Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-04


The dryhouse stocked with wagon
goods of the Mitchell Lewis Company in
Racine was destroyed by fire; loss SILL
900.
Two children, and 10 years of age,
We're burned to death in a fire which
destroyed the home of Joe Covey at At
lanta.
Hall & Sayle. GAINESVILLE jewelers.,
were robbed of 500 worth of silverware.
The thieves missed $4,000 worth of
jewels.
The young women of Beloit college
gave the nativity play, Bethlehem in
the new gymnasium. 1t was pronounced
Il success.
Ralph Karnes of Fontana has been
OF schools. He is a graduate OF the
Whitewater normal.
At Racine cigaret caused a fire in
one of the rooms of the Hotel Racine.
The bed clothing and furniture in the
room were destroyed
Announcement has been made of the
approaching marriage of DR.. William
4hGlSullu L USu OIL AcuOSlld anu Ahloo
Grace Jenney of Mohawk, N. Y. Hs
While running at full speed an inter-
urban car struck a horse at Brighton
beach. .Ae horse was instantly killed
and the front Of the car damaged.
Robert Brown, an employee at the
Northwestern roundhouse in GAINESVILLE,
was struck by an engine and thrown
Txt-oy fon+ t. xxyl0r mir
up. atftI a#
T. NJ Allen of Oshkosh has been CHS
Ell principal of the Charleston, ILL.,, high
school, to succeed Prof. E. G. Jeffrey,
who enters the st. Louis public schools
corps Jan. Is.
The sum of $4,000 voted to pay for a
bascule bridge at Main street, Racine,
will be inadequate, it now being esti-
mated that the bridge desired will cost
over 100000. t
The jury trying the case of B. M. Cod
man Of Milton Junction, charged with
assault, carrying concealed weapons,
abusive language, pointing gun, found
him guilty on all four counts.
The entire force of lampmakcrs at the
Badger Brass factory in Kenosha went
out on strike, and the plant has been
forced to shut down. The men objected
to the employment Of apprentices.
Judge Hastings has denied a motion
for a new trial in the case against the
Marinctta Paper Company, in which
$4,000 was awarded to Miss Vandebo-
CART for damages in an accident in it's
mill.
Halver Ellefson, aged &c. was fatally
burned i'll bed, at his home, five miles
north Of Spring Green. The bed caught
fire from a stove He was one of the
oldest Scandinavian residents OF that
section.
William Deichen, aged 6S has secur-
ed degree of divorce from his wife
Caroline, aged II, in Milwaukee. They
were married about two years ago. 1t
was his second and her third matri-
nlonial venture. ..4,e,'st .s ..ss
Henry Hale of Shell Lake was fatally
injured by a runaway team. He was
driving along when his horses took fright
and turned into a pasture mad started
down steep hill. Mr.. Hale was thrown
out and had several ribs broken.
Walter M. Cowel~of zKenosha, alleged
to be counted with number Of so-called
wild cat" insurance agents, has begun
to the extent of $15O,0O0. The suits
are against attorneys who made the
charges against Cowel.
G. M Bird and daughter were fear
fully burned about the face and hands
in Beloit by the explosion of a can of
kerosene with which the father was start
ing fire. Miss Bird is teacher in the
Menomonie schools and had returned
home for the holiday vacation.
A panic was narrowly averted at the
Chippewa Falls opera house. During
the speech of Supreme Commander Mar
key of the Maccabees steam pipe burst
and many persons rushed for the door.
Cooler heads preserved order and fortu-
nately the crowd was not large.
Harry Mitchell, former student at
the west division high school in Milwau-
kee, now attending the University of
Minnesota, has been awarded the Rhodes
scholarship for Minnesota. This is doubly
interesting in Milwaukee high school cir
SICS OCS0uSS rAelNAoAu SSnOlA, uloO q WCOL
division high school graduate, recently
won the Rhodes scholarship for Wiscon-
sin.
A peculiar lawsuit is to be heard in
the Circuit Court in Waukesha, having
been sent on a change Of venue from
Walworth county. The plaintiff, named
Gould, owns 1G0-acrc farm near White
water and claims he ordered dwarf Es-
sex rape seed from the defendant, but
the latter delivered to him bird rape
seed, a noNious weed, which, when sown,
damaged his farm. Gould asks $500
damages and costs.
The Amalgamated Theater Company
is a new organization that will control
a vaudeville circuit OF thirty-eight houses
in Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illi-
nois, Iowa and Indiana, H. G. Dan
forth of the Bijou in Oshkosh has been
appointed one of the directors. La Crosse,
Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Oshkosh Green
Bay, Marinette and Racine, Wis.,, and
Escanaba, Houghton and Ishpeming,
Mich, are included
Mystery surrounds the disappearance