The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-01-27
BADGER BRIEFS.
Wisconsin News from All Parts
of the State.

The New London board of education
has asked the council for 1000 for a
new school building.
Fire destroyed the entire building,
stock and material of the CIintonville
Town Talk, owned by Frank H. Brady.
While milking his COWS r. E. Baily.
a dairyman of Bayfield,, dropped dead
in his barn. Death was caused by
heart disease.
George Yule has sent $500 to the
Kenosha Hospital association to assist
in providing for the running expenses
Of the institution.
John W. Wade of Minneapolis fell
from the main deck to the tank top
yards at Superior, and was instantly
killed.
Every saloon in New London was
Closed promptly at IL o'clock Satur-
day night and remained closed until
5 o'clock Monday morning by order
O., the city council.
Anton Spiegel, an employe Of the
Thomas B. Jeffery company at Ken
osha, is missing. He disappeared on
Christmas day, and has not been seen
or heard from since.
Martin H. Dayey. charged with en-
bezzlement by the Rawleigh Medical
company of Freeport, ILL.,, pleaded
guilty at La Crosse and was sentenced
to the county jail for six months.
While temporarily insane, Mrs. Al
exander Vierbecher of Shawano shot
herself in the right temple with 81
caliber revolver, dying almost instant
ly. She had been in poor health.
Gas for lighting and fuel purposes
will be supplied citizens Of Depere if
the city grants the franchise asked for
by Sinclair Mainland Of Green Bay,
the term of the grant to expire in 1915.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the First National bank Of
Kenosha it was decided to increase the
capital stock from $4,000 to 100000
None of it will be offered TO the pub
lie.
John Carlson, claiming Chicago as
his home, had both legs severed under
q Wisconsin Central passenger train
NEAR Chippewa Falls. Carlson claims
he was thrown off the train by brake
man.
John Carlson died in the hospital at
Chippewa Falls He had both legs
severed above the knee while stealing
a ride on a Wisconsin Central freight
train near Boyd. His relatives cannot
be located.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Wis.
consin Veneerjng company at Mani
towOc The loss is estimated at $780,
600: fully covered by insurance. Fire
man John Hall is dead from injuries
received when the building collapsed.
Eva, Lancaster, a woman tramp, was
sentenced 10 forty days in the county
jail at Marinette. She is about thirty
years old, ard has acquired regular
tramp habits. She was caught -four
ishing a revolver in a gang of tramps
camping in a barn near the round
house.
John Brickbauer, engineer at Elk
hart Lake electrical power house,
risked his life to keep the lights on
until a village festival was over, and
lost. Though fatally i'll, he stuck to-
his post rather than shut down and go
home When ne sought help 1t was
+Oo Lotto and no died
Circuit Judge Charles M. Wells has
made a written communication to the
Waupaca county board that the vaults
in the court house for the use of pub
lie records are inadequate and not
large enough to take proper care OF
such records, and that part of the rec
ords are laid loose on the floors in
the vault room.
Kenosha had a municipal cleaning
up recently, and slot machines seized
in a raid on west side saloons were
burned in a huge bonfire on Market
square Several hundred dollars
worth Of gambling equipment was
burned. The men who had been ar
r0SL0u DIS pfOpIl6lOIS Ol CHS SdLnUAAhS
dens were heavily fined.
Kit Gregg, driver Of the No. / hose
wagon of the Marinette fire depart
ment, was nearly drowned in Green
Bay while ice-boating with Assistant
Chief S. H. Duket and John Johnson. !
The boat ran into open water and
Gregg went under the ice while the
others chung to the boat. After long
efforts Gregg was found and revived.
Herman Neidner, thing contrac-
tor of Milwaukee, charged with brib-
cry by the last grand jury, pleaded
guilty to the Indictment in the muni !
cipal co lrt and was fined 5000 and
costs by Judge Frazee. Neidner was
indicted upon the testimony of Ed
ward F. Strauss, who confessed to
having received bride from Neidner
in connection with county contract |
Vital Counard, a town Of Green Bay |
farmer, who is deaf and dumb, has
been adjudged incurably insane. He /
is forty-six years old and unmarried !
Members of Governor Harvey Post !.
No. II, G. A. r., are out after the next
state encampment of the G. A. r. for
Racine. Resolutions were passed at