The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-14


The robbery of the postoffice at
| Cashton has been reported to Post
office Inspector Fraser at La Crosse.
About $500 in stamps was taken.
Edward Dobritz, a Caledonia farmer,
was fatally gored by bull. 1t re-
CURED three men to drive the animal
away after it had knocked the man
down.
GAINESVILLE young women have re-
ceived large packages of free cigarette
papers by mail. All of the ministers
and prominent anti-cigarette leaders
also received packages.
Prof. Frank r. Jacoby, a teacher of
music at Lake Forest and Kemper
hall. was acquitted at Kenosha of the
charge of striking Mrs. Henry Halber-
stadt.
Mary Berry, the seven-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Berry
Of Brighton, Kenosha county, was
frightfully burned by falling into ket-
tie of boiling roof paint.
Clayton Isley, painter from Leaf
River, ILL.,, while engaged in painting
under Racine bridge, fell from a lad
der, a switch engine jaring the sup
port, and was SO badly injured that he
died a few hours later.
Jacob Stern, the proprietor of Ke-
nosha department store, has pleaded
guilty to a charge of conspiracy to re-
move from the state Lillian Davis, a
witness in the trial Of Mrs. Anna Regh,
charged with manslaughter.
Mrs. Della Wainwright, resident of
Watertown for fifty years, celebrated
the one hundred and second anniver-
sary of her birth. She is great news
paper reader and keeps posted on all
subjects which interest her.
Police officers and deputy sheriffs
in Kenosha have begun a crusade
against the pickpockets who have been
invading the city, and John Rodiwiz
was arrested in Chicago on charge OF
robbing Kenosha man of $40.
Prof. B. V. Swanson of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin has been elected sec
retary-treasurer of the Street Railway
Accountants association, in session in
Philadelphia. He succeeds T. c. Pen
nington of Chicago, who retires after
ten years service.
P. S. Friedman of Milwaukee, who
was vending apples on GAINESVILLE
streets, was compelled to pay fee Of
81 in addition to his state license, I'M
der a rigid ordinance relating to ped
dlers and transient merchants recently
passed by the council.
For about ten minutes the operators
in the Fond du Lac Office of the Wis
consin Telephone company threatened
10 make trouble. In misunderstand-
ing over the rest time the girls left
their places at the board on strike.
They returned, however.
Supt. Nelson of the Racine Public
schools submitted a report to the
board of education in regard to YER
tical and slant writing in the public
schools. He found the opinion evenly
divided, and recommended that no
change from the vertical be made this
year.
Because he would not keep quiet in
court, Edward Fenelon, the defendant
in a divorce action, was ordered to jail
by Judge G. A. Fowler of the circuit
court at Fond du Lac. Fenelon's at
torneys had agreed to let the case go
by default when the defendant put in
an appearance.
Mayor Nelson of Racine appointed
new members of the board of educa-
tion as follows: Charles Freeman, A.
G. Judd, w. w. Storms, l.. S. Jones,
Martin Clancy, w. G. Wheeler, DR.. G..
r. Tate, S. M. Zich, John Peterson,
John Wiechers, T. W. Thiesen, Irving
Grant and w. J. Harvey.
Turnkey J. M. Childers, who was
convicted in the United States court of
suffering two postal robbers to escape
from the La Crosse county Jail, has
been obliged to mortgage his home to
furnish bail. Childers will appeal to
the United States supreme court if
Judge Sanborn refuses his new trial.
Herman Kemper, Milwaukee man
who has been held at Kenosha for
eight months on a statutory charge,
has been released on his own recog-
nizance. Eugene Goodwin, the chief
witness for the state, failed to put in
an appearance, and it is not probable
that Kemper will ever be araigned
again.
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Staff Capt. A. G. Cass of the west
ern division of the Salvation Army is
in Kenosha seeking to find trace of a
man giving the name Of r. G. Wilson,
who is said to have secured money
upon the pretense of representing the |
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