Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-14
AL Over the State.

NtSIcIu Car SHOPS DIT I1uuSOH, WHO SIfuck
for higher wages, were granted 10 per
cent raise and resumed work.
The steamship Winnebago left Supe-
rior en- route to the Pacific coast, via the
Cape Horn route. Captain Ewart ex-
poets to reach San Francisco some time
in November.
The barley and rye crop of Outagamie
county will be larger than that of last
year; the oat crop will be as good, while
the hay will be % per cent less than in
1906, according to John Riehl of Center.
He also states that while corn is back
two weeks, the crop will be good.
Miss Maize Wilson Of Burlington was
nearly drowned in Lake Monona while
out boating with Don r. Mowry, son of
Duane MoWry of the Milwaukee school
board. He was attempting to assist the
girl to the pier when she fell backward.
She was rescued by two bystanders.
The police were notified that a band
of pickpockets worked on the cars of the
Kenosha Electric railway the other night
and that many people were robbed. DR..
J. 2. Stewart, physician of Clay Cen
ter, Kan, was robbed Of a pocketbook
containing valuable papers and several
pieces of jewelry. Grover Stetson was
robbed of $50 in money and many others
reported smaller losses.
The other night an auto driven by Au-
gust Geffer of Milwaukee, while speeding
along at twenty miles an hour, in turning
out to pass another auto, ran over and
killed Nicholas Maurer of BrOokfeld, near
that place. A few hours later an auto
in which were five men, and which is be-
lieved to have been from Chicago, crashed
into a buggy on the Blue Mound road
in which were Mrs: w. H. Luebke and
several children, completely Wrecking it.
No one was hurt.
A new factory has located in Grand
Rapids under the name Of The Standard
Core Co. This corporation has been re-
Gently organized with capital stock of
$4,000. The incorpOratOrs are George
w. Mead and Isaac 2. Witter of Grand
Rapids and r. L. Krous of Marshfeld.
The business of the new company will
be to manufacture wood cores on which
to roll paper in the mills from the ma
chimes, the wood rolls taking the place Of
the more expensive iron cores heretofore
used.
While tieing his horse to a post at noon
at the corner of Northwestern avenue and
Regent street, Oshkosh, Dennis Ryan, a
farmer living near that city, was killed
by coming in contact with a live light
wire. Mrs. Ryan pulled her husband
away from the live wire and was only
saved from also being injured herself by
having on her hands pair of silk gloves.
She was only slightly scorched. The
current passed through Mr.. Ryan's body
from his right hand to his heel. He died
a few minutes after the shock. Mr.. Ryan
was 46 years old.
A trunk containing securities to the
value of 100000 has been found at
Watertown and is now on its way to the
rightful owner. Otto Heinecken, teach
er in Emmanuel church school, went to
Chicago and there left a call with the
express company to get two trunks to be
sent to Watertown. In some way the
driver mixed the trunks in his load and
sent one that should have been left at
the depot in Chicago to WATERFOWL, and
left one Of Mr.. Heinecken's trunks at the
depot. Mr.. Heinecken did not return I'M
til the other day, when he found he had
a trunk which did not belong to him. He
notified the company and the trunk for
which a hot search had been made by
the express company, was forwarded to
Chicago.
Mrs. Mary McGrath, whose claim that
she will be 10 years old on Aug. 10 is
generally believed by old time residents
of Fond du Lac and Brandon, who know
that she has lived in Wisconsin for sew
enty years or more, has been taken to
Milwaukee to be cared for during the re-
mainder Of her life at the Home Of the
Little Sisters of the Poor. Crippled by
the breaking of her legs a few years ago,
but otherwise seeming in perfect health,
Mrs. McGrath made the journey from
Brandon in a baggage car. Until the ac-
cident which crippled her Mary McGrath
titled the three acres Of ground left her
bv her husband, and made it produce her
a living. She now finds her chief COM
fort in short clay pipe which she
smokes as she lies on her cot.
The body of an unknown man was
found floating in Lake Kegonsa. The man
was about q years old, and upon gar
ments which he wore were the initials
B. L.
S. NJ. Stephenson, former Congressman
from Menominee, and brother of Senator
Stephenson of Marinette, is in a critical
condition as the result Of an accident, in
which he fell and broke his hip bone.
Mr.. Stephenson was going to his Pine
Hill farm and was getting out Of his
carriage in Marinette when the accident
occurred. His age, 20 years, makes his
recovery doubtful.