Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-21

round drowned IN clStern.
Mrs. Percy Coughlin, about % years
old, was drowned at Colfax by falling
into the river during a fit.
The Northwestern Scandinavian Sing
ers' Association will hold its biennial
saengerfest in La Crosse July 6, and 8,
1906.
There is likelihood that the Fore
paugh-Sells Brothers circus may make
their winter quarters in Appleton in the
future
William Springer, aged q years, the
only support of his widowed mother in
Appleton, drowned in Fox river while
boating.
Ira s. Meyer, the GAINESVILLE bigamist,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
at Fort Madison for term of two years
and five months.
An 1S-months-old son of John Smith
of Eau Claire, while playing in the yard,
was attacked and killed by large black
Mlnorca rooster.
A two-pound carp was caught by
Henry Gutsch in a miniature lake on the
main business street of Sheboygan, in
hole in the wood paving
Mrs. f. N. Findeisen, an old and high
ly respected citizen Of Campbellsport, for
over fifty years, died suddenly. The
shock killed her husband.
l.. johnson of Elroy, about 80 years
old, purposely, it is said, rolled off a
high rock and fell about seventy-fve
feet, sustaining injuries from which he
died. No cause is known for the act
Seventy-fve farmers in Yorkville and
Raymond townships are in a wrangle
over the opening of canal ten miles
long. 1t is claimed that the canal would
improve and redeem 5000 acres of land.
The wholesale grocery of G. N. Ora.
mer 4 Co. in Washburn was entered by
burglars and the large safe was blown
up. -Four charges of nitroglycerine were
used, but little money and valuables
were secured.
Mrs. George Sheldon Smile, the art
ist, recently of Kenosha, was carried
over precipice by her horses running
away near Central, Colo She fell 200
feet, and while badly bruised, it is said
she will recover.
A pocketbook containing $4,000 in Sc
curities belonging to George r. Bentley
OF Elkhorn, which was stolen from him
at the Modern Woodmen's picnic, has
been found in a saloon in Beloit, but
$3.50 in cash is missing.
By the death of Walter S. Davis in La
Crosse his wife of forty eight hours, for
merly compelled to work Cor her living,
becomes the heiress to a third interest
in the Davis estate, which is estimated
at several hundred thousand dollars.
The 4-year-old girl of John Berg, liv-
ing on farm two miles from Three
Lakes, burned to death, while the mother
was working in the garden. The child
climbed on to a chair and got some
matches from the cupboard and set her
clothing on fire.
G. H. Blaisdell, a Chippewa Falls
street car conductor, grabbed Mrs. 81.
Smiths child from baby carriage which
was on the track before a speeding Oma-
ha passenger train, and an instant later
the carriage was demolished. The moth
err seeing the danger, tainted.
A charge of abandonment has been
preferred against Stanislaus Wroblaska
OF Menasha, who is said to be now work
ing in South Bend, Ind. -Four years ago
Wroblaska married Rosa Sukolofski.
Wroblaska was a widower with three
children and after having secured the
wife's property amounting to $500 he
abandoned her, she alleges, leaving his
three children as we'll as one by his Sec
ond marriage, to the wife.
Florence Bellinger, 81 years old, and
her mother, Mrs. Anna Meyer, were
found dead at their home in the rear of
sos Jackson street, Milwaukee. Death
is supposed to have resulted from drink
ing from the contents of a bottle sup
posed to contain brandy. The girl died
several hours before her mother A note
was found on the table beside the bed
of Mrs. Meyer, which reads: "Sell every
thing and give the dead a decent burial.
In the purse is $29.56."
Lightning struck the German Lutheran
church in Chippewa Falls during SER
vices. In the excitement that followed
many women tainted The rain flooded
Duncan creek, carrying away the large
dam at Bloomer. Property is damaged
thousands of dollars. A terrific hail and
wind storm passed over Abbottsford.
Fruit and gardens were destroyed and
many barns and dwellings were blown
down. About half of the village Of Cur
tiss was wrecked by the wind. Fifty
thousand dollars of damage was done in
GAINESVILLE and Rock county by a severe
wind, rain and hail storm which ap-
preached a cloudburst. Reports from
the country are that whole fields Of beets
and tobacco are ruined and corn is badly
damaged.
Cameron dam on Thornapple river,
over which the Dietz controversy with
the Chippewa Logging and Boom Com
pany hinges, went out, and with it the
destruction Of many wagon bridges, ac-
cording to advices from Chetek. Several
towns in the county have been cut off.
Only one steel bridge in the vicinity
remained in it's place. Durand and vi
cinity have been having the worst flood
since 1884. The Chippewa river has risen
thirteen feet. Business men worked all
night trying to save their goods
Launches were kept running all night