Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-02-08
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Important EUents
of Week From Iri-
State Area.

said State Senator w A. Titus, adj
dressing the Fond du Lac school
board. The display OF wealth made
by cars parked around the buildings
creates envy, the senator said.
Alonzo Robinson. Waupun COM
planned of cold feet and his wife
obligingly placed an electric pad al
his feet. When AlOnzo awoke in the
morning he found his feet so severely
burned that the skin dropped off in
places.
Miss Lillian Thompson, Marinette,
fashioned her own burial robe ana
selected the friends she wished to
carry her body to the grave before
she passed away last Wednesday. The
young lady suffered more than year
with tuberculosis.
Trouble arose at Elkhorn when it
was found that Chas. ". LennO, Lake
Geneva aspiring to wed Agnes Rob-
inson, FOntana, was only Is years old
though lie had given his age as q.
Agnes is Is but her father gave his
consent The court has the matter
under consideration.
the Dane county BOARD Thursday
night cut $4,000 from the salaries Of
county officers but voted down mo-
tiOn made by one supervisor to re-
duce the salaries of board members
from S4 to So per diem. The salar
les of county officers IN Dane county
are about the same as similar posi-
tons in Grant county.
Chief Simon Quaquadus, 70, of the
POttawattOmie tribe, has gone to
Washington to collect money due his
IL
the thermometer below zero, the old
chief refused conveyance ana
walked 80 miles to the station. He
rules over 300 Indians, speaks excel
lent English and is of dignified bear
ing.
Samuel McCune, Fitchburg farmer.
was killed when his foot caught be-
meath the buggy he had been driving
and the horse, breaking loose from
the harness, dragged him along the
road, cutting and bruising his head.
He was found dead the next morning
by his employer, an Italian farmer,
near the buggy. The horse had dis
appeared.
Sever Uglum, Stoughton man who
recently moved to Bloomer in the
northern part of the state, Chippewa
county writes back that the temper
ature up there, was 4S below zero with
three feet OF snow on the level eve
think Sever is 'stringing" his friends
a little but there is undoubtedly Il
difference in climate between south
err Wisconsin and the counties in
the nOrth.)
Auto trail and highway maps Of
Wisconsin of handy pocket size will
be issued by the highway commission
in April for tourist and summer traf-
fic at zoe each, the same price as last
year A new feature of this years
pamphlet is the fact that various
types of road surfacing are shown
in different colors. This enables a
tourist to note at a glance what type
of surfacing his road has.
Cyrus Jenkins, aged Madison re-
cluse. was found frozen to death in
humble home on the last day of
January. The death was discovered
by colored residents of the neighbor-
hood who became worried when they
saw the old man failed to appear at
his customary work-selling polish.
On the wall of the Jenkins home a
calendar hung and each day Jenkins
marked off the date. Jan. "a was the
last day checked.
Donald Skavlem, ), son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Skavlem, Stoughton, had
a narrow escape from drowning when
he broke through the ice Of the va
hara river. Donald was playing OH
the ice with other youngsters and
ventured too Far. A small boy sum
moned the Skavlem boys father aud
the latter pulled his son from the
river in time to save his life. After
two hours labor a doctor was able tC
bring the child back TO consciousness
Keefe e Co, La Crosse. shipped 1C
tons of live carp to New York by eX-
press last week The fish went &c
market in large tanks of fresh water
on a special car The fish were
packed Oody to body iii the water and
kept alive by the means of fresh all
being constantly pumped into the
water to aerate it and prevent the
cargo from dying from suffocation
Carp are highly priced as a food del.
icacy by the foreign element of the
big city and bring a good price.
Twenty-six Polish orphan children
ranging in age from to Is years
who came to Stevens Point last sprins
from Siberia, to become inmates OF
St Clara's Orphanage left last week
oh lIlS iStuAu tlip ~ lHGlI udllNS
land. They will be included in 9
party of $50 Youngsters to sail from
New York. The depleted treasury Of
the Polish National council, which
met the expense of caring for them
the fact that living in Poland costs
only half of what it does in America
and the request of relatives in Poland
for their return brought about de-
cision to send the children back
Blinded by steam from his own To-
connective, Griffith Humphrey, engin-
eer on the fast mail of the North
western road, stepped off a viaduct
at GAINESVILLE and fell twenty feet to
the street below, breaking one leg.
Humphrey stopped the train when he
found the block signal to Evansville
cut off and was Investigating when he
fell. His disappearance was noted at
once and Humphrey was soon located
10y the train crew. The block signal
was found to be out of order. The
tPain is one of the fastest on the sys-
tenn and makes 75 to so miles an hour
Between Chicago and Minneapolis.