The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-04-14
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Wisconsin
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All Parts of
the State.

board of education of Waupaca toI
eliminate dancing from the public
schools.
Albert Kilmer of Maple Grove, TWEEN
ty-five years old, is dead. He was
struck on the head by a falling limb
week ago. He was son OF George
Kilmer, an old resident.
Application will be made to Gov
Davidson for the pardon of Alfred
Hunt, sentenced from Racine in July,
1905, to Waupun for term of two
years on a charge of burglary.
Nicoli Smith, aged fifty-five, pros.
porous farmer of Osceola, was thrown
from a wagon loaded with milk. The
wagon passed over his body inficting
internal injuries from which he died.
w. A. Brown of the Smith, Thorn
dixie & Brown company Of milwaukee,
has offered sixteen lots at Marinette
free for the Marinette county training
and industrial school on condition it
is named after his father, the late A,
C. Brown.
Mrs. A. S. Hawley Of BarabOo was
thrown from a buggy in runaway
and seriously hurt. Bones were brok'
en- and she received other serious in
iuries Mrs. Hawley was formerly
Victoria Peck, and the first white child
bon n in Madison.
Frank Ryan, a woOdsman, was shot.
probably fatally, in fight at Superior.
following the election, which closed
the hottest campaign in the history OF
Superior. The shooting is charged to
John Costello, an Italian. He has not
been al pretended
:
Harold NJ Ashton died at the home
of his parents, DR.. and Mrs. G. W. Ash.
ton at Osceola, of consumption, aged
about thirty years. He had been in
poor health for about three years, and
on March "a had returned from Colo
RADIO springs, Colo, where he had gone
to regain his health.
Insane on the subject Of religion
Casper Field of Sand Creek, near Chip
pewa Falls, secured a piece of wire
and and a tin can which he made an
effort to attach to telephone line in
order, as he said, to get into communl
cation with heaven. He was placed
ination as to his sanity.
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President David Starr Jordan OF the
Leland Stanford university severely
denounced war in his address before
the students and faculty of the Uni
veTsity of Wisconsin. He declared
that war resulted in degeneration of
races, sapping the best blood of the
nation and bringing races of warfare
down from first rate to second rate.
THE Blood of the Nation" was his
subject
Work of raising and leveling the
tracks of the Milwaukee Electric Rail
way and Light company between Ra-
cine and Kenosha was practically sus-
pended on account of labor troubles.
Forty imported Italians were employ
ed. One of their number refused to
leave a car and work The foreman
discharged him, and thirty-seven OF
the men refused to longer work unless
the discharged man was reinstated.
The rear trucks of a Milwaukee, Ra-
cine and Kenosha interurban electric
car, carrying forty passengers, left the
track while rounding sharp curve
four miles south of Racine and the
car crashed into a telegraph pole. The
landing in the ditch. Conductor Maier
was severely injured and several pas
sengers received cuts and bruises, but
fortunately none was seriously hurt.
The organization is announced at
Fond du Lac of the Wisconsin Immi-
grafton and Development association,
the object of which is to secure the
introduction into the state Of desirable
immigrants and the taking up Of the
thousands OF acres of cutOver and 9TH
er vacant lands in the northern part OF
the state. Edgar r. WheelOck, Mil
waukee newspaper man, has been
chosen secretary of the association
and is about to inaugurate vigorous
campaign.
BY unanimous vote the WATERFOWL
city council has granted fifty-year
franchise for an electric interurban
line to the Wisconsin Light Heat and
traction company The proposed line
is to pass through from Milwaukee to
Madison, and will enter the town from
the south Watertown is to be juno
ton point on two trolley lines. The
mayor at once signed the ordinance
granting the franchise, which met with
approval from the business interests.
Stephen n Campbell, vice president
of the Van Brunt Manufacturing com
pany since 1879, died at Horizon OF