The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-09-23

Mrs. Celia Collins of GAINESVILLE at
tempted to drown herself in Rock
river, but was rescued by neighbors.
The National City bank of New York
has been approved as a reserve agent
for the First National bank of Rich
land Center.
Richard Wall, aged thirty-five years,
slashed his throat with razor at Be
lott and will probably die. He was a
molder and stranger in the city.
Henry Hammer, aged twenty-eight
years, unmarried was struck by Mil
waukee train at Fond du Lac and died
of his injuries without regaining con-
seriousness.
After telling his wife that he had
not been a faithful husband, Ed Merri-
man of Shopiere, disappeared from his
home and has not yet been found. 1t
is thought he is deranged.
The laying of a corner stone of a
$4,000 hotel for Menasha took place. A
half holiday was declared and pro
gram arranged. Congressman J. II.
Davidson was one of the speakers.
The surveying party of the Valley
Railway company, the proposed new
line along the Fix river valley from
Green Bay to Neenah, has reached
Kaukauna from the Green Bay end of
the route.
A deficit of $4,000 was reported at
the annual meeting of the directors of
the Marinette Chautauqua. Next year
there will beonly evening. sessions, and
the season will last four instead of
two weeks.
John Bow, aged forty-seven years, a
leading Fox Lake farmer, was killed
in a runaway accident while raking
hay. He was driving q hayrack when
the seat broke, dropping him in front
of the rake.
G. H. Schultz, the former general
manager of the Milwaukee Harvester
company, who was recently elected a
director of the J. |. Case Threshing
Machine company of Racine, will on
Oct. 1 become factory manager for the
company.
Hot waters taps opened, it is be-
lieved, with malicious intent, in the
fifth story of the Batavian bank build
ing, La Crosse, allowed the water to
seep through all the ceilings, causing
damage amounting to several thou
sand dollars.
An unknown boy about four years
old was found strayed away from his
home, three miles from Appleton, at
a farm when Rural Mail Carrier No,
4, Frank o. Let's, passed. The boy
was taken in and left at the Appleton
police station.
Mayor German of Kenosha, accom-
panied by his attorney, ]. G. Slater, at
tended the examination at GAINESVILLE
of Dr. James Gibson, who attended M.
H. Whitaker secretary of the state
BARRIERS board, after the alleged as
sault of the latter by German.
L. J. Smith has secured an injunc-
ton restraining Burlington from estab
fishing a municipal electric lighting
plant. The contention is that two
thirds vote instead of majority vote
is necessary in the matter. The case
will be decided by the courts.
John Latseig, an employe of the
Lindauer Pulp and Manufacturing com
pany, was drowned at Merrill. Lat
seig was engaged with others in re-
pairing the dam across the Wisconsin
river when he lost his balance, fell
into the water and was carried over
the dam.
The state board of control has
awarded the contract for installing the
wiring for the new electric lighting
plant at the state hospital for the in
sane at Mendoza {, the Central Con-
struction company at Oshkosh. The
contract carries S@G72 There were
four bidders.
The Wauqacs city clerk will call a
special election to decide whether the
CITY shall be bonded for $4,000 to
change the intake Of the city water
works from the Waupaca river to a
spring lake near the city and also ex-
tending the water mains and building
/ new pumping station.
Ernest C. Stewart of Brodhead.
Wis, who was found in a rear room of
| Racine furniture store with bullet
lole in his head about two weeks ago,
las confessed that he attempted to
Kill himself while in a melancholy
mood, and to clear up various stories
which had been afioat to the effect that
here was a woman in the case, said
hat no one but himself was RESPONSE
lie, either directly or indirectly. I'm
il to-day Stewart had refused to make
my statement whatever regarding the
Lffair beyond the statement that he
\, do whom found that hp had fa11op