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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
DIE IN POWDER MILL BLAST.
Three Killed and Twenty Hurt in
Ashland Explosion.

Three Killed and Twenty Hurt in
Ashland Explosion.
Three men were killed and twenty 9th
ers were injured by the blowing up of
powder mill near Ashland. The shock
was terrific and broke many windows in
Ashland. The cause of the explosion is
not known. The accident occurred Just
as the men, twenty-five in number, were
entering the building for work Superin-
tendent J. l.. Pierce of Wilmington, Del.
William Wallace, a Iaborer, and George
WOodsill were first to enter the building
They had scarcely entered when the nitro
glycerin acid let loose and for fully a min
ute a black cloud of smoke hid the killed
and injured from view. Then one by
one the less injured men came out of
the pail of smoke and each dashed back
in search of his companions. The mutt
lated body of Superintendent Pierce was
found where he had fallen inside the neu-
Trailing building, and close beside him
were found Wallace and Woodisil. torn
and disfgured. Fire had broken out at
several places among the debris of the
wrecked building, but this speedily was
subdued. An examination of the other
buildings on the premises showed that not
one of the twenty-five had escaped some
damage. The scene of the accident is
seven miles from Ashland and the force
of the explosion was plainly felt there.
Large plate glass windows were shattered
in Asnland's main streets, dishes ratified
and lighter dwellings vibrated for fully a
minute after the nitroglycerin had ex-
ploded.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
The Vacations Of New Riches.

A woman on the North side, with a
new husband and new house and new
ly-carved furniture, has q new butler,
Just imported from Europe. She is very
uncomfortable; in fact, she has a new
pain almost every time the new butler
addresses her. Upon arriving in Chi
cago the buffers disappointed task
was to learn the social value Of names.
Each day that large and fashionable
function Is announced in the paper he
says, with absence Of expression:
'You will be going out, of course,
this evening, MADAME"
Going out? No, why?"
II understand that madam was to as
sist Mrs. So and So.''
AS fashionable entertainment, one
after another, has filed the calendar,
and madam has been at home, In dress
lng-gown and slippers, the buffers de-
meanor has become more and more cool
and lofty, until the poor woman cOnfid-
ed to her best friend that she feared
he would cut her the next time she or
dered potatoes au gratin.-Chicago In
ter Ocean.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
The Children by the Sea.

sweet is the murmur of the waves
mat creep Upon the strand;
Bat sweeter We: the children are
Ihat dig the silver sand.
l i0Ye the breakers on the shore;
But loveier far to me
The million little tots that dance
Beside the surging sea.
1Ike gulls that pass on wings of light,
A thousand miles from home.
The sunny heads and snowy frocks
Beside the waters roam;
And here and there a pearl or she'll
They gather on the strand
The wee astronomers that find
The comets of the sand.
The stately ships face into the mist,
And every passing sail
Is signaled by a tiny spade,
A little painted pail;
And the ships are lost in cloud and
mist
o, leave the world and me
The million sun-kissed hands that
wave
A message out to sea!
More precious than the southern
winds
That spice the foam at night,
These Hsping landsmen of the shore,
The little frocks of white;
For these-the baby hands that
scrawl
Crude letters on the sand
Shall sign their names to deeds of
fame,
Where Time shall let them stand
Let Science chain the pillows power,
Let Art depict the wave,
And flying sparks Of fire repeat
The feats Of the water-brave,
Let every gull and ship depart;
But leave to the world and me
The million little hearts of joy
Beside the sounding sea!
-Aloysius Coll in the Sunday Maya
zine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Many Births at Neenah.

There is no race suicide in Neenah.
According to the report of City Physi-
clan l. E. Ozanne, the number of births
shows an increase of 5.35 per cent over
the first six months of last year, while
Menasha has an increase of 27.2 per cent
over the same period. A remarkable fea-
ture has come to notice in this connection
in that during the first three months of
the year ST. per cent of the births were
males, while during the second quarter
81 per cent of the new arrivals have been
of the gentler sex. At Menasha 6S per
cent of the births have been females.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Wisconsin
State News
CONSTABLE SLAIN BY MOB.
Fifty Italians Hammer Officers with
ShOVeIs.
~~o~~~0o~~~

