Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-02
State Items of Interest.

Edward Schinnick, aged 73, of Mel
vina, was killed by being thrown out of
his sleigh.
The Peterson family, in the Web Lake
community, are quarantined on account
of smallpox.
Articles Of incorporation of the First
State Bank at Elmwood have been APP
proved. The capital is $1,000.
John Tvesme CT Blair who froze both
of his lower limbs few days ago at that
place, died after several days Of great
agony
The farm house of George Jaquish, in
the town of Door, burned and nothing
was saved. His wife was sick at the
time. Loss $1,000, partly insured.
August Malfroid of the town of Treble
hung himself subsequent to the seizure
of his personal property by the sheriff.
He was % years of age and unmarried.
Anton j. Mailman, one of the leading
Democrats of Sheboygan County and for
upwards of ten years chairman of the
county committee, died Of heart trouble.
Hundreds Of wild ducks that have
water Of Lake Michigan have been froz-
Ell to death and lie strewn along the
beach.
The Stoughton Wagon Company re-
Gently shipped 800 wagons to Russia.
Later the company received notice that
the wagons had been captured and con-
fiscated by the Japanese.
During binding snow storm, train
men turned the wrong switch in the yards
at Spooner, and a train was backed into
the freight depot, smashing ill the north
end and breaking up two cars.
Justice John IT, Lee of Corliss is in
vestigating the circumstances surround
ing the finding of the body of a dead
child in the rear of house that has not
been occupied for a number OF months.
The Chippewa Valley Electric Rail-
way Company has mortgaged it's proper
ty for $750,000 to the Security Trust
Company, Camden, n. J. OF the sum,
S250,000 will be used for building new
lines.
Charles Pride, Kenosha timekeeper,
nearly died from the effects of some
toothache medicine which he obtained
from drug store without prescription.
The combination contained laudanum
and chloroform.
Mrs. John Baird of Superior was
found dead in her sewing room, having
choked to death. No one was in the room
at the time. Mrs. Baird was 40 years
of age. She was prominent i'll society
a fairs and oh n riff ah1n work
Mrs. Catherine Stanton, a full-blooded
Indian princess, % years of age, the first
pioneer settler and oldest inhabitant of
Chiffon, is dead Mrs. Stanton once
rode twenty miles on horseback over
rough roads to save the county seat for
Chiffon.
S. f. Josephs steward at the Hotel
Racine, attempted to turn the steam on
under the coffee urn, not knowing that
the coffee was already boiling. The
coffee shot up and covered his face, head
and shoulders, inlicting most serious
burns, which may prove fatal.
Dan +. Lyden, said to be connected
with the firm of w. S. Mills & Co.. Mil
waukee, committed suicide by inhaling
chloPoform from a. sponge saturated with
the drug. He left a note bequeathing his
body to the State of Wisconsin. to be
given to some medical college.
DIR. Linley, administrator of the estate
of Minnie Hunter of Chippewa Falls.
who died in November, leaving property
worth $4,000 has located the mother,
sister and brother of the deceased at
Halsborg Sweden. A sister from Omaha,
Neb., claimed to be sole heir, and already
has part of the property.