The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-12-23
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, Seven-year-old Norah Kath of James
Vile was nearly asphyxiated by coal
gas, but will recover.
The police of GAINESVILLE have start
ed a crusade to clear the city OF OBJ
jectfonab1e women. Twelve paid fines
Of SIS each,
An associated charity organization
is to be organized in Racine. The min
listers have decided to hold a meeting
on Jan. 5, 1906.
Alphonse Collins of Porter, Rock
county, was seriously injured by fall
ing upon a pitchfork in hay NOW.
He lay unconscious for several hours
before he was discovered.
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John Callahan, aged az, farmer,
Freight train while driving across the
track near New Richmond. He leaves
a wife and eleven children.
Island Park, owned by the city OF
Racine, was swept by fire, all of the
grass, shrubbery and trees being de-
stroyed, including some Of the seats
and apparatus erected for the children.
Two of the largest cabbage growers
in Racine county, Thomas and A. J.
Piper have purchased farm Of 1000
acres in the State of Texas and will
raise cabbage in that state during the
winter.
Former Aid. William Murphy of Mil
waukee was adiudged guilty of accept
ing a bribe of $50 when member OF
the council from Oscar Davis, for Sc
curing the passage of a sidetrack ordi-
nance.
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Dexter Weimer, aged 81 years, was
found dead beside the Wisconsin Cen
trail tracks between Stetsonville and
Dorchester, near Melford. Indications
are that he fell from a midnight pas
senger train on which he was stealing
a ride.
B. j. Gallagher of Oconto Falls has
patented a method by means of which
all tailors' measurements may be COM
puted from negatives or photographs.
Large Chicago tailoring houses have
been negotiating to get the use OF the
method.
In the circuit court at Green Bay
Judge Hastings directed verdict for
the defendant in the $4,000 personal
injury suit of Charles 0. Lovett
against George H. Rice. Spooner and
Rosecrantz of Milwaukee were attor-
news for the defendant. Lovett lost an
eve and was otherwise injured IN the
Rice planning mill in December, 1903.
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While Hermann Mats OF Racine is
serving a ten days sentence in the
county jail on a charge of stealing TWO
boards from the Fish Bros Wagon
company, his wife and children were
discovered starving and freezing IN
West side house. Mats claims that
he took the boards for fire so that
his family would not suffere from the
cold.
President E. C. Theirs Of the Keno
sha board OF education has refused 10
SIGN the contract for a new school
building. Notwithstanding the fact that
he had been instructed to do so oy the
members of the board. President
Theirs declares that the contract Is an
unfair one. Peter B. Bogart of Mil
waukee has one of the contracts being
held up.
William L. Essman, who has Deeh
the chief clerk in the office of the IN
surance commissioner since the term
of the present commissioner COM
menced. has handed in his resignation
and will accept a position in New YORK.
The vacancy thus created is filled by
the promotion of Miss A. E. crystal 10
the position. Eugene Shepard takes
the place formerly held by Miss Crys-
tai
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Oscar Bergstrom of Waukesha was
captured by the Racine police near
Lutz Park, hatless, coatless, and only
one shoe. When arraigned in court on
a charge of intOXication, Bergstrom
said that two days before he took
drink of the mineral spring water at
Waukesha. When he awoke he found
himself in the Racine Jail. A watch
and chain he had on his person was
missing.
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Peter Martin, an Indian living at the
White Rapids settlement, has made
comnlaint to the authorities at Wau-
saukee that parties of men from the
CITY are furnishing liquor to the In
dams and are causing no end OF trou-
BILE. He asks for protection. For the
last three Sundays, Martin says, man
in the employee of a Wausaukee saloon
keeper has taken men to the settle
ment with large quantities OF liquor
the evident desire being to get the In
dams intoxicated and then ind ENJOY
mant in the fights which follow.