Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-25
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costing $4,000.
Oshkosh will have Homecoming
celebration, Aug. 26, the fifty-fifth an
adversary of the incorporation of the
city.
After twenty-four hours of suffering
Philip Lapointe of Red Cliffe died as a
result of injuries received in a saw
mill
The plant of the Frost veneering
and Seating company at Amigo was
destroyed by fire. The loss is about
$4,000
Senator J. H. Stout of Menomonie
will be unable to speak at Ashland
July 4 on account of being under
treatment by a dentist
While playing ball at Star Prairie
with the Osceola and Star Prairie
mines, Marian Head of Osceola broke
his left leg below the knee.
James Corcoran of Grand Rapids
was kicked by his horse. His jaw was
broken, and he was seriously injured
He is in a critical condition.
observation-disclosures probably will
cost Frank Gutzel, laborer his life,
as result of being struck by swift
intercity trolley car at La Crosse.
Richard D. Ashe of GAINESVILLE was
sentenced to eighteen months in
state prison. He pleaded guilty to
holding his wife a prisoner to wait on
| his mistress
| Carl Letcher, janitor of GAINESVILLE,
fired four shots in an attempt at sui
eide, due to domestic troubles. He
will survive The shooting was done
in the court house Jail.
Romeo Weir, the little five-year-old
son of Joseph Weir, a carpenter liv-
ing in Berlin, set fire to a neighbor's
barn while playing with matches and
was smothered before he could be
rescued. =
i versity of Wisconsin, and Elizabeth
King, also a university student, eloped
in an automobile to Freeport, Ill.,,
where they were married. They then
boarded train for New York, where
they will sail for Naples
The Rev. w. N. Coffey of Eau Claire
trained a spaniel to do tricks so we'll
that the dog was prchased for 500 by
an Eastern man, The dog would not
eat or drink with his new master and
he was sent back to Mr.. Coffey, at
whose home he partakes of meat and
drink as usual
Four privates and no noncommis-
stoned officers running for second
lieutenant is the report of an election
received at the headquarters of the
Second regiment, w. N, G., from Mari
nette. John H. Porterfield was elect
ed, and will be examined for promo
ton at Appleton this week.
The postoffice at Glen Flora was
robbed of $3.50 The robbers rolled
the small safe out doors to the rail
road track and took it about sixty rods
west Of town and loaded it with nitro
glycerin The robbery was evidently
the work of amateurs, the safe being
totally destroyed and some Of the
money being found in all directions.
After handing out drink to an
early customer, Herman Hottie, bar
tender in a La Crosse saloon, walked
to table where he was sorting some
silver and with a cry lunged to the
floor. A physician was summoned,
but Hottie died two hours later as
result of a stroke of apoplexy. Hottie
was married and leaves several chill
dren.
Fred Reed, farmer living outside
of Eau Claire, in fit of rage used his
horsewhip on the face of his neigh
boris boy, Albert Burger, aged four
teen, and seriously cut the lads face.
He was hailed into court and after
trial was fcNnd guilty and fined $37.4O
for assault and battery. Ill feeling be-
tween the two families led to the Incl
dent.
julius Paulson of the town of Sher-
nv. it is alleged, blew up new tool
house with dynamite, completely de-
stroying both building and contents.
When he learned that divorce pro
ceedings had been instituted by his
wife. it is alleged, he determined to
destroy what property he could rather
than run the risk of his wife obtaining
possession.
Mrs John E. Englart of Chippewa
Falls has received word that her hus-
band had been fatally shot at Eliza
beth, Pa, by members of gang OF
hold-up men whom he, in the capacity
of detective, was trying to arrest. He
corraled four of a gang in a wood
shoppers house and they opened fire
on him. He killed one of them before
he was struck.
AS a result of Nicholas Patrick
bringing a suit against Louis Slopka
of Chippewa Falls for $4,000 for
alternating his wife's affections and
having his wife arrested for an alleged
statutory offence, Mrs. Nicholas Pat
rick brought suit for absolute divorce
and has been granted decree. She
was also given the custody of her two
children and money sufficient for their
Fanny Barwise, forty-seven years
old, a daughter of the late George II.
Barwise, pioneer of Menomonie, was
found dead on the floor of her home.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
of death as a result of overindulgence
in opiates. Deceased was unmarried
and lived alone
insane and, therefore not guilty of
the act, is the verdict of the jury at