Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-24
The News Condensed

A stage broke through the ice on
Sturgeon bay but the travellers and
horses were rescued.
The F. S. Staples Lumber Company,
of Iron River, has started its new mill
half mile north of that place. They
will cut $4,000 feet per day.
Mrs. Laurel Draper was suffocated
by coal gas in her home at North
Prairie, where she lived alone. She
had been dead week when found
Thomas Hogan, of Amigo, has been
appointed district attorney of Lang
lade co untY in place of George l..
Schintz, deceasedq
The city of Ashland has been sued
by J. j. Koch for $4,000 damages.
Koch claims to have been injured by
slipping on an icy sidewalk.
Millions of feet of lumber on the
shores of Lake Superior will be RATED
across the lake from Ashland to Can
ada as soon as navigation opens.
Angus Mcdonald, a Connor's Point
saloonkeeper, fell from the top of a
lumber pile, to which point of vantage
he climbed to view fire. and received
fatal injuries.
The annual state convention Of the
Y. NJ. c. A. will be held at Appleton
about the middle of October next.
Forty thousand trout fry were re-
ceived at Rice Lake and planted in the
streams in the vicinity of that place.
H. N. Porter, of West Superior, was
awarded $50, 900 against the Silver
q, g..
juries received while working on the
latter's dock.
Mrs. E. l.. Rose, a resident of Beloit
for forty years, died recently.
Capt. James Ogden, former we'll
known lake captain, died in Milwaukee
at the age of rs years.
The Northwestern Fuel Company's
docks at Washburn are to be raised to
40 feet and their capacity doubled.
A S. Stiles, of Chippewa Falls,
banked 5000, 600 feet OF logs on Upper
creek during the winter.
In wreck at indianapolis, Ind.
Clifton P. Vest. jockey of GAINESVILLE,
had both feet horribly burned
A young man named n. S. Nugent,
of South Bend, Ind. was suffocated by
gas at Langlois' hotel in Milwaukee.
Henry Bartels, aged 81, son of ex-
Judge William Bartels, of Marshfield,
has been appointed a cadet at West
Point by Congressman Lynch.
The old American hotel at Juneau
has been sold by the heirs of G.
Brown TO julius Venie for So, 600. The
building was erected in 1912.
Butler & Mueller's sawmill at Ellis
Junction was burned. Loss, SIS, 900;
partly insured.
While Allen Shepherd, of Plattsville,
was working with circular saw the
saw broke, part Of it striking Shep-
herd on the foot and cutting it off.
The 4-year-old son of Otto Setvig,
living near Clear Lake, stuck the point
of a pair of scissors in his left eye, de-
stroying the sight
A young woman who registered at
the American house at La Crosse dis
appeared and took with her various
sums of money from several rooms
Delofer Moon purchased the opera
house at Eau Claire under foreclosure
of mortgage for Sl2,5 The house
cost 500, 600.
The grain warehouses formerly
owned by w. Z. Coates at Westbv.
viroqua and six other points on the
ST. Paul road, have been purchased by
Fred Eckhardt and L. G. Boyle, OF
Viroqua, who will open them for bust
ness
John Jacobs. middle-aged resident
of Altoona City. in the presence Of his
family plunged knife into his throat
in two places, partially seyering his
wind pipe. He would probably die.
He was believed to be insane