Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
Nicholas Prichard, an old resident OF
Randolph died aged So

opening day.
Nicholas Holmbe, aged % years, COM
mitted suicide by hanging i'll La Crosse.
Disappointment in love.
James, tho S-year-old son Of Frank
Parent of Minong, had his leg nearly cut
Oft by moving machine.
The town of Coon has voted $4,000
aid bonds to the La Crosse and South
eastern road, removing the last obstacle
in its path.
William Kafka, the 12-year-old son of
Mat Kafka, a resident of Two Rivers,
was drowned while in bathing with
number of boys.
The body of Robert Paine, a student
OF Williams business college in Oshkosh,
was discovered in the lake off Neenah.
His home was in that city.
Edward Kemp of Blain, aged 70, kill
ed his son, aged 35, with a small knife
by stabbing him in the neck. Kemp was
placed in Jail at Stevens Point.
One hundred cases of typhoid fever in
the town Of Mount Savage, with 1920
inhabitants, have caused great alarm.
The epidemic is traceable to spring.
Peter Jepson, bartender in the saloon
of M. Bone at Mcmillan, was shot and
killed by one of two tramps who had
been about the town. Both tramps were
arrested.
Frank Arndt, young man Of 81, died
Of blood poisoning in Osceola. He was
bitten by some poisonous insect, but
medical skill seemed unable to check the
progress of the infection.
The 500 Railway Company is making
survey for a new road to run from
Ladysmith to Superior. The new line,
when constructed, will cross the Omaha
few miles from Minong.
Carl Kohler, member Of the maMufac-
turing firm Of J. M. Kohler Sons Com
pany, who died suddenly in Sheboygan,
IS believed to have swallowed caybolic
acid by mistake for medicine.
An explosion in the oilhouse of the
Huber Brothers. in the rear Of the Main
street drug store at Fond du Lac, wreck
ed that building and seriously burned one
OF the clerks, Louis Thurman.
Two men arrested in Chippewa Falls
had large amount of expensive china
ware and other articles belonging to L.
M. Newman and they are being held on
charge Of burglarizing Newman's resi-
dence.
IL move being made proves success
full. there will be an electric railway In
operation within the next two years be-
tween Milwaukee and Beloit connecting
with the present line from Beloit to
GAINESVILLE.
j. 5. Deveraux, Shell Lake mer-
chant, submitted to a painful operation
and had some Of the cuticle taken from
his body to be grated ON his son, Maui
rice, who lost his foot in railway acct
dent at Bruce.
The Milwaukee committee appointed
to select young woman to chrsten the
cruiser Milwaukee, which will be launch
ed at San Francisco Sept. 10, has chosen
Miss Janet Mitchell, daughter of the late
ex-senator John l.. Mitchell
Lewis Uehiling Of Alton was kicked
by vicious horse and the joints Of his
windpipe dislocated. Apparently he was
dong we'll when suddenly the dislocation
became acute and he strangled to death
before medical aid could be summoned.
Edward Kemp of Blain, aged Is, kill
ed his son, aged 35, with a small knife
by stabbing him in the neck. The young
man died within ten minutes. The trou-
BILE was family dispute. Kemp was
taken to Stevens Point and placed in Jail.
The State board Of control has engaged
the services Of Dean f. e. Turneaure,
head Of the university college Of engi-
neering, to investigate the system Of
sewage disposal and water supply at the
State hospital for the insane at. Men
dota.
While his parents were waiting his
arrival in Racine from Chicago, when a
family reunion was to be held, Edward
Held, 22 years Of age and employed as
clerk in the main postoffice at Chicago,
was struck down and run over by
street car. His left leg was cut off above
the knee. 1t is feared the young man
cannot recover.
Jennie Cunningham, aged Is, and her
mother, Mrs. A. L. Cunningham of Ma.
rietta, were arrested on charge of
abandonment Of 10-days-old child,
which, it is alleged, the girls father left
wrapped up in paper beside the Milwau-
kee tracks, near Blue river where 1t
was found still alive early the next morn
ing. Cunningham is a mechanic and is
supposed to be i'll Chicago. The girl is
the mother Of the child, but did not admit
the fact until given sweat box treatment.
An automobile played the part Of
life saver in Madison, rescuing Angelo
Leabelfa from an angry mob which
threatened to lynch him for the attempt
ed murder of linguistic Capo, whom Lea
bella shot under the window of the State
capitol Leabella failed to infict fatal
wounds, but the crowd which saw the
shooting pursued him when he tried to
escape on a bicycle. He fell and was
overpowered, but policeman threw him
into an automobile and the man was
soon safe from violence.
At the annual meeting Of the Old
Maids League Of Bristol, four of the
leading young women of the village were
elected to membership. Before they were
to the mysteries of the organ
ization each of the girls was forced to
take an oath that she would use all
honorable means to become a wife during
the next twelve months. The girls in