Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-06-12
State Notes In Brief

Waukesha-Fred w Slawson, "a,
died from injuries received when run
down by motorcycle driven by Chas
Stubs, II, town Of Pewaukee. Mr.,
Slawson received two fractures of the
leg, one of the arm and fracture OF
the skull. Stubs was arraigned to-
night charged with assault regardless
of human life, and released under
So, 900 bonds
Beloit.-The city of Beloit, by new
contract with the water, gas and elec'
trio light company, gets reduction in
the price of street lights. All night
lamps will cost $50 year, instead OF
$50 as in the past, and / o'clock lights
will be $50, instead of $50 a year. The
saving to city will be $4,000 year.
Madison.-Gov. McGoyern and Pres
ident Van Hise were the principal
speakers at an all-university outdoor
convocation here as part of the cam
paign waged against campus cutting
by students. Both will talk on Beau
tifying the Campus"
Superiory-Hans Silver, Haw-
thorne farmer, was run down and al
most instantly killed by an Omaha
train while walking the track home
from Southrange in the early morning
hours
Racine-The body of a man still
unidentified was found in the river this
of+ &c of he
met with foul play as the skull was
fractured and there is a deep cut on
the left temple.
Sheboygan-John Stockdyk, who op-
crates a local fishing tug, caught a
sixty eight pound sturgeon in one of
his nets off Amsterdam, south of here
and sold it for $50, nearly so cents per
pound.
Oshkosh.-Henriette Heckner, a
woman who gives her home as Me
nasha, has filed claim for 500 with
the council of Oshkosh, alleging that
she fell over a defective railing on the
Sixth street bridge into the water and
was severely bruised.
| Eau Claire-C. A Stanley and Guy
Allen, solicitors, were arrested on for
gerry charges made by Thomas Lucas
of Durand. A check, alleged to have
been forged by Stanley on A. c.
Isaacs, was cashed by Lucas.
| Jefferson-At the spring meeting Of
the Jefferson county board of super.
visors, J. +. Prentiss, a republican Of
Watertown, was elected chairman to
succeed Alexander Buchanan of Lake
Mills.
Ashland.-The body of Frank Marx,
who was drowned last October, has
lust been recovered. The body OF Da-
via Doherty, who was drowned with
Marx, has been recovered.
Sparta.-John Lawrence is dead at
his home at Ontario, aged 104. Law
renee and five sons served through
the civil war. The youngest is still liv'
ing and is IS years old.
Ssperior. Silver we'll known
Hawthorne resident, met death under
the wheels of an Omaha freight train
while walking from the nearby town
Manitowoc.-The marriage Of Miss
Martha Rahr and Walter Spindler, a
society event, was solemnized at the
st. James Episcopal church here.
has determined to erect new build
ing. The present structure is to be
converted into a guild hall.
Madison.-Burr w. Jones, Madison,
gave the principal address at the six
tieth annual banquet of the Hesperian
Debating society. Michael B. Olbrich
and Alfred H. Bushnell, both of Madi-
son, gave the principal addresses at
the sixty-second annual banquet of the
Athenaean society.
Madison.-H Holding that his partici'
nation in a boxing match at the Mil
wstkee Athletic club was chiefly re-
sponsible for the permanent disability
of his RICH hand, the Industrial COM
mission denied compensation to Ed.
ward A. Kill, a well known boxar in
Milwaukee.