Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

DR.. H. o. Caswell was elected president
of the Jefferson County Medical Associa-


the building of a lighting plant.
In GAINESVILLE 13-year-old Henry Bull
broke his left arm at the elbow while
scufling with a schoolmate at recess.
After a tenure Of a quarter of cen
fury s. B. Kenyon resigned the office of
Rock county superintendent of poor.
Joseph n. Alexander. an evangelistic
singer from Reedsburg, died at the We'll
lington hotel in Baraboo of heart failure.
He leaves family.
Leslie Bangey, aged II years, pupil
at the Whitewater school for the deaf
and dumb, while skating broke both legs,
an ice boat striking him.
Suit to recover $4,000 for alleged per-
sonal injuries has been brought by Au-
gust Buggs against the Rock County SUI
gar Company in GAINESVILLE.
Hannah. wife of August Larson of the
town of Rolling, committed suicide by
hanging. Hers was the fourth suicide in
the family in as many years.
The annual convention of the Wis
consin State board of agriculture will
be held in Agricultural Hall at the uni
versity in Madison, Feb 3 and 4.
Alex Gubosski, Chicago lad who came
taken to the Oneida county almshouse at
Rhinelander with both hands frozen.
Search is being made for James Morey.
a farmer near Neenah, whose team ran
away, severely gashing the drivers head.
1t is feared Morey may have frozen to
death.
Thomas Ritchie, killed in a mock duel
at Oakland, CAL, was a son of Robert
Richie of the Beloit college class of 1871
and a grandson of DIR. Richie. formerly
of Beloit.
Jerome Medbery. aged 81 years, a pio-
neer resident of Walworth county, died
the other morning. Mr.. Medbery has been.
a resident of Elkhorn for the past twenty
five years.
Two hundred fruit growers, nursery
men and landscape gardeners of this and
adjoining States attended the annual
meeting of the Wisconsin State Horticul-
tural Society.
A portion of the floor of the assembly
room of the Simmons Manufacturing Com
pany in Kenosha collapsed and fell to the
ground floor No men were at work in
the building.
Eau Claire is considering having its
own private telephone system for the po-
lice as we'll as for the fire department.
The cost of installation is placed at APP
proximately $3.50.
A daring Jail delivery was frustrated
at Ashland by the discovery of two bars
COT
of saw tools made of an old kitchen knife
and clock spring.
Burglars entered p. f, Dolan's resi-
dence in Shawano and took his gold watch
and chain. They also helped themselves
to lunch and departed without arous-
ing anyone in the house.
Relatives of Miss Mary Albano, who
conducted a Racine restaurant for years
and who went to Europe two months ago
to make an extended tour, fear that she
was victim of the earthquake in Italy.
The annual report of the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Dunn
county shows insurance in force amount
ing to $-L252,6 $50. The total losses paid
during the year amounted to $1O,9 4S.1O.
In Palmyra the store building of o. e.
Scherer was destroyed by fire, including
three automobiles. The Gospel brigade of
seven persons, which temporarily occupies
the apartments over the store, barely es-
capped. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
DR.. Valentine, president of the village
of Corliss, is still after the saloon men
of that city who disobeyed the orders to
close on Sunday. He swore out warrants
for Michael Lee and NJ. A. Brown, charg-
ed with keeping open on Sunday, Dec. q.
Ten years in the State prison was the
sentence imposed upon Louis Anklam OK
Menasha, a tailor, who was charged with
assault with intent to kill his wife, Mary
Anklam, and his son, Louis Anklam, Jr.,
at the opening of the January term of the
Circuit Court.
Stricken with paralysis while in the
confessional hearing the confession of E.
penitent member of his congregation Rev
John Sroka. pastor of the largest Polish
church in the diocese of La Crosse, wax
picked UP unconscious and died at st.
Francis hospital, aged 4S years.
E. L. Hawn, president of the Ruby
Lumber Company and member of the
county board, is in a critical condition In
Chippewa Falls as a result of getting his
head squeezed between two lobs while
supervising work at rollway. His skull
was fractured and the side of his face is
paralyzed.
Complaint is to be fled with the Wis
consin railroad commission for an exam
nation into the rates charged by the
Bristol Telephone Company, it being
claimed that this company is discrimi-
mating between city and rural subscrib-
ers. 1t is claimed that rates from Ke-
nosha to subscribers on the Bristol line
are just double the rates from Bristol to
Kenosha.
Nicholas G. Terens of Mishicott, one of
the best known Democratic politicians of
Manitowoc county and ex-Assemblyman
from the Second district, has fled a petit
ton in bankruptcy in the United States