Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

| Capt. Nathaniel F. Edwards, aged II
years, a civil engineer and well known
throughout Wisconsin, died at Appleton,
from general debility.
Between 5000 and 1000 fancy. COM
mon and homing pigeons persisted in fire.
that destroyed the two dove coteS of
George w. Hake at Jefferson.
Four negroes and two whites who had
opened a fortune telling emporium at Eau
Claire have been forced to retire be-
cause the license is $50 a day.
William Kuehmichel. aged 20 years,
was killed by Wisconsin Central train
about mile north of Marshfed. Both
legs were severed from his body.
Shortl:. after reading the funeral SER
vice over John Vieaux, comrade of the
G. A. r., W. |. Stowe himself died from
a paralytic stroke at West Depere.
Pickpockets operated ia the crowds at
tending the skat tournament at Manilo-
woe, and three robberies. the loss in
which totalled 500, have been reported.
By going to Chicago for coal for use of
the fire department. Oshkosh will save
SO, as the bid of the outside firm was
70 cents ton lower than that of the
home dealers.
The City Belle, river steamer, sank
at its mornings at GAINESVILLE just as it
was being made ready to accommodate a
large picnic party up the river. No enc
was injured.
John Krobushick of Sheboygan. aged
90 years. is believed to have been MUIR
dered. When he left home he had $3.50
on his person. Since that time he has
not been seen.
According to State statistics, the village
of Little Chute leads in the percentage
of birth recorded. With a population Of
scarcely LOCO fftysix new arrivals were
registered during the year
At Manawa, Walter Christensen, aged
. years, while playing near the barns of
his fathers farm, slipped from milk
wagon, about two feet, and broke his hip
bone. The child may be lame for life.
Harry Norris, II years old, of Stur-
geOn Bay. was drowned while swimming
in Honey lake, two miles north of Bar
rington, Ill. The body was recovered and
shipped to the home of the boys parents.
Deer are becoming numerous on Cham
bers island. the game preserve of Fred A.
bennett OF, ~Sheboygan. The herds are.
protected against hunters, but it is pos
sble that some must be taken off soon
TO prevent overcrowding.
Joseph Lui of Racine lost vest con-
tanning a gold watch and a $50 gold piece
while boating. The vest with the watch
and money was found at the Horlick dam,
four miles from the spot where it sank
to the bottom of the river.
John O'Leary. aged about A, believed
to be a Fond du Lac man. was killed
by a blow on the head from a piece OF
timber while engaged in moving a house
in Manitowoc. His skull was crushed
and death resulted almost instantly.
The committee appointed by the Dunn
County American Society of Equity to
investigate the feasibility of a slaughter
house and cold storage plant at Menomo-
ME has reported favorably and canvass
for stock subscriptions will DE made at
once.
Antonio Giacomazzi, aged &c years. one
of the men injured in the collapse of a
-four vault died at the Kenosha hospital
without regaining consciousness. Charles
A. Dickhaut, who was injured at the same
time, is in a critical condition, but the
physicians express hopes of his recovery.
Minasinosesith, an Indian woman, a
member of the Chippewa tribe of Indians,
died at the home of her daughter on the
Red Cliffe Indian reservation just above
Washburn. 1t is said that the woman
was over 100 years old. She was the
daughter of Big Eagle and was born in
northern Minnesota
contest over the issuance Of $4,000
bonds to build a four-roOm graded school
building has stirred to strife the citizens
of Raddison The bond issue has been
voted on favorabiy twice, but so deter
mined is the opposition that the bonds
have not as yet been foated Recently
some of the warning factions met on the
street and free-for-all fight was the out
come, in which rotten eggs and vegetables
played considerable part.
War Department officials, after delay
Of four months, have approved proposed
change in the dock lines Of the river at
Manitowoc. and the city will now pro-
coed with docking which it is estimated
will cost $4,000. Last year $4,000 was
expended in dredging to secure the Ioca-
ton or SZoU,UUO coal dock, erected Dy
the Central Coal and Dock Company, now
under lease to the c. Reiss Coal Com
pany.
MINOR STATE ITEMS.
Local business men decided to hold a
street fair in Eau Claire
Captain Nathaniel F. Edwards, aged II
years, a civil engineer well known
throughout Wisconsin, died at Appleton.
General debility was assigned as the
cause.
Fred J. Haas OF the town of Sigel fell
from the loft of his barn and struck on
the teeth of a harrow that was stored in
the barn, with its teeth up. He was