Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-12-21
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

The county tax for Marshfeld has been
raised $4,000 over the amount assessed
by the city assessor.
Mrs. Laura Kendall, Janesville's oldest
resident, died, aged % years. She had
lived in GAINESVILLE since 1888.
Merlin Flint, a farmer, about q years
old, caught the fingers of his right hand
in a corn shredder at Albany and all but
one were chopped off.
Oscar Nygard, 20 years old, while hunt
ing near Dodgeville, accidentally shot and
killed himself. A charge from his shot
gun blew off the top of his head.
Albert Erdman, a former section man
OH the Northwestern road, who was dis
charged a few days ago, was run down
and killed by a Northwestern passenger
train near Marinette.
John J. Reynolds, second engineer at
the Rhinelander paper mill, died from
the effect of injuries. He was caught by
a pulley and one arm was torn off and his
chest crushed. He was 90 years old.
Fire caused loss of $4,000 on the
building and stock of the Soper Furniture
Company in Oshkosh. The loss is partial
ly covered by insurance. The fire IS be-
heved to have been caused by Spontaneous
combustion.
Fire came very near destroying the ag-
ricultural works of the I. B. ROwell Com
pany in Menomonee Falls. Workmen
forming a bucket brigade by acting
promptly kept the fire from spreading.
The loss is small.
When Undersheriff Smith arrived in
Bioomer to serve a warrant on Albert
Kneill he found his man acting as
groomsman. Mr.. Smith waited until Mr..
Kneill had enjoyed the wedding feast be-
fore arresting him.
At a session of the Northern Chautau-
qua assembly in Marfnette j. *. Wright
was elected president, and Rev. Sherman
L. Devine, pastor of the Pioneer Presby-
terrain church, named as superintendent to
succeed Rev. A. J. Benjamin of Milwau-
kee.
Calling to see sick friend, Henry Ho-
ganson, a stone mason, committed suicide
in the home of Gustav CjermundsOn, an
invalid, near Houston. HOganson went
into an adjoining room and slashed his
throat with a razor. No reason is as
signed for the deed.
bond certificate to issue 100000,
face value, 5 per cent forty-year bonds,
voted last April, was granted by the rail
road commission to the Lake Superior
and Southern Railway Company. The
company proposes to build its line from
Huron to Champion, Mich.
The Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League is
going to start a lid-clamping crusade in
the State and Kenosha has been selected
as the initial city for the league to work
in. The officials of the league will come
to Kenosha and lay plans for the prose-
cution of all saloonkeepers who violate
the laws.
After a chase of several miles across
the fields, a posse Of farmers from Brook
Iyn captured two tough looking indIvId-
uals who had broken into the home OF
Mrs. Eta Rollins, a mile south OF the
village, and had been routed by that lady
with rolling pin. The men claim they
were sailors recently laid off in Mllwau-
kee and were looking for food.
George Schumacher, who last April was
shot by Florence Dugan, whom he had
Tilted. and had since been suffering from
tbe wounds he sustained, died IN James
Vile. Since the shooting he had been
slowly dying with gangrene, the entire
hack of his body being affected. The
Duoan woman was tried, but was freed
on the plea of emotional insanity.
Matt Kedrowski, aged %, farmer liv-
~, in the town Of Sharon, died from ex-
noeura in a lumber yard in Stevens Point.
He was heavy drinker and wandered
into the yard while intoxicated and fell
asleep. He was twice married and leaves
a widow and a large family.
The AIuscOda dairy board offers a spe-
cial premium Of $15 to cheesemakers at
factories having membership by owner,
salesman or factory men who are men,
bers of the board of trade who exhibit
cheese at the Wisconsin cheesemakers'
convention at Milwaukee in January,
1903