Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-07
Mayor A. C. McHenry of Oshkosh,

Blaine, Atty. Gen. w. J. Morgan and
McHenry. sa..
William A. Mead, SO years old, sum
mer resort owner near Trout lake,
died suddenly from heart disease. He
was well known in Wisconsin Masonic
circles. The body was taken to Wis
consin Rapids, his former home, for
| interment.
Three small children of William
| Nelson, Douglas county farmer living
three and half miles from Poplar,
were burned to death in fire which
| destroyed the farm home. The bodies
Of the three, Walter, S; Svea, 3, and
Vernon; l, were found by searchers
| huddled in a clothes closet with arms
entwined
The e. Klinkert Brewing Co., Ra-
cine, was fined $4,000 by Federal
Judge F, A. Geiger, after pleading
guilty to charges of violating the Vol
stead act through the possession, sale
and manufacture of real beer" The
company was named in an indictment
containing AZ counts. The court fined
the company $500 on each count.
The Washburn County Agricultural
association has announced that the
county fair will be held on September
S to s. The following officers have
been elected President, S. J. Nc
Shane; secretary, L. j. Thompso1l
treasurer, E. N. Elliot; first vice-presi-
dent, f. a: Meyer; SECOND vice-presi-
dent, John Brisbin.
The University of Wisconsin sum
mer school opened with an enrolment
any previous year. More than 1000
students attended their first classes
of the six-week course. School teach
ers returning for special studies in
their work make up large percent
age of those enrolled.
Martin and Elias Simonis, both resi-
dents of the town of Alban, were given
fines of $50 and costs after they had
pleaded guilty to shooting a deer in
the town of Alban, Portage county, a
county closed to deer hunting all year.
The two were alleged to have shot
the animal last December and Warden
Frank Hornberg first succeeded in OBJ
tanning information leading to their
arrest this spring.
Failure of safety appliances to work
caused an explosion Of a pea cooker
in the Mayville Canning company
plant at Mayyille No one was injured
The accident happened during the
noon hour, just a few minutes after
the crew working had left the plant
The cover of the giant cooker was
blown through the roof of the build
ing, tearing a hole ten feet long and
four feet wide.
Night watchmen are not private de-
tectives within the meaning of the
law, and consequently need not be Ii
censed in Wisconsin, J. E. Messer-
! schmidt, assistant attorney general
| advised Elmer S. Hall, secretary O.
state. while night watchmen, as an,
other citizens, may as an. incident tC
their employment have accession to dc
work which is the work of a detective
| this however does not make them de
tectives such as the legislature hat
in mind when it enacted the statute,
Mr.. Messerschmid said.
Crazed with jealousy when ne say
his sweetheart walking with two mel
after her refusal to marry him, Ale2
Lewandowski, 33, of Kenosha, sho
and killed Miss Josephine Kordaewski
"a. Lewandowski crept up stealthil,
! behind the two men and the girl or
the street, and without uttering {
word raised his revolver and shot his
| sweetheart in the back of the head
She was killed instantly Lewandow
ski evaded the two men and ran dow
the street about 800 yards, ther
| stopped and wheeled about and sen
a bullet into his brain. He died in
stantly. The shooting was the resuh
| of lovers quarrel, when Miss Kor
| daewski gave the man final refusal to
| ludffy ulm.
Mrs. Ben G. Hooper of Oshkosh presi
| dent of the Wisconsin League OF
| Women Voters and one of the most
prominent suffrage leaders in the mid
die west, was named democratic can
| didate for the United States senate at
| the closing session of the democratic
| convention held in Milwaukee Mrs
Hooper was the unanimous choice of
| the delegates and no other candidate
was proposed. Two candidates, A. A
| Bentley, mayor of La Crosse, and Carl
| Mathe of Wausau, were selected to
make the race for governor, the conven-
| ton recommending both to the demo
| cratic voters of the state and instruc
ting the state central committee to
aid both candidates in the circulation
of nomination papers and in the pre-
primary campaign. Jerry Collins of