Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-09-23
Wisconsin News
Brief Bits of News From the
Badger State.


tomato vine more thar nine feet
IN height and laden with fruit.
Racine.-Racine voters will vote at
the spring election on the question OF
raising saloon licenses from $500 to
$1,000.
Racine.-The Racine common coun.
Gil is considering the annexing of West
and North Racine next spring. The
number of wards would be increased
to fourteen.
Madison.-Prof. A. r. Hehlfield of
the German department of the univer.
sity will be the principal speaker ar
the German day celebration in Turner
hall, on Oct. 9.
Milwaukee. - A stricken victim of
her official duties, Miss Erna Stolen
field, labortory assistant in the city
health department, is dangerously i'll
with diphtheria.
Milwaukee, Wis. Nathan Ham.
burger, vice president of Gimbel Bros.
owners of big department stores in
New York, Philadelphia and Milwau-
kee, is dead at the age of SIS years.
Ashland,-Charles G. Johnson was
sentenced to two and one-half years in
Waupun for assisting a Jail delivery.
1t is said that he was unable to get out
of the cage himself on account of his
size.
Milwaukee--The cause of the wreck
of the Pere Marquette Car Ferry No.
Is, in which % persons persisted, may
never be known. The wreck lies in
400 feet of water, which Is too deep
for drivers to work in.
Green Bay.-The board of education
has been successful in securing the
consent of the city council to provide
$22, 900 for the purchase of a half
block between Madison and Chicago
streets for a new ward school.
Rhinelander-The state convention
Of Congregational churches will be in
this city on Oct 4, and 6. Carl d,
Thompson, city clerk of Milwaukee,
will give an address on Christian Ele'
ments in the Socialistic Movement"
Neenah. - The large general store
of the Anstach Department Store
Company and the entire stock was de-
stroyed by fire at loss of about $751;
O00 insurance, 100000. The fire
started from overcharged electric
wires.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Cunningham,
chairman of the town of Shields, was
instantly killed by the cars at Rich
wood. He was watching one train
when struck by another at crossing,
He was about 60 years old and leaves
a family.
Wausau.-Judge Reid of this city
sentenced Henry Schmidt of Toma'
hawk. aged SO years, to one year in
prison on the charge of giving liquor
to a posted person. This man was
convicted nine times previously for
minor offenses.
Madison.-Gov. James o. Davidson
appointed William George Bruce, Mil
waukee, State Tax Commissioner N.
P. Hangar and State Railroad Commits
sioner B. H. Meyer Wisconsin mem
bers of the executive committee of the
National Federation for Uniform Legis.
latiOn.
Marinette.-While hunting at Bal
ley's harbor, Door county, Frank KeF
logg was accidentally shot by Albert
Wilson, his companion, and as re-
suit will lose his right foot. Mr.. and
Mrs. kellogg are a newly married
couple from the east and had been
spending their honeymoon at Kan
CARGO lake at the Wilson cottage.
Fond du Lac-M. MielKe, III. Schultz
and w. Schultz, farmers of the town
of Osceola, who were arrested by
Deputy Game Warden Brunei, after
an exciting chase on Long lake, paid
fines and costs amounting TO $3l each
when arraigned in Justice Fairbanks
court. The men pleaded guilty to
the charge of spearing fish with the
aid Of a jack light.
Maiden Rock-B. o. WeSter assist
ant superintendent of the Wisconsin
Fish commission, left for Milwaukee
in the state fish commissions ear Bad
ger The car was loaded with the diff
ferent species of fish which inha0it
Lake Pepin These live fish will be-
displayed at the state fair in Milwau-
kee. There are in all about thirty-seV-
en- kinds of fish in Lake Pepin.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. - Lo-
cal police are attempting to solve the
mystery of the disappearance last
Sunday of C. J. Hays, contractor OF
GAINESVILLE, Wis, who has been operat-
ing in Oklahoma City since June. H.
L. Corley, with whom he has been
associated in construction work, re-
ported the disappearance Monday, but
no trace has been found of him. Hays
had $50 in his pocket when he left his
office Sunday.
Marinette--Seven COWS, one horse
and two pigs have died on the farm OF
John Rasmussen, Oconto county, OF
hydrophobia. The dog which bit the
several head Of stock also bit Mr.. Ras-
mussen. but he paid no attention to-
the injury until his stock developed
hydrophobia, when he was taken to
the Pasteur Institute in Madison for