Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-07-20
STATE NEWS


teen years old, respectively, were SEN
fenced to Waupun after having been
found guilty of robbery in municipal
court. Mr.. Gilmore is to serve IL
months and his wife eight months.
The young people said that their home
was In Bay City and that they were on
their honeymoon, having left Bay City
TWO weeks ago and crossed to Canada
to be married. 1t was alleged that
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore's plan was to
visit respectable home in a pretend
ed search for apartments to rent.
While in the house Mrs. Gilmore
would engage the attention of the resi-
dents, while Mr.. Gilmore would search
for such valuables as he could carry
in his pockets, and that they were
successful in one Manitowoc home be-
fore being detected.
Hudson.-Hudson's two police and
fire commissions, one appointed
by the acting mayor and one by
the mayor, have started a contest to
learn which is supreme. Each COM
mission appointed different fire de-
partment. Fire Chief G. H. Olson has
begun an action against Fire Chief
John Lahiff to show the latter's au-
thorlty for holding the position. This
will start the case rolling in the dis
trict court. Bills for two sets of fire
men, appointed by both commissions,
were allowed by the city council, but
Mayor A. P Kealey refuses to sign
the orders.
Fort AtkinsOn.-After an absence
OF fifty years, Miles Osgood, aged
seventy-five years, wealthy retired
farmer living about sixty miles from
here, has been reunited with his sis
ter, Mrs. jeanette Smith, Springfield,
Mass. She is seriously i'll and it is be-
lieved will not recover. By her, he
was supposed to be dead and it was
not until few days ago that he knew
she was alive.
Fond du Lac-Fire near Eland
Junction is threatening all the
standing and cut timber of that region,
particularly that Of the Hatton Lum-
Der company, New London, of which
Senator w. H. Hatton is the president.
The Hatton Lumber company sent all
OF its crews to the scene, but had met
with little success in bringing the
fires under control.
Merrillan.-Ffre from the forest
entered the village limits several
times. It was only by the CON-
bined efforts of citizens and the fire
department that several residences
were saved A farmer living one-half
mile from town on what is known as
the Rusce place came to town to get
help to save his farm buildings from
destruction
Wautoma.-Mrs. Gust Eichsteadt, re-
siding in Dakota, died from the effect
OF blood poisoning after a few days
illness. Mrs. Eichsteadt scratched a
small eruption
Algoma.-Mrs. Ernest Leist was
killed and her husband seriously
injured while they were hauling hay
on their farm. Leist stepped upon
the wagon pole to adjust the harness.
He fell, frightening the team, which
started to run. Mrs. Leist Jumped.
fracturing her skull, and died in few
minutes. The wagon wheels passed
over the mans body
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from Omaha,
Neb., police say that Frank Erd-
mann, a former Manitowoc man
who is being held in that city under
$4,000 bail, charged with attempting
to dynamite the home of his employ
er, is being kept under constant
guard for fear that he might take his
own life. Omaha authorities have
found that he has served five terms
in western state prisons Erdmann.
while here, was an employee of the
Manitowoc Dry Dock company. He
left last fall
Kenosha.-Judge Clifford E. Ran
dali of the municipal court has
received letter from Frank "Per-
petual Notion Otto of the town of
Somers, who is in the state hospital
for the insane in Mendoza demand
ing that steps be taken to secure his
release from the institution. Otto in
sfsts that he is sane and declares that
he would never have been sent to
the institution had it not been for the
influence of people who feared that
he would complete the perpetual mo-
ton machine at which he had been
working for more than thirty years
Madison.-William Roberts, a Green
Bay boy, was arrested at the
Chicago and Northwestern rail
road station Sunday night and con-
fessed having burglarized the general
store Of Cloud e Co. on East Washing
ton avenue. He implicated Timothy
Quinlan of Madison, who has not yet
been captured. Eight dollars and a
quantity of goods were taken, some
Of the stolen stuff being found on
Roberts when he was arrested. Rob-
erts and Quinlan were recently COM
mitted to the state industrial school
for boys at Waukesha for robbery,
but they escaped on July 2.
GAINESVILLE. - Judge Grimm SEN
fenced Charles Youngblood of Mon
roe to four years in the state