Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-06-10
Badger Briefs
Wisconsin News From All
Parts of the State.

Is Parts of the State. !;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
After a long illness with Bright's
disease, Fred B. Smith of La Crosse
| is dead.
Miss Miriam Moves has been elect
| ed to take the place of Miss Ella G.
Parmalee, who has resigned as IL
brarian of the Oshkosh public library.
i: : ;:
Clarence Seize was so badly Scald-
ed by the bursting of a steam pipe in
the Stearns mill at Washburn that
burns are not very deep, however,
and it is believed that he will recov-
ler.
A convention of the young people
of the Lutheran churches of the SUI
for the purpose of organizing per-
perior district was held at Superior
manent society of all the Luther
leagues.
Louis Pitzner, aged ten, pounded
| large cartridge he found on the rail
road at La Crosse. The leaden pellet
entered the boys groin and passed
into the abdomen. Death probably
will result.
Jim Clairmont and Jim RaIey,
charged with robbing the Bank of
Warrens of $4,000 in October last, es-
capped from Jail at Sparta by remov-
ing bricks from the wall.
Joseph Sellers, an engineer, was
killed and two other men fatally in
jured in a boiler explosion on
dredge in the Little Eau river, a short
distance from Wausau. A defective
boiler was the cause.
| Because of twenty years Of faithful
service for him the late Judge John
Fruit of La Crosse bequeathed the
sum of $500 to his stenographer, MISS
| Ella Brake. Mrs. Fruit was given
the homestead and the life insurance
policies.
| Knuth Aas, an aged resident OF
Rice Lake. met horrible death last
week by being gored by an angry
| IN Of
| the animal from one field to another
VIXEN it turned on him, knocking him
down and goring him with its horns.
| Mrs. G.. F. Niles of MenomOnie,
who has been conducting series of
| experiments with MenomOnie clay as
a material for pottery, has been sue
cessful in demonstrating that the clay
from the clay beds in that vicinity af-
fords not only satisfactory but unus-
ual!y good results when used for this
purpose.
Jacob DeKok, aged eighty-one
years, died at Kenosha as the result
of an operation. A few days ago the
old man suffered the amputation OF
one of his legs, and bloodpoisonlng
set in and caused his death. The
deceased was the patriarch of the col
ony of Hollanders in Kenosha, having
lived there for nearly forty years.
::
| A series of accidents and fatalities
occurred at Madison one day last
week. Mrs. Henrietta Dais was
struck by passenger train on the
| Milwaukee road at the Atwood ave-
nue. crossing and killed. James An
drews, a painter, was hit by a train
at another crossing and so badly in
jured that his right leg had to be
amputated.
The police and fire commission OF
Ashland has suspended Fire Chief
Louis Schaelzle for ten days. Twenty
charges have been filed against him
ranging from drunkenness to geneva!
incompetency. Schaetzle has been a
member of the fire department for
twenty years. A public hearing will
be held to decide whether the sus-
pension shall be made permanent.
| Otto Burgmann is in custody at La
Crosse awaiting preliminary hear.
ing, accused of the murder of his
bosom friend lanes Matthew'S at
Burr Oak, Wis. The men, it is charg
ed, had spent the Sabbath in a
carousal, and were driving home in