Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
News OF WISCONSIN

Peter Monka, 43 years old, hanged
himself at Milwaukee.
Y. A. Miller, a pioneer citizen of Osh-
kosh, is dead, aged IA years.
Clarence Moettcher, aged q years, of
Delaheld, was drowned in Nashotah lake.
The Eastern Wisconsin Telephone
Company is installing an exchange at
Brillion
Sparta expects a beet sugar factory,
the. prospects being favorable for the
erection of plant in the spring.
f. w. Kinney, aged so, wanted in
Denver, Colo, to answer to the charge
OF forgery, was arrested in Milwaukee.
Racine holders employed in the foun-
dry of the Case Threshing Machine Com
pany have refused the new wage scale
offered them, which cuts wages 80 per
cent
Frank Fahey of Shell Lake was killed
at the Charles River farm while helping
build barn. A heavy timber fell on
him and he died while being brought to
town.
James Logan and sCuckoo" Collins
on the charge of having forged drafts
in their possession. Bail was fixed at
$1,000
Harry Harvey, comedian, playing
at one of the La Crosse theaters, took
poison instead of cough syrup in his room
at the hotel. His life was saved with
difficulty.
At Racine-Detectives of the North
western railroad, after laying in wait
for hours, arrested Arthur Nuff and Ste
phen Bosfck on charges of stealing coal
from cars.
John Drinkwine, Neillsville, was SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentiary
because of a hunting accident. Drink
wine set trap gun for deer. 1t explod-
ed and badly injured Herman Vessel, a
hunter.
Mayor e. Il. Marter of Prairie du
Chen is closing negotiations with Theo-
dore Hapke Of the Rock County Sugar
Company relative to the erection of
100000 factory at Prairie du Chen next
summer.
Marjorie Steinmetz, daughter of
prominent Chippewa Falls resident, pick
ed dynamite cap with pin and caused
it to explode. 1T blew off two fingers
of her right hand She was injured 9TH
erwise and will die.
Manly Moore of Wyocena died from
the effects of the burns he received few
days since when he tainted and fell and
matches in his pocket ignited and set
fire to his clothing. He was 80 years
old and lived all alone.
A fire occurred at Alderley in John
Gasman's store. The saloon and hotel
Of Joe Geller and Mr.. Schram's black
smith shop also caught fire and the three
buildings were totally destroyed. No
cause is known for the blaze.
Charles Halves of the town of Muk-
wonago has made good profit on gray
wolf shot by him. He received bounty
of Sc from the county, $6 from the State,
$13 from the town of Mukwonago and
has been offered So for the hide.
Steps were taken in Kenosha for the
incorporation of company which will
be in charge of the building of the pro-
posed electric railway to Lake Geneva.
The company is backed by Kenosha cap
italists and will have a nominal capital
of $4,000.
Douglas L. Fowler, one of the best
known men of Kenosha county, narrowly
escaped losing a fortune by the closing
of the Citizens Bank at Oberlin, Ohio.
Fowler had large sum of money on
deposit and withdrew it on the morning
the bank was closed.
Clarence Boettcher, Dela6eld, was
missed from his boarding place and on
being sought was found to have drowned
in Nashotah lake. He was at church
Sunday, at Okauchee, and on his way
home, alone, must have slipped and
broken through the ice
An S-year-old son of Erick HOMELAND
of Dunn was badly injured while his
father was loading straw on a wagon.
The boy got on the load unknown to any
one and received a thrust from a fork,
which passed through his right eye, COM
ing out at his right ear.
Attorney Marlborough of Australia,
who has for two months been endeavor-
ing to find relatives of DR.. Evan Brown,
who died some time ago leaving a large
fortune, found them in Racine in the per-
sons Of the children of the late Capt.
Isaac Brown, for years one of the best
known mariners on the lakes. One
daughter is the wife of Herbert Ticknor,
a mail carrier.
Burglars broke into Shute's store in
Altoona, carried off a quantity of cloth
ing, cigars, candy and other goods. Two
men entered the residence of Rev. Faith
er Van Chan and demanded money from
the housekeeper, who was alone. She
turned a bulldog loose and the intrud-
ers retired. w. Volkman, meat dealer,
was held up by two men who robbed him
of all the small change he had.
Lawrence university will renounce all
claim to the gift of 100000 made to the
university by the will of Willis w. Coop
err of Appleton, who was killed in the
Iroquois theater fire. The action is as
cribed to the fact that Mr.. Cooper lost
his life while in attendance at a place
of amusement, contrary to the rule of
the Methodist church. In renouncing the
gift the university is following the lead
of the American Missionary Society of
the Methodist church, which recently de-
clined a similar gift from the Cooper es-