Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-22

Adam Golatke, a recluse, was found
dead in his one-room house in South
Milwaukee.
Emil Z. Krause has been appointed
postmaster at Werley, vice Hiram A.
Monteith.
GAINESVILLE farmers are planning sub.
drainage system to connect with one in
northern Illinois.
In Ashland John Roudy, aged A.
years, cut his throat with a razor and
died soon after beng found by his wife.
Fearing reports that they might be de-
ported under the exclusion act, China
men in Sau Claire have sold out their
laundries and left.
Fox hunters have been securing the
country around Delafeld for weeks past.
The first fox captured in the chase was
taken by Charles Butler.
Van Ryn & De Gelleke of Milwaukee
have been selected as architects for the
new grade and high school building to
be erected in Blanchardvile.
James Carraher, a Kiel liyeryman,
was killed by fall down stairway,
his skull having been fractured. Deceas-
ed was so years of age and unmarried.
The streets of Berlin look as if martial
law prevailed there. A half dozen houses
the city authorities have engaged special
policemen to guard each house.
Miss Laura Hagen, the 1S-year-old
daughter of Assemblyman Charles Ha
gen of Black Greek, broke her arm and
was badly scorched by fall on stove
during party given in her aunt's home.
She will recover.
Ferry & Clas of Milwaukee have COM
! pleted plans for the new court house to
be built in Baraboo, and which, when
completed, is expected to cost 100000
The building will be one of the finest of
its kind in the State.
The efforts Of James Clark Of Chippe-
wa Falls during the past five weeks to
solve the mystery of the disappearance
| OF his son, E. J. Clark, have proven flu
tile. He is convinced that his son was
murdered in the vicinity of Chisholm,
Mimi, or in Duluth.
Application has been made to the Man
itowoc City Council by the Fox River
Valley Railway Company for a thirty
five-year franchise, the company propos-
ing to construct an electric interurban
from Sheboygan to that city and then
to Kaukauna. The line will traverse but
| one street in Manitowoc and the COM
pany offers to give $1,000 to rebuilding
bridge which it will cross.
| Peter Finan, young farmer of Rhine
lander, swallowed stryehnine, cut his
throat and died. His wife found him al
| most dead in manger and gave him
warm milk as an antid0te. He covered
up his neck SO that she could not see the
slash in his throat. She went for help,
but upon her return the man was dead.
He was 80 years old and no motive is
known for the deed.
After lifetime of sacrifice for men,
of Deloit died at the home of her brother,
William Buck, at Dolan, S. D., She
was 53 years old r'or years she cared
for an invalid father, refusing many Of
fers of home for herself Shortly after
her father died. and she was relieved of
one responsibility her brother called for
her assistance, when he and his wife
We're ill with typhoid fever.
Lake Geneva is in predicament. The
villagers have coniscated large guam
tity of liquor from the saloons that are
alleged to have violated the law. The
stuff is being held in various hiding
places. The people are afraid to pour
it into the lake for fear it will kill the
cisco, and they are not allowed to sell
it without a license, which they are not
able to get, as the town voted against
license.
Dispatches from Bristol state that an
epidemic of smallpox is raging in that
village. Ten cases have been reported
in two days and general vaccination
of the 700 inhabitants is on. 1t is
claimed that the body of man who re-
Gently died from the disease was shipped
to Bristol and given public funeral
The priest in charge of the church was
one of the first victims of the disease.
Hundreds of people have been exposed,
it is said.
Mrs. Charlotte Wood Of La Crosse
set fire to her bed after she had satu-
rated it with kerosene and had piled all
her clothing, jewelry and certificates of
deposit amounting to 81, 800 upon it.
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and went to the home of her brother
and told him she had burned her prop.
erty. The house was total loss. Mrs.
Wood had several times threatened her
life and did not want to leave her prop
erty to any one. She is 70, and will be
placed under guardianship.
Because his wife was i'll and he was
out of work and unable to get money
to provide medicines and necessities for
her, Henry Facklen, a Milwaukee car
penter, set fire to dwelling with a view
to getting the work of rebuilding or re-
pairing it. This is the statement made
by Facklen, who was caught in the act
of setting fire to the dwelling at 391
Fifteenth street. The police claim that
the prisoner has been connected with
several suspicious fires during the last
few months and that as result they
have been shadowing him.
Joseph Lindenmann, aged Sc years,
III fa Of a., nh,