The Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1905, 1905-03-25

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The McMynn school at Racine was
broken into by sneak thieves. Boxes
containing pennies dropped in to pay
for tablets We're looted.
Gen. C. C. Hilton and son George,
of the Hilton hotel, have
leased the Terrace hotel at Waukesha
and will conduct both houses.
Berlin has contracted with the Ber-
lin Lighting, Heating and Power COM
pany for lighting for ten years at $50
for each 1000 candlepower arc light.
Vera Leroy, II years old, of Apple
ton, was stricken blind while studying,
but has recovered her sight to the ex-
tent of seeing a little out of one eye.
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Dead fish are being hauled away in
wagons at Long lake, two miles west
of Portage The ice has been SO thick
that it is thought the fish smothered.
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Miss Elizabeth J. Curtis, matron for
the state institute for the blind at
GAINESVILLE for twenty-six years, who
has been i'll, is reported to be slightly
better
Postmaster Ira P. Coon, a member
of the Republican state central COM
mittee and prominent in central Wis
consin affairs, is i'll at his home in
Plainfeld.
Workmen discovered a counterfeit
er's outfit in a barn at Ladysmith.
Besides molds, ladies', files and metal,
several spurious quarters and nickles
were found.
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Thousands of bushels of potatoes
are going to rot this spring because
the price is so low that farmers who
are holding them in store cannot af-
ford to market them
John Kallin, living in the town Of
Oshkosh, was found dead in the shed
of vacant house. He was shot
through the head and all indications
point to suicide. He was 80 years old.
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At a meeting of Company D, Third
infantry, w. N. G., of Mauston, First
Lieut.. C. G. Wetherke was elected to
succeed C. C. Remington, resigned.
H. J. Lyon was elected first lieutenant.
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Strangers dressed as farmers have
defrauded Beloit citizens of several
hundred dollars by selling inferior pic
mic hams, which retail at cents
pound, for high-grade hams at II cents
a pound.
Senator Whitehead is anxious to
have the Rock county students at the
University of Wisconsin organize into
a Rock county association, and expects
to attend a meeting called for that
purpose.
Arrangements have been made by
the GAINESVILLE sugar factory with the
Rockford Boys Experiment club to
purchase the three acres of sugar
beets this club will grow during the
summer
One of the most successful terms in
the history of the short course in agri-
culture at the University Of Wisconsin
closed after a fourteen weeks session.
The total number of students enrolled
was 312.
C. A. Fowler's candidacy for judge
of the new Eighteenth circuit was an
nounced at Portage. Mr.. Fowler has
served as city attorney of Portage for
six years and is a graduate OF the
University of Wisconsin.
Announcement is made by the New
York university senate of the election
of President Van Hise Of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin to the board of cleo
tors of the hall of fame, which will Sc
1ect college presidents whom it consid-
ers worthy of commemorative.
Ira Stewart, who was sentenced at
Chippewa Falls for life four years ago
for numbering his sOn-in-law, Fred
Miller, has succeeded in getting the SUI
preme court to review his case. At
the trial the defense attempted to es-
tablish that Stewart had been mental
ly unbalanced for years.
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The La Crosse police have arrested
a man giving his name as w. FL. Ryan,
who is alleged to have robbed resi-
dence of $500 worth of jewelry and
other yaluables. His description is
identical with that of man who rob-
bed a house in Winona a few nights
ago. and he has confessed both crimes.
w. S. Smith, who has been local
manager Of the Wisconsin Telephone
company at La Crosse, has been pro-
NOTED to the office of district manager