Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-01-21
ROUND WISCONSIN
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH

/ There are several thousand barrels
j of 2.75 per cent beer in the watts Of
! La Crosse breweries which will not
/ be de-alcoholized at this time despite
the decision of the supreme court
with regard to that drink. Local
brewers will await the outcome of
another action to test the legality Of
the Volstead act.
Two deaths occurred within a few
minutes in the home of R. Pepper,
Grover farmer. Miss Anna Pepper,
his daughter, who had been i'll with
tuberculosis, died Unexpectedly. When
the mother. Mrs, Anna Pepper, was
notified she swooned. Death from
shock followed in few minutes.
Mrs. Adolph Anderson, aged 33, died
of burns received at Beloit in an ex-
plosion of kerosene she was using to.
start a ire in the kitchen stove at
her home She leaves her husband
and three children. The husband and
his mother, Mrs. Hans Anderson, are
recovering from burns they received
in extinguishing the flames
A week almost to the minute after
the death of her husband, Mrs. VIM.
]. Peters died at Burlington, apoplexy
being the cause Of both deaths. Mr..
Peters, pioneer wagonmaker of
southeastern Wisconsin, suffered a
stroke about a month ago and died on
Monday, Dec 20. The following Sun
day Mrs. Peters suffered a stroke and
lived only until the next day
Not a death in the family for 70
years is the record of the Jacobson
family which was emphasized at the
golden wedding anniversary celebra-
ton of Mr.. and Mrs Ferdinand JAG
OLSON, Kenosha. The couple was mar
ried in Denmark Jan. g. 1870, and
came to this country three yearslat-
er. There are three great-grandchil-
dren, Is grandchildren and five chill
dren
Carl Schoppe was rescued from the
icy waters of the Rock river and his
drowning prevented by the presence
OF mind of his playmate, Ellis Men
denhall, of WATERFOWL. Schoppe fell
through a hole in the ice which had
been left by fishermen. The play
mate tried to reach the drowning
boy with his coat and failing in that,
secured ski, with which he dragged
him to the edge of the water Neither
young men suffered serious results
from the experience.
Four hundred men narrowly escap-
ed being cremated about midnight !
when fire broke out in the four story
frame boarding house of Swift & Co. |
at Eagle Lake. The entire structure
was destroyed, involving a loss of |
close to $4,000, upon which there is |
an insurance. The men, although |
driven out into the zero weather, |
managed to save half the contents, |
and most of the wood supply. None
of the men were injured They were
employed in the ice houses.
Interest i'll place names is wide |
spread and no request comes Oftener |
to the State Historical society at /
Madison than that for information |
about the name of the state. Wiscon-
sin is named for its principal river, |
but the significance of this has never |!
been satisfactorily determined. 1t is !
an Indian name, Of course, and the |
attempt of white men to reproduce it
has led to over twenty different spell
lings found on early maps, ranging (
from "Miscous" to the ordinary French |
form "Ouisconsin." The present spell
ling of Wisconsin" was only settled !
by formal vote of the constitutional
fathers in the convention in 1916
That the rune stone found at Ken
sington, Mimi, some years ago is the
Oldest native document of American
history is the contention of Hjalmar
r. Holland, Ephraim, Wis, writing in
the Wisconsin Magazine of History.
The rune stone has an inscription
which represents that it was deposited
by a party of Norsemen who were in
Minnesota in 1864 Many scholars who
have turned their attention to the mat
ter regard the inscription as a hoax,
while others have accepted it as his
torically valid. Mr.. Holland argues
vigorously in support of the stones
historicity, assuming that the Morse
men reached Minnesota by way of
Hudson bay and Nelson river.
Butter is a dangerous thing to give
to prisoners, according to Sheriff B.
j. Lund of La Crosse. Ollie Jennings,
held there on a charge of burglary.
made good use of it in mis- recent at
tempt to escape The butter, mixed
with some cell disinfectant, made a
substance which furnished him with
light for his night work A strip torn
from his shirt made a wick With
this improvised candle he worked
nights, cut the floor of the cell. MAX
ing hole large enough to let him
through A short tunnel took him to
the brick wall which would have made
his escape easy had he not been dis
covered. Jennings was able to work
unmolested, there being no prisoners
IN the cell with him at the time.