Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-08
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reserve agent for the First National
bank of Alma.
Charles Grath has been sentenced to
two years at Waupun by Judge Fow~
Ter at Portage. He stole Casper Traps
horse at Columbus.
J. J. Fitzpatrick of Fond du Lac,
brakeman on the Northwestern road,
was killed at Princeton. He leaves a
wife and two children.
Ten Italians employed at the city
quarry at Madison are on strike be-
cause they believe their foreman
worked them too hard.
The Ringing Brothers, who now hold
a controlling interest in the Fore
paugh-Sells circus, are negotiating for
winter quarters for the show at Madi-
son.
The River Falls normal schoc'
opened with the largest attendance
ever known on first day. There is
insufficient room for the number en-
rolled.
Arthur j. Clark, former instructor in
the GAINESVILLE high school, has gone
to the Michigan agricultural college
to take up work in the chemistry de-
partment.
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Janesville's school census, just com
pleted, shows a falling off of thirty
seven names in the last year. The to-
tai number of school children in the
city is 4,003.
Nineteen cars of freight train on
the Milwaukee road were ditched and
smashed at Porters station, near Be-
lott. The accident was due to the
spreading of the rails.
A twenty-pound muskellonge, the
first to be caught in the lake at Mani
towoc, and SO far as known at any
other point On Lake Michigan, was
Manitowoc fisherman.
Elmer G. House Of Delton Wis, was
| found dead in his room at Madison,
| where he went recently for medical
| treatment for heart trouble. He was
thirty years old, and leaves a widow
and young child at Delton
No action has been taken in regard
| to the examination into the mental
condition of Eugene Huck, who had a
personal combat with Mayor German
of Kenosha, and it is possible that
the man will not be sent to a hospital.
!:
Gov. Davidson has issued requisition
papers for the return to Wisconsin OF
Mary Karpowich, the Kenosha woman
who is now in jail in New York. She
| will be brought back to Kenosha to
stand trial on a charge of grand lar
| ceny.
julius Streck was killed at Wausau
when catching a ride on a road roller.
In some manner the engineer lost con-
| troll of the machinery and the roller
| backed into a telegraph pole. Mr..
| Streck was caught between the roller
and the pole.
A way freight train on the south
western division of the Milwaukee
road was wrecked at Clinton Junction,
| the locomotive and sixteen cars going
| into a ditch. The fireman and engi-
neer escaped death by jumping. Prop
erty loss will not fall short of SIS, 900.
Mrs. Lowery, aged seventy-two years,
attempted to Jump from moving
| buggy while driving near GAINESVILLE
and was thrown down, her dress catch
| ing on the step of the vehicle, and
was dragged for several blocks. Her
shoulder blade was fractured and one
ear was nearly torn off.
George Curt, forty-five years old,
| residing DIT OJO SllnCOu SIlCCC, Mill
waukee, walked or fell off the 1880
south bound passenger train on the
Northwestern railway at Racine. His
nose was broken, and he sustained in
| ternal injuries. He was taken to a
hospital, and is not expected to live.
| The Stockbridge Indians were paid
| the second payment at Keshena.
| Those who were not paid at the first
payment received $179.33 and the
others $500 less. About 100000 was
paid out on Monday and Tuesday. The
greater share of this amount will be
spent with the merchants of Shawano.
Carp fishing at Lake Koshkonong
has been stopped for the present, ow-
! ing to the fact that the fishermen were
offered large inducements to go to
| Oconomowoc lakes and rid them of the
pest 1t is estimated that fully 1907
| 900 pounds of carp have been taken
from the lake during the last nine
months.
| After many years Of struggling, Mrs.