.
| Clarence Rogers and Albert Schultz
narrowly escaped death in an acid
vat at the plant of the Interlake Pulp
and Paper company at Appleton. Both
were seriously burned with the acid
and steam.
In an effort to abolish the danger at
| the Milwaukee railroad crossing on
Mill street, La Crosse, it has been de-
cided to remove the switching yards
from that point. The improvements
will cost 100000.
Lightning struck the city electric
light plant at Prairie du Chen and put
| it out of commission. A dairy barn on
| the Smith farm was totally destroyed
by fire from lightning, and two resi-
dences we're set on fire from the same
cause, but were saved from destruc-
! ton.
The Racine county board discussed
| enlarging or building an addition to
| the court house. A committee OF hVe
was appointed to consult with archl-
tects and county officials as to plans
| for the rebuilding or an addition to
the structure, the committee to re-
| port to the board in three weeks. 1t
is estimated that the Improvement
contemplated will cost close to $780,
| 600.
The lighting matter, which has
been up before the city council at Eau
| Claire at different times for the last
six months and resulted in numerous
| appeals to the state railroad commits
sion bv city officials and lighting COM
Danies. was finally settled by the coun-
Gil accepting the bid of the Chippewa
Valley Railway, Light and Power COM
panv to furnish 140 arc lights at a
cost of $56.40 each year.
Tn order to assist the butter and
cheesemakers of the state in produc-
inc the highest possible grade OF man.
ufacture the dairy school OF the UNI
versity of Wisconsin has Instituted
new form of report of the scores OF
the monthly exhibitions. 1t includes
| a detailed report of the exact manner
in which the exhibits receiving the
three highest and the three lowest
scores were made, so that conclusions
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of following one
or another course are easily drawn.
John Thorp of Eau Claire, who was
found dead in a cell in the jail at
I,adysmith, did not commit suicide as
at first reported from the jail. When
the taller went to give Thorp MS
breakfast he found him dead in his
bunk. A chain was about his neck
which shut off respiration and result
ed in death. The theory of the jury
was that he might have gotten his
head into the chain accidentally, so
the decision they arrived at was that
the deceased came to his death by
strangulation.
Residents of Wheaton were much
excited because they believed they
were beset by wild man. The sher1n
was sent there to investigate and
brought to Chippewa Falls Henry
c1oo+ an old man who lately lost his