The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-10

At the annual meeting of the com
mittee of the Walworth County Agri-
cultural society the date of the next
fair was fixed for Sept. Is to Fl.
Judge Stevens of Madison has con-
sented to try the case of O. B. Schulz
against the Trades and Labor council
of Racine and 100 union men for $685.
010 damages.
Mr.. and Mrs. John P Kneippenberg,
who were married in Milwaukee Jan.
81, 1856, where they made their home
up to 1862, celebrated their golden
wedding at GAINESVILLE.
AS a result of the law and order
meetings at Beloit recently, a commit
tee of 100 has been formed with N J.
Ross, president, and will take hand
in the spring elections.
A coroners jury decided that the
death of William Guillfoyle Of Pesh-
tigo, who was killed by chunk of ice
while excavating for new paper mill,
was accidental and due to his own
care1essness.
The marriage of James A. Baldwin
and Mildred Scotland, Well known Be.
lott people, which occurred Sept. IS,
has been kept a secret until Tuesday,
when the young people were found
setting up housekeeping.
The work Of the agents of the A.
G. Wright company preparing the new
city directory of Kenosha, shows a
population of more than 10000 for the
city This will be a growth Of nearly
5000 since the state census was taken
last year
The contract for the new iron
bridge over the Peshtigo river has
been let to the Wisconsin Bridge and
Iron company of Milwaukee for $3.50.
There were many bidders, but the
Milwaukee company was the only one
guaranteeing to have the bridge com.
pleted within six months.
Examinations at the state university
start on Monday, and this means
something of cessation Of work at
the gymnasium, so that it is but
matter of a week or so before the &C.
tual preparations for the Junior prom
are taken up. The drawing for boxes
will take place on Monday.
Ten years ago Mrs. j. Haven was
united in marriage at Milwaukee, }ut
was deserted in Racine. Two weeks
band He had reformed and she and
the children joined him. The recon.
was happy, but Of short dura-
ton, for on Monday Haven dropped
dead.
The long list of suits instituted by
the late Henry Wiesmann of the town
of Brighton, who was found dead in
Racine a week ago, will be discontin
ued These suits, some thirty in num-
Der, were against farmers in Racine
and Kenosha county and grew out OF
claims alleged to have been held by
the deceased lawyer before he was adj
judged insane years ago.
Andrew Hanson, pyromaniac, ar
rested at Racine two years ago on a
charge of setting fire to several barns,
and later captured on similar charge
at Chicago and sent to the Chester,
H.. prison insane asylum, has been
taken to a Chicago hospital where he
will undergo an operation with view
to curing him fhis alleged mania for
firing buildings, an operation on the
brain
Frank Bookseller, formerly we'll
known man of Kenosha, was SEN
.enced to spend a year in the house OF
correction at Chicago by United
States Judge Lands Of Chicago. While |
Bookseller was working in Kenosha he
became engaged to a girl of that city. |
After he left the city he decided to
break the engagement and it is claim
I'd that the letter sent to the young |
was the most fragrant viola
ion of the postal laws ever discovered |
n the district.
:
Had it not been for the persistent |
knocking of a newsboy who hoped to |
;ell morning paper, August Potter,
lis wife and two children probably |
would have met death by asphiXiation
It Appleton. The knocking awakened
Irs. Potter, but she was too weak to
,et up. She called feebly to her hus-
,and, but he, too, had been overcome.
Tinally she managed to arouse an
ight-year-old daughter and the family
vas saved.
A misplaced switch in the Milwau-
zee read yards at Portage resulted in
collision between two freight trains
nd the probably fatal injury of En-
,ineer Richard Hurley of La Crosse.
freight No. 72, standing on a side
rack, was struck by the engine Of
astbound No. 68, the fast freight.
he caboose of the waiting train was
emolished and the fire department
vas summoned to put out the fire that