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Around Wisconsin by Mail and Telegraph Otto Sell. 22 years old. a condensery worker at Juneau, died after being scalded in a tank of hot milk. -o-o-o- The coroner at Chilton is investi gating the identity of an unknown man who was found on the Milwaukee road tracks with a bullet through his head. -0-0-0- Edward Allbrecht, 24 years old, Janesville, wandered from home while delirious from pneumonia and is be lieved to have been drowned in the river. -0-0-0- John Olson, Jr., 18 years old, son of the Soo line section foreman at Jew ett, accidentally shot himself through the head while target practice. Death was instantaneous. -o-o-o- Miss Anna Strey of Oconomowoc, a restaurant employe, fell on the tracks while delivering meals to the trainmen, and was struck by a switch engine. Her left leg was broken. -o-o-o- The removal of one eye was neces to save the sight of the other in the case of 3 year old Mary Japke of Mer rill, who fell down a stairway last fall and suffered serious injuries. -o-o-o- Ben Terpanier of Oconto, fell from a loading dock when a falling timber struck him on the head, and was in stantly killed. He was 29 years old and leaves a wife and three children. -o-o-o- Four alleged bootleggers were fined SIOO and costs each at Galesville, a dry. town. They also face indictments by the federal grand jury sitting at Superior this week. -0-0-0- August Schwartz of Green Bay, had a narrow' escape from drowning while endeavoring to cross Fox river on the ice. The mild weather of the past few days had rendered the river unsafe to cross. 4 -o-o-o- Frank Spark, a Milwaukee saloon keeper, cashed a check for S4OO and disappeared. While the cheqk was os tensibly cashed to obtain change for the saloon over Sunday Spark’s w’ife fears he has gone for parts unknown. -0-0-0- After beating her way in box cars and on bumpers from Mason City la., to St. Paul, 150 miles, Miss Annie Hambly, 18 years old, of Eau Claire. Wis., was arrested and will be return ed to her home. -o-o-o- Mr. and Mrs. William Will of Water town, Wis., celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last week. They are natives of Germany. Six children, fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild attended the celebration. -o-o-o- Frank Mullins, 65 years old, a farm laborer, was instantly killed by an in terurban car north of Racine. The man was blinded by the heavy bliz zard and stepped onto the track to avoid collision with an automobile. -o-o-o- Somewhere in the Pacific ocean are a pair of sacred white deer, consigned to Madison. The deer are being sent to Wisconsin from Singapore and were part of a purchase made by Dr. Corydon G. Dwight, of the zoolological society. -o-o-o- Max Wozniak, proprietor of a Mil waukee meat market, drove his auto mobile through a draw in the Kinnic kinnic river bridge, when he failed to notice that the bridge at Lincoln ave nue was open. Wozniak clung to the piling until rescued. -o-o-o- Earl F. Stupp, a Janesville butcher, • w T as fined $25 and costs last week in charged by the food commissioner with using fallow in his lard, not hav ing proper labels on the containers and short weight. Stupp pleaded guilty and paid his fine. -o-o-o- The body ot Fred Fulton, who jumped off a Beloit bridge last Nov ember, was found on Sunday floating near Rockton, a hour three miles south of the ertv. Accoiding to the police, the body was identified by a photo graph of Fnlton’s mother, which was found in a pocket of his clothes. yTNE GOOD JUDGE OVER-HEARD THE TRAVELERS TALKING W-B CUT TOBACCO. J YOU SAY YOU ENJOY GOOD] TOBACCO; THEN TAKE As CHEW OF THIS W-B CUT AND TELL ME HOW IT GOES7] gfa vn rpil " IT’S natural that a gentlemanly feeling should prompt one man to tell another about W-B CUT Chewing, so he, too, may enjoy the contentment there is in rich, sappy tobacco —and also avoid so much chewing and spitting. Ihe common-sense of it appeals to people with brains. There’s no getting ’round facts, W-B will save a man money—a little chew lasts and satisfies. A 10c. pouch goes twice as far as ten cents’ worth of the old ordinary kind of chewing. Made by WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY, 1107 Brodway, New York City After a sleep lasting eleven days, Miss Delia Anderson, daughter of J. T. Anderson, Coon Valley, awakened on Friday of last week. She did not recognize her parents, and, apparent ly can not even remember her name. -0-0-0- Mrs. John Schaurer of Hartford, owned a large farm which she recent ly sold to a neighbor. Apparently the parting made her despondent as she