Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-11-14

NSSutiu SieNeu OF the iIatteNllte NOR
NAL resulted in victory for the form
er. Score % to 0.
there is movement in Iowa and
Lafayette counties looking toward the
organization of miners for their NUT
ual protection in receiving better
prices for lead and zine ores.
Bert DeLap of Boseobel was the
victim of a shocking accident last
week in being kicked by a horse on
the side of the head. He will recover
but will carry bad scar through life
Ira Rose. a single man living IN
East Dubuque. was instantly killed
last Sunday by piece Of timber fall
ing from building while he and 9TH
ers were fooling with a hosting
tackle
The Witness says that Halloween
was celebrated in Platteville with
more than the usual amount of devil
try. Whatever Platteville attempts
she does thoroughly, whether it is
good or bad
A party of Lincoln county hunters
was attacked by pack of timber
wolves, but the guns did good service
and after eight Of the lupines had
been killed the rest of the pack drew
out of the con test.
The Wisconsin river bottoms be-
tween Woodman and Boscobel were
entirely burned over last week The
vegetation was very dry and the
flames ragged furiously but no serious
loss of property is reported.
The Boscobel school board have let
the saving of their supply of wood to
the lowest bidder. Isn't Boscobel
able to pay the usual wages to labor
ing men or are her wood sawyers all
SO rich that money is no object to
chem?
A meeting Of the republican state
central committee will be called Jan
uary Sth next to elect a successor to
the late H. c. Thorn. chairman The
meeting will also decide upon the
place for holding the next state con-
vention.
r. E. Powers of Wausau, while rid
ing bicycle, was crowded into the
curb by James Edee, liveryman.
Powers brought suit and the Judge
awarded him $29.50 damages, holding
that the bicycle has the same rights
on the street as horse.
Sore throat. Any ordinary case
may be cured in one night by apply
ing Chamberlain Pain Balm as di-
rected with each bottle. This medi-
cine is also famous for its cures of
rheumatism. lame back and deep
seated and muscular pains. For sale
by Joseph 7. Bennett, druggist.
Survivors OF the battle of Prairie
Grove will hold reunion and ban
quet on December s at the Great
Northern hotel, Chicago, it being the
thirty-third anniversary of the battle.
Comrades of the Second and Third
Wisconsin cavalry, Ninth and Twen-
tieth Wisconsin Infantry and others
viii attend
The one-year-old child of Mr. and
Aul ?. uaiHEo iody VI Mtf4ttdl Oiib,
while its mother was in another room.
crept into the kitchen, climbed up to
a large pail partly filed with water
and fell into it. When found by the
mother a few minutes later the child
was dead. There was barely enough
water in the pail to cover its face.
According TO the Darlington papers
the hunters of Lafayette county have
been playing skin game on the
county. The scheme has been to take
wood chuck hides and cut them into
pieces resembling scalps and collect
twenty cents bounty for each piece.
Up TO the middle of October Is, 800 al
legged wood chuck scalps had been
taken by the county clerk.
James Rogers of Shullsburg was
killed by an accident IN the Ahearn
mine near Dubuque. He fell from
the side ladder in the shaft while des-
cending to work, distance of proba-
bly, forty feet. His fellow miners
think he must have been struck by a
falling stone which caused him to
lose his hold Two weeks before
man bp the name of Kuhn was fatally
injured in the same mine.
A Milwaukee doctor publishes in
Platteville paper reply to some
criticisms published by Lancaster
paper. The doctor says: II challenge
any man or woman. living or dead to
truthfully pointout one faint upon my
character or professional standing
The doctor is safe as to part of his
challenge anyway, for his dead patti
ents win not do any pointing what
ever the living may attempt Pick
and Cad.
VIM Haskins of Richland county
recently had occasion TO look up the
recorded title of his 12O-acre farm
and was surprised to find that he did
not own it at all, according to the
records. He bought the farm in 1860