Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-08-18
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Raymond Burk, u, son of Frank
Burk of the town of Stettin, near Wau-
sau fell from a load of hay. A wheel
passed over him, crushing his skull.
Death came instantly.
George, 6, son of Louis G. Chris
Hanson, Stevens Point, a travelling
salesman, was thrown from the 500
railroad bridge by a passing train and
drowned in the Wisconsin river.
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
p. S. Deerumer, living near Evans
vile, probably lost the sight of an
eye when it was pierced with nail.
The child was at play when she fell
on board which held the nail, and
it entered the eye.
Henry Ruleau, Merrill, is exhibiting
a hens egg in the interior of which
he found what is apparently a small
fish or pollywOg. The fish was in
the white of the egg and the yolk was
not only intact but the egg was fresh.
(This story sounds "fshy")
Vanity cost Charles looks, colored,
Milwaukee, his life. looks was CAL
ling on Viola Grayson, also colored.
To impress her with his prOwess, he
took an automatic pistol from his
pocket and showed her "how it went
off" 1t -accidentally-the bullet
entering below his left eye. He died
In emergency hospital.
Pickle stations in Marinette county
are now running full blast. The Gu
cumber crop is assured if the rest of
the country does as we'll. A Chicago
concern operating four stations hand
les big part of the crop Last year
these stations handled 2,10O barrels or
100000 pickles. Cucumbers are
bringing so cents hundredweight for
nubs, $3.50 for smalls, and 81 for dill
size. They make a good cash crop
Tor many farmers, about $3.50 an acre.
During the final quarter of the fis-
cal year Wisconsin led every state ex-
cept New York, in national guard re-
cruiting. Announcement from the
war department to headquarters was
7" the effect that during this quarter
the Wisconsin guard showed a gain
OF 1,S45, or nearly 100 per cent The
report shows that on Apr. / the Wis
consin guard numbered Zip, and on
July l it had been recruited UP to
1897. The only state to better this
recOrd-New York-showed a gain of
2,0lS. The authorized strength of the
Wisconsin guard is 10,419.
a collection of old fashioned school
books, toys, Civil war relics, velen-
tines, souvenir pins and buttons, sur
glcal instruments, and other articles
OF the period between 1856 and 1880
belonging to John M. Evans. Wiscon-
sin pioneer of Evansville, has lust
been given to the State historical mu-
scum by his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
John Evans, of Madison. The chill
drens toys and costumes will be in
corpOrated in the museums children's
room DR.. Evans was surgeon for
the l31st Wisconsin volunteers during
the Civil war. The city of Evansville
was named for him.
Mrs. l.. M. Grimmestad Orfordville,
has received letter from her husband
IN which he gives an account of the
threatened disaster of the passenger
steamer, Bergensfjord, enroute, from
New York to Christiana, on which he
was a passenger They left New York
Friday afternoon and about II hours
later fire was discovered in the oil
room, the vessel being an oil burner.
Before the fire could be gotten under
control, the boats had been lowered
and the passengers ordered to put on
life preservers. Nothing but the ut
most courage and presence of mind
on the part of the ships crew saved
the vessel from destruction. Wireless
distress calls were sent out and by
the time the fire was under control
several vessels were bearing down up
on them in response to their calls. The
ship, in spite of the trouble. landed in
Norway on nearly schedule time.