Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-14
Charles Rouse. aged IS. of La Crosse.

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Stoughton, shot himself dead in the boil
er room of the hotel.
Frank Stoltenberg of Milwaukee was
drowned at Pewaukee when fishing, after
he had fallen from his boat once and
had been rescued by companions.
Bert Van Houter and a party of ac-
tors were nearly drowned by the founder.
ing OF Van Houters launch while on a
trip up the Rcck river from GAINESVILLE.
Joseph Cane, the Eau Gale farmer
charged with the murder of bis wife,
waived examination before Judge Florin
IN Menomonie and was bound over to
tile September term.
Mrs. Valentine Detling. who was over
come by gas in Sheboygan, is dead. She
did not recover consciousness. She was
% years of age and one of the best
known women in the city.
The body of John Lasin was found in
the river at Clintonville. The body had
evidently been in the water four or FIVE
days. A coroner's jury decided that it
was case of accidental drowning.
Edward Hensel was arraigned before
Justice Sturges in Kenosha on a charge
OF holding up Chris G.. Giles He waiv-
ed examination, admitted his guilt and
was held in bonds of 81 500 for the Cir
cult Court.
More than $50 families in Kenosha
were left without water the other day
on account of the decision of the board
OF water commissioners to cut off the
oil Io1.
were due on May 1.
The jury in the case of Mrs Harriet
Annis against the city of Fond du Lac
brought in a verdict in favor of the
plaintiff for $3.50. Mrs. Annis sued for
$4,000 for injuries received in a fall on
defective sidewalk.
Leonard Hansen, farmer boy of Is
years, who had been running amuck with
a revolver and threatening to kill neigh
bors in the town of Union, was brought
to Eau Claire, bound hand and foot,
and arraigned before Judge Blum.
Sam Green, river foreman of the
Stearns Lumber Company, was run over
and killed by north-bound freight train
at Odanah. The body was ground into
small fragments. Green probably lay
down on the track aond fell asleep.
A. III. Millgan, who ran away with
Florence Groves from Chicago on Jan.
liz and agreed to commit suicide with
her at the Blatz Hotel in Milwaukee,
which compact he lodged after the girl
had killed herself, was sentenced to
Waupun. He pleaded guilty to man
slaughter in the first degree and was Civ
EN- the maximum sentence ten years at
hard labor.
William Johannsmeyer, who shot and
killed Joseph Obermeyer during a boy
ish quarrel, Feb. Is, was fined $500 and
costs by Judge Brazee in the municipal
court in Milwaukee. He had been found
Suilty of manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree several weeks ago. Leniency was
shown, as the court explained. because
OF the excellent character which the de-
PENDANT bore as we'll as because of the
fact that a recommendation for leniency,
signed by the\tweve jurors which tried
the case, was presented to the court
The sawmill owned by Blakely &
Sprague was burned in Washburn. The
mill originally cost about $4,000, includ-
ing tramways, ETC., with only $4,000 in
surance. The estimate Of lumber burned
is from $4,000 to $4,000, fully insured.
Most of the lumber belonged to the Ed
ward Hines Lumber Company of Chi
cago. A light wind and the fact that
the lumber on all the Washburn docks
was green, prevented a general confia-
grafton. Ashland and Bayfield, tugs
fought the fire for twelve hours.
The case of Malcolm N. MacLaren
versus Dorothy MacLaren, for a modifi-
cation of decree in a divorce which
gave Mrs. McLaren the custody Of the
boy, Malcolm Neil MacLareu,
Jr., during certain period of the year,
reached a settlement in the Circuit Court
in Fond du Lac. Maurice McKenna, the
woman's attorney, announced that he
and Mr.. MacLaren's attorney had agreed
on four months a year as the time for
the father to have the boy and the other
eight months he was to remain with the
mother.
While bathing in Comans slough on
the Black river, near La Crosse, Theo-
dore Wright, aged IA years; Henry
Wright, aged II years, and Ellie AS
cy III, dSCu JCdIS, uIOW ucu. Lie urSC
of the accident was near 6
o'clock in the afternoon, when Mrs.
Wright went to the river bank She dis
covered that one of their boats was gone.
Walking further on she spied the float
ing body OF. her son Henry. Not mind
ing the danger she plunged in the water
and brought the corpse to shore. She
carried it home and there for the first
time told others of the drowning, col
lapsing Immediately after telling her
story About one hundred men went in
search of the other bodies, but their
work Saturday night and Sunday was
in vain.
A masked man entered the grocery of
Chris G. GILES in Kenosha and, holding
three men under cover of a revolver.
rihed the safe of the store, securing cash
to the amount of 800 and several
checks Later Edward Hensel, mem
Der of one of the best known families
in Kenosha, was arrested. Hensel at
first denied his guilt. Hensel the police
say, stated that the hold-up had been
planned. He had gone to Ra-
e..