Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-08-08
NEho OF WISCONSIN.
a RECORD or THE EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK.
TeIegraphic BrevIties Received Up to
Time Of Going to Press-POlitIcaI.
Religious. Social and Miscellaneous
Happenings Of the Week

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out 10000 celery plants.
Two thousand feet Of sewerage Will be
put in at Medford his fall.
Lightning at Baraboo killed four Jer-
sey COWS belonging To Arson Case.
The Rev. Hugh Davidson. an early
settler " North Geneva. died. aged over
30 years.
The J. I. case plow works at Racine
have started III after being closed sor
two weeks.
The firm Of Ryerson & Ryerson Of
Hartford has assigned to II. {. Trues-
dell Of Berlin.
William Thurow lost his life IN a fire
which destroyed the grain elevator Of
Peter Heineman at Reedsburg.
Twenty molders at the Racine Mallea-
Bile Iron works went out on a strike Sat
urday. but the matter will probably
be adjusted.
Standing grain at Red Cedar was
damaged By a heavy rain and a large
barn belonging 70 william Blume was
blown down.
While riding horseback through the
woodos near the Bruie. Guy Wilson of
Ashland was mistaken for a deer and
fatally wounded
At Green Bays council n Getting ohm
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upon which to erect a paper mill. 1t
will be given him.
Twenty-one tramps who captured a
st. Paul freight train at Hilbert juno
ton were arrested on Its arrival at
Green Bay and locked up.
Miss Beu Chandler. for several years
stenographer in the c. and n. w. Office
at Baraboo. died Saturday at the home
of her mother in Aberdeen, S. d.
A man apparently insane. who gives
the name OF Patrick LAWN, has been
found at Racine. He claims to have
escaped from the Wauwatosa asylum.
Miles Kensler Of MariLstte. is raising
sugar beets and claims that he will have
three barrels Of sugar from the crop,
though he does not state how he in
tends to do the refining.
James Johnson OF Tomah viii be
tried in the federal court at La Crosse
IN September on the charge of pension
frauds. 1t being alleged that he has been
drawing a pension although he was
never In tile army.
Miss Nora Matter was married to
Edgar Peck in a tent on the Monona
Lake assembly grounds the other morn
ing. Or. Wilbur F. Crafts officiating
Both are from Freeport. H.. and have
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honeymoon at the assembly.
II. and j. D.. Curran of Stevens Point
have recently purchased what was for
merry known as the McCulloch cram
berry marsh, west Of the river. The
tract contains 200 acres and 1t Is their
purpose 10 transform it into a big uea-
dow. Part of the marsh his season
produced tame grass that yielded at
least two tons to the acre.
business men of Stevens Point are
talking Of trying To induce some Of the
Fox River valley manufacturers, who
are suffering from the water famine
at present. to locate in Stevens Point.
where. IL is asserted. there Is enough
power on the Wisconsin river for great
industries. only a small portion Of the
power is now used,
Morris Dean. a carpenter of Delavan.
and Jennie Sherwood. who recently IN
herited $4,000 from her grandfather in
Rock county. eloped sunday afternoon
from Elgtu. H., and were married in
Delayan. sunday afternoon the girl
went out tn see the salvation army aud
met Dean. The pair took a horse and
buggy and drove to Lake Delavan.
Dean is said to have a divorced wife
and two children in Wisconsin.
At the c~oroner's inquest into the
death Of Albro Mott at Berlin, both MIR.
and Mrs. David Halford refused TO tes-
tify. Mott was shot near the Halford
farm last Saturday night. an artery be-
ing severed. In spite OF medical atten-
ton he bled TO 1eath. MIR. Scoville. ia
Their OF Mrs. Halford. testified that he
found Mott lying ounde on the
ground. but the dying man refused 10
give any Information as 10 how he was
hurt.
Miss Agnes Mullen writes from New
York to her friends In Fon du Lac
denying that she elaped with John Zuc-
carlo as telegraphed all over the coun-
try. She says that she Is engaged TO
him and that when she is married the
wedding win take place in proper style
at her own home. She n her ance
recently ofaciated as the attendants
at the wedding of Miss Znccario and
Or. Beuetivia but were not married
themselves.
In order to get their names upon the
new payroll, the Winnebago Indians
who have been drawing annuities from
the government must comply with the
homestead laws. Some OF the more
influential members of the tribe will
petition congress to give them S per cent
OF the principal of 5000. 900 held In trust
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by the government. This will give them
about SIS per capita. The old indians
claim thai his is equitable as the
coming generation can a k OF itself
after the principal is exhausted.
MIR. Fred Eckstein. who Is managing
Col Gabe Bouck's farm. east OF Winnie
come. has recently lost three fine horses
by poisoning. MIR. Eckstein had hired a
tramp 10 assist in the farm work. Il
one morning he was missing. without
any reason or grievance. One of the
horses was too sick 10 work and MIR.
Ecksteiu harnessed the other two, but
after working a short time they gave
put. Veterinarians from the village Inc
Oshkosh pronounced them poisoned and
well-grounded suspicious point to the
tramp as being the ~poisonsr.
The demurrer 70 the htty damage
suits a~ggregating about $1,000. 900.
brought by Chippewa Falls and Eau
Claire people against Frederick weyer-