Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-09-05
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.


ment to r. l.. Mcconnell. Liabilities
and assets unknown.
Libbie Orr OF Fennimore. aged Is. at
tempted suicide by dissolving matches
in water and drinking the mixture A
quarrel with her lover was the cause.
S. r. Udell & Co of Green Bay have
contracted TO deliver 00,O0o pounds of
cheese to purchasers in lgland. all
the product of Brown county factories.
Henry w Brown of Loganville. Sank
county, filed his claim for pension June
two months and seven days thereafter.
.ohn Bodine. an Appleton teleDhone
lineman, has been taken to Qnincy H.,
to answer tc a charge OF stealing $50
from the Home of the Aged at that
place.
The line, field and stan officers Of the
Wisconsin National Guard who are res
ident In Oshkosh will shortly organize
a club for practice with the army re-
volver.
The jail at Stevens Pc is empty.
Only thirty-one persons have been COM
mitted to 1t since January z, and two
OF these were sent TO Waupun for one
year each.
Walter Roberts and William Quinn
of Victory. Vernon county, have been
arrested on a charge Of numbering
Felix Drummer OF Galena, mate of the
Mississippi river steamer. Menominee.
Gen. A. G. Parkinson and John La
mont of Madison have purchased the
right to sell or manufacture the Stand
ard telephone in the states of Washing
ton. Oregon and California, and have
gone west 20 engage in the business
Secretary of State Casson has de-
ci led that the census of DePere. Green
DAY and Oshkosh is all right. though
the enumeration was not made by
wards The decisionewas.made because
the cities refused TO bear the expense
of recount
Sun Prairie is in trouble The viii
lage charter provides for marshal but
no compensation; the mart hal has re-
signed because he could GO, . cay: the
village board refuse TO ACCEPT the
resignation. II is good foundation for
comic opera
The Rev. George Water, pastor of the
NJ. f. church at Oconomowoc, has re-
ceived calls from two churches at Green
Bay, and in each case the salary is
higher and the work lighter than where
he is, so that his parishioners fear that
they may lose him.
Col. NJ. T. Moore of the Third In
fantry, La Crosse. has received answers
from all his captains saying that no
resolutions were passed by their com
panies in regard to the work done by
the regiment during the recent en-
campment and that the companies are
better suited with this years work than
ever before.
While w A Sickles, a Marshfeld
creamery proprietor, was pouring SUI
phuric acid from a carboy into bottles.
having a boy TO help him. the carboy
broke and MIR. Sickles had his legs and
feet badly burned before he could re-
move his clothing and shoes. The bow
escaped without injury. though his vest
and trousers were destroyed by the
acid.
Charles Tully of Darlington has been
granted pension of $40 per month
and back pension OF 5000 He is the
son of a deceased veteran and his pen
sion ceased when he became 1G wears
of age when he made a new applica-
ton, basing his claims on the grounds
OF mental incapacity. Under recent
ruling of the pension department such
claims are now considered.
Mrs John Hull, of Lytles, is the pos
SCISSOR Of large pearl of fine quality
that she acquired in a rather peculiar
way, She was fishing with a spoon
hook in Black river. when she got what
she thought was good bite On pull
ing in the catch she found that large
clam lying with open shell at the bot
tom of the river had closed on the hook.
found the pearl, which is almost as
large as a buekshot.
Henry Chamberlain, OF Whitewater
has been arrested charged with coun-
terfeiting. Ii is alleged that for the
past nine years, during which he has
been regarded as aw-abiding citizen,
he has been making bogus silver dol
lars and forging molds to sell TO other
counterfeiters. Officers have had him
under suspicion for six months. but
no arrest was made until last week.
Emil kriener, who lives near Grants
burg, is charged with attempting TO kill
the Indian woman to whom he is mar
ried The sheriff is now In pursuit Of
him. The woman escaped by SWIM
ming the st. Croix river.