Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-06
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.

automobile, which was smashed.
Eau sClaire.-Eight valuable cows
the property of Albert Tanz, town o.
Pleasant Valley, have died within two
days from poison. The case is mys
terious and an investigation is going
on.
Superior.-Judge Scion H. Clough,
of Superior, died in San Diego, Cal.
He was judge of the circuit court here
for nearly thirty years prior to 1890.
He was father of the wife of Congress
man Lenroot.
Madison. Andrew S. Pond, of
GAINESVILLE, chief clerk of the state
banking department, was appointed
state bank examiner by Governor
Davidson in place of Milo c. Hagan,
of Madison, resigned.
pewa Falls, employed ON bridge con-
struction work here for the Wisconsin
Central railroad, fell thirty-five feet.
His neck was broken, and he died in
ten minutes. He leaves wife and
two daughters.
La Crosse.-May Fl has been set
aside here as tag day" by the humane
society and associated cheritieS, for
the purpose of raising funds to hire a
visiting nurse to work under the di-
rection of the charitable organizations.
The tag day" idea was recently sue
cessfully tried out in Eau Claire for
the same purpose.
New York, ~ Y = Announce
ment was made at Columbia Univer-
sity that the trustees have appointed
Paul S. Reinsch, Ph.D., professor in
the University of Wisconsin as Theo-
dore Roosevelt professor in the Uni
versity OF Berlin for 1911-12. The sub
ject of his instruction there will be
IKE expansion of the United States
of America"
Chelsea.--A fire at Chelsea de-
stroyed the saloon property of Otto
Sloan, the Chelsea town hall and some
residence property adjoining. The
loss is about $4,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown. A fire at Norton's
Spur destroyed several thousand feet
of lumber and the loading docks of
Vollmar & Below A car loaded with
lumber also burned. The cause is I'M
known.
Barron.-Postal authorities are try
ting to locate a mail sack, containing
Milwaukee and Chicago first class
mail, which disappeared somewhere
between Ladysmith and Milwaukee
April 9. The banks at Almena, Bar
ron, Bruce and Ladysmith, and 9th
ers, posted remittances on that date.
The most annoying feature is that
a number of pension checks were in
Guided, to duplicate which will require
at least six months time and endless
red tape.
Black River Falls.-Burglars rifed
the safe of L. II. Vanforden & Son, gen
eral merchants at Hixton, small vii
lage on the Green Bay railway, and
carried away about $3.50 and several
thousand dollars in notes, mortgages
and other valuable papers. After the
robbery the burglars stole handcar
at HiXton and went to Mcmillan June
ton, ten miles distant, where they
threw the handcar off the track into
a mill pond, and are supposed to have
boarded an early morning train.
La Crosse.-After carrying pistols
and shotguns about for two days, resi-
dents of La Crescent, opposite this
city, in Minnesota, have become con-
WINGED the band of gipsies which
after a fight threatened to come back
and "clean OUT the town has left the
vicinity and will not make good the
threat. The wanderers swooped
down upon the village and, entering
the stores in large numbers, helped
themselves to the goods, following
which they were driven from the vii
lage by male residents.
Neenah.-When it was announced
that a dog was mad when killed last
week steps were Immediately taken to
prevent a spread of rabies. Five per-
sons have been bitten by the dog, and,
in addition to the members OF the
family of Howard Cummings, a little
daughter of Robert Olda is at Madi-
son taking the Pasteur treatment. Elk
ira policemen are on duty to kill all
dogs found running at large unmuZ-
zled, Mayor Stone having issued
proclamation to this effect. Nc less
than fifty have been killed
Madison-The federal grand Jury
several indictments. Three
were against Charles Kabat, accused
of issuing counterfeit coin at La
Crosse Kabat was at once arraigned
by Assistant United States Attorney
H. H. Morgan and pleaded not guilty.
Bail was fixed by Judge Sanborn at
SIS 1000 He was taken back to Jail to
await trial at Eau Claire in about five
weeks The other two men arraigned
were James Knaggs, of Rhinelander,
and Samuel Hildreth, of Odanah both
for taking liquor upon the Indian res
ervation. They were given sixty days
in Jail and fine of 500 each
edward Quinlaven, left
fielder for the Racine Baseball team
in the Illinois and Iowa league was