Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-10
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Park Hotel paid fine of $500
and costs in the circuit court at Mad
isOn for violation of the child labor
Law. The complaint alleged that Miss
Gertrude Slinde and Miss Sarah Jor-
1es, both under II years, were en-
ployed at the hotel in October.
After setting off dynamite blast
IN O. gravel pit near Eau Claire, Chas.
Shoemaker, 38 years old, and employ
ed in county highway work, stepped
into the pit He saw stick of dyna-
mite unexploded and stopped over to
pick it up. 1t went off, and his mangl-
ed body was picked UP IS feet away.
One thousand men employed in con-
gtructiOn work in the new plant Of
Hhe Samson Tractor Co, GAINESVILLE,
were thrown out of work Monday af-
1ernoon following a decision to sus-
pend all building operations. Scarcity
and high prices of labor, materials
shortage Of houses were given by j.
a Craig, president of the company as
reasons for the suspension of the in
slnstry
The Kenosha Gold Mining Co. has
struck il rich. Organized fifteen years
ago in the Grass valley mining region
of California, the mine has just struck
a. rich vein. Word was received at
Kenosha Monday Of the find. Will
liam r. Fisher, president; Thomas
Hansen, treasurer, and the ten d.
Tectors are all prominent Kenosha
Business men.
The Ashland police made but SAG
arrests in 1919 compared with 1902
in 1918. This striking decrease in
arrests is further emphasized by the
fact that in May, 1918 there were BAT
arrests, and in June, 374 arrests, more
arrests in each of these two months
2han for the entire year of 1919
These were the last two months of
saloons in Ashland.
The trial of DR.. j. A.. Fruedenberg,
Markesan, charged with the murder
of his wealthy mother-in-law, Mrs
Nettie Duties, has again been post
pOned to some date late in March, to
DE named later. The state has been
unable to have all witnesses present
at previous dates set for the trial DR.
Fruedenberg is at liberty under $780,
900 bail.
IL is stated that Ringing Bros.
circus will never make their winter
headquarters in Baraboo again. The
buildings they occupied in that city
are being fitted up as a tobacco ware
house by the Lorillard company. The
circus with its menagerie was nc
small asset to the business interests
OF the Sank county metropolis and
it will be missed considerably.
A shipment Of radium, said to be the
largest ever made into this state, is
TO be used by a Green Bay doctor
The shipment was insured by Lloyds
Of London, the only insurance com
pany in the world that will insure this
precious mineral. The radium, if col.
lected into one granule. would be
about the size of the average pea. II
contains so millegrams and repre-
SCENTS an expenditure of $4,000.
Mrs. Caroline Kruger, who was in
the limelight so extensively a year
ago as the mother of the Kruger
brothers prosecuted at Neillsville as
-murderers and draft evaders, one oil
whom was killed by deputy United
States marshal and two others sen
fenced TO the penitentiary at Waupur
for life. has returned to Withee. tc
look after her farming interests. The
Kruger farm, which is one of the
hest in the county, with improvements
seldom eGualed in a farm home, is oc-
Cupied by a tenant. The large barn
which was burned while the place
was invested ny the home guard, has
never been rebuilt