Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-11-04
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits Of News From the
Badger State.

a number of other boys,
Chippewa Falls.-Ernest HILBERT. 16.
had his left arm amputated near the
shoulder as the result of a hunting
accident.
Marinette-John Schoblske, camp
cook for d. Drissette, was fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge
of rife
Sparta-Over 300 cases Of second
crop strawberries were picked here
this month. They sold at prices rang
Ing from So to 1925 per case.
Madison.-Twenty members of the
University of Wisconsin faculty will
be on the program of the Wisconsin
Teachers Association, which will hold
its annual meeting in Milwaukee No
vember to 5.
Ashland - Myra Dietz's condition
has been greatly improved by last
weeks operation. She has had no
fever for the last twenty-four hours
Practically all danger of inflammation
extending to the spinal cord is past.
Sheboygan. - Timothy Seaman. a
pioneer resident, dropped dead in the
hotel of w. Burke Of Adell Mr.. Scan.
Ian had just entered the place and
was about to enter into a converse
ton with Mr. Burke when he fell dead
Sparta.-Mrs. Catherine E. Fisk, the
oldest resident of this city, in point
of length of residence, is dead at the
home of her son at Carpio, n. d.
When she came to Sparta in 1851 the
district on which the city stands was
almost uninhabited, there being only
two or three buildings.
WinOna, Minn.-Fred Riser, a farm
er residing near Marshland, Wis.
brought potato to Winona that es
tablisheS new record The tuber,
genuine freak weighs five pounds, is
as large around as mans arm and as
long as a mans forearm Out of the
body of the potato grows fourteen per
feet potatoes Of various sizes.
La Crosse.-Acting for the Wiscon-
sin rate commission, Commissioner j.
H. Roemer yesterday and heard the
petition of the La Crosse Gas and
Electric Company to advance rates
here for electricity, gas and heating
service, and the protest of citizens
attorneys against the increase. The
commission will render its decision
later.
Eau Claire.-Charles F. West, chair
man of the Democratic county com.
mittee, has a telegram from Demo
cratic State Chairman Davis asking
West to advise the county clerk to
change the designation of CrOWnhart
on the ballot, which is given as PRO.
gressive Republican" 1t is supposed
that Davies wants it changed to hide
pendent Repubublican.
La Crosse.-At a meeting of the
anti-tuberculosis committee of the HUI
name society and DR.. Edward Evans,
Prof. Lewis Anterior and w. S. Woods
the new health board of commission
ers, arrangements were made to start
an aggressive war on tuberculosis in
this county. A public health inspec
tor, in addition to an active city health
officer will be proposed to the city
council
Saltwater, Minn.--Albert Kriesel
residing on a farm five miles from
this city in the town of Somerset
! Wis, was killed by 500 Line freight
train near his home. He was walk
! ing across a trestle when the train
struck him and hurled him to the
! ground below. Kriesel had resided
there sc years and was 65 years old
He leaves a widow, five sons and
three daughters.
Madison.-Dr. F. Ravenel director
of the Wisconsin state hygienic labora-
tory, scientific member of the WiScon'
sin state live stock board, and called
the greatest authority in the United
States on the subject of live stock
sanitation, takes issue with the farm
ers who profess alarm at tubercula1
tests as applied to cattle. He declares
that it is not possible for cattle to &C.
Quire tuberculosis following the per-
Torrance of the tuberculin test.
Racine.-In the town of Caledonia
a peculiar accident happened to Leon.
ard Walter, farmland. While driv-
ing along the Four Mile road he sud.
denly felt a sting on the top of his
head and fell stunned in the wagon
box. When he came to, his horses
were standing beside the highway.
There was a cash on his head and
the blood had run down on his face.
A bullet was discovered in the wagon
box. Probabilities are that it was
stray shot from the gun of hunter
Park Falls.-This city may in the
near future become the center of the
cedar and railway tie shipping bust
ness of North Central Wisconsin. The
National Post and Tie Company has
purchased large yard and will in the
future open an office here. The site
purchased is along the switching yards
of the Omaha railway, which is ex'
pected to reach here early next sum
mer, and which now has extended its
line to Kaiser, about four miles west
Of here. A sidetrack will also connect
the cedar and the tie yards with the
500 railway.
AnnIetOn - Willie Shenard a | G.