Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-23


George L. Kingsley, Jr., was appoint
ed as special deputy fish and game war
den at La Crosse, to succeed Henry G.
Schultze, who resigned early in the sum
mer.
Cigarmakers of La Crosse will receive
an increase of 81 per 1000 in all shops.
The demand for the increase was made
several months ago by the Cigarmakers'
Union.
Charles Skogen, a farmer near Hol-
men, went to a neighbours house and af-
ter reciting his domestic troubles pulled
out a jackknife and cut his throat from
ear to ear, dying instantly.
A robbery of a jewelry store was COM
mitted during the Labor Day celebration
at Madison in broad daylight. The store
of James a. Buckmaster was entered by
a thief and booty amounting to $1,000
was secured.
Ole Erickson, a painter of Onalaska,
is in bed with lockjaw. He stepped on
a rusty nail several days ago, and al
though it gave him some pain, thought
nothing more of it. Little hope of his
recovery is entertained.
After breaking from the La Crosse jail
guards and making a desperate break for
liberty, Frank Wallis was surrounded
by armed officers on the railroad track a
mile from the Jail and captured. He
gave the officers a hard fight.
While riding a motor cycle at rapid
pace, Winsted Redman, a member of the
Racine Golf Club, was thrown and
struck across the iron beams of viaduct.
His face and head were seriously cut
and he sustained internal injuries.
Theodore Rritton Of Elmwood struck
his son Harvey, a young man of 20, over
the head with a club almost killing him.
The doctor thinks the boy will recover.
The feeling is high in the neighborhood,
and Mr.. Britton is severely blamed.
One Of the inmates of the Mendoza
asylum, William Conlin by name, grab
bed a razor and succeeded in cutting his
throat before the attendant could pre-
vent. He died soon after. He is 40
yeans old and leaves a wife and two
children.
a young son of Farrell Hopkins of
Manawa had gone out to play and not
returning, search was instituted and
his lifeless body was found where he
had been playing in the yard. His death
is supposed to have been caused by heart
disease.
For the second time within a year the
Rev Father Ladislaus Mscisz, pastor of
the Catholic churches of South NIilwau-
kee and Cudahy, was tried in the Dis
trict Court for assault and battery. He
was found guilty of slapping his organ
ist with a prayer book.
Max Hoffman of Sheboygan, while
working at New London was taken vio-
lently insane and it required three Off
GERS to move him to and from the court
room at Appleton. He was taken to the
northern hospital at Oshkosh and con-
fined in strait jacket.
Charles Heckel of Marshfeld fell and
broke his neck a few days ago and still
lives. He is totally paralyzed and is
likely to die at any minute Of suffocation,
if the reflex action of the muscles of the
diaphragm ceases. Heckel fell from a
wagon and struck on his head.
Mabel Victor Garland, a teacher in the
vacation school and a well-known young
woman of Milwaukee, committed suicide
in her bedroom by drinking carbolic acid.
Her mind had become overtaxed, her
family says, by her work the past sum-
mer as a teacher and a student.
Jacob Gronemus' 2-year-old baby met
an awful death by falling into tub of
hot syrup intended for making jelly. The
little one toddled to the side of the tub
of boiling fluid, and when no one was
looking fell into it. The child was dead
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at Mormon Coolie.
Rev. Father Lochman, pastor Of Our
Lady of Lourdes Church. the English
speaking Roman Catholic congregation
of Marinette has made the announce
ment from the pulpit that any boy or
girl in the parochial school keeping COM
pany" will be Immediately expelled, and
if they attend any dances during the
school year they will suffer the same
punishment. Father Lochman ended his
sermon by denouncing the practice of
young people parading the streets at
night, which he said was productive of
more evil than all the other influences
combined.
The Moulton will case has been de-
cided by the State Supreme Court in
favor of the heirs Of decedent and
against the woman who claimed to be
his widow. n. G. Moulton was a wealthy
money lender of Berlin. He died July 8,
1900, at the age of 80. Anna Bachin-
sky was Polish woman, who lived al
ternately< at Berlin and Milwaukee. She
was convicted twice at Berlin of con-
Quoting g disorderly house She main
tanned that she had been married to
Moulton at Milwaukee Sept. 81, 1897,
and when Moulton was in extremis she
took up her residence at his house and
was ousted only by legal proceedings.
Representatives Of the commercial as
sociations of fifteen cities have formed
State organization to represent all the
diversified industrial and mercantile in
terests of Wisconsin. The organization
will be completed by an election Oct 8.
The new organization will be known as
the Wisconsin Industrial and Mercantile
Association and its objects, as set forth
in the articles of Incorporation, are ''to
promote and advance the interests of
the mercantile, manufacturing and like