Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-11-30


The discovery of small fish in milk
delivered to a town of Seymour cheese
factory recently has aroused the cheese
factory men.
Fred Eicksteadt, aged 81 years, died
IN Sheboygan, on the sixty-first annlver-
sary of his wedding. He leaves widow
and three children.
William Kraemer, one of Sheboygan's
pioneer business men, died the other day.
He was 70 years of age and resided in
Sheboygan since 1854. He leaves two
children.
Henry Peck, business man of Sey-
mour, narrowly missed death while out
hunting. His fowling piece was accident
ally discharged and the charge tore away
q portion OF one eyelid.
The property Of the Oshkosh Furniture
Company has been sold by William l..
Doughty to J. w. Wallace, a Chicago
capitalist. The former owner is expected
to retire from the premises by Dec. 10.
The dead body of a man, with bullet
hole in the neck, was found a few miles
from Mellen. The remains are supposed
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who had been hunting in that vicinity.
Arthur Rederburg, aged % years, of
Chicago, has been arrested charged with
stealing a horse and buggy at Wauke-
gan. Rederburg attempted to fight the
officers when taken in charge south OF
Racine
William Policy was instantly killed by
al of a orr
hunting in the Fisher river in Chippewa
county. Policy had stumbled and fell
forward on to the gun and it was acct
1entally discharged.
f. e. Osborn, wealthy retired farm
er, aged IS, hung himself in his barn
near Milton and was found by his
brother when life was extinct. He was
married month ago and no cause can
be assigned for his act
Went cunning after wildcat, and when
upon the animal shot his gun. 1t ex-
ploded and he will lose his right hand.
The wildcat showed fight and then scam
pered off into the woods.
Mrs Emaline Marshall died at Del
ton, aged IS years. She was the mother
Of Judge r. d. Marshall of the Supreme
Court at Madison; Henry of Bloomer;
William of Canning, Texas, and Mrs.
Samuel jenkins of Chippewa Falls.
Henry Schlosser, an employee of tAe
Burlington road, while working near
Alma, fell thirty feet from a bridge to
a raft of logs in the river below, suffer
ing compound fracture of one leg ard
internal injuries. He will probably live.
Helen Truax, stepdaughter of John
Knight, a real estate dealer was nearly
killed in runaway in Racine. She was
driving a pony attached to a cart, and
was thrown backwards from the vehicle.
She was taken to her home unconscious.
At Waukau occurred the fatal shooting
Of Vernon Westover, aged 16 years. lie
had gone to the woods near his home
hunting and not returning at nightfall
a party went in search of him, finding
his body about midnight. "A charge of
shot had passed through his head.
The case of Walter Mason, the fresh
man who shot a member of hazing par
ty in Madison, has been turned over to
the discipline committee of the faculty.
find Mason, but failed to locate him, and
the students believe he has left for his
home in Brookline, Mass. Acting upon
this presumption, 100 students packed
Masons belongings into a trunk and
shipped them to his parents.
Enos S. Fish, aged 3d. Il patient at the
ST. Louis city hospital, who had said
he was from Eau Claire recovering from
self-inf1icted wounds, succeeded in end
ing his life by hanging. He imagined
he was being Swallowed by detectives,
of the Morris Vaughn-Roseneaur gang of
train ROBBERS. He was strapped to the
cot when he ended his life. He rolled
from bed after placing an improvised
moose around his neck and was prevented
from falling to the floor by the strap
around his right ankle
Mrs. A. I;arbous Of Little Suamico,
while driving to creamery with wag
on load of cream and milk, was attack
ed by large gray timber wolf, which
leaped from the side of the road and at
tackled the horse. For several miles the
wolf followed, swapping at the horses
HOOlS, Tile animal going Ut lull speed anu
leaving milky way dotted with milk
cans behind. Not until clearing was
reached did the wolf desist. Wolves have
been seen frequently in the vicinity this
fall, and have killed many sheep at
Little Suamico and vicinity.
John Ncveaux of Bayfield, who shot
and killed his uncle, Murray, on Manitou
island was acquitted upon the plea of
self-defense. 1t was shown that his
uncle had been on an election spree and
drank a quart of whisky few minutes
after reaching the island He then seiz-
ed his wife by the throat, after having
threatened to stab her, and, when young
Neveaux interfered, grabbed his shot
gun and aimed it at Neveaux. The
young man then shot twice. the second
shot piercing the heart. Mrs. Murray,
who was held as an accomplish, also was
released.
The right Of over 100 families, involv
ing nearly 600 people, to occupy the land
which they and their predecessors OBJ
tanned from Jacob Muza on Jones island
in Milwaukee twenty years ago was con-