Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-06-11
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Irwin Engelke, GAINESVILLE, is held
under $500 bonds for Illicit liquor sell
ling.
DR.. John Till, the New Richmond
plaster DOCTOR" has been sentenced
to serve 60 days in jail for practicing
without a license.
Joseph Cigelski, years, near Beav-
er Dam, was killed by lightning while
running from the house to an automo-
bile standing in the yard
Captain A. E. Mitchell, Monroe, has
been appointed sheriff by Gov Phil
ipp, in place of Matt Solbraa, dead at
the hands of Gotfred Vogeli
Floyd Bump, IT, was drowned in
noe capsized. The empty canoe was
found and search made for the
body.
Frederick Heightman, Evansville
farmland, was killed while taking a
herd to pasture. Heightman walked
on the track and failed to hear the
tire in.
Frank Hickisch, pioneer grocer of
La Crosse, fell down an elevator shaft
and was killed. One son was drowned
uulS
himself last year
Frank Erickson, Foxboro, shot and
killed his brother, Alfred, and then
shot himself. He accused his brother
of theft and had been acting queer
| ly.
DR.. Thomas, Weyauwega, caught
127 white bass weighing 80 pounds in
| five hours and ten minutes. The bass
are running in big schools in the
| Wolf river.
Willard F. Goodman, a prominent
Socialist of KenOsha, was found hang
ing from tree near the city Illness
in his family and other worries drove
Mr.. Goodman to suicide He was well
| thought of.
Workmen at the Chas. Lauerman
home, Marinette, uncovered tank
containing As gallons of high test gas
oline that had been buried 80 years.
The gas was far superior to that I'M
loaded today.
JOS. A. Bell of Milwaukee, was
awarded $4,000 the street car com
pany being defendant Bell rode on
car in January, 1917. A live wire
fell causing an explosion and Bell
was blinded for life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, Kenosha.
died leaving bequest of $3.50, 900 to
st. Matthews Episcopal church Mrs.
Moore was the widow of the late Col.
Webster Porter Moore, Commander of
the Wisconsin Ioval Legion.
At the Marshfield Guernsey sale so
head of pure breds averaged $342. The
+0p was $500 for . COW bought by B.
F. Sheridan, Fond du Lac. L. e. Cor
| ton, Jacksonville. was the consignor.
One yearling calf brought $3.50.
| A basket of fruit was used to con-
ceal saws for Arthur McKay's dcliy-
cry from the Milwaukee iail. Andrew
Stegman, taller, found the saws be-
Meath false hottom to The fruit box.
| Mckay was arrested for stealing
tires.
Mathew JeDeon, 35, foreman of a
Kenosha pop factory, was killed in
stantly when a soda tank he was fill
| ling exploded. Iron fragments went
| through the roof and water pipes burst
by the explosion flooding the body.
Jepson's head was torn off.
Mrs. Geo. Huber. Lomira. was
struck by lightning and knocked I'M
conscious. One shoe was torn from
ner foot by the bolt. The bolt jumped
from Mrs. Huber to a metal clothes
line and thence to the house whore it
tore hole IS inches square.
Cancer ranks as one of the chief
causes of death in the state. with
1888 deaths in 1918, and an average of
1913 year the last eight years, ac-
cordlng to state vital statistics. The
annual mortality in the United States
is estimated at $4,000, compared with
900 for pulmonary tuberculosis
While the "great white plague" pre-
| vars at all ages. cancer is essential Iy
a disease of adult life. At ages over
4O cancer causes one death out of ey,
cry eight among women and one out
OF every fourteen among men. IS pel
cent OF all cancer deaths occur at ages
OF 40 and over. The disease is on the
increase in every civilized country
cancer is durable disease and prob.
ahtv 90 per cent of the 10000 yearly
deaths are unnecessary and prevent.
able" saws the state board of health
1t is at first local disease and not 6
constitutional or blood disease. It be,
gins in one spot as small growth
which in the early stages can be re-
moved. If this is done by a compe.
tent surgeon every trace of the dis.
case can often be removed so that il
will not return. If neglected. how.
ever. cancer snreads like fire and gets
beyond control.