Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-06-11


below Glidden.
Oscar Bartlett paid a fine of 1925
for using unclean utensils in a cheese
factory at Waucousta.
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One hundred brook trout were
killed by refuse thrown into the foun-
tain at the city hall park at Ashland
Since the formation of the Business
Mems organization at Merrill it is pro-
posed to form Twenty Thousand
club.
Judge Brindley of La Crosse sent
Frank Netwal, aged sixteen, to the re-
form school at Waukesha for robbing
the baseball park.
The Superior branch of the Wiscon-
sin Humane society elected T. B. Mills
president Mrs. c. P. White secretary
and Charles A. Chase treasurer.
Walter Latosencli of Rusk county
and Prof. Markham of the University
Of Minnesota are prospecting on lands
in the vicinity of Cornell that are said
to contain iron.
Joseph Miller of Marinette was in
jured by falling under a North West
ern freight train which he attempted
to board while it was in motion. losing
an arm and a foot
Albin y. Polasek of La Crosse, a
student at the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, was awarded a scholar
ship of $500 for four months travel
and study in Europe.
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Fishermen say that there are so
many carp in the Fox river around
Berlin that other fish can not live.
They believe bounty ought to be
paid for catching this specie of fish.
At meeting in the town of Dexter
it was decided to construct new
steel bridge across the Yellow river at
Dexterville, on one Of the main county
thoroughfares, bonding the town for
that purpose.
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The Chetek Motor Boat club is soon
to be formed with members on the
Chetek chain of lakes. Bridges, lights,
signals, landings and safety of cot
tages and lodges will be within the
clubs scope. A membership of 100 is
expected
That he was hypnotized when he
shot down and killed Mrs E. H. Orvis
in the Methodist church at Oakfield at
the close of the morning service last
Sunday is the claim of Grant Poole,
who is in Jail at Fond du Lac, charged
with the murder and this defense will
be urged at the trial
Nick Brodzki, blaster at the quarry
at Berlin, met with an accident which
may cost him his eyesight. While ig-
hitting a blast a premature explosion
struck him in the face a charge of
powder entering both eyes and badly
cutting his ear and cheek He will
lose one eye and possibly the total
sight.
The body of Peter H. Jetberg, twen-
ty-two years old and unmarried, of
Amherst, was found in a shed at the
rear of the Grimes livery stable in
Neenah. Jagged wounds were dis
covered in the dead mans head. Jet
berg recently received $500 in cash.
The police are of the opinion that the
man was murdered.
Lightning cut some strange gyra-
lions at the home of G. McCoombs of
Eau Claire. 1t demolished the chin
ney, made a big hole in the roof and
tore off the wallpaper in all the rooms.
A little girl was asleep in one of the
rooms upstairs and the walls of this
room were pierced by lightning in
three places and the girl was unharm-
ed.
The Wisconsin & Northeastern rail-
way company is the name of the new
Poysippi corporation organized to
build eight miles of road from Red
Granite to that village. The officers
are: John Moffatt, president; c. A.
Benedict, secretary; H. w. Colt, treas
urer. Arrangements are said to have
been made with the North Western
road to furnish it's crew of surveyors
to begin laying out the right-of-way
this week.
After lapse of thirty-seven years,
during which time they had not seen
each other, G. H. Chase of Iuka, Neb,,
and j. w. Chase of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, brothers, accidentally met at
the Omaha depot at Eau Claire and
talked for some time without recOg-
nizing each other They were both
on their way to Bloomer to attend the
funeral of their sister, Mrs. Josie
BarOUme.
Neighbor3 who forced an entrance
to the house found the body of Mary
Siegel, deaf mute, forty years old,
Ill luG Village Vi lINluS5, CSu IIIlCo llOIu
Black River alls. The woman had
been living in the house by herself
for some time and evidently had been
dead three or four days. Whether
death was due to heart disease or the
woman committed suicide will be de-
termined at an autopsy.
The Dunn county board elected
George Galloway chairman. Petitions