Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-14

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tors it has been decided to change the
name of the Oshkosh New German
American bank to the American bank
John Schuette, former first lieuten
ant of the Manitowoc home guards
has been ordered to report at Camp
Dix, Tex, to go into training at the
aviation school there.
During a storm, Robert Coel, bound
over to the circuit court in Sturgeon
Bay on a burglary charge, crawled
through the ventilator to the jail base
men tand escaped through window
The old buildings of the Peshtigo
Lumber company at Oconto will be
torn down and sulphite mill erected
on the site. The new plant expects to
be operating in three months.
A two-headed lamb was born at the
Loveland stock farm, near Mud Hen
lake. 1t has two necks, two mouths
and four eyes, but only one OF the
heads is equipped with ears.
The experience of taking and hold
ing in Jail his own brother came to
Sheriff John A. Weber of La Crosse
when Judge E. C. Higbee ordered Bar
tel Weber into custody pending inVes-
LOCATION of a perjury charge.
Charles Olson and Charles Carl
strom, strangers, are being held at La
Crosse on charges of impersonatlng
United States secret service officers.
State charges of assault on local girl
have also been preferred.
Lieut.. Otto Gas and his brother,
Sergt. Herbert Gas, who left Mantle
woe with Co. H, Second Wisconsin,
separated in. New York, have been re-
united in France according to letters
received by relatives.
H. E. Hodson, Chicago potato
buyer, was robbed of $3.50 diamond
pin while on the Pullman en- route to
Oconto He left the pin in his tie.
which he put under his pillow, when
he awoke both were gone.
The common council of KenOsha
provided sane Fourth" SO far as Ke-
nosha is concerned. An ordinance was
passed prohibiting either the sale or
use of any kind of explosive in cOnnec-
ton with celebration of independence
day.
First of the Dunn county soldiers to
die in France was Sergeant Emil Kraft
of the Rainbow division, whose home
was in townsville. He was wounded
in action on March 5 and died on April
%. The sergeant was the holder of
two military medals awarded for valor
The Three Hundred and Eleventh
sanitary detachment, which accompa-
MED the One Hundred and SiXty-hrst
field artillery brigade on the march
from Camp Grant to Camp Robinson,
now is on the way back to the Rock.
ford cantonment, following the same
route
To be revenged for thrashing Civ.
en- them by the principal, two 1O-year
old pupils of the Cooper school, Supe-
rior, set fire to the building in two
places. The OppOrtune arrival OF the
janitor saved the structure, with small
loss. The building and contents are
valued at 100000.
Nineteen thousand nine hundred and
eighteen Wisconsin youths who, since
June last year, have attained the age
of Fl years, registered on June with
their local boards throughout the
state under the selective service act.
They are divided as follows: Group A,
1883 (whites); Group 6Z (negroes) !;
Group c, 1888 (enemy aliens).
The Racine police and fire commits
sion appealed to the common council
to increase the salaries of the police
and fire departments, because of the
inability to obtain men for the depart
ments to fill vacancies caused by the
designations of men entering factories.
Last January the council granted in
creases of $40 per month to members
of both departments.
Measles, with 7,412, led in number
the cases of disease reported to the
state board of health by local officials
during the first quarter of the year
There were 1869 cases of scarlet
fever, 535 of diphtheria, 119 of typhoid,
742 of whooping cough, LOG Of small
pox, fifty-three of meningitis, sixty
eight of infantile paralysis, 939 of
chickenpox and 492 new cases Of tu-
berculosis.
Frederick Torhorst, years old, was
killed by bomb placed at the gate of
his fathers home. Paul TorhOrst, the
father, living four miles west of Wau-
kesha, on the Waterville road, said he
could think of no reason for the crime,
unless it be that some enemy of this
country, disgruntled at his work for
the Red Cross and other patriotic
campaigns in the town of Pewaukee,
sought this measure by way of re-
venge
DR.. Roberts was arrested at his
home. Calhoun, Waukesha county, on
charges resulting from his alleged re-
lations with Grace Lusk, at a Milwau-
kee hotel on April and 81, 1917, and
brought to Milwaukee county Jail. The
warrant TO rthe arrest of DR.. Roberts
was sworn to by Judge Martin Lueck,
Juneau, who presided at the trial of
Grace LuSk at WaukeSha last week.