Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-09

! portion of Rock county will hold a
convention at Alton on Sunday, Feb.
| 10.
The losses in the burning Of the store
of Kaplan & Pier at Beloit are esti-
mated at $4,000, with insurance Of
| $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lapointe of Be-
lott celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary. They were married at
| Quebec, Canada.
Independent telephone men of Ra
cine, Walworth, Green, Lafayette and
| Rock counties will hold a convention
| at GAINESVILLE on Feb. 6.
| Mrs. M. G. Johnson, a colOred woman
of Superior, is dead as the result of
an overdose of poison, and her husband
was arrested. Murder is suspected.
| Prof. T. l.. Wright, head of the
Greek department of Beloit college, has
gone to visit Spain and Greece. This
will be the tenth trip he has made to
| Greece.
J. H. Littlejohn of Whitewater fell
| through an open shaft at the E. M.
Hubbell tobacco warehouse ut Edger-
| ton, fracturing a rib and sustaining
internal injuries
|
| The city of Racine is figuring on
the establishment of an institution in
which to take care of a portion of it's
old and needy people as the county
house is crowded most of the time.
| Hugh Filbert, a young man nineteen
| years of age was arrested and taken
from a passenger train in Eau Claire,
| after information had been received
from Hudson that he was wanted on a
| charge of horse stealing.
Aid. w w. Watt and Stewart B.
| Hoddles, a tobacco dealer, have an
| nounced their candidacy for mayor of
GAINESVILLE on the Republican ticket.
| DR.. Judd and F. H. Jackman are also
considering becoming candidates.
Lars Thompson aged eighty-two
| years, an inmate of the county poor
| farm at La Crosse committed suicide
| by cutting his throat with a razor. De-
| spondency due to his dependency upon
| public charity is supposed to have
| been the cause.
Jacob Gerbovitz, who fired four shots
| at his wife and then attempted to COM
| nit suicide is still alive and the physi
| clans in charge of the case believe
that he will recover. His wife called
on him at the hospital, but no recon
| Citation was effected.
Julia Heitkemper, seventy years old,
was granted a divorce in the municipal
| court at Racine from Frederick Heit
| kemper, aged seventy-four, on grounds
| of cruel and inhuman treatment. On
| a counter claim the defendant charged
| that his wife ilI-treated hkim.
I ldEul6I )
three runaways when it became I'M
manageable One, a single horse,
| dashed into a large plate glass win
dow in the business section, where it
met a horrible death, cutting its
throat Hundreds saw the CHASTITY
sight
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| Information has been received at Ra-
| cine from Italy that Michael Sasso
had died in that country Mike Sasso
was a resident of Ives for over twenty
| years, and was known as the king of
the italian settlement. By shrewd
| business deals he made a comfortable
fortune Several months ago he went
to Italy for visit, sickened and died.
| Gov. Davidson has reappointed AS
| semblyman Duncan McGregor Of
| Platteville as amember of the state
board of normal school regents. Prof
| McGregOr was for some years presi-
dent of the normal school at Platte
| Vile He is chairman of the assem-
| bly, committee on education, and was
a member Of the legislative joint COM
| mittee which investigated the state
| university last year.
The management of the Fox River
| Chautauqua association has completed
| the program for the Chautauqua to be
held in Appleton beginning next July
| and continuing until and including
| July IA. Among the leading speakers
to appear here are Senator ''Pitchfork"
| Human, Gov Cummins of Iowa, Gov
| Buchtel of Colorado, Judge Lindsey of
| the Juvenile court Of Denver, Colo,
and Eugene V. Debs.
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Trustees of the Aid Association for
Lutherans in Wisconsin and other
states met at Appleton in regular quar-
terly session for the purpose of ex-
aiming the books of the association.
The reports of the secretary and treas
urer show that this association now
1 49, rs i,