Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-27


squirrels on his uncle's farm. His
shotgun fell against a stump and be-
came discharged tearing hole
through the boys heart. A hunting
dog kept watch over the body while
companion summoned help.
Milwaukee road officials are on the
trail of thieves who raided the depots
at Poynette, Arlington, MOrrisonville,
and DeForest, in the night The rob-
bers travelled by automobile and came
near being caught at DeFOrest where
the citizens saw them. Arrests are
looked for soon.
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Fon du Lac county will no longer
use convict labor on it's road work
if the efforts of county highway COM
missioner Costello will prevent it. Mr..
Costello contends that the rate of $3.50
a day for each laborer is too high and
that the county could do the work with
ordinary labor and save money.
John Harlan of Ladysmith, went
away from home and thOughtlessly
left a twenty-pound case of dynamite
near a hot stove. When Mr.. Harlan
returned from his journey he found
the house, the stove and the dynamite
missing. An explosion had occurred
during his absence. No one was in
the house at the time.
Louis Jorgenson, farmer living
near Neenah, was sued for damages
by a neighbor named Schoman and
paid $500 in very hard cash. In the
complaint Schoman alleges that he had
attended a shingling bee at the Jor-
genson farm and while standing on
poorly constructed scaffolding was
thrown to the ground.
Esil Bush a resident of Rio endeav-
ored to break down the door of the
house where his divorced wife was
living, and received a bullet through
his head Bush was taken to the hos
Ipital but is seemingly unaffected by
his wound as he chats with the atten-
dants and says he will be out in short
time.
Lee Willett of Eau Claire, is small
in stature but mighty in determine
ton. Two shoplifters strOlled into the
store where Willett was employed and
lpurloined an expensive set of furs.
Willett, concealed behind a showcase,
saw the lifting" take place. He fol-
lowed the pair and summoning an Of
ficer had them arrested.
Robert j. Winter of Milwaukee has
sued the publishers of the Hartford
Times is a clothing ETAOSHRDW
Times because he was refused adver
Using space. Winter is a clothing
merchant and claims that he is unable
to sell his merchandise without news
paper advertising. The other mer-
chants in the town are also threatened
with suits because they combined to
boycott the publication if it sold space
to Winter.
A Waukesha furrier named Steude,
put a number of red foxes in his show
window as an exhibition and made
quite a hit with them. One evening
he took them home and during the
night they escaped. Four of the foxes
were later found in barns and chick
EN- coops of the neighborhood, but two
of them escaped.
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Mr.. and Mrs L. c. Stevens, of Viola,
lost their infant son by a distressing
accident. Mrs Stevens placed a. pan
of scalding water she was using in
cleaning, on the floor and stepped
away for a moment She heard a
scream and found the baby had fallen
into the water receiving burns which
caused it's death a few hours later.
An amateur sleuth living at Ra-
cine saw a number of men coming out
of a hardware store wiping their
mouths with the back of their hands,
and straightway conceived the idea
that the seller of nails was running
blind pig An investigation dis
closed a spring of crystal clear and
pure water had opened in the
basement of the store.
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Russian street workmen at New
Glarus, declared a strike on the fore
man and attacked him with knives.
! The foreman drew a revolver in self
defense and fired, severely wounding
one of the laborers. One of them es-
capped death through a note book car
ried in a pocket over his heart turn
ing the bullet. Four of the workmen
were confined in jail.
Secretary of State John S. Donald,
has declined to receive applications
| for 1916 automobile licenses as the
clerical force is inadequate to handle
the work at the present time. The to-
tai number Of licenses issued this year
to date is 1881. Number one is held
| by John Hyland, a Madison merchant,
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