Fifty Italians Hammer Officers with
ShOveIs.
Constable John Isaacs if Pierce county
was murdered near Prescott while trying
to arrest a gang of Italian railroad labor
ers who were killing game out of season.
Isaacs, accompanied by City Marshall
Hamill of Prescott, had taken one man
to Jail and returned for the others when
the killing took place. Isaacs and Hamill
went up to the gang of fifty Italians and
picked out three whom they wanted to
take to Jail. The men held back and
Isaacs, it is said, struck at one Of them.
Immediately the Italians who stood near
showed fight and one of them raised his
shovel and knocked Isaacs to the ground.
Hamill interfered and, drawing his re-
volver, stood over Isaacs' body and de
manded that all the Italians lay down
their picks and shovels. He was struck
down from behind. The Italians then
jumped upon and hammered the two Off
GERS with their shovels, crashing in Isaacs'
skull and leaving Hamill for dead. The
foreman of the Italians sent word to the
sheriff. The Italians fed after the crime.
A posse of farmers, following the track
between Prescott and Diamond Bluff,
found the handcar taken by the murder
ers two miles south of the former place,
indicating that the Italians had taken to
the woods at that point. The search was
thereupon concentrated in the country be-
tween the tracks and Mississippi river,
varying in width from twenty-five to 500
feet This locality is rough, having some
hills 200 feet high, besides numerous g1l-
lies and ravines. On the Minnesota side
the Milwaukee railway officials sent out
a prompt warning and a line of guards
was spread for miles, The sheriff while
watching the river finally found the men
and persuaded them to surrender Most
serious consequences were apprehended if
the murderers were captured by the Pres
colt posse. The neighbors of the Prescott
officers were both ugly and determined
and had the Italians fallen into their
hands before their passions cooled the
lives of the murderers would have been
worth little To this fact was the surren-
der due, the sheriff convincing the ItaI-
ians they would be killed if they resisted.
The men were taken to the Jail for safe
keeping.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
GIANT GRAPEVINE.
One Nine Feet in circumference
Growing in California.

The garden like cove known as the
Carpinteria Valley, half encircled by
a picturesque range of the Santa
Ynez Mountains. lies in Tyre shape by
the great sea whose tides smite the
strands into ceaseless symphonies. In
this valley stands the worlds greatest
grapevine, a wonder of its kind ac-
knowledged by every one fortunate
enough to pay it visit. Santa Bar
bara County is entitled to distinction
for the production Of three giant
vines, among which ia Vina Grande"
at Carpinteria easily holds the first
place as to size and fruitage.
In the Montecito Valley, ten miles
to the northwest, two out of this peer
less trio have been grown. One was
removed to the Centennial Exposition
in Philadelphia, in which city it re-
mains on public exhibition. The 9TH
er died a few years ago, and it's trunk
was placed on exhibition in the Cham
Der of Commerce in Santa Barbara.
Each of these two attained only two
thirds the magnificent proportions of
the one now thriftily growing at Car
pinteria.
Sixty-four years ago a Spanish wo-
man named Joaquin Lugodi Avala
planted a small twig of the Mission
grape She watched and tended it
with jealous care through it's early
growth, and in later years kept it
neatly trellised and trimmed. I'm
Willingly she was rearing a prodigy
that was to eclipse everything of its
kind in all the civilized world.
Some twenty years ago the vine
was purchased with plot Of ground
by Jacob Wilson, who has since de-
Lied it further compass by keeping it
instantly pruned Its present meas
urements, however, are by no means
uninteresting. At the ground the
giant trunk measures 8 feet inches
in circumference. Five feet above the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
State News in Brief.

The big elevator in Eau Claire belong
ing to the Northern Gain Company
burned. Loss estimated at $4,000.
The 2-year-old daughter of Joseph Med
echeck of Cudahy, a suburb of AIilwau-
kee, was gored to death by vicious COW.
Near Brillion Mrs. Henry Plank, wife
of a farmer, while assisting her husband
in hauling hay, fell from the load and
was killed.
At Beloit the New York Fair store was
burned and other tenants in Unity block
suffered damage from smoke The total
loss will be $4,000.
A. A. Cutter wealthy Eau Claire
shoe manufacturer, is dead of heart trou-
bic at his summer home on Long Lake.
near New Auburn. He was 81 years old.
Campbell Lohst, who disappeared on
the day that his wife was murdered in
Kewaunee, was found dead in the woods
near that city. Two bullet holes in his
heart told the manner of his death. His
suicide, the police say, may indicate that
he was the murderer of his wife
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Open Hearth Versus Ressemer.

The wood-made freight car is pass
ing, and the locomotive seems to pc
headed towards the junk pile in this
electric age. Even the Bessemer steer
rail- solid as it is, is to be supplanted
by it's cousin of open hearth origin
In 1905 the production Of open
hearth steel was carried to S,971,376
tons, a gain Of SIS per cent in a SIN
gle year. The output of Bessemer
steel in that year was but 1O,94l,3lo
tons. A like gain in the production
of open hearth steel in the present
year would be apt to carry it close
up to that of its rival and possibly
it might take first place.
In the year 1889 but 374,543 tons OF
open-hearth steel were made in the
United States, and each year since
that time has made new record. Inc
making of open hearth steel has not
shown decrease in a single year
since 1889. It's march forward has
been steady and persistent, and today
it stands stout rival of Bessemer,
and the indications are that its name
will soon stand at the head of the
column. The decision of the Penn
sylvania railroad in favor of open
hearth rails will certainly give the
final leadership to Bessemer's great
and only rival-Birmingh Age Her
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
NEGROES HEROES IN A WRECK.
Loss of Life Prevented by COIOred
ROustabOufS.


