The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-05-26
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CSCu ulU1oCIl.
Ernest Klinkert, wealthy Racine
brewer, and his wife, were thrown
from buggy near their home.
George Nelson, charged with caus-
ing the death of Oscar Hegg. was
bound over at Black River Falls.
The Democratic state convention
for the adoption of platform of prin-
ciples will be held in Milwaukee June
27 and 49,
Arthur Smothers, aged seventeen or
eighteen years, was instantly killed by
lightning at the DR.. Charron farm east
of Rice Lake.
w j. Diehl was bound over to the
United States district court at La
Crosse on the charge of using the
mails to defraud.
Though Col D. Frank Powell
white Beaver), was buried in Los
Angeles, monument will be erected
for him in La Crosse.
Switchman George White fell under
the wheels Of his engine in the Omaha
yards at Ashland, losing both legs.
His injuries are fatal.
The dates for the Lake Shetek
Chautauqua have been set for July 3
to IS, inclusive. An interesting pro-
gram has been arranged.
The civil service commission has
made a decision that state employees
+A in of
under the new primary election law.
Burglars BILE wopen the safe in G.
J. Johnson's store at Paskin Lake,
twelve miles southeast of Cumber-
land, End secured 81 600 and escaped.
While playing with small rifle, the
twelve-year-old son Of Joseph Marchu-
ii of Galesville shot his little sister
through the bowels She cannot re-
cover.
The railroad crew on the short line
of the Omaha railroad leading from
Menomonie to Menomonie Junction
has struck for Is per cent raise in
wages.
The fifteen-year-o1d son of Andrew
Hanson of Woodville is either lost or
has been kidnapped. He disappeared
a week ago and searching parties can
find no trace Of him.
On receipt of Geographic orders
work will begin at once on doubling
the capacity of Clarkson coal dock at
Ashland. The Refs coal dock extern
sion ic already eOmn1ptod
Mr.. Philip Wirth, jagged eighty-three,
one Of Brown county's oldest settlers,
and a veteran of the Civil war, died
from the effects of Brights disease.
He was a native of Bavaria, Germany.
R. E. Fuller, who worked, when a
boy. for Daniel Webster, is dead Of
heart failure at Madison. He was
eighty years of age and a pioneer OF
Buffalo county, where he ha sresided
for fifty years.
The supreme court heard arguments
on the validity of the inheritance tax
law, the cases being against the estate
Of the late Capt. Frederick Pabst and
R. Nunnemacher of Milwaukee. Some
100000 has been collected under the
law.
The strike of the union carpenters
at Watertown is assuming serious
proportions. Unless settled soon it
may involve all the building trades Of
the city. The union has allowed It's
men to take jobs independent of the
bosses.
Ed Freeman, foreman of the Van
Brunt factories at Horizon, was way
laid and robbed while on the way TO
nav off the men. He had several hun
dred dollars in his pocket. No weap-
ons, only fists, were used. He also
lost a gold watch.
While Mrs. Adam Weiss and her
three-year-old son were in the WOODS
near Hartford she heard the little EEL
low scream She turned to where she
had left him picking flowers and saw
a large skunk had attacked the boy
and was biting him in the arms and
legs.
Suspended from a rafter in a ma
chinery shed, the lifeless body or Mrs.
Peter Ofsdahl, aged seventy years,
was found last week. The woman and
two children lived on a farm near
Galesville. While the children were
absent the mother made way with her.
self.
After a chase in which fifty men and
boys took part, at Green Bay, bur-
glar giving his name as Henry Ryan,
was captured, being found under
butcher shop about two miles away.
RYAN robbie dthe grocery store of 9.
P. Miller. He received a sentence or
one year in the reformatory.
While testing the submarine cable
preparatory to the cut-over, Manager
Parmenter Of the Western Union Tel
egraph company at Green Bay discoV-
cred that it had been cut in two places
and the steel pipe entirely destroyed
by some passing steamer. The loss TO
the company will be several thousand
dollars. as the cable and casing alone
cost nearly $4,000.
The Menomonie Commercial CLUB
has started a movement to connect all
1ooo1 indennndant telephone systems