Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-18
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

w. H. Spencer was reelected president
of the ManitowOc Cooperative Associa-
ton which conducts mercantile estaD-
lishment.
The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company
sold 5000 acres of timber land in Taylor
and Chippewa counties to Madison par
ties for $4,000.
The La Crosse Cornice and Ceiling
Company has increased its capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000 ". S. Cargill
is president.
st. Johns Military academy of Della
field will establish a permanent summer
camp for students at Trempealeau bay,
on the Mississippi.
A petition is being prepared asking the
establishment of a rural mail route for
the Danforth and Flat Rock farming set
Elements of Delta county.
La Crosse county is to have an agricul-
tural and manual training school, proba-
bly, at West Salem. Bonds of $4,000
will be issued to raise money.
Under the supervision of Major Judson
the extension of the breakwater and the
removal of the bar in the Sheboygan har-
Dor will be completed this summer
Considerable feeling has been shown in
the Lake Halle district over the actions
of Samuel Shafer, a farmer, who is said
to have beaten his sister, Myrtle, aged II,
in a most shameful manner
Two unidentified men were struck by a
Northwestern train west of Hurley and
killed and horribly mangled last night
They were found by the section crew.
There was nothing found to identify
them.
Eight girls the Misses Gladys Heddles,
Bessie Burch, Lucy Fox, Emma MacLean,
Ida Greene, Jean Shearer, Robena Keller
and Pearl Peters, walked from GAINESVILLE
to Milton Junction in two hours. The
distance is eight miles.
DR.. Byron Douglas. aged SO, pioneer
dentist of northern Wisconsin, a member
of the Assembly in 1862, and for many
years treasurer of the Wisconsin Dental
Society, is dead in Appleton. He was a
direct relative of Stephen \. Douglas.
Facing the alternative Of losing his in
heritance in the fatherland, and suffer
ing Imprisonment should he ever visit
his home again, young German of Ap-
pleton has decided to return to his native
country 10 serve HIS euflSlIHeill IIuie III the
army.
A message from Washington announces
the death of Charles f. Bowling at Mag
dalena on March %. Young Bowling
was with the battleship fleet, being as
signed to the Missouri. He was taken
i'll with pulmonary tuberculosis about
three weeks ago. The body was buried
on land and probably will later be brought
to Eau Claire.
No primary elections were held in Me-
nomonie. Nomination papers for city of
fees have been filed as follows Mayor,
4. III. Johnson (Republican). John Mat
hews (Democrat); City Clerk, T. W.
Rowe (Republican) Treasurer, Otto
Publ (Republican), Edward Bates (Dem-
Ocrat) Assessor, John Hardy (Repub-
lican), John Moody (Democrat).
Tossed and trampled on by an enraged
bull until his collar bone was broken and
the life almost crushed out of him, and
then thrown under a wire fence, was the
experience of William Raichle. a young
farmer living near Frenchville. A neigh
Dor shot the bull.
Not guilty was the verdict of the
Jury in the case of John Young and John
Lanto of Barton. on trial as a result of
the shooting and wOunding by the latter
of John Becker and John Neuy, members
of a gang of boys who threw stones
through a window of the houses where
the men lived.