Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-06

| MCiflh L liNCp q Jcua5 AANA ASSANAA0
near Cambria, died from lockjaw, caus-
a corn shredder.
The Pharmacists of Barron County
met in Barron and organized County
Druggists Association, a branch Of the
nat onal association.
Dana's Third Regiment band will not
leave Marinette. At meeting the offer
made by La Crosse to Prof. Dana If
$1,000 for five years was duplicated by
Marinette.
Mrs. Lena Galmbacher, the aged moth
er Of Mrs. Jacob Rupert, dropped dead
at her daughters home in Kaukauna,
supposedly Of heart disease. Her age
was 80 years.
Chief Deputy Game Warden G. D.
Nelson will start out on a. tour Of the
State Jan. to check up the records
Of resident hunting licenses issued by
county clerks this year.
Gov. La Toilette has announced the
appointment Of G. S. McIndoe of Rhine
lander as member Of the State board
of medical examiners for term Of five
years, to succeed himself.
A GAINESVILLE street car crashed over a
30-foot embankment into gully. Mrs.
James Shearer Of GAINESVILLE was bruised
about the body, and Louis Roehm of
| Ashland had his right leg fractured.
1t is thought that a dog brought to
| the village Of Mindoro the diphtheria
germs which have been threatening the
lives Of some Of the prominent residents
! there. The epidemic is now under con-
troll.
John Hammel, a machinist at the Kim
berly mills in Appleton, broke his arm In
three places in an accident sustaining
exactly the same injuries as he did few
months ago. Amputation is deemed to
| be necessary.
The first divorce ever granted an
| Oneida Indian was given by Judge Good
| LAND in the Circuit Court in Appleton.
| Joseph Metoxen, aged So, was separated
from Lena Metoxen, aged Fl. Both are
| full-blooded Indians.
The S-year-old son of Carl Seidel Of
South Kaukauna was crushed under the
bob-sleds of load Of hay and probably
fatally hurt. A number of boys along
the streets were catching ON for rides
instead of being iii school.
The case Of James Packard, charged
with stealing q horse at Eagle last Jan
uary, brought the proceedings against
him to summary end by pleading gull
ty to charge Of burglarizing the livery
barn of Edward Whettam at Eagle last
January.
Prominent paper mill owners of Fox
River valley met at Appleton to discuss
ownership among themselves of pulpwood
timber lands in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Another meeting in the near future will
determine the extent of the enterprise 1t
is expected to involve millions.
After a separation of eighteen years,
John PITT, a well-known ManitowOc con-
tractor reunited with his son, Harry,
the recognition occurring through cous-
in of the young man who was employed
in surveying crew at Pigeon River
Young PITT had been adopted at the time
Of the death Of his mother, eighteen
years ago, and had since resided with
his foster-parents at HortOnville, the
father being unaware of his whereabouts.
Martin Phetteplace, who died Of pneu-
monia in Neenah at the age of &c years
and supposedly a pauper, has $500 in
vested somewhere. When he realized
that his days on earth were numbered, he
asked that a minister be sent to him.
Rev. J. e. Garrett, pastor of the First
Methodist Church, answered the sum-
| mons and the man was just making
statement to the effect that he had the
sum Of $500 invested and was about to
| tell where, when life became extinct.
An interesting legal fight has devel-
oped over the custody of Charles Deener,
| 13-year-old boy who was placed with
John Wohlwent of Juda by the Baptist
| Home Finding Society Of Chicago. lie
was taken from Wohlwent for alleged
cruelty by the County Court and would
have been restored by habeas corpus
proceedings in the Circuit Court had it
not been headed of by guardianship pro-
ceedings in the County Court The boys
| mother has been found and he may be
restored to her
A fire started in the Office OF Kennedy
& Belk's meat market in Lake Mills and
| destroyed a two-story double business
block occupied by Charles f. Butzine as
general store and Kennedy u Belk's
meat market, and did considerable dam
age to the stock in adjoining buildings
occupied by Charles Fischer & Son Com
pany, geIeral StoIe' A1alrlsoli ~ .1oohe
shoe store, the millinery stock of Miss e..
M. Schultz OF Milwaukee and the dental
parlors of Dr. e. H. Weber. Messrs.
Kennedy & Belk resided over their meat
market and barely escaped with their
lives. Mr.. Belk was overcome by smoke
and had to be carried from the building.
All their clothing and household goods
were consumed. The total loss amounts
to about $4,000.
Another sensational chapter to the
| Holmes shooting case was added the 9TH
err day when, unobserved by anyone, Mrs
Mary E. Holmes walked into Judge
Goodland's court in Appleton and asked
for a divorce from her husband, who is
in State prison for an assault with intent
i to kill The divorce was granted and