Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-01

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A petition of residents asking that the
question of Incorporating as city be
submitted to the people of Ladysmith
was granted by the village board.
Bernard Balster, the oldest man in
kenosha county, died at his home in the
town OF Wheatland, at the age of 9S
years. He was a native of Germany.
Mrs. J. G. Bridge, aged 40, of Jeffer-
son, attempted to commit suicide by tir-
ing bullet through her chest. She will
die. LII health is given as the cause.
The coronesis jury in the case of Cor
nclius Yonkers, an ice cutter, 80 years
old, whose body was found at Camp lake,
with his throat cut from ear to ear, de-
clares it case of suicide.
A Northwestern passenger and
freight train collded nine miles west
of Fond du Lac. Eight persons were in
jureS, none seriously The freight crew
thought the passenger train had passed.
Rev. David Ellis Evans of Armour,
). d., is the first pastor who speaks
English exclusively, ever called to the
Welsh Congregational church in Racine.
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Milwaukee,
| A deadlock over the selection of a Ii
brarian to succeed Miss Julia Elliott, re-
signed, has come about in Marinette. AS
4 result of a somewhat heated discussion
at the last meeting. Mrs. Isaac Stephen
son rendered her resignation from the
board.
I hnrn1 IONS hocs
been put into effect at Beloit college with
the result that number Of students
were summoned before the honor COM
mittee and given a hearing on charges
| preferred against them. Several were
| found guilty.
The barking Of a dog saved the fam
| lily OF former Alderman Peter Pirsch of
| Aenosha from being asphyXiated with
coal gas. The bowling of the animal
awakened Mr.. Pirsch, who found all of
| the members of the family unconscious.
All will recover.
Mrs. William Williston saved herself
| from robbery by three men in Marinette
| by means of a hatpin. One of the men
grabbed her purse. As he did so she
seized hatpin from her hat and jabbed
| it deep in his arm. The man gave yell
and all three disappeared down an alley.
Milwaukee owners of lake front land
Ill Racine, during the past few days, have
learned of movement on the part of
the authorities of the Belle city to pur-
chase a large portion of the site offered
for the naval training school, just north
OF Racines city limits, and make it into
n off no lr oh
worth about $500 per acre.
The marriage of William Kranz, presi-
dent of the Racine Business Mems AS
| sociatiun and one of the most prominent
business men of the city, and Miss Flor
ence Cass of Chicago, his niece, caused
much surprise. Mr.. Kranzs first wife
| lost her life in the Iroquois fire at Chi
cago At that time Mr.. Kranz was ter
ribly burned. He was confined to a hos
pital i'll Chicago for many months and
Miss Cass and her mother nursed him.
| The city Of Oshkosh is making a de-
termined effort to take the State capitol
| away from Madison. Senator e. f. Ste
vens of Oshkosh has introduced two bills
in the Legislature, one providing that
after the first Monday in January, 1907,
| the seat of government shall be in Osh-
kosh and the other requiring that the
present capitol building commission shall
select a site at that place Immediately
on the authorizing of the city of Oshkosh
to grant to the State and the State to
accept site in Oshkosh known as North
Park.
Investigations by the authorities Of
the last few days have for certainty
proven that the ''much-married' Johann
Adolph Hoch was the man who on Feb.
of last year, married Mrs. Catherine
| Wilson of Mazomanie. Hoch came from
Milwaukee a stranger, under the name of
Heinrich Valtzand. After an acquaint,
ance of four days he married Mrs. Will
son. He represented himself as being
in the brewing business in Milwaukee,
and being very wealthy. He deserted
Mrs Wilson, it is alleged, two days af-
ter he married her, taking with him ST.
400 of her money, and jewelry valued at
$3.50
The deal for the purchase of the plant
| of the City Water Company by the city
of Sheboygan, at a cost of $350,000, has
ing been started six years ago. The last
hitch encountered has just been removed
by the company consenting to furnish
$25OOOO bond that it will faithfully per-
form it's part Of the contract. The con-
tract is that the city will take over the
plant, on Jan. 1, 1908, when the COM
pany's franchise expires. The matter
| will have to be voted upon at the coming
spring election by the citizens. Bonds
will then be issued to cover the purchase
of the plant
The residence of J. M. Jensen at Min
eral lake was burned and blown to atoms
by dynamite, and Mrs. Jensen was Sc
verely frozen while crawling through the
snow to escape cremation. Mrs. Jensen
is paralyzed in the lower limbs and was
confined to her bed, unable to walk a
STEP and for the past three weeks has
been critically i'll. The other afternoon
Mr.. Jensen visited a neighbours house a
mile distant and on his return discovered
the tracks in the snow, where his wife
had dra Cged herself and found ba, I'm