Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-02-21

! charles Miller, MS employer, hanging
in the basement when he came to
work Miller's act was due despond-
ency
Death forestalled the iron law in the
case of RED" Koch, alleged bail jump
er of the Reckless Six of La Crosse
He died of tuberculosis few hours be-
fore he was to have been taken into
court.
Dr. Charles Dyke of Johnstown
Center was partially overcome by
fumes of gas, while driving in a closed
automobile. The doctor had connect
ed his engine to obtain heat from the
exhaust.
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Henry Smith MCGOWAN of Grinnell,
Iowa, was the principal speaker at the
Father and Sons banquet held at the
GAINESVILLE Y NJ C. A. This was the
first of it's kind held in that city and
$50 fathers and sons attended.
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Eighteen degrees below zero and so
hydrants at Appleton and two homes
were destroyed in blaze before the
firemen could connect up with the
third Two firemen had their faces
frozen while on duty.
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La Crosse was tied up last week with
a dire fuel shortage No hard coal
was left in the city and only a forty
eight hour supply Of soft coal. A town
that uses thousands of tons weekly
had but 80 tons of coal shipped the
week prior to the famine.
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The stockholders of the National
Brewing company of Stevens Point ap-
pointed a committee recently to con-
slider the future of the concern in the
light of the prohibition movement, and
to decide whether the manufacture of
beer shall be continued or abandoned
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An open window probably saved the
life of T. P. SchulZle, an Independ-
ence banker, who awoke at night to
find the room full of smoke and his
home in flames SchulZle was alone
in the house. The blaze, due to an
overheated furnace, was put out after
much damage had occurred.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Mic Johnson of La
Crosse, were, to say the least, startled
when a water coil in the kitchen stove
in front of which they sitting, explod-
ed and tore the stove into fragments
of iron. Luckily no pieces hit either
person. The force of the explosion
was great that a fiat iron was embed
ded in the ceiling.
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Theaters cannot collect for advertise
ments shown on curtains on the Sab
bath for the reason that Sunday per-
formances are illegal, according to a
decision by Judge C. A. Fowler, of
Fond du Lac, at La Crosse, in the case
of Clingen Curtain company against
w. E. Barber, chairman of the state
conservation commission, who con-
ducts a laundry in La Crosse.
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The mysterious explosion of two
weeks ago which alarmed the residents
of the eastern counties who thought
at first a powder mill HAD blown up,
!, was found to be due to the falling of
an immense meteor at Lake Geneva
The day after the huge rock fell a
workman named CROSBY went to look
for a wagon he had left standing in a
field over night. Instead he found a
huge hole and fragments of the
: wheels. 1t is estimated that the met
cor, weighing five tons, went into the
ground fifty feet.
At recent meeting held at Shiocton
steps were taken to build a thirty-mile
canal from the northern part of Outa-
game county to the southeastern end
for the purpose Of draining farm
: lands. The government will be asked
to aid, and it is estimated that more
| than a million dollars will be needed
The Wolf River Valley improvements
? association, with Michael Mack, presi-
dent, S. Fl. Coburn, secretary, George
LOnkey, treasurer was formed Farm
ers in that section say their crops have
been washed away for years by the
l overflow from the Wolf river, and wish
? the drainage project to insure crops.
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: Three persons escaped death, two
: story cottage was wrecked and a wal
let containing $500 was blown some.
r where into the next ward, when Otto
: Quass, boarder at the home of Mrs
Y Thekla HEM of Milwaukee, went hunt
: ing for a gas leak with lantern. Quass
D detected the odor and proceeded to the
basement. The next thing he knew
: he was sprawling in the back yard
He amazedly watched the house settle
into ruins and then catch fire. While
it was burning Mrs. HEM and George
Dorm, another boarder, emerged from
the ruins. To add to Quass' grief the
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