Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-04

chung together, barely escaping the flames,
which several times caught them and ct
one time leaped to the tops of trees ahead
of them. The crew ran in different direc-
tons to escape the fire, and it is not
known whether any of them persisted or
not. Some of them probably went TO
Wausaukee. The camps were destroyed.
State News IN Brief.
The Chippewa Valley Electric Rail-
road, Light and Power Company has
mOrtgaged its property for $2000,000 to
a Chicago bank.
Arthur Connell, aged u years, and
John COnnell years old, were stricken
with appendicitis and were operated on
at the Beloit hospital by their father, DIR.
d. p. Cornell. Both are recovering. This
makes the fourth appendicitis case in the
physicians family.
In an explosion at the Coming mill Of
the Latin & Rand Powder Company at
Pleasant Prairie, Norman Phillips Of
West Virginia, 80 years old, was killed
and Walter Harren and John Nolan were
fatally burned. The cause of the explo-
sion is not known. The damage to the
DullQlnSS is SllgnC.
III. III. Bartells, a civil engineer of
Crivitz, was arrested ON the charge of
forgery, committed at Springfield, Mo.
Bartells was taken into custody at Cri-
Wiz. The Bankers Association of Mis-
souri, is behind the prosecution. Friends
expressed the opinion that Bartells is
mentally irresponsible.
From Wyandotte comes the report that
the towns record of freaks has again
been broken. Lee Du Mond, aged 3, has
parted company with live lizard two
inches long The child was taken with a
vomiting fit, and when given medicine the
lizard was brought forth. 1t died from
the heat, and the boy now eats as he
never did before.
Lightning struck the Ellsworth high
school building during storm. The bolt
| tore off a large section of brick wall, de-
strOyed the electric meter and put out all
the lights in that section of town. 1t
| also blew the fire whistle, which is auto
matically worked by the electric alarm
system, AID had the whole town out in
| the downpour of rain.
At 10 o'clock Tuesday, in the presence
of 200 people, the first stone of the new
$6,000,000 capitol building was laid in
Madison. There was no ceremony. The
boulder which weighed about a ton, was
hoisted into place on the northwestern
corner of the foundation by derricks, OPP
Grated by four men. a second stone was
laid just before noon.
Rose Gallatin, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of John Gallatin of Menominee, was
attacked and nearly killed near that city
| the other night. She was struck down,
several teeth knocked out, and was finally
| left in an unconscious condition in a gain
| field near the highway. Her assailant
used bicycle in escaping at the approach
of teams. Three suspects have been ar
rested.
While attempting to initiate the hang
| ing of a criminal about whom he had
read, Carl Justman, the 10-year-old son
| of Louis Justman of Unity, lost his life.
| The little fellow was playing about the
barn while his father was hauling in
grain. When the men returned from the
field they found the boy hanging from
one of the barn posts by a short piece OF
rope attached to a staple.
After living in poor circumstances near
| " all of his life, Tom Hendrickson, a
farmer living near Sioux River in the
town of Washburn, thinks that riches are
now in sight and claims to have discOv-
| cred an iron mine on his place. Mr..
i HendricksOn is so enthusiastic over the
discovery that he refuses almost any price
for the land, although land adjoining his
is being sold at $15 an acre.
The largest log cut in many years in
northern Wisconsin was split into four
sections by dynamite and sawed into
| boards of large and rare size at the
! Chippewa Falls mills. The timber was
6 feet in diameter and Il feet long. 1t
was cut two years ago and was since
on exhibition. Thousands of people have
seen it and gone away in wonderment at
the size of the famous Chippewa log"
Attorney General Frank l.. Gilbert has
rendered an interesting opinion relative
to the raising Of license fees under the
local option bill. District Attorney Hust-
| ing of Fond du Lac county has asked the
| Attorney General whether the village Of
Eden. which now charges its saloons $3.50
for license, can be permitted by vote
under the law to decrease this license to
5000. The Attorney General holds that
under the law license fee could be in
creased until it reaches the maximum, but
never decreased unless a no-license period
| intervenes.
Frederick Cranefeld, secretary Of the
| Wisconsin State Horticultural Society,