Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-06-23
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shot and seriously wounded his wife,
has been taken into custody.
The 61st commencement of Way
land academy began on Sunday The
school has had a successful year.
Miss Christine M. Vanderwall, a
school miss of Phillips, finished her
four-year high school course in two
years.
Hundreds of letters from many quar-
tiers are pouring into the executive
office asking for the pardon of John
F. Dietz
The English Evangelical Lutheran
synod embracing several states of the
northwest meets at Oshkosh June 20
| to 20.
Elmer Holden, aged Fl, and Minnie
Done, thirty nine years old, both of
Strum, Wis, were licensed to marry.
A concert by the University of
! Wisconsin band will be the first
number of the program for the Amigo
Chautauqua to be held July to IS.
/ The Kenosha Yacht club will build
clubhouse on the Kenosha water front.
The city granted the club lease on
dock property for term of ten years.
A charter has been issued to the
Peoples bank of Wrightstown, capital
lied at $4,000. Thomas Pagan is
president and N. B. Kennel cashier.
| Sheboygan citizens are planning
to have an exact reproduction of the
Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia as
feature of its main business street
| George J. Myers, As, keeper of the
Kenosha city poor farm for the last
five years, died at st. Josephs hospi-
tai in Milwaukee from cancer of the
stomach
In crossing Baird's creek near Green
Bay, while driving the COWS
home, Bernard Krischer, five years
| old, was carried down stream one
] mile and drowned.
Mrs. Mary E. Bingham, aged Is, wi
dow of Colonel w. H. Bingham, who
served with disticntion in the confed-
crate army in the civil war, is dead at
her home in KenOsha.
Not to be outdone at Amigo, Wis,
by any of the other cities in the state,
plans are being laid for a prepared
ness for peace demonstration that will
take place on the fourth of July.
VIM. Cooley, aged 81, who says he
is widower from Marinette, was ar
rested at GAINESVILLE, charged with at
tempted assault on Stella Reidy, aged
nine years and Lillian Tyrolt, aged
ten
The plant and real estate of the
Winter company, Sheboygan concern,
manufacturers of bank and office fix
lures, which recently failed was sold
to the Northern Furniture company for
$4,000.
! Harry Narnes, aged s, drowned in
raceway below the mill of the Heine-
mann Lumber Co. at-Wausau. The body
was recovered but efforts at resusci-
tation failed. The boy fell from an
embankment.
Mail adyices from Ed. McMullen,
who left Emerald a youth about
twenty years ago to make his fortune
in the gold fields of Alaska, confirm
the newspaper dispatches that he has
struck it rich there.
A. J. Plowman, Wausau politician,
former assemblyman and democratic
candidate for congress, was found not
guilty of the charge of unlawfully pro-
curing John Rasmussen, minor, to vote
at the April town election.
Four hours after she had commenc-
ed an action for divorce at Wausau
Mrs. Fred Offield was shot three times
and dangerously wounded by her hus-
band, at the home of the Rev. E. C.
Grauer, where the woman had gone.
John C. Hartzell, believed to be con-
nected with the famous burglary of
the Chicago Art institute, who was
released by a jury at Kenosha on
charges of burglary, was taken back
to the Illinois state prison, from which
he had been paroled.
Twice within twelve hours E. B.
Carton, a sober Sheboygan man, 70
gears old, president of the toy COM
pany bearing his name, was the prin-
cipal in automobile accidents on the
streets of Sheboygan. In neither case
did he receive more than minor in
iuries.
Mrs. Annie Lukasavicz, Polish
woman, and her five daughters,
Mrs. Josie Reynolds, Milwaukee;
Mrs. Pauline Elbrant, Hatley, and
Mrs. Peter Helbach, Mrs. Joseph
Bambenek and Mrs. Michael Pollun,
of Sharon, were found insane at the
Bambenek home near Stevens Point.
after weeks religious orgy in the
locked house in which Mrs. Elbrant's
eyes had been gouged out and her
tongue split by one Of the others.
Some of the women paraded outdoors
without their clothing.
More than 100 women, who are
prominent in the work of the
Protestant Episcopal church through
out the country were in Kenosha at
tending the annual retreat which op-
: ened at Kemper hall on June Is and
which continued until Saturday,