Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-02

Bostwick & Sons dry goods store IN
GAINESVILLE was robbed of $4,000 in silks,
furs and cash.
Mrs. H. H. Ward, aged 81, was blown
off a porch in GAINESVILLE by the wind and
broke her arm by the force Of the fall.
Oscar Severt, from near Mineral
Point, while hunting in Gates County,
had his ear partly shot off by a stray
bullet
The city Of Peshtigo won out in the
selection of a site for the new 100000
asylum, beating her strong rival, Mari
nette.
Judge Baensch Of Manitowoc has for
mally consented to become a candidate
for the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor against Gov. La Toilette.
Nikoli Opacicu, an Austrian, % years
of age, who formerly resided in Milwau-
kee, was asphyXiated in room Ill the
Sterling Hotel in Kenosha. 1t is sup
posed that the death was accidental.
Revenue officials have discovered that
at least 135 Wisconsin cheese factories
are engaged in the illicit manufacture Of
whey butter, which is largely sold in
Chicago at half the price Of the pure
article.
w. d. Clarke, aged 81, and his wife
were struck by the passenger train run
ming between Milton and Davis Junction.
Mr.. Clarke is very deaf and did not
hear the train. The carriage i'll which
they were riding was demolished.
At a meeting of the Baraboo City
Council it was decided to appoint board
of appraisers, who shall value the water
works plant at not more than 100000,
nor less than $4,000, and shall not take
the value of the franchise into consid-
GRAFTON.
To the long list of hunters shot while
in pursuit Of deer in northern Wisconsin
and the Michigan peninsula in seven days
are added the names Of julius Wyman,
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting near Rush, and Frank
Grevoch, fatally wounded while hunting
near Lanark.
For the second time recently the Ul-
rich building and the three-story block at
Fourth and Main streets were burned in
La Crosse. The loss is about $4,000.
The principal losers are the Hell Shoe
Company, $4,000, and the owner Of the
buildings, $4,000. The fire started in
vacant apartment. The Ulrich build
ing was once occupied by Brick" PQne-
roy.
Captain George Breckenfeld aged 62
years, one of the bravest and best known
life savers on the chain Of lakes, has
retired as captain of the Racine life
saving crew on account Of long service
and age. Captain Breckenfeld has been
in the United States life-saving service
over twenty years. During his service at
Racine eighty-six lives were saved. He
is to be succeeded by Captain Gus Luf-
burg.
Officers Whipple, Rohel and Qualmin
had an exciting running fight with two
burglars who had stolen a lot Of furs
from G.. Il. Paige's store in Beloit. Two
of the officers came across the robbers in
an alley and gave them chase and many
shots were exchanged. After running
the robbers along the river bank and
through the railway yards the trace or
| the men was lost and it is supposed they
escaped OH a train.
Matthew Murphy, of Benton, who died
recently. by his will gives seventy per
cent. Of his estate for the purpose of
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| County. The estate is estimated at $780,
900, which would give the county $l20,-
| 900. II. G.. i. Mackey, cashier of the
First National Bank Of Darlington, is
| named executor. The remaining 30 per
cent of the estate is to be divided among
relatives and friends.
The marriage of w. ]. Zimmers, as
| sistant city attorney of Milwaukee, and
| Miss Meta Borchert was the elimination
Of a romance in which the usual condi-
tions were reversed. The attachment
began last summer at Elkhart lake, when
Miss Borchert saved Mr.. Zimmers from
| drowning He was giving an exhibition
of his swimming prowess and became ex-
hausted and she brought him 70 shore.
| The engagement was announced soon
| after
Miss Katie Kinney, aged IL years,
swallowed strychnine in GAINESVILLE with
! evident suicidal intent. DR.. Merritt saw
| ed her life. Hazel Miller, a chum Of
| Miss Kinney, few days ago tried to end
her life in the same way. She took NOR
phine and was saved Both girls belong
| to good families and are Of a coterie who
are inseparable companions. The Miller
+ Girl went with Miss Kinney when she
bought the poison and the authorities are
working on the theory that a suicide club
has been formed among these young girls.
The girls will not admit that it exists.
municipalities cannot grant franchises
to corporations for lighting and other pur-
noses if the rights of the municipality
| are not conserved, the business interests
Of the place judiciously looked after, or
if the corporation is given an unreason-
ably high price or long term of exclusive
privilege The action. was upon fran
chise granted by the village board of
West Allis, near Milwaukee, granting
franchise to the Northwestern Electric
Light and Power Company for fifty years
exclusively and at high prices for medi-
OGRE service Property owners fought the
franchise in the Milwaukee courts and
were defeated, but won the appeal to the
Supreme Court.
Three more persons have been killed
/ ond threa injured as the result Of hunt