Bugs caused the wreck Of the Diamond
Joe line steamship Quincy at Trempea-
leau. 1t is said that the desire of the
officers to escape the myriads of insects
l=hich infested the vicinity of the search
light caused them to turn off the bril-
liant rays, and the pilot, mistaking a land
mark in the darkness, ran the boat
aground. The boat sprang leak and set
tied, and the 200 passengers were taken
ashore. Bravery of the negro roustabouts
on the steamer prevented the loss of at
least score of lives. Panic-stricken
women were carried by the deck hands to
the nearest place of safety, a hundred
yards from the wreck. When the boat
listed many were thrown into the water
and the negroes went to the rescue. Fran
tic men offered rewards to save their
wives, and at a La Crosse hotel J. f.
VandOne, a wealthy lumberman, made in
quiries for the roustabout who had saved
his wife that he might give him 81 ,000
No one claimed the reward.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
INVALID'S TABLE.

Can Be Quickly Adjusted Into Any
Desired Position.
The disadvantage of the majority of
invalid's tables, especially those de
signed to be attached to the bed post,
is the complicated apparatus generally
involved. Too many hinges, arms and
supports are used, requiring the serv-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
WISCONSIN ROADS FACE SUITS.

State May Seek Taxes on Money Al
legged Paid I'm Rebates.
More suits may be instituted against
railroads to recover money alleged to
have been paid in rebates. Railway Com
missioner Thomas, in his report to the
Governor, said that during the years
1894, 1895 and 1896 these roads held back
1,419, 703, disbursed in rebates, commits
sions, car mileage and switching charges,
which money, he claims, should have been
included in the gross earnings for taxa
ton purposes From 1896 to 1905 ST.
S2S,43S had been held back. On the
total amount, according to Mr. Thomas,
the State is entitled to $4S9925. Gov.
Davidson has referred the matter to At
torney General Sturdevant
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
ROOD, counts Wnnts Trnstee.

At mass meeting of policy holders Of
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company held at GAINESVILLE a motion
passed to the effect that a Rock county
resident be nominated for the trusteeship
at the coming annual meeting of the COM
pany. This step was taken in view of
the fact that the company had its origin
in GAINESVILLE and that 100000 worth
of policies were held in the county.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Killed by n Bull.

Steven Wolberson, a farm hand, 10
years old, was fatally gored by bull near
Racine. He was walking across a field
when the animal attacked him and knock
ed him down. He picked himself up and
started to run, when the beast again hit
him and knicked him through a rail
fence, breaking his ribs, his jaw and in
iuring him internally.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25

Maggie Mccarthy, aged IL years,
daughter of former Mayor Joseph Nc
Carthy, at the risk of her own life saved
a playmate from drowning in the govern
ment canal at Kaukauna, after the child
had sunk once beneath the surface.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
BIG YIELD TO WISCONSIN,.
Inheritance Tax on holman Estate
Is $1,155.

The will of Ernest Bollman of Calu-
met, Mich, has been probated in Judge
krez's court at ShebOygan and the State
receives lilo as an inheritance tax.
The value of the estate is over S1,000,0O0
and consists of property in Wisconsin,
Michigan and Dakota. The amount of
property taxable in this State is ST., 1868.
There is considerable other property in
the State in bonds and securities that will
amount to over 100000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
ASKS DOCTOR TO KILL BABY.
milwaukee Woman Offers Him $50
to Remove SicIxIy Child.


A well-known Milwaukee woman re-
Gently asked her physician, he says, to
kill her 6-months-old baby. She offered
him $50, he declared, if he would end its
life with a drug, though insisting that
the death should be painless. The physi-
clan said he must take time to decide,
and Informed the police. The woman was
taken to the central police station, where
to Chief Jansen she admitted having
made the proposition. She said the
baby was sickly and she felt it would be
blessing to save it from suffering When
told that what she wanted done was muir
der the woman for the first time appear
ed to realize what it was she proposed.
She promised to abandon her criminal in
tent and was released. The woman's
husband was warned to watch his wife.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25

Gov. Davidson and an audience of more
than 5000 persons attended the two con-
certs which opened the sangerfest of the
Northwestern Scandinavian Singing As
ISOLATION at La Crosse. DIR. J. f. John
son of st. Paul was elected president.
Chicago's bid for the next festival was
rejected and the selection was deferred
until a meeting in Minneapolis next sum
mer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
ROW OVER INDIAN CHILDREN.
Wisconsin Bishop and Government
Agent Differ on Schools.

