Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-08-01
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
a RECORD OF THE EVENTS or
THE PAST WEEK.
Photographic Brevittes Received Up 20
Time OF Going to Press-PolItical.
Religious. Social aud MIscsIIaneoos
Happenings of the week.

aged So years.
August Roeskie was drowned in Mud
lake near PlainfeId.
p. F. hermann. a Reedsburg mer-
chant. failed Monday.
La Crosse has eT4S children OF school
age. an increase of 1ss over last year.
Bert Ellis. a Sank County farmer. was
badly hurt in a runaway accident Sun
day,
VIII Parry. a former resident of Por-
tage. died at the Mendoza hospital Sum
day.
William Dumke. a shawano farmer,
received fatal injuries in a runaway
Monday.
R. E. Codes barn was burned at
Baraboo Monday by a small boy with
f~recrackers.
Hattie Chappell. of stoughton and Err
nest Whipple of Sparta were married at
Baraboo Monday.
Racine saloons are to be closed at
midnight and only the back doors will
be open on Sunday.
WATERFOWL Congregationalists on
Monday celebrated the golden jubilee OF
their church in that city.
John Lessnaw. George Cakes and Ed
ward Grove were sent to states prison
from Whitehall for burglary.
A body found in the water at Ahnapee
Is supposed to be that of Martin Bos-
well. who was drowned last June.
Charles Hodges, oe Spring Green Is on
trial at Madison. charged with perjury
ia connection with a railroad case.
A mother bear and three cubs were
killed near the limits OF the village OF
Boyd. Chippewa County. one day last
week.
This La Crosse Telephone Company
shassmadesA contract fors5c0 Instruments
and a switchboard to adjust them to the
use Of subscribers.
Deaths In the State: Mrs. Matthias ia
eobs. Kenosha: 8. Tanner. westreid:
Mrs. w. C. Bratz. West Bend: Miss SUI
san Defrancs. La Crosse.
Jack Albrscht OF Peshtigo has Q pals
OF fawns that were captured by q farmt
or near thu bay three weeks ago when
they were but 9 Dew days old.
indians around Black River Falls are
destitute because OF the failure OF thu
biuebsrry crop. which usually brings
them In a good deal OF money.
Phillips is to have q Masonic build
ing. to be erected by the local lodge OF
the order. 1t will be q two-story brick
edifcs and he corner stone will be laid
July 81.
Mrs. Jessie Reed was found on h
streets OF Chippewa Falls. partly de-
ranged. having walked from Abbots-
ford. Her husband died recently In Su-
perior.
The Carey cranberry marsh lear Ber-
lin is being plowed and replanted. The
crop on that portion which was not de-
stroyed by fire is said to be the most
promising in years.
Chief Luton and Detective Gallagher
proved unsatisfactory witnesses in the
Starkweather investigation at Superior
the council failing to secure any impor-
tant evidence from them.
The village authorities of Elkhorn
have broken into and filled up the sewer
that leads from the Walworth County
Jail. thus shutting off the drainage from
that Institution. The sewer was de-
clared to be a nuisance to the public
health.
I'm IRE and son of Eau Claire are
converting about 400 acres of land at
Badger lake, six miles from the city,
into a fine park. They nave a small
steamer on the lake and expect to make
the place so popular that it Will be vis-
tied by thousands.
An internal revenue Inspector found
100 boxes Of cigars without stamps in
the store Of S. w. Bundy at Hudson and
c~onhscated them. Mr.. Bundy claims
that he had just brought the cigars in
from the shop and was intending to put
the stamps on them without delay.
Inspector Bird Of the Postoifice De-
partment viii recommend the CONSOLE
- - a. - 100. -lAa4gRaAa
with the Green Bay office and the extern
sion OF the free delivery system to the
West Side with a s~ub-station there. The
changes will occupy three or four
months.
A Menasha saloon keeper whose Gus
toners do not pay promptly sued TWEEN
ty-oue of them as a warning to the rest.
and the Of defendants at the
justices office on Monday made the cit
liens fear there would be a riot. The
justice was unable to quell the disturb
ance without calling out the power of
the county.
The following is given as the popula-
ton OF several Wisconsin cities in the
recent census: Portage, $40: Neenah.
5,779; Rio, 432; MayvilIe, 1886; Edgerton.
1873; Cedarburg. 1867: Plymouth. 2,2I2:
New Lisbon. 1.06S; Palmyra, 500: Fox
Lake. 1,003; Berlin, 1926; Grand Rapids.
2.04s; Centralia, 2.041; Kenosha, 8.122;
Peshtigo, 2.071: Pardeeville. 574; Alma,
1929; Chippewa Falls, 9.195; Reedsburg,
Z, ZIG; K~aukauna, Sab; Ashland. 12,015.
One of our city e~numerators, says the
Stevens Point Journal, found one family
where the husband was only 81 years
old n the wife 30. and they were
grandparents to a child now 5 years OF
age. The grandmother was married
when only a little past 10 and is only
IA years and ) months older than her
daughter. and her daughter was mar
ried when only a little past IA, conse-
quently the first lady became grand
mother when a little past 70 years OF
age.
Some time ago a letter was received
In Racine inquiring for the where
abouts Of Alice Morris. for whom
there was a sum Of money waiting in
England. After some searching Miss
Morris was found. working as a d0mes-