Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-01
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Wisconsin
News From
All Parts of
the State.


pox epidemic. Eight cases are I'M
der quarantine.
Over thirty Kentucky mountaineers
have reached Crandon to join the For
est county colony.
John Anderson and Andrew John
son pleaded guilty to burning freight
car at Brentwood.
o. H. Ingram, president, has issued
a call for meeting of the capitol COM
mission at Madison Dec. "a.
Winfred Davis was suffocated and
Daniel McDermott probably fatally
burned in a mine fire near Darlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Banker, for over
sixty years residents of Jefferson
county, celebrated their diamond we'd
ding anniversary.
John B. Wallen, foreman of North
Western switch engine crew, was
killed by falling under the wheels OF
an incoming freight train at Green
Bay.
The Tyler's Fork iron mine, near
Plummer, which has not been worked
for twelve years, will be reopened.
New discoveries of ore have been
made.
Assemblyman Fred Carpenter OF
Stevens Point presented to Gov. David
son an application for a pardon for
John Walters, boy found guilty of
arson.
Joseph Casey, one Of the trio of al
legged safe blowers who escaped from
the county jail at West Bend Sept. "a,
was recaptured one mile north of
Richfield.
F. Reno and Charles Rosenbaum
narrowly escaped being killed by the
collapse of a folding bed at Appleton.
nearly half hour.
While delirious from fever, Frank
Cotey Of Superior escaped from the
vigilance of his wife, and, going
through the yard, jumped into the bay
and was drowned.
Charles Snyder, one of the bandits
arrested after the shooting ARRAY at
the Clark Fish resort at Appleton, has
been sentenced to two and one-half
years in state prison.
William r. TAFT, city, assessor of Ra-
cine, is dead. Mr.. TAFT was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1910 and came to
Milwaukee when four years old. He
came to Racine in 1861.
The civil service commission has de-
cided to hold a second examination for
candidates for positions as stenOgra-
piers and typewriters for the ap-
preaching session of the legislature
Only males are eligible.
Gov: Davidson has refused to honor
requisition from Michigan for John
Balhover of Milwaukee, who is wanted
at Detroit to answer to the charge OF
having sold household furniture that
he hadn't fully paid for.
Manitowoc county finances show q
gain of over $4,000 the last year ac-
cording to the report made by the
county treasurer, the cash on hand be,
ing $3S,516.88, as against $18,791.O9 at
the beginning of the fiscal year in 1905.
Trouble is being met near Cumber-
land by the Omaha railroad in making
a fill across Collingwood lake. The
piling was driven through layer OF
soft mud fifty or sixty feet before
ground stable enough to temporarily
support the track was found.
Bulletin No. 141 Of the Wisconsin
0XDorlm0nC SCaC1OH 0ulIClGu HS
Horse Breeding Industry Of Wiscon-
SIM is ready for distribution, free OF
charge. It contains a complete direc-
tory of owners of licensed pure-bred,
grade and cross-bred stations.
Former State Senator M. D. Burke
of Beaver Dam appeared before Gov.
Davidson and asked for a pardon for
Thomas E. Goodwin of Dodge county
who is serving a ten-year sentence IN
the state prison for having assaulted
his wife, Mary Goodwin, five years
ago. The petition was taken under ad-
visement.
The Waupaca Electric Railway and
Light company, with line to the vet
Grams home, has asked the city oil
Waupaca for franchise to extend the
line to connect with the Wisconsin
Central freight yards, and intends to
haul coal and other bulky material fol
that place by carload, thus establish