Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

The Racine police are looking for
Joseph or Frank Rutkuski, who is
charged with robbing his roommate
Joe GoziWieski, of $40.
John Macarthur was run over in the
North Western yards at Fond du Lac
and his leg cut off below the knee.
Sneak thieves entered two dental of
fees at Racine by means of skeleton
keys recently, and carried away $10C
worth of gold and other property.
The new city directory of Racine
shows 1905 names, against $3.50 a
yea rago. Figuring on the usual per
cent it gives Racine a population OF
38,464.
At a meeting of the Cambridge Bust
ness Mems association preliminary ac-
ton was taken for a home coming anG
harvest festival to be held on Aug. II
II and -.
State Bacterio!ogist Bowles is ii
Sheboygan for the purpose of ascer-
tanning whether an extension of tho
intake pipe into the lake would give
residents here better water to drink.
Mrs. Jacob Gilsdorf, an old resident
Of Fond du Lac, committed suicide by
jumping into the river. The body was
-: 0fetl n. iii health i" alN' -..
cause. She was nearly sixty years
Old.
Fire broke out in q pile of coal a
the cocks Of the Barwind Fuel com
pany at Appleton, and the fire depart
ment and the steamer O'Earc wer
called in to aid in extinguishing the
blaze.
The water has been turned into the
conduit and marks the completion OF
one of the largest undertakings in
Fond du Lac The pipe line is $500
feet long, and has cost approximately
$4,000.
Postmaster Valentine of GAINESVILLE
says that there was nothing of value
in the two sacks OF mail which were
stolen from the railroad depot there
recently 1t contained only second
C!aS.. matter
Charles Dietz, employed by the Coll
mar DroE. COrcuS, Wnlje Vi+NiNg g..
Ringing Bros barn at Baraboo, was
kicked on the head by a horse, and
died soon after His home was at
Hunters Run. Pa.
George Snidervin of Waterford town
ship, Racine county, has pleaded gull
ty to selling liquor without a license,
and was fined 500 and costs. This is
the third time that he paid a fine on
the same charge.
A CONSIGNMENT of 10000 brook t;0u'
fry has been received at Wausau and
taken to the headWaters of Little Rib
river and planted. They were ship
ped from the fish hatchery at Madison
upon the request of local sportsmen
Frank Coutey has been arrested al
Eau Claire on a charge of stealing q
sold watch from Samuel Gauthier, a
hotel proprietor, and his wife is also
held as accessory to the act. The
watch was recovered through Mrs
Coutey.
Henry North, an employe of the
La Crosse Stone company, was Sc
verely injured by a premature eXplo-
sion of dynamite in the quarry on
Cr2ndad bluff His face and hands
were badly burned, and the flesh torn
in places.
On a charge Of having set fire to
his store in order that he might de-
fraud the insurance company out OF
nearly 81 1900 r. G. Johnson, formerly
general merchant in the village OF
Langlade, was bound over to the cir
cult court.
After mourning her, father as dead
for twenty years, Mrs. Fred Poethig
of Sheboygan has received a letter
from him, announcing that he is alive
and we'll at San Francisco. He will
arrive here to visit his daughter with
in a month.
Martin Keister Of Rock Grove was
fined SIS and costs at Freeport on a
charge of running a "blind pig" and
gambling at his home. Later Keis-
ter appeared on a charge of assault
and battery upon Fred k!oeppiAg, and
was fined $50 and costs.
The $4,000 steel bridge over the Red
Cedar river at Menominie, which was
to have been completed by April 1, is
still unfinished. Construction has been
DELAYED by the ruins of former bridges
encountered in placing the concrete
abutments, but the bridge Will be used
for traffic in a short time.
Herman TOpp of the town of Cen
ter for whom Sheriff I. L. Fisher and
Constable William Dulin have been
hunting in the Evansville marsh for
three days, drove to GAINESVILLE and
.il"rcrae cd him self T"pD is "'or'Ad
on the charge of uttering a number
of worthless checks on the Grange
bank at Evansville.
Charles L. Stowell has been arrested
at Oshkosh, charged with having
passed a check for $2S.56 upon Thorn
as Ryan. When placed under arrest
he was in the saloon of Gottlieb
Pueppke negotiating for the cashing
of another check of the same amount.
:
A marble from shotgun was the
unusual missile which wounded ff-
tocn-ycar- Old Charles Hessian Of
GAINESVILLE recently. Price James, elev-
en- years of age, found the gun, and,