Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-08

vile, visited friends here Monday.
j. D. Hatch, of this city, visited
In Bloomington with relatives, SUM-
day.
The Misses Inez and Lavernia
McElrOy, of Dodgeville, visited here
over Sunday.
Mrs. j. @. Parker, of Bloom
ington, visited here last week at
; the home of relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Trollope,
Of Cassville, were at the county
seat on business, Monday.
Mrs. VIM. Thomas, of Michigan,
visited this week with her brother,
Thomas NeCollins Of this city.
R. F. Dougherty and L. Jack
son, both of Piatteville, came up to
the county seat on business, Mon
day.
John Henkel, who is employed
; by Fennimore lumber firm, visit
ed at his home here the first of the
week
Miss Patterson, member Of
the Bloomington faculty, and w.
Patterson of the same place were
visitors here last Friday.
Ut. District No 10, of the town
of Ellenboro, recently purchased the
Shuppener system of heating and
ventilation of the first class in the
near future.
Mrs. George Royal and son
Kenneth, of Oak Park, Illinois, re,
turned home Monday, after a
pleasant visit with the formers
sister, Mrs. J. II. Fowler.
Mrs. Taylor, of Hazel Green.
who has been visiting her parents
in this city, returned hOme Mon
day. She was accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. j. Rundel
Stewart Whitney, formerly of
this city, who has been contracting
agent in Milwaukee for the past
three years with the New York
Central railroad company, has been
promoted to the position Of travel
lug freight agent for the same com
> pany, looking after dairy business,
, with headquarters in Sioux City.
, - DR. G .ult returned Monday
{ from trip through North Dakota,
along the line of the Northern Pa
cific r. r While there he pur-
chased some OIL that fine real estate
which is going fast. He says that
blowing and seeding IS in progress
and with emigrants coming in
every day, Dakota Is lively state
at this time of the year. Sevente IL
emlgrant cars were unloaded last
Saturday, at Dickson. Although
these emigrants are of different
nationalities, as rule they are in
dustrious and come to Dakota pre-
pared to earn their fortunes by
hard labor.
-Four miners in the Mckinley
mine near Dodgeville, we're perhaps
!, fatally injured last Saturday by an
explosion of dynamite. These men,
!, Dan Mckinley, stakeholder in the
company, Frank Castillo, an Italian,
Lawrence Grimm and Griffith Will
son were engaged in drilling cut
dynamite cap which had failed to
explode a short time before.
Although they were working care
fully and attempting to guard
against such an accident, the drill
struck portion of the cap and the
next instant the explosion took
, place. This was heard distinctly in
the city, which is a mile from the
mine, and large crowd went i'm
mediately to the spot. Mckinley
died within a few hours and was
5arieG yesterday. The others are
) all seriously injured.
A Potosi merchant had an ex-
} perlence the other day, with a
swinder who was not shrewd
l enough to get away with the goods.
: A man giving his name as Fritz
r Miller, last Tuesday applied for a
position in the Schumacher brewery
as malster but was informed that
; they had all the help they needed.
) He then went to the T. H. Runkel
. store and purchased pair Of rubber
boots charging them to the account
of the Potosi brewery, telling the
: proprietor that he was employed by
the Schumacher people. After the
man had left the store, Mr.. Runkel
half suspicious that he was a
f swindler, telephoned to the brewery
and was informed that the man
was not employed there and had
been given no order for any goods.
A Marrent was issued for his ar