was discovered in a lifeless condition hanging at the foot of the stairway, by her invalid daughter. -o-o-o- Entering through a transom over the front door, the Oshkosh jewelry store of Krumrich and Konrad was robbed of goods valued at S6OO. A number of valuable watches and jeweled rings in the display window were taken. -o-o-o- The state Supreme court will de cide whether or not the resolution of the La Crosse county board to build a tuberculosis sanitarium at La Crosse may stand. Judge Higbee of the cir cuit court has dissolved an injunction stopping further progress and the case was appealed. -o-o-o- Dr. N. J. Hamilton, 73 years old. of Madison, was found guilty of man slaughter in the second degree, on a charge of causing the death of Mrs. Grace Haskell, of New London by an illegal operation two months ago. Hamilton was given a five-year sen tence. -o-o-o- A cablegram received last week by Mr. and Mrs. Eigel Neilsen of Beloit, announced the safe arrival of their son Orson, ot Moscow, Russia, where he has gone to be connected with the American consulate. Orsen Neilsen is a Beloit boy and was formerly a newspaper reporter. -o-o-o- William Nelson, a Neenah jeweler, remained late at work one night, and as he was preparing to leave, heard some one picking the door lock. Nel son surprised the burglar just as the latter had gained entrance. He fired two shots, one of the smashing the plate glass window. The thief es caped. -o-o-o- Accordiag to a Grand Rapids dis patch a potatoe embargo has been es tablished :n Wood and Portage coun ties. The public, exasperated by high prices, refuses to buy, the farmers re fuse to bring in their potatoes at the slump in prices, and dealers are not looking for them. Scarcely any spuds are brought to town, and it is expected that the farmers will be left with lots of potatoes on hand. -o-o-o- A record document for Vernon coun ty was filed in the register of deed’s office at Viroqua last week. The dgc ument was a $20,000,000 bond or mort gage and was executed by the Wis consin Power company, the concern which recently purchased Viroqua, Sparta and Tomah lighting plant. The document will require the space of over a hundred pages of one of the big record books in the register of deed's office. -o-o-o- After being out eleven and one-half hours a jury in Circuit court at Elk horn, brought in a verdict of guilty of second degree murder in the trial of James Glover, charged with shoot ing Charles Viso at Whitewater on Jan. 8, with the result that the man died in a Milwaukee hospital on Jan. 30. Judge E. B. Belden sentenced Glover to 14 years in the state peni tentiary at Waupun. He is alleged to have shot Viso with a sawfl-off shot gun after the two had auarreled. -o-o-o- Maurice A. Petty of Beloit, aged 24 and married, was given one year in the county jail for stealing a car from a blind relative. Petty took the ma chine and his fami'y and went to the Dakota harvest fields last fall. Com ing back he ran out of funds and traded the car for a smaller one and some cash at La Crosse. He was picked up and brought to Janesville for trial. Litigation may ensue over the car as it had been traded a num ber of times since Petty had it. I DO ENJOY GOOD TOBACCO] AND HAVE A CHEW IN MY MOUTH NOW —ITS W-B T CUT TOO? { ’ GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917. MMi.i.i A iiirM-ii fill Ti J ' J "P' —iiMi—iit— ----- --- —*• MEH OF STANDI NG] USE TOBACCO! OF THE BESTp QUALITY.j — An inquest into the death of Adam Malinowski, a Dewey farmer, who died suddenly with no doctor present, was held at Stevens Point. It was found at the autopsy that an overdose of kerosene, taken to relieve stomach pains, had caused the man’s death. -0-0-0- A Richland Centre woman bought a dozen eggs from her grocer and had the item placed on her charge ac count. She then took the eggs to an other grocer a couple of blocks away to whom she sold them for cash. In the evening she and the four childrcif went to the movie theater with the proceeds. * -0-0-0- Otto Collins, aged 58 years, was scalded to death at Fond du Lac where he was employed as watchman for a furniture concern. The superinten dent noticed that Collins was not making the rounds and investigated. He found the body in a vat of boiling water. Collins leaves a wife and fam ily. • -o-o-o- Sam Powell. 