Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-09-20

was gored to death by bull Thurs
| day night. He was rounding up cat
| tie on MS farm when attacked.
Members of the Ku Klux Khan are
! in Fond du Lac organizing a local of
the national council 1t is said that
large membership has been obtained
! 20 date.
| Oliver Nelson, retired linseed oil
manufacturer of Chicago, died in his
berth on Northwestern train at Otis
The body was shipped to Woodstock,
ILL.,, for burial.
Rev. A. NJ Ivey, Belmont, called
the hghtlng parson," when he ran for
| the assembly on an anti-La Toilette
| ticket, was defeated by James Good
man, incumbent, by a large majority.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. e. Forman, Neills-
Vile, both "a, celebrated their Goth
wedding anniversary last week They
were married in Calumet county in
1852, and moved to Clark county As
years ago, locating on the farm where
they still live.
James Nelson Mason of Montfort. a
! graduate Of the Platteville Mining
School, class of '21, was married to
Miss Julie Muse of Maysville, Ken
lucky, August %. Mr. Nelson is as
ISOLATED with Pittsburg firm as oil
and gas engineer.
Ben l. Bell, Camp Douglas restaur-
ant man, was drowned in the Wiscon-
sin river, at Petenwell rock, near Ne
cedah, Thursday. Mr. Bell and fam
lily attended the big Masonic picnic
held there. The head of the family
went in bathing and STEPPED off a sand
bar into deep hole. Efforts to res
cue him were futile although more
than 600 persons witnessed the trag-
edy.
Fire, due to spontaneous combustion
of wet silage, destroyed two barns and
two silos valued at $4,000 on the farm
of Oscar Ballerud, near Eau Claire.
One barn contained Is tons of hay
and the other was one of the best
equipped dairy barns in the section,
with running water and electric
lights The fire broke out while the
Workmen, who had been filling a silo,
were at dinner.
The entire city of Sheboygan was
without telephone service Thursday
as the result of switchboard fire in
the exchange at a. m A short cir
cult induced by an overload of cur
rent started the spark that fired the
u.
ical fire extinguishers and buckets of
sand and water put the fire out. The
water caused additional short circuits
Service was restored late in the day
Judge John M. Becker, defeated La
Toilette candidate for district attorney
of Green county, has decided to make
the race as an independent against his
successful opponent, H. N. Caradine
Becker says his name resembles that
OF John f. Baker, defeated IA" can
dldate for attorney general Of the
state, and that many people voted
against him, thinking he was Baker.
Death come to Julius Hasler, Sc, in
Il strange way while he was at work
in the plant of the Simmons Co., Ke-
nosha, when he was electrocuted in
department where electrical power
is not used. Mr.. Hasler was hanging
up wire used to bind baskets dipped
in a I've vat The end of the wire
reached through a window into an
other department and accidentally hit
an electric switch Hasler was in
stantly killed. His partner was bad
ly stunned when he tried to aid him.
F. H. Webster, incumbent in the Of
flee of sheriff, Lafayette county, was
nominated to succeed himself at the
primary. Should the people vote in
favor of the constitutional amendment
allowing sheriffs to succeed them
selves, Mr. Webster will be all right
However, should this fail to pass he
will have made the race in vain and
an interesting problem of determining
who the sheriff is will be before the
people of Lafayette county.
Freeman Hannawell, of Richland
county, one Of the candidates for the
office of sheriff, was injured in col
liSiOn while out electiOneering. Near
Boaz, HannaWell, driving a car, saw
a runaway team approaching. He
steered to to the side of the road but
a collision resulted and the buggy pole
on the rig hit him in the side break
ing several ribs. Mr. Hannawell was
taken to a hospital. The runaway
team was the property of his son.
Lester Brace, son of L. c. Brace,
living near Barron, had a narrow es-
cape during a storm. He was down in
a we'll back of the house when a hard
crash of thunder made him decide to
go to the house. Just as he was about
half way up the ladder a bolt of light
ming entered the we'll, tearing up the
ground and loosening the joints of the
i pump rOQS. ASIDE from SHOCK, MT.
Brace was unhurt. His father, stand
ing at the top of the well, was not in
jured. The old gentleman was holding
an electric light down into the well
so that the son could see to work.
Mrs. Alfred Stanek, Marietta, had
a thrilling experience with an enraged
sow and almost lost her life. One of
the Stanek children went into the lot
where the sow and her brood were
confined, in pursuit of chicken. The
SOW chased the child and Mrs. Stanek,
seeing the danger, jumped into the lot
between the sow and her child. The
hog turned on the woman and in
flicted severe injuries before she was
able to scramble to safety. Mrs. Stan
elk is confined to her bed with severe
bruises and bites.
A total of 273 miles OF concrete
highways was completed in the state
by Sept 1, and the state highway
commission believes that a total of
between $40 to $50 miles will be laid
before frost stops operations. 1t was
originally estimated that 451 miles
would be built but with the handicap