Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-10-07
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.

ballasting for this year, 1000
car loads of gravel being hauled over
the road to points en- the Wisconsin
division this summer.
Appleton. Sergeant Frank H.
Crane has received his commission
as second lieutenant and will be as
signed to duty in the Third battalion,
Second regiment infantry.
Oconomowoc. - The summer hotel,
recently built at Oconomowoc lake
by William H. Perthesius. Milwau-
kee, with practically all contents,
burned. The loss is about $4,000.
Madison-The annual class rush
will be held here on Oct G. The af-
fair this year will be of the same ma
ture as last year when the modified
bag rush" was held on the lower cam
pus.
Appleton.-The Journal, weekly
paper, is acquiring necessary machin-
cry and soon will be published as a
daily. This with the new socialist
daily will provide Appletcns with four
daily papers.
La Crosse.-George Green, aged q
years, son of a wealthy farmer of
Hokah township, was accidentally
shot and killed while squirrel hunt
ing by the discharge of a shotgun in
the hands Of his brother, Oscar, aged
Is.
La Crosse. - The Rev. Fathers
Hanley and Malloy are in this city
to remain two weeks to assist the
Rev. Ambrose Murphy in mission
services. The priests are of the Vim
centian order and spend the greater
part of their time in mission work
about the United States.
Chippewa Falls.-Mrs. Edward Rut-
ledge, aged 81, died following a fall
which broke her hip. On account OF
her age the broken joint could not
be set. The deceased was the wife
Of a we'll known millionaire lumber
man of this city who survives. She
was born at Sherburn, Ky, in 1929,
and has resided here since 1860
Eau Claire.-At the point of death
at the hands of d band of lynchers,
John Ganouf was rescued by the sher-
if and a posse of deputies, who had
been called when notified that the
man was about to be killed by en-
ragged farmers, who were trying to
force him to confess that he had poi
sOned cattle belonging to his neigh
bOrs.
Kenosha.-Mr. and Mrs. John Miller
Of the town of Randall in this county,
have received a letter Of congratula-
ton from Col. Roosevelt on the birth
Of their eighteenth child, who has been
named Theodore Roosevelt Miller All
Of the children are living and Mr.. Mil
Ter, who is a foreman at an ice house,
has provided to send all except three
Of them to school.
Plymouth.-The Rev. Matthias JOdys-
jus, Lithuanian priest who lived
on a farm near Plymouth, was buried
from St. Johns Catholic church of
this city. He was Sc years old. He
had been chaplain in the Russian
army and professor in a college in
his native land and during the last
few years had ministered to a Lithu.
anian congregation in Sheboygan.
Rhinelander - The Wisconsin Con-
gregational association held it's seven
ty-second annual meeting in this city
with a business session, after which
addresses were made by Reverend
A. O. Stevens of Elkhorn, Rev. w. G..
A. Waller of Sturgeon Bay and others.
An elaborate program covering three
days has been prepared, closing with
a banquet of the Wisconsin Congrega-
tional Brotherhood
Whitewater.-L. II. Lynn, aged 81
years, famous southern Wisconsin
character, died as the result of fall
a week ago. He had been in excel
lent health up to the time of the acct
dent, and expected to live to be 100
years old. He was known over fifty
years ago as a singing school teacher
in this and adjoining counties, and
was known from the old days by the
title of professor
Madison.-An auction sign over the
entrance of the Park hotel in this city
denotes the near-passing of the famous
political hOstelry. For a generation it
has been Madison's biggest and most
popular hotel. A year ago it passed
out Of the hands of William f. Villas
estate through purchase by Kletzch
Bros. of Milwaukee, by whom, after
the next session of the legislature, it
will be remodeled and enlarged. The
lease of Colonel George A. Lougee ex-
pires Nov. /, and the auction sale
is of the contents owned by Colonel
Lougee.
La Crosse.-Recognizi man
who, he claims, obtained $3.50 from
him on false pretenses year ago af-
ter pretending to engage him to start
suit in a fake personal damage case,
Attorney Frank Winter, partner OF
Congressman J. J. Esch, captured a
stranger. Winter pursued the man
for several blocks in and out of al
leys, across streets, lodging autOmO-
biles and street cars, and then finally
captured him and turned him over to-
the police Although past middle age,
Winters is an athlete, and easily over
powered his adversary.