Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-10
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

Charged with selling liquors to
minor girls Louis Tennis is under ar
rest at Green Bay.
Thrown off wagon in which he
was hauling grain, Peter Haas OF
Bracket broke his arm
The annual camp meeting is in
progress at Odanah. An Indian band
from LAnse is one of the attractions.
Lawrence B. Bischoff of Stevens
Point has passed the entrance exam
ination OF Annapolis naval academy.
Otto Brown, farm hand, is being
held at Florence on charge in which
four-year-old girl is the complain
ant
Christopher Larson fell headlong
twelve feet into the pit of stone
quarry at ColfaX and was fatally in.
jured.
After serving but two weeks of his
six months sentence in the work
house at Appleton Adam Hertz es-
capped.
Carl Johnson was arrested at Haw-
thorne for operating a blind pig. A
large quantity of liquors was confis-
Gated.
In connection with the annual old
settlers picnic at Beloit next year it
is proposed to hold homecoming
festival.
c. F. Laube and Sebastian Laube
will erect a new opera house on the
site of that destroyed by fire recently
at Brodhead.
With the assistance of young boy
who crept through a 10x12-inch win
dow, a gang of boys raided the Kleis
soft drinks factory at Chippewa Falls.
John Ferris of Kansas City, Mo-, is
under arrest at Neillsville charged
with breaking into and robbing the
depot. Two boys informed the Off
GERS
Maj Bracket of the treasury de-
partment at Washington, d. c., in
spected the various sites offered for
the federal building to be erected i'll
Menomonie
While working on the rural tele-
phone line at Almena, Gus Getting fell
from the top of telephone pole. His
leg was broken and he narrowly es-
capped death.
The Marinette county board has pro
vided for new bridge across the
Preshtigo river in the town of Lake,
to be single span steel structure, $50
feet in length.
H. Schannon, sixty-five years old,
of Elk Mound, fell down stairs at the
American house at Eau Claire and
died form injuries received a broken
rib having penetrated the pericardium
Jacob Meisman, farmer residing
On the outskirts OF Superior, shot and
dangerously wounded jim Scott with
the latter's own gun, after, it is al
legged, Scott had undertaken to hold
the farmer up.
In trying to step out of a roWboat.
Miss Anna Indahl lost her balance and
was thrown into the Black river at
La Crosse. David Kendall, with
whose family she had been boating,
saved her from drowning
AS the result of injuries sustained
when he fell down stairs in a hotel.
d. Schannen is dead at Eau Claire
He got up during the night and made
misstep when trying to go down
stairs, fell and fractured several ribs.
Miss Stirka Pelashera, native of
Bulgaria, who for the last five years
has been studying in this country, is
visiting at GAINESVILLE. She expects to
organize Young Women's Christian
association in her country upon her
return home
Lying in a pool of blood, with a
bullet hole in the back of his head,
Alex Fraisser, French trapper, was
found dead in his shack five miles
west of Hunitowash. He is supposed
to have been murdred for several hun
dred dollars which he had in a chest.
George Krieg, sixteen years old of
Tomahawk, was shot through the
heart and instantly killed by his
brother Robert, aged eleven years.
The brothers had their fathers gun
and the older boy in play was shot by
his brother while they were out on a
hunting expedition.
Bids for the construction of the
county agricultural and manual train
ing school at Onalaska varied $4,000.
the lowest being $4,000. w. Fl. Far
ley, who put in this bid, has been
given permission to review his figures,
fearing that he may have made an err.
ror in calculation.
Frank and Albert Latour were ar
rested at Eau Claire on a charge or
holding up a farm hand in the Mil
waukee yards. Both broke down and
confessed to number of holdups oc-
curing here of late. Both are well
known Eau Claire boys, and their ar
rest comes as great surprise.
An effort is being made by the Fond
du Lac diocese to increase the endow
ment fund from $4,000 to s5O.OOO
The total amount raised by each parish
will be added to the permanent fund
and the interest credited on the an
nual assessment of each congrega-
ton
new Roman Catholic church was
dedicated at Rock Falls, this county
Bishop Schwebach of La Crosse as
sisted by the Rev. Fathers Dunno or
Eau Claire, Whiteman of Durand and
O'Connor of Mondovi, conducted the