Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-31
All Over the State.

All Over the State.
The village of Random Lake has de-
cided to incorporate by a vote, of 6S to
16.
Michael Judge, a laborer, employee of
Madison, was killed by a st. Paul train.
He was walking on the tracks.
Otto Bartl of Hermansville brought a
wolf pelt to Menominee The wolf was
full grown and of the timber wolf va
riety.
George Popp of Shawano, II years old,
died of lockjaw which developed from a
wound received the day before the Fourth,
when he was playing with blank cart
ridges.
Ten La Crosse people, all members of
prominent families, were made seriously
i'll from ptomaine poisoning as the result
of eating roast veal at a picnic on the
Mississippi river.
Men are securing the northern half Of
Waukesha county for traces of Gilbert
Comm, aged so years, and the father Of
Rev. w. G. Comm, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church at Vernon.
A wagon wheel passing over his left
shoulder, being dragged for a considera-
bic distance and not bone broken is the
experience of A. w. Nader, farmer liv-
ing in the town Of Aztalan.
e. p. Salmon of Beloit, a retired min
lister, is entertaining a company of TWEEN
ty-four preachers and their wives, from
different points in the Northwest, at his
summer home, "Old Mission" Oh Made
line island.
John Absellor, wanted in Kenosha with
Ivan Ivankoff ON a charge of conspiracy
to defraud foreigners who had placed
their money with them as bankers, was
arrested at Akron, Ohio, and will be
brought back.
Andrew Fisher, aged 80, a carpenter
and painter, was struck by 500 passen-
ger train No. So, west-bound, at Rhine
lander, and knocked off a bridge into the
Wisconsin river. The body was taken out
short distance below the bridge. His
neck had been broken. His home was at
Aniwa.
r. A. Cleveland, young man of con-
siderable pluck and an ambition to see
the world, has undertaken the task of
walking around the world in two years,
earning his own living in the meantime.
ids He has studied in Ripon college,
where he expects to return after his
globe-trotting experience to complete his
course.
Richard Olson, aged 30, a railroad la
borer, was stabbed at Altoona city depot
by another laborer, whose name is I'M
known, and who escaped. The ARRAY took
place in the midst of crowd of thirty
or forty people on the depot platform. The
weapon used was a long-blade pocket
knife. Olson was taken to the Eau
Claire hospital on a switch engine. His
wound is just below the heart. He may
die.
Herman Holz and Albert Holz narrow
ly escaped being drowned in the Chip
pewa river at Chippewa Falls. They
were out fishing in a boat when suddenly
a fish tackled Herman's line and in the
excitement which followed the boat cap
sized. The line caught in the oar lock
and the fish carried the boat down stream.
Luckily a log hove to and the men got
on it and foated down the river until
they were picked up. Neither Of the
men could swim. The craft was after
wards recovered a mile distant.
Il have just shot a man; send an am
bulance," was the startling telephone mes
sage received at the Marinette hospital
the other night, and which caused an
ambulance to be sent out to Pierce ave-
nue. in haste, accompanied by two police
men. William Bishop, a saloon man,
sent in the call and explained when the
ambulance arrived that he wished to get a
hack or an ambulance for a sick woman,
IL rsoI +Io If
a murder call. The woman had high
fever and she was taken to the hospital.
Most of the residents in the vicinity
of TayIor's park on the west side Of Fond
du Lac, ate blackbird pie for their din
ners the other day. Early that morning
persons residing near the park saw what
to be large, dark cloud, grad
Ually settling down over the trees. The
cloud was a swarm Of 1900 blackbirds,
that had come to feed upon the flies and
insects. Hundreds Of the birds were
killed with sticks and stones The re-
mainder of the fight went toward the
lake, where they fed in the marsh on the
lake shore.
Enraged because Of the action of his
wife in bringing suit for divorce, Gus
tav Albrecht, a rouSner, employed at Jne
Illinois Steel Company in Milwaukee,
shot and seriously wounded her and then
shot himself, dying instantly. The wom-
an may die also.
The presence of mind OF Mrs. Henry
Volkert, wife of an employe in Madi-
son brewery, probably saved her hus-
bands life He reached into a barrel
after a chicken and severed an artery of
the wrist. Mrs. Volkert wrapped tape
Measure about the arm and this stopped
the flow of blood.