Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-29


came from Milwaukee.
Young but habituaI Ioafers at Nee
nah face wOrkhOUse sentences as the
result of a crusade started by the au-
thOrities of that city.
2. e. Mosher of BIanchardville, %,
was instantly killed when a spoke
from an engine fywheel in feed
mill hit him on the head.
Mrs. Frank Morgan Of Wausau, re-
cefved severe burns when a pan Of
gasoline she was using in cleaning
caught fire. She will recover.
Nicholas Ley, of near Dodgeville,
is the owner of three-legged calf of
the Holstein breed, born recently. The
animal is said to be well marked.
Shortage in copper has delayed the
opening of the International Wire
Works plant, a new concern organized
at Neenah. Paper mill wires will be
made.
"A $4,000 fire occurred at Amigo
which destroyed the furnishing goods
store of Alderman & Cohen company.
The loss was covered by 40 per cent
insurance.
Af-er serving eighteen and one
half years, William Lloyd, life
prisoner, died in Waupun, at the age
of S. years. He was committed from
Grand Rapids in 1897.
Joseph Gokey, aged SO years. a
brother-in-law of Solomon Juneau,
MiIwaukee's founder, died recently at
the Wood county farm. Gokey had
been an inmate for four years.
Operated on one week for a serious
aiIment, and dying of lockjaw the
next, was the sad story of Mrs. John
Zarnoski of Berlin. Mrs. Zarnoski
leaves a husband and two children.
Once a student at the Royal Art gal
lery in Copenhagen, Denmark, John
Ley, aged 40, killed himself by swal-
lowing cynide at Racine. Ley once
painted a life-size portrait of Bishop
Nicholson.
The Grand View Stock company of
Oconomowoc, recently consigned rs
head of Holstein cattle to hte Wichi-
Ia Falls, Texas chamber of commerce.
The cattle cost $4,000 and will be
resoId to farmers in the lone star
state.
Three special flour trains arrived at
ManitOwOc recently consigned from
the Pillsbury mills at Minneapolis.
The load which is in transport to
Europe, consists of 102,20O sacks or
14,22O,OOO pounds, making in all 169
car loads.
The Racine county agricultural
school at Rochester will erect new
barn this spring and the labor will
be performed by student members OF
the college. The school owns 12S
acres for cultivation and experiment.
al purposes.
James w. Brown, police chief at
Neenah received his dismissal after
the local board of fire and police had
found him guilty of four of the seven
charges made against him. Brown
recently completed his tenth year OF
service as chief.
Residents of Odanah, near Ashland,
greatly fear a flood following the
melting of the heavy snow which lies
four to five feet deep on the level in
that vicinity. City improvements last
year cost $4,000 and it is feared all
will be swept away when the water
comes.
Mrs. William Altman of Richland
Center, fell in such a manner that she
fractured her left arm above the wrist.
About year ago Mrs. Altman was
confined to Milwaukee hospital with
fractures of both limbs, received in
an accident
First cousins may not marry, says
Attorney General Owen in an opin-
ion recently rendered to District At
torney Ellis of Black River Falls.
Mr.. Owen furthermore AYERS that
should they do so they may be pros
ecuted No divorce is necessary TO
annul such marriage.
With a record of three indetermin-
ate sentences in Wisconsin and four
teen years served in Illinois and
Minnesota penal institutions, Tony
Sampson was again sentenced to serve
seven years in Waupun by the Keno
sha courts. He confessed to enter
ing three Kenosha stores.
a Dodgeville youth who was IN
til recently a high school student,
was tried for stealing small sums
from a restaurant, barber shop and
drug store in that city. The young