Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
STATE NOTES In BRIEF

Superior Ten actions seeking al
legged damages totaling $500 have
been started against the Duluth Street
railway company in the Circuit court
here. The suits are the outcome OF
the recent accident on the Billings
park line in Superior when car top
pied from q viaduct to the ground
twenty feet below, carrying with 1t
more than a score of passengers. The
suits are for amounts ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000. The larger amount
is asked by Edward Brooten, a dock
worker, who claims the sight OF one
eye was destroyed.
Merrill.-An unidentified man.
one of several Finlanders employed
on the 500 railroad near Heafforo
Junction, in company with q friend,
was crossing a high trestle when the
man fell from the bridge and was in
stantly killed. An investigation by
physicians revealed that the man hal
met death by striking his head on
the bridge before he reached the wa
ter and that his death was clearly &C.
cidental.
Racine-For the first time in the
history of Racine county the coroner
served notice upon the sheriff, re-
straining the latter from destroying
liquor confiscated in raid on Wind
Lake resort. The coroner is the only
person who can serve such notice on
oh, hn al
when Edward Fuhman was fined $50
and costs for conducting a resort
without a license.
Oshkosh Louis Warfield, Mil
waukee physician, and his wife figured
In a capsizing accident during the
heavy flow on Lake Winnebago. They
had been in the water for some time
before they were rescued by yachts.
Both were good sailors and swimmers,
and were able to take care of them
selves until rescue came to them.
Maiden Rock-Mrs John Giebler,
aged 7G, a resident of Oak Grove for
fifty years, was drowned in the Mis-
eissippi river Her body was recov-
SESu Ill tIIIcc lScC VI WdCCl Wy ACf oo1A.
Grand Rapids-The property of the
Brunei Falls Manufacturing company,
Cornell was sold under a decree of
foreclosure for $1,500,000 to the Cor
nell Wood Product company.
Oconomnwoc-A gift of 500 from
Mrs. w. r. Gushing of Fredonia, N. Y,
has been received toward the fund for
the monument to be erected in mem
Dry of the three Cushing brothers at
their old home in Delafeld. Mrs.
Cushing is the widow of William B.
Cushing, one of the three brothers in
whose honor the monument is to be
placed.
Madison.-The state railroad com.
mlssion ordered the Grange Hall Far
mers' Telephone company of Rockelm,
Pierre county, to discontinue service
on a new line built by the company in
the town of Rockelm because it paral-
lels a line of the Highland Telephone
company of Elmwood The Grange
Hall company built the lines without
authority from the railroad commits
sion.
Eau CIaire.-Aug. % has been set as
the date for the annual picnic and
field meeting of the farmers Of Eau
Claire county. Silos, alfalfa, clover
and crop rotation are some of the sub
iects to be discussed by speakers.
Waukesha.-M Andrews Of
Mukwonago, an elderly woman, was
made the victim Of a "bunco game
A man pretending to be an eyegfass
filter, visited the lady saying THAI He
had been sent there by Milwat Aee
physician. He later insisted that she
write him a check for SIS, which he
dashed.
Kenosha.-Dr. J. Fl. Holm had
harrow escape from death when tn,
t0mobile in which he was ridins
oiiided with a taxicab. Both auto,
22Dijes were wrecked