Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-11-26
To complete the county insane asy-
lum the county of Douglas will issue
$4,000 in bonds.

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| Walter S. Daskam is interesting An
| tigo capital in a proposed state bank
to be started at that place next year.
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| Alfred Rudolph was killed by the
falling of tree, his head being
crushed. He worked in the camp at
Bagley Junction.
Three more North side homes at
Manitowoc have been quarantined
against what the doctors claim is
light form Of smallpox.
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The Eau Claire county board has
offered 5000 reward for evidence as to
persons who caused the Duluth linn
tied wreck at Kempton Oct. 20.
A Milwaukee freight train at Bea-
yer ran off the track at Marinette,
struck the home of Frank Svoboda,
and demolished the kitchen wing.
| Announcement has been made that
about $150,O00 will be spent next year
in improving the Capitol hotel at
Madison. In addition $4,000 will be
spent on furnishings.
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John Nieburh OF Verona, residing
eight miles west of Madison, had his
arm jerked out in a corn shredder.
He died before medical aid could
reach him.
| Henry Bergen, an old wOOdsman,
was killed while working in the
woods on Yellow river near Chippewa
Falls. He was telling a tree into
which large pine had lodged, and by
mistake stood under it. His head was
crushed
The Chippewa Falls authorities or
dered "Old Billy" a horse employed
| by the fire department over twenty
years, sent to the poorhouse for the
remainder of his life. A special pen
sion fund for the support of the horse
has been created by the city council.
| washington avenue property owners
at Racine refuse to pay $4,000 as
sessment for the paving of that street
with brick on the ground that they
| once paid assessments for paving with
cedar block, and that the city never
offered or made an attempt to repair
the paving.
A remarkable accident happened at
the paper mill at Ladysmith when
| Frank Hams fell onto the belt of the
paper machine and was carried four
| times around the tightener roll and
survived the terrible experience. Not
bone was broken but the man was
| frightfully squeezed.
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Engineer Forman of the Northwest
ern road suffered a sprained ankle
when he jumped off the cab as his
switch engine left the tracks at Apple
ton. Before jumping he shut the throt-
tie, bringing the locomotive to a stop
just as it was about to roll down the
embankment into the river.
Vincent BieIetta was accidentally
| hit in the face with an ak by fellow
employee in the mill of the Wausau Pa
| per company at BrOkaw. They were
driving spikes into an overhead beam,
the injured man holding the nail
which his partner was trying to drive.
The Ratchet glanced off and the edge
struck Bieletta.
The leading autumn event at Car
roll college at Waukesha will be the
production of the comedy, "The Pri-
vate Secretary" by members of the
Philomathean Literary society, at
Voorhees, hall, Thursday evening.
Miss Cornelia Carrier, a daughter of
President Wilbur o. Carrier, and AL
fred Lunt, will have leading parts.
Philip Sheridan, who halls from
New York city, but disclaims any re-
lationship to his namesake, Gen.
PHIL Sheridan, tottered into the city
Jail at Eau Claire one night last week
and applied for shelter Sheridan
ascribes his condition to the hard
usage accorded him while working for
a railroad company at Winter, Wis.
According to statements filed in the
office of the secretary of state, Wells
M. Ruggles of Mellen, Democratic can
didate for congressman in the Tenth
district, spent $S64.50 for campaign
purposes; Thomas Morris of La
Crosse was reelected state senator
in the Thirty second district, 1924;
D. B. Stevens of Rhinelander, elected
assemblyman in the Iron Oneida-Vilas
county district, $124.69.
One of the hottest races for SUI
premacy in the history of Northern
Wisconsin is going on between Gilman
and Morehouse, located near the juno
ton of the 500 and new Superior
branch of the Wisconsin Central.
Both railways established stations at
Gilman. Morehouse, although two rail
ways pass through it, has no depots.
But the business men have appealed
to the state railway commission TO
compel the roads to locate stations
there.
After a futile search of four years
for relatives of Henry Stuart. who
was killed on the Burlington track
near Onalaska, the administrator of