Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-25

ages for alleged breach of promise.
A hardwood sawmill is to be estab
lished in Arena under the management of
w. A. McCutchin and Edward Lloyd.
Indian Agent Campbell at Ashland
has reported that smallpox has broken
out on one of the Chippewa reservations
there.
John VESSEL young Russian for
merly a soldier, became violently insane
in Kenosha on hearing of the fall of
Port Arthur.
Mrs. Frank Sindeler of Friendship
accidentally fell into a well and remained
in the cold water for over six hours be-
fore being discovered.
The postoffice fight at Bangor between
four candidates has been ended by Con-
gresham Eschs recommendation that
James Carr be appointed.
G. Edward Lindewern, a pioneer resi-
dent of Manitowoc, is dead at the age of
So years. He has been ill for two years
and is survived by a family.
e. E. Ramsdells store at Boyd was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000. Build
tinguished with but small loss.
Mrs. A. T. Dodge, a pioneer, died in
Madison, aged "A. Her daughter was
the first wife of Gilbert e. Roe, we'll
known lawyer and associate of Gov. La
Toilette.
The annual report of the Outagamie
county workhouse will show that nearly
every inmate during the past year was of
foreign birth. During 1904 there were
1O5 sentenced, of whom 10 were Ameri-
cans by birth.
A 14-year-old boy appeared before
County Judge Henry Kreiss in Appleton
and asked that he be sent to the reform
school. He says his mother is dead and
that his father is drunkard. His case
is now being investigated.
John Luerk was killed and William
Dalley's skull was fractured as the re-
suit of being struck by freight No. 81
near the Oconomowoc electric lighting
plant. Both men were section hands and
were cleaning out the switch
Judge w. D. Tarrant of Milwaukee
has been chosen to try the case of the APP
peal of Mary Wadleigh from the decision
of the County Court, which declared she
was not the wife of the late Col. Ga
briel Bouck. Judge Tarrant will accept
and the case will probably be tried in
Oshkosh about Feb. Is.
After walking from his home to the
school house in Appleton and facing one
of the worst billiards. Of the winter, in
order to bring his grandson home from
school, Peter Fass, 81 years of age, drop
ped dead ill the school room just before
school was dismissed. He was one OF
Appleton's pioneer residents.
Petitions are being circulated in Ke-
nOsha with the view of securing aid from
the Legislature for the completion OF the
so-called Sheridan drive from the State
line to Milwaukee, The road is now
open from Chicago to Zion City. Farm
ers are organizing protest against it,
fearing a general tax is to be levied.
Joe Steffel, held for the murder Of
Hans Tritschler, saloonkeepef, In
Milwaukee saloon, explains the fact that
he was the last man seen with Tritsch-
Ter before the murder was discovered, by
a statement that he was decoyed into the
place in an effort of the real murderers
to shift the blame. '"There were two
swell-dressed men and one woman at
the saloon when left, said the accused
man. Vita
Fire, supposed to have been started by
an incendiary, destroyed the interior of
the pickle factory of the 3. S. Gedney
company of Onalaska, entailed loss of
$4,000. The whole plant would have
been destroyed but for the assistance Of
the La Crosse fire department. At the
time the fire broke out the factory was
empty. A large part of the seasons out
put was destroyed and the company will
be hampered temporarily
Strong influences are being brought
to bear to secure the pardon of Joseph
Mallory, Racine boy, who is serving a
life sentence in the Indiana prison for
the murder of John Koonsman, South
Bend groceryman. Mallory is said to
have assisted in an attempt to rob the
Koonsman store. Koonsman offered re-
sistance and was shot and killed. 1t
has always been a matter of doubt as to
who fired the fatal shot.
John Stegert, 2O-year-old boy living
in Appleton, reports severe treatment at
Waurln. Several weeks ago he left APP
pleton in a box car bound for Neenah.
On the way over brakeman closed and
locked the door of the car. When he
was released he found himself in Wau-
pun. He and another boy were arrested,
so it is alleged, on the charge of vag-
rancy According to Stegert's story they
were hung up by the wrists, so that only
their toes touched the floor, for twenty
four hours.
Papers have been filed against Attor
ney General Sturdevant by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul, the Wisconsin
Western and other railroads to test the
new advalorem tax law, which increases
the taxes of the st. Paul road about
100000 and of the Western about &c.
600 The contention is that electric roads
carry passengers and freight also, but
are not so taxed; that the ST. Paul owns
it's sleeping cars and pays taxes on them,
which other roads do not, and that such
tax amounts to confiscation of the prop
erty.
Albert Willard, aged II years, tired of
+ba WAYS of New London and having