Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-03-19
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
/ Arranged in Condensed Form


ayers to succeed the late Maj. Nc.
Callen.
Two tractors, one of them of the
caterpillar type, have. been bought by
Langiade county to be used by high
way patrolmen in maintenance work
On three sections of federal trunk line
and two of state road.
Glass room teachers of Oshkosh to
the number of 100 have organized
branch of the American Federation OF
Teachers, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. Temporary off.
GERS have been chosen.
Authority to start business has been
granted by Commissioner of Banking
Marshall Cousins to the Dairyman's
State bank of Clintonville. The cap
ital is $4,000. The incorporators are
Charles Bohn, A. l.. PEPPER and Max
Steig.
The death toll of the explosion in
the plant of the Aluminium Goods Man
ufacturing company at ManitOwoc was
increased to six, when Miss Emily
Becker died. The young lady was ter
rihly burned and suffered much. Four
girls remain at the hospital, and their
chances for recovery are favorable,
physicians say.
GAINESVILLE will be the terminus for
three auto bus lines One will operate
between GAINESVILLE and BelOit, anoth-
er between GAINESVILLE and Edgerton.
and the third will be for the convent
ence of employees of the Samson
Tractor company whose plant is on
the outskirts of that city. George
Flakes will operate them.
The largest amount ever paid into
the treasury of Racine county as an
inheritance tax was received when
the Farmers Loan & Trust Co. New
York, administrator of the estate OF
Frederick Robinson, sent a draft for
$3.50, the tax on the Robinson es
tate valued at $2,5O0,0O0. The estate
is to be divided between the widow,
q son and a daughter.
Mrs. Stanley Blomski, Sugar Creek,
Wis was found guilty of murder in
the second degree in Circuit court at
Rhinelander, in connection with the
death of her 6year-old son, and was
sentenced to serve a twenty-year SEN
tence in states prison. She is al
legged to have beaten her son, causing
his death. Her husband, who was also
on trial, was acquitted.
Matt Arland is serving a sixty day
term in the. Iron county Jail after hav-
ing been found guilty of devoting
money collected for the cause Of the
l. w. w. to his own USE He was
arrested by Hurley officers while So
Letting funds to help pay for the de-
tense of l. w. w. members charged
with Armistice day murders in Cen
tralia, Wash. When arraigned in mu-
nicipal court at Hurley, he pleaded
guilty to spending the money.
Seventeen passengers were injured,
and eighty lives were endangered,
when an intelurban car, carrying men
from work at North Fond du Lar.
crashed through the Scott Strecr
bridge at Fond du Lac. When the car
had reached the center of the bridge,
it buckled, letting the rear end down
into ten feet of water. The front end
hung on the bridge, permitting the
passengers to climb upward and to
escape through the windows.
Arnt Gudmundsen, prominent resi-
dent of Washington Island, has re-
turned from a trip to his boyhood
home in Iceland, after an absence of
forty-seven years. He says the coun-
try has advanced along about the
same lines as has the United States.
Washington Island, Door county's
island township, may rightly be called
Little Iceland, due to the fact that a
large percentage of it's inhabitants are
descendants of people of that far
northern country.
The little son of John Wooderick
Wautoma' who had been having throat
trouble for months was found to have
a button lodged in his throat when ex-
amined by Fond du Lac physicians.
Inc DuIlOu udu U00u there 1OT year.
The high cost Of dying was added
to by the Racine cemetery commit
sion when it was decided to increase
the cost of grave digging by 81 for
each excavation. 1t was said the in
crease was necessary in order to meet
the demands Of the cemetery employees
for higher wages.
Killed by a bullet from revolver
OF an unknown officer shooting in self
defense and in the discharge of his
duty was the verdict of jury at a
coroner's inquest to determine the
cause of death of Barney Sekat. killed
| when federal and local officers raided
Sekats saloon at Racine. The federal
officers, testified that Sekat shot first,
and though his revolver was not dis
covered, his father, Mike Sekat, who
came to the sons help is credited with
| the statement that the revolver would
not be found.
| Former soldiers attending the Uni.
| versity of Wisconsin and other schools
of the state under the provisions of
| the Nye Educational Bonus, led in