Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-25

He will recover.
A wet snow fell in Milwaukee Tues
day, the first of the season. The snow
| fall was quite general throughout Wis
consin.
While melancholy, Stephen V. Dox of
Oshkosh, a veteran of the Civil War,
committed suicide by taking paris green.
He was 63 years of age.
Arthur Mellim of Blanchardville acct
dentally shot his brother Oscar while
hunting. Twelve shot entered the boys
shoulders. No serious results are ex-
pected.
The State institute for the blind has
been closely Quarantined by the city of
GAINESVILLE on account of smallpox. The
State board of health was summoned to
take action to prevent spreading of the
disease
Ethel Hansen, aged Is, was terribly
burned at her home near the village of
Berryville by the explosion of a lamp.
Her hair had been burned from her head
before she was rescued and the flames
eXtinguished
Edward j. Briske was accidentally
Killed while hunting near La Crosse.
With companion he was in boat and
when flock of ducks appeared he grab
bed his gun, which was discharged, the
trigger catching on the boat seat.
With all plans completed for his mar
rage, Felix Rogafsky sent word to the
priest and guests that there would be no
ceremony or banquet, as Mary Porfkaty,
the intended bride, had left Racine. He
asks the police to find the woman upon
whom, he says, he expended 5000 in
fitting cut a wedding rousseau.
After an absence of nineteen years,
during which nothing has been heard of
him, Rudo lph Behringer, a former mill
owner at ManitoWoc, has been located
in Pittsburg, Pa. where he has insti-
tuted proceedings for divorce from ms
wife. Behringer left town one nlgnes-l III
1886 and was long thought dead. Y
While taking the shells out of shot
gun in Cumberland Joe Flynn accident
ally discharged it, the load tearing a
large hole in the floor and going through
the ceiling of the room below, where
Fred Peck was sitting. Peck's head
and hands were peppered with shot, but
the floor prevented serious injury.
Wisconsin State civil service commits
sion has announced that it is nearly
ready to give examinations to candi-
dates who wish to compete for the sal
aried positions in the employ of the
State. Since the Legislature adjourned
six months ago the commission has been
N 20 lyin 81, nd of 10
OF various systems of civil service re-
form as found in other States and in the
national government. The commission is
composed of DIR. S. e. Sparkling, pro-
lessor of municipal government in the
State university; Otto Gaffron of Ply
mouth and former Secretary Of State
Cunningham Of Chippewa Falls. There
are some 1850 positions to be filled by
the civil service commission in the State
departments, charitable, reformatory and
penal institutions and in the university.
The first examinations, which will be
held next month, will be for positions
ranging in salary from $50 to $3.50
month, including clerks, bookkeepers,
factory inspectors, prison guards, re-
formatOry teachers, game wardens, steam
A loss of nearly $4,000 was caused
the other night by fire which originat-
ed in the millinery store of Mrs. W. III.
Hockenberger, and wiped out an entire
business block in Crandon. Famed by
a good wind, the fire swept up the row
OF wooden buildings in an hour. Dyna-
mite was used to stop the progress of
the flames, but without success. The
losses are as follows Mrs. w. HI. Hook
enberger, insured on stock for $500, loss
$500; DR.. w. w. Brown, upstairs, loss
$500, no insurance; building owned by
Zilkeski, insured for 5000, loss $500;
next building and stock, owned by L.
Parise, insured on building $1,000, loss
81 800, loss on stock $1,000, fully insur-
ed; Otto Becker, barber stock, fully in
sured; f. j. Rhodes, insurance on build
ing $500, loss $500, stock fully insured
at $1,400; Mary Billfuss, insured for
$500, loss $500; Charles Carnes,
fully insured; Frank Hllstrom, in
sured on building $1,000 and $500 on
furniture, loss on building $1,000; ST.
Paul drug store fully insured; West
colts law Office, fully insured, also DR..
Crawford's dental office; Pake & Land
reck's old store and stock, fully insured;
Grace Shaw Ross, loss on building ST.
200; M. M. Ross, nearly covered by in
surance.
A new point has been raised by the
railroads operating in Wisconsin and
new set of cases have been brought con-
testing the legality Of the ad valorem
railroad assessment made in accordance
with the law enacted in 1903. The first
set of cases were brought against the
first assessment under the law and these
were decided by Circuit Judge Hast
ings in favor of the State. If the law
is sustained Jon appeal it means an in
crease of about 100000 year in the
taxes of the railroad property of Wiscon-
SIM The roads attacked the first assess
ment on the ground that the local as
SCISSORS, whose work affects the rate of
the railroad tax, was faulty and incom-
plete, resulting in an unwarranted high
rate of railroad taxation. Judge Hast.
ings decided that the local assessments
were presumed to be correct and proper
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