Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-26
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Parsons Holy Jumpers" are at Wau-
kesha
Genoa has a baseball club composed of
young women.
The LOveland waltz has been adopted
by State dancing masters.
At La Crosse they get rid of tramps in
the parks by turning the hose on them.
Mrs. Andrew Lapp of Reeseville lived
only seven hours after her aged husband
died.
According to the school census just
completed Burlington has a population of
2,91O.
New charts are being made of the Mis-
sissippi along the west boundary of the
State.
Prof Seffel of Dayton, Ohio, has taken
the chair of geology at Lawrence uni
versity.
Shipments of ore from Superior are
100000 tons short of the same period
of 1907.
Fishing has not been so good in years
in Mississippi waters as during the pres
ent season.
louez are tied up by strike among the
laborers.
Jared Fox, station agent for the North
western road at Elroy, died from injuries
caused by falling from a handcar
Eleven ounces of cancerous growth
were removed from a valuable setter dog
at Fond du Lac, but the dog died.
MI i
a circus in Racine and lost his pocket
book containing $50 and a check for $40.
Because his mother refused him money
Frank Kenosha, q half-breed Chippewa,
kicked her eye out and nearly killed her
at SpOoner.
Although she had never learned to
swim, by a superhuman effort Fannie
Jackson managed to reach a Neenah dock
when the boat in which She was rowing
capsized on the river Miss jackson was
pulled from the water by Anna Foth just
as she tainted at the edge of the dock.
As a result of a quarrel at the Leath-
EN- & Smith quarry near Sturgeon Bay,
one man is dead and another is being
hunted under suspicion that he is the
murderer. The name of the dead man is
not known; the alleged murderer is Mike
Habeck Both are Macedonians.
Harvey T. Wells, former boollkeeper
in Kenosha bank, who is charged with
embezzIing $4,000, pleaded not guilty be-
fore Judge Quarles in the United States
District Court in Milwaukee, and was
held to the grand jury in the sum of
$4,000 bail. Wells was captured in BOs-
ton.
AS the result of negotiations during the
last few weeks between Mayor DECK
man of Sheboygan and the City Water
Company officials. the water works intake
pipe will be extended 5000 feet into Lake
Michigan. This extension, it is thought,
will give the city pure drinking water
and will do away with polluted water
which is said to be the cause for the
typhoid epidemic.
The greatest swimming feat that has
been pulled off in the Duluth Superior
bay for years took place when Edward
Thompson, a Superior man, swan from
the White City to Connors Point, a dis
lance of over two miles, III / h0uI. and
% minutes. Thompson intended to swim
back to the White City. but lie was so
chilled by his long stay in the cold water
that he decided not to undertake it.
At the Sixteenth street crossing of the
Northwestern road in Racine, south
bound passenger train struck a horse and
carriage containing ]. G. Jorgenson, his
wife and two children, throwing the We
hice and occupants twenty feet and
wrecking the rig and breaking the legs
of the horse. Mr.. Jorgenson was cut and
bruised and injured internally, but Mrs.
Jorgenson and children escaped without
snratch.