The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-03-24
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William Moreland, aged twenty-five
years, deaf and dumb, was killed by a
train on the Burlington tracks near
Prairie du Chen.
Henry Brillman, proprietor of Ra-
cine pool room, has been held by
Court Commissioner A. G. Judd to the
municipal court for trial, charged
with melting perjury.
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A. G. Drum of the University Of Wis
consin was one of the speakers at the
founders day banquet of the Delta
province of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity at Lafayette, Ind.
The Milwaukee Electric Railway
and Light company is negotiating for
the purchase of a large tract Of land
in Racine upon which to erect power
houses. The consideration is said to
be $4,000.
Judge Fowler of Fond du Lac coun-
ty has agreed to try the case of 0. B.
Schultz against 100 labor union men
Of Racine for $4,000 damages, on the
claim Of Schultz that his business was
boycotted and damaged.
William D. Wright, brakeman, lost
his left leg at the ankle at Wausau.
He had not been working for several
days and was at Marshtield on bust
ness. The accident occurred near his
home while he was attempting to
Jump from the train at a crossing.
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Wausaukee real estate dealers have
closed a deal with a large colony of
Illinois farmers for big tract of land
within three miles of Wausaukee.
About twenty-five families will move
there early in the spring and more
may follow later in the year.
Mrs. Mary Fox, one Of the few wom-
en- clerks employed in roundhouses in
the United States, fell in a cinder pit
at GAINESVILLE and broke her leg. She
was discovered few minutes later by
an engineer about TO take his engine
out
The Chicago & Milwaukee Electric
Railway company will probably at the
next meeting of the council apply for
a franchise into Racine. 1t is the de-
sires of the promoters to enter the
city and then branch by way of HOr-
licksville to again connect with the
main line running through the county.
David Evans, a state factory inspec-
tor, has completed an inspection OF
the Racine and Kenosha factories. In
Racine there are 1866 men and wom-
en- employed, not including cigar fac
tories and laundries. The number of
girls is 1928, and of this number 26O
are between the ages of IA and 16
years.
Robert Aaeresdehl, aged thirty-siX,
an employe of the Brown-Corliss En-
CINE company near Racine, is in a hos
pital in a precarious condition. He
was caught in a drill and before the
machine was stopped one arm was
broken and his spine injured, so that
the body from the waist down is par
alyzed.
Fountain Park, which was given to
the city of Sheboygan in 1910, and
which is considered one Of the hand
soonest parks in the state, is being
dismantled of a fine grove OF giant
pine trees, which have made the park
famous as a beauty spot. Scores OF
the forest giants are dying and are
being cut down to be replaced by
shade trees.
William F. Laughey, a brakeman,
has started an action to recover $10,-
0OO from the Bird and Wells Lumber
company of Wausaukee for an injury
received last October while working
on the company's logging railroad.
The locomotive and several cars were
piled in a ditch alongside the track,
and in jumping from the train Laugh
eys right ankle was fractured.
M. Fl. McGovern, Chicago sewer
contractor, has made an application to
the circuit court for Kenosha county,
seeking the issuance of a writ Of man
damus to force the street assessment
committee of the city to consider bill
for S13,372.79 which he has filed with
the city as his demand for extras in
connection with the building Of sew
err system. The members Of the COM
mittee declare that the bill is exorbi-
tant.
Horace Tenney, prominent pioneer
LAWYER and editor of Wisconsin, died
at Madison, aged eighty-six years. He
had been a member of both houses of
the legislature, state treasurer, state
printer, army paymaster, university
regent and secretary of the railroad
under Gov. Taylor. He Sc
lected the site for the University OF
Wisconsin. For some years he had
been an editor on papers in Chicago
and st. Paul.