The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-09-16

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of Gilman, Pierce county, met instant
death in runaway accident.
!
James Tanning, a prosperous young
| farmer, was killed by the Duluth linn
] tied three miles south of GAINESVILLE.
| The First National bank of Richland
Center has been authorized to COM
mence business, with capital of $780,
| 900.
| The golden wedding anniversary Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Richards was eel
ebrated at their farm near Porterfeld,
| Mainette county.
Fire at Sank Prairie destroyed a
threshing machine for Waffenschmidt
& Schlag, and eight stacks of grain for
Henry Gattwinkle.
A half mile of railroad track on the
Peerless logging road at the west end
of Chequamegop bay, near Ashland,
was destroyed in Sundays storm.
| Chris Creussiger, farmer living six
miles south of Racine, was robbed by
burglars. Diamonds and jewelry val
ued at nearly $1,000 were carried
away.
City Clerk William Armstrong Of
Racine will call special election to
be held Sept. 16 to vote on the ques-
ton of increasing the liquor license
from 5000 to $4,000 or $500
Charles Hoyle and the Racine police
department are making an effort to
! solve the mystery surrounding the
/ finding of the body of female child
floating in the Racine river.
People residing along the Black
river are aroused over the wholesale
destruction by dynamite of the fish
in the stream, and have petitioned the
game wardens to make arrests.
William Cook, about thirty years
old, was taken to Rhinelander from
Laona Junction. He had been shot in
the mouth and through the lung by
a Robbery saloon man there.
w. w. Cargill, the La Crosse million
aire, and Bishop G. H. Fowler of New
York city, assisted in laying the COR
ner stone of the new Cargill Memorial
| Methodist church at GAINESVILLE. Mr..
Cargill contributed $4,000.
Chairman A. F. Warden of the Dem
ocratic state central committee, who
has removed to Lawson, Okla, from
Waukesha, filed his resignation with
Secretary George w. Lewis. His sue
cessor has not yet been selected.
The popular resort, Old Mission, at
after the most successful season it
has ever known. E. P. Salmon of Be
lott Wis, owner of the mission, pro-
| poses to enlarge the accommodations
by building about twenty cottages
next year.
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The coroner's jury called to investi-
gate the death of William Young OF
Zion City, who was crushed in an ele-
vator at the plant of the Simmons
! Manufacturing company at Kenosha
failed to return verdict on account Of
the disappearance of David Weight,
one of the chief witnesses of the acct
| dent.
Former City Marshal Jacob Baum
! stark of Racine was nearly electro
| cuted while handling telephone wire
which crossed an electric light wire,
sending a current of 1000 volts
| through his body. Both hands were bis
| tered and burned nearly to the bone.
| The shock held him rigid until the
wire was burned in two parts.
Capt. Michael Garvey of the Apple
| ton police force and relative of Mrs.
Margaret Sexton of Neenah who was
found dead in her home and who it
was reported had been killed by
burglar. declares she died of natural
causes. Capt. Garvey found that she
fell down a stairway and sustained in
iuries that resulted in her death a few
hours later. The money and other val
uables that were reported missing
have been found.
William D. McGregor, formerly an
| instructor in the Milwaukee normal
school and of late years a farmer re-
siding just outside GAINESVILLE, is on
| trial charged by his wife with kicking
her in the stomach, legs and arms,
| knocking her down and stamping on
her with his feet. McGregor denies
that he did anything more than give
her shove without any force in it,
with one of his feet, and that imme-
diately he had done so she seized him
by the collar, tore his shirt off and
kicked him with both feet.
Robert Mccullough, serving ten
years in Waupun on charge Of as
saulting little girls in the Northwest
Western railway tower house at RAJ
cine, has notified the officers that he
and his friends will make an applica-