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COUNTY AND NEARBY Matters of Current Interest By Telegraph and Mail. Crimes, Casualties and Remarkabe Incidents that have Lately Happened Hereabouts. Minerd Dickoff, Dave Lutz, Jr., and Fred Roenius, hunting near Babcock, bagged sixty-three rabbits in one day. • • » John Walsh of Erin Prairie near New Richmond died following a gaso line explosion that caused terrible burns. Walsh lingered for eight hours. Louis Benesch, working in the woods at Pembine for the Sawyer-Goodman company of Marinette, was killed by a tailing tree. ♦ ♦ ♦ W. F. Brieman, former cashier of the bank at Theresa, received a sen tence of six years at Waupun, follow ing his trial for defalcations amount ing to $50,000. Speculations on marg ins took the money. • ♦ • Fred Shimoek, of Manitowoc, went hunting near Spruce for the first time in thirty-five years. Shimoek was at tacked by a wild cat which he suc ceeded in killing with a club after half an hour’s struggle. ♦ • • Frank Manchura of Ashland, at tempted to crawl under a freight train which had blocked the street and was run over and killed when the train suddenly started. A crowd saw the accident but was helpless to aid him. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ray Taylor, a special policeman em ployed by the Milwaukee road, is un der arrest at La Crosse for the loot ing of freight cars. Goods valued at $2,000 were found at his home. The articles ranged from face powder to shotguns. ♦ ♦ ♦ Gustave Belling of Appleton, clean ing out a large mud drum for the In terlake Pulp and Paper company, was scalded to death by live steam being forced into the drum. Belling had bailed to notify the other employes of his presence in the drum. ♦ ♦ ♦ Clarence Hubachek, aged 11, who lives twenty miles north of Chippewa Falls, thought he had killed a wolf and dragged the animal to the house for the purpose of removing the scalp. The animal suddenly attacked the youth who finally dispatched it with an axe. He will receive the S2O bount tty from the county clerk. ♦ ♦ ♦ Four hundred Indian children in the reservation school at Odanah will re ceive a visit from the official dentist of the department. The government requires that the children’s teeth be inspected and treated. The elders may use their judgment as to having tlental work done. ♦ ♦ ♦ Karl Beltz, a farmer of the town of Vernon in Waukesha county, went in sane following the incessant pranks Of two boys one of whom was his nephew. The boy wrote Beltz a “kid ding” note and as a joke took several Shings from his barn. Beltz has been committed to Mendota. • * * A spark from a carding machine iis supposed to have started a fire which caused $30,000 damage to the J>lant of the La Crosse Knitting works. lEighty girl employes were safely con ducted from the building by the use of a fire drill. The management de nies that company was working on war orders and ridicules a rumor of incendiary origin. • • • David Greaves, a Henrietta man, was ulmost fatally gored by a bull and ihad it not been for the efforts of a faithful dog would probably have been killed. Mr. Greaves was thrown off his Yeet and being gored in the side and Slip by the animal when his dog at tacked the bull chewing its ears and otherwise worrying it. Mr. Greaves 3s receiving medical attention and re covery is looked for. Frant Stout of Grand Rapids, shot rand killed Mrs. Ada Mann and then 'killed himself. It is said Stout had 'been paying Mrs. Mann attention and the shooting followed a luncheon at which a quarrel occurred. Stout was :an estimator for a lumber company and formerly lived in Columbus, O. The tragedy took place at his boarding Siouse, into which Mrs. Mann fled when he drew a pistol in the street. * ♦ » Carp caught in Wisconsin waters have been shipped to the eastern mar kets. A car load went out from the cribs at Turville Bay last week bound for Hoboken, N. J. They are loaded alive into boxes of ice. The fish is edible when properly pre pared. Assemblyman Tart, Oshkosh, exhibited some smoked carp at the legislative session, which was pro nounced distinctly tasty by' the legis lators. J. B. Webber, chief of the La Crosse police, broke into a compartment on 54 train bound for Chicago and arrest ed a young man named Clifford Skin ner believed to be one of a youthful (quartette who held up and robbed the Western State bank, of La Crosse a Yew days ago. A young woman claim ing to be Skinner’s wife, but who the .police believe to be Miss Lillian Mit- Ten of Chicago, was arrested with Skinner. Skinner is thought to have been chauffeur of the bandit automo bile. He refused to discuss the rob- but stated he was willing &o go back “and make a clean breast