The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-12-16

Well unQer noduWdy wien lOuHu.
The Racine police are making. al
effort to locate missing Dane ns
j. Hanson. 1t is thought that he was
insane and may have leaped into the
river.
F. FL. Charette, an employe of the
Kimberly Clark company at Niagara,
was instantly killed while unloading
logs, being crushed to death under the
rollway
/ Highwaymen made an attempt to
hold UP and rob Henry Peterson AND
Edward Davidson, two Racine bust
hess men in the western part of Ra
cine county.
Two Madison saloons were robbed
recently All the cash in the tills and
several dozens of bottled goods were
stolen. A colored barber has been ar
rested on suspicion.
There was an impressive testimo-
NAL to Grin Morey, the Beloit college
man who was drowned while skating,
the entire student body following the
casket to the train en- route for the
East.
DR.. ]. C. Bell of Cottage Grove fell
from his buggy near Deerfield and was
found dead. A coroner's jury returned
a verdict of accidental death, although
the death may have been due to heart
failure.
The state board of control has let
contract to the Ward & Alle n company
of Milwaukee for steel trusses to be
used in an addition to the buildings at
the state prison at Waupun. The con
tract carries 1887.
The Northern ChatauQua assembly
at Marinette will have six special days
during the three weeks session next
! year to be known as Woman's day
Farmers day, Children's day, Labor
day, Political day and Catholic day.
La Crosse has adopted a plan oil
carrying it's own fire insurance on pub
lie buildings. A sinking fund of $15,
900 has been created and will be in
creased annually until the city is able
to pay for any probable fire losses out
of this fund.
:
David McCaw, the 17-year-old son
of Police Sergeant McCaw of Phila
delphia, fell from a Milwaukee freight
train north of Corliss. He was badly
hurt internally and is now at st.
Luke's hospital, Racine. The boy was
stealing a ride from Milwaukee to
Chicago.
Friends of William Kruel Racine
agent of the Sawyer Biscuit company,
fear that he may have been murdered
at Chicago, his pocketbOok having
been found in the Panhandle railway
yards of that city Kruel left Racine
his person.
John Weismann, one of the pioneer
farmers of Racine and KenOsha cOun-
ties, lost his life in a we'll only five
feet deep and containing one and a
half feet of water on his farm, four
miles south of Union Grove Racine
county, falling head first and being I'M
able to extricate himself
Victor Lindquist, one Of the pioneers
of the town of Bristol, met a tragic
death at his home on Thanksgiving
day. Members of the family had come
to the home to attend the annual fam
lily reunion and the old man, seeming
" in the best of health, sat down tC
carve the turkey Just as he started
che work he fell over dead
On a farm seven miles northwest o,
Racine, August Schenke, aged 70, was
knocked down and fatally gored by a
bull. Mr. Schenke noticed that his
SoV6n-yedr-OlQ grandson WAS III uduS6l
Of being killed by the animal Run
ming into the barnyard he grasped the
child and showed him through hole
in the fence. Before he could get out
of the way he was gored.
State Insurance Commissioner Zeno
M. Host has left for st. Louis to exam
inc the American Guaranty Fund and
Life Insurance company of st. Louis, |
which has petitioned for a license tc
operate in Wisconsin. From st. Louis
Commissioner Host will go to New |
York to confer with other middle
west commissioners regarding the in
vestigation of the big Eastern compa !
MES.
Henry Gusser of East Wrightstowr
was instantly killed by being thrown
from buggy. His neck was broken |
With two other men he was driving
from Groenleaf to WrightStOWn The |