Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-03-17
WISCONSIN NEWS
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ers Of Badger State.
News of All Kinds Gathered From
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to All Glasses of Readers.

man, died Of Brights disease in a local
sanitarium. He was fifty years old.
Mrs. J. G. Hayes, the well known
wife of a Grand Rapids hotel
keeper, died suddenly of heart failure.
Many Beloit students may serve
in ambulance corps or other war re-
lief branches at European battle
fronts.
People of Stevene Point will
vote on the saloon license question
this spring and an exciting campaign
is in prospect.
d. H. Wright, So, Of Madison, is
dead after an illness of several
months. He was probably the best
known Mason in the state.
John Marciniak, Oshkosh attorney,
who shot his wife the night of Feb.
3, was sentenced by Judge Goss of
the municipal court to one year at
Green Bay reformatory
Mrs. Ben Hooper, the Oshkosh suf-
frage orator, has been called to Iowa.
there to make campaign for suffrage
when the electors of Iowa on June
5 will make the decision.
A La Crosse organizati helping
mothers who are compelled to work for
living and unable to find time to sew
for their children, has been formed
by the ladies' auxiliary Of the Rescue
Mission.
Disliking being named for his faith
ers farm in Norway, 1ngebregt J.
Pynton has filed notice with Register
OF Deeds Thompson that he has
changed his name to Ingebregt J.
Johnson. He lives at La Crosse.
Sam Witwer of Arcadia is in crit
ical condition with broken neck. Mr..
Nitwer was thrown from a box on
which he was sitting in a wagon, to
the frozen ground, when the wheels
struck a rut.
Seamen in the hold of the United
States torpedoboat destroyer Preble
off San Diego, Cal, were badly burn
ed drought the explosion of can of
gasoline, and Arthur Gossett, of Wa
tertown, Wis, died.
Wisconsin postmasters are commits.
stoned Andrew J. Osborn, Barron;
John H. Lewis, Black River Falls; Car
rie Kautsky, Colby; Herman Krohn-
scnab, Dorchester; VIM. D. Schultz,
Stanley; Otto J. Melcher Wautoma.
Dead in Europe one day and alive
the next in America tells the story of
the experience of Elwood Smith of
Rhinelander, former Lawrence college
student, who walked into chapel after
his death had been reported from
France.
The attorneys Of Mrs. Caroline Pat
zer's of Manawa, are circulating
petition to be presented to the gov
ornor, in her behalf, asking for her
pardon. The jurors will all sign, and
they expect to get her out some time
before next July.
The Oconomowoc order of the
Eastern Star will observe it's
tWenty-fifth, or silver anniversary, on
March 23, and it is expected that the
grand chapter officers will be present.
A banquet will be followed by initia-
ton and other ceremnoies.
The body of Leo Blaze at Racine
was found in White river, direct
ly under the bridge of the interurban
line. His head was cut indicating that
he had struck it against the abutment
in falling. He was last seen alive on
Sunday. Death is supposed to have
been accidental.
NJ. B. Olbrich and J. J. BLAME, the
La Toilette candidates for delegates
to the Republican national convention
for the Third congressional district,
filed statements in the office of the
secretary of state declaring that the
former had spent SIS and the latter ST
for campaign purposes
Pneumonia and grip contributed
heavily to the death rate in Wiscon-
sin during January, according to the
monthly mortality report issued by
the state board of health the total
number of deaths being 1866. This is
more than 1000 in excess of Deem
bers record, when the mortality was
2,549.
Four candidates are out for mayor
of Kenosha. The list includes Mayor
M. J. Scholey, who is candidate for
a fourth term; Charles H. Pfenning,
former mayor and former member of
the assembly; Charles E. Gundlach,
councilman, and Michael Yabs, who is
credited with having the backing Of
the Socialists.
The Wisconsin conservation COM
mission has decided that it will
send a crew of trappers to Ashland,
Bayfield,, Price, Lincoln and Oneida
counties to catch beaver, which have
flooded a railroad line in that section
and are doing other damage there,
and take them to state lands in For
est and Villas counties.
A radio message has been re.
ceived by c. D. Rene of that city
from his brother, DR.. James A. Rene,
formerly of Superior, Wis, who, &C
cording to private advices which
reached DR.. J. A. Adams at Superior,