Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

Tobias Nelson, a pioneer shoemaker
of Western Wisconsin, was found
dead in his bed at Onalaska.
Arthur Phillips of Hamilton, Ohio,
has been asked to take charge of the
English Lutheran mission in Oshkosh.
Despondent over money matters,
Johann Mohorics, Milwaukee tanner,
who bought farm two weeks ago in
the vicinity of Tomah, committed sui
eide by shooting himself.
Mrs. Mary Boyd of Racine, who
went to Chicago for the purpose of
attending the convention of the Royal
Neighbors, fell from a street car in
that city, and was badly injured.
Carl Low was fatally injured by fall
ing from roof which he was shing-
ling at Tilden. The fall was caused by
the breaking of the scaffold. He is
sixty years old and one of the Oldest
steelers.
Gus Johnson of Sheboygan had his
left leg crushed while attempting to
board a passenger train in Green Bay.
He was removed to the hospital,
where amputation was found to be
necessary.
Joseph Lanka, twenty-five years old,
fireman on the Prairie du Chen di-
vision of the Milwaukee road, was
crushed to death between a coal chute
and the tender Of an engine while TAX
ing coal at Prairie du Chen.
Edward Murphy applied to Sheriff
Smith at Chippewa Falls to be sent
back to Mendoza asylum, from which
he escaped last March. He had since
been tramping it about the state He
was sent to the asylum in 1906
While rummaging in pile of rags
in an old house at Stockton, abandon
ed thirty years ago, Rose Tovey Doyle
found $3.50 in bills and some coins
tied in an old sock. 1t is believed to
have been hidden there by her grand
mother, who formerly occupied the
house.
The four-year-old daughter of John
Flood of Galesville was shot through
the body by brother few years old
err The boy was shooting at target
with a 22-caliber rife when the child
got in line with the gun. The bullet
entered the chest and came out
through the shoulder. The child is
still living.
An epidemic of hog cholera which
has attained dangerous proportions is
raging in the vicinity of La Crosse.
Thirty-five hogs, embracing the entire
herd of P. Tabster, a Midway farmer,
were killed by the ravages of the
dread disease. Extreme measures are
being taken to confine the disease to
that locality.
Mrs. G. S. Scott of Richland Center
has a chicken with four we'll develop
ed legs, two Of which are on the fowls
back. j. w. Paul of La Fargo has a
hen which has just Matched a four
legged chicken. One pair of legs are
of normal size and in the regular
place, while the other pair is just in
front of them.
Under the new naturalization law,
which requires at least ninety days
public notice of application for final
papers, only three applicants out of
eight were granted their petition for
final papers for naturalization by the
circuit court at Grand Rapids on prop
er hearing at the opening of the spring
term of the court
Fred Draper, twenty-four years old,
got his foot cut off while working at a
sawmill at Springbrook. The crew
was saving a log that was not very
sound and some of the rotten part of
the log stuck to the saw Draper at
tempted to kick it off and the saw
caught his shoe, throwing his leg over
the saw and cutting it off Just above
the ankle.
Drinking bottle of liquid hair re-
newer, Mrs. Martha Houser, wife of a
prominent Sand Lake Coulee farmer,
tried to end her life and was saved
only by the prompt interference of
friends, who administered a powerful
emetic. Other queer actions led to
her detension and examination and
she was declared insane and taken to
the state hospital.
Chief of Police Shaughnessy of Mad
ison has broken up the night beer key
parties of students For several weeks
a gang of students was wont to con-
gregate on the steps of the state his
forical library on the lower campus,
and drink beer until early in the morn
ing. The chief has threatened to ar
rest the brewers and saloonkeepers
who sell kegs Of beer to students.
Maynard Farr, a farmer living five
miles west of Chetek, claims to own
the most wonderfully productive COW
in the United States The animal is
now supporting family of four calves
which are allowed to run with the
mother in the field The calves all
were born within the last eleven
months. There are two pairs of twins,
each animal perfectly formed, healthy
and thriving.
Joseph Ruth, cashier in the Arcadia
bank, was arrested at Whitehall on
the charge of embezzlement. 1t is al
legged that he made false ledger en-
tries to cover up the deficiencies in
the accounts. A charge of perjury has
also been made against him.
The Catholic church of New Colen,
south of Milwaukee, considered one
of the finest country churches in the
state, and the parish house adjoining
were ruined by fire. The cause is un-
known. The church and parish house,
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