Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17
AnOver the State.

All Over the State.
Gordon Anderson, Of Bloomington, has
been adiudged insane and taken to the
county asylum.
Herman G. Buehcner of Chicago was
fined $50 and costs for shipping ducks
from Horizon to Chicago.
An engine and dynamo are being IN
stalled and poles set preparatory to light
ing Owen with electricity.
Laura Roster, aged II years, died at
Milwaukee in great agony from lockJaW'
1t is supposed she stepped on rusty nali'
Julius Ende and Miss Elizabeth Win
ter. both Of Horizon, were married at the
residence of Rev. T. S. johnson at Beaver
Dam.
BENJAMIN Franklin Colt, pioneer OF
Dodge county, and prominent citizen tor
sixty years in the town of Trenton Is
dead.
The Sank county fair exceeded in mag
nitude and interest any exhibition that
has ever been held on the associations
grounds.
Mrs. Myra Moran of Mellen died at
Rhinehart hospital in Ashland, after an
operation for cancer of the stomach. She
was 81 years old.
G. A. Kruger & Son of Princeton
pleaded guilty to a charge Of selling sau-
sage containing a salt of sulphurous acid
and paid a fine of $50 and costs.
Michael Schmidt, aged 81 years, died
in Fond du Lac, after lingering for about
three weeks with a broken neck. lie sus-
tanned the injury in fall from a scaHold.
William Woodland, well-known young
business man of Pardeeyille, IS dead OF
Iockiaw. His hand was cut while he was
assisting in placing pane Of plate glass
in the front of a store building.
A coroner's jury at Milwaukee exon
Grated George B. Earring, son Of Presl-
dent Earring of the st. Paul road, whose
automobile struck and killed George Over
land, a bicyclist, near Nashota
Figuring at an average rate Of $50 per
thousand, the Edward Hines Lumber
Company will clean up about $4,000
on the logs that are being taken from
the bottom of their mill pond at Wash
burn.
Because of unreauited love John Young,
dock Iaborer, shot and killed Rose
Kaner. the 1S-year-old daughter of Sam
ueI Kaner of Superior, and then commit
ted suicide in his own apartments near
| the dock.
The Wisconsin Bark and Lumber Com
| panv has purchased the entire Borth mill
propertv at Kempster with 5000 acres
of timber land in that vicinity. Seventy
five forties contain about 26,000,O00 feet
of timber, mostly hardwood.
Emily Klippert, the night operator in
the Jefferson telephone exchange, was Sc
vere:y injured by robber who broke into
the exchange. When the girl recovered
consciousness she crawled to the switch
board and notified the police.
| S. r. Pope, 60 years old, and his two
adult sons Of the town Of LudingtOn were
Jailed in Eau Claire on a charge of arson
made by their neighbor, DOmonick Brown,
whose barn was recently destroyed by fire,
two horses being burned to death
| Amanda Schlueter, II years old, and
| Otto. aged 10. kept the family from starv
| ing by stealing provisions from neighbor
/ inc grocers in Milwaukee. They were
taught to do it by their mother, who adj
| mitted guilt in court, but said that the
father did not furnish money to support
thp family. and she could not see the chill
dren starye. The father, Ludwig Schlue-
ter. lived well and grew fat on the pro-
visions purlOined by the children.
'sToot' Smith, aged %, center fielder
with the Hiles baseball team, which
pIayed in Rhinelander the other day, was
killed while on his way back home in
Forest county. The team left on a 800"
east bound and in the hustle Of leaving
| Smith was obliged to grasp the rail Of
the last sleeping car. The closed vesti-
bule prevented him from securing a firm
foothold and after riding several miles
the chill air caused him TO relax his grip
and he fell.
George Allen of Racine, 3 yearas old,
died under peculiar circumstances Two
DAYS before he partook of lunch in a
saloon. 1t IS believed that the meat in
the lunch was probably poisoned.
Citizens of Luxembourg are wondering
where about $4,000 of their money has
zone to-supposedly invested in Okla
6oma oil. 1t has been found that the
well represented to yield 40 to $50 bar
rels per day was actually yielding about
twelve TO fourteen barrels, worth - cents
barrel. just enough to pay working ex-
penses The whole matter promises TO
be aired in court.