Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-02
NJ. e. Seymour of Dellona was gered

or Burr Oak was totally destroyed Dy
fire. Loss $4,000, partly insured.
The 16-year-old daughter of George w.
Ludof was run over by Nachtwey's bus
in Shawano. The child is not expected to
live.
Mrs. Julia Gavin, the second oldest
woman i'll the State, died in La Crosse.
aged 102 years. She was born in Ire
land and came to this State in 1910.
Rural carriers appointed: Plain, regu
lar. Alvin ]. Cooper; substitute. ]. J.
Cooper Saint Croix Falls. regular, Jo-
seph Gruler; substitute, William L. Snill.
Louis Peterson, farmer of Home
stead, was found by the wayside with
both feet frozen. Amputation was nee
essary. He is 80 and has large fam
lily.
A Chicago and Northwestern train on
the branch between Eland and Rossolt
ran off the end of the track into small
river at the latter place, killing Engineer
w. ID. Costello of Amigo.
President George C. Greene in his adj
dress at the annual meeting of the Wis
consin Bar Association at Milwaukee,
upheld the use Of the injunction, espe-
cially i'll the case of strikes.
The sexton Of the Catholic cemetery
in Jefferson found newly made grave
and notified the trustees. AT a depth
of not quite three feet small wooden
box containing the body of an infant was
found. Who put it there is mystery.
Charles e. Siler, prominent Racine
man, now in Mexico investigating plan
tations, fell into a vat filled with boiling
water and was dangerously scalded. AT
the time he was showing Lewis A.
Hodges of Monroe the operation of a
mill.
In Circuit Court in Manitowoc a de-
cisiOn has been rendered sustaining the
jury in the Rechcygl case, i'll which suit
was brought to recover the value of store
fixtures seized by \the trustee in bank
ruptcy after the building had been Sold
The objection was that the court has
no jurisdiction.
The so-called Independent lighting con-
Germ, organized among the business men
Of La Crosse to compete with the old
company, has been gobbled up by the
/
ing leased their plant to the La Crosse
Gas and Electric Company for term
of eighteen years.
The new st. Roses Cathols Church of
Racine, built at a cost Of $4,000, was
dedicated by Archbishop Messmer Of Mil
waukee, Mgr. Fox Of Green Bay and
Vicar General Schinner of Milwaukee.
The Se5icatory sermon was delivered by
Rev. James E. Conahan Of Marquette
College, Milwaukee.
Two State free employment bureaus,
at Milwaukee and Superior, report that
the tendency Of workers in this State to
frequently change their places of en-
ployment is small and that the labor of
the commonwealth is tolerably we'll en-
gagged. For several weeks the reports
have shown the same thing.
Henry Springstroh and family Of APP
pleton were chased into the bitter cold
by fire which consumed the building and
all it's contents. Hardly any clothes
could be saved But for the fact that
the father stayed up few moments
longer than the others, the entire family
might have been burned up.
One Of the "Red Feather Opera COM
pany had lost her watch and one of the
employees Of big La Crosse department
store found it. When it was returned
to the lady of the show troupe she grab
bed the first man in sight and planted
q resounding smack on his cheeks. Then
she went through the same process with
another and another until the men gave
out.
Mrs. Mary Arndt, aged 40, living near
Post Lake, was burned to death in her
home. The woman was paralytic from
the waist down, and helpless. The fire
originated in the basement and the house
was destroyed before the husband and
assistance arrived. The family of grown.
up boys and their father were working i'll
the woods near home when the fire occur.
red
Because the engineer of freight train
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road failed to run his engine into the
clear while making a switch in the Ra-
cine yards, the engine was struck by
three cars and thrown from the track, as
We're asso the three cars. Engineer e.
B. Barten, Fireman John Corbett and
CONDUCTOR MuckeTHelue, all OF MllWdu-
kee, we're quite seriously injured.
Louis Ventner, employed in the cleo
trical department of the Oshkosh Gas
Light Company, was electrocuted the
other afternoon. He was at the top of
a 4O-foot pole, repairing the wires back
Of the r. A. Plummer building, which
was burned and in some way came in
contact with a live WIRE He fell across
the wires and lay there several minutes
before the power house could be notified
to shut off the current.
The county of Fond du Lac has decid-
ed to offer reward for the apprehension
of John ]. Riley and John Cline, who
are alleged to have forged signatures to
a deed, thereby obtaining a loan Of 3d.
000 from George Hobbs Of Byron. The
men secured, through the A. G.. Dana
agency, loan Of $1,000 from Hobbs.
giving as security a mortgage OH the
farm of Clifford Cease, in Metomen. for
which Riley and Cline held deed. This,
it is claimed by Cease, is a forgery.
The remains of Henry Gamble of Sha-
wano, who died Dec. IL, 1903, were dis