Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-10-21


riding horseback.
The pearl button factory of Genoa, it's
principal factory and business institution,
burned to the ground.
Miss Mary Keefe, leader in Catholic
church work in Racine, has entered the
convent at Mount Cinnamon, Iowa.
Fred Frickenbach of Flintville was
killed in a wreck of the Milwaukee road
train on the Escanaba and Lake Superior
line.
Charles Desjardin, so years, old and a
married man, was steamed to death at
paper mill in Marinette as the result Of
an explosion.
In the contest for the school clerkship
of Brule, the courts hold MartinSon was
elected, any agreement to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Andrew Z. Larson was attacked and
severely hurt near Beechwood by large
golden eagle. Larson, who is a man of
powerful build, finally killed the bird.
The strike of over sixty of the en-
ployes of the Art Study Company in
GAINESVILLE has practically come TO an
end, as nearly all have returned to work.
William Banks of Ashland was ac-
quilted of the charge of numbering Jo-
seph Denomie at Odanah on the night
of Aug. 90 Banks pleaded self-defenSe
and justifable homicide.
From Mayor Nelson it is learned that
Racine has secured new manufacture
ing concern which will build electric
vans, wagons, carriages and automobiles.
The concern will employ 200 men.
Michael Hughes of Chicago was
drowned in Green lake off Sherwood
Forest point. The body was recovered.
Hughes was working on a seawall at
Victor +. Lawson's Green lake summer
home.
IN New London Mrs. Andrew Luib
committed suicide by cutting her throat
with a razor. She was found dead in the
barn. She leaves a husband and three
small children. Mr.. Luib is rural mail
carrier.
George Waite of Rock Elm had tu-
NOR on his neck so he couldn't wear a
collar. The doctor offered 70 remove it,
but George sharpened his knife, got seme
cocaine and a mirror, and cut 1t out for
himself, doing neat job.
"A SOIO CIOSS anu d lSuleL ALOuL we
Plus have been received by Sister Mar
garet, superioress of st. Augustine's hos
pital of Minocqua. The cross is sent in
recognition of the holiness, good works
and piety of the sister.
J. f. Wiley, man we'll known in
Rock County and prominent in business
circles, was found dead in his room in
GAINESVILLE. Death, it is thought, was
due to asthma The man had lived alone
for a number Of years.
Gustave Myers shot and killed himself
accidentally at Stinett. He had left
loaded shotgun beside his porch and went
out in his night clothes to bring it in.
The trigger struck the edge of the porch
and the charge went through his stom-
ach.
Smallpox has put in an appearance In
Douglas County again. The first case
this fall arrived from Hines logging
camp. Axel Tuomela is the patient and
the case is one of the most serious ever
cared for at the Superior isolation hos
pital.
An attempt was made to rob the store
of Hanson & Peterson at Gushing. Tho
burglars drilled a hole in the safe and
used dynamite. The safe was badly shat
tered, but the lock remained intact. The
explosion aroused the proprietor, and the
robbers fed.
Secretary G. H. Gafin Of the Univer-
sity Y. M. G. A. said that $4,000 of the
$4,000 needed for the new Y. M. O. A.
building in Madison had been raised
and that as soon as the balance of 3d.
900 was subscribed work on the building
would begin.
Fred Heiden, Jr., who was detained at
Ludington, Mich, recently, but allowed
to come back to Milwaukee, was arrested
when he stepped off the boat. He was
taken to police headquarters and gave
bail later in the police court. He is
charged with grating" while inspector
of the house of correction.
At the hospital in Manitowoc, where
the bride is receiving attention as a re-
suit of having taken carbolic acid with
suicidal intent, Miss Anna Poh and Will
liam Smazel were uliited in marriage, the
service being read by the priest. The
groom has not yet attained the legal age
and the girl is but IS. There is little
hope for the recovery of Mrs Smazel
Burglars entered the office of the VOL
ter Brewing Company in Appleton and
made a bungling and unsuccessful at
tempt to break open the safe. They tore
the telephone from the wall, which caus-
ed the bell in the central office to ring,
and the girl operator, suspecting some
thing was wrong notified the police, but
the burglars had disappeared when the
officers reached the scene.
At Hsrper's Ferry a mob attacked Mr..
and Mrs. A. Wilson, evangelists, and
made them leave the town. The reason
given was that the place was in need
of no sky pilots outside the regular
preachers they kept on hand all the time.
The cool headed citizens, however, took
no hand in the performance and severely
criticise the mob. The assaulting party
was made up not only of some Of the
villagers, but also farmers from the sur
rounding country.
A claim of $4,000 which Fred Mueller
made against the estate of his deceased
AotLl,o~ Gue+oua Mua1lor has hoaD dis