Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-11-11
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits OF News From the
Badger State.

ton of Winnebago county, Wisconsin,
containing the city of Oshkosh is 61,-
449, compared with 58,225 in 1900.
mberland-Winfield Jerry, a 49,
year-o1d farmer boy, living northeast
of this city, killed 2O0-pound black
bear ten miles northeast of Cumber-
| land.
Madson.-The State Bank of Rome,
Jefferson county, was incorporated
with capital of $4,000 today. The
incorporators are Lawrence A. dwell,
Rupert Foy and Robert G. Quick
Eau Claire-According to local deal
ers and commission men, the potato
! crop in Eau Claire county and country
tributary to this city is the best in
years.
aukesha-Waukesha was dry for
the first time on election day in the
history of the city. The saloons were
served with a notice to close in COM
pliance with the state law.
Bayfield.-Stephen Colt was acciden-
tally shot in the thigh at Stewards
camp near here. The trigger caught
in a blanket when Colt was drawing
the gun from bunk and the weapon
was discharged.
Janesville-Patrick T. Joyce, age
II, fell from a tree while saving
limbs, and died three hours thereafter
without having regained conscious
ness. An extension ladder on which
he was perched broke at the joint.
Oconomowoc.-Peter Hanson, who
died on Nov. 5, held the Office of tyler
in the Masonic order at Neosho for
more than forty years. At his funeral
here his sword was buried with him
MI. Hanson was a native of Norway.
Eau Claire. Leo Retman, one
of the attorneys for John F. Deitz,
and Geo Schultz, president Of the
Deitz relief fund, arrived here from
Milwaukee with an Illinois Surety COM
pany bail bond in the sum of $4,000
La Crosse. = Funeral services were
held Wednesday at the late resi-
dence for George H. Ray, former
speaker Of the assembly, who died
here. Rev Henry Faville of the Con-
gregational church conducted the SER
vices.
Waupun-One of the state prison
guards was discharged today, and an
investigation is in progress. 1t is
charged by the authorities that for
some time past he has been bring
ing liquor and cigars into the prison
and selling them to the prisoners.
Appleton.-A five-inch fiue in the
boiler of the Vulcan Paper mill of the
Kimberly Co. here, burst. Alex
Migron, the fireman, was slightly
burned from escaping steam. One
wall of the boiler house was wrecked
by the explosion.
Spring Valley,-Chas. A. Hawn, 80
years old, and a resident Of Rock Elm,
Pierce county, for "A years, died at
the home Of his son, Ed, at Ruby, with
whom he was visiting. He held var
ious offices Of public trust and served
in the Wisconsin legislature in 1878.
Madison. = Captain G. w. Ricke-
man, state fish and game warden,
hopes to reduce the number Of acct
dents during the seasons deer hunt
ing in Wisconsin by urging all the
OF apparel he thinks will serve as
sort Of headlight.
Milwaukee. Joseph Dreyfuss,
aged ninety years, postmaster at
HaIes Corners, near Milwaukee, is
dead. Mr.. Dreyfuss was said to have
been the oldest postmaster in the SER
vice as well as age, in the United
States. He had been a government Of
fetal about 40 years.
La Crosse-Acting for the Wiscon-
sin rate commission Commissioner J.
II. ROemer heard the petition of the
La Crosse Gas and Electric company
TO advance rates here for electricity,
gas and heating service, and protest Of
citizens attorneys against the in
crease. The commission will render
its decision later.
Milwaukee. - The Marquette Uni
versity orchestra gave an hours
concert program to open the annual
meeting of the Wisconsin Teachers
Association, after which President G.
Fl. Landgart of Marinette delivered
his address and Mayor Seidel spoke
a few words of welcome. An inter-
esting paper of the session was read
by Carroll G. Pearse, head of the
Milwaukee schools, on high school
fraternities. Doctor Ida c. Bender,
of Buffalo, n. Y, also spoke One
of the features of the convention was
a debate on the question, Should
the common school be vocationalized,"
IN which Prof. j. c. Monaghan of New
York took the affirmative and DR..
Z. A. Winship Of Boston the mega
tive. Visits to the parks and other
institutions, not forgetting the big
breWeries, varied the program of the
three days meeting.
GAINESVILLE. - Though the common
council, by vote of to 2, recently
instructed Mayor Wilbur F. Garlic to
sign a three-year contract for the city
with Workman & Higgs of Indianapo-
lis, tax ferrets, to collect on a 1871