Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-02-25
The News Condensed

Miss Kate McKenna was found dead
in her bed at Chippewa Falls.
Willard Austin was killed by Wis
consin Central train near Chippewa
Falls.
Fire at Racine destroyed the works
of the Hurlbut Manufacturing Com
pany Loss, $40, 900; fully insured.
Thieves entered the saloon of Vet
Lindsay at Pardeeville and carried off
$500 worth of whisky and considerable
wine and cigars
John Blazer, who killed Oscar john
son in Ashland about month ago,
has been discharged, the jury bringing
in an acquittal.
Frank Cunningham, an old resident
of Cobb, was killed by train on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
A new lodge of odd fellows has been
established at Washburn.
Col. Rudd, of Bayfield,, will get out
600, 900 feet of pine and hemlocl1 logs
on Bass island during the winter.
Evangelist E. w. Bliss closed a sue
cessful ten days series of revival meet
ings at Washburn. Over $50 converts
were secured
The new insane asylum located at
Menomonie is ready for occupants.
Mrs. E. Torreson, aged 20, died at
La Crosse. She had been sick for
some time, and when the time arrived to
take her usual medicine she got hold
of the wrong bottle and took large
dose of carbolic acid.
The National Butter and Cheese as
ISOLATION held their annual convention
at Madi son.
A tape-worm rs feet in length was
taken from the stomach of a cheese.
maker by a Monroe doctor.
Evan Owen, one of the first settlers
of Ixonia, died in his seventy first year,
after an illness of but four days. He
came here from Utica, n. Y, in 1845.
The new city hall at La Crosse was
dedicated and the fftieth anniversa-
ry of the city's incorporation was cell
ebrated.
Thomas Crosby, aged 76, who settle
near Beloit in 1887, died the other day.
There were few white people there
when he came.
The firm of Smith & Love, grain
buyers at Beloit, failed with liabilities
over assets of about $4,000.
Mrs. j. Foster, wife of a pioneer
business man, died at Durand as the
result of a surgical operation.
S. b. Forbes, special agent of the
Northwestern Mutual Life-Insurance
Company, dropped dead in Milwaukee.
He was 90 years of age. Heart-disease
was supposed to have caused his death.
Daniel o. Gurnee, son of John d.
Gurnee, leading lawyer of Madison,
was convicted of outrage at Eau
Claire His victim, Hattie Hans, is a
stenographer
Samuel Hart, of GAINESVILLE, has sold
his stock farm near Beloit to John w.
Slathers. of GAINESVILLE, for S14, 100.
Mrs Heiden. of Appleton, broke
leg by a fall The woman was rs
years of age and it was thought the
injury would prove fatal
The Lehigh Coal & Iron Company of
West Superior intends to double the
number of its coke ovens in the spring.
There are 100 ovens in use at present
Mrs. Patrick Kennedy, an old lady,
fell down on an icy place in Eau Claire
and when picked up she was dead The
injury to the spine had proven Instant
~ fatal.
Allan T. Williams, clerk of Bayfield,
county. is charged by the county sup
ervisors with raising orders and en-
bezzlement His shortage so far dis
covered amounts to between $500 and
$500.
Frank Rhodes, a prominent merchant
at Spaulding, accidentally shot himself
at a logging camp near that village
while handling gun. The charge en-
tered his hip and caused death twenty
four hours later.