Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-01

, of the county asylum at Appleton,
had his hand cut off when he DELHI
erately stuck it into a feed mill after
being warned to keep away.
Rev. James Rayburn Of Marshall
town, Iowa, who has been conducting
revival campaign at BelOit, has made
600 conversions in that city. Mr.. Ray
burn goes to River Falls, this week
where he will conduct services.
Anna Russo, of Madison, a pretty
16 year old Italian girl, on her way
home from a tobacco warehouse,
where she was employed, was kid
mapped by three men who threw her
into covered wagon and drove away
at top speed. The police are searching
for the men.
M. M. Peters, proprietor Of the Bel
mont hotel in Pardeeyille, was recent
| ly arrested and fined 500 and costs
for selling liquor in a dry town. Pet
ers admitted selling the beer but
claimed he had bought it for a nonin-
toxicating beverage from a Milwau-
kee firm.
Fountain pen thieves have stolen
pens valued at $3.50 from the store of
J. w. Burton in Fond du Lac and $50
in razors from the store of w. R.
Plank. A year ago Mr.. BurtOn's store
was robbed of $34O in pens. Another
store has had two visits since then
| from the robbers who secured 500 in
pens.
Oliver E. Ramey fair secretary of
the state agricultural department,
was one of the several guests robbed
at the Park hotel in Madison shortly
before Thanksgiving. Mr.. Remey
awoke in the morning to find that his
trousers and vest containing a gold
watch and chain, gold nugget and
about So had disappeared.
Fred Link, of Eau Claire, aged 60,
carpenter on the new Paint Creek
dam at Chippewa Falls, received bad
fracture of the skull when a boulder
blown up from dynamite blast 500
feet below him, struck him behind the
ear. Link was working on a high
bluff above the dam. His recovery
is doubtful.
Halver Jensen, aged 72, of Racine,
is being sued for breach of promise
by Mrs. Sena Nelson, aged 60. 1t is
alleged that Jensen had been counting
Mrs Nelson and promised to marry
her until he was confined to a hospi-
tai. He then reconsidered the matter
and gave her sewing machine as a
balm to her wounded feelings.
Charles Demo, Green Bay saloon
keeper, became enraged at his daugh
| ter following an alteration with his
| family and snatching a revolver from
drawer, discharged it at the young
lady The aim was poor and the girl
escaped She later refused to make
complaint so the police captain
swore out a warrant charging Demo
with assault with intent to do great
bodily harm.
Meta Aromel, aged IL and cripple,
and her brother Herman aged 6, Of
Bloomfield, were burned to death in
their home while their mother was
absent shopping in the city of Merrill.
Neighbors discovered the fire in the
evening but were unable to rescue the
children from the house which burned
to the ground Mrs. Aromel, who is
widow, came to this country from
Russia two years ago and works for
a living.
Leslie Moore, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing at Exeter Crossing near Monroe,
was shot twice but not seriously in
jured by John Young an employe.
Young gave himself up to the officers
at Bellevil1e, but claimed that he had
shot at two men who had been annoy
ing him and that neither of them was
Moore. Young will be examined for
insanity.
Mrs. Bertha Stauffer, of Monroe, a
widow of a farmer who was once
wealthy, has applied for aid under the
mothers pension law. She has refused
aid in the past fearing the children
lily was well-to-do until they went to
Dakota some years back where repeat
ed crop failures wiped them out finan-
cially. They started back overland,
the father dying on the way. The
mother sold the team and wagon to
pay his funeral expenses and brought
the family on to the old home.
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The forest products laboratory at
Madison has been experimenting on
method of rendering shingles fireproof.
| The method consists essentially in
treating air-dried shingles with a So
luton of borax in water. The shingles
then are dried to about 10 per cent
moisture, and a second treatment with
a zinc chloride solution is applied. The
shingles are dried again and then are
ready for use 1t is believed by Off