Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-30

horse.
The Baraboo County Board of Super
visors rejected the proposition to build
a new court house.
Peter Snyder of Appleton has not been
seen since his home burned and his
friends fear that he persisted in the
flames.
d. e. Means, Joseph O'Leary and Oil
YER Thoreson of Grantsburg were sent to
the county Jail on charges Of illegal
liquor selling.
Burlington passenger train struck
freight train at De Soto and fifteen cars
were thrown into the Mississippi river.
No one was injured.
William James received telegram an
nouncing the accidental shooting of his
brother, Samuel James Of Dexterville,
who was about 30 years old.
The Omaha railway is after a gang Of
coal thieves in Superior. For some time
the road has been Systematically robbed
Of coal at the rate of about 1000 tons
year.
Mrs. Robert Brannen, who committed
suicide at the Del Prado Hotel in Chi
cago, was formerly Miss Lulu Petit,
one Of tn eleading society women of Ke-
nosha.
Every county office in Racine County
is to be salaried, this being demanded by
| the members of the County Board after
granting salary to Robert Mutter Of
$6,75O.
The establishment of a general store
| for the Union people of Neenah, in which
only Union goods will be sold, will come
up at the next meeting of the trades
council.
Robert Rudolph, formerly Of tie Mil
waukee City Council, has been arrested
on the charge of receiving a $1,000 bride
to secure the passage of a switch track
ordinance.
The Jefferson Ice Company has started
work at Powers lake on what will be
the largest icehouse in the State. 1t
will cover six acres and hold 100000
tons of ice.
Prof. c.. O. Merica, formerly in charge
Of the industrial school at Waukesha
has been engaged by Lawrence Univer-
sity and will begin work in Appleton the
first Of the year.
The warehouse owned by John Swim
gle was destroyed by fire at Muscoda.
1t contained $1,000 worth of cheese, own
ed by the. Brehm company of Chicago,
and was insured for $1,000.
A prairie fire threatened to destroy
thousands of dollars worth of proper
ty between Racine and Coriss. 1t is
believed that spark from a passing To-
connective set fire to the grass.
Henry Bean and Daniel Eastick fell
from the third story of the new hotel
building in Beloit 10 the basement. Bean
RECEIVED injuries which may prove fatal.
Eastick escaped with a few bruises.
Mrs. William Bryant, aged SO, died at
the home of her grandson, Frank Ire
wyn, in Palmyra. She was the wife Of
therlat Rev. Mr.. Bryant and resided in
Jefferson County for over half CEN
fury.
:. In an alteration over the price of
wood which Herman Jewel was deliver
ing to Thomas North, colored, i'll La
Crosse, the latter knocked Jewels ear off
with a club and otherwise pounded him
badly.
Mark, Carney, the little son of Henry
Carney, was burned to death at his home
in Kenosha. The child was playing near
a stove, when his clothes caught fire. His
mother is Frustrated by the shock and
may die.
Joseph Lachet of Racine, who served
on the United States ship Wilmington
during the Spanish American war, re-
ceived a communication from the War
Department advising him that he was
entitled to $500 prize money.
Authority has been granted by Bishop
Schwebach of La Crosse to build Cath
olic church in the Russian settlement
twenty miles south of Cumberland. The
Greek Catholic Church at that place is
the only one Of it's kind in Wisconsin.
After being gagged and strapped to a
bed, Otto Pelikan, former leading drug
gist of Racine, now in business at Chi
cago, was there robbed of a gold watch
worth 500 and $50, the watch having
been presented to him for saving 2 wom-
ans life.
Henry Buesing Of GIidden committed
suicide by placing the muzzle of a shot
gun in his mouth and pushing the trig
ger with a stove poker. He was IS years
old and had been sick long time. He
came from Sheboygan two years ago.
He is survived by widow and six chill
dren.
Four well-known business men, while
en- route TO fire in Manitowoc, were
overtaken on the Wisconsin Central lift
bridge by a switch engine, going to haul
out some burning freight cars. Three of
them hung by their hands from the tres
tie, and the fourth jumped into the river.
He was rescued.
Joseph Kadoff of Mishicott has report
ed an attempt at hold-up and robbery
on the road between Manitowoc and Two
Rivers. Kadoff bears the marks Of a
struggle, having received injury to the
face from a blow with a club welded by
one of the two assailants. The highway
men were frightened away by approach
ing pedestrians.
The death Of Daniel Newman of La
Crosse has revealed to the poor authori-
ties a pitiful case of insanity which has
been kept from the world by him. Mrs.