Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-11-19
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

| E. DuttOn, was killed in q collision OF
an automobile and street car at
Green Bay.
Herman Schilling of Altoona, charg-
ed with stealing brass from the Oma-
ha road, pleaded guilty and was sen.
fenced to thirty days in Jail.
Helen Theo Grove, University of
Wisconsin, '07, Madison, has accepted
position as tutor to children of mis-
sionaries in Northern Persia.
Harry Cox, son Of Mr. and Mrs.
John Cox of the town of Avon, had his
right foot and ankle badly crushed by
getting 1t caught in a corn shredder.
John A. Awkward, Joseph E. Davies.
and M. B. Olrich of Madison have as
ISOLATED themselves in a Arm to be
known as Award. Davies & Olbrich.
Seven fran buildings at Chippewa
| Falls, owned by J. D. Ball, were de-
stroyed by fire, believed to be of in
cendiary origin. The loss was $4,000.
Louise Boyle, aged fifty, of Prentice,
was killed by freight train while
walking on the track On his way to
a lumber camp few miles south of
Phillips.
Henry Baldwin, charged with oon-
Quoting a disorderly house at La
Crosse, was bound over for trial under
$1,000 bonds. Girls who frequented
his place gave damaging evidence.
Gov Davidson has received the
resignation of State Veterinarian D.
held the Office for two years. No
reasons are given for his resignation.
| Arrested at the doors of the peni-
Tertiary, from which he had just been
released after serving a years SEN
tence, Harry Brown was brought to
La Crosse to be tried On a larceny
| charge.
| Twenty-three specimens of the Here
ford herd of cattle from the farm of
w. S. Cargill and D. G. Macmillan
near La Crosse will be sent to the
National Live Stock show at Chicago
this month.
Discovery in time of a bad leak
in the Wisconsin river dam at Toma-
hawk prevented a possible washing
away of part of the dam and more
serious damage. The water has been
drawn off.
A Sunday dinner crowd had a SEN
sation in Kenosha when Mrs. Laura
Wells, widow, forty years of age.
took strychnine in the dining room
of the Central restaurant. She is in
a critical condition.
A meeting will be held in Eau
| Claire at the G.. A. r. hall Of the stock
holders of the Eau Claire Equity ex-
change for the purpose of taking def
mite action on the proposition Of estab-
fishing an equity exchange there.
Owing to an epidemic of scarlet
fever churches, theaters, and schools
are closed at Richland Center, and all
public gatherings prohibited in ire
city. The cases are in mild form so
far, and no deaths have resulted.
A new business block at Fond du
Lac on East First street adjoining
the Commercial National bank build
| ing, two stories In height, 20x100, of
brick construction with stone trim
mings, will be erected by the Ahern-
Mccoy company.
The Eau Claire county board is hold
| ing it's annual fall meeting. The ap-
preparations for the coming year will
be in the neighborhood of $128,000.
| The report of the supervisor of assess
ments showed the total value of real
and personal property in the county
to be $19.723,288.
The case of Olive Gaskill against
the Milwaukee road and the La Crosse
! City Railway company for the death
of James Gaskill, her husband, has
! been settled at La Crosse. The case
was to have been tried before jury
and already some testimony had been
taken before Judge Brindley.
The left leg of Rudolph Donnerstag,
the alleged counterfeiter, who was
shot while resisting arrest, was am
putated at Rhinelander, the operation
being necessary to save the prisoners
! life. A dum-dum bullet had passed
through the feshy part of the right
| leg and shattered the bone of the left.
In a fit of insane jealousy, eighty
four-year-old Eland Olson Of Virqua,
| killed his wife, one year his junior,
and then attempted suicide. Olson
on frequent occasions recently, it is
reported, had upbraided his wife,
claiming she was receiving attentions
from a farm hand. The husband can
not recover.
While on the way to La Crosse in
an auto to secure doctor and during
a stop at the Milwaukee railroad
crossing at Bangor, the machine Of
Nicholas Elsen was badly smashed as
the result of collision with box
car. Nicholas Elsen, proprietor OF the
Elsen house in Bangor, was driving
the car and was accompanied by
George Gerletti They were forced to
Jump for their lives. Both escaped
uninjured.
Andrew Jensen &, Sons of New Lon
don will cut 100000 feet of white
pine logs at Muscallonge lake this
winter, and have already started work
on their camp. Mr.. Jenesen owns eleve
forties at Muscallonge lake bearing
| 100000 feet of pine.
William Clark, brakeman on the
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