Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-09-02
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.

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day morning The damage was 81 ,O0o
and is covered by insurance.
Madison.-John A. Johnson was
given year in the state prison Tor
wife abandonment by Municipal Judge
Donovan. This is the stiffest penalty
for that offense in the local court S
history. Johnson's wife said her
spouse had not been any good for
twenty-one years.
Cumberland. = About the hardest
electrical, wind and hail storm OF the
season struck this locality Wednesday
evening. Lightning set fire to the
large department store of the Miller
Waterman company, cutting the store
room, entailing loss of $4,000, COW
cred by insurance.
Eau Claire.-Charles P. Grandfleld,
first assistant postmaster general, and
Theodore Wood, chief clerk OF the
postoffice department, will be IN Eau
Claire to attend the Wisconsin post
masters convention September and
3 upon invitation of Postmaster Earle
5. Welch. A wire from Washington
TO this effect was received.
Eau Claire.-Gerald E. Neel, ex-Soo
railroad claim agent, who was arrested
here while visiting his wife's mother
by Sheriff Everson of this city on
charge of being a fugitive from JUS
tice, being wanted at Bismarck, n. d.,
IN a charge OF forgery preferred by the
500 railroad, voluntarily gave himself
up to Sheriff McGillis, of Bismarck,
on the latter's arrival here.
Cevlon. - Mrs. John Gundelfinger
was burned to death as a result or
kindling the fire with kerosene The
house and all it's contents were de-
Stroyed and the woman and child res
cued with great difficulty from the
burning builNlng by the neighbors.
The child was not seriously burned,
but the woman died soon after being
carried to a place of safety.
Madison.-As a result Of the filming
Of Albert Duschek, keeper of motor
ious road house at Middleton, seven
miles from here, District Attorney Ma
son announced that he intends to wipe
out several other places of ill-repute
in that vicinity. Middleton is great
resort for the students of the univer-
sity and the prosecutor will complete
the cleanup before school opens. A
detective hired by Mason is getting
the evidence.
Kenosha.-The wedding of Alice Par
", a we'll known Kenosha girl, as the
result of a college romance, was de-
laved an entire day after the date set
for the ceremony, to Edward Davidson,
because the pair forgot to look up the
marriage laws. The ceremony was to
be at Madison, but the pair forgot that
their license must be secured in Ken
osha. At attempt was made to rectlty
the error while the guests waited, by
an automobile trip to Kenosha for a
special dispensation
Madison.-As a result of the fining
of Albert Duschek, keeper of notori-
Gus road house at Middleton, seven
miles from here, District Attorney
Mason announced that he intends to
wipe out several other places of i'll
repute in that vicinity. Middleton is
a great resort for the students Of the
and the prosecutor will
complete the cleanup before school
opens. A detective hired by Mason is
getting the evidence.
New Richmond.-AIrs. r. K. And
erson tried to poison Ter husband and
herself by putting quantity OF arsen-
ic in coffee at dinner. They are farm
ers residing near Baldwin. In the
afternoon both drove to town, Mr..
Anderson was attacked with violent
vomiting spell on the way and con-
suited a physician on arriving in the
village. Only reason both are alive,
poison was given in too large doses.
Mrs. Anderson is thought to be ir-
sane. She admitted what she had
done. but gave no reason for her &C
tons.
Madison.-Seven new assistants in
the chemistry department Of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin have been
named. r. A. Baker, Baldwin, Kan,
graduate of Baker university, will
succeed c.. w. Hill, resigned. G. Diet
richson, a student at the University of
Minnesota last year, will fill the posi-
ton made vacant by the resignation
of l.. D. Hammond. O. l.. Barneby,
University of Nebraska, will sue
ceed r. A. Barnes. Others named are
w. S. Hubbard, University of Michi-
gan and Columbia university; Edin V.
Lynn, Tacoma, Wash: E. S. Willard,
University of Colorado, and H. A.
Schuette, Green Bay, Wis. Abbie l..
Day of Minneapolis, a member of next
years senior class at the university,
will be critic teacher in the Marquette,
Mich, normal school next year. The
new graduate school circular shows SCI
graduate students registered from for
ty different states of the Union and
seven foreign countries during the past
year. Minnesota furnished nineteen.