Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-20

| Fire destroyed the water tower and
engine house of the Grant County asy-
lum. The loss is about $1,000
William Foth, aged %, was accident
ally killed at Mcmillan while loading
logs. He leaves a wife and one child.
Waverly lodge, Masons, is consider
ing the erection of a Masonic temple III
Appleton. The cost may reach $4,000.
Fast mail train No. 81 was wrecked
near Lyndon. The wreck was caused
by the breaking of a drive wheel. No
body was hurt.
A new postoffice has been established
| in the southern portion Of Polk County
to be called Anderson, with Canute An
derson as postmaster.
School opened in the new school house
recently constructed in Chetek to replace
the one destroyed by fire last year. The
new edifce cost $4,000.
P. J. Welsh of Lodi, who reported that
his safe was robbed of $1,000, is in jail
at Madison, being unable to furnish ST.
900 bond that he will not leave the State.
The school building at Twelve Corners,
in the town of Center, was destroyed by
fire, together with all the books and tx
lures. The fire is supposed to have been
Of incendiary origin.
The third annual report of the State
inheritance tax collection of Outagamie
County shows the total amount of prop
erty taxable under this law in the county
is estimated at about $4,000.
The big Corliss engine at the mill OF
the Patten Paper Company in Appleton
was smashed, entailing a loss of $4,000
and making necessary a shutdown for
several days. The accident was caused
by the condenser becoming disarranged.
The winter term of school opened in
Cumberland's handsome new school
house, just completed at cost Of $780,
600. The building contains twenty class
and recitation rooms, library, gymnasium,
baths and auditorium, is electric lighted
and steam heated.
A disastrous fire started at the d. p.
Baker farm, near Spooner, by the explo-
sion of a gasoline engine. Daniel Melby,
foreman ON the farm, who was working
near the engine, was seriously burned,
while the fire destroyed the large gran
airy, entailing loss of $4,000, with no
insurance.
The Racine Water Company has pro-
posed that if the city Of Racine will
agree to refrain from using automatic
flushing tanks and to refrain from vast
ing water that the company will dismiss
all pending suits against it, each party
to bear it's own costs. The proposition
was accepted.
A Northwestern train at Appleton
Junction was stopped by the cries of
man outside on the car platform. The
conductor pulled the rope and stopped
the train, when the man, whose name is
unknown, came into the car, got pair
Of rubbers from under seat and leis-
urely left the train.
George Galster and Robert Richards,
both under 10 years of age, held up Nels
Nelson, in charge Of the La Crosse Gas
and Electric Company's factory office.
Nelson sounded the police call before
the robbers could get any booty. They
were pursued, arrested and were sent
to the reformatory at Waukesha.
DR.. A. H. Levings Of Milwaukee, as
sisted by Drs. Beveridge, Ryan and
Richie Of Appleton, performed remark
able operation on the 8-year-old child Of
l.
ital dislocation of the hip, by the Lorenz
method of bloodless surgery. For the
first time has such an operation been sue
cessfully done upon q patient as old as 3
years.
Fire in the basement Of Petitioners
department store dressmaking depart
ment in Appleton almost caused a panic
among fifty girls employed there. The
fire started in the basement below and
was of small consequence, but worked
through the floor and started among
some boxes and papers piled up in
corner. The telephone girls Of the Wis
consin company, in an upper floor, brave
ly stuck to their posts through all. No
one was hurt and the damage was small.
The first large fire in Whitewater in
eight years occurred the other night,
when the tobacco warehouse was de-
stroyed. Several hundred cases of tobac-
co, valued at SIT, 900, belonging to G. A.
Culton of Edgerton, were destroyed and
there was no insurance. The loss on
the building was $4,000, with insurance
of $500. 1t was owned by Mayor
Kestol. The fire was caused by spon-
taneous combustion and will throw fifty
people, mostly women and girls, out OF
employment.
Captain Frederick Pabst of Milwau-
kee, whose funeral was held the other
day, was noted for large gifts, but his
greatest was that on Christmas to his
wife and four children. He had been
told that he could not survive another
Christmas, so calling his wife and four
children-Col. Gustave g., Frederick,
Jr., Mrs. w. T. Goodrich and Mrs.
Henry Soehmlein of Germany-to his
side, he made each a present Of $1,000
600 worth Of stock in his brewery. The
value Of the estate is believed to be in
the neighborhood of $12,OOO,OO0. He
carried $165,000 in life insurance.
By the heroism of Motorman Louis
Happel, who remained at his post in the
face Of threatened death, thirty-five pas
sengers~on a north side street car in La
Croeso wow eovad whom q hvino Rur-