Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-03-23

A $4,000 artificial ice making plant
is being installed by a large creamery
firm in Beloit. Part of the ice will
go for domestic use in the city.
Mrs. Margaret Coughlin, 70, Madi-
son, was burned to death in the home
of her daughter The old lady's
clothing caught fire from a gas stove
Gilbert Evenson, 95, resident of
GAINESVILLE for "a years, died Wednes-
day night He was one of the few
living veterans in the United States
of the Mexican war of 184S.
Mrs. George Burdick Minnea polls,
shot and killed herself at Black Earth
| while on visit with her parents.
| Dependency over her husbands ILL
ness is blamed for the tragedy.
Cyrus Harris, Tomahawk, while at
| tempting to unfasten stable chain
was kicked by horse. His nose was
fractured and three ribs broken. He
regained consciousness sixteen hours
after the accident.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
| Hetrick, Pepin, ate corrosive subli-
mate tablet, thinking it was candy
Doctors worked over the child several
days and it is thought he will re-
cover
Pleading guilty to embezzlement
of $4,000 of funds of the Belgium
(Wis.) State Bank of which he was
the founder and cashier, Frank Whit
meyer, former resident of Marinette
was sentenced to seven years in the
Waupun penitentiary.
Two record breaking hauls of fish
were. made by Earl W. Little and
James Curdue in Lake Pepin. Mr..
Little in one seine had $4,000 pounds
Of fish and Curdue had 10000 pounds.
There were more than three carloads
of fish in the two hauls.
William Kinney, Fond du Lac saloon
man, was arrested on a charge of
selling mOonshine. The complaint
was made by George Goetz of Ere
mont, Neb., who claimed that he had
been 'jack-rolled" out of sum of
money by Hazel Schroeder and Edna
Kudy of Milwaukee.
The steel freighter, Nevada, built by
the Goodrich Transit company Of Man
itowoc, sold in 1915 to the Russian
government, shipped to New London,
Conn, converted into passenger ship
and then returned to the owners when
collapsed will be sent back to the
great lakes and used for pleasure pur-
poses next summer.
William Welsh committed suicide al
Amigo where he worked as night
Waterman with a steam shovel crew.
Welsh slashed his throat and wrists
with a razor. Since an attack of in
fuenZa couple of years ago Mr.. |
Welsh suffered with a head abscess
and the pain he endured caused him
to take his life.
d. McOwen, 40, Kenosha hotel keep !
en- is in st. Francis hospital at La
Crosse, as result of injuries suffered
when taxi in which he was travel
ing from Lacrosse to Winona, Mimi, |
crashed into moving freight train, |
three miles north of Lacrosse. The |
driver who was uninjured, thought
the train had cleared the crossing
when box cars were followed by fiat
cars.
The sudden death of Charlotte two
years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Chester Miller, Eau Claire, was a mys-
terry until an autopsy revealed a wax
bean lodged in one of her lungs shut
ting off respiration For a day and
night preceding death the little girl
cried while sitting up but seemed to
have relief while reclining. The doc
tors were unable to determine the
trouble until after the child dieG
Henry Lueck, town of Rib Falls, was
instantly killed and Frank Koeller, |
town Of Hamburg was fatally injured |
when frozen gravel fell on them while !
they were resting in Marathon !
county gravel pit. The men, it is
said, sat down to rest under the grav-
Ell bank, which is believed to have be- |
come loosened by the warm weather |
Lueck was dead when taken from I'M
derneath the mass of rocks and Keel |
Ter died four hours later.