Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-05-05
WISCONSIN NEWS
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ers Of Badger State.
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
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to All Glasses of Readers.
PRESIDENT Wilson has named Dennis
BleWitt to be postmaster at Fond du
Lac.
|. A. Beane is dead at his home in
Boone, Ia. He kept hotel in a num-
Der of different cities in this state.
Miss Lois Howard, a popular young
freshman of Waupun, was elected
leader of next years Beloit College
Girls Glee club.
Oconomowoc is planning for
campfire and entertainment on Decor
alton day under auspices of Henry
Bertram post, G.. A. r.
j. Z. Lawrence, a BelOit sportsman
killed seven young wolves and captur-
ed one south of the city in Illinois.
He will receive a large bounty.
f. N. Blatz, proprietor of the Hotel
Coleman, at Coleman, Wis, was
found dead in the high school base
ment. He was janitor at the school.
Grade separation SO as practically
to include every important grade
crossing in Kenosha has been ordered
in decision by the railroad commits
sion
Erwin Losbe, of Baraboo, received
broken leg at Madison when
an automobile struck his motorcycle
and dragged him for considerable
distance.
Capt. F. C.. Kiser, Whitewater civil
war veteran, is dead. Captain Kiser
served two terms in the state assem-
bly,, 1880 and 1891, and, was formerly
municipal judge.
e. j. Samp, eX-star athlete of the
University of Wisconsin, and a grad
uate of that institution, has been
elected secretary of the board of COM
merce of Madison.
Charles L. Alverson, SIS, president
of the City bank of Portage and cash
Ter of the State bank of Medford,
died from appendicitis. He was a thir-
ty-second degree Mason.
The city sealers of Stevens Point
will label all packages sealed in the
stores in order to inform the GUS
toners and also prevent resealing the
packages at future times.
With the subscriptions of $225,000
worth of stock, Green Bay is assured
of the new packing plant and stock
yard industry which was recently IN
corporated under the state law.
T. Krumm, shipowner Of Melrose,
Mass, has purchased the, tug w. S.
Taylor of the Nau Tug Line company
of Green Bay. The craft will be used
in Atlantic coast towing service.
Christopher Price, one of the two
survivors of the historic battle be-
tween the Monitor and Merrimac, has
at last decided to ask for pension.
His application has been forwarded
to Congressman M K. Reilly.
At a meeting at Kenosha it was
decided to form a good roads club
for the towns of Pleasant Prairie and
Somers in an effort to secure the COM
pletion of the Sheridan road through
Kenosha county.
The Business Mems association of
that city has asked the citizens of
Beloit to provide at least 400 addi-
tional houses this season to accommo-
date the working forces in the shops.
Many workmen are now living in
camps.
Elevation of tracks and building via
ducts by the Chicago and Northwest
ern railway company through the city
of Kenosha at an estimated cost of
$1,6OO,0O0 is provided for in an order
issued by the Wisconsin railroad COM
mission.
Ella cambridge, a child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Sandridge of Winthrop
Harbor, village On the state line
south of Kenosha, was burned to
death. The clothing of the child
caught fire while she was romping
with other children about bonfire.
At a contest at Wabena by partict-
pants from Shawano, Wabeno and
Oconto high schools, Shawano< won
the two first in the declamatory con-
test, Miss Lucille Gilkey receiving
first and Miss Eulalia Emanuel Sec
IL.
no received second and third.
The case on trial at Merrill OF
Celina Marcuiller VS.. the Milwaukee
road was decided by jury before
Judge Reid in circuit court in favor of
the company. The case was suit for
damages for an assault alleged to
have been made On her person by Ro-
bert Williams, colored, while she was
passenger on the company's train
between Tomahawk and Chicago.
Officials of the Commercial and
Savings bank, Charles R. Carpenter,
cashier, and B. Hinrichs, president,
who were indicted in Racine county,
will probably be tried in Milwaukee.
The defendants filed affidavits to the
effect that they could not secure an
unprecedented trial anywhere in the
First judicial district, comprising Ra-
cine, Kenosha and Walworth counties.
AS George Shaftrie, Lisbon far
mer who was murdered with an axe
from a woodpile the 10Th, was be-
500 louorod into tic Urouo ~ ~, ia