Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-09
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.


sonal property in Baraboo has been fixed
at $3,847,57
Work on the new $4,000 hospital do
mated by G. B. Clark to the city of Nee
nah has been commenced.
Mrs. Joseph Duff was found dead in
bed in Lone Rock by her little daughter.
She had been dead several hours.
An addition to the present chapel of
/ First Congregational church in Beloit,
costing $4,000, is to be made at once.
Theodore Young, aged So, prominent
farmer of the town of Burnett, is dead.
He is survived by wife and five children.
Oliver Smith, aged 80, of New London,
a veteran of the Civil War, has made
thirteen violins by hand during the past
year.
The Bank of Sheboygan has purchased
property to the south of its present loca-
ton on which it intends to erect a large
building.
The Farmers Store Company's ware
house at Bloomer was destroyed by fire.
The loss is about $4,000, with insurance
of only $4,000.
The 2-year-old daughter of Barry Bow
ems was instantly killed near McCarty's
crossing, Kaukauna, by Green Bay COM
pany interurban car.
The farmhouse of James Stewart, To-
Gated in the town of YOrkville, was de-
stroyed by fire, involving loss of $4,000,
partly covered by insurance.
Rev. S. w. Pollard has resigned as
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accept a position with the Children's
Home Society at Eau Claire.
Frank Allis of Chicago was killed
while trying to board a Wisconsin Cen
trail train at White River. "A card in his
pocket gave his mothers address.
Ernie Miller caught the record Oswego
bass in Kirbes lake. 1t measured %
inches in length and IL inches in cir
conference and weighed ~ pounds.
Peter Gallagher, brother of Joseph
Gallagher, secretary of the Racine board
of education, supposed to have been lost
in Alaska in 1904, has been heard from.
William Busselmann of Eau Claire is
suggesting placing machinery on the as
sessment rolls only when not in actual
Mate Kramer and Dust Slettin, woods
men, are in Jail in Superior on suspicion
of having been connected with the MUIR
der Of a man supposed to be Erick Young.
Louis Goss picked up pearl valued at
$500 in the river near Hononegah park
at Beloit. Other stones smaller in size
have also been found recently in the
waters.
Three hours after reporting for his first
days work as a laborer in the Milwau-
kee road yards at La Crosse, John Kaiser,
aged 90 years, was run over and killed
by train.
Mrs. Samuel Thompson performed the
remarkable feat of walking from a fast
moving Milwaukee road train at Corliss,
with a child in her arms both escaping
serious injury.
That the Roosevelt theory of large
families holds in Washburn is evidenced
by the fact that the school census for
190Seshows an increase of over fifty from
that of last year.
Andrew Lang, aged II, committed sui
eide by hanging in Appleton, because his
son, Joseph, it is said, wOul9 not permit
him to keep dog to which he had become
greatly attached.
A petition contemplating the division
of the town of Amnicon into two towns to
be known respectively as Amnicon and
Midland has been presented in the Cir
cult Court in Superior
The postmaster of Bruce and August
Jimpson of that place have been threat
ened by persons who ordered the post
master to give up a sum of money at
place designated by them.
BY the premature explosion of a charge
of dynamite at Brentwood Einard XVI,
aged 20, was killed and Carl XVI, his
brother, aged IA, was badly injured. They
were blasting out stumcs.
Henry Bolieu of Appleton was SEN
fenced to eight months in the county Jail
for stealing silverware and money from
the home of John Baum, where he had
hired out to do farm work.
Frank Allis, son of Mrs. Anna Allis of
Chicago, was cut in two by an ore train
which he was trying to board at White
River and died from his injuries four
hours afterward He was about 21 years
old.
When John Donovan ventured on the
premises of Mrs. Susan McLaren in
Whitewater against the express order of
the latter she opened fire on him with
a six-shooter. She was fined 81 and
costs.
The third annual camp meeting of the
Holy Jumpers, which recently closed in
Waukesba, was according to Mrs. Ger
trude Harvey, wife of Edwin L. Harvey,
the official head of the sect here, the most
successful held.
Miss Helen Kimball, daughter of Post
master Kimball of Neenah, heroically
prevented fatal results in a runaway by
cutting the tugs from the carriage in
which she with her guests were taking a
pleasure ride, when the horses became
frightened.
Rushing into the turbulent water of