Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-08

L TeSS Is missing.
The Crivitz Pulp and Paper Company
of Crivitz has been formed and capital
lied at $4,000
Checks Nos. p ,9O3 to 21,950 inclusive
have been stolen from the Tomah depot
of the Milwaukee road
Harold Ellis, years old, of the town
of Delona, died as the result of accident
al discharge of rifle in the hands of
playmate.
The Northern Pacific road is trying
to introduce new coarse cereal, emmer,
Russian grain, into the northern coun-
ties of Wisconsin.
X. W. Cheever, the senior proprietor
of the Clinton Herald, has secured pc
sition at Madison and will take up his
duties next week.
While coasting, Alice Bergin, the 13-
year-old daughter of John Bergin, the
Shell Lake city marshal, broke her leg
just above the ankle.
Prof. G. e. Lamb, who has been prin-
cipal of the Clinton high school during
the fall term, has resigned and secured
a position at Delavan.
Mrs. Ellen J. Hixon and son, Frank
L. Hixon, have presented the La Crosse
hospital with $1,000, the amount remain
ing due on it's Indebtedness.
''Ted" Alberts, wanted at Appelton
for breaking Jail, where he was held on
charge of burglary, was recaptured at
Neenah and taken back to Jail.
John Worrell, who left home in Me-
nomonie a month ago without notifying
his family as to where he was going,
has returned, having been to San Fran
cisco.
Fish are being taken from the Manito-
woe river at Hayton in large numbers,
because of a break in the dam which
carried them out into the shallow, open
water Of the river.
Anton Aigner, farmer residing near
Glidden, was struck by tree which he
had felled and instantly killed. He was
IL years old and is survived by a widow
and eight children.
The 5-year-old daughter of Hans A.
Strand of Rice Lake was instantly killed
by 500 logging train. She was on her
way home from kindergarten, and slipped
OH the icy crossing
Henry Gamer lost $4,000 in a fire at
his general store in North Freedom. He
had only $1,000 insurance On his big
stock of goods losing with the rest a car
load of flour just received.
Edward Mcclure, recently clerk at the
Schlitz Hotel, Milwaukee, and at the
Hotel Marinette in Marinette, has been
married to a rich and beautiful Mexican
woman in the City of Mexico.
Frank Lense, who was charged with
the murder of Paul Demonkas at All
meek last summer was acquitted by the
jury in Keweenaw Circuit Court. No
case of recent years caused excitement
in that section that this particular one
did.
Cora M. Clark of Beloit is suing her
husband, George l.. Clark, for an abso-
lutte divorce on the grounds of cruel and
inhuman treatment. She alleges that her
husband nearly froze her to death and
threatened dire punishment if she touch
ed the stoves during his absence. She
states in her complaint that in the morn
ing when he went to work he would fix
the fires and forbid her to touch them.
Mr.. Clark is acting as his own attorney.
District Attorney A. e. Buckmaster of
Kenosha county has begun searching
investigation into the murder of John
Wren, the ManitOwoc man who was
murdered near the village of Trevor on
Christmas day. M. J. Schumacher, Pc
ter Schumacher, his son, Dug Barthyte,
John George and John Bolton are now
held by the sheriff pending further in
vestigation. Schumacher owned the sa-
loon in which Wren was seen a few
minutes before his death.
Walter Brandt, the 13-year-old son
had battle with large wolf near his
home. The animal had been killing chick
ems and the boy undertook to trap him.
One morning the trap was gone, but the
tracks of the wolf were visible i'll the
snow The boy followed them and came
upon the wolf crouched in hollow, and
without warning it sprang upon the boy,
who fought the animal off with the butt
of his gun and finally shot it.
Word has reached Manitowoc of the
death of George Ferris, a youth sent to
the Green Bay reformatory in 1901 from
Manitowoc for hold-up and robbery. Fer
ris, whose home was in Ohio, came to
Manitowoc early in the year and was
convicted in June. During the time he
was in Jail lie was married to Grace
Huffner of Manitowoc the ceremony TAX
ing place the night before Ferris was
taken to Green Bay. He was released
in November, 1908, and very shortly af-
forwards was taken ill, his death result
ing recently.
Brookfield Junction was practically
wiped off the map by a fire that started
in Kehl Brothers butcher shop from
a defective stove. The flames were
rapidly communicated to the Brookfeld
House, a hotel built about eight years
ago, and owned by ex-Sheriff William
A. Scholl of Waukesha. From the hotel
the flames were spread to Mr.. Scholl's
livery barn and from there to Wirth's
general store and postoffice, which was
entirely destroyed. The flames gained
rapid Roadway and caught the warehouse
of III. w. Wirth, and went from there to
the general store of Fred Bolter, which