Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-07

The jewelry store of Thomas Lock-
hart in Kenosha was entered by burglars
and Jewelry to the amount of 5000 taken.
There is no clue.
The Northwestern Railway Company
has already acquired part of the right
of-way OF new twenty-mile line from
Pulaski to Shawano.
James Hebenstreit. Shullsburg ss-
loonkeeper, committed suicide by drinking
carbollc acid and then cutting his throat
with butcher knife.
The new sawmill Of Moore & Gallo
way at Fond du Lac burned, entaiIing
loss of $4,000. Joseph Elite an EN-
ploye, was burned to death.
The sulphite plant of the Riverside
Fiber and Paper Company, Appleton,
was totally destroyed by fire. The insur-
ance is 100000. The loss is possibly 20
per cent more.
Ground will be broken soon for new
dormitory for North Wisconsin academy
i'll Ashland. Prof Fenenga, who has
been in the East. it is said, will soon
announce large gifts from the East
William Green, aged 8 years, sustain
ed an amputation of thumb in Jeffer-
son without fiinching refusing to take
chloroform. The thumb was crushed to
pulpin machine used to grind bone for
feed.
Miss Emma Kessler, aged Is years,
was seriously injured by bullet while
walking in the street. at Marinette. The
police believe it was a stray bullet and
also are following clues of a possible
assailant.
Herman Lindner, for twenty five years
proprietor of bakery in Oshkosh, fell
overheard while fishing from a boat in
Lake Butte Desmortes and was drown
ed. Lindner was 60 years of age and
leaves a family.
r. w. Orr alias John Reynolds, an
actor, was arrested at Beaver Dam on
the charge Of having enticed Ida Thorn
ton from her home at Waukesha. The
actor was sent to the jail. The girl
has returned to her parents.
The body. of Miss Ada Stoll, who
drowned in Lake Winnebago last No
vember, was recovered at Doemel's point.
She, with two others, drowned while out
in a small skiff The other, two bodies
were recovered early this spring.
William Cruver, farmer % years
old, living five miles east of Whitewater,
was bitten by. dog last October. The
wound healed, but the other day he was
taken i'll and developed case of hydro
phobia. The young man cannot live.
While attempting to force medicine
down the throat of Jennie Iweta in
Dr. Pember was attacked by
the woman and bitten on the knee-cap.
The Pweta woman was bitten by dog
suffering from hydrophobia months ago.
She, was sent to the insane asylum. d
The prospects for large crop of
fruit were never better than this. season,
and if frost holds off large crop is as
sured. The plum and apple trees are
white with blossoms and strawberries
are looking fine In the timber the blue
berry crop promises exceptionally well.
The governments weekly crop report
reviews conditions in this State as fol-
lows: Heavy rains early part of week
delayed corn and potato planting; win
ter wheat, rye and spring grains salts
factory; pastures good; prospect for
good hay crop encouraging; apple, pear,
plum and cherry trees in full bloom;
stra wberries and cranberries in good con-
dition.
The Very Rev. Augustine f. Schin-
ner, vicar general of Milwaukee archdio-
cese for several years past, has been ap-
pointed bishop of Superior diocese, re-
Gently. created by the rediyision of the
province. The diocese will
include sixteen counties in the northwest l.
ern part of the State and the bishops
see will undoubtedly be at Superior The
newly appointed bishop is AZ years Of
age and is a native Of Milwaukee,
Rev. Mr.. Will, a patient at the county
insane asylum at Janesvile, is missing
since the fire in that institution the 9TH
er evening. There were 175 patients at
the supper tables when fire was discov-
cred in the kitchen, but through the fire
frIll adopted two years ago when the
institution was partially destroyed by
ire, a panic was avoided. The kitchen
and attendants sleeping quarters were
destroyed, but the loss is not large.
The small boys of Appleton have been
aiken with a craze to send cats into
he clouds Since the accidental ascen-
sion of James Carrots cat, sixteen boys
lave called at science hall in Lawrence
and requested that bladders be
illed with hydrogen. One small boy APP
)eared with two bladders which he desir-
ID to tie to a cat which he claimed dis
urbed the neighborhood at night. The
students have refused to fill more of the
,ladders.
That her husband may obtain one-third
# his fathers estate, or 100000, Mrs.
Charles Rogers of Chicago has consent
ID voluntarily to give him up, and has
pplied for divorce Mr.. Rogers, whose
lone is in Kenosha, is son Of The
ate d. G.. Rogers Of Milwaukee. In his
will the father provided that his son
hould not come into his Inheritance I'M
ess he was divorced from his wife, CIV
ng him Sc a week SO long as he lived
With her. Mrs. Rogers has been sep
rated from her husband for some time
r. III. Butterfield, a prominent Ste
ems Point real estate and abstract man,