Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-06
COUNTY And NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Grimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents that have Lately
Happened HereaboutS.


lost the sight Of one eye. The other !
was badly burned.
Berlin, Wisconsin, has adorned its |
park with two bronze cannon and for
ty-two balls, used during the Civil war.
The donation was made by the govern |
ment-
j. Hill. the Neenah cabbage grow i
e., will harvest eighty tons of cab
hage from eight acres of ground. |
About forty tons of the red variety |
viii be shipped to the city markets.
Earl Stettin, the youthful criminal
Who was arrested at ShebOygan for
ROBBERY, went raving mad the day be-
fore he received his sentence and has
been placed in the county asylum. He
IS said to be criminally insane.
The Swedish Lutheran church has
purchased an eight-acre tract of land
at Marinette and will locate 81 900
old folks and orphans home on the
land. Work will be commenced in the
spring
George Sturtevant, of Evansville,
was run down and killed while walk
ing on the Northwestern right of way
on mis- way to town. He had been ac-
custOmed to using the tracks as a
highway.
Victor Boncher, an employee of the
Rhinelander Paper Company, lost both
in, fbo ,Iar
blew out Harry Mcintyre, another
workman, received injuries that will
disfigure him for life.
William Conn, an alleged moonshin- |
er, was arrested in the woods near |
Elton, Wis, by an agent of the revenue
department. $50 gallons of mash and |
ten gallons of white line" were found |
in mis- cabin. He is held under $5,- |
900 awaiting the action of the federal
grand jury which meets in November.
Wayne Coakley, Of Beloit, has pear
trees In his orchard which have yield
ei from two to four bushels apiece
this year. Mr.. Coakley ascribes his
success to the large number of iron
nails which he drives into the bark of
the trees.
Tobacco buyers in the vicinity of
GAINESVILLE, state that the loss this
year to the crop is the worst ever
sustained Aside from the damage by
rain, hail, and frost, the crops harvest
ed early are suffering from pole rot
and shed burn, due to the damp wealth
eT.
An epidemic is reported at Monroe
due TO the city water system being
contaminated by the recent rains.
The reservoir was drained three times
successfully and the public had to de-
pend on private wells for its drinking
supply, according to the dispatches.
Surface water is supposed to have
seeped in and caused the trouble.
William POpple killed a large fe-
male bear and her cub in the timber
on POpple Lake. ten miles north of
Chippewa Falls. His three hounds
chased the cub up a tree where he
shot it. The old bear came from a
nearby thicket and put up fight last
ing twenty minutes before she was
finally dispatched. Two of the dogs
were badly wounded.
Perry G. Wright, former secretary
OF the Union Building Loan & Savings
association, and the National Frater-
nal League, of Green Bay, pleaded
guilty to the crime of looting the
funds in his charge. The populations
cover the last twenty years in
amounts totalling $4,000. He was
sentenced to 10 years at Waupun by
Judge Carlton.
Paul Howe, said to be a chronic
criminal, pleaded guilty at Beloit, to
holding up agents on the Northwest
ern and Milwaukee roads, and re-
ceiVed a sentence of seven years at
WauDun. His record covers numer-
Gus Jail sentences for petty crime.
Howe told the court that when slight
~ drunk he could not resist the temp
tation to rob people.
William Engel and Alma Zahler, of
Oshkosh. aged eighteen years, held up
the night operator at New London,
according to their confession, and
took $50. EngeI is a high school boy
and made the hOldup because he
needed the money. He borrowed the
revolver, and after his companion had
broken the window in the ticket office,
covered the operator while Zahler
took the money. The boys left the
operator a cartridge as a souvenir.
They viii be tried shortly.
Pickpockets have been reaping a
rich harvest at the Northern Wiscon-
sin state fair, held at Chippewa Falls |
Twenty-fOur persons were touched"
for Valuables including the chief of |