Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-01


portieres in his room took fire while he
was smoking in bed, and he was seriously
burned.
Newton Van Dalsen a well-known ed
Gcator and manual training instructor of
Chippewa Falls, has rendered his resig-
nation there. and will accept the super
intendency of newsboys' home at Pitts
burg, Pa.
Leonard Cook, night foreman at the
GAINESVILLE sugar factory, while assisting
in mailing up some barrels, swallowed
two single nails. He is in terrible
agony and an operation will probably
be necessary.
The Fox River Valley Band Associa-
ton is new organization that will be
launched in few weeks. 1t will in
clude Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Neenah,
Menasha, Appleton, Kaukauna, Depere
and Green Bay. j
The large agricultural implement ware
house in Arcadia belonging to John G..
Muir was burned to the ground, together
with all the contents, consisting of
large stock of farm machinery. The
building was a two-story frame structure.
Richard Kershaw, son of a prominent
resident of Racine, was not murdered at
Clyde, Ga, as reported. He is in Flor
ida, letters having been received from
him. The body of man murdered was
found near Clyde, and the description
tailed with that of Kershaw, who was
at that time missing.
. Henry Schey, county treasurer of Cal
umet county, dieu of heart disease at
Chiffon. He had taken his children to
school and shortly afterwards his wife
saw him drive into the barn at his home
She went out to the barn to meet him
and found him dead in the cutter. He
was 40 years of age and had held his
office but two weeks.
A. III. Wagner of Merrill Park has
been appointed to succeed j. M. Sexton
deputy boOkkeeper in the State Treas
urers office, and Clinton Wilcox, a
nephew of the State Senator from Apple
ton, has been appointed to succeed Dep
uty Clerk Wescott. He is a law student
Arthur Pugh of Racine, head bookkeeper
it is said, will be retained.
John r. Davis of Chicago and w. T..
Davis of Eau Claire, both formerly of
Necnah, have been cited to appear in
court and show cause why they should
not file an inventory of the property of
the late John r. Davis, ST., of which
they were made the executors. The elder
Davis died in 1885. Benjamin w. Davis
Of Phillips, Wis, made the application.
The estate involved $3,25O,OOO.
The family of the late John +. Potter,
Congressman of this State has presented
to the State Historical Society the bowie
knife the fighting badger proposed to
lenged by the fire-eating Roger A. Pryor.
Potter had the choice of weapons, and he
stipulated sharp bowie knives at close
range. Pryor backed water on the
ground that such weapons were not the
kind used by gentlemen of the South.
Frank Schils was arrested charged
with threatening the life of Charles
Roenitz. prominent manufacturer of
ShebOygan. About a month ago Schils
was arrested on similar charge. At
that time he is said to have demanded
$4,000 from Mr.. Roenitz. He was re-
leased as Mr.. Roenitz would not prose-
cute. However, he took an oath before
Judge Giblin and Father Thill of Holy
Name church not to modest Mr.. Roenitz
again.
Henry J. Boyle, Jr., of Sheboygan, dis
appeared few days before the day of
his marriage to Miss Ella Moffert. Ar
rangements had been made for the we'd
ding to take place on Jan. 5. Miss
Moffert had resigned her position in a To-
cal department store and had prepared
everything for the wedding. Mr.. Boyle
was supposed to have been looking for
house at Milwaukee, as they intended to
reside there. Failing to return on New
Years eve, Miss Moffert went to Milwau-
kee and inquired at various places, but
could not find her lover. She returned
to Sheboygan and has been unable to
learn anything Of the mans whereabouts.
The old dreams of fortune have been
awakened again by an application to the
County Court of Kenosha county, asking
that an administrator, de bOnis non, be
appointed for the estate of the late Sen
ator Charles Durkee and attorneys at
Rockford, ILL.,, are to make another effort
to collect the fabulous Durkee claim
from the CulCeu STATES L lie Chilli
amounts to nearly $2OO,OOO,OOO 1t is
said that more than 10000 people have
purchased shares of stock in the COM
pany pushing it. Mrs. Durkee, who is
now in feeble health, has declined to aid
in the contest, and says that if her hus-
band had the securities referred to, she
knew nothing of it. An administrator
has been appointed in Utah, where Mr..
Durkee died.
For fifteen years William and John
Pixley have been missing from their
home in Fond du Lac, and every effort
to locate them has been futile Several
months ago the grandfather of the two
brothers, Weynard Lingenfelter, died in
the town of Lamartine, leaving an estate
valued at several hundred dollars, to be
divided among surviving relatives. The
other day William put in an appearance
and $50 was paid over to him as his
share. Pixley says that when he and
his brother left Fond du Lac they were
about 10 years old and entered the Mil
waukee Industrial school, which then adj
mitted boys under 10 years of age. Three
years later they were transferred to the
State school at Sparta, where Joseph
of hooa inf cd i'm,