Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-07

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cense.
Fred Strawser, foreman at the Bar
rett paper mill in Beloit, was drowned
the other day. He was 3S years old and
leaves a wife and child
Leon Richer, aged SO years, fell dead
on the street in Chippewa Falls from
paralysis. He was a patient at the coun-
ty asylum and was in the city on an err
rand.
The first football game of the season
in Marinette was signalized by an acct
dent. Charles Utke, son of ex-Mayor
Utke had his leg badly fractured in
scrimmage.
Adclph Altenberger, while out duck
hunting at the mouth of the Pigeon river,
a few miles north of Sheboygan, shot
young eagle measuring seven feet from
tip to tip.
The church goods manufacturing estab-
lishment of the Ham Wangerin Com
pany in Burrell street, Milwaukee, was
damaged to the extent of $4,000 by fire.
The loss is covered by insurance.
On one of the principal streets of Prai-
RE du Chen a structure was recently
torn down that was built in 1918 by the
American Fur Company. The election
of 1925 was held in this old building.
"The AIenasha postoffice will never be
a sub-station to Neenah and Menasha
will soon have free delivery" Such were
the words used by Congressman David
son to party of Menasha business men.
The family of William Grover, resid-
ing near Galesville, were poisoned by
eating canned minced ham. One child Is
dead and the other six members OF the
family have been in a serious condition.
The tobacco harvest at Sun Prairie is
completed and the crop promises to be
a very good one The excessive rain has
retarded the threshins and grain in many
places is growing in the shock and stack.
In alighting from a street car in Mani
towoc Mary PriXieus, a 14-year-old Two
Rivers girl, fell on the pavement and
suffered injuries which caused conclusion
of the brain and her condition is critical.
George F. Carroll, a Chicago lawyer,
was arrested at Salem by deputy game
warden for shooting fish and had to pay
a fine of $40 and costs, though he killed
only one fish.
Burglars entered the postoffice at Am
berg and blew open the safe. There was
no money in the safe and the robbers
overlooked the big bundle of stamps and
also the money in the till. The door of
the safe was blown off.
After watching her body all night, her
husband finally admitted that Lady Ries,
spirituaiist at Milwaukee, was dead. He
had previously insisted that the doctors
who declared her dead were wrong and
that she was in a trance.
Friends and relatives of Peter G.
Frost, leading business man of Racine,
wha ON July 10, sailed from New York
for Denmark, are greatly alarmed and
fear that he has met with foul play, as
since July 26 no word has been received
from him. He intended returning to Ra-
cine about Sept. l.
B. J. Castle, chief clerk in the State
land office, announced that owing to un-
looked for delays in the preparation OF
the list of State lands to be sold this
year, the sale cannot take place between
Oct Is and Nov. Is, as contemplated by
the act of the Legislature, passed at the
last session, which restores the lands to
the market. The sale, however, will take
place at a later date, probably late in
November and during the month of De-
cember.
At two religious gatherings In Wiscon-
sin the necessity of new and novel meth
DDS to attract outsiders to church and
to REVEALS has been emphasized. AT the
Methodist Episcopal conference in Green
Bay Presiding Elder John of the Osh-
kosh district said it seemed almost i'm
possible to interest older people and ad-
yocated q concentration of work upon
children. At the Presbyterian State
meeting in Milwaukee DR.. Sanderson
urged the necessity of advertising the
church in order to keep it upon the move
Sensational revelations regarding pur-
chases for the Milwaukee house of COT
rection have been made known. Five
county orders, bearing what purported to
be the sigr allure of Endorsement OF Al
bert Vogel, well-known lumber mer-
chant of Ludiugton, Mich, were intro
duced as evidence and dramatically de-
MED by the latter Each had the name
of Fred Heiden, Jr., inspector of the in
stitution, attached and they were for
amounts ranging from $1,000 to $500.
The witness then declared after further
questioning that Heiden had made above
his salary, out of regular lumber deals,
more than $1,000.
The recent shooting at the wedding in
the Marshall home in Kenosha has de-
veloped a strange story. The person
who fired the shot was said to be Earl
Marshall, a son, q years old. A few
days ago "Eya" Marshall wrote letter
to Iowa saying "she" fired at her sister.
It develops that Earl and eva" are
the same person, that for eight years
Earl was supposed to be girl and was
christened Eva. Mrs. Marshall says that
for eight years after his birth Earl was
thought to be a girl. He was known as
Eva Marshall up to his fifteenth year,
and was still called Eva when the fam
lily Lived in Ottumwa.
In fit of rage because his wife had
left him George Daily at Oconomowoc
blew off the top of his head with
double barreed shotgun. Daily went to
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