Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-11
WISCONSIN
Is II EVITIES

! Waupun.-It is reported here that
! William Essman of Milwaukee.
state superintendent of public prop
erty, may be chosen warden of the
state prison to succeed Henry Towne,
resigned. Mr.. Essman spent a night
here, looking over the prison and con-
ferrlng with the Rev. Daniel Wood
ward, the member of the state board
of control, who is temporary in charge
Of the institution. Mr.. Essman has
had some experience in prison work,
having served as deputy warden of
q big prison In Indiana, and might,
1t is said, consider the wardenship
here If 1t were offered him. The leg
1slature at its recent session increased
the salary of the warden from $4,000
to $4,000, with maintenance for him.
self and family, which is equivalent
to $1,000 more. The legislature also
increased the salary Of state superin-
tendent of public property from $4,000
to $4,000.
Manitowoc.-For more than thirty
years Charles Butler, Clarks
Mills pioneer, who died at Frank
fort, Mich, a few days ago carried
a piece of cloth from his shirt in
his lungs and the presence of the
cloth caused a cough which on several
occasions threatened his life. Butler
| al In hn TTvSn IN
the Civil war and at Perryville was
shot through the lung. The bullet was
cut from his back, but a piece of his
wooden shirt which was torn away by
the bullet lodged in the lung.
Green Bay.-MOney which has
been due E. X. Ansorge for forty
six years and which he had forgotten
having been entitled to was paid to
him by the war department. The
amount was not large, being only
S1.73, and Mr.. Ansorge was more than
surprised to receive a check from
the government. The money was to
cover the value of blanket and other
articles which Mr.. Ansorge turned in
to the department at the close Of the
Civil war
Prairie du Chien-Harry Schmidt
aged fifteen, whose mother has just
returned from the hospital where
she had been confined for weeks, Went
to the bank of the Mississippi to
gather clans, and came home an hour
later with a hatful. When he opened
the third one he and his parents were
amazed to see a 31-grain pink beauty
drop to the floor. William Moore, a
local pearl dealer, gave $500
for it.
West Bend.-Mrs Martin ], Cav
anaugh, wife of Chicago business
man, is dying and her husband is seri-
ously injured as a result of an auto
mobile accident near here, when their
machine turned turtle on a newly
made gravel road north of here.
They we're on their way to the
Dells
Neenah-A telegram received
here said E. w. Mathewson, for
merly a Kenosha manufacturer and
we'll known throughout the state, was
killed in an auto accident at Everett,
Wash. The machine went over a
high embankment, crushing Mathew
son beneath it.
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John Dietz of Cameron Dam fame,
said attorneys who have charge OF
the case of his father will be ready
to present their arguments for new
trial to supreme court before Janu-
airy. He said the attorneys have
learned something of late which Will
put new phase on the situation at
Cameron Dam, but declined to make
it public.
Neenah.-Charged with violating
the state game laws through IL
legal fishing, Charles Peterson and
Charles Messman the latter a city Of
fetal, were arrested by game wardens.
| Soon after their arrest Peter
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guilty.
Madison.-The new state affairs
commission met in the governors
| office and organized by elect
ing former Senator w. H. Hatton of
New London as vice chairman. Under
the law, Governor McGovern is named
! as chairman. A secretary will be
elected at another meeting of the
commission to be held in about
month. The governor was requested
to look up a good expert accountant
who can be employed by the commits
sion to devise a uniform system of
state accounting.
Madison-Brushed from his foot