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Around Wisconsin by Mail and Telegraph Hartvig Danielson, 40 years old, was killed while alighting from a moving freight train at Cumberland one day list week. -o-o-o- Fire did several hundred dollars’ damage in the warp warehouse of the Waite Grass Carpet company, Osh kosh, one day last week. -O-O-O- The disappearance two weeks ago of John Frank, aged resident of Stev ens Point, who lived with his son, Jos. was solved last week by discovery of his body in a creek. -0-0-0- On the first day of the deer hunting season Charles Fronek, Antigo, aged 15, accidentally blew out his brains with a shotgun. It is believed he fell off a stump on which he was stationed by his father. -o-o-o- Action toward having the state legis lature at its next session pass a bill providing a license fee for trading stamp companies operating in Wiscon sin was started at the meeting of the Retail Merchants’ association of Ra cine recently. -0-0-0- Mrs. Maurice McKenna, who was elected third vice president of the Wis consin Federation of Woman’s Clubs at Milwaukee last week, dronned dead Sunday night while attending a wed ding celebration at the home of her brother. -0-0-0- Engineer Allen Bessey of Antigo, and Fireman G. A. Kobussen of Kau kauna, were severely scalded about the head, face and arms, when a flue broke in the locomotive boiler while their train was at Watersmeet, Mich. -0-0-0- William F. Wolfe, recently defeated as the democratic candidate for Unit ed States senator, is recovering at St. Francis hospital. La Crosse, from an operation for appendicitis hurriedly performed one day last* week. -0-0-0- Hazel Dana, 18 years of age and the daughter of John Dana, a police officer at Benton Harbor, Mich., waited for her father at the county jail at Ken osha, Saturday of last week. The fath er claims that she was abducted from Benton Harbor six weeks ago by a man supposed to be a traveling sales man from Madison. -o-o-o- Another bond issue for $15,000 has been voted favorably at Menasha, to be used for school building purposes. This will be added to an issue of $30,- 000, made a year ago for the same pur pose which was not sufficient because of the high cost of labor and materials for the building of an addition to the local high school. -o-o-o- Cloverdale, near New Richmond, the largest farm in St. Croix county, con sisting of 560 acres, has been sold by William H. and William S. Silas to C. J. Johnson, of Bismarck, N. D. The consideration was not announced, but it is stated that it was considerable over SIOO an acre and a substantial advance over the price paid for the property by the present sellers two years ago. -o-o-o- A large delegation of Chicago and eastern hunters passed through Ash land Friday of last week on their way to Iron river where they will spend the season. Conservation Warden El liott who is located at Ashland, states the present weather conditions are against hunters. With no snow the woods will be very noisy for the hunt er who will find it difficult to approach deer. The sudden cold spell makes conditions better for saving meat. -0-0-0- One day last week Anthony Stella, of Kenosha, was showing some of his friends how he could toss up a half dollar and catch it between his teeth. He kept right at it until finally the coin struck his upper teeth and slip ped down his throat. An X-ray pic ture showed that it was about an inch above the entrance to the stomach. Stella hurried to a hospital in Chica go and after two days of suffering the surgeons managed to locate the coin and remove it. They charged him $250 and he had other bills of SSO to pay. -o o-o- A pair of heavy rubber boots, a sup ply of shells and extra clothing to withstand the rigors of a blizzard rag ing at the time, proved too much of a handicap for Richard Rotthe, an Osh kosh hunter, who was drowned on Lit tle Lake Buttes des Mortes, when he fell out of the skiff when attempting to recover his decoys. His body had not been recovered on Monday after noon of last week. -0-0-0- There are approximately 154 public ly owned and a few privately owned sewer systems, and about 250 munici pal water systems and twenty-seven water systems owned by private cor lorations, in Wisconsin. There remain nany communities, lacking such im provements, which are large enough o maintain public sewerage and wa er systems. The present year has vitnessed the building of more sewer ystems and extensions than in any ear preceding. These facts are cited i the forthcoming biennial report of ie plumbing division of the state pard of health at Madison, indicat g the forward trend of Wisconsin .inmunities relative to sanitary in itiations. Action has been taken by the chief of police at Racine on the suggestion of the aidermen, to stop street loafers from remarking upon passing women. -0-0-0- Joseph Kilishek, a Menasha man, paid a fine and costs in Municipal court at Oshkosh for neglecting to send a 16 year old daughter to contin uation school classes. Several other similar cases are pending. -0-0-0- A large meteorite fell on the Aug. ust Miller farm near Westfield and the residents are