Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-03
In and About the State

and died the following day.
The Salvation army is planning to
raise $4,000 for building to be erect
ed as a Salvation army home in James
Vile.
A barn belonging to John Spafford
of Oasis was destroyed by fire. The
loss was about 5000, with $3.50 insur-
ance.
The veterans of the Tenth Wiscon-
sin infantry will hold their annual re-
union at Kilbourn on Sept. 10, 16
and II.
The First Congregational church o.
Darlington has extended call TO the
Rev. William Rainey Bennett of Mari
on, Ind.
For stealing SO from Milwaukee
travelling man, Dottie Glover, ne
gress. was given six months in all at
Madison.
Albert Keltzenc, aged 65 years,
professional dynamiter, was blown to
pieces while blasting rocks on his
farm near Maaawa.
Despondent because of i'll health,
Joseph Ashmuties of Sheboygan COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
river from a bridge and drowning.
The 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tetzlaff of Rib Lake was kicked
in the forehead by colt and her skull
fractured Her condition is serious.
Mrs. Robert Lynch was badly burn
ed in gasoline explosion at her
home at Stoughton, due to filling the
tank when the stove was lighted.
The F. G. & c.. A Stanley cOmpany's
lumber yard at Chippewa Falls and
shed was consumed by fire and the
company's large touring auto was de-
| stroyed.
Eating beans at picnic at Delavan
lake caused Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rails
err, Mr.. and Mrs, d. O. Heath and Mr.
McCourtney and his children to suffer
from ptomaine poisoning.
Pleading guilty to a forgery charge,
Eugene Haessly of Campbellsport was
sentenced to one year in the state
refOrmatory. Haessly was charged
with forging a check for $77.14.
::
The rate commission has completed
the inventory of the Appleton water
works and some few minor discrep-
ancies in the figures submitted by the
company to the city have been found.
John J. Burke, who was caught in
a refrigerator while robbing the Jor-
dan meat market on South Park street
Madison, and who pleaded guilty, was
sentenced to two years in the state
prison. ~.
Ernie Miller Of Cumberland caught
the record Oswego bass in Klrbes
lake, it measuring twenty-three inches
in length and seventeen inches in cir
conference and weighing seven and
half pounds.
The loss of two toes has prompted
two damage suits against the Iron
River Lumber company of Superior,
amounting to $4,000 The suits are
brought by Joseph Clucky, the injured
boy, and his father.
John Barrand who was accused OF
having written a letter demanding
money from August Klatt of Algoma,
we'll known business man with
whom he had been acquainted for
many years, has disappeared.
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The family of Erick Erickson of
Hawthorne took violently i'll with
poisoning after partaking of some blue.
berries. It is believed that some CO.
hosh berries were mixed with the
blueberries the children had gathered
Mrs. Harry Atherton of Albany was
badly burned about the face and arms
by boiling coffee, and may lose the
sight of one eye. She slipped when
reaching for the coffee On the stove.
and the contents Of the pot poured
over her.
The first conviction at GAINESVILLE OF
milkman for selling impure milk oc'
Cured when Fred Marty was con
victed in the municipal court. Mar.
ty paid his fine. The case was brought
by State Milk Inspector William
Benjamin.
While attempting to dance the
Merry Widow waltz, Mrs. F. B. Mat
toon. wife of Postmaster E. B. Mat
toon. slipped and fell heavily on the
hardwood dance floor at the Schwartz
hotel at Elkhart Lake, sustaining in
iuries which it was at first feared
would prove serious.
Frank Allis of Chicago was killed
while trying to board Wisconsin
Central train at White River. A card
in his pocket gave his mothers adj
dress.
| Mrs. August Scheele's charges that