Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-10-20

would have been destroyed by fire
but for an alarm given by the Har-
ley house Cog.
Geo. Miller, GAINESVILLE, well known
man around town, committed suicide
by shooting himself in a hotel. No
cause for the act is known.
Michael Higgins, prominent citizen,
four times mayor of Racine and pres
ident Of the Higgins Spring and Axle
company, is dead at the age of 60.
The 65th convention Of the Wiscon-
sin synod of the Presbyterian chruch
closed after selecting Beloit as the
place for holding the next convention.
Although it is difficult to separate
research and instruction costs, tae
cost to the state per student at The
Wisconsin university last year did not
exceed S135.
Ferdinand Gauerke, SO years old, and
a resident of the town of Ixonia near
ly seventy years, is dead of stroke
of apoplexy. Mr. Gauerke is survived
by five children.
G. w. Lamoreaux, lawyer and
county judge of Dodge county, is dead
following long illness. He was a
brother-in-law of United States Sen
ator Paul 0. Husting.
After being near recovery, Mrs.
M. J. Grendron of Wausaukee, who
suffered six weeks ago from an at
tack of tentanus, suddenly took turn
for the worse and died within an hour.
The Royal Ladies of America. an
auxiliary order to the Royal
Arcanum, held a session at Green Bay.
About thirty-fve delegates from vari-
Gus councils in the United States at
tended
John Jacquinta, aged %, is in the
Kenosha haspital with a knife wound
eighteen inches long in his back, and
may die James Oliviero, another Ital-
ian, is held on charges of attempted
murder.
Peshtigo has just observed the 45th
anniversary of the fire which de-
stroyed the village and resulted in
many deaths. In some of the churches
the tragedy was referred to in Sun
days sermons.
Troop A, w, N. G., of Mil
waukee, which has been returned
from the border to Camp Douglas,
will be mustered out inside of ten
days, according to the statement of
Adjutant General Holway.
John Strange, Neenah manufacturer,
has bid in the property of the de-
funct Wisconsin Graphite company for
$28,500 and will soon begin erecting
a new pulp and paper mill at McDill
to manufacture kraft papers.
Notice is given that a civil service
examination will be held on Nov. IL
for rural letter carrier at Gratiot and
Prescott A postoffice has been es-
tablished at White Lake, Langlade
county, with William H. Gamble, post
master.
The annual session of the grand en-
campment of the Independent Order
of Oddfellows in Wisconsin came to a
close with the selection of GAINESVILLE
as the 1917 grand encampment and
George Gerlach, of Viola, as grand
patriarch.
The attorney general of Wisconsin
has advised District Attorney c. J..
TIE Selle of Amigo that member of
county board was not eligible to
election to the Office of a county high
way commissioner while a member of
the county board.
Within one week following the
acquittal of C. j. Capman for shoot
ing Charles Shimmeal of Shopiere, the
feud broke out again and Shimmea1
was arrested on warrant sworn out
by Mrs. Capman, who charges Shin
meal with having threatened her life
with a revolver.
At the synod of the German Ameri-
lean Reformed church it was voted to
keep Mission House college at Frank
lin, Wis, and to spend 100000 for
new buildings. More than 100 min
listers, representing sixty-four mission
fields in thirteen northwest states, at
tended the synod
The hearing of the application of
the village of Barkesan for authority
to increase the rates of it's public
owne.1 gas plant brought out the fact
that the high price of gasoline may
cause a decided increase in the rates
of utilities that use this liquid in any
considerable quantity.
Col Green, son of Hetty Green, has
returned to Milwaukee to close a deal
of the utmost Importance to Milwau-
kee maritime interests. 1t is believed
here that the deal is the taking over
of the Crosby Transportation COM
pany, with it's fleet of steamers now
in the cross lake traffic.
Governor Philip at Madison has
pardoned Edward Eckhard, who on
April IL, 1873, was sentenced to the
state prison at Waupun for life for
shooting and killing Charles Peterson,
near Jefferson Junction, over an al
legged robbery when they were dia-
mond partners in South Africa
Under Italian societies Kenosha
had municipal celebration of Column
bus day. There was big parade of