The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-07
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


been elected state secretary of the
w. P. England, secretary of the Ra-
cine Y. M. G. A., has received a call to
en- gage in the Chicago metropolitan
work, the largest in the world.
The Rev. T. J. Brown Of Lancaster,
formerly Of the Peoples church in
Fond du Lac, has accepted call to
the Congregational church at Vermil-
lion, S. D.
A new organization to be known as
the Danish-American association has
been launched at Racine to promote
commerce between the United States
and Denmark.
Burt Nelson was badly injured at
Mondovi by threshing machine sepa-
rator which he was helping to cable
down hill. He was thrown under
the wheels and may lose his left leg.
fISO II. JdCODlC, d MlIWduhSO IOdu
brakeman, was struck by a passenger
train while sitting on the track near
Bardwell and brought to GAINESVILLE I'M
conscious, but apparently unbruised
Holding thousands of pounds of beet
sugar for cents, Capt Davidson, own
er of the Rock county factory, is re-
ported to have lost $4,000 on re-
cent slump from 61a cents to Az cents.
The National Exchange and First
National banks Of Milwaukee and the
First National bank of Chicago have
been approved as reserve agents for
the First National bank of Richland
Center.
Mayor H. Wertheimer of WatertOwn
has issued a proclamation ordering
that all slot machines in the city be
removed. The order is considered a
permanent one, and the police will
seize all machines of this kind found
within the city.
Mrs. Betty Lingensjo, aged AZ years,
committed suicide by jumping out OF
the second story window of her farm
home near Oconto. She became men
tally deranged over the death of her
husband two years ago. Her neck was
broken by the fall.
DR.. Herdbrink of Union Grove, near
Racine, has sworn out a warrant
against the son of a well-known resi-
dent of Waterford, whom he charges
with sending letter threatening to
make certain exposures unless the
doctor cancelled the writer's dental
bill.
A second effort to break the will Of
Samuel Level by his brother John, a
wealthy resident of Buffalo and Mag
ara Falls, is being made before Judge
Fowler of the circuit court at Fond du
Lac. Mr.. Level left most Of his money
to the Reeves family of Fond du Lac,
who cared for him in his last sick
ness.
Two big hay stacks on the farm of
Griffith Ellis at ThOmpsonville, ten
miles north of Racine, were set on fire
and totally destroyed by young man
who had some slight grievance against
the owner. AS soon as an alarm was
given a posse of farmers started in
search of the firebug and at late hour
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Though the names of the purchasers
of the Roclxford-Janesville interurban
are unknown, it is believed that Far
son of Chicago, the nominal buyer, is
merely the purchasing agent for the
same clique that controls the Ohio in
terurban roads. Prospects for an ex-
tension to Madison are extremely
doubtful until spring.
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The long-drawn-out fight between
the Edward Hines Lumber company
and Barker & Stewart has been set
tied by the Edward Hines Lumber
companys purchasing the Barker &
Stewart sawmill at Ashland, together
with all personal property belonging
to it. All difficulties, including injunc-
tions by both parties, are settled.
Owing to the trouble in the Royal
Arcanum, leading members of the
GAINESVILLE branch of the order are
withdrawing. Among those who have
already asked for their withdrawal
cards are Assemblyman Pliny Nor
cross, County Clerk Lee and DR..
LOOMS, a prominent physician, all
charter members of the GAINESVILLE
lodge.
So:
Pressure of work of arrangements
for the Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement association convention in
La Crosse Oct. 10 and IL, in which he
will act as host to visiting congress
men, has caused Congressman John ].
Esch to refuse an invitation from
Chairman Shonts of the Panama canal
commission to visit the isthmus with
the body of foreign engineers who are
to make an investigation of the canal.
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Roscoe Guilbert, Harold Hinrichs