Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-11-04
WISCONSIN BRIEFS
Epitomized History of the Week
in the State.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
La Crosse-The special legislative
committee appointed to investigate
the subject of highway improvement
held session in La Crosse on Oct.
20.
Washington, D. c. - The following
postmaster appointments have been
confirmed by Postmaster General
/ Hitchcock: Herbert A. Waters,
Knackley, Villas county, vice l. ]. Jan.
sen, resigned; William w. Thayer, Ho-
garty, Marathon county.
Beloit-F. Barrymore, who says he
is brother of Ethel Barrymore, the
actress, was given lodging by the pc.
lice. He is seriously i'll. Barrymore
told hard luck story and said he did
not want his relatives to learn of his
distress. A sister in Chicago was
communicated with, however.
La Crosse - Bishop James Schwe-
bach announces the appointment OF
Rev. l.. P. O'Reilly, of Ridgeway, as
rector of the st. Paul's church at Min
eral Point to succeed Rev. James
O'Keefe, who died several months ago.
Rev. M. Wrenn, of Kendalltown, will
succeed Father O'Reilly, and Rev. A.
M. Henderson will go to Kendalltown.
acknowledging Joseph G. Can
non to a grim old wolf whose fangs
are long, United States Senator La
Toilette publishes another attack on
the speaker of the national house in
La Follette's weekly magazine. The
editorial was called forth by Cannon's
recent speech at Elgin, ILL.,, in which
he attempted to read out of the re,
publican party Cummins, La Toilette
and the other tariff bill insurgents"
La Crosse.-Celia Mroz, alleged to
be an habitual criminal, may be de.
ported by the federal authorities. She
has just been sentenced by Judge
Brindley to the county Jail for thirty
days for stealing $40 coat, which is
the second offense within year The
facts have been submitted to the
United States district attorney with a
view of having action taken to send
the woman back to Poland, if pos.
sible.
Washburn-Louis Carlone, the boy
charged with the murder of Nick AL
berica, entered a plea of not guilty
and was bound over to the circuit
court to await trial. Carlone is charg'
ed with killing young Alberica at
Drummond about a month ago. Car.
lone stated to the officials that he did
not intend the shot for young Albert
ca, but that he was after the father.
The shooting was the result of fa'
mily quarrel, the participants being
Italians.
Apple+on.-Robert Scott, GO years
Of age, lies at st. Elizabeth hospital
in this city, slowly dying, and ply.
sicians are helpless to stay approach.
ing starvation as a result of lockjaw.
Scott several nights ago feel asleep in
a horse stable. One of the animals
stepped on his right forefnger, sever.
ing it at the first joint. The wound
was not properly dressed, and last
night tetanus set in. His jaws are
firmly locked and today his body be.
came rigid.
Beaver Dam.-Three old settlers of
Dodge county have passed away with.
in the last few days. Mrs. Ezra Hoyt,
widow of Dr. e. r. Hoyt who came
overland to California in 1849, settling
in Beaver Dam twenty years later,
was buried on Friday. Three sons
and a daughter survive. Mrs. Henri.
eta Sabathke, of the town of Beaver
Dam, died at the age of SO years. Be.
sides her husband seven children and
thirty grandchildren survive. Phile'
years.
La Crosse. - The actual work of
construction In double-tracking the
Burlington in this vicinity is soon to
be started, the surveys having been
completed and the material for the
second track having been received
here. 1t is said the work will be
pushed this fall until the double-track'
ing has been finished from Grand
Crossing to Lytles, and from Grand
Crossing to Genoa. The surveyors
will continue the work of planning the
double track over the entire length
of the La Crosse division between Sa-
wanna and St. Paul
Appleton. - Believed to have been
the last surviving real Daughter of
the American Revolution, Mrs. E. S.
Palmer, of East Greenville, is dead.
She observed her seventy-ninth birth.
day anniversary last Saturday. Mrs.
Palmer's father, Jacob Lewis, began
service under Washington when
mere lad, after both of his older
brothers had died for freedom at
Bunker Hill Mrs. Palmer was born
at Cape Vincent, Jefferson county, N.
~, Oct %, 1881. She was married to
e. S. Palmer June 7, 1854, and imme
diately .afterward the young couple
came west and settled in GreeDville.
She leaves three children and her hus.
band The children are Mrs. Carrie
Sommers, Of Warren, Mimi, and Ed.
win and Leigh Palmer, who are at
home.
Washburn.-The jury in the dam
age case of Clarence SUISSE, miner,
against the ]. S. Stearns Lumber Com.
pany, returned verdict for the plant.
if of $4,000. The plaintiff was injured
while at work in the sawmill of the
company in this city. All meetings