preparing to dig it out. The meteorite entered the ground at an angle of 45 degrees and made a clean hole twenty-six inches in diam eter and quite deep. -o-o-o. Marinette county held a potatoe show at Wausaukee on Saturday last. Addresses were made by J. C. Mil ward, secretary of the Wisconsin Po tato Growers’ association, and Fred Campbell, of Three Lakes, Wis. -o-o-o- Hit by a motor car while crossing the street at Green Bay, Dorothy, 14 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bay, was knocked down and left in an injured condition by the driver of the vehicle. -0-0-0- John Stoffels, 21 years old, died at his home in Kenosha county after an illness of two days from infantile par alysis. His wife exposed herself to the danger of contracting the disease by caring for him. -o-o-o- Peter Deßaistis, farmer, near Birch_ wood, the first of the hunting season’s victims in that vicinity, was found late on Sunday of last week killed by a shotgun discharge. He had been lost for three days. He had been passing through the woods, but had not been hunting. He left a large family. -0-0-0- Nels H. Peterson and wife celebrat ed their golden wedding anniversary on Sunday of last week at the home of their son, Herman Peterson, Cumber land. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were married in 1866,, at Sampsill, Den mark, and have spent most of their married life at Cumberland. -0-0-0- Game Warden Gurd Hulbert of Bar ron arrested Albert Jasperson, Gust Anderson, Louis Nobock, Albert Rick ert and John Ludwig of the town of Turtle Lake, charged with trapping muskrat out of season. Each was fined $25 and costs. -o-o-o- V. E. Brubaker of Ohio and a grad uate of the College of Agriculture in that state, has been appointed by the county of Bayfield to aid farmers in successfully carrying on their work. He will give especial attention to the fruit growers of the Bayfield peninsu la. -o-o-o- The woods in southeastern Wiscon sin are full of wild game birds, ac cording to hunters, and more fowl will be shot this season than ever be fore. The hot summer is partially responsible. Some of the wild birds are being shot from the piers in Ken osha and Racine. -0-0-0- Judge Fowler of the circuit court at Janesville, handed down a decision against the state of Wisconsin in the action brought to have the Rock river declared navigable and declare a mil lion dollars’ worth of buildings now standing over the river a nuisance and obstruction to the river. -o-o-o- Wesley Barton, colored, oldest resi dent of Baraboo, died on Tuesday morning at his home, just before he reached the century mark. He was born at Alton, Madison county, Illi nois, in 1818. He moved to Forest, Wisconsin in 1855, and came to Bara boo in 1882. His wife died in 1893. -0-0-0- Charles Larson, hunter and trapper of Waupaca county, killed a large crane on Sunday of last week. The bird measured six feet from tip to tip of wings, fifty-six inches in height and weighed twenty pounds. It will be im possible to mount the bird, as the hunter shot the head entirely off. -o-o-o- Behind the fictitious name of H. A. Krause, George Mihnowitz, scion of a well-to-do Cleveland, 0., family, who was murdered and thrown into the Rock river near Beloit two weeks ago, lived a mysterious life. From the day he committed his first violation of the law breaking into a country general store which terminated in his commit tal to the Wisconsin state penitentiary until his death he never called him self Mihnowitz. He wished to save his family the disgrace of having a kin who was a “jailbird.” -o-o-o- Judge Randall, in Municipal court at Kenosha, on Friday of last week, found a men who would rather serve time in the state prison at Waupun than have restricted liberty. The man was Henry Hollander, Oshkosh, who had been arrested on a charge of em bezzling funds of the Pabst brewing company and admitted his guilt. He was given a year and then the court suspended sentence and announced that he would put Hollander on parole in the keeping of the state board of control. Hollander came back into court a half hour later and asked that he be given a straight sentence to pris on, holding that he did not care for “restricted” liberty. The court refused to change the order. GRANT COUNTY HE.tALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN', WEDNESDAY, NW. 22. 1916 (Racine’s automobile dimmer orefiw ance received its knockout blow Thurs day night of last week, when the city council ordered it rescinded. Action was taken in consideration of two deaths caused within the last two weeks as the result of automobiles not being sufficiently lighted to insure safety to pedestrians. -0-0-0- Rev. Paul Hinkamp, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, formerly of Milwaukee, and Rev. B. P. T. Jenkins, rector of Grace Episcopal church, re signed from the Sheboygan County Ministerial association on Monday of last week because of the refusal of the association to try Rev. David Thomas i of the First Congregational church on a charge of heresy. -o-o-o- An automobile containing four per sons somersaulted while rounding a corner on the Bay Shore road