Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Arthur NJ. Reichert of La Crosse, aged
10, shot himself with a shotgun.

st. Mary's Catholic Church in Pc
waukee was damaged by fire. The loss
was about $3.50.
Arthur Richards of La Crosse, aged
81, shot and killed himself while clean
ing his gun. There was no motive for
suicide.
Engineer Flanagan of Baraboo let
his engine get away and 1t ran through
the roundhouse wall, doing considerable
damage.
A new hospital has just been opened
at Clam Falls. DR.. F. H. Turner con-
structed and furnished the hospital at
cost of $1,000.
The H. III. West stationery and the
Columbia graphophone stores at Milwau-
kee were damaged $4,000 by fire, partly
covered by insurance.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
has outwitted the Citizens Company by
securing the cooperation Of the Pleasant
Prairie and the Kenosha companies.
On account of the frequency Of rail-
way accidents in Appleton the Council
has ordered the railway companies to
put protective gates at every crossing.
G.. Tesch the Brillion banker, has been
discharged from bankruptcy, according
to an order received by District Attorney
Wilcox from Judge Seaman of Milwau-
kee
Jack interchangeable, superintendent
of the Wisconsin Paper Company IL APP
pleton, was given a present in the shape
Of check for $3.50. Last year he got
$500.
While coasting down hill a party Of
Menomonee Falls high school pupils ran
into team of horses at the bottom OF
the hill. OF seven on the bobsleigh five
We're injured.
William Kent who settled in Osceola
in 1914, died, aged so years. He was
the founder of that village and started
many industries that gave employment
to the early settlers.
A. w. Brown, former high school
teacher, was found unconscious from an
overdose Of morphine at Madison, and
was revived after several hours hard
work by physicians.
The will of the late Willis w. Cooper,
one of the victims of the Iroquois Thea
ter fire, was filed for probate in County
Court in Kenosha. To the Kenosha Y.
M. G.. A., it is said, bequest of $1O,-
900 is made.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee Sept. - to Is were set as dates for
holding the northern Wisconsin State
fair in Chippewa Falls this year This
makes one day more than before, the fair
opening ON Monday.
The authorities of Marinette have iden-
tilted a photograph of Marx, the Chicago
car barn bandit. 1t is believed that
Marx was one of the band Of safe blow
ers who visited Marinette and robbed the
safe in a restaurant.
Provisional plans have just been re-
ceived for the new science hall for Mil
ton College The building will contain
the library in addition to the scientific
department. The department of natural
history is now in charge of Prof. A. r.
Crandall.
Complaint has been made to the Man
itowoc police by north side residents of
the operations of -the-chaser, who
has been annoying women and girls In
that section of the city. Several attacks
have been reported and residents are
considerably aroused.
Preparations are under way to push
the work Of grading and laying the
tracks for the proposed Sheboygan-Elk-
hart Lake Electric Railway The pres
emf electric power house in Elkhart Lake
will be remodeled into a 1000 horse-pow-
er plant, which will also furnish electric
light to the village. A 1000 horsepower
plant will be erected in Sheboygan.
A touching detail concerning the death
of Rev. Richardson Of Ripon in the Iro-
quois disaster is related in a letter from
Prof. G. Dwight Marsh Of the Univer-
sity of Chicago. The policeman who
recovered the body said Of Mr.. Richard
son: ''That man might have saved him
sell, but died in the endeavor to help
others. His body<was found with a little
girl under each arm"
In the case of the State against Ira
Wicks, the Minnesota game warden, who
is charged with kidnapping two boys, who,
he claims, were fishing illegally in Lake
Pepin, the defendant waived his prelimi-
nary examination and furnished $1,000
bail The case will probably go to the
Supreme Court as it involves the ques-
ton of the boundary between Minnesota
and Wisconsin through Lake Pepin, and
it will be followed through as a test
case.
Mrs. Mary Seaman was fined for as
saulting Miss Mary Douglas, a teacher,
in Grand Rapids. Several days ago Misc
Douglas punished several Of her schol-
ars, who thereupon struck her. A few
DAYS later Miss Douglas was assaulted
by Mrs. Seaman, the mother Of one of
the pupils, who knocked the teacher
down and pulled her hair, declaring she
wanted her to know how it felt to be
whipped When brought into court Mrs.
Seaman claimed she had the right to
whip a teacher who whipped her chill
dren.
Keeping open as long as any one wish
ed to draw his money, the First National
Bank of Superior broke the run on it's
Golfers Early the other day there was
a heavy run, but the confidence of the