Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
Kenosha will soon have a curfew law.

BelOit retail dealers will raise the
price of milk from s to cents a quart.
w. l.. Stephenson has been named
coroner of Rusk county in place of w.
+. O'Connor, resigned.
Peter Sipple of Elk Mound was in-
| stantly killed by Northwestern train
near that place while walking on the
| track. He was deaf
| Frank w. Bartl, head Of the Bartl
Brewing Company, aud president of the
La Crosse Common Council, died in La
| Crosse, aged 30 years.
Walter S. Larsan, county superintend-
ent OF schools, has been injured by
runaway in Manitowoc, his horse being
frightened by an automobile
Max Hooters barns at Jefferson were
struck by lightning and burned with
nearly all their contents, moment aft
ter Hotter finished milking. There is
out little insurance
The Milwaukee postoffce fight is to go
to the President, Congressman Stafford
announcing that he would not support
Otjen's candidate, Wade H. Richard
son, but would present a name for the
place himself
At depth of forty-nine feet Cooner
Brothers, while boring a we'll for Theo.
Van den Bloomen, near Kaukauna,
struck flow of water in the solil rock
and III pumping out the hole brought up
a live fish 312 inches in length.
Tradition THAT mothers, lap is a safe
place was shattered in Sheboygan when
Gladys Andrews, aged 4 years, who was
being rocked, fell from the lap of her
mother, Mrs. William. Andrews, and
broke her arm and dislocated her wrist.
In a stiletto fight in the Italian dis
trict in the Third Ward of Milwaukee,
| one was fatally stabbed and four serl-
ously injured. Among the wounded was
PatrOlman Michael Heck. who is at the
emergency hospital with' the others in
jured.
The 3-year-old son. Of Julius Kick
haefer of Oshkosh was drowned in
barrel OF garbage. He wandered into
the rear yard to pig sty and climbed
upon barrel partially filled with refuse.
The mother found him in the barrel
dead. as.s@sss.r.-r
Q. A. Budlong, the new clerk of Cir
cult Court in Marinette,. says that the
investigation into the records of Arthur
A. Cole, the alleged absconding clerk of
court, has been completed. In round
numbers the shortage has been found to
be about $2,4OO.
The electricians and linenen of the
four telephone companies centering in La
Crosse struck for recognition of the
union. The question of the open or closed
shop is the point in controversy, as the
companies are paying the union scale
and working union hours
Thomas McMahon, student of the
Hudson High School, who was injured
in football game at River Falls, may
be crippled for life. His leg was broken
between the ankle and knee and the bone
badly fractured. Physicians fear he will
never be able to use the limb again.
Leonard Eastman and Wallace Cook
well known in Marinette and fraternity
men of the University of Wisconsin, are
at present at Naples before concluding
a tour Of the continent. The boys start
ed out several weeks ago with only
small amount of money to do the large
European cities.
N EOWdIu Has D0Ou OucI6u ny luC
Manitowoc Picking Company for the
arrest and conviction of persons respon-
sible for thefts of cabbage from tho
company's farm west Of the city. More
than a ton has been carried away. The
thieves operate in boats. Cabbage is
valuable this year, the corp being ex-
tremely short.
A boy had a narrow escape from elec-
trocution at a maibox in Marinette. He
touched the lever which swings the open
er and received shock which threw him
some distance. Later Mail Carrier Irwin
Grandall received a shock from the same
box. The telephone wires had become
grounded against the mailbox in some
manner, making it dangerous for all who
used it.
A desperate class rush took place at
Lawrence university in Appleton. The
freshmen held their first meeting of the
year, after fighting for an hour with
the sophomores for the privilege. The
sophomores were outnumbered to l,
but threw several freshmen into the river
before the lower classmen won the day.
A number Of football players in uniforms
aided the upper class men.
A letter has been received from Grover
Horn, a former GAINESVILLE boy, who is
now a sailor on the Atlantic, telling of
a terrible experience with several ship
mates in an open boat for twenty days,
ten degrees south Of the equator. The
first mate and two sailors were nearly
dead when picked up by a tramp, steamer
and the rest of the party We're confined
to the hospital for three weeks after.
The Washington house in West Bend
was for the fourth time entered by burg
lars during the absence of its owner.
Valuable jewelry, including tokens of the
owners dead wife, We're carried away.
A story bordering on dime novel ex-
citement accompanies the report of the
burglary. 1t is said that some villain
Gus character has a notion that Math
Clames, the owner who is a wealthy
retired farmer, has treasures hidden in
the old hotel and this man is trying to
get at them. There is quite a commo-
ton over the affair.
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