Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-16


Thomas W. Finn, a fagman on one
of the gravel trains, was killed near
Ionia by passenger train. 1t Is thought
he went to sleep beside the track.
The postofiice and store of A. Alien
burg at Dancy was robbed. Three stran-
gers seen in the village in the afternoon
are suspected and officers are now on
their trail.
William Youcum was killed In Keno
sha by touching an electric wire. He
died almost instantly. Youcum was in
spector of streets and sewers, % years
of age and unmarried
The monotony of the opening of school
was broken in one of the La Crosse dis
tricts by one little boy objecting so siren
uously to going that he had to be carried,
kicking and squealing, in his fathers
arms to his seat.
Dedication services for the new Meth
odist Church at Olivet occurred Sun
day with very large attendance. Rev.
McKibbin, who built the church, will not
return to his passionate again, as he has
larger field in view.
A convict serving a life sentence In
Waupun prison escaped while the gang
were loading a car in the "bull pen" He
made direct for cornfeld about a mile
distant, but was captured after a short
hunt by Clerk Campbell and Deputy
Warden Harvey.
The southern fever seems. to have
struck Tomah and vicinity, as several
people have decided to locate in Tennes-
see. Among those who will permanently
reside in that State are: w. Z. Lock
wood, George d. Bigelow, II. 4. Johnson
and H. II. Weaver.
Mrs. w. o. Carpenter, wife of a Chi
cago lumberman, had a narrow escape
from death while out driving in Mari
nette. A runaway team dashed on her
carriage and the tongue of the wagon
was driven through the side of the car
riage, just missing Mrs. Carpenter.
After faithful dog had saved the
family of William Graf, Milwaukee,
from death by gas he was shot by
policeman as mad. Anna Radke, a SER
want. was found dead from the gas when
the barking of the dog aroused the fam
lily and saved them from like fate.
BY an explosion of sodium with which
he was experimenting, Max A. I'usse-
WITT was injured in the face and eyes
and may lose his eyesight He Is in
structor in chemistry in the State normal
school in Milwaukee and while alone in
the laboratory met with the accident.
Sheriff Ackley arrested Eddie Lief,
aged II, at his home at Madison on
charge of attempting to wreck the Wis
consin Central limited at Albertsville a
month ago. Heff was held for trial with
out bond in the Circuit Court Young
Heff does not deny his guilt, saying that
he committed the deed to ''get even" with
the company for putting him off train.
A Northwestern passenger engine
hauling a heavy train left the track just
south of Cudahy, bumped along on the
ties for 100 rods and then tumbled into
the ditch. Although the train was run
ming toward Chicago at a speed Of fifty
miles an hour, no cars left the track
and no one was hurt. Nothing can be
found wrong with the track and the en-
CINE seems all right.
William Smith, rich cattle dealer and
all old resident of Waukesna County, has
appealed to Sheriff School for protection,
claiming that he has been threatened
with death unless he pays $1,000 to an
unknown person within a few days. The
threat was made through the medium of
an anonymous letter. Sheriff School has
appointed a special deputy TO guard Mr..
Smiths home in Pewaukee lay and
night.
Harry Stoker of Brooklyn, N. Y, en-
ployed as night clerk at the Williams
Hotel in Manitowoc some time past, ie
under arrest on charge of burglary,
! having been caught in the act Of rifing
the room of the manager of the house.
His capture and arrest was made only
after long chase in which the fugitive
sought to escape Oh a freight train in the
| Wisconsin Central yards. He is p years
of age and was recently discharged from
| the employment at the hotel.
Miss Lillian Bredritch of Chicago has
the honors for the most remarkable
catch that has been recorded in Wiscon-
sin during the fishing season. In the
| neighborhood Of Horlick's dam, at Ra-
cine, in company with her father, she
hooked what at first was supposed to be
q fish of unusual size. When brought
to the surface, however, it was found
that she had pulled up a dilapidated
| looking pair OF man CFOuSerS. 1uc
pockets were searched and in them was
| found So ID.
John Schmitt, a butcher of the village
| of Pleasant Prairie, swore out warrants
| for six prominent men of that place,
charging them with pouring hot tar over
his head and body. Schmitt had trouble
with some of his neighbors, and it is said
they took this method of getting rid OF
him. When they went to his place they
| told him that if he would leave and not
come back they would do him no harm.
| When he refused they produced pail of
| hot tar and a bag of feathers. They
poured the tar down his head and back.
| The mans screams brought relief and
| his assailants fled.
| A bad wreck happened on the Chr
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway
| near Star Lake. A work train driven by
Engineer James with Conductor Murphy
| in charge was struck by logging train
in charge of Conductor Carman, with
| Charles Blair as engineer and Thomas