Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-02-10


orrhage Of the heart.
The village school at Batavia has been
compelled to close down temporarily ow-
ing to an outbreak of diphtheria.
The directors Of the Lake Chetek AS
sembly have decided to hold the assem-
bly, this year from July Il to "a inclus-
i've.
r. G.. Wagner informed the Progress
sive League that work would begin about
Feb. on the new beet sugar factory in
Chippewa Falls.
James McCrea, a wealthy farmer who
resided about four miles south of Ran
dolph, was beheaded by train on the
Milwaukee road.
A new shirt, overall and underwear
plant will be constructed in Appleton.
The name of the concern will be the
Russell-Hughes Company.
President Plantz of Lawrence Univer-
sity has issued an order forbidding the
Lawrence team making any engagements
to play on Thanksgiving day.
An iron mine is to be opened on lands
owned by Holmes & Sons, the loggers,
near Dunbar, explorations there for some
time past indicating valuable deposits of
ORE
Evangelist LaBelle, aged about 80,
was burned to death in a fire at Colburn,
which destroyed the residence of Joseph
Bernier, a logger, whose loss is about
$4,000
The depot at Highbridge burned down.
The agent slept in the depot and had
to leave in his night clothes, and his
feet were frozen. The cause of the fire
is unknown.
While Mrs Edward Smith was chop
ping wood at La Crosse her daughter,
years old, placed a baby brother in
a hot oven, closed the door and baked the
baby to death before the mother re-
turned.
Fire Quilted the saloon of Claude Sim
ons and the confectionery shop Of Mrs
Margaret Cassell at Milwaukee. First
Assistant Fire Chief Clancy fell through
a hole to the basement twenty feet and
was badly injured.
John Schroede, a prominent town of
Center farmer, died in his wagon while
driving to a blacksmith shop. His body
was jolted out Of the vehicle and found
in the road. Heart trouble is supposed
to have caused his death.
c.. @. Jacobson, assistant architect in
the building Of the huge paper mill plant
Of the Consolidated Water Power and
Paper Company at Grand Rapids, fell
into vat Of boiling hot water and Sc
vercly scalded the lower half Of his body.
The Kimberly Clark Paper Company
may not rebuild it's plant at Kimberly,
burned two years ago. 1--WE have plan
ned for the MILL" said James G. Kim
berly, "but labor and material is so high
that we cannot see our way clear to it at
present"
A company has been organized in
Athens to manufacture brick. 1t is COM
posed Of Joe Braun and Frank Veitan-
hans and Fred Rietbrock of Milwaukee
and is capitalized at $4,000 and expects
to turn out 10000 brick day. About
thirty men will be employed.
Albert Platow was sentenced to fifteen
days Imprisonment in the house Of cor
rection at Milwaukee for stealing loaf
of bread from bakery. He told the
court that he had not had anything to
eat, had been out of work for three
weeks and one daughter has a broken
arm.
Miss Ellen Hansen, a Danish girl il
years old, left her sisters home in Pleas
ant Prairie a few days ago, saying she
was going to Kenosha, a distance Of five
miles. AS nothing has been heard from
her it is feared she lost her way and
was frozen to death. Miss Hansen and
her sister, Mrs. Nelson, had quarreled
and the girl refused to longer remain il
the house.
Mrs. Lucille Colbert, IS years old, con-
victed in November of setting fire to her
millinery store in Bear Greek and thus
starting a confagration which destroyed
the business portion of the village, was
brought before the court in Appleton on
a writ of error. The writ was ,nied
and she was sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary. A stay Of execution
was granted and the defendant admitted
to bail in the sum of $4,000.
The district school boards Of La
Crosse, Vernon and Monroe counties
have been swindled to the amount Of
$4,000, notes for which have been de-
posted in several banks in the counties
named The swindlers took conditional
contracts for books and other school sup
plies, representing themselves as agents
Of q Chicago concern. The conditions
are on an end of the document, and short
ly after the contract is entered into it
hobs up at a bank as a note, the ccndi-
tons having been torn off.
The estate of Robert III. Baker one
of the founders and owners of fourth
interest in the Case Threshing Machine
Company Of Racine, was ordered paid
to the four heirs, the trustees having
been discharged after having had charge
Of the estate for twenty-one years. Since
the estate was placed in trust it has
increased in value from $l,500,000 to
S2,5OO,OOO, and it is divided between
three SONS, Charles II. Baker of Chicago,
Edward and Robert Baker and Mrs.
Clarence Richards of Racine.
Law students at the State university
are indignant over the proposed change
in conducting the February examina-