23 years old, is at the Kenosha hospital and Mrs. Mary Om arzo said to be his sweetheart, is held at the county jail on charges of at tempted murder. Powell was shot through the head with a twenty-two calibre revolver at the apartment of Mrs. Omarzo and may die. The wo man declared the shooting was acci dental. -o-o-o- James Collins, a Milwaukee team ster, paid a heavy penalty last week for excessive drinking wffien he w'as given ten years at Waupun. Collins knocked James Murphy, a companion, down with a club while drunk and battered in his skull. Satisfied that the homicidal act was done through liq uor the lightest sentence possible was given by the court. * -o-o-o- The will of the late Otto Rudd, who, began life as an immigrant track worker in Minnesota twenty-five yeais ago and died a week ago superinten dent of Simmons company, at Kenosha, was filed for probate in the local court last week. He left an estate val ued at SIOO,OOO, $75,000 of which was personal property. The entire estate is left to the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Rudd. -o-o-o- A charge made by Freda Ladke. a 17 year old Durham Hill girl, that a physician of Hales Corners was res ponsible for her condition was proven false’ and the medical man released. The girl’s father who made the com plaint. was then arrested as it is claimed that Miss Ladke’s mother questioned her closely and obtained a confession that her father was respon sible. » -o-o-o- The Norwegian consular service has been appealed to and other efforts are being made to trace the relatives of Theodore Johnson, popularly known as “Bulldog” Johnson, who died last week at a Racine hospital, leaving a large fortune. Johnson, who has been a cobbler, shoe merchant and finally a real estate dealer, it is estimated by the public administrator, left a for tune, in excess of SIOO,OOO. Johnson, it is said, came to this country from Norway in 1873. -o-o-o- A mysterious throat infection ap peared two weeks ago at Galesville, that caused the authorities to close the schools. With the physicians baf fled the disease progressed until up to last Thursday five persons has suc cumbed. There are more than 109 cases in Galesville and deaths are ex pected hourly in several families where older people are afflicted. Spec ialists have been called in from La Crosse and Rochester, Minn. Think ing the milk may be responsible for the disease which first manifests it self by sore throat, high fever, and swollen glands, all the herds are to be examined. -o-o-o- George Peters, an Oconomowoc farmer, uncovered valuable silver and cut glass concealed in a suitcase in his haymow. Peters notified the sher iff who came at once with his deputy and secreted themselves in the barn. About 10 o’clock at night they heard footsteps and saw a flash from a pocket light. The visitors ran when accost ed, but one was brought down with a bullet in his hip. He refused to give his name. The property was found to belong to Miss Stella Merrick whose house on Oconomowoc lake had been ransacked the night before. Many depredations had occurred around the lake previously. -o-o-o- A new wireless tower, rising 175 feet above the ground, is to be built for the University of Wisconsin radio sta tion next summer on the crest of the hill beside university hall. The tower will be of steel on a concrete base and from its top six antennae wires, 350 long are to be carried down to the roof of the new Physics building, 100 feet from the ground. In the present sys tem the antennae wires are 125 feet long, strung from a 120 foot chimney behind science hall at the foot of the hill. The new wires will be stretched across the highest point on the camp us. The work of setting up the tower is to be done during the coming sum mer. Later, with the assistance of students, the aerial wires will be strung so that they can be used early in the fall. Last week Hoquiam, Wash., a point on the Pacific coast, heard plainly the messages sent by the Wisconsin station. The transcon tinental relay, starting from New York via Philadelphia, Madison, and Den ver, to the west was accomplished. Sayville, Tuckertown, and other points of communication with Germany were heard. An old mill that had been changed into a barn, took fire near Dodgeville, a week ago and burned to the ground. Consumed with it were five horses, 11 head of cattle, five hogs, an automo bile, farm machinery, ten tons of hay. grain of all kinds and a silo with ten feet of silage in it. The total loss ex ceeded $6,000 with but partial insur ance. Two brothers named Reese own the farm. A few days after the fire suspicion fell on a cheesemaker named Nathan Smith whose factory is near the Reese farm. He was ar rested but released on SI,OOO bonds. It is said that footprints in the snow led from the cheese factory to the barn. Bad blood is claimed to have ex isted between Smith and Stanley Reese. -o-o-o- The