Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-06-09
WISCONSIN news
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State druggists meet in Wausau
July Is to 81, inclusive.
Kenosha seeks a company of Wis
consin National guard.
The president named G. C. Roberts
postmaster at La Fargo, Wis.
The Commercial Educators conven-
ton will be held in Oshkosh July 4
to Z, inclusive
Sparta won an appeal to tax COM
mission for a re-equalization of taxes
for the year 1915.
DR.. B. U. Jacob, Waukesha, promi-
nent in medical circles in this state
since 1887, is dead
The Stemper law will invalidate
three saloons which have applied for
licenses at GAINESVILLE.
The BURBERRY crop this sea-
son will exceed any crop harvested in
this section for good many years.
Edgar Moore, farmer, east of
Eau Claire, was killed by lightning
while going home to dinner from the
field.
J. NJ Malloy, aged 50, secretary of
the Watertown Tanning company, died
at his home after a prolonged illness
from Bright's disease.
Fire in an Oshkosh shipyard dam
aged a new barge and scorched two
smaller craft, the cabin launch, Tia
Juana, and steam launch.
Louis Golongeski, a farmer Of New
Berlin, was attacked by bull in his
barn and received several broken ribs
and a badly bruised leg and arm.
S. w. Moore, formerly of the
Beloit Iron works and prominent in
the Masonic, Knights of Pythias and
Modern Woodman orders, died in Chi
cagO.
Frances La Whom Borland, Kenosha
child, four years old, plunged head
first from a second story window of
an apartment building, fracturing her
skull. She died from the injury.
Henry F. Norris, of Milwaukee,
superintendent Of agents and trus
tee of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company, died suddenly at
his residence, 953 Cambridge avenue
Of angina pectOris.
Assemblyman G.. Ploeger, Seymour,
died following an illness Of about ten
days. He had been i'll with pneulno-
MIA, and while his condition was
known to be serious it was thought
up to the last that he would survive.
Florence Francken, a ten-year-old
girl of Depere, was knocked down and
probably fatally injured by an auto
mobile driven by G. A. Lawton, presi-
dent of the Lawton Machine company,
the Pearl tneater.
The six year old daughter of Henry
Pahlkotter, of Sheboygan, Wis, a
marine engineer, was fshed out of six
feet Of water off the new government
breakWater by Otto Zwerg and Ed
ward Samse. The child was uncon-
scious, but was revived.
The jury in the contested Maitland
will case at st. Joseph, returned
verdict announcing the will in ques-
1t was victory for the contestants.
By this verdict another will, written
in 1911, will come to probate.
August ZastrOw, of Waucau, is held
on a charge of having assaulted his
| brother, Roman ZastroW. with intent
to do great bodily harm. The two
men became involved in fight as
| their mother lay dying at her home.
Mrs. Zastrow died the same night
Michael Prock, aged q, and An
thony Maletzke are believed to have
| drowned at Beaver Dam May 2S Both
| failed to return to their homes and
the boat in which they went up the
| lake was found, together with one of
| the mems coats, two days afterward
When the steamer Virginia reached
| take its run on the east shore, there
| was a big cargo of freight waiting but
no crew Of freight handlers The
steamer had not shipped it's regular
,rew. The boat was finally loaded
with a crew of boys.
| MeudSua SOSSlpS IluSJ give UDor
| tongues a rest. Michael Gutzky, in
communication to Menasha newspa-
! per, announces that he did the best
he could to provide a good home for
his family despite the fact that his
wife few days ago obtained a di-
Vorce on grounds of cruel and inhu-
man treatment.
Police of Fond du Lac have the
written confession of Mrs. Julia
Rueckert that she wrote two black
hand letters received by the Rev. R.
S. Ingraham, district superintendent
Of the Fond du Lac district of the
| Methodist church, millionaire pastor
noted for his charities. Police and
private detectives nave been working
on the case many weeks.
Rev. Ezra Vornholtz, of the German
Reformed Theological college at
Franklin, and five other persons were
pinned beneath an automobile when
| if upset Rev. Mr.. Won Vornholtz
who was at the wheel, is in ST.
Nicholas hospital in a serious condi-