Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-20
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

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It is proposed to construct boys
dormitory at Lawrence university.
James L. Linderman, member of
the assembly in 1887, is dead at Osseo.
The Platteville Commercial club has
been organized with nearly 200 bust
ness men.
The Rhinelander council has pur-
chased a site and will erect an upkto-
date city hall.
The White River Power company is
constructing dam on the White Riv-
er near Ashland.
Abraham Teller of Oostburg lost
three fingers, his hand being drawn
into cement mixer.
Carl Jenson, a farmer who lived
seven miles north of Viroqua, was
crushed to death under load Of lum-
Der.
The city of Monroe has purchased
the local water works plant. The city
paid SS5 900, and will take charge jan
uary 1.
A jury in the case of Isabel Wilson
against the Chippewa Valley Electric
Railroad companw at Barron found
verdict for the plaintiff for $4,000.
Fire did $4,000 damage to the cloth
ing and gents furnishing stock of Ry-
der & Van Bree in the Dickson block
at Racine, and the building was dam
aged $4,000.
Reports that Green Bay is to be
the division headquarters of the Wis
consin division of the Northwestern
road are denied appointment officials
at GAINESVILLE.
An unknown man, supposed to be
resident of Chicago, was struck by
south-bound train on the Chicago &
Milwaukee Electric railway just south
of Kenosha. He died two hours later
at the Kenosha hospital
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Claudius M. Hopkins of Fennimore,
Wis, was elected president of the 5u-
nior class of the university over Ed
gar F. Robinson of Oconomowoc. Wal
ter A. Rehm of Chicago is chairman
of the prom committee.
Passengers of the Kenosha Electric
Railway company had narrow es-
cape from death when switch train
crashed into a car at the Elizabeth
steret crossing. The car was demol-
ished, but the passengers saved them
selves by jumping. !
While John Bailey Of Lyons was
crossing the Northwestern track he
was struck by passenger train. The
wagon was demolished and Bailey
was thrown fifty feet, sustaining a
| fractured hip and internal INJURIES
from which he will die.
Wellington Loucks, national organ.
izer of the National Good Roads as
ISOLATION, has arrived in GAINESVILLE to
begin his work of organizing the en-
tire state, county by county, in the in
terest of good roads. Rock county is
the first to be organized.
Richard Pie, a laborer, was buried
alive at Racine. He was digging in
trench for gas mains, when the
earth caved in and he went out OF
sight. Fellow workmen dug twenty
minutes and got him out alive, but
both legs are paralyZed and his body
crushed.
Mrs. Mary Harriet Forester, wife
of E. L. Forester, Kenosha con-
tractor, who disappeared from Ken
osha on the night of Sept. 8, has been
found in Cleveland, Ohio, where she
was working as a seamstress in
cheap hotel. The woman declined
to make any statements as to her rea-
sons for leaving her home in Kenosha.
Myrtle Harp, aged ten years, was
burned to death at Chippewa Falls
while her mother was bringing home
the cow, leaving the girl to attend
to the breakfast. The girls cotton
dress caught fire and resulted in her
death. When the mother returned
she found her daughter enveloped in
flames. and before the fire was extin-
guished the girl was dead.
The students at st. Johns Military
academy at Delafield will no longer be
able to give an excuse for being late
to class that they did not know what
time it was. A representative or
bell company is installing a set OF
Warren chimes in the tower OF the
new De Koven hall. The bells are al
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