Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-15
NEWS FROM
ALL AROUND
WISCONSIN
Items of Current
Interest By Mail
and Telegraph.

The Rolling mine at Linden has
been put in operation.
Major Joslin of Richland Center re-
Gently celebrated his 95th birthday.
Eau Claire motor thieves raided
eight garages before finding an auto
mobile that suited them. A Miss
Johanna Blum of that city is hiking
it.
Peter Amundeson, habitual drunk
ard of Stoughton, was given 60 days
in the Dane county Jail Friday after
he had pleaded guilty to shooting the
lamps out of an auto with a fife.
A blaze of undetermined origin des
troyed the sawmill at Neopit, Wis,
Sunday a week ago, with damage of
$200,000 A warehouse and dwellings
owned by Indians we're also destroyed.
1900 rare goldfish in the Mitchell
park observatory at Milwaukee were
killed early last week following the
heavy frost. Others were saved by
use of saline solution and heating
ing the tanks.
Frank Miller, 80, chimney sweep,
was run over and killed by a st.
Paul train at Madison Saturday night
a week ago. Trainmen saw him lying
on the tracks and declare he had his
eyes open as the train bore down up
on him.
Eugene Afford of Tomahawk, who
lost his sawmill and planning mill
during the recent tornado, said that
part of the roof, on which his name
had been painted, was found at Har-
rison, 81 miles away. Logging oper-
ations will be handicapped for some
time by the damage to buildings.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
southeastern part of Green county,
and farmers are exercising every pre-
caution to prevent spread of the dis
ease. Vaccination is being rushed.
and quick shipment to market of hogs
known not to be affected, is antic
ipated. This is the first serious at
tack of the plague in the county for
years. Doves. flying from hog pen to
hog pen are blamed for carrying the
disease.
Thirty-one more students are enroll
ed in the University this year than
were registered on the corresponding
date last year, according to an an
nouncement made by W. D. Hiestand,
registrar, at meeting of the Univer-
sity faculty on Monday. The final to-
tai for the first semester last year was
1882 students, and when all figures
are compiled it is expected that this
years enrolment will be slightly
grtater than that number.
Stephen Syenzepanski, 40, Super
ior, drowned himself in the bay at
Superior, after refusing help. The
man was seen to hurl himself from an
iron bridge. A passing motorist saw
the man and crawled out to aid him.
The wou1d-be suicide rose to the sur
face, shook his head negatively, and
sunk to rise no more. On the body
was note stating that funds left by de-
ceased should be sent to the aid of
Polish orphans in Warsaw, because
l am an orphan myself" the note
read. $120 was in his pocket.
Two La Crosse Telephone Com
pany linemen were seriously injured
at the Milwaukee depot in Viroqua
while engaged in unloading carload
of poles. One of the workmen had
cut the cables which held the binding
posts together, excepting the long
poles to roll off on the right side. In
stead, the binding posts on the side
on which he cut the cables broke off
and twenty or thirty poles rolled over
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bruising him very seriously. His
companion got out of the melee with
only blackened eye.
The report of population in state
institutions on the last day of August
of this year. shows 1854. Of this
number 1927 are males and 5,687 are
female. This includes population of
our charitable and penal institutions,
and the preponderance of men is due
to the large male population of the
state prison and other penal institu-
lions. There was an increase of 126
in state institutions for the year, and
an increase of 1886 in county institu-
tions. There was an increase of 116
feeble minded, in the penal institu-
aions, 81 in the state schools and 73
in tubercular institutions. The in
Brease for the year was sos in all in
$titutions in state and county.