Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-01-13
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.

lated by the county bar association o..
Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Kewaunee.
counties for the reelection of judge,
Michael Kirwan He is serving his
second term.
Janesville-Mrs. Julius Deutsch and
son were burned to death. She had.
were burned to death. Mrs. Deutschl
poured kerosene on the fire i'll the:
Kitchen stove to make it burn more.
rapidly, when the flame shot out and
enveloped her and her. child.
Marinette.-As the result of the att
tack of three-months-old Spitz pup
by, Mrs. Fritz Schelhaeler and her
three children and Rosie Reifschlager
were sent to Chicago for treatment
at a Pasteur institute. The dog was
pronounced mad by experts.
Hayward.-W. W. Scott, who died
at the county poorhouse recently, at
the age of IS years, was the Oldest
inmate of the institution. He had
been in the place for the past fifteen
years, and in that time had seen 10E
different people come and go.
Madison--Senator La Toilette has
appointed Albert o. Barton, Madison
newspaper man, as his private secre-
tary to succeed Walter Brew, who
resigned to practice law. Mr.. Barton
is a graduate of the University OF
Wisconsin and a political writer.
Janesville-While eating an oyster
stew at a local restaurant Noah Jones
discovered fair-siZed pearl in one of
the oysters and is now S. the richer
for his find The pearl was fine spe-
cimen and although it had been cook
ed and it's value diminished the finder
found a ready sale for five spot.
Sturgeon Bay. Ownership of the
toll bridge across the waters of Stur-
geon Bay will revert to the public at
the expiration of the charter Of the
Sturgeon Bay Bridge Company in
about two years. This is the effect of
an opinion rendered to the city coun-
Gil by City Attorney w. E. Wagner.
Rice Lake.-The unlocked for ex-
Liosion of a pail of dynamite which
nad been placed on stove to thaw
resulted in the death Of three men
at the Hammond lumber camp at Win
ter. Wis. The names of the men are
Sam Anderson, of COlfaX, Wis, J. Sal
isbury, of st. Paul, and George Cum
mings, of Rice Lake.
La Crosse.-The Manufacturers and
Tobbers' club will appeal to the rail
TOAD commission for an order compel
iing the Green Bay & Western rail
road to restore a schedule which is
10 be abandoned tomorrow, which
brings trains in the afternoon. Win
,na, Mimi, would benefit by the new
arrangement at the expense of the
city.
Lancaster.-At the recent installa-
ton of the officers of Lancaster Lodge,
No. 20, F. & A. NJ, Col John G. Clark,
who officiated as installing officer was
presented with a beautiful past mas
.er's jewel Col. Clark, who is now
IN his seth year, has been identified
aearly half century with masonry,
and also with many of the important
events of it's history.
La Crosse.-The Milwaukee Road
company one day this week found it
ad many cars of fruit on hand in
his city, just received from the south
The weather being cold and threat
ening to freeze the large consignment.
the company was in a quandary until
happy thought struck one OF the
employees. The cars, fourteen in all,
were run into the roundhouse and the
fruit was saved.
La Crosse-Henry Erickson, sixty
five years old, cobbler, charged with
assaulting Florence Stacey, aged thir:
teen years, was bound over to circuit
court in $500 bonds, which he fur.
Eished. The mother of the girl tried
to shoot Erickson upon learning OF
the alleged crime. On the stand the
girl detailed her alleged mistreatment
which she says extended over peri
cd of three months.
Four Generations At a Dinner.
Green Bay.-Four generations were
represented at dinner served at the
residence of Mrs. Felicite Duchateau.
Mrs. Duchateau, the hostess, is the
first one of the four generations, and
the others are her daughter, Mrs. Will
liam e. Duncan; Mrs. Duncan's son,
William J. Duncan, and his daughter,
Margaret Duncan. Mrs. Duchateau is
only 67 years of age. The Duncan
baby is years Of age.
Medford-The jury in the case of
Grin Jacobs, of Perkinstown, charged
with criminal assault on his daughter,
returned verdict of guilty after be-
ing out six hours. He received his
sentence of eleven years in the state
prison at Waupun. The following
prisoners were brought down from
Hurley for sentente: Tony Urutus,
charged with felonious assault, two
and one-half years; Matt Johnson, as
sault with intent to kill, two and one
half years; John Cauley, pickpocket-
ing, eighteen months; Edward Court
ney, pickpocketing, fourteen months
IN the reformatory at Green Bay
New Richmond-A large party OF
surveyors, employed by the 500 line,
has been working in the territory be-
tween this city and the ST Croix
River, during the past fortnight. They
are running line straight west from
this city through the town of Somer-
set to the river, and taking elevations