Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

Monsignor A. P. Kramer, pastor OF
Geneva, Wis. church has presented
rare book, the autobiography OF Black
Hawk, famous Indian chief, to
Campion college. The volume was
found by the prelate. In it Black
Hawk tells of wars in which he en-
gagged, and gives the general history
and the causes of the Black Hawk
war OF 1882. 1t is dedicated to Brig.
Gen. H. Atkinson whose prisoner
Black Hawk became and is dated 10th
moon, 1888.
Will Dodge, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Dodge, RoXbury, had all Of his
fingers ON the right hand cut off while
feeding a shredder Wednesday after
noon Besides losing the fingers, the
back of his hand was badly crushed
and the wrist twisted After the
wound was dressed the young man
was rushed TO the General hospital in
Madison, where surgeons amputated
the lower part of the arm about Two
inches above the wrist.
Henry Kiel, Menominee, was badly
burned about the face, head and body
Wednesday when at work in the
Lloyd plant, Menominee. He was in
a steam boiler, cleaning it, when a
fellow workman, who did not know he
was inside, turned on connecting
blowoff, shooting steam into the boil
er. The imprisoned man shouted and
the steam was turned off. The man
had to make his exit through a Is
inch hole. His condition is critical.
Otto Siebel, Redwood farmer, died
at st. Mary's hospital at WATERFOWL,
as the result of injuries received in an
auto accident on highway 26 toward
Juneau in Dodge county. 1t is re-
ported the accident occurred when
machine, following Siebel, attempted
to pass him and, in the confusion,
Siebel lost control of his car and ran
into the ditch. His daughter who was
with him is also critically injured, but
is expected to recover.
Two StOughtOn youths employed by
the University of Wisconsin as truck
drivers had a narrow escape from
death by aSphyXiatiOn early Wednes-
day. Rodney Olson. Il, aWOke at 6
a. m. and staggered from his bed to a
partially opened gas jet and closed it
before both he and his room mate, Ar
Wit Skaarnes, II, were overcome Oh
son opened a window, summoned the
police ambulance and tainted Both
will recover. "
A thief who entered the office OF H
G. Maddox, Kenosha, Monday after
noon and found the safe door open
and no one around. helped himself TO
the contents, tOtaling $3.50, and dis
appeared. The empty cash drawer
was found in the yard back of the Of
fee. ~Of the amount, $4,000 was in
checks, 81 500 in liberty bonds ana
$3.50 in cash.
While driving his horse and buggy
to Jefferson on highway 26 about
three miles south of jefferson late on
Monday, E. NJ Forum, TO- was struck
by truck owned by the Rock River
Telephone company of Johnson Creek
The Injuries suffered caused his death
on Tuesday at the Jefferson county
poor farm, where he was taken fol-
lowing the accident tIa
When the automobile in which she
was riding left the road and3,over-
turned in a ditch Thursday, Mrs john
Conklin. La Vale, Wis, was instantly
killed and Mrs. David Andrews seri-
Ously injured The car driven by
Harry Thornton, La Vale banker, es-
capped unhurt
Frank Geyman Of Caledonia just
across the line from Sank county near
BarabOO. hung himself at his farm
home early Thursday morning. Mr.
had been in poor health.
Antoine Vantillburg, an employee of
the American Writing Paper Co., De
Pere, suffered two broken legs We'd
nesday when an elevator upon which
he was conveying a box of rugs to the
top floor fell two floors.
Louis Gray & Son, DeForest. had
two pure bred COWS in the Holstein
sale held at Lake Mills recently. One
Of their cows sold for $3.50; the two
brought nearly $500.