Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-20

II TALK OduSe, SSCI6IdIy VI Tie run
Wheel Drive Automobile company, of
Clintonville, suffered three broken ribs
and other injuries when the car he
was driving tipped over. His chauf-
feur's hat was blowing away and he
released the steering wheel to catch
it with the result of the car becoming
unmanageable. They were returning
from a hunting trip.
John LOring of Milwaukee, was ar
rested BY the police detectives who
found beside large revolver, a squirt
gun and four ounces of concentrated
ammonia in his possession. The de-
tectives says that one shot of the fluid
would render a victim unconscious
from the fumes and possibly destroy
his eyesight. LOring has asked for
a jury trial.
Ophelia and Violet Hanson of Spring
Lake township near Maiden Rock,
aged four and eight years, were found
burned to death by their mother, when
she came home from the pasture. The
mother heard an explosion and hur-
ried home to find the girls dead under
the bed where they had crawled. 1t
is supposed they had thrown kerosene
on the fire.
H. J. Goelzer, who resides in She
boygan county, has fine dairy herd
and uses milking machines to extract
the tactical fluid from his COWS. The
machinery got out of order recently
and Mrs. William Geilke, wife of the
manager essayed to do the milking by
hand. The COWS were not used to the
old system and one of them kicked,
lfracturing Mrs. Giekels knee and put
ting her in the hospital.
A negro in the Kenosha Jail planned
wholesale delivery of the inmates,
according to the story of a prisoner
named James Ransbottom who was
brought into court on charge of as
sault He alleged that the delivery
involved a vicious assault on the un-
dersheriff and a break for freedom.
The other prisoners finally refused to
take part on account of the color line.
Ransbottom was fined 5000 and costs.
Tobias Bloemers of Oostburg, aged
90, committed suicide by hanging him
self at the home of his son where he
had made his home. The family had
been invited out to dinner and return
ing found the old mans body in shed
He had wrapped a handkerchief
,, around the moose which was tied to a
beam, and kicked a chair from under
him. Mr.. Bloemers enjoyed excellent
health and his children are unable
to account for the act.
Otto Kluskas, farmer living near
Beloit, escaped being struck by train
and meeting certain death when, &C
companied by an elderly companion,
he drove onto the tracks while the
southbound passenger train from
GAINESVILLE, was bearing down on them.
They managed to turn the team and
back away far enough to clear every
thing but the off horse, which was
signal bell was ringing at the cross
ing.
A slick stranger at Madison almost
succeeded in convincing the bank au-
! thorities that he was F. W. Hahn, a
Tomah capitalist, and even went SO
far as to call up over the long dis
lance phone for identification in cash
ing a $4,000 check. Miss Goldie
Schultz, the long distance telephone
operator, knew the voice to be differ
ent from Mr.. Hahn's and notified the
bank officials. The stranger, who
gave several different names, had a
few days before endeavored to work
another deal ON Mr.. Hahn, himself. He
| dOta.
The Milwaukee county school of ag-
riculture and domestic economy, is
working on plan which if carried out
will, they claim, enable the consumers
of the city to receive full benefit
of the choicest farm products raised
in the vicinity of Milwaukee. The
farmers will be banded into an asso-
citation and their product will be sold
under the label of the association
which viii be equivalent to guaran-
tee. The prices will probably be
slightly above that of the market and
the products will be of the very best
| Frank Push, a merry highwayman
who ODerated i'm Racine. SandbaggeG
a farmer named Ronald Schultz, took
his money away while he was uncOn-
scious, and then after reviving him
wept over his injuries. Push then told
Schultz a story of misfortune about OF
his starving family, which so moved
the tender hearted farmer that he in
sisted Push keep the money as loan.
After Push had walked away with the
wad, Schultz became suspicious and