Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-07-11
NUMBER p
NEWS OF WISCONSIN
A RECORD OF THE EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK.
TeIegraphic BrevIttes Received Up to
Time of Going to Press-PoIiticaI,
Religious, Social and M-IsceIIaneous
Happenings of the Week.
county crops promise exceeding

Clark county crops promise exceeding
ly well.
There were Twenty-Five graduates
from the Racine high school.
Fred Webster of Baraboo was fatally
hurt by falling beneath a moving train.
Burglars at New Lisbon blew open
the safes in two stores but did not
secure a great deal.
Bishop Grafton OF Fond du Lac went
to the Oneida reservation last week to
ordain an Indian to the priesthood.
d. A. Foltz of Minneapolis. who was
struck by lightning Friday while visit
ing a brother at New Sassel. Is slowly
recovering.
The drought has affected the Cam
bridge water power so seriously that
the owners of the mill contemplate put
ting in an engine.
The friends of F. F. C. Binninger of
Kenosha are alarmed over his %protract-
ed absence from home and fear he has
met with some mishap.
The display of fireworks at Devils
lake will be made from the cliffs 800
feet above the city a unique feat
ure will be a fleet of fire in which all
the steamboats, and rowboats on the
river will unite.
f. G. Binninger of Kenosha is miss
ing. He left home Wednesday night
with some threats that he would do
away with himself and has not been
seen since. The police have been noti-
fed. but no trace has yet been found.
Chippewa county has rival agricul-
tural societies. A county agricultural
society was recently organized at Chip
pewa Falls and now 1t Is announced
that there is a similar society in exist
ence at Cadott, having been organized
In 1894.
Water a been struck at a depth of
120 feet In the artesian we'll being
drilled at the new fair grounds and
driving park at Appleton. The river
was tapped at a depth of twenty feet
in h rock and the supply will be
abundant.
The trustees of the Congregational
church of Green Bay had a meeting to
decide whether they should accept the
resignation of the Rev. A. Keene. The
result was decided by a unanimous
vote to the contrary. Mr.. Keene will
stay and his salary will be raised.
b. Olsen, a Madison merchant, has
sworn out a warrant for the arrest OF
JOHH T1DiIils IL ltdCtltI III lAiG ANOI NCbioh
parochial school, charging him with
whipping his 11-year-old son. who wss
associated with other boys in pelting
the windows with missiles from the out
side.
The Peninsular Veterans association
has closed its reunion at Kewaunee. 1t
will meet in Ahnapee next year. l. W.
Elliott OF the latter city was elected
praSfdapt In tho paFa1a Yesterday
there were $50 veterans in line and 1000
persons attended the picnic in the after
noon.
George Quade. a Z year-old boy OF
GAINESVILLE, dropped a lighted fi%recraeker
inside his shirt waist. 1t set fire to his
clothing and the boy was terribly
burned before the flames were extin-
guished. The attending physician says
he has known less extensive burns to
cause death, put he does not expect any
serious result in this case.
The city of Eau Claire undertook to
raise the blockade Of Barstow street.
the bridge and the street railway caused
by the abandonment of an old build
ing which Capt. Tinker was moving
for Phillip Bureau and will haul II off
to one side OF the river bank. The con-
tractor claimed that he could not move
the rouse over the bridge and that he
was liable to a fine IL he moved 1t in any
other direction. Accordingly the city
took possession of il.
The committee from the Business
Mems association of Green Bay will re-
port In favor OF purchasing a twenty
one acre site on the bay shore for the
purpose of making a summer resort.
The committee will recommend that
eighteen acres be plated and placed on
the market II enough lots are sold by
Sept. 1. The association is to purchase
the tract. the remainder OF the lands to
be sold entire to some responsible party
who will agree to erect a summer hotel
thereon.
The whole north side OF La Crosse
was reused to frenzy by the report that
a policeman had killed a man with his
club and buried the body In the ditch
along the railroad track, the absurd
story having grown out OF the fact
that the day before in ~dislodging two
tramps an officer was obliged to use
force on one though the man was not
ever knocked down. A crowd, number
ing nearly 1000 persons, gathered at one
OF the school houses Of the city the
other night clamoring for the officer
but at the suggestion Of Chief Byrne
O committee vas appointed to investi-
gate the whole affair and the matter
went over.
George Finney. q ~14-year-old girl or
South Superior. ran away with an I'M
known man. Her father heard a car
riage drive away furiously late in the
evening, and. looking out. recognized
his daughter as the carriage passed
under the electric light. He gave chase.
boarding an electric car and telling the
motorman what he wanted. Near the
end Of the line the carriage was over
hauled. but George recognized her ia
Their as he alighted and her escort
whipped up the horses and escaped.
Martin Fogarty Of Wausau saved the
life of a little girl who had fallen into
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