Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-09-17
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

Marinette will be dedicated Sept. 27,
Bishop Horn officiating
Fire almost totally destroyed the
building occupied by A. Alschuler at
Green Bay, the loss being about $4,000
E. o. Kney of the State bank at
Madison was-elected president of the
Madison Maenerchor for the twenty
seventh time.
While crawling through a fence
and dragging a loaded shotgun after
him, John Bona, a La Crosse grocer,
was shot and killed at Rice Lake.
Mrs. J. C. Hicks was fatally injured
and Mrs. M. M. Siddons, Mrs. P. P.
Siddon and baby were seriously hurt
in a runaway near Chippewa Falls.
The public schools at Eau Claire
will remain closed until the epidemic
of spinal disease from which many
children are suffering has subsidized.
A three-year-old boy of Frank Dan
hike of Brentwood secured some
matches and ate the heads of them
and was taken sick and died at mid
night the same day.
A large number CT farmers have
lost tons Of hay by re in the marshes
near Grand Rapids. For distance
Of three miles the Buena Vista marsh
has been burned over.
Members Of the Madison African
Methodist Episcopal church may lose
their pastor, the Rev. r. II. Cato, who
has been in charge for five years. Mr..
Cato expects to be transferred
Mrs. Charles F. Nelson, wife of the
postmaster at Dresser Junction, who
mysteriously disappeared from his
home several weeks ago, has been APP
pointed postmistress of that village.
The Tony town board has ordered
that no fires be set by any resident
between the 1st OF September and
Oct. /. The dry season and high winds
have caused no small amount OF
anxiety
The fish commission next week will
stock Rock river with about 10000
black bass. eight to ten inches in
length. The Pecatonia river at Min
9ral Point was stocked with the same
number.
While painting on the Durand high
school building, Mat York and Joseph
Schlumpf feel forty feet because OF
The breaking of the staging. Schlumpf
was little injured, but York was seri-
ously hurt.
At a meeting at Racine of the RAJ
cine and Kenosha County Veterans
association over seventy-five were
present. c. H. Blood of Kenosha was
elected president and Charles Leon
ard secretary Kenosha was selected
as the next place of meeting. COL J.
A. Watrous of Whitewater made an
address.
Though in the county jail at Keno
sha, under bonds of $4,000, awaiting
trial on a charge Of attempting to
murder his wife and Herman KOehler,
Martin Scheyler will make a determin-
ed fight against a divorce being grant
ed to his wife. Scheyler is rated as
worth $4,000, and the real fight is
being made for the possession OF his
property.
Miss Mabel jennings who was pick
ed up in a dazed condition aimlessly
wandering about in a cOrnfield near
La Crosse, has left for Chicago, her
original destination, after having re-
covered from the effects OF the drug
which she says two young men adj
ministered to her. She had little def
ute recollection of what occurred
after she had taken the drink.
District Attorney Arnold has caused
the arrest of Michael Gilbertson, a
member of charivari party at Eau
Claire, on the charge of malicious
destruction of property The unwel-
come serenaders are accused OF nav
inc shot off the shingles OF the house
of Mrs. Anderson whose son was
about to be married, and to have daub-
ed the newly painted building with
whitewash.
John Dietz, the famous Cameron
dam defender on the Thornapple river,
near Winter, had a narrow escape
from being killed while blowing
stumps with dynamite. He placed a
charge under a stump, but it failed
to explode. In about half an hour he
returned and as he was leaning over
the stump the charge exploded. Mr..
Dietz, with the stump, was thrown
about ten feet in the air, but he was
not seriously injured.
A high tribute has been paid to a
Wisconsin pastor by DR.. Aked, the
noted New York divine who lectured
at the Delavan assembly this summer.
DR.. Aked. while lecturing in the East,
referred to an address given by the
Rev. G. X. McInnis, pastor of the little
country church at Lyons, Wis, stating
that the address Of the Wisconsin
man, which he heard at Delavan, was
by far the best platform effort he mad
heard since coming to the United
States. The Lyons minister is further
complimented by the fact that Or.
Aked is suing extracts from the ad-
dress in the lectures he is now de-
livering in the East.
A storm of small extent but great
severity swept over the southern edge
of La Crosse last week, doing consld-
cradle damage to farm property and
running orchards. Several large build
ings on the farm of G.. l.. Hood, local
attorney, were destroyed.
The federal immigration authorities