Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-22

Jail on bread ana water lOT having
abandoned his wife and children to
starve. The judge advised him after
feeling the pangs of hunger for five
DAYS to come around and describe his
sensations.
A boy named Matthews, living with
his uncle, Charles wilkins, near the
city of Platteville, fell through the hay
chute of the barn in which he was
playing and landed on the cement floor
below. He sustained conclusion of
the brain and other injuries, and is
in a serious condition.
Pickpockets worked the fair at Rhine
lander and secured SIS from the peck
ct of a prominent local lumber deal
er named Piehl. They also touched
a supervisor named Woodstock, for
81 in cash. Stores were entered by
sneak thieves during the fair and pet
ty amounts stolen.
The Farmers Cooperative Packing
Co., has been allowed a permit to con-
struct their plant within the corporate
limits of the city of Madison. An or
dinance prohibiting the construction
of slaughter houses within the city
limits was repealed. The company is
capitalized at 100000.
The Dupont Powder Co., which has
a large plant at Washburn, has estab-
lished a patrol system with guards in
addition to the regular force. The
men will be housed in a regular camp
and the company is putting a fence
around its property of 1,20O acres to
keep trespassers away.
Oscar, the 14-year-old son of the
Calburn family residing at Turtle
Lake, took a rifle from the wall in
their home to clean and accidentally
discharged it. The bullet struck his
little brother, aged two, in the heart,
killing him instantly, and then passed
through the foot and thigh of his sis
ter, five years old.
Sophia Schadt and Heinrich Ritter,
of Sheboygan, wished to get married
and did not want to under go the eu-
genie test. They visited an attorney
who drew up a contract which they
signed and deposited with the register
of deeds. They are the second couple
within the last few weeks to enter in
to a common law marriage.
George Hilton and Gabe Stretch, OF
Oshkosh, were caught in a gale on
Lake Michigan, and drifted for hours
before they were rescued. Hilton is
prominent attorney, and Stretch is
we'll known manufacturer of the
city. large vessel chartered by 100
citizens secured the lake until mid
night before the men were found.
An automobile party of three men
was run down by a milk train near
Corliss and Oscar Jensen, of Racine,
a prominent contractor, had both legs
broken and his spine fractured. He
died shortly after. Another member
of the party named Brown, was killed
instantly. David Williams the third
man is seriously but not fatally in
jured.
Madison citizens have been having
a serious controversy over, the ques-
ton of their water supply. The pres
ent cource is from arteSian wells,
which are considered inadequate. A
body of engineers advocate using wa
ter from Lake Mendoza, but many peo-
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lakes impurity The matter will be
settled at an early date.
The night mail train running from
Chicago to Elroy, was halted near
GAINESVILLE the other night during the
severe storm. Engineer Hollenbeck
stopped near the water tower as the
water was low and while the train
was standing the crew discovered a
loose piece of track ahead of them.
Had the train not stopped a serious
wreck would have occurred.
o. K Boy, a huge boar owned by
Bruce P Westcott, of Barton, was ex-
hibited at the state fair. He is three
and one-half years old and his owner
figures that he is the father of 40O,-
900 pounds of pork. Mr.. Westcott
says that figuring the average weight
of a porker at 200 pounds and eight
cen pounds of pork chops to the hog,
%. X. Boy has produced $4,000 pounds
of pork chops.
William Junckman, aged 25, of Glen
wood, loved Ella, the daughter of ]. P.
Hansen, on whose farm he was work
ing. While temporarily insane from
brooding over unrequited love he went
into the yard where the girl was milk
ing and struck her on the head with
an eight-pound maui. He then went
to the house and, taking a shotgun,
blew a hole in his chest near the
heart. The girl is seriously wounded,
but will recover. Junckman has been
placed under arrest, although he is