Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-07

A marriage license was issued at st.
Louis to James Boss Finch and Susan
Coggens Landers, both of Superior,
Wis.
Mrs. Mary Taylor Watkins New
banks, mother of Mrs. w. K. Smith,
died at Oconto, aged seventy-seven
years. She had resided in Oconto
since 1869
The annual graduation of the schools
OF Kenosha county was held at Pad
docks Lake on Tuesday. Seventy live
students received diplomas. The an
nual address was made by Judge E. B..
Belden.
Beloit business men are urging the
Wisconsin senators to endeavor to put
a rider on the postofice appropriation
bill, which will secure an appropria-
ton to purchase site for a postoffice
building for Beloit.
In broad daylight thieves entered
the home of Mrs. J. Nelson, Racine,
carried a large trunk through the
front door to the railroad tracks, and
there the contents were scattered
around in the dirt.
The number of applications made
by Racine parents to permit children
to work in factories or offices during
the summer vacation Of schools is
larger than ever known before in the
history of the city.
The state convention of the Nation
al Fraternal league will be held in
Fond du Lac on Wednesday and
Thursday, Aug. s and 8. Zeno M.
Host, state insurance commissioner,
will be present on the first day of the
convention.
Three tramps, said to have entered
Ilaun Bros store at Wausaukee, were
arrested by Constable Christ OF Mari
nette. and will also be held ON a
charge of arson. They are suspected
of setting fire to the lumber yards OF
the Bird & Wells company.
Warrants were issued at La Crosse
for the arrest of F. Kaiser and i New
burg, two farmers charged with adul-
terating the milk delivered to the Mid
die Ridge cheese factory. P. A. An
derson. deputy state dairy and food
inspector, made the complaint.
Despondent through sickness and
rendered desperate by the acute pain
he suffered, Patrick Ryan, nineteen
years DID, shot and killed himself at
Marquette, Mich. He used a shotgun,
the discharge from which tore gap
ing wound in his chest, and caused al
most instant death.
Eugene Hickey, aged fifty-fiye years,
a La Crosse laborer. committed sui
eide by hanging himself at his home
with halter strap. The body was
not found until it had been hanging
ten or twelve hours. Grief over the
loss of his wife, who died in Novem-
Der last. was the cause of the tragedy.
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Chief of Police Owen O'Hare Of
Kenosha has received conscience
money" to the amount Of $3.50. 1t
came through the mail in plain en-
ve1ope, and there was no letter IN
connection. The chief discovered that
SITS had been stolen from Philip
Trieisti and he identified the money.
The officers of the Old Settlers as
ISOLATION of the ST. Croix valley FOR
the ensuing year are: Charles Dona-
hue, New Richmond, president; 5. q.
Bowron of Roberts, G. w. Chinook OF
River Falls, John c. Foley OF ELS
worth and Joseph Vassan of Amery,
vice presidents; John A. Chinook OF
Hudson, secretary; Grin Lord OF ELS
worth, treasurer.
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The Badger Invalid Bed company,
with a paid in capital Of $4,000, and
composed of Milwaukee and local men,
will begin the manufacture of invalid
beds in Green Bay about July Is, hav-
ing leased local site. The new COM
pany will also work in conjunction
with the recently incorporated Green
Bay Manufacturing company, which
puts out a patent reading chair.
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After tossing about ON the lake for
more than ten hours the yacht Chisel
of Highland park, having on board SIX
men and woman. was picked up by
the Kenosha 1ife-saving crew two
miles south of Kenosha Sunday even
ing. The members of the party in
cluded Mrs. L. O. Van Ripper, Gordon
Van Ripper, James Van Ripper, A. 4.
Williams, J. B. Taylor, r. J. Lee and
Henry Sampson.
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Owners of automobiles in Fond du
Lac claim that farmers along the road
tn Calumet Harbor are showing a hos
tile spirit, and that they have placed
roads in such condition as to make
them practically impossible for autos
They have plowed up the ground
along the sides of the roads and
placed the dirt in the center The au-