Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-08-29
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

William Stone, Kenoshan, arrested
on a charge of being a deserter from
the U. S. navy, acknowledged leaving
Hampton Roads and said that the Eva
cation was worth the trouble"
The Cashton village board refused
to grant licenses for saloons for the
rest of the period after rehabilitation
for the sale of intoxicants. Saloon
keepers took their pleas to a La
Cross attorney, but gained no salts
faction and Cashton remains dry.
: Grocery stores at Sheboygan must
stop the sale of near beer and other
beverages of that kind, or face prose
cution, according to action taken by
the common council Saloon keepers
will be issued licenses, many already
obtained permits to sell intoxicating
liquors.
Commissioner Of Banking Marshall
Cousins, Madison, has approved an
amendment to the articles of incorpo-
ration of the Wisconsin Trust Com
Company, Milwaukee, consolidating
under the name of First Wisconsin
Trust Company, and increasing the
capital from 100000 to 100000.
Edmund Brelowske, months DID,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Louise Brelowske,
Utica, Dane county, met death by
istrangulation. His mother had left
him on the bed. Returning she found
that he had crawled down to the foot
of the bed and had caught his head
between the iron crossbar Of the bed
and the mattress and was hanging.
Money has been raised by Wausau
road in the town of Flieth, which will
give a road from Wausau to MOsinee,
on the west side of the Wisconsin
river. The Chamber Of Commerce,
which is fathering a general plan of
road improvement also will expert
ment with gravel on several streets in
Wausau.
The office of the e. P. Neuens Lum-
Der Co, Fredonia, Ozaukee county,
was entered by burglars, two safes
blown open and $3.50 War Savings
stamps, $40 diamond glass cutter, rail
road leases, insurance policies and
other valuable papers were taken.
After ransacking the office, the ma
RAIDERS set fire to the building which
was saved.
Judge Belden, Racine, of the First
judicial circuit, has refused the ap-
pointment as commissioner to Den
mark, rendered him by Judge Halsey
of Milwaukee, to take dispositions in
the case of Theodore Johnson's will.
The will leaves an estate of $4,000 to
Mrs. Thomas Hahn of Racine. A Con-
test over the will is being heard in the
Supreme court.
After travelling more than 400 miles
by automobile and motor boat the
state conservation inspectors consist
ing of Secretary of State Merlin Hull,
State Treasurer Johnson, Attorney
General Blaine, and accompanied by
Lieut.. Gov E. F. Dithmar, have re
turned to Madison after two weeks
inspection of state owned lands in
northern Wisconsin.
Zion City police played havoc with
the KenOsha-C Chicago beer caravan"
when fifteen special policemen from
that city hid behind a barn, and sur
prised the drivers of fourteen trucks
carrying beer from KenOsha to Chi
cagO The trucks were covered with
canvas, but the police arrested twenty
six men, held the trucks, carrying
more than $4,000 pounds of beer.
The quota of sixty-five members for
a unit in the Wisconsin National guard
for Fond du Lac was filled when six
young men signed. The company,
known as Co. F, will contain only
about half the number of old Co. E.
Capt. A r. Burnett, who served with
the One Hundred Fiftieth Machine
Gun battalion, Forty-second division is
to be in charge. Through his efforts
the company has been formed.
Mrs Nick Vamosh, As, living at the
Highland settlement, near Ashland,
was instantly killed when struck by
lightning while standing in a field of
oats Mr. Vamosh and her husband
had been shocking oats. They were
hurrying to finish the work before the
storm became too fierce. They were
holding opposite sides of the same bun
die when the accident occurred, but
Mr.. Vamosh was only dazed by the
bolt
Following an announcement from
the Wisconsin Gas and Electric Co,
that the company would give the city
of KenOsha no estimate on the pur-.
chase price for the public utilities, city
officials announced that the state rail-
way commission will be called on to
set price on the street car lines, gas,
electric and heating plants. A vote on
whether the people favor public own
ership will be held Sept. 2. II the
citizens favor public ownership an
other election on whether the until
ties shall be purchased will be held
in April, 1920.