Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-16

neighbor.
A needle which had been in the
body of Edward Smale, city sales
agent at Racine of the Racine Sattley
company for eighteen years, has been
removed
Conrad STRAIN, assistant keeper of
the Racine reef lighthouse since it
opened. has been notified that he had
been appointed keeper of the Peshtigo
reef light, with headquarters at Green
Bay.
A damage suit against Jake thinner,
formerly of the Cadillac agency, has
been started at La Crosse by Timothy
A. Lewis for 81 200 damages as re-
suit Of being run down by an automo-
bile.
George Eggett, living about five
miles out of Glenwood, while suffering
with a headache said he would go out
doors for awhile. He went out, but did
not return. and no trace of him can be
found.
Lizzie Denomie-B Brooks, known on
the Indian reservation as 'the tiger"
took an overdose Of cocaine in hack
in which she was being taken to the
police station at Ashland. She will re-
cover.
A farmers meeting is to be held at
Forest Junction, Calumet county, for
the purpose Of increasing the mem
bership of the Farmers Society of
Equity, which has recently organized
at Dundas.
Frank Bagonic and Stephen Formel-
la were severely burned at the Berlin
quarry by the ignition of powder
which one of them carried, and which
he dropped while blast was being
touched off.
Bronson Potts and Harold Evjen,
BARRIERS of La Crosse, have been sum-
moned to appear before the state
board of BARRIERS examiners May 1 to
answer charge of conducting unsani-
tary shops.
A meeting of the members of Eagle
most. G. A. R., and interested citizens
is to be held at Eau Claire April 20
for the purpose of adopting plans for
securing the state G. A. R, encamp-
ment for this city for 1909.
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John Mcmahon is under arrest at
Eau Claire on charge OF burglary.
He was found attempting to force an
entrance to the st. Patrick's church
parochial residence, it is said 1t is
believed that he is insane.
Suffering from a severe headache,
Miss Ida Harer of FoOtville took the
contents Of box of headache tablets,
and Immediately fell as though dead.
Physicians worked several hours be-
fore she regained consciousness. She
will recover.
Although he drank enough lauda-
mum to kill two men under ordinary
circumstances, the two-year-old son of
William Greech at Chetela is alive
and experiences no i'll effects from
the dose. The child drank the con-
tents of bottle of the poison while
the mother was absent from the room.
Owing to the wrangle at Eau Claire
over the city lighting question, which
involves propositions from the Eau
Claire Gas Light company, Welshbach
Street Lighting Company of America,
and the Chippewa Valley Railway
Light and Power company, also a pro
posal of municipal ownership, it is
thought that an expert on lighting
will be hired to look over the field
there.
At the annual meeting of the Grand
Rapids Federation of Women's clubs,
officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: Mrs F. w. Kel-
log, president; Mrs. D. D. Conway,
first vice president; Mrs. J. F. Mac
Kinnon, second vice president; Mrs.
Charles E. Boles, secretary; Mrs. O..
r. Hougen, treasurer
Washing of store windows by Eau
Claire merchants will only be permit
ted before o'clock in the morning
Violations of the order will be punish
ed by fine.
BY the will of Miss Catherine Stan
ton of Boonville, N. Y, former resi-
dent of Fond du Lac, 800 is left to
the Rev Matthew F. McEvoy of Mil
waukee for masses for the repose OF
the soul of her brother, Peter Stanton
!:
Frank Knepple of Chippewa Falls
has purchased one of the oldest plan
tations in Appomatox county, Va, con
sisting of 397 acres and excellent
buildings, for $4,000. The plantation
has been in the same family since the
patent was granted by the British
crown before the Revolution.