Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-09-22
COUNTY And NEARBY
Matters of Current Interest BY
Telegraph and Mail.
Crimes, Casualties and Remarkable
Incidents that have Lately
Happened Hereabouts.

Joseph Stehlik, aged 5S, a Racine
business man, committed suicide while
respondent over business reverses. He
swallowed paris green.
Leo Micke, of Thorpe, aged 16, was
accidentally shot by his brother, Tony,
and lived only short time. The boys
were shooting at a mark.
Mrs John Copelle, residing at Green
Bay, became so badly frightened at a
clap of thunder that she was rendered
unconscious. She died later in the
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Bailey, farmers
of near Elmwood, lost their One-year-
old son when the child fell into a ten
gallon jar of water. He was dead
when found.
Murko Mullich and Charles Chodkie
Wocz, of Kenosha, pleaded guilty to
burglary committed at night and were
sentenced to the Waukesha industrial
school. The boys are ten years old.
Samuel Pinkerton, the owner of
Pinkerton farms near Waupaca, raised
a crop of 1000 bushels of oats on less
than 20 acres of ground. The yield
averaged sc bushels to the acre.
Fifteen hundred Montana sheep ar
rived in Superior recently, to be fed
IN the northern Wisconsin region, and
it is said that thousands of others will
be shipped for fattening this winter.
Two hundred dollars worth of NOR
Dhine and heroin tablets were taken
from the wholesale drug house of
Spencer e McCord at Lacrosse. The
authorities think dope smuggiers are
at work.
Henry Kraus, of Barron, was pinned
under car that turned turtle near
Cameron, and instantly killed. Albert
Nelson, who was driving was held for
investigation into his alleged care
1essness.
Those dental thieves are again at
work and this time they robbed nine
offices in Madison and secured $500
IN gold leaf. The total amount stolen
to date amounts to many thousands
of dollars.
Antoine Barribeau, of Oconto, had
his house and barn struck simultan-
eously by lightning. The house es
capped fire, but the barn burned to the
ground destroying large amounts of
hay and grain.
Delbert Langosch, 4 years old, liv-
ing at Green Bay, fell on the doorstep
of his fathers saloon with a load of
bottles in his arms. One of them broke
and a piece of glass entered his heart
killing him instantly.
Spurious silver dollars bearing the
date of 1882 have been discovered
floating around the city of Dubuque
and the merchants are on the lookout
for them. The coins are milled per-
fectly and deceive experts.
Samuel c. Bell, a Beloit motorman,
went into the company's private booth
to call up about ''tieup," and re-
eeived a shock of electricity from
crossed wires that caused his death.
Bell formerly lived at Fennimore.
Conservation wardens, C. F. Asmuth
and B. P Lanning, of Juneau county,
arrested seven fishermen who were
operating in the Wisconsin and Yellow
rivers with dynamite $50 and costs
was assessed against each offender.
A cloudburst near Monroe drowned
hundreds of cattle, swept away a
bridge and two dams at Monticello, and
wrecked the seventeen-car Milwaukee
special that left Monroe for the state
fair, loaded with concessions and race
horses.
Fred Frater, of Stevens Point
stepped into a man in stack of straw
on his farm, who seemed totally deaf
and dumb. The man later was brought
TO Stevens Point and adjudged insane,
and is now in the Northern hospital
at Oshkosh.
Gertrude Grau, of Sheboygan, Is
months old, fell in front of a passing
lawn mower and put out her tiny hand
to ward off the blades. Three of her
fingers were instantly clipped off and
it was found impossible to replace
them by grating.
The city of Waukesha fears that it
will lose hundreds OF it's beautiful
shade trees unless an organized fight
is waged in the near future. COttony
&c of hn
the beautiful elms that graced the city
streets are lifeless and dropping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Loss, of New
London, purchased part of an old
steamer known as the Laura May, and
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