of it.” Bills amounting to $256 were found in the woman’s stocking. Alfred Larson of Ogdensburg, was killed at Crandon by a falling tree while working in the lumber woods. Larson’s parents knew nothing of the accident until Larson was brought home for burial. ♦ ♦ ♦ The state conservation commission, responsible for the administration of the game laws, has effected a saving of more than $15,000 for the first five mnoths of its existence. This is taken from a comparison made with the same period last year. ♦ ♦ ♦ A. G. Findley, principal of the Chip pewa Falls high school, was attacked by* a pine snake while hunting in the swamps near Jim Falls. The reptile measured four feet in length when finally dispatched. * • • Two thoroughbred bloodhounds pur chased by the Beloit police depart ment some time ago for the purpose of tracking criminals, have been sold back to their former owner in Ohio. The dogs were used but little and given no practice. ♦ * * Dr. Carlisle Watterson, a La Crosse dentist, is being sued for breach of promise by Miss Nellie Dummer. The dentist declares that Miss Dummer, who is a handsome blonde, has “hound ed him for years” to make him marry her. ♦ ♦ ♦ Maude Lawrence, aged 15, a pretty high school girl of Janesville, was shot and killed by Tony Martin, a crazed Italian. Martin fled and has not been captured. No motive can be discovered for the crime. Miss Law rence was the daughter of a widow. • • • Janesville butchers have been con ducting a meat war that began before Thanksgiving and several of the small er shops have been driven out of bus iness. Steaks are quoted at 10 and 11 cents and chickens at 13 in the two rival shops conducting the price war. * * * Oscar Rowley, a New Diggings min er, mortally injured his wife follow ing a quarrel. The shooting happen ed at 4 o’clock in the morning after Rowley’s return home from a drinking bout. Rowley is locked up in the jail at Darlington. Andrew Griffiin of near Highland, leaned on a window sill and ran a needle into his forearm. As no trace of the needle could be found he was taken to the Dodgeville hospital where an X-ray was taken of the injured member and the needle removed. ♦ ♦ ♦ Nelson Jacobson of Portage, had his eye shot out by a fourteen-year-old son who was attempting to kill a chicken. The accident happened in the barnyard. The bullet struck his , father in the temple and glancing buried itself in his eye. • ♦ • Joseph Roerich of Prairie du Sac, gave nearly a pint of blood in a trans-' fusion operation at a Madison hospital. The sufferer was his mother, ill with hemorrhages, and the operation mayJ be a success. Roerich was faint at the close of the ordeal but said that he would go through it again if neces sary. ♦ ♦ ♦ Charles Bromley, aged 70. who lived three miles north of Leslie, was killed in a runaway at Rewey where he had been to make somep urchases. His team became frightened just as he was • leaving the village on his way home, and got beyond his control. The lifeless body was found at the road side later. ♦ ♦ ♦ Lalitha Folks, a Vassar graduate, and student of sociology at the Univer sity of Wisconsin, was found dead last Wednesday in a lonely spot three miles from the city of Madison. Be side her body was a revolver, a box of bullets, a package of arsenic and some burned papers. No motive can be dis covered. She lived at Yonkers, N. Y. and comes from a good family. * * * The new Paint Creek Dam project of the Wisconsin & Minnesota Power Co. at Chippewa Falls, has been attract ing hundreds of laborers, who are pouring into the town on every train. The work at hand doesn’t justify the large force available, but the company is taking on men whenever possible. Since the opening of the project Chip pewa Falls has been subjected to an unusual amount of crime and myster ious occurrences. * * * “Steeplejack Dan,” a Milwaukee, worthy, dropped into Benzien’s road- ■ house at St. Martins and regaled the loungers with the story of his marvel ous feats of daring. The flatiron build ing was a daily part of Dan’s work, and Brooklyn bridge a mere pastime to hear him tell it. Dan was dared to climb a local steeple and dance a hornpipe. The bet was for a dollar, and Dan essayed the steeple, but failed to collect the dollar before ascending. After performing the hazard. Dan re turned and a considerable mixup fol lowed. He finally landed in the county jail. * * * The first passenger train on the new Wisconsin and Northern railroad ar rived in Crandon ts short time ago. The road is from Cranton and the Soo line to Shawano, seventy-five miles through ' some of the richest territory in the Northwest. It opens up the largest timber area east of the Rocky moun- j tains. Almost the