Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-03
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Leon Maciejewski, two years, Fond
du Lac, mlstook strychnlne tablets
for candy and died.
Ruth Doyle of Rock county has sued
Isaac Connors for $4,000 alleging
breach of promise.
John Weingartner, Sevastopol farm
er, slept three weeks but came back
to normal condition.
Eugene st. Peter, Waukesha farm
er. was found hanging from beam
in wagon shed by his wife.
Charles Best, 76, and Louise Best,
68, Kiel couple, have applied for a
separation after "A years of married
life.
Minnow Greek near Eau Claire, has
so many big trout in it that the state
is arranging to transplant the min
nows
Thousands Of fish coming from the
chilled lake clogged the intake of the
Milwaukee Electric Ry plant at Ra-
cine causing shutdown.
Officers at Racine found a thoroIy
equipped still on the premises Of Mi
las Poradick. New made whisky fill
ed various receptacles in the room.
The Wisconsin 1919 honey crop
amounted to 4,834, 600 pounds worth
Sl,2O7730. This is equal to "a pounds
per colony from $4,000 colonies iii the
state.
Ray Lewis, West Salem. sold one
fall DurOc gilt for ST 600 and 26 OH
ers for $304 each The top sow of the
sale was sold TO i. +. AtWater Of Ban
gOr for $2,525.
46 men employed in the Bekkedal
lumber camp near Couderay. were
made severely i'll from ptomaine pois-
oning that came from eating home
made head cheese.
Henry Gunderson. Portage farmer
lost Ill head of cows and horses from
drowning. The animals went TO tbe
boN river Tor a drink and yenturad
too far out on the ice.
na three-year-Old daughter Of Mr.
an Yrs. F. j. Bylow. Neenah was
badly burned from PLAYING too near
a stove with a celluIoid comb. The
mother found the child's clothing
ablaze.
Thomas Welsh, mayor of James
Vile, has been sued for $40 0no nv
Daniel Briggs, former policeman
Briggs says the mayor called him q
drunkard, bum, sot,, mean, degraded
character"
T. ~ Hatlevig. SIS. Beloit. sued for
a divorce from his wife. Sina. % saw
ing the woman is ashamed Of him and
would not walk down the street in
his company. The wife was given tbe
custody of the two children.
John Stanton OF Black River Falls
ana Mrs. Dora Hirsch of Superior,
fell heir to $4,000 in money and ten
lots IN Chicago The brother and sis
ter were poor and the money came
from an uncle they had not heard
from in years.
John Gaffney Marshfeld. taken to
the hospital because he said he had
swallowed a safety pin, was found to
have three safety pins in his stomach.
Gaffney's love for pins was so great
that the nurses had to be careful
around him.
Herman Gehring. Neenah. died fol-
lowing an illness of Is months. Gehr-
ing was the victim of an infection that
developed from sprained ankle. Sew
eral amputations were made of the
leg but the poison spread all over
his body.
George Gardner, Oconto mill work
er, mas developed a method of tenn
perlng copper. Gardner made forge
IN his home and worked out the pro-
cess. 1t is said that a copper disc
he made withstood the attack of a
steel cold chisel.
Bernard Strand, Cumberland, lost
his life from attempting to dislodge
gravel by using dynamite. Other
workmen found him buried alive. The
man was but recently discharged from
the army after three years of SER
vice.
The state railroad commission has
ruled in the case of the Ettrick Tel
ephone Co. VS. the Western Wiscon-
sin Telephone Co., that it has no au-
thority to order a merger even though
there be competing systems in the
same center.
Clam fishing in the upper Mississip-
pi river will be barred for 26 miles
in the vicinity of La Crosse. during
the next five years, according to Off
cial orders of the Wisconsin conser-
walton commission The closed ter
ritory extends from Brownsville, II
miles south Of La Crosse to Dakota
IA miles north.
John Mainville of Amigo. was found
guilty of assault by Langdale county
jury. Mainville was tried for shoot
ing Mrs. Annie Lille. who was house
keeper for Frank Parsons. Mainville
shot Parsons last fall but was aouit-
ted He accused Parsons of breaking
up his home. AT the time of the shoot
Ing Mrs Lille happened to be in the
path Of the bullets and stopped a
shot that did not kill her.
Following the wreck of their home
by fire the family of John LaJoice.
Superior farmer, took shelter in a
barn. The wife and children sat for
hours in below zero weather while
the father sought shelter at a neigh
boris. Mrs. LaJoice was the first to
become ill from exposure and die. She
was followed by her eldest daughter
and the latter's twin babies who were
born while the mother was in the hos
pital. Then the 3-year-old child Of
LaJoice died. LaJoice is left with
two children.
John Sullivan, Racine, took a nip
of real stuff" offered by friend and
walked towards home but soon found
himself growing i'll. He went to the
house of q friend and asked To lie