Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-07-25
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A RECORD OF THE EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK.
TsIegraphic BrevitIss Received Up to
Time of Going to Press-PoIItIcni.
Religious. Social and Miscellaneous
Happenings of the Week.

Rain did $4,000 damage to city work
at Ashland.
It is estimated that the Racine county
berry crop brought in $4,000.
Fred Lillibrldge of Washington will
be the new musical director at Ripon
college.
ing conducted at Jefferson and Reeds
burg this week.
The yacht on Delavan lake belonging
to F. X. Bull of Racine sunk during
tie storm Sunday.
A company to maintain a telephone
system in Lincoln county has been or
ganized at Merrill.
G. H. Gamer, a jeweler of Prairie du
Chen is dead. aged IA. He settled in
Sank county in 1858.
Elias Hill, a Negaunee miner, vas
killed by the cars while attempting to
cross the track in front of a moving
train.
John Kennedy. the Baraboo man
charged withshooting at an officer, will
have a new trial, as the jury in his ase
disagreed.
Mrs. Ellen b. Souther was chosen di-
rector Of the school board of Mauston
by a vote of PIG to $50 for w. F. Winsor.
her male opponent.
Washington Lafayette Smith. a we'll
known Madison lawyer died last week,
aged 81 years. He was a graduate of
the first class of the university.
Miss Janet Priscilla Root of Fort At
kinson and G. w. Genrand, principal
of the Jefferson high school, were mar
ried Saturday at Fort Atkinson.
A ~6-year-old son of Mrs. A. s. Wal
lace of Berlin, While playing about a
haystack got his head between the
boards and was choked to death.
jerry Coleman. a widower of Eaton,
Brown county, with a family of ten chill
dren, has recently married Mrs. Dennis
Fitzgerald, a widow with ten children
also.
Kenosha.-Sieg & Walpole of 2S5 Wa
bash avenue, Chicago, have bought the
necessary grounds and buildings n
will manufacture bicycles here, employ
ing 300 to 400 workmen.
Henry Stole, the Manitowoc man who
drove a party of surveyors at work for
the new railroad company off his land
with a shotgun. was yesterday fined So
and costs. though he claimed that the
gun was unloaded and he meant no
harm.
1t is iedT6u IUdL ERNEST w diheTt
superintendent of the Yerkes Telescope
building at Williams Bay. was drowned
in a gale the other day. as he was seen
just before the storm came up in a sail
boat in Buttons Bay. and has not been
heard of or seen since.
Complaints have been made at Eau
Claire that the new postoffice building
going up there e~ncroaches upon the
river and interferes with navigation.
United States District Attorney Briggs
will investigate the matter and report to
the federal authorities.
Fred Reuschle, one of the best known
German residents of Beloit. is dead.
Other deaths reported in the state are:
At Racine. Mrs. Frederick Mcdonald,
aged "a: at Whitewater. Mrs. H. H.
Earle; at Oshkosh. Patrick Kelley, aged
II; at Ashland, N. c. Roonet, a pioneer
merchant.
The bridge Of Turtle creek, near Be
lott. gave way just as a heavy freight
on the st. Paul road passed over. The
engineer. when on the bridge, noticed
thai 1t was settling. and kept his train
in motion. crossing safely. but looking
back he saw that the bridge had col
lapsed in the middle.