Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09

er $500 in damage suit against the
city of Monroe. The city will appeal.
Jacob Aebly of New Glarus.s found
guilty OF assault with intent to do
great bodily harm, has been fined $500
and costs.
During the last three weeks revival
meetings have been held in the Wood
man hall at Osceola by Evangelist J.
ID. Taylor, the sailor.
Frank Harold a farmer raar Me-
nasha, was seriously injured by COW
Which attacked him in barn and in
fiicted several wounds with her horns.
Howard Kelly, age twenty-four
years, brakeman on the Omaha rail-
road, died at his home at Cumberland
of injuries received while switching
at Clayton
George Awsumb of Eau Claire won
the annual scholarship prize of $500
for the best set of plans for a gym
nasium and bath for Grant Park, Chi
cago, from a field of ten competitors.
Viii e attending an auction sale at
John Rue's farm near Stoughton, Gun
der Halvorson, aged 20 years. prom
inent farmer of the town of Pleasant
Springs, died suddenly from heart dis
ease.
John NJ Becker of La Crosse, twice
paroled from the insane asylum, in
the mean time being declared sane,
was declared insane for the third
time upon an application made by
himself
The railroad companies whose tracks
will have to be crossed in building a
viaduct from Banks avenue TO the
Lehigh road at Superior have prom
ised to pay part of the cost of build
ing the viaduct
Chief of Police McKale of Stanley
raided a poker game in the Hotel Roy
al, and the propretors of the hotel,
together with all the players, were ar
raigned before Judge Phillips. All
paid fines and costs.
At a meeting Of depositors of the
Security Bank of Ashland it was voted
that the remaining assets should be
sold at public auction. 1t is under
stood that the remaining assets of the
bank are worth only about $4,000.
To do away with the expense OF
maintaining three telegraph oper-
ators at some of the little stations on
its lines, the Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic road is considering the adj
visibility of installing telephone sys-
tenn.
Carl Johnson, a woodsman who
was being treated at St. JOsephs hos
pital at Chippewa Falls. in a fit of
insanity, escaped from the hospital,
and. after entering three homes and
frightening the occupants, was re-,
captured.
Miss Caroline Moen a clerk in the
Farmers store at Almena, fell out OF
bed while asleep and was so severely
injured as to require medical attend
ance. One eye was completely closed
UP and her arm narrowly escaped
fracture.
While being led from the court
room at Eau Claire, where he had
been sentenced to five years in state
prison for burglary, George Clifton
made a break for liberty, tslt was re-
captured by Undersheriff Carl Dauff-
enbach.
Resolutions indorsing the policy Of
the rivers and harbors congress that
,.iI arlNn nd
waterways be made annually and that
the appropriations be increased to at
least $50,000,000 a year, have been
passed by the Commercial club of
Superior. and will be forwarded to
congress.
Mrs. julius Kraft, 80 years of age,
met a tragic death between Eau Claire
and Fall Creek She had climbed
from the railroad to an overhead
bridge, when she slipped and fell
backward nown a steep and rocky en-
bankment. Her body rolled into a
small stream and lay there for over
two hours.
Preliminary steps toward holding
TG2dIId
launch owners during the coming sum-
mer are being made at La Crosse. The
city council will be asked to provide
room for docking along the levee. The
Motor Boat club will purchase ma
rine railway and dock for use in re-
pair work Twenty-One new members
will be admitted to the association at
the next meeting ~
John P. Shean created scene when
brought before Judge O'Neill at Eau
Claire for sentence. After imploring
for mercy and calling upon the AL
mighty to witness his innocence, he
promised that he would constantly
pray for his welfare if given a light
sentence The plea, it seems, had
some effect, for the prisoner was Civ
en- four months in the county jail.
Mrs. Jane Johnson had a narrow
escape from being run over by an
Omaha passenger train near Chippe-
wa Falls She was lying asleep only
three inches from the track when the
train passed, and the trains rumbing
did not awake her. She stated she
had been exhausted in walking from
Milwaukee to Superior anc laid down
to rest not knowing a train was due.
John Ringwood clshier of the John
Schroeder Lumber company, fred
twice at a burglar who entered his
home at Ashland recently, and is
thought TO have wounded him, al.
Though the man has not been caugF