Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-09-13


robbed of SO.
The large barn of Frank Linburg,
| chairman of the town of Stubs, burned
the other night. Two horses and thirty
| five tons Of hay were lost.
Richard Kolitz, aged 2S years, living
north Of Fox Lake. accidentally shot
himself in the head with Il shotgun in his
| buggy, blowing out his brains.
Reinhold Rochhu of Manawa, car
penter working on building two miles
west of Horizon, fell from scaffoldlns
in a fit and was instantly killed.
Amenzo Piper, proprietor of the Lone
Tree Fruit farm of Sheboygan Falls,
was held up by two highway robbers and
relieved Of So or 81 of small change.
The business men of Alma have or
gained Business Mems Association
and by united efforts will endeavOr to Sc
cure some manufacturing esta blishments,
| Norman Evanson, the Neenah Lad who
was accidentally shot through the right
thigh by shotgun in the hands of Peter
| Rasmussen, died in terrible agony, lock-
jaw having set in.
/ Three black bears appeared near
Ridgeland the other day. After an ex-
| citing chase two Of them were killed.
One weighed 100 ponds and the other
| between 300 and 400
| Uhlrich Patthoff, the 12-year-old son
| Of Prof Il. w. Patthoffy a teacher in
/ the st. Louis schools, swan across Green
lake, a distance Of one and a half miles
in ONE hour and thirty minutes.
/ Peter Berry of Chippewa Falls was
assaulted at the Union depot in Des
| Moines and robbed Of $15. His left ear
was severed by the footpads, who left
him unconscious. He will recover.
I The Attorney General has rendered
an opinion that national guardsmen and
non-commissioned officers in the employ
/ of the State can use railroad passes, but
/ that commissioned officers cannot.
Farmers about Neenah are complain
| ing of locust beetles which bore into
maple trees and kill them. Scores Of
trees have been destroyed and all at
tempted remedies have failed to get rid
of the pest.
The rafting works at West Newton
have been permanently closed. The
steamers, barges, pile drivers, skiffs and
| tools are for SALE This industry gave
employment to many men, who will now
have to seek other fields.
George Kalcheck Of Kossuth was COM
mitted to the asylum at Oshkosh. Kali
check, it is said, had attacked overall
neighbors with a large butcher knife and
| became very violent, SO that it required
several men to handle him.
| Death defeated the plans of Cupid in
claiming Carl Erickson, whose demise
occurred the other day. Erickson was
to have been married to Miss Ella Ham
mond of Milwaukee two weeks from the
day on which his death occurred.
Word from Crisman, Colo, states that
a six-inch streak of quartz filled with
| free gold has been uncovered in the
| Grand Republic mine, which is controlled
| by Neenah capitalists. The ''6nd" is
estimated to be worth half a million
| dollars.
While Mrs. John West and her niece,
Miss Pearl Campbell, were driving near
Evansville, the horse became frightened
and ran away. Mrs. West was killed.
She was 70 years old and lived with her
son-in-law, Rev. w. w. Diehl Of Ster-
ling, Ill.
| In Superior Sauter's meat market was
robbed of at least $50 in money and
| Swanson's saloon was robbed of small
amount of whisky and cigars. Mr.. and
| Mrs. Theodore Hail. old timers in the
police court were arrested, charged with
| the crime
| Five meat dealers pleaded guilty in
| Madison to selling adulterated meats.
One man pleaded guilty to selling ham,
| burger steak preserved in sulphites,
| while four others were fined for selling
bologna preserved in borax and colored
| with coal tar dye.
Edgsr Rabe, aged years, met in
| slant death in runaway in Sheboygan.
He was riding in bus when the horses
became frightened and in turning a cor
ner struck the curb and upset the wagon.
Young Rabe struck the curb on his head
and broke his neck.
The governments weekly crop report
reviews conditions in this State as fol-
| lows: Heavy rains retarded the thrash
ing, stacking, and fall blowing; corn adj
yancing rapidly; will be secure from
frost by Sept. 10; grain damaged from
sprouting in shock, but yield satisfac-
tory; potato outlook discouraging; to-
bacco secured pastures excellent; sugar
beets excellent; buckwheat in bloom;
cranberries ripening; hops fine.
Fearing consequences which might fol-
low his second arrest by the police, Fred
Juhre, the 15-year-old leader of the
"Daredevils of the nockies," boy bandits,
tried to commit suicide by striking his
head against the wall of the cell room
of the North Side police station in Mil
waukee. He was taken to the Elmer
gency hospital, where it was found that,
aside from a severe scalp wound and
minor Commissions, the lad had not injured
himself.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kolb Of Fond du Lac,
after nearly year of blindness and par
alysis, has recovered the use of her eyes
| and arms and limbs. The other day Mrs.
Kolb was taken critically ILL and her
death was expected at any time, but she
| IL.