The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-29
Badger
Briefs.

| county is a failure because OF the eX
cessive rains.
Arthur Smith, aged seventeen years
of Chicago, was drowned in the Rocl
river at GAINESVILLE
! Harry Ramona of Kenosha has re
| ceived from the British government g
| Victorian medal for bravery in the
| South African war.
According to the assessed valuation
of the city Marinette is worth this
year in the neighborhood of between
| $5,0O0,0OO to $6,000,000.
Alexander Gladofski, section hand,
was struck by Wisconsin Central pass
enger train No. 2 near Amhert juno
ton and instantly killed.
Contracts have been let for the cree
ton of the largest apartment build
ing ever planned in Racine. The
structure will cost $4,000.
A force of sixty men is employed at
the Rock county sugar factory max
ing ready for the years run of beets,
which will begin in October.
Fishermen have found a drowned
man at the mouth of the Wisconsin
river, who was about forty or fifty
years old, well dressed, with book
in his pocket with German writing
and the name Emil Hoos.
Mrs. J. F. Wenk, of Marinette, re-
ceived an electric shock while she
was turning on light in the basement
of her home which nearly caused her
death. She is still suffering from the
effects.
Henry Walker, a painter in Fort
Atkinson, fell from a sixty-foot ladder,
breaking an arm, leg, his jawbone
in six places, and fracturing his ribs
and sustaining internal injuries. He
is not expected to live.
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From returns received by the cen
sus enumeratOrs it is estimated that
the population of Fond du Lac and
its suburb, North Fond du Lac, will
run past the 10000 mark Fond du
Lac had Is 1000 inhabitants in 1900. .
49,
100000 feet of logs is expected to
reach Grand Rapids, and it is thought
that the whole of the work of carry
ing over the immense amount of tim
Der through these rapids will be fin
ished in about three days.
The teachers institute for Sheboy-
gan county opened at Plymouth on
Monday with an attendance of 120.
1t is in charge of President Charles
Mckinney of Milwaukee, Prof. W. CT
Hewitt of Oshkosh, and Principal D.
H. Schiller of Milwaukee.
Lille Johnson, aged sixteen, who ha
Waupun, who has been working in
Madison as a domestic for six months,
has disappeared. She left on Satur-
day and has not been seen since. The
mother is heartbroken. She will con-
tinue her search in Milwaukee.
Men are at work on the Menominee
side of the river at Marinette drag
ging for the body of Duncan McGregor,
the Peshtigo lumberman. According
to the best information he was last |
seen in Menominee and if he fell in
the river it is believed his remains
will be found in the vicinity of the
Kirby Carpenter docks.
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James Wilson, John Lawson and |
James Riley have been held to the |
circuit court on charge of holding up
Dan Gilmore in broad daylight in |
Ladysmith. Gilmore himself deliv-
cred up Wilson, while officers cap
tured Lawton and Riley. They will
be tried at once in the circuit court,
which is in session here.
II. H. Dodd, accompanied by r. E.
Watrous, both of Madison. were ar
rested at Dodgville Sunday night,
charged with violating the speed limit
A team driven by the Rev. F. w
5choenfeld became frightened and ran
away, cutting themselves up and de-
molishing the buggy. The occupants
IF the automobile claim they were
'unning according to regulations.
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While driving his horse into the
liver at Kaukauna for the purpose of
washing the buggy, the rapid current
Incident to the exceptionally high
water swept the animal off it's feet
md A. C. Langdon narrowly escaped
osing his life. He and his horse were
'escued after having been carried a
distance of nearly a block down
stream.
Before the end of the week suits
will be begun at Racine against 100
members Of the Trades and Labor
council and labor organizations by o.
3. Schultz, a, baker, for damages
caused by a boycott declared against
Mr.. Schultz by the union because he
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