Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-22
Horace Lippett of Beloit fell into the
Rock river and was drowned


Rock river and was drowned
A telephone company is formed in Ke-
nosha with $4,000 capital to take over
the telephone lines in that city,.
Paul Brigham, aged 10, was shot in
the neck by a companion while hunting
at Gibbs lake and probably will die.
The postoffice at Anah was robbed of
Sl6O in stamps and $50 in cash. Fred
Sullivan, assistant postmaster is miss
ing.
John Young, a pioneer of Wisconsin
and ex-sheriff of Sank county, dropped
dead while transacting business in Bara-
boo.
Fire at Amherst Junction destroyed
two hotel barns and one dwelling. The
remains of Casper Haynes were found
in the ruins.
Ellsworth Haines of Lansing, Iowa,
brakeman on the Milwaukee road, was
crushed between two ears at River juno
ton. He died instantly.
The John Weeks Lumber Company of
Stevens Point has purchased all the log
and timber lands Of the Grand Rapids
Lumber Company in that locality.
The mining companies north of. Apple
ton have decided to employ only married
men. One of the objects of this move is
to insure the populating of the mining
districts.
1t has been announced that the Cleve-
land Cliffs Iron Company has purchased
a two-thirds interest in the Shores Iron
properties near Iron Belt. The consid-
Grafton is about $4,000.
Cora Cole has been granted a divorce
from Emery Cole, minister at Lake &C.
neva. Mrs. Cole alleged that her hus-
band ill-treated her and had at one time
threatened to drown her.
John Rice, owner of the John Rice
foundry and machine works, died in Ste
vens Point, aged 6S. He had suffered
several years with paralysis. Two mar
ried daughters survive him.
Adam Wolf aged 20 years, prominent
real estate man of Sheboygan, was killed
by falling from the Northwestern rail
road bridge at Sheboygan, which he mis-
took for the depot platform.
Two little daughters of William Ea
gendorf of Racine slept all night in bed
with their mother dead beside them, and
did not know it. The woman had died
of heart disease soon after retiring.
Mrs. George Klock, domestic employ
ed at New Jefferson hotel in La Crosse,
took carbolic acid by accident, it is al
legged, and may die. Mrs. Klock is the
wife Of George Klock, wel-known ball
n1avar She bo Il hoon III
After being out thirty-six hours in
Milwaukee and taking 800 ballots the
jury in the case of Fred w. Borchert,
charged with having killed Otto Wiskow
in September last year, failed to agree
and new trial will be had.
Former Senator William f. Villas is
the chief promoter Of new trust COM
pany that has been formed in Madison
with 100000 capital. President Van
Hise, Prof. Freeman and Prof. e. T.
Owen of the university are stockholders.
Playing with matches resulted fatally
for Vernon Hart, the 4-year-old son of
Arthur 3. Hart of Oshkosh. The little
boy got hold of some matches in the
kitchen, and going to his bed chamber
in the upper part of the house, he lighted
them, his clothes taking fire.
Frank S. Komp, former president of
the kenosha State bank, has been taken
to Waupun. He was forced to leave at
800 a. M. to avoid spectators. He de-
clared that he will be back in Kenosha
in two months, as he has arranged to
have the Supreme Court review the mo-
ton Tor new trial and is confident of
winning.
The doors of the Listman mill in SUI
perior were forced open by Wisconsin
inspectors. A hundred men, mill hands
and inspectors, participated in general
mix-up. The trouble started when the
mill commenced to unload wheat with a
Minnesota Inspector in charge Of the
scales Wisconsin inspectors finally got
the scales and the mill ceased opera
tions at once.
Because it is a physical impossibility
to replevin wood that has already been
consumed, the First Presbyterian church
at Crandon won in the suit against it
instituted by e. w. Kreamer. Kreamer,
it was alleged, agreed to help pay the
debt on the parsonage. Kreamer failed
to pay the money and the church refused
to pay him for a load of cord wood.
Kreamer instituted suit to replevin the
property and was defeated.
Judge Goss Of the Oshkosh municipal
court expressed himself in favor Of con-
fning wife deserters where they would
be obliged to work and turn the proceeds
of their labor over to their families. An
other remedy he favored is the whipping
post. The judge declared that wife
abandonment is one Of the hardest ques-
tions with which the lower courts have
to deal, as the judge is often puzzled in
determining a suitable punishment.
An old track horse saved the life of
III. S. Schreiner, travelling man from
Racine. While driving along a lonely
road from Grand Ledge to Eagle River,
Mich, two men sprang into the road
ahead and fired at him point blank. None
Of the bullets struck him. One of the
robbers grabbed the bit of the horse
while the other approached the occupant
of the rig. Schreiner whipped up his
horse and tha old race horca nIun0od