Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-02-03

a. w. turner mana was caught IN q
cylinder press in Appleton and was near
ly cut off.
Attorney Lyman e. Barnes died at ST.
Elizabeth's Hospital, Appleton, after an
operation for appendicitis.
Joseph Clarke, ex-Mayor of the city
and secretary of the La Crosse Plow
Company, died of paralysis.
The opera house block and two stores
at Windsor were destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Otto Drauth, woodsman, dropped
dead in the fremont Hotel In Ashland.
While changing his attire he suddenly
expired.
William Bose of Mishicott was killed
while at work in lumber camp at Anti
go. He was % years of age and I'M
married.
Kit Orion of Hurley, while engaged in
n playful scuff1e, was shot in the foot by
a revolver which accidentally discharged
in his pocket.
Madison is to have new $4,000 hotel
on the West Side. 1t will be three stories
in height and built of brick. The prop
erty is owned by Ernest TRIUMPH.
While attempting to heat spoonful
of morphine Mrs. Belle Rogers of La
Crosse dropped match and nearly burn
ed to death, her clothing catching fire.
The roadhouse of Otto Mutzbauer on
the Falls road at Riverside was totally
destroyed by fire, dog left to watch the
premises being roasted in the flames. The
origin Of the fire is mot known.
The 2-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. G. Deland, of Appleton, fell
thirty feet, from the second-story win
dow of her home, striking the hard
ground. The injuries are not serious.
There was a bad coasting accident on
Green Bay street, Appleton the other
night. One of the runners broke. With
fourteen people on the sled swerved on
It's side over an embankment striking a
tree. All will recover.
The Carney Lumber Company, limited,
with a capital of $50O,000, has been or
ganized in Marinette to operate saw
mill at Massey, Ont. Fred Carney is
president. The company has bought
2OO000,00 feet of pine in Canada.
The trouble between the Case company
and it's locked-out molders has been set
tied in Racine. The men will return to
work, having won the fight after remain
ing out nearly a month under refusal to
sign personal agreement containing an
anti-strike clause.
The Minnesota Soap Company Of st.
Paul has purchased the factory of the
Marinette Soap Company and will OPP
crate it for time. The consideration
was $4,000. The local company has
been in operation for q number Of years
and has large factory.
Frank n Spindler' professor Of physi-
ology in the Stevens Point normal school,
had his left eve removed as the result Of
an injury. While pursuing mouse he
thrust the end Of a broomstick through
his eyeglass, and pieces cut his eye so
badly that it could not be saved.
Charles King, aged 70 years, was
found dead at his home in Mazomanie.
AT the time of his death his wife was
visiting in New York. Neighbors, see
ing no sign of life about, investigated
and found him upon the floor, having APP
parently fallen there while i'll the act of
eating his supper.
Henry Stuckman, 4S years old, lead
ing citizen and one of the political fac
tors in Sheboygan County and clerk and
resident of the town of Herman, was
chopping wood the other day and failing
to return home in the evening search was
begun, and he was found in an uncon-
scious condition, having been struck by
tree which he was telling lie re-
NAMED unconscious until he died.
Dr. Otto Fielder, the Milwaukee city
chemist, has made some startling discov
cries when examining old paper money.
On one very much worn bill he found
more than 96,O0000O bacteria, on anoth-
err $4,000 on another 5000, while on
seew bill that had been used only little
600 were found. Dr. Fielder says in
spite Of this great number of germs he
does not know that any are dangerous
to health, though it is probable that some
of the numerous colonies are.
The fears that existed at Superior
early in the winter lest the labor market
would be greatly overcrowded in that
region, directly after the holidays, have
been allayed. The fact that far less
heavy logging was to be done gave
woodsmen a scare, but all season there
have been new contractors in the work Of
getting out timber. 1t has been small
ElIHDGF,
promises to supplant heavy logging as
the winter work of the vicinity. Cedar,
spruce, jack pine and hardwood are be-
ing cut to a far greater extent than ever
before.
Despondent because of the death of her
husband and two daughters, Mrs. Anna
Larson, aged 80 years, committed suicide
at her home in Racine by hanging. She
had gone into the cellar and, taking a
clothes line, placed moose about her
neck and fastened the end about the
josts This was done while she stood
on a chair, and after having fastened the
line she kicked the chair away and
strangled to death. Nothing was known
of the deed until noon, when her two
sons, aged 16 and 10 years, went home
for dinner Being unable to find their
mother by repeated calls they went in
search of her and found her body.