Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-19

Ger of the stomach. He conducted 6
| bakery over 80 years. He was born
in Germany. He resided in Wiscon
sin since 1865.
Observation-Disclosures by an ap
| preaching train, Mrs. Sarah Beins
aged 68 years, of Whitewater, step
| ped over the edge of railway via
duct and fell thirty feet to the ground
Both arms and hip were broken anG
| internal injuries caused her death
soon after the accident
Couderay.-The Couderay Lumber
| Company has decided not to operate
their large hardwood sawmill here the
coming winter, and today sold six mil
| lion feet of hemlock and birch stump
age to Lee Hammond of Rice Lake fol
| $4,000 This timber is located neal
| Crooked Rapids, near here.
New Richmond.-The Omaha rail
road is making elaborate improve
ments on this division At Spooner
the freight division headquarters, g
new machine shop will be erected
Five additional stalls will be built al
the engine house. The total cost OF
the improvements will be $4,000.
Chippewa Falls-Mabel Sherman
Is, inmate of the home for feeble
minded here, strayed away from the
institution and went to sleep on the
500 tracks. A westbound freight
came along and cut off her left foo
and injured her internally. The cir
| cannot recover. The engineer could
not stop the train in time to avoid
the accident.
Sparta. exploding from 6
can from which Miss Laing was filling
a gasoline stove in the City laundry
here, instantly set the whole interior
afiame, out of which the employees es
capped with few minor burns. The
building was totally wrecked at loss
of $4,000 The city was plunged in
darkness for hours on account of the
burning off of the electric wires.
New Richmond.-Farmers and loca
elevator men report that the excess
i've moisture and heat are beginning
to tell disastrously on the grain il
shock A species of mould is devel
oping and the grain is rapidly discol
oring. Practically all of the small
grain, barring fax, has been cut, but
only a small portion of it stacked
Prevailing weather conditions prevent
either stacking or threshing from the
shock
APPROXIMATION were circulated
in Neenah, Menasha, Appleton, Kau-
kauna, Wrightstown, De Pere and
Green Bay, which will be forwarded
to the secretary of war asking i'm
mediate permission to draw the wa
ter from Lake Winnebago below the
crest of the government dam at Me-
nasha in the interest of the public
health of the valley cities. This &C
ton followed a conference of city Off
Gals and citizens of the Fox River
valley.
La Crosse.-Congressm J. ]. Esch
addressed an invitation to Gen. Fred
Grant, commander of the department
of the lakes of the United States
army, to visit Camp Robinson, near
Sparta, with his staff the latter part
of next week. Adjt. Gen. Boardman
of the Wisconsin militia and his staff,
state officers and other high military
officials will be invited to be present
xr,bA i, fT,
make a general inspection of the new
regular army camp, opened this year.
John Downes the police committee Of
IL council is authorized to call wit
nesses, take evidence and proceed
with an investigation OF the violation
of the anti-pass law, as revealed in
the recent street car arbitration. Aid.
Downs says he proposes to know the
facts of what the police department
has been doing, what favors were Civ,
en- for the passes and why city money
was spent for tickets when free trans
portation was issued, even though il.
legally.
Fond du Lac.-Bishop ]. j. Fox
Green Bay, officiated at the laying OF
the corner stone of st. Joseph's new
$4,000 church in place of Archbishop
Messmer, owing to the latter's indis
position.
Beloit-One cow is dead and two
more of the herd of A. c. Powers &
Son, north of the city, are i'll from
poison believed to have been taken by
them while eating grass along The
right f-way of the interurban railway
between this city and GAINESVILLE,
where chemicals had been used tc
kill the weeds.
Appleton. L. Gettys and G. L
Robins, Chicago experts sent by Chi
cage capitalists to inspect the pro-
posed route for an interurban line be-
tween this city and Marinette, stated
upon their return that they would rec
ommend the immediate construction Of
the line from Appleton to Seymour,
and that the extension to Oconto and
Marinette would come in short time.
New Richmond-The loss at the
recent fire in the lumber yards OF the
Willow River Lumber Company ag'
gregated $4,000, and the insurance
was adjusted at $4,000.