Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-26


lighting plant
The residence of Frank Ross OF
Kenosha was entered by burglars and
the thieves got away with 155 in
money.
Cashier John M Holley, Jr., of the
State Bank of La Crosse, was fined
SIG in the circuit court for employing
boy under the working age to ope-
rate the elevator.
After an all-day session the Barron
county board deadlock was broken
ton for the Barron county training
school for teachers.
Nels Hagen of Chippewa Falls,
brakeman on the Wisconsin Central
railway, may receive a medal as the
result Of saving the life of a child at
the risk of his own.
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William Anderson of Dunbar has
been declared insane as the result of
worrying over the prediction made by
fortune teller who two months ago
predicted that Anderson would die in
January.
The Mccartney National bank has
started a $4,000 suit against the De
pere Boiler and Iron Works of Depere
for the recovery OF that amount
claimed to be due on notes against a
recent bond issue.
Thomas Murphy, young man, gave
himself up to the police at Eau Claire
and pleaded not guilty to charge Of
stealing $40 from David Ferris, q
woodsman, while the latter was
asleep in depot waiting room.
A thief, evidently intimate with the
surroundings and aware of the exact
hiding place of the money entered the
humble home of William Baum at La
Crosse, while the family was away and
stole $500 which was secreted in an
old tool chest under a stairway.
The La Crosse county authorities
began an official investigation OF
charges laid before them to the effect
that girls under the age of consent,
which in Wisconsin is fourteen years,
are being sold to the highest bidders
in the Syrian colony at North La
Crosse.
The new pipe line from Racine to
KenOsha was completed last week
but gas cannot be furnished farmers
along the route, or citizens Of Keno
sha for at least two months. The
compressors necessary to force the
gas through the twelve miles of pipe
have not arrived.
The fisherman Bros Manufacturing
company has been incorporated for
the manufacture of gloves and wooden
shirts by Marinette capitalists, as the
first result of the recent movement to
secure new industries. The chamber
of commerce expects to have a num-
Der of factories secured by spring.
DR.. Clare S. Learned. formerly a
well known young man of the town OF
SOmers, KenOsha county, was found
dead in his Chicago Office. He had
been overcome by coal gas from an
open crate in the Office. He was to
have been married within a week to a
we'll known young woman Of Chicago.
Postmaster Charles E. Raught of
Kaukauna has just signed lease on
his part in behalf of the government
with George Mulholland, the owner on
the other part to lease the new build
ing, just completed, for a term of ten
years for new quarters for the South
Kaukauna postoffice, with privilege
of renewal.
A drainage canal 1880 feet long
and having an average width of seven
feet is to be built through the towns
of Mount Pleasant, Racine county,
and Somers, Kenosha county, at
cost of $4,000, to be paid for by the
two towns and the owners OF adjacent
and benefited farm property. The
drain will reclaim hundreds of acres OF
rich agricultural lands.
Fire Marshal Cape Of Racine has
made. report to the city council that
almost every opera house and amuse-
ment hall in the city is violating the
law with regard to fire protection. A
resolution was adopted to rescind all
action by the council in favor of buy
ing a Decarie garbage system, at a
cost of $13 500. The city attorney was
instructed to draft an ordinance pro-
viding for creating a pension for dis
abled firemen and policemen and car
ing for their families if they are killed. !
Another resolution was offered to |
stop the department from responding |
to alarms outside the city limits.