Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-15
COUNTY AND NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Grimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents that have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

Louis Teller, an aged WaUsan citi-
zen. of 90 years, wandered away and
posses secured the surrounding
country looking for him. He was
found dead in a hotel bedroom at
Junction City.
Clyde Bushlain, the Kenosha Coun-
" farm hand, who was employed by
the secretary of the county school
board, is now charged with forgery
by telegraph. A demand by wire for
SIeO, signed presumably by G. Waldo,
a prominent KenOsha county farmer,
was received by the Kenosha First
National bank. Later it was ascertain
ed that Bushlein had sent the wire
from Darlington. The day before this
it is charged Bushlein secured $500
from a Platteville bank. Police Off
Gals all over the state have been
searching for the clever rascal.
Herman Bruesso, a little Madison
boy, endeavored to save his pet dog
from the wheels of a st. Paul train
and was run over and killed. His
former pIaymates acted as pallbearers
at the funeral.
Jacobina RautenbeTg, a Milwaukee
woman, stood before the court last
week for her one hundred and first
time. Her weakness is drink, and she
has been placed on probation for three
months. -
A young man named Bush, living
at Clintonville, fired rifle bullet in
10 a dynamite warehouse in that city
and this caused the explosion Of forty
pounds of the deadly substance. Con-
siderably more of the explosive in a
warehouse nearby was not affected.
The blast broke numerous windows
and frightened the inhabitants of the
city. Bush has been locked up.
Jack Schaik, of Grand Rapids. and a
companion named Jacks went hunt
ing for prairie chickens. Jacks fired
at some birds and shot Schalk in the
breast and arm, not injuring him Sc
Terely.
John Ermin, of Pound, was killed
by the accidental discharge of a gun
while hunting for ducks the day of
the opening of the season, and Fred
Steigler, of Tomah, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his own gun.
The charge entered his chest and he
only lived a few hours.
Mrs. Louise Meller-Ports, who was
recently arrested on a charge of
having abandoned her adopted child,
pleaded guilty at her trial. She at
tributed the parting from her husband
and her subsequent fall, to evil in
fIuences and the worlds severeness
toward an outcast. Her legal and
first husband pleaded with the court
TO grant her clemency, stating that
he had forgiven her and would take
her back. The judge held the case
open for further consideration.
James Herbert Green and wife and
son, of Milwaukee, celebrated their
Joint birthday anniversaries not long
ago. Mr.. Green is a former state SEN
ator, and his son bears his name in
full. A family dinner was a feature
Of the occasion.
New county Sanatoria will be added
IN five different counties of the state
If plans now under way bear fruit.
The county medical societies and in
some cases committees of the county
boards, are at work on the proposition.
The county sanatoria will be used for
the care and treatment of tubercular
patients. The Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
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for the past seven years, and the re-
suit of its efforts is now beginning
TO manifest itself. The counties now
considering the erection of sanatoria
are Jefferson, Marathon, Dunn, Fon-
Du Lac, and Grant. The recent legis-
Iature acted favorably on advocated
legislation for the control of the
white plague, and raised the sum ap-
propriated for state aid in the county
sanatoria from $4,000 to 100000 for
the first year of the coming biennium
and S125,000 for each year thereaf-
ter. This amount is designed to meet
the needs of the institutions to be con-
sidered by the county boards at their
November meetings.
H. NJ. Levake, an old citizen of the
town of Wyoming, went fishing with
his grandson who had just arrived
for visit In the evening the old
gentleman sent the boy for the team
and announced that he would join him
later. After waiting for some time
the boy went back and found Mr.. Lee
wake dead on the bank of the river.
United States artillerymen number
ing one hundred and sixty have been
sent from Camp Robinson, Sparta,
Wis, to Fort Sam Houston, Texas
B. r. J. Hassel of Milwaukee, has
offered to give his standard type fly
ing boat to the naval militia of Wis