Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-25
WISCONSIN
3 X EVITIES

Owen Of Milwaukee spoke at the
annual convention of the Wiscon-
sin Association of Postmasters on the
subject of automobile service in col
Iecting and delivering city mail. Mr..
Own said the automobile service in
transporting from the main Office to
the substations in Milwaukee had
proved such success that the de-
partment entered into new contract
for four years more. Collection serv-
ice by auto, Mr. Owen contended,
could be worked successfully in large
cities only where the speed of the
auto in collecting the mail will pre-
horses.
Williams Bay.-The twentieth
central city conference of the
Young Women's Christian association
was opened here and will continue
until August 25. Over eight hundred
delegates are expected from nine
states of the middle west, represent
ing every aspect of association work.
Mrs. Annie M. Reynolds, member Of
the national board, will preside over
the conference, and the executive
Brown, city secretary for the national
board, assisted by Miss Emma F.
Byers, executive secretary for the
north central territorial committee.
Madison.-State Fire Marshal T.
M. Purtell was notified that Will
liam Kloth, living near Water
town, has been bound over to the Oc-
tober term of the circuit court on
charge of arson. 1t is alleged that
Kloth on July 20 burned the barn of
William Pietz. The fire marshal has
caused the arrest of Mrs. M. e. Lutz
of Menomonie, who is alleged to have
burned barn belonging to Henry
Cranes on July 80
Madison.-The estate Of the late
Halle Steensland Of this city paid
an inheritance tax Of $3.50 in
Dane county court. The state re-
ceives 921a per cent, or $6,151, the
remaining TX per cent. going to the
county. The Steensland estate is val
ued at $44S,084. This Is the second
largest inheritance tax paid by Dane
county estates, the William F. Villas
estate paying $10,262.
Fond du Lac-Nathaniel w. Sal
lade, aged forty, prominent church
man and business man, died as
result of taking cyanide Of potas-
SUM for sodium phosphate. Mr..
Sallade was accustomed to carry two
bottles similar to each other in his
automobile case, one containing
cyanide of potash, the other sodium
phosphate.
Wausau.-At the summer session
of the Wisconsin Daily Newspa-
per league officers were reelected
as follows: President, Frank E. Noyes
of Marinette; vice-president, Oscar ].
Hardy of OSHKOSH; secretary-treasurer,
H. Fl. Bliss Of GAINESVILLE. The next
meeting will be held in Milwaukee In
November.
Jefferson.-Jefferso county's old
soldiers held their ninth annual
reunion In Courthouse park. Ad-
dresses were made by former Gov. w.
D. Hoard, former Congressman S. A.
Cook, former Senator J. A Hardwood
and others. F. A. Foote was reelected
president and George Turner of Jeffer-
son secretary.
Kenosha.-The body of the in
FAINT son Of Mrs. Anna Magdolen, for
which the police have been searching,
was found in box in the basement Of
the house where Mrs. Magdolen lived.
Only few minutes before the body
of the baby was found the mother had
started for the state prison at Waupun
to serve an eighteen months term.
Eau Claire.-District Attorney
Fred Arnold has filed papers in
an action in behalf of Eau Claire coun-
ty against Joseph w. Singleton to re-
cover certain fines alleged to have
been collected by the defendant dur
ing the time he was municipal Judge,
and which he had failed to turn over
to the county.
Couderay-Blueberry pickers re-
port having discovered a wild man
in a large BURBERRY marsh near
Chief lake In the Couderay Indian res
ervation. He wears no clothes and
carries a small satchel.
Marinette-An iron bar with hui
man hair clinging to it, found at
the Wertelewski home by Deputy
Sheriff Bahlert, is the strongest evil
dence the state has secured against
anyone in seeking to solve the mys-