Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-15

agitation for an organization to advance
fisheries in the north Wisconsin region.
Two men and a boy were injured BY
an explosion at the works Of the Mil
waukee Gas Light Company in Milwau-
kee.
The Hotel Racine has been leased to
&. j. Margerum of Findlay, Ohio, by
Charles Schmitt, proprietor, during the
past year.
lister who was arrested in La Crosse,
charged with stealing chickens, has been
declared insane.
Leo Schwartz of Chicago. visiting rela-
tives i'll Crandon, was instantly killed
while coasting. A tree blown across the
hill, struck him.
The Rice Lake Packing and Provision
Company has been capitalized at $780,
OOO A cereal food factory will be erect
ed here and 1900 people employed.
John Geon of Kimberly, 20 years old,
wrapped rag around finger he crush
ed at 2 a. M. worked until 6, and then
drove to Appleton to have it dressed.
On the suggestion of w. E. Clark of
Ladysmith, who has participated in
many fox hunts in Ohio, a great wolf
hunt is being planned for Ladysmith
and vicinity.
The State factory inspector has con-
demned the armory of the Governors
guard, the Avenue hotel and the Hotel
Sherlock in Madison because of the alb
selce of fire escapes.
Walter Baker of Greenwood was
struck by tree which he had been chop
ping, and dangerously injured while sit
ting under it smoking his pipe. His
spinal chord was severed and he is para
lyzed.
Gala Valerie Jahrling of Manila, Phil
ippine Islands. has just entered the State
university in the pharmacy course. There
are now twenty-seyen foreign students at
the university from fourteen different
countries.
The appeal of the 100 Mothers Club
OF Superior has had its effect. The May
or has given orders that the curfew law
must be enforced. The club will now
continue it's crusade for the protection
of young girls.
The body of Elvina Schneider, a 13-
year-old girl, was found near Neillsville.
She had been frozen to death. She left
home in Humbird JAM 8 last and nothing
further had been heard concerning her
until she was found dead.
Mrs. Mary o. Newell of Kenosha, wild
ow Of the late O. S. Newell, has been
named as one of the residuary legatees
to the estate of Harriet Jones of Chi
cago. Mrs. Newells portion of the es-
tate will be over $275,OO0.
Jonathan Scutt, aged SO years, and
Mrs Caroline Brocklebank, aged "A
years, were married at the home of Mr..
Scutt i'll the town Of Caledonia by Rev.
j. w. Gilman of the Episcopal church.
Nothing was known of the intended mar
riage, even to those invited to the house.
Mr.. Scutt is a wealthy retired farmer Of
Racine and both of the parties are pion-
GERS.
Prof. Beeman, city superintendent of
schools in Neenah, has started an anti
saloon crusade regarding his students
in unique fashion. He has ordered
that all guests attending a school dane
once leaving, without paying another adj
mission. He declares that many of the
male pupils have been freQuenting sa-
looms between dances.
Embedded in two feet of ice, the body
OF an unknown man, believed to be John
Saunders, a deckhand on the Goodrich
steamer Georgia for years, was found in
the river at Manitowoc and taken out
after hours of work. Saunders disap-
peared last fall while returning to the
shipyards, where his boat was in dock,
and nothing has ever been heard of him.
An inquest will be held.
A large drove of wolves was seen near
the State hospital grounds in Oshkosh.
Farmers living in the towns of Oshkosh,
Vinland and Neenah have frequently
heard wolves bowling at night. Attempts
to catch them in traps or to kill them
with poison have failed. 1t is said that
the pack seen near the State hospital
probably crossed Lake Winnebago on the
ice from the east shore.
While sitting at the front window of
his home about a mile and half south
of Appleton, on Lake Row shortly after
8 o'clock the other evening, Jacob Fass
narrowly escaped death from a bullet
from a 32-caliber which passed through
the window and just missed his head. He
FASTENED to the door and saw large
sleigh disappear in the darkness. He is
unable to identify the occupants.
A transaction covering the transfer ap-
proximately of 10000 acres of timber
land located in Villas county has been
closed at Chippewa Falls and disposes
of the largest remaining tract of pine
timber in the State. The transfer was
made by the Chippewa Lumber and
Boom Company to a newly organized
numbering corporation known as the
Yewkey & Bissel Lumber Company The
tract is located near Trout lake and is
estimated at 2O0,000,000 feet of pine.
The consideration was $1,5OO000.
Farmers who last year went into the
sugar beet business, instead Of raising
tobacco, have made a wonderful record,
according to report that has just been
made. Fifty farmers planted 1874 acres
and raised 1868 tons of beets, which
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