Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-12-20
State News.

The most extensive and successful
mining operator in the Galena and
| Southern Wisconsin, lead region is q
woman-Mrs Kate H. Richmond, OF
Shultsburg-whoi is at the head of the
Wisconsin Lead and Zinc company, an
organization having a paid-up capital
of $500, 900. The business of the com
psny is personally supervised BY Mrs.
Richmond. whose good Judgment and
shrewdness in mining transactions is
proverbial. AT her suggestion the Wis
consin company mas purchased six val
liable tracts of mining and in Lafayette
county, Wis, and near Galena. Ill.
aggregating 200 acres. which are to be
developed at once. This viii add a
great impetus to the lead and zinc
industry.
A library association with twenty -one
chapter members was organized at
Tomahawk.
The Rev. s. +. Sweet has resigned
the pastorate of the Baptist church at
Baraboo.
Curtis Wray has sold the Markesau
Herald to lis former owner, Geo. H..
Larke, and gone to Missouri.
George Cans, of The Tomahawk
Land company, drove the first spike on
the Tomahawk & Great Western rail-
way. last Friday.
Twenty-six marble slabs, neatly
lettered have arrived in Racine. having
been sent by the United States govern
ment to be placed over the graves Of
soldiers buried in Mound cemetery.
Bradley station, on the Sault Ste
Marie railway, is to be abandoned and
depot erected at Heafiord junction,
five miles north OF Tomshawk. The
officisls Of this line give it out authora-
lively that their line will be built from
Heatford Junction to Tomahawk on
through the coming spring.
A large barn on the farm 76f Widow
Boone, in Alto, Fond du Lac county. was
destroyed by fire together with five
horses.
Harvey Bennett. an old Confederate
captain, having forwarded 10 Col.
Bowen, of Ashland, watch that he lost
during the siege at Vicksburg, the col
onel has sent him handsom3 watch in
return.
In collision on the St. Paul road
near Wabasha,r MINI, between Il pas
senger train and freight train, n brakes-
man on the freight was killed and TIE
conductor of the passenger train fatally
injured.
A fire in the Chicago Opera House
NQf1sad q m ora nf 2on 0l0
A naval officer and five mea were
killed by the explosion of a gun on
French iron-clad during target prac-
tee.
The Hotel Hopkins and adjacent
property were destroyed by fire at
Morris, Ill.
Ten thousand dollars have been Pied
ged by people at Johustown. eight miles
from GAINESVILLE, TO secure an extension
of the Northwestern road, from Lake
Geneva through the center OF towi :
ship. The completion OF the road will
give the Northwestern another line from
Green Bay to Chicago.
-Four men we're K lleJby the wing way
OF the scaffold used in erecting the stand
pipe for water company at Stevens Point.
The State Grand Temple If Honor
will meet at WATERFOWL on the II inst,
Wolves IN the town of Aztalsn killed
thirty sheep in the flock Of j. Tyler
Last week. John Cracrly, If Fox
Lake, trolled in 1,762 pounds Of pckeral.
which he sold at r Lrotit of $50. or at
the rate of AZ cents per pound.
A passenger train on the Milwaukee
& Northern road collidcd with caboose
at Chiffon, but no one was hurt. though
both engine and csboose were greatly
damaged
At the Episcopalian Council in Mil.
waukee, DR.. Cyrus +. Knight, Of Ian.
cnster, Pa, was elected Bishop of Mil
waukee on the eleventh ballot.