Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-22
COUNTY AND NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Grimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents that have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

Minerd Dickoff, Dave Lutz, Jr, and
Fred ROenius, hunting near Babcock,
bagged sixty-three rabbits in one day
John Walsh of Erin Prairie near
New Richmond died following a gaso-
line explosion that caused terrible
burns. Walsh fingered for eight hours.
Louis Benesch, working in the woods
at Pembine for the Sawyer-Goodman
company of Marinette, was killed by
falling tree.
W F. Brennan, former cashier of
the bank at Theresa, received a SEN
tence Of six years at Waupun, follow
ing his trial for defalcatiOns amount
ing to $4,000. SpeculatiOns on marg-
ms took the money.
Fred ShimOek, of Manitowoc, went
hunting near Spruce for the first time
IN thirty-five years. Shimoek was at
tackled by a wild cat which he sue
Ceeded in killing with a club after half
an hours struggle.
Frank Manchura of Ashland. at
tempted to crawl under freight train
which had blocked the street and was
run over and killed when the train
suddenly started. A crowd saw the
accident but was helpless to aid him.
Ray Taylor, special policeman en-
plOyed by the Milwaukee road, is un-
der arrest at La Crosse for the loot
Ing of freight cars. Goods valued at
$4,000 were found at his home. The
articles ranged from face powder to
shBtguns.
Gustave Belling of Appleton, clean
ing out a large mud drum for the In
&erlake Pulp and Paper company, was
scalded TO death by live steam being
forced into the drum. Belling had
failed TO notify the other employees of
mis- presence in the drum.
Clarence Hubachek, aged IL, who
Hives twenty miles north of Chippewa
Falls, thought he had killed a wolf
and dragged the animal to the house
for the purpose of removing the scalp.
The animal suddenly attacked the
youth who finally dispatched it with
an axe. He will receive the $40 bount-
" from the county clerk.
Four hundred Indian children in the
reservation school at Odanah will re-
GeiVe a visit from the official dentist
of the department. The government
requires that the children's teeth be
inspected and treated. The elders
may use their judgment as to having
dental work done.
Karl BeltZ, a farmer of the town of
Vernon in Waukesha county, went in
sane following the incessant pranks
OF two boys one of whom was his
nephew. The boy wrote Beltz "kid-
ding" note and as a joke took several
things from his barn. BeItz has been
committed to Mendoza
A spark from a carding machine
Is supposed to have started fire
which caused $4,000 damage to the
plant of the La Crosse Knitting works.
Eighty girl employees were safely con-
Quoted from the building by the use
of a fire drill. The management de-
MES that company was working on
war orders and ridicuIes a rumor of
5nCendiary origin.
David GTeaves, a Henrietta man, was
almost fatally gored by a bull and
mad it not been for the efforts of a
faithful dog would probably have been
killed. Mr.. Greaves was thrown off his
feet and being gOred in the side and
nip by the animal when his dog at
tackled the bull chewing its ears and
otherwise worrying it. Mr.. Greaves
is receiving medical attention and re-
COVery is looked for.
Frant Stout OF Grand Rapids, shot
and killed Mrs. Ada Mann and then
killed himself 1t is said Stout had
been paying Mrs. Mann attention and
the shooting followed a luncheon at
which quarrel occurred. Stout was
an estimator for a lumber company
and formerly lived in Columbus, o.
me tragedy TOOK place at his boarding
house, into which Mrs Mann fed
when he drew a pistol in the street.
Carp caught in Wisconsin waters
have been shipped to the eastern mar
Glets. A car load went out from the
cribs at Turville Bay last week bound
Eor HobOken, N. ]. They are loaded
alive into boxes of ice. The fish is
considered edible when properly pre-
pared. Assemblyman Tart, Oshkosh,
exhibited some smoked carp at the
Legislative session, which was pro
nOunced distinctly tasty by the legis-
latOrs
J. B. Weber, chief of the La Crosse
police, broke into a compartment on
"A train bound for Chicago and arrest
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