The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-01-13
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The Wisconsin Central railroad de-
pot at Glenwood was destroyed by fire.
The fire started in the freight room.
All the freight and records were de-
stroyed
George Paine was arrested at Apple
ton charged with stealing a $50 silk
American flag from the courthouse at
Ashland last May. He has been taken
to Amigo for trial.
Leslie Bennett, aged twenty, Of
Waukesha, was run over and killed by
a freight train at Weyerhaeuser while
trying to steal ride. He was fleeing
from officers who wanted him for op-
Grating blind pig.
Will w. Phillips of Ashland. while
skating on the lake at the Indian
school at Hayward, fell and broke his
left leg just above the ankle. Surgi-
cal aid was rendered and the young
man is recovering.
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An epidemic of smallpox exists on
the Oneida Indian reservation. Supt
Hart was at Green Bay making ar
rangements for crusade to stamp out
the disease. It is said that upward of
100 cases have been discovered
Frank Bosler of Kenosha is in jail
at Chicago, charged with violating the
postal laws by sending an obscene let
ter Bosler was engaged to Kenosha
girl. In breaking the engagement he
wrote the young woman a letter which
she Immediately turned over to the
police.
Unconscious, with his legs fright
fully burned, and lying in an over
turned cutter, Bert Harper, an Apple
ton cattle buyer, was discovered five
miles north of Kaukauna. The fire is
believed to have resulted from a light
ed pipe Both legs will have to be
amputated.
The mystery Of many recent thefts
from the Northwestern railway freight
house at Madison has been solved by
the arrest of Adolph Shafer, an en-
ploye, who confessed, duplicating sew
eral other young men. Shafer was
arrested at the postoffice while wait
ing to meet his sweetheart.
At the meeting of the members OF
Company G, at Hudson, the members
presented Capt W. Y. Burton with a
costly leather upholstered rocking
chair. The captain was greatly moved
by the action of the company and in
few words heartily thanked the mem
bers for their remembrance.
The Black River Falls city council
has awarded the contract to build
stone 1evee along the banks of the riv
er opposite the city, where several
blocks have been washed away. The
washout will then be filled with dirt
and be used for market place. The
work will be done by Julius Walters.
Burglars entered the depot at Ham
mond recently, blew open the safe and
took one book of American Express
limited checks and 80 cents. The safe
is total wreck. There was also con-
damage done 30 office furni-
ture. Entrance was gained through
back window There is no clue to the
perpetrators identity
The congregation of st. Vincent de
Paul's Catholic church of Oshkosh has
decided to divide and about 800 fami
lies will leave the congregation and
build a church and school of their
presided over by Bishop Fox of Green
Bay. The reason is that the congrega-
ton of st. Vincent's has outgrown it's
quarters The division is entirely
harmonious.
The missionary box Of the First
Congregational Sunday school at New
Richmond has been rifled of all it's
contents save a few pennies. No one
is prepared to state what it contained,
as it had not been opened for a year
1t was kept in the library closet. AS
practically nothing else had been dis
turbed, it is the opinion of the authori-
ties that the guilty person was famil-
lar with the surroundings.
1t was stated definitely at Superior
by an official of the Northwestern Coal
company that his company will at
once begin work on mammoth dock,
located in Superior, which, SO far as
capacity goes, will surpass any dock
of the kind on the great lakes and per-
haps any coal dock in the world. The
cost is to be 100000. Many work
men will be required hastily to erect
the dock, which it is intended shall
be completed when the next naviga
ton season opens.