Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-05
SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN.
NOTES FROM NElGHBoRlNG TOWNS
AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.


Dane. Crawford and Lafayette Counties.
Cleaned from Exchanges and Condensed
for Herald Readers.
David Wilson an old resident of
PlatteviIle died at his home Nov %
1895.
Choice china cups and saucers at
Burns.
Hugh Matthews OF Hickory Grove
has sold his farm and will move to
Boscobel
President Albee of the Oshkosh,
Normal school visited the Platteville
Normal last week.
daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. c. D. English OF Evansville,
Mimi, Nov. p.
The students OF ST. Clara's academy,
Sinsinawa Mound, gave an elaborate
entertainment Thanksgiving.
Mrs Charles Vincent, of British
Hollow, Grant county, has been visit
with relatives and old time friends in
Mineral Point.
Mr. Z. \. Kirby died at his home
in Arena Nov. 10. Thirty years ago
he was proprietor of several stage
lines in Iowa county
There is considerable talk in Shulls-
burg of putting in an electric light
plant to be operated by the steam Of
the waterworks boiler
The school teachers of Iowa county
have organized county teachers as
ISOLATION. The first meeting will be
held in Dodgeville next Saturday.
The Milwaukee Yenowine News has
been sold by the Proprietor Geo. HI.
Yenowine to Messrs. Forest and lib
bets publishers of the Social Mirror
Nellie LOOMS, granddaughter of
the late Mr.. Winsor, of Cassville will
reside at Farley, Iowa, with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. LOOMS.
Bishop Messmer in pastoral letter
to the Green Bay diocese takes strong
ground against dancing and positively
forbids Saturday night and Sunday
dancing.
Afarmer residing near Monroe states
that the earthquake filled three wells
on his farm that had been dry for years
and also filled some springs and a
marsh
The Dubuque Catholic Benevolent
Society mas been mathematical by
Archbishop Hennessey for holding a
picnic on a holy day The society
win probably disband.
An ordinance passed by the village
board OF Cassville makes it obligatory
upon property owners to clear the
snow from the sidewalk fronting their
respective places of business.
Married: On Wednesday afternoon
at the Evangelical parsonage by Rev
g. w. Reichert, Miss Mary j. Bee
seeker, of Bridgeport, Wis. to Mr..
Morris Hahn, of the town of Bridge
port.
John r. McGregor, secretary Of the
Northwestern National Insurance
company and one of the oldest and
most widely known residents of
Milwaukee died at his home on sun
day Dec. l.
Married: At the parsonage in Mt.
Hope Nov. Is 1895 by the Rev. l..
Ellis, Mr.. Downer Halferty and Miss
Minnie Pimpton both Of Mt Hope.
Their home will be in Mt. Hope and
occupation farming.
At McGregor, Iowa, Saturday, Nov.
%, Hans Allen met VIM. Cross, against
whom ne had grudge, and shot him
dead. A young woman who was in the
house at the time ran away, but Allen
followed and shot her. She may re-
cover. Allen then killed himself.
The Rev Alfred Clark of Mineral
Point died in that city Nov. %, 1895.
Rev. Clark was we'll known in Grant
county having been stationed in
Bloomington and Montfort as pastor
OF the Nj. Z. churches of those vii
lagee. He was member of the
Mineral Point Lodge A. F. f. A. M.
and was buried with masonic cere-
monies.
The State Historical society's library.
which is the chief literary laboratory
of the University of Wisconsin students
in history. economies and social sci
ence has recently received important
accessions for the detailed study of
English history; chief among these are
rolls of Parliament and the Journals OF
the Lords and Commons from the mid
die of the fourteenth century to the
present time.
Mr.. Fred Renhaw of Boscobel was
the victim Of a severe gun shot
wound week before last He and
Jesse Wooley were hunting rabbits
when in some way Wooley's gun was
accidentally discharged aud Renhaw,
only a lew feet away, received the
whole charge in his right hip Two
years ago last March Mr.. Rushaw