Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-10-12

Anthony Klefisch, committee
clerk of the county board of Milwau-
kee county. was found not guilty of
bribery. The trial attracted the at
tention of all of Milwaukee county.
Judge Vinje of the Superior district
was called here to try the case.
2SS
The Wisconsin Association of
Master bakers held it's annual con-
vention in Milwaukee on Monday
and Tuesday. The feature OF the
convention was the display of
bakers wares, which included
every thing in the cooking line from
pretzelIto an deliberately decorated
wedding cake costing hundreds OF
dollars.
Six survivors of the original Ter
ritorial Pioneer Association of Nil
waukee met at the annual banquet
of the association Saturday. All Of
the members are more than seventy
years old and all came to Milwau
kee before the state was admitted
to the union. There are only ten
of the original eighty members of
the society still living. It is the
annual custom to hold a banquet TO
celebrate the anniversary OF the
landing of Solomon Juneau, the
first permanent white settler of Mil
waukee.
SSS
That Milwaukee may have q
negro in it's common council year
hence is entirely possible if not
probable. Alex Price, colored, aged
40, former major domo and German
Interpreter to the mayor, will be a
candidate for alderman at large in
the spring. He is popular with
business men and politicians and
has been assured already of support
among all classes. When young he
was an attache of the private office
of the late S. S. Merrill when he
was president of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul system. Price
was campaign manager for Lucien
r. Palmer, the colored man who
was sent to the legislature from
Milwaukee last year. He is well
educated and speaks several langu-
ages.
A unique lawsuit has been on
trial in the circuit for Milwaukee
county the past week. Persuaded
by the spirit of a deceased priest
that there was $16,OO IN gold
buried in a certain yard, Mrs.
Catherine Grimm was induced to
buy the place for $12, 900, borrow
ing 50, 500 to make first payment.
The spirit failed to make good On
the hidden treasure proposition,
and though Mrs Grimm searched
diligently for three months as
directed by the spirits, she failed to
find the gold. She was sued to re-
cover the balance of the purchase
price and when the matter came
into court an amazing mixture Of
hypnotism, spiritualigm, with weird
and uncanny situatiOng with an
exposure of the life of the medium
that promises to land her and some
of the tools used by her, in the
criminal court A young woman
testified that the medium, Mrs
i Wagner, tried to make her hus-
band believe that an heir had been
born to them, she having borrowed
a convenient baby for the occasion.
2SS
Judge George Gary, author of
Gary's ''Law and Practice of Pro
bate Courts, and brother of Judge
Joseph Gary, who tried the famous
Haymarket anarchist cases in
Chicago, is dying at a tiny cottage
ON the outskirts Of Milwaukee, in
poverty and want. He lives in the
poorly furnished hut with five
grand children. Judge Gary IS "a
years old, is blind and hears but
little. Once prosperous. author of
the now famous legal work, upon
which fortune in profits has been
made, Judge Gary lived in luxury.
Financial reverses came in the early
COS and later the death of his wife
added to the burden Of sorrow
which has weighted down the aged
jurist in his last years. His fortune
having disappeared, the judge,
though in poverty, clings to his
little grandchildren, saying that he
would be lonesome without them.
He is cared for By the charity of
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