The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-04-21
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.


Racine $500 per year and aldermen
5000 was passed after a call of the
house.
The three-year-old child of John E.
Johnson was instantly killed at Mari
nette by falling under the wheels of
wagon.
Eighty saloonkeepers of Madison are
negotiating among themselves to es-
tablish Sunday closing, with fines for
violations.
According to the rules of the Carne-
gle foundation to pension professors,
Prof E. Fl. Merrill and G. III. Chandler
of Ripon college are eligible. Their
names have been proposed.
Fred Marden, Robert Westover, Ar
thur Schneider and John Glassnian,
caught with pickerel in their posses
sion, pleaded guilty at Beaver Dam,
and were each fined $40 and costs.
Justice Blanchard Of the New York
supreme court, graduate of Ripon
II, has presented the college with
fine portrait of former President Mer-
Ram.
An attempt is to be made to collect
from the Milwaukee street railway
company SO year since 1893 for each
car operated at Racine, according to
the terms of their franchise
E. J. Schneider disposed of his gen
eral merchandise business in Amery
to the Polk County Cooperative COM
pany, which owns large stores at Joel,
Range, Lykens and Centuria, this
county.
John N. Davis, a student at Chicago
university, was elected superintendent
of the Stevens Point city schools at
$1,000 a year Davis was once super
intendent of schools at Sturgis and
Wabasha, Mimi.
The new Racine city directory for
the year 1906 contains $3.50 names,
against 15,495 in the one issued in 1904,
and basing the usual per cent on these
names Racine is given an estimated
population Of $4,000.
Sands M Hart, president of the Ra-
cine Wooden Mill company, was ar
rested charged with permitting Jo-
seph Sietz, under 16 years old, to work
in the factory over ten hours a day. He
was fined $40 and costs.
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After a trial at Eau Claire lasting
over two weeks, the jury returned
verdict of not guilty in the case of
the State VS. Elizabeth Pauly, widow
and old resident who was charged with
setting fire to a building.
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Business men of Madison are con-
sidering the holding of a semi-centen-
NAL celebration in honor of the f1ftieth
anniversary of the incorporation of
the capital city. Madison was incor-
porated as city on March 7, 1856.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of William H. Armstrong,
city clerk of Racine and colonel of the
First regiment of the uniform rank,
knights of Pythias of Wisconsin, to
Miss Daysie Belle Schwartz of Mime
apolis, On April %.
The Northwestern Farmers Hail and
Cyclone Insurance company of Water
loo, Wis, has commenced suit against
twenty-eight farmers in Fond du Lac
county for the collection of assess
ments alleged to be due in payment
for hail and cyclone insurance.
Chris SchmitZ, proprietor of the Ea-
gle hotel at La Crosse, was arrested for
threatening to kill his wife. Schmitz
is said to have written his wife let
ter in which he threatened to repeat
the Wheaton tragedy at Caledonia, in
which a disappointed lover in January
last shot three women and himself.
Schmitz is thought to be insane.
After having been found guilty at
GAINESVILLE of assault and battery and
fined $40 and costs and appealing the
case and then settling it for $500 cash
to the plaintiff and costs, Charles Shir-
meal has sworn out a warrant for the
plaintiff in the suit. M. F. Allen, an
old soldier, on the charge Of using foul
and abusive language at the time the
assault was committed.
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In a suit brought against Drs. Wood
and Palmer of GAINESVILLE and the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad by
Johanna Murphy, to recover $4,000
damages for injuries to her feelings
through an autopsy performed without
her consent upon her brother, Switch
man Ed Frederick, at the time of his
death by accident, the jury found for
the defendants and the suit was dis
missed.