Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-08

| the case of his small son, who, he claims,
was whipped while in school for whisper
ing so that his life is said to be in dan
| ger.
A scheme to stop patrons from COM
ing late to the theater has been inau
gurated in Sheboygan. The stage man
ager will cut out the same time from
the performance that is required to seat
them.
Arthur Woods, who was sentenced
from Superior to Waupun for the MUIR
der of Conductor Ole n. Bendz of tho
Superior street railway, died behind the
prison bars. His life sentence is done
before he was past "a .@ears old.
The body of Anton Wulfrum, a Ger
man, aged 46 years, was found hanging
from a rope attached to a hook in the
garnet of the American hotel in James
vile. He left ST 900 in a bank there and
no motive is known for suicide
| j. Harrington, a Wisconsin Central
conductor, was killed, and Brakeman
Charles Messlin fatally injured when two
ends of a broken freight crashed togeth-
err near Abbotsford. Both men were
thrown on the cabOose stove and badly
|
burned.
| Moses Taylor, who died as the result
| OF chewing a toothpick, was buried in
Appleton. He was a prominent citizen
of Iron Mountain, Mich. An operation
failed to dislodge bit of wood from the
toothpick which had lodged in Mr.. Tay-
lor's intestines
Three deaths of dphtheria, those of a
child, 16-year-old and 12-year-old
son, have occurred within few days in
the family of George Legman, an old
resident in Hurley, and there is but slight
hope for the recovery of two other strick-
en- members of the family.
| For weeks past freight traffic has al
most been at a standstill, and the big
wholesale butter and egg houses at John
son Greek are losing heavily. Thousands
OF pounds of butter and many cases of
eggs have been delayed in shipment, the
railroad company refusing acceptance.
Diphtheria has broken out in Odanah
reservation school and over 100 students
have been locked up to prevent the
| spread of the disease. There are many
cases of sore throat in addition to ten or
/
The latter are kept in separate rooms.
Labor troubles may prove a hindrance
to many large projects for building in
Manitowoc this spring The first intima
ton is card published by the carpen
ters' union in which notice is given that
| the carpenter contractors have refused
to yield to a scale of 271a cents per hour.
| A head-on collision between the Port
age local passenger train and the Mil
waukee and Chicago newspaper train oc-
CURED at the Rio switch. Brakeman Ro-
land J. Dickey Of the Portage train was
killed and several other trainmen, in
Guiding Michael McQuiney, were slight
ly injured. Both engines were wrecked.
Officer Reed Of Genoa Junction, at
tackled by two tramps whom he attempt
ed to land in the village lookup, used
horsewhip to good effect and landed his
men. AS he was walking between them
| toward the Jail, they suddenly both
pounced on the officer, using him badly
and making several bruises and cuts.
Reed then applied horsewhip which
he was carrying and lambasted both
men so that they were hardly able to
walk.
George Keiser of Keller, aged 49
years, was killed under load of lum-
Der which tipped over while he was
driving from Dubuque to Eagle Point.
| The oaly injury to the body was a brok-
en- arm, and it is believed he suffocated
in the snow under the load. The body
was discovered half an hour after the
accident by a farmer named Suffer. A
coroners jury returned verdict of acct
dental death. He leaves family of
nine children. His wife died Il year
| ago.
w. w. Shepherd, whose return from
the South after an absence of forty years
has caused a sensation in New London
| several weeks ago, will return to Texas
Shepherd left shortly after the death
| of his wife, forty years ago, leaving an
infant child with a family in New Lon
don. This son has grown up, is married
and has daughter, who has been mar
| ried to August Freimuth. Shepherds
| fortune is written in six figures, it is de.
| clared. A goodly portion of it was left
with Mrs. Freimuth and her husband.
| The remains Of Private John Tummit
Menasha lad, who was killed in the
| L ulIlpplHoS several months ago. nave ar.
rived and been buried in Menasha. Tum-
NIT, with a few other soldiers, was
guarding several prisoners while these
constructed a trench for target practice
on a small island across bay from
Manila In order to return the prisoners
it was necessary to convey them to Ma
Mia in a launch. While in the middle
of the bay on the return trip the prs.
| Oners revolted. The soldiers were over
powered and were killed with the crew.
Those of the prisoners who survived the
| fight were soon recaptured.
Lying in pool of blood, her head COW
| cred with snow, a woman whose name
| cannot be ascertained was found on the
| State road a few miles from Appleton.
The discovery was made by small boy,
Will Anderson, who was so frightened
| that he ran three miles to Columbia Hall
in Appleton before he stopped. A dance
was being held but the boy was too
frightened to tell anyone of the affair
until the dance was over. The lad was