Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-12


home in Prairie du CHEN, by hanging
himself.
Conrad Dahlheimer, an old resident OF
Hurley, is lost. He went berrying with
a party and strayed away. He is 70
years of age.
In recognition of twenty-three years az
city marshal, citizens of Janesville pre-
scented John w. Hogan a gold badge and
purse of money.
Willie Bender, aged 13, of Chicago, fell
under a carriage occupied by Mrs. w. o.
Carpenter of Chicago, at Marinette, and
both of his legs were fractured.
Anton Olson of Marinette was serious
ly stabbed by Anton Newholm. Olson
had heard Newholm call his mother
names and an alteration resulted, lead
ing to blows.
Theo s. Johnson was instantly killed
while working in the stone quarry OF
Thomas III. Smith ct the mouth of Stur-
geon bay. A timber fell and, striking
him on the head, caused instant death.
The home of Mrs. Anton Elsham in
La Crosse was entered by burglar, but
just as he was about to find the place
where money and jewels to the value Of
$1,000 were hidden, he was frightened
away.
The Beloit College football schedule
for this season as arranged for Is as fol-
lows: Oct. 10, Minnesota at Minneapo-
lis; Oct II, Wisconsin at Madison;
Michigan at Ann Arbor; Chicago at Chi
cago; Knox College at Rock Island.
Albert Sivyer, son of f.. w. Sivyer,
a wealthy Milwaukeean, was drowned off
Nantucket, Mass, by the capsizing of
small catboat in which he and two
friends, Allan Robinson Of New York
and Edmund Fitzgerald of Troy, were
sailing.
David G. Williams of Cambria, aged
g years, who was bitten by a rat two
weeks before, died the other day from
blood poisoning which resulted from tho
bite Mr. Williams was a member Of the
lower house of the last Legislature. He
served in the Civil war.
AS a result of eating mushrooms pick
ed in their yard the entire family of six
of B. L. Schiller of La Crosse, and
guest, Mrs. A. Clark of Chicago, were
made seriously i'll with ptomaine poison
ing. 1t Is thought that toadstools were
mixed with the mushrooms.
Reports come from Springville that a
very severe electrical and hail storm did
great damage in that vicinity. Lightning
struck several farm buildings and the
hail which followed was so heavy that
it laid ripened grain low and in many
places did great damage to old crops.
The clay bed discovered at Milton on
the Borden farm proves to be remarka-
bly, good for making glazed pottery. Some
of the largest manufacturers in Chicago
are becoming interested. There Is an
unlimited amount of clay. Somebody
will doubtless build factory there soon.
Fully dressed in dainty summer raj
ment, Miss Linet Whitaker dived into
the swimming pool of the Milwaukee
Athletic Club and rescued Miss Irma
Reel from drowning. 1t was woman's
day at the club and dozens of society
girls in swimming costume were taking
lessons.
August FEELING, boy of 20, was killed
in the plant of the Wausau Paper Mills
Company at Brokaw. He was engaged
in oiling a shaft when his overalls got
caught and wound him about the rapidly
revolving piece of steel. At every revo-
fore the machine could be stopped he
was so badly injured that he died two
hours later.
George Koerble, a Kewaskum mason,
while fixing a chimney, fell backwards
from a scaffold thirty feet high, receiv-
ing internal injuries which will proba-
bly, prove fatal. Joseph Miller, while at
work at the Lay residence, in the same
town, fell from an eight-foot scaffold,
landing with his head on the foundation
below. Miller was unconscious for near
ly one-half hour.
The four men convicted of robbing the
Montford bank in Grant County, three
years ago, were discharged from the pris-
on at Waupun. Harry Dewitt was imme-
diately arrested by United States mar
shall and taken to Oshkosh. J. s. Berry,
elias Dago Frank, was arrested by
sheriff from Illinois. Hopkins and Mon
tague did not have any officers to meet
them and made straight for Chicago.
Judge B. T. Dunwiddie rendered de-
cision touching the motion to dissolve the
injunction against the striking machin-
lists of the Berlin works at Beloit. The
motion was denied, but certain clauses
were modified. 1t is regarded as a par
tial victory for the strikers. The strikers
are permitted the use of moral suasion
and other peaceful methods to prevent
workmen from entering the Berlin en-
ploy.
Phil Lounsbury, Madison market
gardener, was shot in the forehead by
revolver in the hands of a boy, one of
crowd of eight or ten who were trying
to steal melons from his wagon. Louns-
bury struck one of the boys with his
whip and the boy fired, the bullet strik-
ing him in the right eyebrow The boys
then ran. The bullet struck the bone and
dropped out. 1t was from a small re-
volver and the wound will not prove Sc
rious.
Col. J. II. Knight, one Of Wisconsin's
most prominent lumbermen, who for
years lived at Ashland, being closely iden-
tilted with the development of northern
Wisconsin and particularly of Ashland,
died at Watertown from cancer OF the
throat. He was 81 years of age. He
served in the regular army during the
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