Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-22

| An epidemic of rabies has broken out
in GAINESVILLE among valuable dogs. Sew.
eral persons are known to have been
bitten.
| GAINESVILLE has been made the division
end of the ''coal road" of the Milwau-
kee road and is now the distributing
point for coal,
lie Roy King, former Kenosha coun-
ty man, who was sent to the State prison
for fourteen years for serious offense,
has been released.
| The residence of Henry WehmhoH,
| FIVE miles south Of Burlington. was burn
ed, the fire starting from chimney. The
loss was about $1,000, with $500 insur-
ance.
Frank Diller of Madison was sent to
the Green Bay reformatory for one year
for burglary He was formerly a Sun
day school superintendent at Lake Ge-
neva.
| Mrs. A. M. Kennedy, a poor employe
| at the Sherman House in Appleton, has
fallen heir to third interest in an estate
valued at 100000, left by her brother in
Chicago.
| George Tuchek Of La Crosse, con-
victed of manslaughter for the killing OF
an unknown man on Nov. 16, was SEN
fenced to the State prison at Waupun
for two years.
The Wisconsin State board Of control
will ask the Legislature for an appro-
priation of $1,60O,000 for the charitable
and penal institutions for the two years
from Jan. 1, 1905.
Mrs. Mary Lutz, wife of w. A. Lutz OF
the town of Wheatland, committed sui
eide at Hiawatha, Kan, by hanging her.
self to bed post. She was suffering
from mental disease.
A determined effort is being made to
secure the pardon of Charles Dashner,
who is serving a life sentence at Mar
Quote for the murder of a man IN
Frenchtown, Marinette, in 1888.
The residence on the farm of Edward
Buchan in the town of Dover, was al
most destroyed by fire and the occupants,
Henry Olsen, wife and six children, had
narrow escapes from being burned.
Albert c. Uecke and Charles Creglow
have organized and incorporated the
Cable Land and Improvement Company
of Cable, to deal in farm and timber
lands in Sawyer and Iayfield counties.
Andrew Carnegie has written Tom 0.
Mason of Cumberland offering $4,000
to build free public library there pro-
viding the city gives a suitable site and
appropriates $1,000 per year to main
tain it.,
Mary MilIenhaupt was probably fatal
~ hurt and three other women seriously
injured in a runaway accident at La
Crosse. They were driving in sleigh,
when their horse became frightened at
locomotive.
Frank Schvala, aged %, son of Rose
Schvala of Two Rivers, tried to get on
moving freight trail. Missing his hold,
he fell under the car, and wheels crush
ing both legs, so that amputation was
necessary. His recovery is very doubt
| full
| Irwin Church, the Lawrence football
player, who saved three Lawrence co-eds
! from being drowned last Friday, has
been sent to his home in Menominee
Falls, as his condition is serious as
result of the shock and strain OF max
ing the rescue.
Contractors of Racine are about to
form an association to oppose bill pre-
scented in the Assembly by William Bell
of Racine, which authorizes cities OF the
second, third and fourth classes to per-
form work Of public improvement AND to
collect the costs thereof.
With the thermometer registering Il
below zero, Jens Onanson OF Sturgeon
Bay lay out Of doors in the snow all
night When found the next morning
his legs were frozen about the knees,
both hands about the wrists, and ears
and face also frozen. He had been turn
ed out of a saloon and wandered about
until overcome by the cold, he fell ex--
hausted in a snow bank. He will prob
ably die.
Henry Boyle, 26 years old, a son Of
Henry Boyle, general superintendent OF
the Croker Chair Company OF Sheboy-
gan, committed suicide in Milwaukee.
Young Boyle was to have been married
at Sheboygan about month ago, but
on the eve of the wedding, for some UNI
explained reason. he disappeared. De-
spondency over this unhappy love affair,
IL Is pelcNeu cduSeu the young IHdH W
take his life.
e. *. Brigham, a prominent lumber
man, had one eye blown out at Bay
field and was otherwise injured by an
explosion. He had stepped into his wood
shed and was cutting some kindling wood
when the explosion occurred. Mr.. Brig
ham had had some dynamite caps in his
possession, and supposes that some of
them had been dropped on the floor UNI
noticed He is unable to account for
the explosion in any other way.
Frank Birkle the st. Nazianz youth
convicted of manslaughter, for the killing
of Louis Bahrs at Kiel, Oct. 20, must
serve at least four years and perhaps
seven years at the Green Bay reforma-
tory, the court having sentenced him to
an indeterminate tenn of that length.
Birkle is q years of age, and when ar
raigned for sentence addressed the court
and protested that he thought he had a
right in defending himself to kill Bahrs.
Miss Marie Haertel had close call
from serious injury at the Waukesha