Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-29
COUNTY And NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Crimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents shat have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

Contagious disease at Amigo caused
an order to be isesued barring the pa
rents from attending the Christmas
exercises in the city schools.
William Hanlen, a Racine rural
mail carrier, was killed while driving
over a railroad crossing. His horse
was also killed and the Christmas
mail scattered for two blocks.
GIiss Marie Cedar OF Milwaukee,
aged o, was burned to death in a gas
OIine explosion last week. Miss Go
dar was cleaning gloves when the fluid
ignited
John Mediation, a resident of Hol-
Iandale, watching a basket ball game
between Dodgeville and his home town,
had a gasoline lamp drop on his head
and suffered severe burns. The ball
hit the lamp knocking it loose.
Arthur Maloney, a Green Bay brake
man, almost received his quietus when
pied over, pinning him underneath.
His left leg was broken in three plac-
es and he suffered internal injuries.
Mrs. William Manders of Depere,
lost her infant daughter, who fell into
a tub of Suds while her mother was
hanging out washing and drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Manders lost another
child a year ago when the mother roll
ed upon it while asleep.
Samuel Tropolino, a Madison la
bOrer, was shot to death in his own
yard by two unknown assailants. Four
bullets from two revolyers of differ
ent calibre, were found in his body
Fellow countrymen are thought to
have done the deed.
Elmer Peterson, an Oconomowoc
man aged 80, was killed by falling
from a load of hay at the Barnard
farm in the town of Summit. He was
standing on the load fixing the pole,
when it broke and threw him to the
floor, killing him instantly. He leaves
a wife and three children.
Frederick Philips of Calamine,
walking across a railroad bridge with
a friend, slipped and fell into the riv-
er. He struck the embankment on the
way down and received q cash in the
head and several bruises on the body,
rolling into ten feet of water He
managed to swim out with the assist
ance Of his friend.
Clarence Sandstrom, Sheybogan
chauffeur, wrote a note to his mother
deplOring his inability to give her a
Christmas present, and swallowed the
ounce contents of a carbolic acid bot
tie. Two physicians whose Offices
were over the pool room where the
young man took the poison, were
summoned and succeeded in pumping
most OF it out. He may live.
Joseph SlOniker of Greenwood, aged
Is, died following the accidental dis
charge of his own shotgun while |
hunting, the charge entering his thigh
lie was unable to rise after the acct
dent, and after much urging persuad- !
er his hunting dog to return home
without him. His father became |
alarmed when the dog returned alone, |
and went in search of him, finding |
him unconscious about an hour later. |
BObbie Booth, aged 16 months, son |
of settlers near Minong, rode sixty |
five miles in two and One-half hours |
following his swallowing bichloride of |
mercury tablets. The infant received |
first aid from his mother who gave |
him hot milk and other remedies. |
Then he was taken to the hospital at I
Superior fer treatment He swallowed |
enough OF the poison to kill ten men,
according to the physicians, but will
live.
In a recent address before a Mil
waukee bankers meeting, Judge A C. !
Backus made the statement that ninety
per cent of the criminals sent to pris-
on would lie reformed if they were
sent to farms instead. In his remarks
the iurist said: The greatest mistake
society can make is to put a man in
q Cramped prison cell. where ne can
brood over his crime and become en-
FILTERED against life, and expect him
20 emerge at the end of his term
Durged OF his SIM"
Carl Miller. alias August Brink |
man. sentenced two years ago by Judge |
a. l.. Sanborn at Madison, to ten years |
at LeavenwOrth prison, gave himself |
up the other day. Miller claims that
ne was being conducted top rison by
two officers who let him off the train
at Davis Junction for an airing. The
train ran away leaving him behind
and though he tried to catch it he was
unsuccessful. He was arrested by the
constable last week on a minor charge
and put the latter in the way of earn
ing 500 by telling his story. Miller
viii be taken to start serving his time