Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-30


dent.
Gov. La Toilette announced the APP
pointment of Oscar Fricba as registec
of deeds of Clark County, vice Charles
Cornelius, resigned.
In Kenosha Judge Eelden sentenced
John Harkins and Charles Loescher to
the Green Bay reformatory for indie
terminate terms for burglary.
In collision between street car
and Chicago and Northwestern freight
train in Manitowoc, nine persons were
injured and the street car demolished.
Edward Canning, a member of the
firm of Canning Bros. & Co. of Spring
Valley, died at Fargo, N. D., of appen-
dicitis. He leaves a widow and child.
Miss Lizzie Konrad of the town Of
Russell died of heart failure at the age
Of AZ years. She was one of the heavi-
est persons in that section, weighing 800
pounds.
The largest black bass ever caught in
Wisconsin was landed from Paddock
lake by A. T.. Austin of Chicago. The
fish measured 26 inches and weighed 712
pounds.
I10TIudu NlIShNg d DIdhcIltdn Ou u
Northwestern train, was instantly killed
at Sheboygan Falls while cutting out
car, He was % years old and lived at
Amherst.
a cloudburst in the vicinity of Edgar
village caused the Rib river and Scotch
creek to overflow their banks and the
village was under water, causing much
damage to household goods.
Hiram Smell, sixty years a resident
of Walworth County, died. aged "a years.
He was the only brother of Millionaire
Amos Smell, who was mysteriously muir
dered in Chicago a number of years ago.
The store of Charles Fischer & Son
Company in Lake Mills narrowly escap-
ed destruction by fire, the blaze originat-
ing in a pile of cotton. Spontaneous COM
bustion was the cause. The damage was
slight.
Prof. e. d. Wright, professor Of Latin
at Lawrence University, fell on the stone
steps of the west entrance to University
Hall in Appleton and broke his right leg.
The leg is one which has always been
crippled.
William Kroehler, a farmer in the
town of Wauwatosa, drank carbolic acid
and expired in the presence of his wife.
Financial losses caused the act, it is be-
lieved. He was 38 years old and leaves
three children.
Cattle buyers from Mexico have been
at Lake Mills and made a purchase of
Holstein dairy stock, selecting twelve
head from the herd of William Everson
& Sons. For these, with eighteen other
animals, they paid $4,000.
Because her husband "prayed to God
that the sun would never shine again on
Nov. 49," that day being the anniver-
sary of their wedding, Mrs. Blanche
e. Damerell of Milwaukee asks for a
divorce from Mark H. Damerell.
John M. Cook, Third Ward saloon
keeper in Milwaukee, who was sentenced
last spring to two years Imprisonment
in the house Of correction for perpetrat-
ing an election fraud, failed to perfect
his appeal and was taken to the work
house to serve his sentence.
All pending improvements have been
stopped and city officials are in alarm
because three attempts to sell La Crosse
city bonds have failed. Two unsatis-
factory bids on $4,000 of street improve
ulcIL JULIUS WclC lCJSClCus AA OAAt "OOuS
100000 worth of bonds, which were to
have been sold this year, are still in the
vault at the City Hall.
1t has become plainly apparent that
Rev. Father Loehman of Marinette was
in earnest in announcing that "courting"
must be stopped so far as pupils of pa
rochial schools went. Some of the pu-
pills seemed to think the priest was bluff
ing and continued the practice. Two
young girls attending the parochial school
were found in company of young men
and were Immediately expelled.
The body of Charles Carlson was
found on the bay shore near Nash by
couple of boys who were duck hunting.
Carlson and a comrade, whose body has
not vet been found, set out in sailbOat
one afternoon several weeks ago for
Washburn. They ballasted the boat
heavily with pig iron and a severe storm
striking them, the boat and it's occupants
sank.
The farmers of Pleasant Prairie, as
result of several accidents which have
recently taken place, have begun cru
SADIE against automobiles and have for
mally notified chauffeurs that they have
armed themselves and will resist any
further encroachments. 1t is not their
purpose, they say, to shoot anyone, but
to puncture with buckshot the tires Of
every auto which comes into their neigh
borhood.
A special train consisting of an engine
and two coaches, containing President
j. J. Hill of the Northern Securities
Company, President Harris, the first and
second presidents, Chief Engineer
Breckenridge and other officials of the
Burlington, ran into two large powders
which had been washed on the track by
a rain storm near Alma. The engine was
badly damaged. Outside of a bad shak-
ing up and a few bruises none OF the
officials was injured
Ezra Combs, a Kentuckian, is wanted
by the Forest County authorities for
shooting two men at North Crandon.
Combs became engaged in an alteration
regarding family matters in a saloon
there and suddenly pulled revolver and