Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-07-16

Silver lake, on the outskirts of Port
age, were burned at loss Of $500.
While running in the fat mems race
at Mount Hope, John Kopp burst
blood vessel and is in a critical condi-
tion.
Thieves, entering the boat house,
robbed the equipment of the Young
Mems Christian association launch at
La Crosse.
White Lodge, belonging to Louis
Stapleton of Chippewa Falls burned
down and the inmates narrowly es-
| capped death.
Fire destroyed the Commercial hotel
at Pardeeville. oss is practically
covered by insurance. The surround
ing buildings were saved
Miss Maud Labrec, eighteen years
old. committed suicide at Chippewa
Falls by drinking bedbug poison. No
reason for the suicide is known.
William O'Connor, alias Fred Bird
and William Watson, found guilty of
breaking into box cars at Eau Claire,
have been sentenced and taken to
| Waupun
Supt George F. Penn of the state
free employment bureau in his report
for the last two years shows total Of
13,46l people who have been given
employment
John Welsh, who stabbed his wife
with ~. oF - Collie,
| week, was adjudged insane and taken
to Mendoza. Mrs. Welsh is still in a
critical condition
George Brewster's warehouses at
Chippewa Falls were destroyed by
fire. 1t is the belief of Brewster and
the authorities that the fire was of in
cendiary origin.
John O'Leary, believed to be
Fond du Lac man, was killed by
blow On the head from a piece of
timber, while engaged in moving a
house in Manitowoc.
Christ Adams hung himself at Mel
len. Strong drink and domestic troub-
les are given as reasons for his death.
He has a wife and four children and
was thirty-five years old.
Hugo Albright of Milwaukee, aged
seventeen years, pleaded guilty at
Waukesha to charge of burglary
and was sentenced to three years in
the state reformatory at Green Bay.
Nine box cars in the Omaha yards
in Eau Claire were broken into dur
ing the night and dozens of pairs of
fancy S. shoes, cases of choice whisky
and few jugs of brandy were carried
away.
George B. Beattle and his fireman,
William Steele, were buried for three
quarters of an hour under their engine
at Westby and had to be chopped out.
Their passenger train collided with
local freight
Two young women have filed COM
plants with the Eau Claire police de-
partment against four married men
for using obscene language and having
made improper advances. Arrests are
expected to follow.
John Larose was shot in the neck
by his brother and badly wounded at
Chippewa Falls. The boy had loaded
| blank cartridge with lead and point
ed the weapon at his brother, thinking
that it would not work. ~
For breaking into box car at AL
toona and taking several pairs of
shoes Fred Bird, alias William O'Con-
nor of Boston, Mass, and William
Watson of Chicago, were sentenced by
Judge James O'Neill to one years i'm
prisonment.
Reports are coming from Polk coun-
ty of raid by the green bugs on
growing grain In the vicinity of
Deer Park the damage is said to ave
been considerable and the weather of
late has been very favorable for the
work of the pests.
At the first quarterly meeting at
Eau Claire of the Luther Hospital as
ISOLATION since the institution was
opened everything was found to be in
prosperous condition Chippewa
Falls, Stanley, Strum and Meridian
were represented at the meeting.
Chippewa Valley Railway Light and
Power company has given notice that
it has decided to surrender its fran
chise and operate under an indeter-
inmate permit. A representative Of
the company says this action is taken
because it is in harmony with the
spirit of the public utility law and
the known attitude of the railroad
commission
To get ruling from the supreme
court on the question of injunctions
in labor troubles, Kenosha union men
will appeal the case of the Badger
Brass Manufacturing company against
John Daily, ct AL all members of the
Buffers and PoliShers' union. The
original order in the case enjoined the
men from interfering with the men
employed at the factory or picketing
the plant.
The general merchandise store of
the John Helm company at Tony, was
broken into, the safe dynamited and
the cash box robbed of large amount
of money. Papers and chesks were
afterward thrown away. Officers are
in pursuit.
Seventy saloon licenses, compared
with sixty-three applied for last year,
have been applied for this year in
Eau Claire Two years ago the
license was raised from 500 per year
to $500, but this resulted only in the
closing out of two or three of the