Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-14

the Bryan speech and was struck by
la street car on the way home. Sever
al ribs We're broken and he was hurt
internally
a Neenah cheese concern is nego-
tiating for the purchase Of $4,000 lbs.
of cheese to be shipped to England for
army use. The consignment will be
valued at $4,000
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Michael Lazora, a North Western
road Waterman at Milwaukee, was ia
tally burned when in his zeal to
warm. a bunk car, he threw kerosene
in the stove. The can exploded.
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Morris Madden, a Baraboo farmer,
frOZe his hands and feet and narrowly
escaped death when caught in snow
storm. He was driving home at night
during storm and was thrown into
drift
Thomas O'Donnel1, rs years of age,
of Eau Claire, slipped and fell on an
icy walk and received fractures of the
hip, arm, and shoulder. He died from
the effects three hours later.
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Beloit college students voted unani-
mously on Monday of last week to en-
courage military training and to form
a machine gun company. They will
ask to have a reserve officers training
station established at that place.
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! Arthur Stickney, Camp Douglas
/ farmer, found the dead body of Gun
der Terlson, aged 35, Hustler resi-
dent, in the snow near his place.
Terlson, had evidently lost his way in
the blizzard and walked until he fell
unconscious in the drifts.
The sum of $4,000 was paid by the
CarnatiOn Milk Products company for
the Holstein COW, Tietje Wayne De
Kol, purchased at a sale at Utica, N.
Y, last week and which, with Hol-
stein calf, bought at the sale, will be
added to the HOlstein herd at the Car
nation farm, near OcOnomowoc. The
the $4,000 bull, Johanna Mckinley Sc
gis, for their farm at Oconomowoc.
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! With the aid OF an old joke, Martin
Heckel, farmer near Appleton, won
SIS and a ten cent cigar. Heckel bet
Peter Mysnist SIS that there actually
was ground hog" and offered to
h i1o1 Il Ioo -,
that could cast shadow. Heckel took
piece of pork sausage and placed it
behind a candle. Then Mysnist saw
the ground" hog part of the joke, and
also the shadow, made by the candle.
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Milwaukee is building an intercept
ing sewer system to cost 100000.
The work is carried on under COM
pressed air so to 80 feet under the
street level. The workmen pass grad
ually into the heavy air pressure by
going into a compartment where the
air is gradually brought to the same
pressure as the tunnel. 1922 is the
date set when the sewer will be COM
pleted, and the city will then have
pure drinking water.
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Joseph Kaminski, So years, a Mari
nette farmer, shot and killed his son,
Thomas, aged %, on the main streets
of the city. The younger Kaminski was
on his way to the depot with his step
mother, enroute to Chicago. Domestic
trouble had occurred in the family
and it is said that the youth and the
wife had sold all the stock on Kamin-
skis farm. The latter attempted to
shoot his wife also but was disarmed.
The police say that he expressed sat
isfaction over the deed when locked
up.
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Ewaldt Mans, q, born in Germany
and in this country two years, was
arrested at Marinette, for alleged Sc
ditious utterances. He became involv-
ed in an argument with persons in
saloon and complaint was made to the
police. The latter finally arrested
Mans when he declared in their pres
ence: Germany was a denim sight bet
ter country than the United States
He was taken to Jail and a few hours
afterWard expressed desire to take
out citizenship papers. He was per-
mitted to do so and was then released
from jail.
Eau Claires ice carnival scheduled
for Saturday, Sunday and Monday a
week ago, but postponed on account of
the weather, was crowded into one day.
last Tuesday, while the city laid aside
most of it's business and took part in
the festivities. The crowd, estimated
at 10000, gathered on Half Moon lake
to watch the sport events, the feature
of which were two races, mile and
threemile by Oscar Mathieson, Nor
wegian skating champion, and J. G..
Karlsen, Minneapolis, worlds cham
pion long distance skater. Mathieson
easily won both races and did not have
to let himself out.