Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-18
State News in Brief.


A 19H-pound pickerel was caught in
Rock lake, the largest this season.
Jack Bradley, an old soldier of the Iron
Brigade, died at his home in Mansion,
aged 81 years.
Farmers near Marshfeld are making a
good thing out of having their land clear
ed from brush by goats.
Peter Christen of Sparta was instant
" killed by falling under the wheels of
a caboose at Dickinson, n. D.
Peter Schoat, blacksmith at Ply
mouth, was struck BY st. Paul train
while picking berries and killed.
Frank Heidenreich, aged Is, was
drowned in Fox river, near the st. Paul
railway bridge at Omro while bathing.
Henry G. Baker, formerly Of Madison,
| has been appointed chief of police Of Ra-
cine at meeting of the board of fire and
police commissioners, to succeed the late
Fred Pfster. The vote for the appoint
ment was to 1.
Charles Burton of Reedsburg lost
barn filled with hay and grain and
valuable team of horses by fire. Two
little girls went into the barn to see some
kittens and while there lighted a match
which set fire to the straw.
Fred La Blad, Ashland teamster, fell
dead OF heart failure. La Blad was
Known as Fatty and had received repeat
I'd offers to allow himself to be exhibited
as a freak. He was about 30 years of
age and weighed 400 pounds.
Milwaukee and Northern railway off
Gals reported to the Milwaukee police
that $4,000 feet of trolley wire, covering
five miles of roadway between Milwau-
kee and Cedarburg, had been cut down
land carried away by thieves.
The general store, saloon and opera
house owned by Thomas J. Mccarthy in
he town of Rhine, four miles east of
i1lkhart Lake, were burned. The cause
Of the fire is unknown. The building
md stock, valued at $4,000, were totally
destroyed.
Elsie Kressen, a 16-year-old girl, who
has been deaf for years, suddenly regain
cd Ler hearing while at play in Appleton.
She was seized with rumbling sound
n her ears, then felt shock like heavy
blow on the head and thereafter could
hear perfectly.
Miss Fannie Spooner has been appoint
ed superintendent of Pepin county schools
TO succeed her sister Lucy, who resigned.
! The appointment was made by State
Superintendent Cary The salary is
| $500, and Miss Spooner will have fifty
| five schools under her supervision.
Oscar jacobson Of jackson was SEN
fenced to seven months at Waupun for
the theft OF $50 from his father, citi-
zen of the town of Martell. He took the
money and started west when he was
caught. His father prosecuted him, and
was very indignant when the maximum
penalty, one year, was not imposed upon
him.
The finding Of the body Of Kovack
Geser. aged "a years, in the water near
| the Goodrich dock in Racine, gave rise
to theories Of murder. Geser disappear
ed Aug. %. His body when found had
been Invested of coat, shoes and other
articles of apparel and there was no
money. He leaves wits end child in
! Hungary.
James Boss, a farm hand Of Milton,
was beaten and robbed by two cOmpan-
| ions. Ross received some money from
his employer, and or the way home took
| Iieved him of his money and threw him
out of the wagon. Fred Chapsey and
Tom Welsh of Beloit are arrested in con-
nection with the affair.
Joseph Francois, a machinist at the
| Ashland division shops of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company in
Kaukauna, narrowly missed being killed
| BY a peculiar accident. He was turning
| heavy car axle, and in removing it from
| The lathe the steam hosting apparatus let
loose of the 700-pound burden, and one
| Of the hooks caught Mr.. Francois full in
the mouth and tore itself loose, tearing
| out several teeth and decorating the roof
| Of his mouth and upper lip.
The hot, damp weather has caused
acres of potatoes which were green and
| growing 20 be struck with a blight II
VIII make some potatoes worthless for
! digging while some, If dug at once and
placed on the market, mas7Ae utilized.
staff Captain" g. H. Davis, arrested
| in la Crosse on a charge Of being the
head Of an interstate movement viii h il
grating on charitably inclined people by
collecting funds for charitable institu-
| lions which do not exist, pleaded guilty to
the charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses and was sentenced to the State
penitentiary for one year.