Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-05-20
Badger Briefs
Wisconsin News From ALI
Parts of the State.

without regaining consciousness
Mrs. G. E. Rogers, aged fifty-five of
Beloit while walking with her hus-
band, fell dead from heart disease.
Emil Schultz of the town of Maine
was fined $25 in Justice Larners court
on plea of guilty to charge of fish
ing with dip net.
The Marinette County Bar associa-
ton may bring disbarment proceed
ings against A. e. Schwittay as soon
as the May term of the court calendar
is disposed of.
Herman Somers, twenty-eight years
old, dropped dead at Princeton while
preparing to go out with a crew to
repair some windmills. Heart failure
is the cause given for death.
John P. Steinbach, aged thirty
years, senior member of the firm of
Steinbach & Bloxdorf, agents for the
Schlitz Brewing company in Kenosha,
died in Detroit Mich, while on a visit
with friends.
Sheriff Elefson returned to Shawano
with Claude Rollin, whom he arrested
at Mount Vernon, Wash Rollins is
wanted on the charge of burglary in
Birnamwood. He will be tried in the
circuit court next week.
The body of George Hall, who was
drowned Saturday night, was recov-
eredered 100 yards 100 yards from the
place where the boat capsized. The
body of Sweet, who was drowned at
the same time, has not been found.
Frank Sherlock, aged eighteen, a
circus performer, was brought to the
hospital at Marshfield with a crushed
knee joint and internal injuries sus-
tanned while getting off swiftly NOV
ing train at his home at Dorchester,
Wis.
Following the funeral of the late DR..
w. d. Thomas of La Crosse, Presby-
terrain ministers and grand chaplain of
the Wisconsin cOnsistory of Masons,
it is announced, an effort will be made
to have the city buy his library, which
was one of the most magnificent pri-
vate collection in this section of the
state and is valued at $4,000.
While at play about a tramway in
the yards of the Willow River Lumber
company at New Richmond, Lynne,
the ten-year-old daughter of Philip Co
vile, was all but scalped by tram
car which ran over the child. Three
long gashes were cut by the wheels
through to the skull, and whole sec
tions of the scalp were torn loose.
Charles F. Dillett of Shawano, I'M
successful candidate for judge of the
Tenth judicial circuit, filed a state
ment in the office Of the secretary of
state, declaring he spent $823.69 for
campaign purposes. Col. L. j. Rusk
of Chippewa Falls, unsuccessful candi-
date for Judge in the new Nineteenth
circuit spent $71S84 for campaign
purposes.
The license question, which was
submitted to the voters at Baldwin at
the annual spring election, was car
ried by the no-license element by eight
majority. But it is now stated that,
owing to the fact that no order was
made for the election by the village
clerk, the election was illegal, and the
Baldwinites are up in the air at pres
ent over the matter.
P. ]. Stevens of Cylon, secretary Of
the Wisconsin Wool Growers 'associa-
ton, a branch of the Wisconsin di-
vision of the American Society of
Equity, announces plans which will
make New Richmond center of the
wool shipping operations of the organi-
cation in that district. The farmers
propose to establish wool shipping
station in New Richmond.
Lee E. Thompson, aged thirty-seven,
proprietor of the Merton lumber yard
and agent for the Milwaukee Elevator
Co, was accidentally shot while hunt
ing gophers near his elevator at Mer-
ton He was crawling through wire
fence when the trigger caught on a
barb and a bullet entered the back of
his head He was dead when found.
He leaves his wife and two children.
Daniel Murphy, arrested for stealing
two packages of sausage from one of
the Swift Packing company's cars at
Superior, was sentenced to a year at
the state prison by Judge Smith of the
superior court. Murphy was drunk
at the time and broke the lock of the
car to get a lunch. The man was ar
rested in saloon shortly after the
discovery of the burglary in the act
of opening one of the boxes.
Announcement is made Oy the state
board of normal regents that that
body will take charge of extensive
ceremonies at La Crosse this summer
marking the completion and opening
of the new La crosse normal school.
State officers and educators of Wis
consin and other states will attend
the Inauguration of the new school
and attending banquet. 1t is likely
the celebration will be held during
the latter part of next month.
The grand lodge of Wisconsin has
granted a dispenSation for the re-
moval of the |. o. o. F. lodge that has
been located at Centuria the past four
or five years to Midtown, small vii
Iage about four miles further north on
the 500 line.
The Sunday closing law is now be-
ing enforced in every town in Bayfield,
Bayfield, being the last to en-
force the law. The police of the lat
ter town are ordered by the town au-
thorities to notify the saloon men that