Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-06
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

The Elm Grove creamery at Baraboo
has been sold to L. c.. Zacher of AIilwau-
kee
While sitting at breakfast table, James
J. Winter Of Cataract was stricken with
heart disease.
The contract for remodeling the La
Crosse public library has been awarded
to John A. Miller for $17,977.
Students of Beloit college won in a de-
bate at Beloit with a team representing
Knox college.
Charles Knaack of York reports that
COW on his farm has given birth to three
calves and that they are perfect in ev-
cry respect.
Burglars broke into the Fiield post
office and stole $50 in stamps and money.
Later they broke into the depot, got a
dollar and escaped.
The Chicago and Northwestern refuses
to pay $500 for the loss of a toe by a
Kenosha workman and has appealed to
the Supreme Court.
George Gillett, one of the oldest and
wealthiest retired farmers i. in Racine
county, while unloading cinders from a
fat car, dropped dead.
John Blenker merchant and lumber
man of Sherry, had his Ng crushed be-
tween two logs while working in his mill
yard His condition is serious.
Because of domestic trouble lately, Err
nest Hantke, proprietor of a hotel at
Grafton, committed suicide by severing
his jugular vein with a penknife.
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be put on by the Northwestern road to
run between GAINESVILLE and Beloit or
Monday, is now in the round house.
Two girls who reside about eight miles
south of Eleva nearly killed horse be
longing to an Eau Claire livery firm by
fast driving, and were placed under ar
rest.
The eighth annual summer school will
open in the normal buildings in White
water on June %. Prof. Pray of Mil
waukee will have charge of a depart
ment.
The illegal voting case growing out of
the primary election in Superior on
March p had to be dismissed on account
of the alleged spiriting away Of wit
nesses.
At the quarterly conference Of the
American Society of Equity at Knapp it
was decided to establish central slaugh-
ter house and a cold storage plant at or
near MenomOnie.
Nearly 800 Greeks have left Sheboygan
during the last few weeks and the city's
big colony is almost a thing of the past.
Many of them have left for GAINESVILLE
to do railroad work.
That Joseph Hall, whose mutilated
body was found in a homestead shanty
near Washbun, died by violent means is
the opinion of the coroner's jury, but no
blame is attached to any one.
Electricity has been installed at the
ouarries of the Standard Lime and Stone
Company at Quarry, and all blasts will
hereafter be set off by. electric sparks.
Blasts will be planted forty feet down.
The skeletons plowed up by d. ". Poe
are pronounced by Prof. Collie of Beloit
college to be the remains of mound build
ers probably 300 years old. Further
blowing revealed half a dozen more skele-
tons.
Frightened at a merry widow hat,
horse belonging to f. 9. Kenyon ran
away in La Crosse and was stopped Just
as it was about to plunge into the Mis-
sissippi. The carriage was demolished,
but the driver was unhurt.
Isaac Stephenson spent $1,000 in Sc
curing the election of twenty-five La Fol-
Iette delegates from Wisconsin. The
United States Senator made the follow
ing entries on the expense blank: Paid
TO city committee, 800. December 90,
to II. Ekern $1,000. Total, $1,100." No
explanation of what city committee IS re-
ferred TO is made.