The Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1905, 1905-04-22

Tobacco has been found profitable
in Buffalo county. Three carloads, the
first crop, were shipped from Durand.
Jean Arndt of Rhinelander, charged
with an attempted criminal assault,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
ten years.
Chris Olson and Anton Berg or Trina
have been arrested as suspects in the
attempted wrecking Of passenger
train near Irma.
John Jacobson, aged SO years, we'll
known Racine jeweler, has mysteri-
ously disappeared and his relatives
believe that he has been murdered.
Robbers entered the store of B.
Greenberg at Barron and broke open
the safe with a charge of nitroglycer-
inc. They secured about $50 in mon
ey.
1t is. reported in Kenosha that the
combine which owns the Chicago
Brass works in that city has decided
to spend $1,0OO,O0O in improving the
plant.
Wilbert Paskey, 15-year-old boy,
was instantly killed near Waterloo by
the charge from shotgun in the
hands of a little girl. The coroner's
jury rendered a verdict of accidental
death.
In the girls declamatory contest at
Alma, Heswing Oshner was awarded
first place, Pearl Schwey second and
Clara jain third place. The winners
will participate in the league contest,
April "a.
John Condor, charged with the kill
ing Of little George Griffin at James
vile in March, 1904, and found guilty
of manslaughter, has been sentenced
to the industrial school for boys at
Waukesha.
Xavier Pezbilinski voluntarily plead
ed guilty at Appleton to numbering his
wife on Feb. % by beating her over
the head with a stove lid, a saw and
a spade. He was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
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Arrangements nave been completed
by William Alexander Sutherland, SUI
perintendent of Filipino students in
the United States, for the attendance
Of six Filipino students at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
William Flaherty and Peter Chris.
tan, charged with larceny at Merrill,
pleaded guilty and the former was SEN
fenced to the county Jail for four
months, and the latter was fined $50
or four months in Jail.
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Warrants have been issued for
wholesale arrests in the Second ward
at La Crosse, where it is alleged the
election of Harry A. Palmer, Republic
an candidate for alderman, was Sc
cured by illegal votes.
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II. G. Miller, a farmer from Cedar,
was robbed of $3.50 at Ashland. He
remembers nothing after taking a
drink in a saloon. He was found later
with his face cut and bleeding. He
evidently was drugged.
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Tho h0dinc IF TWO MON 1y;11od NV
train in Kenosha county early in jan
uary may be exhumed, as it is thought
possible that one of them was Eli
Reve, who disappeared from Boone,
Iowa, in the fall of 1908.
Friends of Julius Rodenski at Ra-
cine, who has disappeared, fear he has
been drowned in the river. Two weeks
ago he was seen in a saloon on the
West side and said he would kill him
self or go to Milwaukee.
Fire started in a long frame row at
Plainfield, but was confined to two
buildings, J. H. MarshalPs general
SUITE anu anu C1AC ACoCou-
rant of Arthur Keen. The loss is $780,
900. with a small insurance.
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Racine was visited by a severe cleo
trio storm, the house of John Houston
being struck and damaged, a barn of
Louis Hanson partly wrecked, and two
horses probably fatally injured. Fiji
teen telephones were disabled.
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Mrs. T. J. Rogers, wife of Lieut..
Rogers of the regular army, who is sta
toned at Fort Smelling, was beaten
into insensibility by stranger at Be
lott. Robbery is supposed to have
been the motive of the assault.
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George Schmid and other Neenah
and Menasha capitalists have bought
1900 acres of land in the Pinar del
Rio (Cuba) district, and will operate
a tobacco plantation. 1t is the plan to
later establish Neenah colony.
Leslie Fowler, appointed clerk of
the municipal court at Racine, has de-
clined the place for the reason that