Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-06-13
WISCONSIN, news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

of industries is large boiler works
to be erected by Messrs Bruce and
Hess. The plant will be in operation
by Oct. /.
John w. Brown of Stevens Point has
been elected great commander of the
Maccabee order of Wisconsin for the
ninth time. He was chosen after
twenty-four years of continuous serv-
ice.
The Menasha Chamber of Com
merce organized building company
to undertake the immediate erection
of thirty homes to relieve the house
shortage. The company is to be cap
italized at $4,000.
The Heiney Chimney Co., Chicago,
has begun the erection of new 155
foot reinforced concrete chimney at
the Wisconsin State prison at Wau-
pun. This stack will replace the two
high steel stacks now in use.
A. J. Charlesworth of Stevens Point
was killed by train at KilbOurn.
After attending the state Maccabee
bourn to visit his daughter. The acct
dent occurred as ne stepped from the
train.
Provisions of the will of Mrs. Caro-
line Strauss, Watertown, were set
aside by Judge kirkland and all but
one-eighth of an estate of about $4,000,
willed to aliens residing in Germany
is to be given to the custodian of alien
property.
All buildings and contents of the
Great Northern Nursery, Baraboo,
owned by M. F. Foley, together with
three horses, were destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 100000 with
insurance of about $4,000. The origin
Of the fire is unknown.
Plans have been perfected for the
laying of five miles of new highway
between Bangor and Sparta, to com
plete modern highway between the
county seats of La Crosse and Mon
roe counties, distance OF thlrty-tWo
miles, on the continental auto
mobile route.
Dr. Gregar Smedal, A, widely
known surgeon, died at his home in La
Crosse of pneumonia. He was ma
tive of Telemarken, Norway, and
former officer in the Norwegian army,
He was a graduate Of the University
of Christiania and of Rush Medical
college, Chicago.
The proposed increase in coal
freight rates of about 100000 annu-
ally, which was about to be ordered
by the director of the railroads, will
not go into effect until ordered by the
interstate commerce commission, &C
cOrding to information received by.
Carl D. Jackson, chairman of the Wis
cOnsin railroad commission, Madison.
Stabbed one-sixteenth of an incn
below the heart, George F. Welsh, of
Superior, cook on the Gopher limited
of Great Northern railway, was report
ed to have a fair chance of recovery,
although physicians in charge of his
case had not expected him to survive
Welsh is said to have been stabbed by
a colored waiter on the train, follow
ing a disagreement.
In the Manitowoc circuit court, the
jury in the case of Esther Meier VS..
Oliver Thornton, for damages for the
loss Of an eye through a stone thrown
by the defendant, awarded Miss Meier
$1,000 damages in a special verdict
but absolved the defendant from in
tent to do injury They held him gull.
ty of negligence. The accident hap.
pened on the play grounds.
A circular in the State Historical
library, Madison, issued during 1880,
describing the attractiveness of Dane
county lands, seems to be genuine
record of current prices. After prais.
ing the lands that could be bought
from the government at $1.25 per
acre, the report concludes: Madison
is the only town, and is a delightful
situation. 1t contains two stores,
three public houses, three groceries,
one steam mill, and in all, thirty-fve
buildings. Prices the past season
have ranged as follows: Corn, per
bushel, $685. oats, 75c; potatoes 81
per bushel; butter, ST. Il to 621a cents;
eggs, 371a cents per dozen; pork and
beef, from to II cents per pound"
Gen Joshua Hodgins, quartermaster
general of Wisconsin for ten years
and chief of the Marinette fire depart
ment, passed away Unexpectedly at
his home, at the age of GO years. He
had been i'll for some time with heart
disease, but had been feeling unusu-
ally well and cheerful on the day of
his death. Gen. Hodgins was born in
Kineardine, Canada, in 1856 and came
to Wisconsin with his parents in the
late sixties. He was educated in the
public schools of Appleton, and later
attended Milton college at Milton
Junction He came to Marinette in
| 1878 and engaged in the hardware
business. He was a member of the
Marinette fire department for more
than 40 years and was chief for nearly
| 20 years.
A grindstone upon which Henry F.