The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-08-12

trio lighting plant.
The state census gives Baraboo
population of 5,S36, gain of $50 over
five years ago.
Martin, son of Anthony Abraham,
was burned to death while playing
with matches at Portage.
The reward for information regard
ing Duncan MacGregor at Marinette
has been increased to $500
The grocery firm of Webster & Por-
ter of Baraboo made a voluntary as
signment for the benefit of its credit
ors.
The Berlin school board ordered a
new heating plant for the high school
to cost $4,000, the contract going to
Appleton.
The discovery of a spring of valu-
able mineral water at Sheboygan as
sures the erection of large sanitari- 4
uuI III lie near LuIuISs
Henry Khekin, farmer living east
of Osceola, was run over by binder
in his field. His arm was broken and
he received severe cuts.
Fire, supposed to be of incendiary
origin, destroyed the dance hall and
dining room owned by August Nell
at Neosho, the loss being $1,000.
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The Sheboygan city council having
passed an enabling ordinance, the
North Western road will construct the
proposed belt line about the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Heyer pi-
oneer residents of Sheboygan, cele-
brated their golden wedding with a
large company of relatives and friends.
j. A. Knoll Of Baraboo killed bull
snake that measured seven feet long
and four inches thick. This is the
largest Of it's kind on record at Bara-
boo.
The census of the town of Pleasant
Prairie in Kenosha county, shows an
increase of more than 100 per cent
in ten years. The present population
is 1855.
Game Warden Sizer at Merrill ar
rested julius Sprogier for having set
a spring gun. He pleaded guilty and
was fined $50 and costs, amounting in
all to SIS.
Low water and hot weather caused
the death of nearly all Of the fish in
the townsville pond, it being neces-
sary to bury them to preserve the
health Of the village.
Deeds filed in Kenosha for the trans
fer of the right of way for the Chica-
go and Milwaukee electric railway
through Kenosha county, south of Ke-
nosha, show that the cost was $1,000.
Charles E. Lucas and Guy Boomer
of Fond du Lac are on their way to
st. Louis in an 1S-foot gasoline launch.
They went down the Fox and into the
Wisconsin river through the canal at
Portage.
North Western detectives have ar
rested four boys residing south OF
Kenosha on charges of placing scrap
iron on the tracks of the railway COM
pany. A bad wreck was narrowly
averted.
Appletdn's four leading hotels are
undergoing extensive improvements
and extensions, and when completed
will have accommodation for 200 more
people. Severty-fve thousand dollors
is being expended.
Returns from the city of Ripon and
other towns and villages show there
has been a falling off in the population.
The city and village clerks declare
it is due either to race suicide or else
the wave of population is sweeping
from the rural districts to the city OF
Fond du Lac.
Three-year-old Marion Strobe or
Brodhead found box of strychnine
pills in a closet while her mother
was asleep and ate them all. She told
her mother when she awoke what she
had done and despite the care OF
physician died three hours afterWard
in horrible agony.
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Main street bridge in Kenosha be-
came charged with electricity from
wire Of the Kenosha electric railway
and City Engineer Moth was shocked
by taking hold of one of the posts OF
the bridge He was knocked down
and for time it was feared he had
been fatally hurt, but he is now able
to be out again.
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The gang of burglars which has
been operating in Sheboygan for the
last week, has now changed its base
to the country and is now working
among the wealthy farmers Of this
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