Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-02

Belya Stephens, Cassville, and Otto
Olson, Rochester, Mimi, were married
at st. Charles, Mimi. Oct. II.
Mrs. Bertha Runkel, Upton, Mont,
spending the summer with Livingston
and Madison relatives, has returned
home.
Fire in the yard of Chris. Wunder-
Itch. Amigo, destroyed 100000 feet of
lumber and 400 cords of wood. $50, 900
damage was done. The mill was
saved.
Frank A. Burns, head OF the Frank
Coal Co., Dubuque, iied Saturday of
last week from injuries received on
the Friday preceding when a belt at
tached to woodsaMing machine left
left the pulleys and struck him on the
head.
John Nelson, Racine saloon keeper
and ex-convict, was fined $1,000 and
given six months in the county JAIL
Chris Bloom, his bartender, was given
$500 fine and three months in Jail
Their offenses involved violation of
the Severson act, the liquor law re
Gently passed by the state legislature
Fred Roy, Is. Rice Lake, was IA
tally injured when the team he was
driving became frightened and ran
away while he Was endeavOring to re-
pair the harness. Roy had stepped
out on the wagon tongue and when
the team started to run. The wagon
passed over his body.
A G. Beebe of Bruce near Lady
smith has been picking ripe straw
berries daily from his patch of ever
bearing" plants. In one week he mar
keted 60 quarts, which is not so bad
for this time of the year. Never be-
fore in the history of Rusk county, has
the fruit been harvested in any guam
tity late in October.
Harry England, sentenced at Mar
inette to three years in prison for the
theft of an automobile, escaped with
his two cOnfederates by saving the
window bars OF the jail He was ar
rested later at Elgin, ILL.,, and brought
back to serve his time. The other
men, Cliff Evans and Hillary Sauve,
were caught in week.
John Dietz, lately released from
state prison, has applied for $4,000
compensation for false imprisonment.
Gov. Blaine and the pardon board are
looking into the case. Dietz claims
that he was FRAMED" and that Oscar
Harp, the man tie lumber company
claims he killed, was seen alive in the
west a couple IT years ago.
The state of Michigan has intro
duced a herd of Norwegian reindeer
| into the cutOver and barren land dis
trict of the northern peninsula. The
herd includes ten bucks and fifty does
and cost the state 5000 head. They
are in the care of three Laplanders
who will look after their welfare until
the animals are numerous enough to
warrant placing them in private
hands. The scheme is entirely eXper-
mental, made for the purpose of in
PRODUCING interesting and useful life
in a region now practically unprO-
ductive In Norway the reindeer
have been domesticated by the Laps
for centuries.
The town of Wiota. Lafayette coun-
ty was the home in the thirties Of the
last century of Col William Hamilton,
son of Alexander Hamilton. He was
visited in 1888 by his aged mother, a
daughter of Gen Phillip Schuyler, Of
revolutionary fame. Col. Hamilton
was active in defending the settlers in
the war with Black Hawk in 1882. He
was a man of strong personality and
bore a marked physical and mental
resemblance to his illustrious father.
For the fourth time since the end
ing of government CONTROL the Q. road
has taken the AK to dining car prices.
A number of items such as coffee, tea,
cocoa, eggs, toast, bread and butter
and baked potatoes will again be re
duced. The reductions range from 10
to SO 1-3 per cent and they will have
to be considerable to mollify the feel
ing of the public that they are being
over charged in the Burlington diners.