Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16
Local Exchanges.

Whitewater Register:-C. Nj. Clark
had a narrow escape last week Wednes-
day night while on his way from Mil
waukee. He was coming out on a
freight and lay asleep in the caboose.
At Brookfield the train was standing on
the siding. when by somebody's blunder
another west-bound freight was let in
on the same track. The conductor saw
lust in time that a collision was I'M
ayoidabIe, and called TO Mr.. Clark to
lump. It is needless to say that Charley
lost no time in obeying orders, and, as
he remembers it. he thinks that he
made the best long distance leap on
record. never stopped from the time he
left the rear platform of the car until he
landed against wire fence. As he
struck the ground. or perhaps before,
the engine of the approaching train
relescoped the caboose. completely
wrecking it. Luckily it had no occu-
pants at the time, but 1t was altogether
too close call for those who had Just
vacated.
Darlington Democrat:-Wm. Cragg
Of Lamont. shipped from this station on
Friday last a cage containing a family
of raccoous, four in number. Among
them was one perfectly white and as
this is the only '.sacred white coon" on
record it is naturally regarded as great
curiosity. 1t was viewed by many OF
our citizens, some of them veteran coon
hunters who declared that though they
had slain hundreds of 'coons, they had
never before beheld any which did not
have the conventional coat OF gray. The
animals were sent TO the managers OF
Lincoln Park, Chicago, who had ex-
pressed desire to see them with view
of purchasing. They were billed at
$500 which to Tenneseean would seem
very expensive coon meat.
Edgerton Reporter: The neatest fake
that has been worked in Edgerton for
some time is that which took in seven
teen business firms OF this city recently
by scheme introduced by smooth
talking individual. called the Worlds
Fair Advertiser" 1t isan alleged news
paper but has no known circulation
through the mails, leaving the matter Of
circulating this advertising sheet entire
ly with the patrons of the scheme. The
plan which the gentlemarly agent lays
before the merchants, is that in return
for a nice write up in the Worlds Fair
Advertiser, in which his remarkable
business abilities is Landed in great style,
the merchant gives an order for fifty or
more extra copies at l0cts each. As
the extras comprise the entire edition.
the confiding customer pays 10 cts. =
piece for hand bill containing the ex-
tremely pleasant things said about him
self and his business. Most of the
write-ups are in stereotype sections that
will answer for every town visited so
that the matter set for the entire seven
teen patrons here did not exceed col
umn. OF the $50 secured by this
scheme from Edgarton business firms
possibly s. covers the cost Of the edition
and the $50 was profit to the Worlds
Fair Advertiser Publishers. The Re-
porter would be glad to say just as
pleasant things about our business firms
at oue-third the price charged by this
stranger and at the same time guarantee
three times the circulation in a legiti-
mate newspaper If either of the news
papers of this city had proposed such a
bald headed scheme-to sell our mer-
chants hand bills at 10 cts. per copy,
they would have been given the big
laugh. 1t takes the stranger to do us
all up, even though mis- fake is whisker-
ed. The Chicago Inter Ocean some
months ago exposed this Worlds Far
Advertising fraud.