Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-20
Wisconsin News
Brief Blts Of News From the
Badger State.

Menominee-Sen Stout's con-
dition tonight is SO much improved he
is now considered out of danger.
Montello.-Judge Neil Dimond, pro
bate Judge of this county for twenty
seven years, who resigned last week,
is dead
Eau Claire. A big meeting for
the organization of'the Eau Claire nest
OF the Order of Owls, with over five
hundred charter members, was held.
Wausau. Judge A. H. Reid has
sentenced Ferdinand Zingler to Is
years in Waupun prison for the
murder of Mrs. Mary Nitche. A new
trial was denied.
Marinette-A south-bound freight
train aflame ran forty miles into Me-
nominee. 1t caught fire from forest
fire along the right of way. The fire
was extinguished by the city fire de-
partment.
La Crosse.-The county board adopt
ed the Dunn coupon election ballot,
made optional by the last legislative
session, to be tried out in this county
for two years. The coupon ballot is
claimed to be fraud proof.
Milwaukee. Doctor William Col
by Rucker, of the United States
service has been granted leave of
absence for one year, to accept the
position of health commissioner of
Milwaukee.
Washington, D. G. - Nominations
by the president sent to the senate, in
clude the following: United States
attorney for Porto Rico, John ]. Jenk-
ms, of Wisconsin, former member of
congress and chairman of the judi
ciary committee.
Marinette-The fraudulent check
charge was taken up in the Schwittay
disbarment case. Schwittay declared
this to be mere case of an over
drawn account. According TO testi-
mony of the cashier of the bank, he
never had an account there.
Observation-Disclosures has murder
mystery. Leo Winkler has disap-
peared and his wife has demanded
the arrest of John McVane, a neigh
Dor, with whom he is alleged to have
had a quarrel. The evidence against
the accused man is meager.
Alma.-Gile Sanderson, of Galesville,
won first honor and Wallace Evans, of
Alma, second in the oratorical contest
and Anna Dieraner and Alice Ochsner,
both from Alma, won first and second
in the declamatory contest, which was
held here between the Galesville and
Alma high schools.
La Crosse.-The La Crosse Pastors
union at special meeting adopted a
plan to hold union services in the
public parks in the present summer
season with musical features intended
to attract the Sunday night crowds.
The plan was proposed by Rev. j. l..
Panzlau, who showed figures to prove
it's success in several foreign coun-
tries.
Madison. - Lager bear is ace high
as a beverage at the University of
Wisconsin. President Van Hise order
ed the closing of the new sanitary,
bubbling drinking fountains in the uni
versity building and formally pro-
claimed warning against drinking
Madison water, which, by bacteriolog-
ical test has been found to be infected
with typhoid germs.
Washburn.-Judge John X. Parish
has sentenced the Italian boy muir
derer, Louis Carlone, who was con-
victed here recently, to fifteen years
in the state penitentiary. Thomas
Lillystrom, convicted of numbering his
companion while out hunting near
Port Wing, was sentenced to twenty
years in the state prison. The Indian,
John Beauregard, who was convicted
of killing another Indian at Eau Claire
Lakes, was sentenced for life.
River Falls. = AT the annual dis
trict contests held here speakers
from the high schools at Baldwin, Bar
ron, Bloomer, Chippewa Falls, Durand,
Eau Claire, Glenwood, Hudson, Mon
dow, New Richmond, Osceola and Riv~
err Falls, competing for the honor Of
representing this district in the state
contests, River Falls was awarded first
place in both contests. In the orator.
cal, Jay c. Truesdell will represent the
district in the state contests, his ora
ton being "On the Boston Massacre"
In the declamatory, the honor goes to
Miss Nora LINER, speaker ON "Hagar."
Chippewa.-The big 500 Line bridge
over the Chippewa river at Bruce,
burned. 1t was a wooden structure
located a mile and a half east OF
Bruce. All the east-bound trains out
of the Twin Cities on the Canadian
500 division came to Chippewa Falls
from Cameron Junction over the
Omaha line and thence to owen and
Ladysmith, and vice versa for west
bound trains. The 500 line depot at
Wheeler, thirty miles west of here,
burned yesterday afternoon, set on
fire by sparks from passing train.
All the people were at church when
the fire broke out, and when 1t was
discovered the depot was mass OF
flames. Records, freight, express and
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