near Green Bay, last Wednesday night and one young woman, Miss Catherine Coyle, was caught under the machine and injured. Miss Coyle was injured internally and her condition is said to be serious. -o-o-o- When Albert Niggli would not get up to catch the burglar she believed she heard in the saloon adjoining their home at La Crosse, his wife went in vestigating with her broom. She found a man fumbling with the cash register, laid him out with one blow of the broom and stood over him un til the police arrived. -0-0-0- Louis Graff, until a fortnight ago trucker in the Milwaukee road freight house at La Crosse under the name of L. F. Walton, is awaited in St. Paul by two women. Graff is held awaiting arrival of a St. Paul detective. He told the police that he had married wife No. 1 nine years ago and wife No. 2, last July. -0-0-0- John Grabowicz, Kenosha’s prize forger, who was sent to prison after forging a large number of checks in Kenosha, to serve a term of three years, has applied to the state board of control for a pardon. It is declared that he has been a model prisoner, and the local officials will not oppose his release. -o-o-o- On the Jerry Sullivan farm, three and one-half miles east of Johnston, a golden eagle was shot one day last week, which measured eight feet and two inches from tip to tip. The bird was swooping down on a flock of chickens when shot, and caused a havoc in the chicken yard before fin ally killed by a second shot. -0-0-0- Given the choice of going to the house of correction or the county hos pital, Margaret Rogers reached a de cision in Wauwatosa. She had lived there for several days, but declined to remain as a patient and left. She was still of the opinion before her case was called that she would not go to the hospital, but she changed her mind when Judge Page of Milwaukee threatened to commit her to the work house. -G-o-o- Mr. and Mrs. George Buehner, Fond du Lac; have received word that their son, Dr. George Buehner, a dentist with an office in Mineral Point, was married nearly nine months ago to Miss Agnes Peters of that city. The wedding took place at Waukegan, 111., on Feb. 1, of this year. The groom is a graduate of the Fond du Lac high school, and was graduated last June from the dental school of Marquette university, Milwaukee. 795 795 Model 85-4 f. o. b. Toledo Model 85-4 f. o. b. Toledo These Tremendous Advantages— More power—3s horsepower motor. These are tremendous advantages over any- More room —112-in ch wheelbase. thing to be had in other cars that sell for Greater comfort - long, 48-inch cantilever anywhere near as low a price. rear springs and 4-inch tires. And they make it hard for us to keep up with t Greater convenience—electrical control but- orders. tons on steering column. The factory has never yet caught up with the Bigger, safer brakes —service, - demand. gency, 13x2J4. You ought to own one of these cars —nothing Better cooling—you never heard of an Over- else so big and fine for the money# land motor overheating. Come in and order yours now. LEO McCORMICK, Lancaster, Wis. PHONES: Bell 90-J, Farmer* 205-4 The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio ••Made in U, S. A.” Anthony Garvey of Winfield, died! early Sunday morning of last week; fr©m injuries received Saturday when: he was struck either by a team dr am automobile. Mr. Garvey was employ ed at the Terry farm west of Baraboo and was walking out there from Bar aboo when the accident occurred. -0-o'o- The Star ' TSdficab and Baggage Transfer company, Racine, has been made defendant in a suit brought by I Carl Maurer, guardian of his daugh ter, Ida Maurer, 20 years old, for sl,- 000 damages, it being alleged a taxi cab driven by Harold Shaw, on March 19, bumped into her and badly bruised her. -o-o-o- Grieving over the fact that his wife left him four months ago, and be cause his sister, whom he considered his sole companion for the remainder of his life, married and likewise left him, John H. Roescher, 27 years of age, of Racine, committed suicide Thursday of last week, by taking pois on in his home. 0-0-0- Following an examination in Muni cipal court at W’aukesha on Wednes day of last week. Judge J. E. Thomas dismissed the case of the state vs. Suel Hinebouch of Mukwonago, charged with breaking into a Soo line box car at Mukwonago and stealing potatoes. Evidence indicated that the car may have been broken into be fore reaching Mukwonago. -o-o-o- Two men, one of them Chris John son* of Edgerton, and the identity of the other unknown, escaped serious injury and possible death Monday af ternoon of last week, when the light touring car driven by the unknown man turned turtle on the Evansville road just west of Leyden. Children returning from school came upon the overturned car with its occupants pinoned beneath it. Civilization has advanced to such | an extent that the oyster is no long er regarded as a luxury in a rural community. Fire in the heart sends smoke to the head. A wise bride borrows her mother in-law’s cook book. SHINE . IN EVERY WaY DROP” Bwrfe Black Silk Stove Polish m is different. 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