entire length of the*, line is through virgin hardwood tim ber. Several billion feet of lumber is available and will be taken out over ( this line. Many new towns are in prospect and much valuable trade ter ritory will be available. The hard wood land along this road is consider ed superior to lands where pine is native. | GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WE NESDAY, DECEMBER 22,1915 Ralph G. Uttiger of Beloit, is in the hospital having a portion of his shin bone grafted onto his spinal vertebrae. Uttiger, who is the father of a family, has spinal tuberculosis. It is thought he will recover. * * * Mr. and Mrs. George Hamilton of W’estwood, near Milwaukee, almost lost their eighteen-months-old son when the latter buried his head in a large pickle jar which was full of water. The mother broke the jar and summoned a physician who used a pul motor to save the child. * * * Barney Gunn, a Highland man, lost his direction on his way home from work and fell into a rock quarry. He dropped thirty feet landing on the stone floor. Mr. Gunn’s left leg was broken and his scalp was torn from his head. Two hours later children passing heard his moans and summon ed assistance. Julius Schimming, aged 42, and Leo nard Thompson, aged 24, farmers of near Windsor, lost their lives in an automobile accident when Schimming who was driving lost control of the car on a steep hill. The machine plunged into a deep ditch at the bot tom of the hill crushing the lives out of Schimming and Thompson. Ovey Anderson, who was in the car saved his life by jumping. * ♦ ♦ Catherine Thorp of Sauk City, wid ow of Eugene Thorp, who was killed by a fall from a barn on which he was working in July, 1914, recently received compensation of $3,000 from the industrial commission. Thorp was employed by a contractor and the latter set up the defense that as he was employing less than four men he did not come under the compensation act. ♦ * * Essa Bigoff of New Glarus, shot at a man his cousin, Jacob Hoboff, was quarreling with and hit his relative instead. Bigoff was placed in the jail at Monroe pending the outcome of Hoboff’s injury and when he heard the latter had died in a Madison hos pital, became insane. Bigoff tore out chunks of hair and bit holes in his wrists in an effort to sever the arter ies. He was finally subdued and placed under a special guard. • « • Necedah, a village of 1,100 inhabit ants in Juneau county, was wiped out by fire last week that destroyed thir ty-five business blocks and rendered many of the inhabitants homeless. The fire started in a large general store early in the .morning and by noon had got beyond control of the local force. Aid was sent from New Lisbon, Mauston and other towns but little could be done owing to the frame con struction of the town. ♦ * ♦ John Kucera, the Racine man who was sued for damages by Mary Stefka following his refusal to marry her af ter he had sent an emissary asking for her hand, and changed his mind af ter she had accepted, has twice at tempted suicide during the trial of Miss Stefka’s $5,000 damage suit against him. First he tried to hang himself in the toilet room of the court house. The deputies cut him down. Then he went to a drug store and bought strychnine. The deputies ar rived just as he started to eat it and knocked the box from hishand. Then the jury gave Miss Stefka a verdict for $1,250. Since then he has been in jail, maddened with terror and grief over his troubles. REMEMBER!) The best way to bring happiness and good cheer to the home that is not electric lighted is to have it wired for Christmas or New Years eve. To the house that is already electric lighted the best way is to equip it with electric appliances. We show labor saving devices for cooking the meal and for electric vacuum cleaning the home. For washing and ironing the clothes the electric way is the only way to save drudgery. Leave your orders with us and we will take care of your wants. LANCASTER LIGHT & POWER COMPANY Arthur Levanson, a Superior ped dlar, charged with having stolen grain from interstate car in his possession received a fine of $750 from Judge Sanborn at Madison. As an alterna tive he may serve a year and a day in the federal prison at Ft. Leaven worth, Kansas. His sentence was made light on account of his family. ♦ ♦ ♦ Richland Center business men have organized a company and erected a building for the manufacture and dis tribution of farm products. The pro ducts turned out will be of the high est grade and consist of sausage, ba con, pork, hams, lard and later on will include cheese, honey, buckwheat and other farm products. $13,000 have been spent on grounds, buildings and ma chinery. The men behind the project feel