Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-29

Frank Winkler is IN Jail at Stevens
Point, charged with stabbing his broth
er-in-law, John Hefta, on their way home
from dance. Hefta may die.
DR.. Andrews Of Ashland has been APP
pointed State medical examiner. DR.. An
drews is president of the Wisconsin
Homeopathic Medical Society.
Charles F. Randall, brother of Gen.
George M. Randall, U. S. A, and Mrs.
Charles L. McKenney of Chicago, COM
united suicide at J GAINESVILLE while despon-
dent
| Burglars gained an entrance into the
| jewelry store of Postmaster H. ]. Smith
at Racine and got away with $1,000
worth Of silverware, opera glasses and
jewelry.
Game Warden Henry Schultz has re-
ceived notice of his dismissal as deputy
game warden. He is accused Of having
charged both the State and Chippewa
County fees.
Joe Renal of Gordon spent six hours
buried in quicksand to his neck. He was
released after four teams and thirty men
had succeeded in scooping away the
! treacherous mire.
Roy Peterson, formerly first baseman
for La Crosse, has signed with the Den
yer league team. Don Cameron of the
La Crosse team has gone with the
Helena Pacific league team.
Julius NVolskie was wounded with a
pitchfork by Jacob Sem near Fountain
City, and may die. Sem claims he act
ed in self-defense and that Wolskie be-
gan the trouble by a dispute about
wages.
Two miners while looking over land
just east of Brandon have discovered
what they think to be a copper vein.
They have taken an option on the land
and have begun to dig to ascertain the
extent of the property.
The wife of Sheriff Holmes Of Trem-
pealeau County prevented the escape OF
murderer from the Jail at Whitehall.
She heard a sound of firing and, going
down with a revolver and accompanied
by her bulldog, she put the would-be
rescuers to rout.
Frank Rawley, a cripple, has been
causing the street railway company and
the police much trouble at Marinette.
Several times he has sat down on the
tracks in front of rapidly approaching
cars and has been pulled off just in time
to escape death His legs are cut OFF
close to the trunk.
Officials who recaptured eight boys
who had escaped in their night clothes
from the Waukesha industrial school
were in a predicament to know what to
do with them and finally had to hold
them in hiding at Mukwonago while the
village was secured for overalls to cover
their nakednesS. In their anxiety to es-
cape some of the boys had lost even
their night shirts.
In fire which destroyed the Central
hotel, the largest hotel in Fountain City,
three of the guests were aroused from
sleep just in time to escape with their
lives by jumping from second-story win
dows. Isadore Putnam, colored por-
ter, was seriously burned while resculng
q sick man. The hotel was one OF the
landmarks of western Wisconsin, having
been built in 1850.
Richard Trist, the former agent of the
Chicago and Northwes tern Railway
Company of Racine, had battle with
burglars at his home. Several shots were
fired, but none of them struck either
of them. One grazed the head of Mr..
Trist and lodged in doorway at his side.
Two other burglaries were committed in
the same block with Mr.. Trist's home,
aid it is claimed that about $50 was Sc
cured at these tive places.
The Sheboygan City Water Company
has discovered that the storms which hit
it's crib very hard, have caused all the
stone in the crib to be carried away, and
is now preparing to build a new crib
which will be 28x12 feet in size, large
enough, it is presumed, to prevent the
swaying Of the intake pipe in the water
as has been the case on frequent Occa-
sions, endangering the supply of water,
since the pipe might easily have been
snapped by the force of the sea and the
swell.
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank OF
Bangor was placed in the hands of the
State bank examiner the other evening.
Its failure is ascribed to the curiosity OF
the patrons of a local telephone COM
pany A short time ago q stakeholder
visited the bank, and the fact that he
was looking over the books was tele-
phoned to some party interested. The
telephone message was sent over
''neighborhood'' line, and it happened
that everybody on the line was listening.
rs result there was run on the bank
which it was unable to withstand
Max Winkel, a young man residing
near Arcadia, was arrested charged with
the murder of James Campbell, which
it is said occurred on Campbelps farm
near Arcadia last May. Campbells body
was found at the edge of a creek not far
from his home. The railroad men had
always greeted him in passing, and, after
missing him for several days, they made
a search. A shotgun, some cartridges
and an old spade covered with blood
and hair were found lying near him.
Detectives have been working on the case
ever since the crime was committed.
Winkel is now in the county Jail at
Whitehall.
At Corlss, manufacturing suburb
seven miles west of Racine, the sheriff
and chief of police found counterfeit
ers' den and complete outfit Of dies, met
ais, acids and $500 in counterfeit dol