Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-10-14
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

and presiding elder in Wisconsin died
recently at Baraboo.
Alpha Hanson, II, daughter of H. o.
Hanson of Dallas died of conclusion
of the brain which resulted when the
girl and a younger sister collided
while at play.
Lake Winnebago is devoid Of ducks
dictons of lean" season. Only a
few upriver canvasback, red head and
some blue bills have arrived.
DR.. Ernest c. Helm, 6S years old,
and member of the Beloit High school
board for thirty years, is dead, after
a protracted illness.
Strange action of cattle in pasture
John Halama Langlade county farmer,
who disappeared after firing three
shots at his wife on Sept. %.
Assemblyman E. r. Cushman of
Viola is being treated in La Crosse
hospital for lockjaw. Two weeks ago
he stepped on rusty nail and his
present condition rapidly developed.
Mr. CuShman represented the legiS-
lature at the last session.
The Merchants and Savings bank of
GAINESVILLE has adopted a novel scheme
to keep robbers from choosing it as
a victim. Six shotguns repOse in a
conspicuous place in the teller's cages,
so that they may be grabbed at
moments notice, and put into action.
Shooting practice is to be held in the
basement of the bank.
Gov. Blaine has granted an absolute
pardon to Roy Allen, Sank county,
serving a five-year sentence in the
Green Bay reformatory for larceny.
The governor said that his penalty
was too severe. Allen while employed
by the Ringing Bros. circus, had
taken $16 The governor said that his
OTense was not such as to warrant
fve-year sentence.
G. H. Hubbard, superintendent of
the Twelfth district, United States
survey of the Fox river between Green
Bay and Neenah and will recommend
the expenditure of $4,000 by the
government for proper lighting of the
river channel as an aid to navigation.
Fox river tug captains sometime ago
filed a protest with the government,
stating that the channel was i'm
properly lighted and navigation at
night dangerous.
E. A. Forbes, owner of 95 per cent
of the stock of the Rhinelander Elec-
trio Light and Power company, an
nOunces that he will exercise the OPP
ton obtained on the plant and distri-
button system of the Amigo Electric
company. 1t is planned to construct
q high tension transmission line from
Rhinelander to Amigo next spring. Be-
sides bringing current generated by
water power from Rhinelander the
transmission line will also serve to
afford emergency power for Rhine.
lander from the steam power plant
in Amigo.
There are rs boards, commissions
and departments in the Wisconsin
state government, having 316 men,
bers. a report of the secretary of
state shows. The figures do not in
clude the employees of the commission
and departments, who total several
thousand Four of these departments
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legislature, the annuity board, state
bureau for the care of the blind, the
Wisconsin memorial hospital COM
mission, and the state department of
markets. AS result of this action
the state now has a greater number of
separate administrative bodies than
before the 1921 legislature.
The application of John A. C"Dog-
skin") Johnson for a pardon flom
Waupun penitentiary, where he is
serving a life sentence for the con-
fessed murder of Annie Lemberger,
Sept. 5, 1911, at Madison, took a
sensational turn, when Martin Lem
berger, the father of the child, was
his wife and son Lewis were arrested
for perjury Mrs. May SOrensOn,
friend of the Lemberger family, told
authorities that the day following the
murder, Lewis Lemberger, the son,
then g. years old, had confessed to
her that his father killed Annie by
hitting her over the head with a beer,
bottle while intoxicated, that negro
named Davis had been hired to throw,
the body in the lake and that the
family then claimed the girl had been
kidnapped The Lembergers pleaded
not guilty to the charges and are at
liberty under $4,000 bail. "Dogs{in".
Johnson will be eligible to collect
$4,000 from the state for false inn
prisonment in case he is exOnerated
He claims that his confession was the
result of third degree" method and
a fear of mob violence.
The annual meeting of the North
eastern Wisconsin School Teachers