Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

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found hanging to tree in the woods
near Amigo.
Oshkosh bakers have advanced the
price of bread a cent loaf, making the
price now cents.
Sebastian Knuijt, who is said to have
confessed to having started several fires,
was declared insane in Appleton.
Prof. and Mrs. Verbeck of Cadott have
been visited by 4 boisterous charivari
party for eighteen successive nights.
While switching near Milton, Otto
Campbell had his left arm crushed. Mr..
Campbell is switchman on the st. Paul
road
An electric railway from Racine to
Corliss, seven miles, is projected 1t
is said the Milwaukee company is not
The GAINESVILLE Y. NJ G. A. is planning
to get out weekly paper The first is
sue will appear next month under the
name of Association News.
Frank, 12-year-old son of Peter THE
len of Oshkosh, fell from a barn on
which he was playing, breaking both
arms and receiving other injuries. =
A horse belonging to William Went
landt of Appleton was stolen from the
stable. Every thing else was in it's place.
The thief did not even take the halter
with which the horse was tied.
1t is reported that the Indians of the
Oneida reservation made more on their
fair than any previous year in the his
tory of the organization. Secretary Of
State Houser made an address on Fri
day.
Rev. James O'Malley, for thirty years
pastor of st. Peters Catholic church in
Oshkosh, died from the effects of a
stroke of paralysis He was 60 years
OF age and was native of County
Mayo, Ireland.
Henry A. Schmidt, president of the
Schmidt carriage works, died at Menom-
onle from injuries received at the drill
of the fire department. He was struck
on the head by a falling nozzle and died
four hours later.
Louis Anderson, son of Racine con-
tractor, is badly injured. His use of a
megaphone at baseball game angered
Kenosha men and they fell on Ander
son. He was knocked down and then
pounded and kicked
Otto Wiskow died as a result of being
shot twice by his employer Fred w.
Morchert, a Milwaukee paperhanger.
The shooting us said to be the result of
a quarrel over wages Wiskow claimed
were due him by Borchert
Dean Merrell, aged 13, was accidental
~ shot and killed by Harry Erlanson in
Superior. While the boys were crawl
ing under a fence, ErlansOn's gun went
off, the charge hitting Merrell in the
head. He lived but a few minutes.
Dana Richardson, one of the oldest
printers in the State, who resided in
Manitowoc fifty years, died at the age Of
7S He learned his trade at Nenosha
as boy and has been employed at
many of the largest printing offices in
the State
John Meyer was arrested in Appleton
on the charge of assault with intention Of
committing great bodily harm. In an
alteration with Nick Schumacher, he is
said to have drawn a knife and to have
not seriously injured.
Lee Bright, living in Avon township,
lost one horse, his barn and contents
by lightning. In Spring Grove township
T.. Green had his orchard trees, loaded
with apples, blown down and torn by
by the roots. Stacks Of hay and straw
were blown away and the windows and
doors of his house blown in. The wind
was accompanied by heavy fall of rain.
So guarded is the Appleton Brother
hood of Paper Makers that officers elect
ed to take the places of those dismissed
from their work on account of their ac-
tivity during the recent strike cannot
be ascertained. 1t is said that the union,
not only in Appleton, but in every paper
making city of the State, will prove an
factor in the coming election.
An accident occurred at the Ashland
division railroad tin shop in Kaukauna
by which Foreman Joseph Borcherdt will
undoubtedly lose his Life. He was seen
rushing from the building screaming in
agony, his clothing from head to foot in
a blaze. The workmen threw rain coat
and some burlaps around him and smoth-
cred the flames. Hi STAGE, head and neck
and the upper part of his body are deep
ly burned, and his recovery, physicians
think, is not possible
Protecting herself from the furious at.
tack of her drink maddened husband,
Mrs. Fred Hensel, living two miles from
Curtiss, is said to have fired the shot
that ended her husbands life. He had
been to town, and returning in an intox-
icated condition, attempted to beat his
wife and little ones. When the woman
tried to pacify him, he became angry,
and brandishing large knife, threatened
to kill her. Selling a rifle, Mrs. Hensel,
it is said, fired point blank at her hus-
band and killed him instantly.
All sorts of queer stunts are being
done by Sheboygan society women to
earn books for the new Carnegie public
library. The daughter of Judge w. HI.
Seaman of the United States Court
baked cakes and sold them, while Mrs.
l.. HI. Bullock, wife of the Pittsburg
Coal Company's superintendent, hung out
a single, Automobile Lamps Cleaned"
and made considerable money. Mrs. A.
C. Prescott, wife of leading attorney.
chose a novel way to earn cash by tend.
inc Seyera1 bahie in thn nai0hhorhoad