Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-28

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5000 in money and notes taken.
A revolver shot through cable put
$50 telephones out of service in La
Crosse. 1t took hours to locate the
cause.
K. +. Fleck, a prosperous farmer or
Decatur township died at his home Oh
typhoid fever, aged 50 years. He is sur
yived by wife,
The dedication of the new Baptist
church at Almond was held the other
day. Rev. G. II. Rusk of Minneapolis
delivered the sermon.
George Vose was accidentally shot in
the neck by another hunter while they
were hunting for cartridges near Long
Lake. The wound may prove fatal.
Charles r. Gardner, well-known law
yer of Watertown and widely known as
political speaker was drowned in La
Belle lake by the capsizing Of a rowboat.
Henry Klappenberg of Sheboygan,
aged "A, has filed suit for divorce
against his wife, aged 10, alleging cruel
treatment. They We're married last year.
The body of a man cut in two by a
freight train was brought to Eau Claire
from point on the Omaha tracks west
Of town. The remains are unidentified.
While hunting at Long Lake George
Hughes was accidentally wounded by
another hunter, the shots entering the
head and face. He will lose ore eye, but
the wound is not fatal.
The files of Brick Pomeroy's paper for
1861 have been mutilated at the La
Crosse city library. All of the editorials
have been cut out. This was one Of the
only two sets in existence.
Hayes Bros. of GAINESVILLE have COM
menced work on the new Edgerton sewer,
for which they have the contract. The
contractors expect to have the job COM
pleted in two months time.
Bert Meade of Winona is one of the
first victims of the hunting season In
Wisconsin. He was killed in the Trem-
pealeau swamps above La Crosse by the
accidental discharge of his gun.
A desperate gang of deer poachers
have been operating west from Pembine
lately, and Warden Robert Hitchun has
been after them for six weeks. Recent
ly he rounded up several suspects at
Marinette and they were given sixty days
each in Jail. Their names are Charles
Sutherland, William Ehler, John Polcin
and Fred Dunnfrin.
The decision of Judge Webb of Grand
Rapids in the famous case of the Pesh-
tigo Company VS.. r. o. Hunt has been
filed. In this decision the court holds for
the Peshtigo company on every cOnten-
ton of law and fact, and thus settles
the title to over $4,000 worth Of lands
in the Peshtigo company. r. Q. Hunt
said the case would be appealed imme-
diately to the Supreme Court.
At a meeting of the creditors Of the
defunct Arena banking house of w. FL.
Jones it was decided to bring criminal
suit in Iowa county against the former
banker. and committee was appointed,
consisting of ex-senator w. G. Meffert,
Postmaster William Ortiz and r. HI.
Hamilton. The creditors, having claims
of over $4,000, are dissatisfied with the
way the bankruptcy case is being ham
died.
After being mourned as dead for TWEEN
ty-eight years, Albert Miller has return
ed. During his absence he has travelled
have accumulated a fortune. Miller dis
appeared in 1876 He is now at the
home of his brother in Marinette At
the time he left it was thought he had
been murdered and search for some trace
of his remains was kept up for several
months
President Van Hise has said that he
was determined that the good conduct of
the university community in Madison
should be maintained, and that the insti
tuition should not be disgraced through
violent hazing this fall He said that
his attitude toward this practice would
be as it always has been; that it was
out of place in the university and would
not be tolerated. He intimated that ex-
pulsion would be the remedy.
The Superior Cash Grocery Company
has commenced suit against the Grocers'
Union in Superior. Recently four gro
Gerry firms started new company, oper-
ating four stores, and they began to sell
below the union scale. Upon refusing to
pay the fine levied by the union the COM
pany was expelled. 1t is claimed that
after this all the commission houses in
the city except two refused to sell to the
grocery company which had been ex-
PEELED
The remains of Henry Hartman Of
Appleton were found on the Oneida res
ervation in clump of bushes. The
question is, was he killed by accident or
murdered? The last seen of Hartman
was on Aug. 10, 1903. His remains wee
found by Noah Metoxen, an Indian herb
hunter. He was going through the woods
looking for herbs when he noticed his
dog acting in O. suspicious manner near
a clump of bushes. Upon making inves-
tigation he discovered skeleton Of a
man. 1t was plainly evident that he met
his death from the discharge of a shot
gun which took effect in the back of the
head.
Mrs. Arnold Kruger of the town Of
Maine shot and wounded an unknown
man to prevent him from stealing her
child. One night well dressed man
appeared at her home at o'clock, and
finding that Mr.. Kruger was at home
left Immediately. He called on success
i've evenings, trying each time to get her
child. Mrs. Kruger saw the man who