Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-09
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From tho
Badger State.

Henes Brewing company's plant
in this city caught fire and was to-
tally destroyed. Loss estimated at
100000; insurance 100000.
La Crosse. H. Hale, arrested in
Minneapolis, was brought back to LA
Crosse charged with passing forged
check for $40 on A. Schultz, proprietor
of the Burlington hotel
Washington, D. C.-The appointment
OF Thomas w. Brahany. a Milwaukee
newspaper man as secretary of the
tariff board, which is looking into mat.
tiers of scientific tariff revision for the
United States, is announced
Madison.-State Bank Commission
er M. c. Bergh issued charter to the
Bank Of Wilson, town OF Springfield,
st. Croix county. It's capital is 1000.
w. c. Kebenack is president and J. G.
Bakula cashier of the new institution.
Misunderstanding c. A. Harper
OF the Wisconsin state board of health
| doubts If the illness of Russian i'm
migrants at Almena, is cholera, as
was first reported. The board, how
ever, is taking cultures from the blood
of sick persons and has ordered the
colony quarantined
La Crosse. - Placed in an empty
bunk Of a construction crew car by
fellow workers, who later quit work
and forgot him, William Brooks. Mil
waukee, SO i'll he could not move, was
found by the police nearly dead from
starvation and exposure Physicians
say he will recover.
Green Bay.-Edward Henkelmann,
a contractor, aged 55 years, got up
out of bed, crept out to the barn, put
| the muZZle of a double-barreled shot
| gun in his mouth and pulled the trig-
| ger with his toes. Both shots dis
charged about the same time and his
| head was blown to atoms
| Hayward Peterson. form
err sheriff Of Sawyer county, who was
one of the first officials who attempted
to arrest John F. Dietz, died in st.
Joseph's hospital His wife is critical
| ly i'll with tuberculosis Peterson re-
signed the office of sheriff in 1904 on
account of his inability to capture
Dietz.
Couderay. Fire at Radisson.
near here, destroyed the general
store building, stock of merchandise
and household goods belonging to F.
w. Thorban. The fire started from a
defective chimney. The loss is about
three thousand dollars partly covered
by insurance. Thorban was chief dep
uty under Sheriff Madden during the
fight with Deitz last fall.
Milwaukee.-At a mass meeting Of
striking garment workers it was de-
cided to call a strike in all of the
twenty-five shops in Milwaukee, where
5000 workers are employed. Work
ers in eight shops are already out. 1t
is asserted the Milwaukee garment
workers are underpaid, compared with
conditions in other cities. Another
meeting will be held tomorrow
Couderay.-On account of the cold
weather the Arpin Lumber Company
of Grand Rapids, Wis, has suspended
construction for this year on the large
concrete dam which 1t is erecting
across the Chippewa river six miles
from here. The concrete work is COM
pleted, but the gates will not be put in
place until next summer. Work will
begin in the early spring on the gates
and canal Work on the dam was
started in the spring of 1909.
Eau Claire.-John Manwig, Fall
Creek farmer. while cutting corn, got
his left hand caught in the machine
and as a result his arm was pulled
into the knives and cut off clean at
the elbow joint. He was brought to
hospital here, where the member
was amputated above the elbow. AL
fred Rosenberg was brought here from
Pepin with all the fingers of his right
hand cut or torn off as the result Of
coming in contact with a corn shred
der
Couderay.--The deer hunting sea-
son in this section proved to have been
the most successful for many years
and the hundreds of hunters who came
to this part of Sawyer county to
hunt have shipped out with them
from stations in this part of the coun-
ty 40 deer. One death, that of Mar
shall Stevens of Madison, who was ac-
cidentally shot by his companion and
two others that were slightly wounded
by stray bullets, were all the accidents
to deer hunters in this part of the
county this season
MadisOn.-A resolution was intro"
duced at the student conference ask
ing that Prof Dennis, chairman OF the
new committee on student interests,
be barred from future meetings. The
resolution was a surprise and was
tabled after much discussion. The
movement to GUST Prof. Dennis is re-
suit of his statement that self-govern-
ment here is SILLY affair" Since his
appointment as head of the committee
Prof. Dennis has aimed to get through
a number of measures which have not
been looked upon with favor by the
students.