Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-05-28

f1SuTy LlTDSl, WHO llV0S near Ne
koosa, says he was held up on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul track
between this city and Nekoosa and
robbed of $2S in cash.
Gertrude, thirteen-year-old daughter
of Gramel Kepp of Brunswick, was
accidently shot and killed by Henry
Droege, a playmate, while she was
herding her fathers cows
Ministers and leading citizens of
Eau Claire have organized a law en-
forcement league to deal with alleg-
ed defiance of the statutes by the sa-
looms. The organization is headed by
o. H Ingram, millionaire.
Louis Toboltz, a bartender of Am
berg, was shot and killed by Dell
Ovorn, we'll known saloonkeeper of
that town. Jealousy of Ovorn over his
wife is said to have been the cause
of the tragedy. Ovorn was arrested.
Fire. which started from a stroke
of lightning, caused a loss of $4,000
in Alma. Catelburg Bros large stock
barn was burned to the ground, to-
gether with all it's contents, includ-
ing thirteen horses, nine calves and
quantity of hay and feed.
Frank Krummery met with a seri.
Gus accident while at work at the
STANCE Ellis plant at Grand Rapids.
In some manner he was caught and
drawn into a beveled gear, crushing
his left hand almost to pulp and he
also sustained severe scalp wounds.
The police broke into a residence
in the southern part of La Crosse to
find the partly decomposed body OF the
owner, Frank Retzloff, hanging from
the ceiling in one of the rooms. The
condition of the body indicated that
the man had been dead at least a
week.
The Bad river at Odanah suddenly
rose three feet last week. the water
flooding the surrounding residences,
A number of families were rescued
with rowboats. The White and Bad
rivers form junction at Odanah, and
the combined food threatened the
village.
A new religious cult which is caus
ing much feeling and no little trouble
among the Winnebago Indians in the
vicinity of Black River Falls, has
been introduced by Sam Blowsnake
and Charles Stoey. The new evan
gelists, who would do away with all
the old time ceremonies and tribal!
rites, are not we'll received by the
tribe.
Four stringent ordinances relating
to regulation Of saloons have been
introduced in the city council at'Chip-
pewa Falls. The ordinances provide
for the closing of saloons at II o'clock
at night on week days and all day
Sunday; prohibit selling liquor and
having screens in doors and windows
during closing hours.
Burglars blew the Farmers store
safe at Almena The safe was unlock
ed and there was nothing in it but
books. They ransacked the store and
secured about $50 in cash, some post
age stamps and $500 worth of silk and
jewellery, which they took away in a
suit case they found in the store.
They also blew the safe in the Olcott
lumber office, but secured only 81.
Henry Mewhorter was killed at
Glen Flora while he was at the bot
tom of a thirty-foot well. With
number of helpers he had begun to
wall up the well and a large stone
was being lowered to him in a tub.
The tub collapsed and the rock struck
Mr.. Mewhorter on the back of the
head as he was stopping over, crush
ing his skull and breaking his neck.
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The case of former City Clerk r.
A. Ferin against the e. l. du Pont du
Nemours Powder company was sud
denly brought to a close at Wash
burn, when the motion for non-suit
made by the defendants attorney
was granted by the court. Herin was
suing the dynamite company for
$50 ,OOO for injuries received while at
work at the company's plant near
this city last fall.
The postof11ce at Port Washington
has changed hands, e. S. Turner TAX
inc possession recently. H. L. Coe,
the outgoing postmaster, assisted
the new postmaster in assuming the
duties OF the position. Mr., Coe has
served the public as postmaster for
over twenty-one years, taking the Of
fee when it was fourth class, and he
has been with it through changes to
a third and second class office; has
assisted in installing rural free deliv-
erv and last week completed the in
stalIation of city carrier service. Mr..
Coe intends to take a long needed va
cation and will spend the coming
wear at indianapolis, Ind.
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Tnterurban connections soon will be
made between River View and Stan
ley and neighboring towns. A dam is
being constructed across the Eau
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