Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-07-28
WISCONSIN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest to Read
ers Of Badger State.

| Steve Bemet, aged %, was drowned
In Lake Michigan, near the Kenosha
municipal bathing beach.
The general store of E. A. Glover
at New Richmond was robbed of ap-
proximately $1,000 in silks.
S. w. Dahlberg, aged Sc, attorney 81
Milwaukee, was run down by a tour
ing car and died few hours later.
Fred Isan of Cadott, II years old,
was decapitated by 500 freight train
at Irvine while attempting to steal a
ride.
| Racine plans to change the name
of Villa street. No Mexican names
| for Racine, those behind the state.
ment say.
Jefferson will get free mail delivery.
Boxes and numbers are now being put
up and as soon as this is done, deliv.
ery will start.
| j. Mcfarland. GAINESVILLE, was killed
lin twenty foot fall in his barn. He
was prominent in republican politics
in southern Wisconsin.
Little William Bloch, of Marinette,
the two year old son of Gustave
Bloch, while barefooted, walked into
bed Of live Goals and was badly
burned.
| Captain Archibald Randall, retired
lawyer and civil war veteran, is dead
at his home in Brodhead, as a result
of injuries sustained in tripping over
croquet arch.
| Beloit college has decided it will
aid in preparedness and will give mill
tary instruction. The college will al
so give credit to young women for
Red Cross work.
Struck by lightning during storm
which broke over Green Bay, Mrs.
George Marchland is in critical con-
dition. One side of her body is par
TALLY paralysed.
| John Cunningham, So, president of
the Rock County Bar association and
exalted ruler of the GAINESVILLE Elks,
suffered stroke of paralysis and is
in critical condition.
Edward Schoengarth, Neillsville res
ldent and assistant cashier of the Com
mercial bank, shot himself through
the head while temporarily deranged
by long illness and worry.
A. A. Fink, GAINESVILLE man, has
received letter from relatives in
Germany that was brought on the
submarine Deutschland. This is the
first uncensored letter he has receiv-
| ed.
]. H. Moore, who with brother,
Judge W. H. Moore, headed four great
corporations known as the Moore
group with combined capitalization
of 100000, died at Lake Geneva,
Wis.
While picnickers and campers
watched, Anton Geigler, eighteen years
old, drowned in Pigeon lake, near
Manitowoc. He was in eight feet of
water when he was seized with
cramps.
Congressman William ]. Cary, can
didate for denomination in the Fourth
district, filed a. statement in the office
of the secretary of state declaring
that he had spent $197.S4 for campaign
purposes.
George Bardon Clifford was buried at
Oconomowoc. where he was the own
er and manager of the "Giffords,"
one time famous resort. Later he
was proprietor of the Avenue hotel in
Madison.
Robert Bartschenfeld! who was
known as "The Free Lunch King" of
La Crosse, is dead at the age of IS
years of heart trouble. He was many
years proprietor of one,of the saloons
in La Crosse.
Don J. Whittemore.y Sc, a pioneer
resident of Milwaukee and for the last
sixty years connected. with the Mil
waukee road as engineer, chief en2i-
neer and finally as consulting engin.
eer, died at his residence,
The auto of DR.. lE. ]. Crosby of
Arnott was overturned in the village
as the doctor was making short turn
in the morning. His thigh was broken
but his little daughter who, landed on
her head, escaped SERIOUS injury.
The Simmons company, Kenosha
establishment employing about 5000
men, has signed contract for the in
surance of the life of every person in
its employ. The policies range from
$500 to $4,000, according ito length of
service
The Mitchell-Lewisf Autamobile fac
tory. located at Racine, WIS, changed
hands when new corporation Of Chi
cago and New York financiers took
over the stock owned by Captain Will
liam M. Lewis, ct al, forIapI,roximate-
ly $5,0O0,0O0.
The fight for track elevation of the
Northwestern railway in Kenosha is
to be fought over again, as THE COM
mission has set aside the order which
was to have become effective on
Wednesday. and a ,rehearing has, been
set for Sept. IL.
The Mississippi, river claimed its
sixth victim at La Crosse sof the
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