Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-02


Gle valued at $50.
The body of Fred Mueller, the Milwau-
kee youth who was drowned Aug. 1, was
recovered four miles south of where the
accident occurred, outside the Sheboygan
city limits.
The son Of John Frisch, farmer liv-
ing short distance south of Amigo,
was accidentally shot and instantly kill
ed while out hunting a short distance
from home.
The Stoughton Mill Company adopted
a resolution to the effect that an electric
line be constructed to connect Stoughton,
Cambridge and Oregon, providing fran
chises can be obtained.
The Kersten bank litigation was COM
pletely settled when the last payment to
creditors, under the agreement Of a year
ago, was made. The settlement was for
go cents On the dollar.
The City Council of Waupun has
passed an ordinance regulating the speed
of automobiles and motor cycles not to
exceed six miles an hour, and fixing
penalty Of So to 500 for each offense.
The Chippewa Falls Common Council
has adopted the general charter law to
substitute the special now in use On
account of the manner of collecting taxes
it will not be put into use until Jan. 1.
William Lippe, of Burlington, 40 years
of age, while coming down a hill with
load of rails and ties, fell off and was
run over, sustaining injuries from which
he died. He leaves wife and one child.
The Roddis Veneer Company of
Marshfeld, which recently purchased
sawmill and $4,000 acres of timber lands
near Park Falls, has plans perfected to
build fourteen miles of railroad extend
ing to the timber tracts at a cost of $685.
900.
Fire broke out at the Phoenix Manu-
featuring Company's plant at Eau Claire
and destroyed the woodworking depart
ment and the lumber warehouse. The
rest of the plant was saved with diff
Guilty, The damage was about $4,000,
insured
James McCauley of Desoto is dead,
the result of the kick Of horse. After
he was kicked and in spite of the intense
pain he mounted another animal and
rode to town, almost fainting from ex-
haustion and loss of blood. He died
shortly after.
G. r. Goldsworthy, o. Oliver and G..
Martin, real estate agents, engineered
one of the largest real estate transfers
known in recent years, when they sold
for John Parrish of Grand Rapids, a re-
tired lumberman, 5000 acres of cut-over
lands in Wood and Marathon counties to
the Waukesha Land and Investment
Company of Waukesha, Wis. The con-
sideration paid was $35, 700.
AS Miss Marie Jacobson, of Superior,
was preparing to retire she discovered
well-known young man peeking at her
window. She ran to the door and the
man bolted into a hiding place. A passer-
by was summoned he dragged the prowl-
er from the hiding place and held him
while the enraged young woman got
revolver and took couple of shots at the
offender. He was not hit but was badly
scared.
Cornell University, through Charles
Macarthur, manager of it's Office in Eau
Claire, has just sold the South Musca-
tine Lumber Company of Muscatine,
Iowa, upward of 10000 acres of hard
wood timber lands in the southeastern
corner of Sawyer County for 100000.
In view Of the recent reported purchase
Of the old Valley company's mill site
by this company it is presumed that they
will erect extensive mills and manufac-
ture this timber in Eau Claire
Fred Cara, an Italian, is said 10 have
assaulted a fellow countryman named
Anton Lavono in Kenosha, with still
leto, and it is feared that the latter may
die. Cara has been madly in love with
an Italian girl named Lena Pacini, a
fruit vender, and when he saw her in
with LacOnio as they came
from the opera house it is said he made
a dash at his rival from behind, reached
over his shoulder and cut a great cash
down the right side of his face. He
then used stilleto, penetrating his vic
tins lung.
An unusual flag raising took place
near Glenwood Springs, Lake Geneva.
A. G. Douglass, who owns the point of
man first viewed the lake, employed Cap
tain Eph Sanford to plant the tallest
pole that could be obtained, and Old
Glory was run up and is now waving in
the breeze. The banner will be kept
dHOdL each SuIuu1cT SedSOH. IL
is claimed that the white man who made
the discovery was John Brink, who is 95
years old and is now living with his
daughter, Miss Fay Brink, near the old
village of Crystal Lake, III. 1t is known
that Mr.. Brink in the early days was an
engineer in the employ of the government
and that he gave the lake its present
name, choosing it from the New York
body of water of the same name.
Thomas r. Morgan of Oshkosh, Alder
man from the Seventh Ward and presi-
dent of the Morgan Sash, Door and
Blind Company, was murdered by Fred
Hampel, laborer, who hanged himself
by his suspenders in the city lookup after
he had fought a desperate battle with
another employee of the firm and had been
and arrested. Immediately af-
ter the shooting the employees Of the Nor
gan factory and of others assembled near
the lookup, and lynching was talked Of
until it became known that Hampel had
taken his own life. Then the crowd dis
Dersed Morgan was walking toward bis