size of the salaries paid to city officials in Wisconsin cities has been investigated by the Municipal Refer ence bureau at the University of Wis consin Extension division and record ed in tabular form. The 128 cities considered range in population from 352 to 373,875. In thirty-one cities the mayor receives no salary. Superior’s mayor receives $5,000 a year. Two cities, Milwaukee and Oshkosh, pay their mayors $4,000 a year. Eau Claire and Green Bay pay $3,500, and Ashland and Janesville pay $2,500. The others range from small fees for the attendance at meetings to $1,500 a year. In twelve cities of the state the councilmen or commission members receive salaries of more than SI,OOO a year; the cities are Antigo, Appleton, Ashland, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Janesville, Menominie, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Portage and Su- f SHINE IN EVERY WAyM DROP” BMfea Black Silk Stove Polish is different. It do snot dry out; can be used to the last drop; liquid aul paste one quality; absolutely no waste; no dust or dirt. You t get your money’s worth. flfin mrart Black Sills Stove Polishl is not only most economical, but it gives a brilli ant, silky lustre that cannot be obtained with any other polish. Black Silk Stove Polish does not rub off-it lasts four times as long as ordinary polish—so it saves you tiine, work and money. Don’t forget—when you want stove polish, be sure to ask for Black Silk. Ifitisn’t the best stove polish you ever used—your dealer will refund your money. Black Silk Stove Polish Works, Sterling, Illinois. Use Black Silk Air Drying Iron Enamel on grates, reg isters, stove-p’pes, and auto mobile tire n.r.s. Prevents rusting. Try it. Use Black Silk Metal Pol ish for silverware, nickel,tin ware or brass. It works quickly, easi'y and leaves a brilliant surface. It has no equal for use on automobiles. IIOVfW Auction Sale! Having rented my farm I will sell at public auction at the farm just north of the Lancaster depot, commencing at 1 o’clock p. m., on Saturday, March 24 the following described property: ■■ I I ■ ■ HI ■!!■■■■ * 1,11 1 Hl——■!■■■-> ——ll - HI I I ■ 1 20 Head Draft Bred Horses and Colts 20 Two good, big mares in foal. Full blood Clyde mare. Six coming three years, well broke. Two coming 4. Five coming 2 years. Two coming 1 year. Shetland pony and harness. Mare 14 years. 2 Head of Cattle Z- Good family cow —Holstein and Jersey. Muley > F.W Holstein yearling heifer. Farm Machinery, Etc. 4-horse Bull tractor, 4-horse new Standard gang plow, 14-inch walking plow, New Standard corn cultivator, corn planter, 16-disc grain drill, hay loader, manure spreader, wagon with combination box, buggy and two sets of harness. Lot of good seed corn. Other seed and articles too numerous to mention. Terms as Usual Everything to be Sold JOS. WRIGHT, Prop. J. C. VESPERMAN, Auct. L. A. CLARK, Clerk perior. In other cities they are paid ' by the day,*for attendance at meetings, or a small monthly fee. City clerks re ceive salaries in all Wisconsin cities. In four cities they receive $2,000 a year or more, in twenty-nine they receive SI,OOO and $2,000 a year. In the oth ers they receive from S3O to $1,009. Milwaukee pays the largest city treas juror’s salary, $5,000. In La Crosse $2,~ :700 is paid, in Racine $2,500. Other city treasurers receive from S3O to sl,_ i 500 a year. Six health officers are paid fees and three receive no salaries. Milwaukee pays $5,000, Madison pa/s $1,200, and other salaries range from s’Otto SGOO. City engineers’ saffir.es range from fees bv the day to $5,009. COMBINATION —SALE— At the Lancaster Stock Yards Friday, March 23, at 1 o’clock The following items will positively be offered for sale. FIVE HORSES Bay horse, 11 years, weight 1,- 200. Standard bred chestnut sorrel stallion, weight 1,200 lbs. Pony 5 years, well broke, weight 750. Bay horse 7 years, weight 1,300. Black horse, 4 years, wt. 1,300. Two bu. Yellow Seed Corn. Quantity of Clover Seed. MACHINERY, ETC. Diabola separator, 900 pounds, nearly new T . Two wide tire wa gons. nearly new. Two 114-in ch TERMS AS USUAL ATTEND THIS SALE. J. C. VESPERMAN Auct. L. H. STEVENS, Clerk ****** T* "wy FW. Kill roar A«r tew vilh fW CORN ■■■■mi Wisoa, Bmb dagfe For Sale by J. D. Hatch. 20 HEAD OF CATTLE. Jersey cow, 7 year’s. Jersey cow 4 years, both to freshen this summer. 11 two-year-old steers, all red, wt. 700. Hereford yearling bull. Five good last spring calves. Jer sey cow 6 years, fresh last fall. Nine yearling ewes. work harness. Two collars. 14- inch gang plow. 7ft Canton seeder. Runabout buggy, good condition.