The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-06-17

superintendent OF the Racine SCHOOlS,
his salary being increased from $4,000
to $2,400 per annum.
John Vetsnek Of Sol Milwaukee
was sentenced to forty-five days in
Jail at Baraboo for stealing brass from
the Northwestern road.
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Twenty-eight young people were
graduated from the Grand Rapids high
school, the largest class ever gradu-
ated from the schools of that city.
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Two wheels of a heavy truck wagon
passed across the body Of Mabel
Quinn, ten years old, or Racine, and
she is still alive and apparently little
injured.
Smallpox has broken out at the APP
pleton poorhouse, L. Bartram being af-
fiicted with the disease. All the in
mates, numbering seventy-fve, have
been exposed.
A 15-year-old son Of Leonard Meyer
of the town of Summit was killed with
a 80 caliber rife in the hands of
companion named Fessy, the ball en-
tering his forehead
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Capt. Mason M. MaXOn Of Waukesha-
brother of Glenway Maxon of MifWau'
kee. a retired officer Of the regular
army, has received an appointment to
the general recruiting service at Gin
cinnati.
President James J. Hill, the we'll
known railway magnate, has presented
the University of Wisconsin with So
900 with which to secure a special IL
brary of books relating to railway
transportation.
William Parks, aged 16 years, has
been arrested at Portage charged with
robbing Borgen's store at Madison. He
confessed, it is said, naming Edward
Kehoe of Madison as his accomplice.
Kehoe is in jail at Madison.
Mal2Clm Sinclair, chicago macnln
list, who tried to beat his way to Mad
ison on the Northwestern road, got into
a car loaded with iron plates and re-
ceived fatal injuries, dying at the
emergency hospital, Beloit.
A man giving his name as Bentley,
of Elkhorn, was robbed of $l45 in cash
and $4,000 in checks on car on the
Milwaukee road, near Reloit. Three
men crowded him into a corner and
took his pocketbook from him.
Severe hailstorms lasting thirty min
utes and doing damage estimated at
thousands of dollars, passed over Rio.
Hail stones measuring four and one
half inches in diameter are said to have
been picked up. Many skylights were
smashed.
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DELEGATES to the biennial convention
at Racine Of the United DANA Socie-
ties of America will have hot de-
hate on the question OF insurance.
Many of the delegates have been in
structed to work for compulsory in
surance.
Authority has been granted at Wash
ington for the organization of the First
National bank of Richland Center:
capital, $4,000; c. R. Thompson, E. A.
Dove, :. L. Mckee, Robert r. Benton
and w. J. Clark are named as incor
porators.
The Right Rev. Reginald Heber
Weller, bishop of Fond du Lac, confirm
ed a class of twenty cadets at ST.
Johns Military academy. Bishop Mich
olson was to have conducted the cere-
monies of confirmation, but was pre-
vented from so doing by sickness.
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CONGRESSMAN Cooper Of Racine has
received word that Frank r. Hunter OF
that city, whom he recommended to
West Point, has successfully passed
the examination. Hunter is a gradu-
ate of the Racine High school and is
now atendintg the University Of Wis
cOnSin.
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Racine county suffered severely from
the electric storm. At North Cape the
barn of Charles Jacobson was struck
by a bolt of lightning and destroyed. |
On the King farm in Mount Pleasant
barn was partially destroyed and Nels
Jorgensen knocked unconscious. Two
other barns were damaged and trees
shattered.
Earl w. Chaffee Of Rhinelander
Wis. was one of the three midshipmen
dismissed from the naval academy for
hazing, and whose reinstatement sub
ject to examination was authorized by
congress last session, has met all the
requirements imposed by the navy de-
partment and will be reappointed by
the president.
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The Indians Tom and Charlotte
Smart, who were taken from Ashland
to Madison by the federal authorities
to stand trial for murder. will be re-
leased under the recent supreme court
decision. 1t is held that allotted IN
dams are citizens. Smart and his wife