Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-04-10
State News in Brief.

news OI1CAs
The Western Gas and Improvement
Company of Baraboo, owning several
plants in the United States, has gone into
the hands of a receiver.
Fire started by lightning completely
destroyed the barns on the farm of w. A.
Smith near OmrO. Fourteen cows and
four horses were burned.
Swan Palmberg, aged Is, farmers
son, was struck by lightning at Barron.
He was thought dead, but was resusci-
tated after an hours work.
John Cook, chief of police of Mari
nette, was asked by Mayor Davis to re-
sign, on account of his failure to enforce
the saloon and gambling ordinances.
Edward Leibau, 80 years old, one of
a family of seven musicians, while de-
spondent because of i'll health, committed
suicide in Eau Claire. He was soon to
have married a Chippewa Falls girl.
Nineteen head of cattle on the farm of
J. w. Thompson, town Of Casey, died
during the winter. The State veterina-
rian found death was caused by poison
in the hay, from the scum in which the
grass grew.
E. B. Jacobs, a prominent farmer living
near Blanchardville, was found dead in
the woods where he had gone for a load
of wood. 1t is thought he either died
of heart failure or fell and broke his neck.
He was 80 years of age.
Fernie Arndt, aged 9, and Ernest An
derson, aged u, were instantly killed at
MapIehurst. The boys had gone to
rollway near their homes to gather gum
from the logs, and while thus engaged
the pile gave way, burying them.
Farmers telephones played a promi-
nent part in saving FL. L. MarshalPs big
farm near Rolling Prairie from a destruc-
tive blaze. Lightning struck his largest
barn, and neighbors for miles around were
called by telephone. The building was
partly saved, although the destruction of
all the farm structures and houses seemed
certain.
To combat a proposed guardianship for
herself, Miss Catherine Pankratz, aged
rs, took the stand in her own behalf in
court in ManitOwOc and recited the dis
position of fully $4,000 which she has
loaned on notes and mortgages. The wom-
an. though decrepit, demonstrated a mar
yelous memory Testimony developed to
show that the woman had lived in squalOr.
Judge Krez reserved the decision.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mohe of Beloit has been
released from iail in GAINESVILLE so her
health may not be permanently injured.
She served 1O7 days of her sentence. This
was 90 days and a fine Of 500 and costs
of $175, or 90 additional days. The costs
were RENTED and she paid her fine. Mrs.
Mohe was found guilty Of obtaining
money under false pretenses. She was
accused in the northern part Of the State.
Daniel McCarty, lately adjudged incom-
petent by Probate Court in ManitOwOc, is
missing for a second time and anxiety is
felt for his safety. McCarty is one of
two brothers at Cato who sold an S.
600 farm for $4,000. He disappeared
while the case was pending and after ten
days was picked up wandering on the
highway at Rhine. William Morgan,
Cato the guardian, is searching for him.
Jacob G. Best of the firm of Jacob Best
& Co., Milwaukee, wholesale liquor mer-
chants. was shot in the abdomen in a
Racine saloon and cannot live. Best &C
cused J. W. Dillon, a saloOnkeeper, of
shooting him, and Dillon, now under ar
rest. denies having any knowledge of the
shooting or that it took place in his sa-
loon. Frequenters of the place, who the
police believe know something Of the
shooting, are held by the officers, but are
unable to clear up the affair.
The Hewitt Water Power Company
has sued the Outagamie Paper Company
for Sol 900 back rentals for power on a
contract begun in 1888, at 81 800 annu-
ally for 1000 horsepower. In 1897 the
contract expired and the Hewitt company
served notice of increase of the rental.
During the consequent dispute payments
we're deferred until $4,000 was the
amount Of the bill and $500 the inter-
est and incidentals. Leading owners of
each company hold stock in the other.
John Lynaugh, janitor in the Fair
child block in Madison, has purchased a
$4,000 monument for himself and family.
1t has Just been set up in Forest Hill
cemetery. 1t came from Vermont. Ly-
naugh is SO years old and in good health.
The coroner's jury at La Crosse, in
investigating the death of Hjalmer John
son found that the young man came to
his death by reason of a pistol shot
wound caused by a shot from a revolver
in the hands Of Albert Linhart March
Il. Witnesses testified Linhart deliber-
ately pointed and fired the revolver at
johnson.