Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-09-09
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.

| SOB killed a bear in Tunnel No. 3.
Engineer John Keir knew nothing
about it at the time. Bruin is sup
posed to have been driven down from
the North by the recent forest fires.
Cuba City.-Bank Examiner Berg,
Wis, has closed the doors of the
State Bank of Cuba City, after making
an examination. Rumored irregulari-
ties in making loans is said to be the
cause The institution is capitalized
at $25, 900.
Barron.-Sheriff J. Fl. Johnson left
! for Madison to secure requisition pa
| per3 for Amelie Carloni, who is under
arrest at Portland, Ore, charged with
the murder of his sweetheart, Angela
Fredieni, at Cumberland, Wis, last
July.
chofield.-Schofield will have
volunteer fire company. Fire appa-
ratus at q cost of $500 has been pur-
chased This move was prompted by
| the recent fire that destroyed the
Brooks & Ross saw mill, entailing
loss of $4,000.
Stevens Point Officers of this city
and county are fairly baffled in their
efforts to unravel the mystery sur
rounding the robbery Of the National
Express compauy's Office in Stevens
Point, of a sum said to approximate
! IS, 600 in currency and blank paper.
La Crosse-Mrs. Louis jerks, wife
Ioe AZ, cf
Fuel company, was seriously injured,
and her son, frankie jerks, and
cousin, Miss Rose Nettinger, were
hurt in a runaway here resulting from
the breaking of shaft, which fright
ened the horse.
Merrill.-A saw mill for the saving
of "deadheads" picked out of the Wis
consin river and tributaries is to be
built here to saw all the deadheads in
the Wisconsin river north of Wausau,
as far as Merrill, which are owned
by the lumber companies along the
Wisconsin river north of this city
La CrOsse-POlice are searching
for Jim" Wilson, a negro member of
the construction crew employed five
miles south of this city on the Bur
lington, on a charge Of holding up and
robbing five other members of the
camp at the point of a revolver.
Among his victims were two crew
fOremen.
Marinette-The latest Marinette
county venture is a duck farm, which
has been starred by Robert Steven
son, an attorney Of Butte, Mont, who
owns property on Breakwater island
and in that vicinity. He expects the
farm will be money maker, but will
employ man to run it while he fol-
lows his profession in Butte.
Milwaukee. - Mayor Emil Seidel
may interfere with prize fighting in
Milwaukee and stop further battles,
even of the 10 round variety, which
have been held here since the special
law was passed by the last legislature
legalizing no-decisiOn, no purse, 10
round affairs.
Marinette.-The Marinette dog kill
er is in trouble. The man, Osborn
Crooks, was arrested on a warrant is
sued by Mrs. Jesse Reynolds. She
charges that the officer shot her dog,
notwithstanding the fact the dog was
muzzled as required by the city Ordi-
nance Crooks contends that the dog
was not properly muzzled.
La Crosse.-Because every girl
whom the proprietor has succeeded in
hiring has been married, leaving the
hostelry without help, the Utter house,
leading hotel of Trempealeau, has
been closed Indefinitely. Miss r. Ut |
ter, proprietor, announces it is i'm |
possible to continue the hotel for
transient trade until more girls can
be secured.
Madison.-Investigat of the mys-
terry of the theft of state envelopes, |
which has caused q sensation in the |
present political campaign in this |
state, will not be dropped. District |
Attorney Vr0oman Mason stated that |
he is calling persons who are sup
posed to be familiar with the case and |
is making thorough inquiry into the
affair. When through he will issue a
statement to the public on the results.
Sparta.-The maneuvers at Camp
Bruce E. Mccoy are over, and what
was a large camp is a blank field.
The Twenty-eighth infantry and
Fourth cavalry left for Fort Smelling
by train. The second and third bat
talions of the Twenty-seventh infant
nv and the Fifteenth cavalry left by
the hike" route for Sheridan. Gen
eral Howe and staff departed for taad-
quarters at ST Paul. One battalion
remains to clean UP the camp.
Wausau.-Tbinking they were nails,
William Gamble, Jr., 7-year-old son of
Mr.. William Gamble, a local lumber
man, went to the woodshed and tried
to pound dynamite caps into block
of wood with hammer. The first
cap, struck on the wrong end, did not
explode Reversing the next one, it
went Off with the first blow of the
hammer. Parts of the thumb and mid
die finger Of the left hand were blown
off, The other fingers were mutilated.