Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-07-07
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Lightning struck the plant of the
Fish Lbr Co., Elcho, destroying the
sawmill.
Evelyn Austin, Doylestown, years,
died from burns received in attempt
ing to pour kerosene into a lighted
stove.
Grant Ellsworth, Elkhorn farmer,
was fatally injured when the motor
truck he was driving was struck by
a train.
Emil Stindrich, years, Milwaukee,
played on the railroad track and was
run over by a freight train both feet
being cut off.
Chester Maloney, Amigo, was cleo
trocuted when standing with wet feet
on a cement floor he touched an cleo
trio wire in a dairy.
Andrew McKillip, IS years, OAR
lington, died last week. Mr.. McKil-
lip was born in Ireland but came to
this country 20 years ago.
Willie Egan, son of John Egan, Or
fordville farmer, picked up a bottle of
strychnine and took a good dose.
Prompt efforts saved the child.
John and Mike Schmidt, Allentown
youths, are wanted at home because
their father is dying. John and Mike
wandered away three months ago.
The beautiful tobacco region around
Footville is at its best now with the
plants fiourishing. Tobacco farmers
look for a heavy yield of the weed.
Weston, the only city in Dunn
county to have saloon but no
church reversed conditions by putting
out the saloon and voting in church
last week.
An overheated friction clutch in the
lath department of the Hollister mill,
Oshkosh, caused fire loss of $4,000.
Several hundred thousand feet of lum-
Der were destroyed.
Dorothy Sproal, years, Eau Claire,
died from paralysis caused by fall
from a swing. The little girl reached
for doll held by playmate and fell
about a foot striking her neck.
A young couple with a small son
got away with forgeries totalling $500
at GAINESVILLE. The two worked sep
arately giving false addresses for
goods bought that were paid by checks
in excess of the goods bought.
George Doms, Tomah, hunting spar
rows with % caliber rifle, fired one
shot which glanced from the tree and
struck q playmate, Henry Hopp, in
the forehead. But little hopes are en-
tertained that the boy will survive.
On July will be held the great
annual Holstein-F riesian Breeders
picnic at the fair grounds at Jeffer-
son. This is an annual affair and last
year the crowd numbered 1000, but
this year larger turnout is expected.
A Curtiss biplane crashed to earth
at Beloit injuring slightly F. Schlag-
ell of Rockford and II B. Martin of
Boston, Mass. The machine struck a
clump of trees while landing which
caused the spill. $4,000 was done to
the plane.
The young wife of Edward Koenig,
Monroe farmer, took her life by hang
ing. When the husband came home
from the field at evening he found the
door locked. Upon breaking in he
found his wife hanging by a rope
from the stairway.
The Newman cheese factory. q CO.
operative concern, burned to the
ground near Darlington with loss of
$4,000. Cause of blaze unknown.
Two days following the Skolrood fac
tory near Gratiot, burned with a loss
OF $25,000 The origin of this fire is
a mystery also. The cheesemaker
and his employees had retired and had
narrow escapes from being burned.
Ten minutes after they heard a loud
explosion the building walls fell.