Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-12-13
State News.


purchased the water-power at the
| Cedars, near Little Chute, paying
$40 per horsepower.
Henry I. Davidson, who. IN the early
days of Wisconsin, kept log tavern on
the present site of Plymouth, died at
Glenbeulah, aged 81.
The new Odd Fellows hall at Apple
ton will be dedicated on the evening of
New Years day. A supper and social
hop will follow the exercises.
Three hundred dollars worth Of Mil
waukee merchandise on route TO Mar
quette was stolen from a Chicago g.
Northwestern train at some point be
tween Oshkosh and Fond du Lac
DR.. T. Peardon, of Palmyra, has a
Ratchet that is said to have belonged to
Miles Standish, of Colonial days. 1t is
of metal, is marked IN Standish, and
was brought from New England by an
early settler on Heart Prairie.
While Thomas Patterson, farmer
boy of the town of Norway, was haul
ing rock, the stones rolled frem the
wagon and covered him so that he was
unable TO stir. When discovered four
hours later, he was so chilled that he
could scarcely move. He may pot re-
cover.
While skating ON the mill pond.
Amund Peterson Droger, clerk at
Glover & Thompson's store, at New
Richmond. fell through the leo aud was
drowned.
Last weeks lumber shipments from
Marinette aggregate $3.50, 900 feet.
A fire near Forestville destroyed Cas-
per Browns house and farm buildings.
Loss 81, POO; insurance $500.
The Monroe Daily Gazette no longer
exists, the Office of The Thorp Leader
mas been closed and the material shipped
to Stevens Point, and The Black River
Falls Independent has been suspended.
In Douglas county, for the first time
in ITS history. tho entire set Of county
otficers-elect are Republicans. For
thir;y-two years the Office of register of
deeds in that county has been held by
d. George Morrison; but he went down
under the late tidal wave.
| A verdict OF 1925 damages has been
rendered in favor OF Michael j. Cotter.
of Syracuse, N. Y, against Chief Of
| Police, Frank Schneider, Of Racine, for
false imprisonment.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad COM
pany has settled the claim of Mrs. Tolli-
yer for injuries received at Abbotsford,
by paying her $1,000
George Heller. of Darlington. aged
II. shot off two OF his fingers while
handling revolver.
A. Kestner. of Lake Geneva. Ms.
was convicted of attempted wife
murder AMI sentenced 10 two and
a half years in Waupun.
A dealer at Sturgeon Bay has shipped
10000 Christmas trees.
The Marinette saw mills this season
turned out over 1856, 900, 900 feet OF lum-
Der.
An epidemic of lung disease among
horses is proving fatal to horses at
Oconomowoc and Gcnessec,
DR.. Arthur Little, for years pastor of
the Congregational church in Fond du
Lac, and lately pastor of the New Eng
land church in Chicago, has accepted
Gull to Dorchester. Mass.
While Michael Brett was walllng a
well with stone on his farm in Hull,
Marathon county, large rock fell upon
bis head and caused injuries that proved
fatal.
A town has been plstled in Ashland
county at the crossing of the Ashland
& Marengo road. on the Duluth, South
Shore: The cost of improvement con-
templated there this fall sill be between
1000 and $4,000. Messers 6anburn
and Prentice have the machinery for
a saw-mill on tho ground and have
about 100000 feet Of logs which they
will saw this winter.
At meeting of the trustees of Rae
inc College on Monday the resignation
Of &. L. Gray as Warden was received
and accepted; Rev l. C. Gailor. OF the
University of Tennessee. was unani-
mously chosen his successor. DR.. Gray
has been Warden of Racine College for
five years.