Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-01-19
COUNTY AND NEARBY.
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Crimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents that have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

Grippe in Nekoosa has forced the
closing Of the city schools for the past
few days. Many of the teachers and
scholars were absent on account of the
disease.
A bronze statute costing $4,000 is
being erected in honor of Horace
White, Beloit pioneer, who came to
this state in 1886 and selected the site
of the city of Beloit His son Horace
of New York, a noted journalist, is
providing the money.
The body of Fred Wolf, a Clinton
farmer, missing from home since jan
uary L, was found Monday of last week
in a small creek near his home. 1t is
presumed that Wolf who was walking
home, fell thirty feet from bridge
and fractured his skull.
Tillman Armand, a saw mill owner
near Pearson, lost his new mill by fire
Of unknown origin during it's first day
of operation. Armand says that he will
rebuild. The mill was located at the
junction of Wolf, Hunting and Pickerel
rivers and cost $4,000.
Frank Grisen, of ST. Mary's Ridge,
near Lacrosse, lost his life attempting
to thaW out a gasoline engine. He used
machine oil on the engine and lighted
it. After doing this he poured on
gasoline. The fluid exploded and the
unfortunate man was burned to
death.
Engaged in a bicycle race on the ice
at Reloit, Kenneth Buchanan of La
Fargo, a Beloit college freshman, broke
through and was plunged into the wa
ter of Rock river He was pulled
out by Guerdon Laing, a companion
cycler, of Belvidere, Ill.
Black River Falls man wrote
letter to the state tax commission and
marvelled that he received no reply.
He finally looked up the carbon copy
OF the letter and found that he had
addressed the epistle to the Wisconsin
State Cat commission.
Walter Zimdars, a gay OcOnOmO-
voc youth, was playing crack the
whip in a local skating ring. Zimdars'
skate caught in a crack in the ice,
throwing him and cutting a cash in
his nose, which required several
stitches.
The Beloit fire department was
tinguish fires at a local shirt and over
all factory. The first blaze was in the
chimney and easily eXtinguished. The
second did not burn the building badly
but the smoke and water caused $40
900 damage to the stock.
Herman Gustman, a farmer ct East
Wrightstown, near Green Bay, recent
" captured a large bald eagle in
trap. The bird is three feet tall,
weighs 40 pounds, has a wing spread
of eight feet, and claws nine inches
wide. Mr.. Gustman is exhibiting the
bird.
Lumber men of northern Wisconsin
and the upper peninsula instead of
being worried to death over the dull
ness of the season as they were few
months ago, are puzzled as to how they
will meet the unexpected demands.
Developments recently indicate that
great activity in the hardwood and
hemlOck trade will take place before
spring.
Joseph Baker and wife of Milwau-
kee, parents of a baby girl born about
a week ago, have filed complaint
against a physician of the health de-
partment charging that he failed to adj
minister silver nitrate solution to the
child's eyes at the time of its birth,
and as a consequence the baby may
lose it's sight. District Attorney label
is reported as being irate after hear
ing the weeping fathers tragic story.
Fred G. Evans, alleged head of an
arson ring which was charged with
having burned the Spring City hotel
at Waukesha in 1911 and attempting
to fraudulently collect insurance
money, was discharged in circuit
court last week. In two previous
trials the jury had disagreed and the
district attorney having no new evil
dence to offer. asked for a discharge.
Professor J. G. Sanders, state entO
mologist, has recently conferred with
Governor Philip relative to the raw
ages of wild deer in the orchards Of
Sank county. He had bundle of
small trees to show how completely
the deer can do the work of destruc-
ton by eating the bark completely off
the trunks Of the smaller branches.
Prof. Sanders believes that the pro-
lection of deer so far south in the
state as Sank county is a mistake and
the legislature should at least provide
a reasonable open season.