that much money will be kept at home and additional sources of labor provided as well as a profitable busi ness built up. ♦ ♦ • A man called Warren McEldowney, but who travels under numerous aliases, was recently arrested at Spooner on a charge of having stolen an automobile at St. Croix Falls on November 1. McEldowney, who is held at the Balsam Lake jail is also wanted at New Richmond where he passed bad checks on a number of merchants. He was recently arrested at Marshfield while in company with a young woman, for jumping a board bill, but eluded the officers. McEl downey is said to have a wife and children on a homestead in Polk coun ty. * * * Two hundred and ninety-six fires during the month of November cost the state $383,745 which was cov ered by insurance of $283,215.* The losses exceed the same month last year by SIOO,OOO. The largest fire for the month was the burning of the Stewart department store at River Falls, Pierce county on November 5, which amounted to a loss of $87,000. Poor chimneys and defective heating agencies caused most of the fires. Summed up the report gives twelve fires charged to incendiarism, with a total loss of $21,050; 25 to defective chimneys with a loss of $30,425; 17 to lighting, loss $24,845; 15 to defective stoves, loss $5,135, and 30 to causes unknown, loss $164,575. CLOSING OUT SALES. The two big sales held this week went along successfully and both of the proprietors are congratulating themselves that things turned out very well. John Rowden entertained a large crowd of farmers at his sale in North Lancaster Wednesday and the amount realized came very close to his expectations. The following pric es will give an idea as to how some of the things went: A hayrack went for $23. Washing machine, $6. Nine calves brought sl7l. Twelve yearlings, S4BO. Nine pigs brought $36.90. Eight pigs, S4O. Two cows, $l2O. Full straw stack, $38.50; half straw stack, $29. The hay in barn went for $11.50 a ton. The oats ranged around 49 cents a bushel. Eighty pounds timothy seed brought $2; 110 pounds brought $4. Eighty chickens went for S4B. Set of har ness, $25. Horse, SIOB. Colt, S7O. Cows as follows: S7O, $63.50, $69.50, calf, sl4. Ten sheep, sllO. The sale totalled nearly $5,500. The John‘Kitto sale in South Lan caster Thursday was another good I RESOLVED . yilfS THAT IF YO'J BUY YOVR.SHOESrR.OMVS K, OUR. LIBERAL METH oDS will hold your TRADE. NoBoDY CAN jKjr ' HOLD A CANDLE ToUS few/ IN oUR LINE. RC WHEN YOU BUY A PAIR. OF SHOES EITHER, FOR. YOURSELF OR ANY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, YOU WANT THEM PROPER IN STYLE. YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY FIT RIGHT, THAT THEY WILL WEAR WELL AND THAT THE PRICE 15 FAIR. THEN COME To U 5. YOU WILL GET ALL OFTHESE AND Co AWAY SATISFIED. OUR MONEY, oUR REPUTATION AND OUR GOOD NAME 15 BEHIND EVERY PAIR OF SHOES WE SELL. L. WEBER THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES OUR SHOES FIT. DO YOURS? cSyrigbu ba- caster, Wisconsin one, about 200 farmers attending, many of them in juest of something they wanted. The sale figured up around $5,000, the following giving an idea as to how the stuff moved. A tank sold for $7. Eleven calves $25 each. Two sows with pigs, $11.50 apiece. 100 bushels of old corn 99c and the balance at 90 cents. Forty bushels of oats at 48c. Four tons clov er $7.95. Wagon, $51.50. Fifty check ens at 60c apiece and 135 chickens at 51c each. One set of harness, $40.50; another, $28.50. Stock hog, $11.25. One sow and pigs, $18.50. Thirteen uigs, $40.95 for the bunch. Six sows, sl7 each, a total of $lO2. Horses as follows, $162.50, $l5O, $136, $125, $95, S9O, $56.50. Old team, $22. Cows as follows, $61.50, $56.50, $58., SSO, $44, $43.50 $43, $42, $40.50, S4O, 37.50. Bull, $46. Seed corn $lO a bushel. One dog 25c —some hound. There are no sales chronicled in the near future in this part of the coun ty, but by the looks of things prices will be getting better instead of worse toward spring. Due to the cowardice of his crew and his own somewhat timid nature, Bar tholomew Diaz discovered the Cape of Good Hope whEe seeking a passage for India. In 1487 he rounded the cape, but did not know it at the time, being too far out to sen. When the crew dis covered they were on the wrong side of the mainland they became panic stricken and insisted on returning at once. Fearing mutiny. Diaz turned back and soon caught sight of the cape. Thus did he discover Good Hope while on his way homeward. It Makes Tracks. One day small Harold came running into the house, and. holding up & horse shoe, he exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, some poor horse lost one of his tracks, and 1 found it.”— Kansas City Star.