Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-19

Louis Budge's body was brought home
to Oshkosh from Princeton, where he
drowned.
J. B. Address, owner of the hotel in
Hammond, hanged himself. The cause
is unknown.
Henry Hertel, Brunette Junction
farm hand committed suicide by hanging.
Dependency was the cause.
Burglars entered the store of Flickner
Il Vosler at Delton and carried away
goods valued at several hundred dollars.
Herman Osthoff of Elkhart Lake has
purchased Princess Chic, the fast race
horse owned by Gus Schrage of Sheboy-
gan.
Andrew Knudtson, a native of Nor
way, died in Stoughton. He was 40 years
of age and leaves a wife in Alesand,
Norway.
The skin from six bullfrogs grated on
his foot has saved that member for Mat
Berries Of Kenosha. The lad is now on
the road to recovery.
While hunting ducks at Mirror lake,
o. Manning of Baraboo accidentally hit
j. 5. Allendale in the face. The shot
were removed and he will recover.
The girls of the GAINESVILLE high school
have this fall formed several classes in
athletics that will take up the Swedish
system under the direction Of Miss Mabel
Fletcher.
William HI. Garfield, secretary of the
Sank County Old Settlers Association,
while building an imitation of a big Cal
ifornia tree at Devils Lake, fell from
ladder and broke his hand.
George A. Gerhard, manager of the
Central Hotel in Elkhart Lake, has pur-
chased six~lots Of valuable property from
the GOttfried estate. 1t is reported that
$4,000 hotel will be erected.
The record for asking questions, fool
ish and otherwise, was broken in the
Circuit Court in Sheboygan by two at
torneys, who asked 1904 in three hours
about some damaged cheese.
Edward LAURA, who came to Milwau-
kee few days ago from Chicago and
of whom little is known, has committed
suicide by shooting because of despon-
dency. Lauria's home was in Hamburg,
Germany, where, from letters found on
his person, it is thought he was well con-
nected.
Charles Nelson of Milwaukee, who
was found guilty of embezzling the funds
of his labor union, was sentenced to
year in the house Of correction. He adj
mitted the shortage, but pleaded that the
officers of the union forced him to lend
them the money to gamble with. They
denied this.
Prominent Methodists held services in
the cell at the county Jail in La Crosse
occupied by the Rev. Nathan Wood,
Winona minister, who is under arrest
charged with stealing chickens. The SER
vices consisted Of prayers, in which for
giveness for the Rev. Mr.. Woods sins
was asked.
August Baumgardt, formerly Kan
sas farmer, the inventor of revolving
life-saving boat, nearly lost his life at
Racine while trying to repair the ma
chine. Ills clothing was caught in the
shafting and he was hurled about sew
eral times and would probably have been
killed had not his clothing been torn from
his body.
6. NJ. Mead, an expert mason en-
plOyed on the construction Of new beet
sugar factory in GAINESVILLE, and residing
in Chicago, drew his pay and after mail
ing $40 to his wife invested the balance
in whisky. Then he started to walk on
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad
tracks and was struck and killed by a
passing train. His neck, arms and legs
were fractured and his death was in
Simultaneous:
Bessie Blish, daughter of a prominent
resident Of Racine, was married at Chi
cago to Peter w. Radamacher, who is
employed as painter in one of the large
wagon works. 1t appears that on a re-
cent night, at the home of the girls
parents, Mr.. Radamacher nearly cut the
fingers of his left hand off with a bowie
knife. 1t is claimed that he threatened
some of the lives of her family and when
he was ordered from the house Bessie
went with him. Her father, it is said,
tried in every way to get her to come
home, but she refused.
In Barron r. T. Walker, known as
"Buck'' Walker, was convicted OF muir
der in the second degree for having kill
ed his daughters lover Oscar Burns. The
story, as told by the witnesses, is as fol-
lows: On the night Of July II last Oscar
Burns started out to escort his fancee,
Miss Lisle Walker, home from church.
The young people prolonged their walk
and it was late hour when Miss Walk
er returned home. Her father had hunt
ed for her and when he learned she had
been with Burns he went up town,
bought a revolver, hunted up the young
man, took him down to his house to pos
itiyely identify him, and then, it is charg-
ed, shot at him three times, enc bullet
passing through the lower part of Burns
abdomen, causing wound from which
he died two weeks later. Burns made
an ante-mortem statement to District At
torney Soderberg the day he died.
August SchwaItes, now serving term
in the States prison for the murder of an
aged couple near Spencer, may have been
or still is insane, says the State board Of
control, and he will be examined to de-
termine the condition of his mind. The
murder was one of the most cold-blooded
affairs that ever happened in the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Klokaw were an