Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-01-23
The News Condensed.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Beth, OF Green
Bay, recently celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary Of their wedding
Governor Hoard recently appointed
Robert G. Seibecker (Dem) Judge OF
the Ninth judicial circuit in place Of
Judge Alva Stuart, deceased.
o. L. Packard, manufacturer of ma
chinery for wood and iron workers. and
who had been in business in Milwaukee
for twenty years, died recently.
Webb & Lebof, of Chippewa Falls,
recently sold the noted trotting stallion
Arcadian to Minneapolis parties for $40
600. He has made a record of 2:S3
About thirty members OF T. A. Brown
post, G. A. R., Of Fond du Lac, have
applied for charter for the organization
of Union Veterans League.
c. II. Richardson. who had been pastor
of the Congregational church at Mad
ison for twenty-five years. resigned re-
Gently and accepted can to the Cen
trail Congregational Church Of Phila-
delphia.
George Wood residing on Green Lake
Prairie, underwent an operation few
days ago for cancer at the lower OPEN
ing of the stomach, but did not rally,
and died couple Of days after.
There are now - prisoners in the
State penitentiary, sixteen of them be-
ing females. There is only one man in
the hospital, and he is an old man who
is becoming ossified
At Fort Atkinson the other day
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Hart were
buried together, they having died with
in twenty-four hours of each other from
pneumonia caused by influenza.
The output of flour from Milwaukee
mills in 1889, as reported by Secretary
Langson, Of the Chamber Of Commerce,
was 1,265,S33 barrels as compared with
1921, 25S barrels in 1855.
Mrs. Frederick North, widow, was
found dead the other day at Sparta with
her head in barrel Of water. She was
thought to have committed suicide.
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Bostwick, early
settlers of Rock County, celebrated their
fiftieth wedding anniversary few days
ago at their home in Shopiere.
Edward C. Wall, Of Milwaukee, was
elected chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee the other aft
ernoon to succeed Ellis Usher, Of La
Crosse, who recently resigned.
At Chippewa Falls Willard Thomp-
son, an elderly man, was struck by a
train recently and probably fatally in
jured.
Diphtheria was epidemic in Linxville
few days ago. Cove Prince had lost
two of his children by the disease, and
dozen cases we're reported in the viii
lage.
Chief of Police O'Brien. Of Ashland,
was suspended from duty the other
night pending his trial by the courts for
aiding and abetting the Curtiss-Kim-
mick prize-fght.
The William H. Schmidt Sash and
Door Company, one Of the largest in
Milwaukee, made an assignment recent
ly. The company's liabilities we're said
to be SIP, 900, while the assets were es-
timated at Slss, 5000.
Mrs. Mary Chappel. aged eighty-four
years, who received pension as yhe
WllOW vi Il veteran % Alt w ii Ri l'Ni Z. t4itu
at Eau Claire recently
Mrs. Gard, midwife at Ashland, was
arrested the other day charged with
shooting her husband month ago. It
was claimed that he attempted TO com
mit suicide. but the victim and witness
say that the wife did the shooting.
City Treasurer Vaudervide was
knocked down in Depere recently and a
pocket-book containing S4O0 stolen from
him. 1t was too dark for him to dis
tinguish his assailant, and there was
little chance Of the money Or thief ever
being found.