Bishop Schsnner has returned to Su-
perior from Washington and issued an
official statement to the effect that he
has the word of President Roosevelt that
Indian children may attend any school
designated by their parents. The gov
eminent agent at Odanah had ruled
otherwise and assumed the sole authority
over the children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
FREE PASSES ARE ILLEGAL.
Attorney General Renders Opinion
on Question.

In reply to an inquiry from II. A
Eberhart of La Crosse Attorney General
L. NJ. Sturdevant has rendered an opinion
that while it is no violation Of the law
for a person who is not in any political
office to ride on a pass it is a violation for
a railroad to issue pass to such a per-
son. He quotes the law to show that the
railroads must publish schedules of rates
which shall be applied to all alike.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Lost Man Ls Found.

William Verch of Dkee. who was lost
in a swamp along the Wisconsin river,
was found by searches. He was obliged
to spend all night in the swamp and was
unframed, save being badly bitten by
MOSQUITOES.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Doubled.

''Nrs. Fadd has such a fine collection
Of rare old china. She's got at least
fifty pieces Of"
Fifty? I was at her house to-day
and I'm sure she had more than a hun.
dred pieces"
"Why, how's that?"
Clumsy servant girl, that's all."-
Philadelphia Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25

If man has any romance in him,
the only way he can escape getting
married Is to lock himself up In his
room summer evenings, and only ven.
ture out when it rains.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
BODY GROUND UNDER WHEELS.
Boys Horrible Death Witnessed by
Hundreds in Milwaukee.

Halle G. Gates, 10 years old, a Mil
waukee newspaper collector, was thrown
from his bicycle while riding alongside a
Wells street trolley and killed under the
wheels of the car. Thousands of people
on the way to work were delayed by the
accident. The body was caught in the
wheels Of the car so that it was impossi-
BILE to clear the tracks for a considerable
time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25
Fail River Depot Robbed.

The depot at Fall River was robbed
nj all express packages taken.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-07-25

South African railways are supplied
with dining, Pullman and private cars
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-01
INSURANCE RFFORM

If the policy declared by President
Paul Morton of the Equitable company
be adopted as a guide for the new year
by all the big companies, then indeed
will dawn a brighter epoch for the
policy holder, and all this ruction of
investigation and recrimination will
not have been in vain.
MI Morton announces for the Equi-
table that the wild scramble and bitter
fight indulged in by the great insur-
ance companies for "new business will
cease, so far as his company is con-
cerned. In every decent, legitimate
way new business will be sought; new
risks are a necessity to the life of any
company, large or small. But the enor-
money simply to obtain policy holders
regardless of the profit or loss they
may cause, is reckless, criminal and
foolish.
Yet so crazy, notably have the three
big New York companies been to in
crease their lists of policy holders and
insurance outstanding without consid-
Grafton of it's effect on their finances,
| that they have gone to criminal depths
to round up the insurable and force
them into the fold. Thousands of dol
lars have been Illegally paid to agents.
policies have been taken at a positive
loss, and the companies have been hurt
rather than benefited by it.
Now the insurance atmosphere seems
to be clearing. The water has been so
squeezed out of the big companies that
bottom can be seen, and so substantial
basis is disclosed that confidence is
| largely renewed. The assets are all
right no matter how rotten the man
agement, it could not wreck them. 1t
was better that the fostering sores be
exposed; there is now a chance for
their healing.
While it is a matter of regret that
insurance, as a desirable factor in mod
ern life, has received a severe setback,
it is still a matter of congratulation
that the abuses which have heretofore
prevailed will not exist in the future
If the larger companies again fall into
reckless speculation and the dozen other
evils so glaringly brought to the front
of late, the policy holder will have him
self to blame.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-01
FUR FARMING FOR PROFIT
From Country Lie in AmerIea.

From Country Life in America.
Fur farming offers good chance for
small capital 4 man of experience
may put in $1,000 and get a remarkable
percentage as soon as well star ted.
There is no object in breeding cheap
furs. A muskrat with his fifteen-cent
pelt is almost as much trouble to raise
as three hundred-dollar silver fox.
therefore only the high-class furs viii
be considered. What is the most valu-
able fur Of all? No doubt the sea otter.
It's ample and magnificent robe brings
now, am told, from $500 to $1,000, but
the animal is so rare that a large
fortune would be exhausted in getting
the stock, and nothing is known of the
methods necessary for its propagation.
Next on the list is the silver fox. The
black or silver fox is nothing but II
black phase or freak of the common
fox, just as the black sheep is a color
freak of the common sheep. A pair of
pure red foxes may have a black fox
in their litter, and that black fox may
grow up to be the parent of nothing
but red foxes, but Il red fox will bring
only dollar or two and the silver
fox hundred times as much.