Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07

old, arrested recently at OcOntO on Il
disorderly charge, will be taken to the
Green Bay reformatory within few
days. Their offense constitutes a VIC
lation OF a parole.
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Abraham Assovsky, aged Fl, uni
versity student, met death at his Sun
Prairie home from cleaning his shoes
with an inflamable liquid polish. In
some manner the friction OF the brisk
rubbing caused the saturated cloth to
explode and the flames enveloped the
young mans body burning him fright
fully.
A bushel of potatoes, a case of fresh
eggs, and clothes basket full Of
canned goods were stolen from the
Kenosha home of David Korf, by bur-
glars, who ignored valuable plate and
silver in the house. 1.-THE high cost
Of living forced us to do it" was the
message left by the thieves.
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Henry Knudson, 25 years old, re-
ceived a fractured skull, and his three
companions, Clarence Knudson, Os-
car Olson and John Jacobson, were Sc
verely bruised when Knudson's auto
mobile was struck by train at Clin-
ton. Little hope is held out for Knud-
sons recovery
Tobacco experts announce that the
extreme cold weather of the winter
having frozen out the tobacco worms,
danger from this source for the 1917
crop of the weed is past They also
given encouraging news that grass
hoppers and potato bugs also are to
be listed as missing during the coming
growing season.
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Frank Elliott, 20 years old, of Eau
Claire was instantly killed while at
work in the pulp mill of the Dells Pa
i per and Pulp company He backed in
to hole in the floor, and his neck was
broken when he struck a projecting
rod as he fell into the water fiume un-
derneath the plant.
The total tax, state, county and To-
cal, collected in Wisconsin this year
is SAT, 423 ,86S.42, as compared with
$43, 1865 1894 last year. The tax rate
for railroads and public utilities, which
is the average tax rate throughout the
state, is .013844, as compared with
.0113172 last year In 1914 when the
tax agitation was at its height the rate
was .013874.
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]. r. Buckley, travelling salesman
Of Escanaba, Mich, declared in JUS
tice court at Marinette, that he cid
kiss Mrs. William Gendron, who had
him arrested on charge of attempt
ing to kiss her at her home in Niagara,
Wis. His defense was that she en-
couraged his attentions. He told the
court that she had offered to settle the
case for $3.50. mot guilty" was the
jury'S verdict.
After securing a marriage license
and the consent of his 17-year-old
sweetheart, Edna Radamiz, Vincent
Walker, also II years old, of the Lake
Bluff Naval Training school, lost his
nerve. Without saying goodbye he
started for the railroad station. The
police intercepted him. Later it was
announced that the young people had
agreed to wait until they were of age
Both live at Racine.
That the Dupont powder people have
have tip that the war will not last
long is indicated by the fact that 300
men have been laid off at the Banks
dale dynamite plant, and others may
follow. The men were held through
January when the international situa-
ton seemed acute. The plant has
completed English and Russian con-
tracts and is now making dynamite
and triton for the U. S. government.
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A dispatch says that stockholders of
the National Brewing Co., of Stevens
Point, have closed their brewery in
that city and are intending to turn the
property over to some other form of
manufacturing. 1t is the opinion of
the stockholders that within the next
two or three years Wisconsin will join
the ranks of prohibition states, and
they want to make the change now
while the chances are better 1t has
been suggested that the business
might be transformed into a cold stor-
age plant.
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After pleading guilty to blind pig
gng" several Washburn men testified
that they had paid the local chief of
police sums ranging from SIS to SIS for
permission to operate and for warn
ing" Chief Kerr has been suspended
pending an Investigation. He made no
statement, but several days previous
to the charges asserted that he had
caused the conviction of nine violators
and insisted that no favors be shown in
the prosecution of them.
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Louis Forsythe, Gratiot youth, 10,