The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-05-12
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Wisconsin
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the State.

fire.
The Marinette county board of SUI
pefVlsors has appropriated $500 for
the San Francisco sufferers.
Lightning struck a large barn be-
longing to William Tans of Prospect.
me loss will aggregate $4,000.
Max r. Weinand, a brakeman on the
wisconsin Central road, was killed at
kolze while coupling cars He resided
at North Fond du Lac.
Oscar Hegg, a resident of the town
or Garfield, died as a result of being
thrown from a wagon while on his
way home from Fairchild.
After recent party held in o1e of
the GAINESVILLE halls, two-thirds of the
guests became affected with a throat
trouble similar to la grippe.
The sum of $14055 was raised among
the old veterans and their officers at
the veterans home at Waupaca, and
forwarded to the San Francisco suf-
ferers.
What will virtually amount to
drainage canal, thirty feet wide and
several feet deep, will be built across
seven miles of Marinette county terri
tory this year.
While carrying lumber from the saws
at the saw mill at Waupaca, Clint
Willie, lumber foreman, was knocked
down and run over by the log car
Tio h c 1oor hoi7 inc al
the ankle.
Annie, the seven-year-old daughter
Of Frank Shrek of COlburn, was
burned to death in the woods near her
home. 1t is supposed her clothing
caught fire while she was standing be-
side a bonfire.
The oratorical and declamatory cen
tests held at Osceola We're largely at
tended by persons from st. Croix Falls
and Amerz. Miss Alma Olson of Os-
ceola and Sherman Ferris of st. Croix
Falls won first honors.
Thomas Murphy, claiming Milwau-
kee as his home, was driven from Ra-
cine by police authorities. Murphy
erawled in front of passenger train,
and the train was brought to stop
just before hitting him.
The Valley club Of Eau Claire will
invest $4,000 in a site and building,
and has elected the following officers:
President. John S. Owen; vice presi-
dent, C. D. Moon; treasurer, B. A.
Burlington; secretary, c. w. Churchill.
At the Watertown school board
meeting J. W. Moore was reelected
president. His term of service on the
board comprises twenty years w. H.
Roseman. formerly of Reedsburg, was
reelected superintendent of the school
at a salary Of $1,000 per year.
The decision of Circuit Judge Parish
in the habeas corpus proceedings in
the case of the indicted Ashland bank
officials. President J. S. Ellis and Cash
Ter Ellis Kennedy, of the Lao Security
Savings bank, was in favor OF the
state.
George Nelson is under arrest at
Black River Falls, following the YER
dict of the coroner's jury in the case
Of Oscar Heggs, to the effect that
Heggs came to his death at the hands
of Nelson. Heggs died OF broken
neck.
S. J. Shannon A. G. Wells and 10
seph Euhl of Askeaton have filed ar
ticles with the secretary of state in
cooperating the Askeaton Cheese and
Butter company with a capital of ST.
600. to manufacture high grade chee-e
and butter.
William Anderson, a barber from
Beloit Wis. is closely guarded IN jail
at GAINESVILLE, having been brought
from Beloit because Of fear of moo
violence. He is charged with a ssri-
Gus offense against his twe}ve-year~
old stepdaughter.
The Great Northern railroad is IN
Producing an innovation in the ore
business by the immediate install alton
of seventeen engines, the style OF ma
chine known as next to mountain
type" on the ore runs from the Mesaba
range to the ore docks.
Two chapters of national fraternltles
are expected to be born at the UNI
yersity Of Wisconsin within short
time. Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha
Tau Omega. Rho Delta Phi, local
chapter, is understood to be the petit
toner for Delta Kappa Epsilon.
The body of man was picked up
in the Superior bay recently without
clothing and the skull was crushed so
badly that Identification is Impossible
It is thought that the remains are
those of one of the Matafa sailors
nine of whom were drowned at the en-
trance to the bay last winter.
Five hundred Odd Fellows of West
ern Wisconsin met at La Crosse Thurs
day night to celebrate the eighty-seV-
enth anniversary of the founding OF
the order. officers elected were
President, A. F. Brandt, Sparta; secre-
tary, Capt. Jackson Silbaugh, Vlro-
qua: treasurer, Mrs T. G. LongwelI,
Sparta; marshal, Otley Starch, La
Crosse; chaplain, the Rev. jenkins,
Bangor.
Efforts are being made to secure