The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-08-12
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w. Mullenburg, veteran of the.
Spanish war, is dead at La Crosse.
The census report shows that
/! 1884. 101 was paid out in wages by
Kenosha factories last year.
Joseph Koenig's automobile and
shed and barn at Two Rivers were
burned, the loss being $500.
The state census shows gain in
population for Highland of ninety-six,
giving the village total of 1909.
P. e. Nelson has been appointed
| postmaster at Cashton, Monroe coun-
ly, vice Catherine Barth, resigned.
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Fire originating among chemicals
aused total destruction of the stock
If Charles Davidson's drug store at
| forth Freedom.
Complete census returns show the
population of La Crosse county out
side of the city to be 1866, de-
crease of 1877 since 1900.
If La Crosse can prove her claim
that there are errors in the state cen
sus, the state census department will
pay all expenses of a recount.
The five-year-old son of Richard
Keane of Baraboo fell into a cistern
and was rescued just as he was going
under the water the third time.
The dope house at the Atlantic
Manufacturing company's plant at
Washburn burned. The building was
used for the mixing of dynamite.
Plans for remodeling the La Crosse
theater, involving the expenditure of
$4,000, have been made. The seat
ing capacity will be increased to 1900
Frank Vert, aged twenty-eight, was
found dead in a park at New Rich
mond. He had shot himself through
the heart. Failing health was the
cause.
Carl Boettcher, retired farmer,
living at Algoma, attempted to com
nit suicide by shooting himself in the
abdomen. He sustained a severe
wound, and may die.
A war on tax dodgers has been
started in La Crosse. A measure has
been introduced in the city council
providing for the retention for the en-
tire year of two city tax assessors.
The Thunder River lake resort,
owned by Isaac Stephenson, has been
offered to the commissioners in
charge of the securing site for the
state tuberculosis sanitarium.
Josephine, the fourteen-year-old
daughter of J. J. Kreeger, who resides
six miles from Cable, was accidentally
shot and killed. She picked up shot
gun, which was accidentally dis
charged.
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The state camp meeting and con-
ference of the Seventh Day Adventists
will be held in GAINESVILLE from Aug.
80 to Sept II. It is expected that
from 1900 to 1000 members of the
denomination will be present.
The Rev. DR.. James P. Abbott of
Oshkosh, Wis, who for twenty years
held the pastorate of a prominent
Baptist church in Boston, is in Sioux
City. as a possible candidate for the
pastorate of the First Baptist church.
In a forty-pound canoe made by
themselves since the close Of college,
Ernest Ingold and Eugene Orbison,
two students of Lawrence university,
will leave Shawano on the Wolf river
on Aug. %, and paddle down as far as
Oshkosh, thence around the south and
east shores of Lake WinnebagO, COW
ering distance of upwards of 100
miles.
The state tax commission an
nounced the preliminary assessment
of the railroad property in the state
for the year. There is an increase OF
over SS,OO0,000 in the total valuation
and about II cents on $1,000 is the aV-
erage rate of taxation. The board
will begin hearing the protests OF the
railroads on Aug. 16. The valuation
of railroad property in Wisconsin is
$229,390,000
Louis Larson, a junk dealer OF La
Crosse. who was sentenced to states
prison at Waupon for a term of one
wear. for having purchased stolen
brass, is a free man. His attorney
took an appeal that he could not be
sentenced to states prison inasmuch
as in his first offense he paid a fine.
The law provides that in order to
make the second offense punishable
by Imprisonment in states prison, he
must have previously served SEN
tence in the county jail
John D. Olson of Cumberland has
just received a check for $500 as divi-