Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-17


The four-year-old daughter of L. Sc
zatkowski of Thorpe, during the alb
sence of her mother received burns
which resulted fatally.
John Balm, a young farmer living
near Eliva, hung himself and was
found in the woods on his place. He
was twenty-five years old.
Gustave Nielsen, aged thirty-five
years, we'll known farmer of the
town Of Salem, died at his home as
a result of injuries received in falling
from a hay NOW.
The new $4,000 municipal light and
water plant started it's wheels at
Bruce last week, and the village was.
for the first time in its existence,
lighted by electricity.
Robbers gained entrance to the She
boygan Light, Power and Railway
company's office at Sheboygan Falls.
securing SIS worth of cigars, So in
cash and other articles of small value.
In the year ending Oct. 80 Rock
county paid out $666S0 in bounties
for crows and hen hawks Under the
statute Is cents is allowed for each
crow killed and Is cents for each hen
hawk.
Thieves broke into a saloon owned
by A. Surprise at Amigo and secured
some cash, cigars, whisky and the
contents of several suit cases, which
had been left in the care of the pro-
prietor.
The Eau Claire anti-tubercuosis
committee has received from the Wis
cOnsin Anti-Tuberculosis association
ten red holiday stamps which will be
put on sale today at banks, hotels and
leading business houses.
Peter Fisher, a lineman employed
by the Postal Telegraph company,
and whose place of residence is I'M
known, was found dead in bed at the
Lewis house at Fond du Lac. Death
is thought to have been due to lock-
jaw.
The Danish Brotherhood of Racine
will celebrate it's twenty-sixth ami
versary on Jan. 2. Dr. Max Henius
and Carl Antonsen, noted Chicago
speakers, will make addresses. Ivar
Kirkegaard of this city will act as the
POSTMASTER
Earl Cooper, Harvey Richardson,
Violet Blivins and Fannie Blivins
broke through the ice while skating
on Lake Koshkonong at GAINESVILLE
and were drowned. Mabel Brown,
who was one of the skating party, was
rescued, but it is feared that she will
die from exposure in the icy waters.
The Milwaukee Light, Heat and
Traction company, by John l. Beggs,
has asked the village board of Pewau-
kee for franchise to run an electric
line through Pewaukee. This is the
second franchise asked for in the last
few weeks, the other being desired
by the Milwaukee Western Electric
company.
Superior is beginning another cam
paign for the purpose of getting
more equitable division Of the taxes
collected from railroads of the state.
The Commercial club has taken up
the matter, and this countys repre-
sentatiOn in the legislature will be
asked to make strong representations
in the matter.
At the annual meeting of the Dane
County Agricultural society John T.
King was reelected president and
Marshall M. Parkinson was chosen
secretary to succeed M. NJ Terwilli-
ger, who declined for business rea-
sons to be a candidate for reelection.
William F. Pierstoff was reelected
vice president.
James Shelley of Chippewa Falls
adopted the novel punishment of ap-
plying to the police to have his young
son, William, placed in the city Jail
for a day or two, he to pay the cost
of the boys entertainment. The po-
lice accepted the commission, and the
boy will remain in the lookup until
the father decides the lad has had
enough.
Physicians have found in William
Chippewa Falls, peculiar subject for
study. The boys bones have become
unusually brittle, and break whenever
struck by a blow a little harder than
the ordinary. When the bone is frac
tured the injury does not give the
boy any pain and the break is healed
in a short time without the aid Of a
doctor.
August B. Schneider was smothered
to death in a coal hopper while at his
work at Superior the other day, and
was not found for some time later.
He was missed by his fellow work
men, and, going to the hopper where
his duties conferred, revealed that he
had in some manner fallen over it's
edge and was buried beneath three or
more tons of coal.
Taken from the arms Of his bride |
of less than a week. E. E. Ellsworth, |
a. prominent nurseryman, was arrest |
ed at GAINESVILLE last night charged |
with obtaining money under false pre-. |
Coleman, the son of Julius Coleman of |
lenses. A special session of court |
was held, calling the judge from din
ner, and bail was fixed at $1,000. 1t |
was furnished by two prominent bust
ness men.
The success of the farmers insti-
tute held at Whitewater last March |
has resulted in bringing two Institutes |
to Walworth county this winter. One |
will be held at East Troy on Jan. Fl |
and %. and the other at Willard on |