Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-02
The Ne,rs Condensed.


rich vein of copper was recently said to
have been discovered at Dogwood, twenty
miles from Ashland
G. T. Dahrs furniture store at Washburn,
valued at $4,000, and small dwelling were
burned the other evening Insurance.
$4,000.
The scandinavian young ladies OF Eau
Claire are raising money TO send church
bell to Madagascar
Mrs. John Hanson formerly Miss Julia
Hartman, of New Denmark, Brown County,
died recently at Nandgaon, East India,
where she had lived since her marriage
in 1881
The mangled remains of Thomas d. Hum
ter, veteran from the Milwaukee Soldiers'
Home. were found the other morning on
the st Paul tracks, near the Grand avenue
viaduct The deceased was sixty two years
of age, and served during the war in Com
pany A. Tenth Regiment Of Connecticut
Volunteers
Louis Schlecht, who was found guilty of
manslaughter in the fourth degree for kill
ing Louis Butler. was sentenced by Judge
Webb at Wausau the other day TO one year
and half in States prison, the third day in
solitary confinement
Edward Payson Pond. NJ. d., who died in
New York City recently, was a native of
Alto, this State. He graduated in the New
York College of Physicians and Surgeons in
1887
At Milwaukee early the other morning a
patrolman found Mrs Maria Uhlensperger
lying on the sidewalk before her home with
a fractured skull She was seventy years OF
age and died from the fall in few hours,
She had been left sitting by an open Win
dow and was supposed TO have fallen
out
A recent fire destroyed Henry Bachman S
saloon and Casper Nibauer's dwelling house
at Merrill Loss on saloon and stock,
$1,000; insurance, 81 800 Loss on dwelling
house and furniture, $1,000; insurance,
$500
The Lacrosse Commandery of knights
Templar proposes to make pilgrimage to
Washington September next and partici-
pate in the ceremonies incidental to the
trtennial conclave which is to he held in
that city.
John Glib a pioneer OF Wisconsin, and
one of the earliest settlers Of Jefferson
County, died the other night of heart dis
ease at Pipersville, aged seventy mine years.
He was a member of the Legislatures of
Mrs Boyd, wife of Joseph NJ. Boyd, cash
Ter of the Capital City Bank, of Madison,
died the other day, leaving two twin girls
twenty-four hours old She was only thirty
years of age and was married in Covington,
KY, four years ago.
Charlie Irwin, while scuf1fng recently
with companion in boat near Marathon
City, received the contents of Win
chester rifle, the charge taking effect in his
left arm, shattering the bone, an inch and
a half of which was removed
James T. Dillingham;. proprietor OF the
Dillingham; woOdenware mandatory at
Sheboygan, died the other evening after a
brief illness, aged fifty eight years.
Cron Hart, one of the shrewdest gamblers
in the country, was arrested by the sheriff
on train in Beloit recently for fleeing
some GAINESVILLE sports
The store of NJ Kopelman. OF Medford
was burglarized the other night and about
$500 worth of goods taken
Commissioner 0berly recently teie,
eraphed Special Agent Gardner ut Ashland
that contracts upon patented lands made
between Indians and contractors on the
Lac Court d'Oreilles reservation had been
approved by President Harrison This was
iovful news for pine dealers.