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November 1898

Wisconsin news items reported in the Grant County Herald of November 17, 1898: Mrs. Amos Johnson was granted a divorce with $2,000 in the circuit court at Baraboo; a post office was established at Lytles, La Crosse county, with Elizabeth M. Hull as postmistress; the Wisconsin battleship commission decided wine would christen the ship; Mrs. Marie Friedrich celebrated her one hundredth birthday in Mayville; Jesse Humiston drowned near Neillsville; James Chisholm left La Crosse for Antigonish, Nova Scotia; King G. Staples was sentenced to 18 months for embezzlement; John M. Inman, aged 73, died in Baraboo; George Willetts was named to the state board of arbitration; Kate Rupert, aged 23, hanged herself near Port Washington; Mrs. Ahira R. Hinkley, an early settler of Eagle, died aged 86; Mrs. Fay Jones of Eau Claire accidentally smothered her baby; the Wisconsin Commandery, Military Order of Loyal Legion, adopted a memorial to Col. J. J. Upham; J. A. Holmes died in Beloit at age 79; Andrew Watters, a farm hand in the town of Porter, was fatally injured in a runaway at Janesville; David Johnson, superintendent of the poor farm, was thrown from a wagon in Waukesha.

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November 1898

Wisconsin news items reported in the Grant County Herald of November 17, 1898: Mrs. Amos Johnson was granted a divorce with $2,000 in the circuit court at Baraboo; a post office was established at Lytles, La Crosse county, with Elizabeth M. Hull as postmistress; the Wisconsin battleship commission decided wine would christen the ship; Mrs. Marie Friedrich celebrated her one hundredth birthday in Mayville; Jesse Humiston drowned near Neillsville; James Chisholm left La Crosse for Antigonish, Nova Scotia; King G. Staples was sentenced to 18 months for embezzlement; John M. Inman, aged 73, died in Baraboo; George Willetts was named to the state board of arbitration; Kate Rupert, aged 23, hanged herself near Port Washington; Mrs. Ahira R. Hinkley, an early settler of Eagle, died aged 86; Mrs. Fay Jones of Eau Claire accidentally smothered her baby; the Wisconsin Commandery, Military Order of Loyal Legion, adopted a memorial to Col. J. J. Upham; J. A. Holmes died in Beloit at age 79; Andrew Watters, a farm hand in the town of Porter, was fatally injured in a runaway at Janesville; David Johnson, superintendent of the poor farm, was thrown from a wagon in Waukesha.