Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-11-13
State News in Brief.

Peter Kelly was instantly killed by
falling from the west-bound passenger
train as it was pulling into Augusta.
Alfred Austin of Milton was accident
ally wounded while examining a neigh
boris rife, which he had borrowed to go
hunting.
The farmers living south of New Lon
don have organized a telephone company.
The line is nearing completion and will
soon be in operation.
Gottlieb Witrivrik, a carpenter from
Crivitz, was fatally injured in fall from
a scaffold on a building upon which he
was at work in Marinette.
Louis Capman and Michael Steinel,
residing near New London, were recently
adjudged insane and taken to the North
ern hospital at Winnebago.
Petitions were circulated among the
members of the Racine county bar for
subscriptions to the fund for Judge
George Gary of Milwaukee.
Joseph Very of Red River was killed
by the kick of horse. He was driving
home, and was thrown under the horses
feet in a collision with another team.
The 500 railroad is making plans on
getting to the head of the lakes in
hurry and will unquestionably have built
Superior from BrOoten, n. D., next fall.
The interclass crew race on Lake Men
dota was won by the Juniors. The
Sophomore were second, Seniors third
and Freshmen fourth. The race was over
one and a half mile course.
The coroner's jury in the case of Cas-
per Windeler, the Oshkosh dairy student
who was drowned in Lake Mendoza few
days ago, brought in a verdict of suicide
while suffering from insanity.
Co-eds at Lawrence, following the lead
of the male students, are organizing new
literary societies to aid in the work Of
debating and public expression. The
male students have just organized a new
Tit"
Jos Haasl was arrested and placed un-
der $1,000 bonds, charged with attempt
ing to fire his saloon building in the vii
lage of Bruce. Haasl was on a train
leaving Bruce when the fire was discov-
cred.
Arrangements have been practically
completed by an Ashland concern for the
erection of a wireless telegraph station
in Ashland to connect with> wireless
station on Madeline island of the Apostle
group.
Pounding a large railway dynamite cap
with a stone may cost the little Son of
Henry kottke, a johnson Greek farmer,
a limb. The child found the cap in the
barn. He was badly injured by the ex-
plosion.
The steamer Cormorant Of the Edward
Heinze Lumber Company burned to the
waters edge off the northerly end of Bass
Island. A tug took off Captain McKen-
zie and the crew Of five men, together with
three women who were on board.
The little school house in school dis
trict No. 81, near Manawa, built at the
beginning of the Civil War, is no more.
The ancient landmark has been replaced
by a modern brick structure, and first les
sons were learned in Il the other day.
Grant Cromwell, transient, employed
as a farm hand, was sentenced to one
year at Waupun in the municipal court in
ManitoWoc, when he pleaded guilty to the
theft of a 5000 violin. He took the in
strument from wagon at a party and it
was found secreted in his room. The
boy is only 20 years old.
The Kimberly Clark company's mill at
Niagara, the largest print mill i'll the
State, will be included in the print paper
mill merger. This much was given out
by William Weaver Of Neenah, who stat
ed that he had been engaged by the COM
pany to manage the new club house
which is being built at Niagara.
Mrs. Mary Sophia Block, one of the
oldest pioneers of Manitowoc, is dead,
shotgun in hand, she stood guard for
forty-eight hours at her property and
dared the Wisconsin Telephone Company
to install poles for which the company
had dug the holes and prepared
Angered over the summary discharge
of Miss Helen e. NJ. Roberts of Chicago,
the assistant principal, fifty students of
the Pewaukee high school went on strike,
leaving the school in a body. They re-
fused to return unless the teacher was
reinstated Unless she is reinstated the
school directors may be asked to resign.
Becoming Respondent because Of con-
tinued i'll health, Robert Peach, aged 10
years, one of the best known tobacco
growers in Rock county, committed sui
eide by hanging himself to a rafter in one
of his tobacco sheds near Edgerton. His
body was discovered by Mrs. Peach and
while the body was still warm when it
was cut down, all attempts at resus-
citation failed.
George A. Yule, president of the Badg-
er Brass Company of Kenosha, is to be
named as co-receiVer with Col A. l.. Pope
for the Pope Manufacturing Company and
the Pope Motor Car Company of Hart
ford, Conn, which failed a short time
ago The Badger company was one Of
the largest creditors of the Pope concerns
and Mr. YuIe is chairman Of the credit
ors' committee.
Weeping bitterly, John Lewis, partner
ii crime with Charles Martin, who ten
days before was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for tea years for burglary, came into
court in Madison and said he was inno-
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