Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-03

western Wisconsin, died at La Crosse,
| aged y. He started a grocery store in
La Crosse in 1850.
At Stevens Point w. w. Mitchell's
flour mill was nearly destroyed by fire.
1t started in the engine room The loss
was $1,000, with no insurance.
/ There were five prostrations from ex
cessive heat in Milwaukee Saturday, ac-
cording to police reports. Thermometers
registered as high as 93 degrees.
/ Albert Berg, a clerk in IN Osceola
store, drowned in the ST. Croix river.
He was in bathing with four other young
men of the village and ventured too far.
The Northwestern State Bank,
new institution, with capital of $4,000,
has opened at Chippewa Falls. The di-
rectors are Chippewa's leading business
men.
| The Congressional commission arrived
| at Sturgeon Bay on a special car for
the purpose Of looking over a couple of
locations for the proposed naval training
| school.
/ The Appleton police arrested man
who gives his name as Kibbe lie de-
clares that he killed sheriff and several
deputies. The officers believe the man
] is insane.
Baraboo has been experiencing the
| greatest religious awakening of its his
! tory. The churches united in inviting the
evangelist, Rev. Milford HI. Lyon, to lead
the campaign.
The>contract has been let for the cree
/ o.. IT olya
The building will cost, when completed,
about $4,000, and will be ready for oc-
cupancy by Dec. /.
Frank Neide, aged 10 years, son Of.
John Neide drowned in the Little Mus
kego lake at Waukesha. He was bath
ing, got beyond his depth and drowned
before companions could aid him.
| Officers in Minnesota mad Wisconsin
are trying to capture a gang of log
/ thieves that are very successfully OPP
Grating on the upper Mississippi, taking
the very best logs from RATS even when
guarded by electric searchlights and arm
ed men.
George Young, mail carrier between
| Bayfield, and Cornucopia, lost two yalua-
! BILE horses as result of an attack by
wolves. The horses were roaming in
| the woods about two miles from the town
when they were surrounded by wolves
and killed.
| Mrs. Lena Hendrickson of Manitowoc
may die as a result Of burns. A prepare
ton of linseed oil and turpentine, which
she was heating, became ignited and in
her attempt to extinguish the flames, her
clothing caught fire and she was seriously
| burned about the body.
| At Milwauee two season records for
| lake receipts were broken in the coal and
lumber trades the other day. Coal re-
ceipts reached total of $4,000 tons.
Lumber carriers brought in 100000
feet from Lake Superior ports, the larg-
est receipts for the year.
The people Of Appleton who recently
| took children from the Fresh Air organ.
ization of Chicago to keep for two weeks
declare that they will not do so again, as
| the children sent to Appleton were from
the homes of well-to-do people. Many Of
| the children refused to eat some of the
| things put before them, stating that 1t
| was too common. One boy asked why
the family he was stopping with did not
|. keep maids as his parents did at home.
The Catholic knights Of Wisconsin, in
biennial convention, decided to admit to
| their membership the Modern Woodmen.
Similar secret organizations will be in
vestigated with view Of placing them
on like rank with the Woodmen. The
movement is one Of long standing and
may cause a considerable change in the
stand Of not only the Catholic Church on
secret organizations, but also in other de-
nominations who now oppose all such So
cieties
The mysterious illness of George
Bauer Of La Crosse, who for several
days was unconscious and at the point
oil death from strangulation, has been
cleared up. 1t was caused by his swal-
lowing his false teeth. Bauer was taken
violently Ill and became unconscious be-
fore being able to tell the family any
thing about his sickness. His son no
ticed THAT plate and several false teeth
We're missing and Immediately commune
Gated the fact to the physician. Bauer
will now probably recover if the teeth
can be reached with surgical instruments.
Through the arrest of two Of it's Mil
waukee employees the Milwaukee road
and the Milwaukee police department
have disclosed plot to Systematically
rob the road. The two men were arraign-
ed in the District Court waived prelimi-
nary examination and were bound over
to the municipal court for trial under
$500 bonds. Frederick w. Buffmire,
roadmaster within the Milwaukee city
limits, and Frank Raids, section hand
working in the city, are the accused men.
Both are charged with forgery and pass
ing of time certificate emitting will
liam Henning' to S41.25 for work rem
dered. The road believes that this rob-
berry has been going on for more than
year and that over $1,000 has been lost
by it.
The 35-foot gasoline launch, Eva, own
ed by Judge c.. H. Donnelly Of Wood
stock, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire at
Geneva Lake. The boat was moored at
Reds Park at the head of the lake, and
the gasoline tank had just been filled.
There was evidently leak somewhere,
as the cabin became filled with gas,
which was in some unknown manner ig-