Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-21


at GAINESVILLE.
Mrs. Richard Heck's two-year-old
daughter was kicked to death by a
horse in pasture at Drywood.
The Polish societies have united on
a plan to purchase statue of Koscius-
ko to be erected in one of the parks at
Kenosha
J. V. Young of Eau Claire has been
appointed manager for the Wisconsin
Telephone company at La Crosse, sue
ceeding F. L. Shuman, resigned.
Fishermen say that Lake Winnebago
and adjacent streams are being denud-
ed of pike by the fish hatcheries in
their activity to obtain spawn to stock
distant lakes.
Will Royson, carpenter was killed
and three other workmen were injured
in the wreck of new house in Mo-
zamanie, where a wind storm did
much damage.
Lillian Flood, the ten-year-old
daugter of John Flood, a prominent
resident of Galesville, was shot in the
breast accidentally by her younger
brother. She will recover.
BY the failure of George H. Stapley
& Co., brokers of Cincinnati, Ohio,
who have a branch in Racine, it is
said that Racine spectators dropped
a great deal of money. The amount
is estimated at between $4,000 and 49,
000
Between Is and 100 Lawrence uni
versity students, members of the fra
ternities and sororities, have engaged
cottages at Aloha beach, on Lake Win
nebago, and will camp there for two
weeks after the close of college on
June II.
Boys along Rural Route No. 1, lead
ing out of Washburn, have been caus-
ing a good deal of trouble for the car
rier by destroying the mail boxes
along the route. The matter has been
reported to the authorities at Wash
ington.
The houseboat of alleged disreputa-
BILE character which has been anchor
ed in the Mississippi river opposite La
Crosse since the lid was put on in that
city, dropped down the river couple
of miles as a result of the publicity
given it's affairs.
Rev. A. J. Olson of Grand Rapids
had the misfortune to seriously injure
the sight of his right eye while split
| ting kindling wood. A piece of wood
entered his eye and the member was
so badly injured that it will probably
| have to be removed.
Gust Roderick, an insane patient
from La Crosse, escaped from the
county asylum and for several days
terrorized residents of the North side.
Roderick returned to the vicinity of
his old home and for many hours elud-
| ed the officers who were detailed from
the asylum to capture him, as we'll as
| the local police.
After considerable correspondence
and a great deal of agitation the fish
ermen of Douglas county are to get
some results in the way of removal of
dams in streams of the county. The
matter has been taken up with the
governor, with the state fish commits
sioners, with the game warden, and
with the fisheries superintendent.
The largest speckled trout ever
taken from the creeks in the vicinity
of Glenwood, and probably the largest
ever landed in Northern Wisconsin,
was caught in Tiffany creek by Oscar
| Platson. 1t weighed, as taken from
| the stream, four and a half pounds,
exceeding in weight by more than a
pound any speckled trout ever previ-
! ously caught in this vicinity.
Engineers of the steel corporation
are making arrangements for the right
| of way of the auxiliary railroad that
will be built from the site of the pro-
posed steel plant On the st. Louis riv-
err to Allouez bay They are picking
up right of way, and expect to start
some of the work on the road by the
middle of summer. 1t is believed
work on the plant will be begun by
July 1.
"War Club" the aged Winnebago
chieftain, and the colony of ten In
dams who spent the winter on Kosh-
konong creek, near GAINESVILLE, have
departed for their reservation in the
north. Old "War Club" who is now
over seventy years old, feared that he
would not survive the journey by
pony, and the kind hearted whites
gave a sociable for him and raised $18
to pay his fare.
Because her husband insisted on go
ing to his work in the sawmill where
he was employed, Mrs. Henry Moon of
the town of Spencer shot herself In
the head, Mr.. Moon, who had just left
the house, heard the shot and return
ed and found his wife dying. The wo-
man was twenty-five years cid. The
couple had been married two years
and had no children. The coroner will
make an investigation.
Because the Chippewa Falls police
placed them in a livery barn over
night Miles Mitchell of Drywood has
decided to sue the city for damages.
The chief of police claims that the
horses had been standing in a shed
and not cared for for over a day.
When Mitchell took the horses from
the livery barn he put them back in
the shed and is now under arrest.
In the circuit court at Racine Judge
Ludwig, holding court for Judge Bel
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