Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-02
Me- OF WISCONSIN.
HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS CON-
DENSED TO DATE.
Religious. Political, Obituary, Criminal
and Miscelianeous-Ha as Re-
ported from Various Sections of This
Commonwealth.

Observation-Disclosures George w.
Forth has selected for deputy postmas-
ter ]. j. Somers, a brother of Congress-
man Somers, who secured the appoint
ment of Forth.
Washburn-Alonozo Knight. ex-coun-
ty treasurer, was arrested on a warrant
charging the embezzlement of $4,000
from Bayfield, county The examina-
ton of ex-County Clerk Williams is now
in progress. The two are alleged to have
been partners in the deal, and the
amount of their alleged defalcation is
about $4,000.
Kaukauna-John Thesis of this city
was killed by the cars in the switchboard
of the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way
Whitehall-Avah Andrus, a farmer
residing in the northern part of this
county, was brought here to answer to
the charge of numbering a child.
AS Edward Clarke of Cascade en-
tered his barn to feed his horses he re-
ceived blow on the head with a club
in the hands of d tramp. He was
robbed of a billbook with about $3.50.
Clarke may not recover.
Harry Holmes of Beloi-, employed in
the Blodgett mills, was caught by
belt and hurled around a shaft. When
released he was dead. He was % have
been married next Wednesday.
Pat Hartley of West Superior, form
erly an Eastern Minnesota switchman,
has brought suit against the Eastern
Minnesota Railroad company for $1O.-
600 damages for spinal injuries sus-
tanned last December.
Milwaukee-The state dairy depart
ment made a raid on the milk dealers
here. Before daylight seventeen police
men under command of Chief Inspector
Fricke started out to intercept the
milkmen. In the party were FL. G.
Adams, state dairy and food commits
sioner, and A. S. Mitchell, the state
chemist. over 200 samples were secured.
Secretary of State Casson's
official statement of the cost of en-
ployes of the last legislature shows the
aggregate outlay for this term to have
been S54, 465.7S. The III senate employees
drew $25,5S7.9S in salaries, and the 122
assembly employees $2S,S77.S0.
Milwaukee-The health authorities
have made the discovery that there has
been smallpox in William Lambrecht's
house for the last two months, his
daughter passing through the disease
and the son afterward corning down
with it. During all this time Lambrecht
continued to run his saloon and grocery
store and daily exposed a large num-
Der of persons to the contagion.
Amherst-Seven Polanders, who We're
at work clearing land for A. NJ. Hef-
feron in the town of Wild Rose, Wau-
shara county, near the county line of
Portage county, We're burned to death
in their shanty. They had been carous-.
ing. and it is supposed all were ntoxi-
Gated when the fire occurred. No one
can be found who knows their names.
Washburn-Ex-C County Treasurer
Alonzo Knight has been arrested on
charge of embezzlement of $4,000 from
the county. The examination of Allan
T. Williams ex-county clerk, on a sim
liar charge, is now in progress.
Appleton-Louis Schintz a real estate
dealer. has assigned. The liabilities are
estimated at $4,000. and assets $4,000.
West SUPERIOR move is on feet
among the leading business men to Sc
cure pardon for A. A. Cadwallader,
the defaulting eX-president of the Su-
perior National bank, and it looks as
though the pardon would be obtained.
as Governor Upham is said to be will
ing to grant the request If it is asked
for with any unanimity. Cadwallader
is in the reform school at Milwaukee
Milwaukee,. H. Degroat, a court re-
porter in Judge Austins court who is
wanted for contempt ofscourt by Judge
Johnson, has sailed for Europe. Degroat
deserted his first wife, who obtained a
divorce and was awarded $50 a month
alimony. This was afterward cut down
to $45 month. Degroat married again
and failed to pay the alimony. Then he
was called upon to show why ne should
,;.s,s
April II. The matter was held under
advisement for few days by Judge
Johnson. and in the meantime Degroat
departed. The names of himself and
wife appear in the passenger list of the
steamer Rhynland, which sailed from
New York for Antwerp this morning.
Senator John L. Mitchell has re-
turned to Washington Owing partly to
the ill health of Mrs. Mitchell, the fam
lily will pass the summer in Washington
and the seashore.
The question of opening Lakeside as
a summer resort this season is still I'M
settled. but the probabilities appear
against it, The loss on the property de-
stroyed was 100000
The visions of the great wealth which
opened nn before Ferdinand Schlesing-
err. the tz-.-,s....t SIC rni+4tr~ king. are all
dSalA AlSSlDdlA u Inc ilcH SOlu IIlittt
in Mexico has passed into the hands of
Stevenson, Burke and Price Mckinney,
the well known iron men of Cleveland,
who long ago obtained the ownership
of the Chaplin iron mine and other iron
properties in Northern Michigan in
which Mr.. Schlesinger was swamped
financially in the panic of 1898. His
Mexican transactions We're practically
a repetition of his doings in Milwaukee
and the Gogebic range enterprises be-
fore the panic.
Menominee-The wedding OF Herbert
Scott Blake, of Racine, son of r. b.
Blake, the agricultural implement man
ufacturer of that city, and Miss Maude
Mitchell eldest daughter of Frank A.
Mitchell of the Hudson Canal COM
panys office, Chicago. was solemnized
al the home of the brides parents here
Rev Warren Hastings Of Trinity Epis-
copal church. Alpena, OBLIGATED
Alex. Cameron OF West Superior