Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-01
Wisconsin
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insurance.
Edward Gorder, aged % years, was
killed by lightning at Hillside. He
leaves a wife and two small children.
The only fair to be held this year
in Brown county will be that of the
Oneidas at their settlement Oct. 8, 4
and 5.
A telegram has been received at
Chippewa Falls telling of the death
of George Huber of that city in q rail
road wreck near Auburn, Cal.
The first sitting of the Wisconsin
supreme court this fall will be on
Sept II. At this sitting the first
cases on the August calendar will be
taken up.
At least one, and possibly two, steel
freighters besides the two now on
the stocks will be built in the size
rior ship yards during the coming
fall and winter.
The Polk county harvest picnic at
Balsam lake was grand success.
In spite of the inclement weather
about $500 people gathered It the
place for their annual holiday
Michael Sullivan died at his home
in Royalton from injuries received by
being struck by an excursion train
on the Green Bay & Western railroad
while crossing the track near his
home.
Mark Darsk, while asleep, walked
from the second-story window of his
room at Chippewa Falls and fell to
the ground. He is now in a hospi-
tai, but will recover. He was a SOM
nambuliSt.
Commissioners of the Yorkville and
Raymond drainage canal in Racine
county have commenced collecting
assessments and have advertised for
the construction of the canal, bids
to be received on Sept TO- The canal
will be nine and one-half miles long.
Henry Frank, aged forty-six, was
killed nine miles west of Racine.
Frank was threshing on the Baker
farm, and was hauling wagon load
ed with oats to the granary. He
slipped off the wagon and two wheels
passed over his breast, crushing it
badly.
Peter Conley of Reedsburg, aged
eighteen years, was cut in two and
horribly mangled by a freight train
in Elroy. He was with some COM
panions who were stealing ride
home, a distance of twenty miles, but
was not missed by them until they
arrived home.
The annual convention Of the I'M
proved Order of Redmen Of Wiscon-
sin will be held in La Crosse in 1907.
At the state convention recently held
in Milwaukee La Crosse received the
highest number of votes, but the de-
cision was left to the state officers,
who decided in favor of that city.
The electors of Hudson will vote at
special election on the question OF
raising the saloon license in the city
from 5000 to $500 a year. The same
question has been voted on before,
and the low license forces have won,
but this year there is said to be much
stronger sentiment for higher license.
DIR. John A. Rice, one of the alien
lists who passed upon the question OF
the sanity of Charles J. Guiteau, the
assassin of President James A. Gar
field, is dead at his home at Merton,
after a long illness. He was seventy
five years old, and was a pioneer OF
Waukesha county, having come in
1851.
Mrs. William Bishop, cripple of
Menominee, twice jumped into the
river at Marinette in an attempt to
commit suicide. On both occasions
she was rescued by the same man, an
employe of a carnival company, who
Jumped in after her On the last oc-
casion her rescuer nearly lost his own
life.
In a thunderstorm at Hayward a
bolt of lightning struck the dynamo
at the Diamond Match company's
works and badly damaged the same.
A workman who was standing near
at the time was thrown from his feet
and hurled against the wall, and a
number of others who were in the
building were violently shocked.
Racine college will have the larg,
est and best brass band Of any SINH
lar educational institution in the
Northwest. The Rev. Fl. D. Robinson,
warden, has announced that when the
institution opens Sept. 27 there would
be a band of from twenty to thirty
pieces Instruments have been or
dered and Prof. Burke of st. Louis
has been engaged as bandmaster.
Mrs. Michael Riplinger and Mrs.
Neundorf, two of ManitoWocs Oldest
pioneers, aged respectively SO and SO,
held a Joint celebration in honor of
their natal day, which falls on the
same day, and fifty friends, mostly
pioneer residents, ranging past so
years of age, attended. The two la.
dies came here in early days. and
have been continuous residents.
Edward Webster, son of Contractor
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