Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-15

two miles northwest of Racine, is to be
made summer resort.
The estate of Regent Breeze J. Ste
vens of Madison has paid an Inheritance
tax of $5,679.55, the largest in Dane
ounty.
Right Rev Joseph Rainier has been
appointed vicar general of the Milwau-
kee archdiocese, to succeed Father Schin-
ner, who has been made bishop of Supe-
rior.
Mrs. Thomas O'Malley, well-known
Marinette woman, is dead. A week ago
pimple formed and she picked it. Fry
sipelas set in the next day and resulted
in death.
The Marinette Lumber Company has
disposed of about 1,24O acres of pine TIM
Der in Oconto and Marinette counties to
the Peshtigo Lumber Company, the con-
sideration given being $4,000.
One of the most daring burglaries ever
committed in La Crosse took place at
the home of Harry l.. Colman, a meno-
Der of the Colman Lumber Company,
when robbers secured 81, 300 worth of sill
yer.
Chief of Police Jack Macarthur of An
tigo was shot dowE and instantly killed
by Jim Witinger, an escaped maniac
from the Northern hospital for the in
sane at Oshkosh. The shooting was done
from ambush.
Walter Schmidt, boy of the town Of
Hustisford, was accidentally shot by q
younger brother just after he had been
told not to play with a shotgun which
had been left loaded. The boys head
was blown off.
AS the result Of injuries sustained in a
fall OF twenty-five feet from the roof Of
his home, John Reinig died in Fond du
Lac. He was trimming favorite tree
at his residence, when he slipped and
struck the ground below.
Don Prescott, Is years old, the son Of
Loren Prescott of the Prescott iron
works, was saved from drowning at
Marinette by the bravery of Carol Aker-
man, aged Is. Prescott had been swim
ming and taken with cramps.
Stanislaus Poplawskl, "king of the
Poles,' has disappeared from Racine.
The wife of another Pole has also gone,
and $500 of her husbands money is also
gone. Investigation proved that they
both bought tickets for Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Chloupek, resi-
dents of Mantowoc county since 1S48.
celebrated the golden wedding anniver-
sary OF their marriage. Children, grand
children and great-grandchildre of the
couple arranged surprise Cor them.
A young man named Kast was drown
ed in the Jump river in Grant county,
while bathing. He was Is years old.
The body was found by the aid of quick
silver placed in loaf of bread and al
lowed to float on the surface of the river.
1t stopped directly over the body.
The breaking of hose in the airbrakes
on a north-bound freight train of the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad, one
mile north of the northern hospital at
Winnebago, caused a bad wreck. Three
freight cars loaded with merchandise
were derailed and piled up in a mass.
The body of Andrew Brown, aged Fl
years, passenger brakeman on the St.
Paul road running between Milwaukee
and Chicago, and who has been missing
since May Is, was found floating in the
lake at Racine. Three months ago
Browns wife died and he became de-
spondent.
Charles A. Bartlett, prominent La
Crosse citizen and former city official,
applied to be examined for his sanity,
saying that he wanted to be sent away
before he injured himself or someone
else. The court called in physicians,
who found Bartlett insane. He was sent
to Mendoza.
Mrs. n. G. Bachelor, wife of promi-
nent La Crosse contractor, has been
awarded the contract for the $4,000
Catholic church at Clinton, and is super
intending all the construction work She
spends nine hours daily on the work,
having learned the business since becom-
ing the wife of Bachelor.
August Federer of Plymouth was near
ly suffocated as the result of the explo-
sion of his entire stock of fireworks in
his show window, caused by a lighted CT
gar coming in contact with frecracker.
The entire window was shattered and a
man passing by was almost knocked
by an exploding skyrocket
Albert Van Heuklom of Appleton res
cued Margaret Sheanan, Mary Melon
aid, Mary O'Brien and Agnes Quantius
from drowning at Montello. The four
girls were in a boat a short distance off
the shore of Lake Buffalo. The Apple
ton man was nearby, being one of the
members of the Appleton Congregational
church choir spending a two weeks out
ing near Montello. The craft occupied
BY the girls suddenly capsized.
County Clerk A. A. Raisler at Apple
ton has received official notification from
Secretary of State w. l.. Houser that
hereafter no county board will have the
power to regulate the amount of bounty
20 be paid on matured wolves, but that
The laws of 1905 have fixed the amount
1T $40, that must be paid by the county,
with an equal amount by the State. A
person will therefore be able to secure
go for each wolf killed. Some counties
nave refused to pay any bounty, while
0utagamie county has paid but S..
Mrs. w. Schumacher of Appleton has
legal action to adopt her own
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