Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-28
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

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The store Of w. H. Hawthorne in Osh-
kosh was entered and robbed of a small
amount of money.
John A. Killeen, the veteran editor of
the Kenosha Union, was injured by fall
ing from a pear tree.
The Jewish people of Marshfeld and
surrounding country have laid plans for
the erection of a synagogue.
E. J. Lauermann of Marinette has rails
ed breadfruit to maturity at his home,
where he has also raised bananas.
Arrangements have been made by the
City Missionary Society of Oshkosh to
establish club house for working girls
An addition is being built to the hand
some summer home of John Dupee on Lac
la Belle, the improvements to cost about
| $4,000.
According to the budget presented by
the controller the city of La Crosse will
need $462, 1925 to conduct its business
next year.
Much excitement is being caused in
| Glenwood by the operations of a dog
| pOisoner, who has thus far killed about
| fifteen CANNES.
Survivors of the Peshtigo fire in 1871
are planning the erection of a monument
to the memory of those who lost their
lives in the confagration.
Burglars gained entrance to George A
Kroeff's tailoring and shoe shop in She
boygan, making way with two overcoats
and several pairs of shoes.
After having kept his theft of a double
harness and bride secret for two years,
Joseph Ruba of Two Greeks confessed,
and was fined $40 and costs.
The State rate commission has decided
that if Fond du Lac wants to launch
municipal ownership of water works the
city must proceed through the courts.
James Wheelock, a resident of Lind
sAy. was shot by an unknown hunter, the
fine shot penetrating his head, face and
legs. No vital organs were affected SO it
will not prove fatal.
The huge turntable erected in connec-
ton with the terminal roundhouses of the
Wisconsin Central at Superior has been
put in operation. About $50 men are
employed in finishing up the terminal of
the road
A milk license ordinance adopted by
the Manitowoc city council in August is
believed to be dead letter because of the
fact that there is no provision for its en-
forcement. No license has yet been is
sued under it.
At the home of Alexander Hay in
Avalon, Rock county, a double wedding
ceremony was performed, his daughters,
Margaret and Mary, being united in mar
riage to Adolph Nickel and Otto Burger,
both of GAINESVILLE.
The Wisconsin Danish Lutheran church
conference adopted resolutions calling for
a campaign for increased church member
ship. Churches will be established at
Negaunee, Marquette, Escanaba, Green
Bay and Marshfield.
The central conference of the English
Lutheran synod of the Northwest will
meet in La Crosse, beginning on Oct. q,
at which time the third annual meeting
of the Women's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society will be held.
Jack Kline, arrested in Winona' at the
instance of the Wisconsin authorities on
a charge of the burglary of the hardware
store of John Barlow at Arcadia, made a
clean getaway from the county Jail by
working his way through the roof.
Rev. John G. Kinder, who founded the
German Methodist church in Oshkosh in
1857, is dead at his home in Oshkosh
He was 70 years of age. Mr.. Kinder
was a conspicuous figure at the golden
jubilee of the church last January.
Thomas Mahr, 81 years old, resident
of Racine for thirty-nine years, was found
guilty of having entered the saloon of
Supervisor Harry Miller and stolen $34
Judge Shielding sentenced him to the
State prison at Waupun for a term of
eighteen months.
Jacob Lusk, Auburndale, has secured
a patent on safety device that supplies
a long felt want. BY operating a lever,
the driver of a runaway team, finding
himself unable to hold his horses, can
pull the evener pin and set the horses
free from the vehicle
Supervising Architect J. X. Taylor of
the Treasury Department at Washington
has written to Beloit that because of the
precedence of many other cities the work
of drawing the working plans for the Be
lott postoffice will probably not be com
menced before next spring.
Edward Morrow, about to cross rail
road track in Chippewa Falls, did not see
the approach of a train. He was grabbed
from behind by woman and hurled back
ward. Hardly had this been done when
the train whizzed by. The name of the
woman could not be ascertained.
The Dunn County Agricultural school
began its fifth year of work with the fol-
lowing faculty: It. r. Crane, principal
Miss Hortense Salter, assistant plSnci-
pal; Miss Angelina Wood, teacher of do
nestle science; r. d. West, instructor in
manual training; Walter Stolpe, cream
cry man.
George o. Field, aged 26, of Manistee,
Mich, died as the result of injuries re-
ceived in a collision between a Chicago
and Milwaukee road electric car and an
automobile which the young man was