The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-10
The Grand View hotel, situated at
the Chain O Lakes at Waupaca, will
be enlarged and rebuilt this spring
About $4,000 will be spent.


August Knapp was killed by a Chi
cago & Northwestern train at North
Freedom. He stepped in front of
train on the double track to avoid one
coming on the other
Four members of the Racine fire
department narrowly escaped being
killed while running to a fire by the
capsizing of the hook and ladder truck
at the State street viaduct.
A Wisconsin & Michigan train
smashed into a log train on the "Y'
at Bagley Junction. demolishing the
caboose and two cars. Fire threatened
the wreckage, but it was extinguished.
Fire and water at Baraboo burned
and damaged William Gusts restaur-
ant, Howe & Schey's shoe store and
w. H. Engleman's barber shop. The
loss is total. Insurance about $4,000.
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Several hundred wOrllmen on the
Allis-Chalmers new plant at Milwau-
kee struck because they were allowed
to work only nine hours day. They
are paid by the hour. All are non
union.
Fred Carney of Marquette denies
that the Carney Lumber company lost
any logs in movement of the ice at
Owen sound. The ice shove broke the
boom holding the logs, but none of
them went out.
The date for the 1906 convention Of
the Wisconsin United Commercial
Travellers has been fixed at June Is
and 16, by Supreme Secretary Charles
D. Daniels The convention will be
held in La Crosse.
John Marion, while working a wood
cutting machine at PeshtigO, was
caught in the machinery and whirled
in the air. His coat Of sheepskin
finally gave way and he escaped with
several broken bones.
The grand jury adjourned at Ash
land until March II, after only three
days of continuous work, because the
experts at work on the books of the
Security bank will not be ready to re-
port before that time.
At the annual meeting Of the James
vile street railway company George
G. BIabon and Edward L. Blabon OF
Philadelphia, James Shearer, William
Murphy and T. S. Nolan of GAINESVILLE
were elected directors
Under Sheriff John E. Sealy was
shot and killed at Hurley by George
Greenwood Wisconsin Central OPP
orator, who mistook Sealy for burg
lar. Sealy likewise mistook Green
wood for burglar who had taken ref
uge in the depot
John Halom, a farmer escaped I'M
hurt when struck by a Northwestern
train at Beloit. He was knocked 100 |
feet and nothing was left of the horses
and carriage He had on three suits
of underclothes, two vests and two |
overcoats.
Construction work on a new steel |
bridge over the Apple river, north or |
Amery, has commenced. This bridge |
will take the place of the old wooden |
structure for many years known as |
the Cameron bridge. The contract is
held by a Minneapolis concern.
A Young son of Charles Anderson OF |
Hayward met with a serious accident
when in some manner hat pin was
stuck into his left eye. The boy was
taken to Lake Elmo, Mimi, for treat
ment, and it is feared that the injured
organ will have to be removed.
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While stealing a ride on a Milwau-
kee passenger train, John w. Kinney
of Minneapolis fell in the yards in La
crosse, fracturing his left arm. He
was taken to the hospital. He will be
sent to his home as soon as he is able
to be moved He was on his way to
Chicago.
A petition in the estate of the late
George Macmillan was filed in the pro-
bate court at La Crosse with Judge
Brindley. showing the estate to be val
ued at 100000, of which $4,000 was
personal property and $4,000 was real
estate. D. G. Macmillan, son OF the de-
ceased, was appointed administrator.
Married and divorced twice before,
Fred w. Fulton, furniture dealer OF
Waupun and his former wife, Maud
Fulton of Chicago, were remarked at
Menominee for the third time, and left
'or Waupun, believing that they can
yet along now without quarrellng
The coroner's jury at GAINESVILLE
trough in a verdict on the Northwest
srp wreck, Feb. IA, which caused the
Heath of three men, seriously inJuring
hree others, and slightly injurlng
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