Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-07
BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS


were drowned in Sand lake, near Glen
wood City
Andrew y. Helstrom, Madison drug
gist, was fined $500 for a violation OF
the federal narcotic law in United
States district court by Judge Claude
z. Luse.
Several persons were injured at
Fond du Lac when a sleeping car be-
longing to the Wolfe shows became
uncOupled from a switch engine and
crashed into three cars which were
on a side track.
Exhaust fumes from two automo.
biles behind which he was riding,
dazed Penniel Bacon, so that his
motorcycle collided with a horse and
buggy. He is in Fond du Lac hospi-
tai suffering from severe cuts.
Any mayor of city who attempts
to act as an attorney in the defense of
an alleged criminal lays himself open
to disbarment from practice, J. E. Mes
serschmidt. assistant attorney general,
Informed w. B. Foster, district attor-
;ney Of Iron county.
Joe Bro, fxoniia, was fined $50 and
costs before Justice ferdinand
schmutzleg of Watertown, upon COM
plant of E, W. futile, conservation
commissioner, Oconomowoc, who
charged BRO with taking understood
pike from Rock river. Bro pleaded
ignorance of the fish law.
The Cassville Beverage Co., Cass-
vile, was fined $1,000 and it's presi-
dent, Andrew Lindner, was sentenced
to six months in the Milwaukee house
of correction, by Judge Claude z.
Luse, at Madison, when found guilty
of selling liquor beverage contain
ing more than one-half of 1 per cent
of alcohol.
According to the first census of We
hicle traffic on Winnebago county
highways taken this season, there
were 1912 vehicles that passed CIV
en- point on route Is, south of Osh-
kosh, in one day Of II hours. Of this
number 844 were Wisconsin cars and
cars from other states numbered 1872
Trucks totaled 1876, motorcycles, 5, and
horse-drawn vehicles, Sc. .
Radio claimed it's first death in Wis
consin when Albert Heitz, So years
old, merchant and wireless enthusiast
of Port Washington, was electrocuted
while shifting apparatus on the roof
of his home. Moving radio wires to
a more advantageous position, he per-
mltted them to come into contact with
the city power lines high voltage
wires and was killed instantly, his
electrocution being accompanied by a
report that could be heard for blocks.
Sample primary ballots of the Wis
cOnsin September general election
primaries have just been completed by
Elmer S. Hall, secretary of state, and
are soon to be sent to all county
clerks. Seventeen officers are to be
selected by the Wisconsin voters this
fall, the ballot shows. These officers
are listed on four party ballots, each
of which is twenty inches long The
Democratic, Republican, Socialists and
Prohibition parties are represented
The Rahr Brewery, Green Bay, has
quit doing business. Officials of the
company state, however, that it is
only for the time being and, as soon
as the state permit is issued produc-
fion will ho rac1nad Frod PaI,r hoo Il
of the concern, who was sentenced to
eight months in the house of correc-
ton, Milwaukee, for violation of the
prohibition laws, is winding up his
affairs and will leave soon to start
serving his sentence.
Announcement has been made of the
consolidation of Ladysmith's two old
est banking institutions, the Rusk
County bank and the State Bank of
Ladysmith. The Rusk County bank
will take over the business of the
State bank, and will move into the
building occupied by the latter. The
name Rusk County bank, will be re-
tanned, and the present officers of that
consolidated institution. The new bank
will have deposits of more than $780,
900 and resources of about $1,20O,0 900.
A verdict of suicide by use of dyna-
mite was returned by coroners jury
at Unity in the inquest investigating
the mysterious death of Charles Rind-
quist, wealthy bachelor, whose charred
body was found in the ruins of his
farm home south of Unity, June IS.
Rindquist planned the suicide for
some time and killed himself by ex-
ploding dynamite cap placed in his
mouth, according to the verdict. This
method of self-destruction was said
to account for the fact that the body
was dismembered and no trace of the
skull could be found Witnesses said
Rindquist had been mentally unbal-
apced for month before his death.
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