Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-13
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

JAN DIS VdSranlS.
Joseph Simbeck, a trusty, escaped
from the county Jail at La crosse, but
was recaptured at Winona
Rural routes will be established
Nov. 2 at Mosinee, Marathon county,
and Pittsville, Wood county
Fred Lederer, seventeen years old,
of Grafton, drowned while bathing in
the Chippewa river at Jim Falls.
Charles Whitehead of Ashland has
been appointed a clerk in the post
Office department in Washington.
Frank Armstrong, papermaker
from New York, was killed by a train
at Eau Claire. His body was cut in
two.
Fifty-one years as postmaster of
Rock Falls is the record of George H.
Chamberlain. He. is now eighty-one
years of age.
Supt. E. P. Grain was presented
with handsome Morris chair by the
teachers attending the county insti-
tute at Fond du Lac.
The Modern steam laundry of La
Crosse was enjoined from using a low
grade coal, said to be responsible for
the dense smoke emitted.
The city of Oshkosh has been prom
ised new depot by officials of the
Wisconsin Central who were there on
the annual inspection tour.
Charged with forging checks
amounting to 500 George A. Williams,
aged sixty years, was bound over to
the circuit court at Marinette.
Charged with breaking a seal and
taking barrel of beer from a car,
Henry Fredericks and Joseph Ceyn-
over are awaiting trial at Beloit.
Frank Kenosha, a half-breed Chip
pewa Indian, was arrested at Spooner
by Deputy Sheriff Stratton for an al
legged brutal assault on his mother,
Mrs. Pebewinne.
The unidentified body of a man was
found in the river at La Crosse, and
while the coroner's jury decided death
was due to drowning, mystery sur
rounds the case.
John J. McNally has resigned as
secretary of the Business Mems Asso-
citation Of New Richmond and will be-
come identified with a mercantile es.
Enlistment at Chippewa Falls.
Both the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern drawbridges, at Superior,
which have been out commission for
some time, were opened Monday and
trains and street cars are using them
again.
Following a decision of the state
rate commission that no rebates must
be allowed, the Wisconsin Telephone
company has more than doubled its
rate on telephones used by the city of
Fond du Lac.
The state conservation commission
recently appointed by Gov. Davidson
met and organized at Madison. Of
ficers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, presi-
dent of the University of Wisconsin;
secretary, E. M. Griffith, state fores-
ter.
The fact that he had married a
Polish woman instead of an American,
as he supposed, was hard blow to
Conrad Koeffler, a we'll known farmer
in the town of Pewaukee, and he was
granted a divorce. He claimed that
CHI II in nj
months.
Forest fires burned over a fifty-acre
tract of white pine woods and threat
ened a number Of summer cottages at
the Black river summer resort nine
miles north of Sheboygan Falls Far
mers fought the flames all night and
succeeded in getting the fire under
control
Duncan Cameron's building, contain
ing the postoffice and a store, at
Flambeau, was destroyed by fire.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Cameron and
John Rodinger were entering to save
some of the contents, oil and powder
exploded, tearing out the store front.
Three people were badly injured.
Ernest Fl. Ritzchke of Oshkosh was
kicked to death by a horse belonging
to William Melhak at Weston. The
boy, who was eight years old, was
playing near the horse when his faith
er warned him to keep away. Just as
the boy proceeded to obey the horse
kicked him, striking him in the temple
and breaking his neck. The remains
were taken to Oshkosh for interment.
At the same place in the Omaha
yards in Eau Claire where the bodies of
two unknown men, badly mangled
and cut up by the cars, have been
found within the past three weeks, the
body of another unknown man was
found Sunday morning. The body was
cut. in two, the wheels having passed
over the stomach. There was nothing
on his person by which to identify
him.
While playing in the yard Arthur
Gum, the three-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs john Gum of Eau Claire
was attacked by dog and his arm
and hand were severely lacerated.
Henry Guse, aged eighteen, was ar
rested by the police at Eau Claire on
from Chippewa Falls,
where he was wanted for picking the
pocket of Henry Mehl of $50 in cur
rency and $1,000 in notes. When
searched Guse had a $40 bill in the
-oe of one shoe and a $40 bill in the