Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-28
COUNTY AND NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest By
Telegraph and Mail.
Grimes, Casualties and Remarkable
incidents that have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

at Waupun last Wednesday after
Overpowering the captain and one of
the guards, locking them in the cells
and taking the keys. One of the
eOnvicts is known to be James Nc
AIees of Milwaukee sentenced for
killing a grocery driver but the
official refuse to give the others
names. No trace has been found of
them.
Thomas Holland, one of the three
eOnvicts who escaped from the
criminal insane asylum here Tuesday
night, after overpowering two MEM
beers of the night guard, was captured
at Horizon, Wis, early Wednesday.
Roy Petit, guard, was stationed at
The Milwaukee road station at
Burnett Junction and flashed a
searchIight in box cars of passing
freight trains. In one ne saw
Holland. He wired, the news ahead
and Holland was arrested at Horizon.
Oscar Sherry and James McAlees,
the other escaped convicts, also went
to Horizon. They eluded a posse
there and boarded a freight train for
Milwaukee, Journal.
Jena Lawson living at New Rich
n0nd, received a shock of $4,000
volts, while working on transformer
change for the st. Croix Power Co.
The plant had been shut down and
LAWSON and the manager of the COM
parry were repairing the transformer
when the current was turned on in
the St. Paul Office. The injured
man was rushed to the hospital and
If be survives it will be necessary to
amputate his arm and leg.
Willard Brown an Indian, sentenced
IN Brown county in 1912 to serve
eight years for shooting his father in
the legs, was given Communication of
sentence recently by the governor, to
SIX years Imprisonment.
Governor Phillip recently pardoned
Marie Schwenhart on petition of her
duet had been exemplary for year
past. She had been sentenced a year
ago from the town of Madison to the
dndustrial school for delinquency.
She is Is years old.
Fred Discher residing at Clarno
mas gone into the skunk raising in
GiUstry and promises to develop it into
a paying business. He has Is of the
old animals and 90 young ones. and
their skins will be worth from So. SO
10 $500 apiece according to the
markings. The skunks are fed on
vegetables and milk.
John Janis, a Milwaukee man, has
been arrested on a charge of beating
his ID year old daughter, because she
was unable to find work and keep
him IN funds. The little girl appear
led at tue district attorneys office
with her face badly discolored from
bruises. She has been placed in
charge of the Big Sisters.
LOrrie Anderson aged %, and
mailing from Chicago, was shot in
tthe side while engaged in a pistol
atUll with the deputy sheriff, at CorIiss
after he and his three companions
had endeavored to evade arrest for
breaking into box car. After being
shot Anderson with his companions
ran two miles, but posse of farm
ers aided the deputy in rounding up
the men. His companions were from
Milwaukee.
Three physicians worked two hours
TO save the life of Leon Hack a
Monroe butcher who had accidentally
eaf himself while trimming a bone
The knife slipped and being of razor
sharpness penetrated his thigh sever
ing the femoral artery. He was
unconscious from loss of blood when
found. but it is believe that he will
recover.
AIRS. James Corbett of Madison,
was severely beaten by an Italian
women last Wednesday and the police
hunted high and low for her assailant
wko had fled. Mrs. Corbett was
taken to the hospital tor treatment.
adam Lewandowski of Milwaukee,
claimed that his landlady Mary
Xswacki, had purloIned $35 belong
ing 20 him, and he had her arrested.
He has been saving the money to buy
a wooden leg.
JOhn Robbins a miner of New
DIggings, fell down the shaft of the
PENN Benton mine, and received in
UuTles that caused his death. He
Leaves widow and four children.
lxlEcert Meyer of the town of
SSun!pser. near Baraboo, kills rattle
sEdsees as pastime, and to date this
season has disposed of thirty eight.