Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-30
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
Of the State.

has been formed at Askeaton.
The Swift Packing company will
establish branch house in Amigo
soon
George Jones, aged eight, of Pleas
ant Ridge, was probably fatally
kicked by colt.
Frank Lymcinski aged twelve years,
of Langdale, was drowned in the Wolf
river while fishing.
The Rev O. P Christian of Eau
Claire is in Idaho, trying to organize
state childrens home.
William Heinlein, an aged shoe
dealer of Sheboygan, fell dead on the
street, due to heart disease.
Charles Sinono of Two Rivers has
been awarded a government contract
for dredging at Sault Ste. Marie.
Some one maliciously locked the
tails of three horses owned by Ed
ward Getteman, teamster OF Beloit.
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Mosinee will have a Fourth of July
celebration this year that will eclipse
anything ever seen in this part of the
state.
Arthur Jones Of Ashland has been
given a sentence of year in the
state reformatory at Green Bay for
larceny.
The big, new barn Of Charles Ed
wards, south of Viroqua, burned. The
fire was started by the explosion of a
| lantern.
The date for the annual concert of
| the Woodmen band at the Casino at
| Waukesha has been changed from
May 6 to May Is.
| /:
Division Engineer Reed, who has
been awarded $4,000 for injuries sus-
tanned in the employ Of the Reiss Coal
company at Sheboygan.
Brakeman George McCabe OF La
Crosse has brought suit against the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy for $26,-
OOO He lost foot in an accident.
| Wisconsin Central section men all
along the line will go on strike be-
cause the company has issued a new
wage scale of 1925 per day for ten
| hours
A meteor of immense size and
brilliancy passed directly over La
Crosse one night recently and burst
over Brownsville, twelve miles south,
the rumble being heard here several
seconds later.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the interior of the sub-eiectric light
station at Hudson. 1t is thought the
| fire was of incendiary origin. The
loss will be several thousand dollars;
partly insured.
Kenosha is to abandc / the fight for
the construction of municipal cleo
| trio lighting plant as the new admin
istration has declared itself in favor
of making a new contract with the
gas and electric company.
|
At a meeting of the Eau Claire
| trades and labor council with mem
bers of the American Society OF
Equity resolutions were adopted Ia
voring the passage of the Wilson bill
and Pearre bill before congress.
:
Teachers in the county schools or
agriculture and domestic economy met
at Appleton and elected: President,
X. L. Hatch, Winneconne; secretary,
Miss Emma Conley, Wauseau; treas
urer, w. F. Handchin, Marinette.
Excitement was caused at Eau
| Claire by the disappearance OF Mar
| garet Peeso. aged three years, and
Fannie Vollum, aged four years. They
| were finally found two miles from
their homes, wandering in under
| brush.
Seim Bros. and Max Cohen each
| cashed a check for $24, and when the
checks were presented to the National
| German American bank at Wausau 1t
| was discovered they were forgerles
| The checks were limitations Of those
used by the D. j. Murray Manufac-
turing company, drawn on the First
| National bank with the name or d.
J. Murray, president, signed.
Charles Moronk, a student in the
| schools of Sorona, broke both bones
| in his left arm while playing leap
| frog. He was taken to Rice Lake,
where the wounds were dressed
Among those who saw the accident
were several who were overcome
with the boys suffering and had to
be dismissed for the day Leap
frog" is under the ban of Sarona
| now.
Durie Bajie, a deaf mute, was
struck by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Sit. Paul train near Wausaukee and
seriously injured. The man was wa :
ing along the tracks and did not{
the train whistle One of his legs was
| crushed and he sustained other in
iuries which may prove fatal.
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