Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-05-19
SEEN AND HEARD
In WISCONSIN

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electric storm Miss Inez Timm had a
narrow escape from death She arose
from her bed to close a window when
bolt of lightning struck the house,
splintering her bed posts and setting
! fire to the bedding.
Green Bay.-Mrs. Richard Smith
has gone insane because her four
| children were deported to Norway
after their arrival in New York about
a year ago on account of a skin dis
ease.
| Oshkosh. - August Flaners, a
wealthy retired farmer Of the town
of Pickett, near here, hanged him.
self from the rafters in the second
story Of his barn after driving about
town. greeting his friends and pay
| policy
Madison.-The state tax commits
| sion organized by electing Nils P.
Haugen of Madison chairman to sue
coed the late Judge N. s. ellison of
Fond du Lac, who resigned some
time ago, and re-electing as secretary,
George H. Francis of Milwaukee.
Grantsburg.-Dr Lester B. Bell,
one of the most prominent ply
sicians of this part of the state, and
his chauffeur, William Ross, are dead
as a result of their automobile turn
ing turtle and pinning them under
meath, as the doctor was returning to
! his home in Atlas. Several farmers
drove past the overturned auto during
| the morning On their way to and from
the creamery, but did not surmise that
anyone was under the machine. 1t
was not until a little girl on her way
to school, who, through curiosity,
peered underneath the car that the
two men, who had by that time be-
| come unconscious, were discovered.
She Immediately gave the alarm and
| with the help OF several farmers the
| men were extracted from their posi-
ton and hurried to the Bell hospital
here, where both died
Milwaukee.-The number of strik
ers at the breWeries are now 500.
Members of all building crafts unions
affiliated with the Federated Trades
council walked out. A general strike
of all brewery workers is threatened
if an early agreement cannot be eff
fected The striking Unions are the
painters, electrical workers, metal
workers, plumbers, steamfitters, iron
workers, bod carriers, machinery
| movers and hosting engineers.
La Crosse.-"The White Rats"
won their strike against the
cancellation of an act at the Majestic
theater here, and as a result of an
| agreement all acts are on the boards.
The Cancelled act was restored and the
only "anti-white rat" act on the bill
made application to join the organiza-
ton.
Madison. - Chief Game Warden
John Sholts and his deputies col
| lected 1884 from violators of the fish
and game law and received 5000 for
| the sale of confiscated fish and game.
| Of this money $102 went for court
costs and the remainder was turned
Chippewa Falls.-Al Peters, Will
| liam Hedger and Roy Gum pleaded
guilty to charge of burglary and
were each sentenced to Is months at
| Waupun for breaking into the cottage
| of Edward Mccormick at Long lake
last February and appropriating fur
nishings to the extent of 5000.
Beloit-The Illinois fish COM
mission will investigate the death
of several hundred fish in Turtle
creek At least 1000 pounds came to
the surface and died during one day.
1t is thought that dyes from knitting
factory caused the fish to be pol
| soned.
| Watertown. Constant Fleishner,
aged seventeen, Of Manistee, Mich, a
student at Northwestern college, was
| drowned in Rock river. He was in the
water but three minutes, but when his
body was taken out life was extinct.
tewater.-Evidence that years
ago the deep woods about the Van
Duser farm, near Hebron, was the rem
devious for counterfeiters was un-
earthed recently when quantity Of
bogus half dollars were discovered
buried in the earth They bore vary
ing dates from 1882 to 1343. Some are
fair limitations.
Milwaukee.-Two women, mother
and daughter, luckily escaped injury
when a frame structure in which they
lived, at ITO Eleventh avenue, crashed
from it's underpinring and damaged
three adjoining structures. Valentine
| Mikelajczyki, owner of the one-story
house, had propped up the building
about fourteen feet to build another
story beneath. A new foundation had
been put in and scantling wall con-
structed. Two hours after props had
been removed a teamster, passing by,
shouted warning that the house was
topping and whipped up his horses
in fear that it would fall outward on
the street.
La Crosse.-Charles H. Sherman,
one of the partners in the
Sherman, one of the partners in the
Dark ctoro was stricken with naraIy-